little Stan drawing I made, requested by my little brother lol
original sketch below
I ALSO JUST REALIZED YESTERDAY THAT J.K. SIMMONS VOICES THE LION MAYOR FROM ZOOTOPIA FORD WOULD TOTALLY DO IMPRESSIONS OF THE M&M AND THE MAYOR FOR THE TWINS OMG
FREAKING OUT RN
JK SIMMONS ALSO VOICED THE YELLOW M&M
IM LOSING MHY SHIT
TTHIS MEANS THAT LOGICALLY
FORD COULD DO A PERFECT IMPRESSION IOF THE YELLOW M&M
you want me to write the scene from into the bunker when dipper thinks Wendy's dead don't you
except with a brotherly platonic twist ofc
but still
i love it
GUYS. GUYS. I just had a terrible but wonderfully angsty AU concept come to me.
A Frankenstan AU except its ALSO Frankenford. Bill somehow does end up killing Ford, maybe by throwing him off of the roof of his house or something- that part doesn't really matter. Ford just has to die. BUT since Bill can possess dead bodies, he keeps using Ford's to build the portal. Ford's ghost somehow gets a postcard to Stan, but when he shows up, Bill is there with a crossbow. Now both Pines twins are dead and no one knows about it except them.
So now the Stans have to go through their own deaths while also mourning for each other AND have an awkward reunion AS GHOSTS. Maybe they find a way to get Fiddleford to bring them back to life or at least get Bill out of Ford's corpse, then break the portal.
Does any of this make sense or am I rambling
ooooo can I join?
A weirdness looms, Normalcy is no more, the world is topsy-turvy and I reign supreme, welcome one and all to Eternal Chaos Party! Join me at the horror pyramid! We will have so much fun playing games for all eternity!
What you need to understand is that young Ford Pines is joyous and whimsical and also fueled by spite and one million cups of coffee
Oh, how I love drawing this tortured scientist
YES PLEASE :D
my gosh
this is
i don't even know how to describe this
amazing and horrifying all at once? is there a word for that?
I'd like to propose a dark horse candidate for the most interesting line in The Book of Bill. And it's this near-unreadable, seemingly one-off joke from the "Skin" page:
[ID: tiny text reading: "Help! This is not Bill Cipher. My name is Grebley Hemberdreck of Zimtrex 5. I'm one of thousands of beings Bill has devoured over trillions of years whose souls are now trapped inside him. You have to free me! It's horrible in here. He just keeps playing the song "Good Vibrations" by Marky Mark on an endless loop. Please, please, this is not a joke! The Zimtrexians were once a proud and mighty people, but now our spirits long for release from this..." End ID.]
Okay, so Bill devours souls who then live out a horrible existence inside him. That's just some typical and expected Bill behavior, right? Nothing to be shocked by? Maybe not, but one thing jumps out at me... and of all things, it's the way that Bill keeps playing that Beach Boys parody (correction provided by @fexalted: no, not in fact a Smiley Smile parody, but a real song!) on loop.
Because in The Book of Bill, there's a recurring motif of characters playing music for a very specific reason: to repel an unwanted presence inside their head. This is what Elias Inkwell, and later Ford, did with the "It's A Small World" parody — they tried to keep Bill out of their brains. Or, metaphorically... to drown out his voice.
[ID: a Journal 3 page with a cassette taped inside. It's titled: "The World Is Small Ever After for Always." Ford writes: "If it's war you want, it's war you'll get! If you want to torture me? I'll torture you back!" End ID.]
That doesn't necessarily mean that Bill finds the voices of devoured souls to be troubling, let alone downright haunting, does it? Well... not quite on its own. But there's a "color" code on the page about TV static that says a lot:
[ID: a code consisting of colorful squares, translated to letters that spell out: "he never sleeps he never dreams but somehow still he hears their screams." End ID] (screenshot courtesy of @fexiled)
The context of the page implies these "screams" come to Bill especially when he listens to TV static, and the broader context of the book implies that these are the screams of his destroyed home dimension, Euclydia. Therefore, not necessarily those of the souls he devoured, from Zimtrex 5 and possibly other dimensions.
Except... do those two things really have to be mutually exclusive?
The beings that Bill devoured were accumulated over "trillions" of years, plural, according to Grebley. In Weirdmageddon 1, Bill claims to have resided in the Nightmare Realm for precisely "one trillion" years. So the "devouring" habit probably extends back even further than his time in the Nightmare Realm...
Enter @acetyzias, pointing out a very conspicuous word — and one of the only uncensored words — from Bill's description of destroying his home dimension:
[ID: the word "mandibles". End ID.]
Oh, and how does Bill describe the "monster" that destroyed his home to Ford, when Ford asks about revenge?
[ID: Journal excerpt reading: "Sixer, it would eat you alive." End ID.]
For a long time, Bill's destruction of his home has been associated with fire, even when the story's told by Bill himself. But through the way the book characterizes Bill's guilt — and characterizes how the consequences of what he's done remain lurking deep inside him — I think The Book of Bill lays out the hints for another motif: devouring.
And, well, when it comes to how Bill destroys things... it wouldn't be without precedent.
[ID: screenshot of Bill in Weirdmageddon 3, taking a bite out of the Earth. End ID.]
kinda late but it's (was) Fiddleford Friday!!!
So I assume most people have heard the new Benson Boone song that came out -- y'know, Mystical Magical?
Well, thanks to Bill and Ford, every time I hear it, I CAN ONLY THINK OF THE KARAOKE NIGHT PAGE IN TBOB
SO NOW EVERYONE ELSE HAS TO
thats all thanks for coming to my TED talk or whatever
its done! Hope you like it <3
i am working on the comic I promise but I had to get this idea onto paper lol
i'll post the finished art soon
Hi! I'm in lots of fandoms, but I'm currently hyperfixtated on Gravity Falls!She/HerI am a minor, so please no weird DMs!
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