roguescavenger:

ok but let’s think about when Dipper first starts his transition, he cuts his hair and stops wearing feminine clothing, but he worries that he still looks too much like a girl, too much like his twin sister, especially if she’s just wearing a plain shirt and pants and puts her hair up and they just end up looking identical again. So one day he blurts out to Mabel that he worries that no one will ever take him for a boy because they look too much alike, and Mabel’s like “oh don’t you worry bro, I’m gonna embrace the crap outta my femininity, so that everyone can tell that you’re my brother” and she busts out the glitter and the bedazzler and she gets to work modifying her sweaters to be as girly as possible and she grows her hair out and always wears cute bows and hairbands and sure enough, no one has any trouble discerning which of the two Pines is the brother and which is the sister