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Im going insane

I hate him.

“au” in which the axolotl used to be super evil for so long that it had no other choice but to be good

I think she’d respect his methodology

This is basically what happened, right?

space oddity

Grunkle in Training 👨🏽‍🦳

Finally some AU fan art! Part of the ‘a different form, a different time’ AU in which bill is turned into a mortal and, to their dismay, is stuck with the pines.

EDIT: I FUCKING FORGOT TO MENTION IT. But Mabels design belongs to @shnikkles !!!

i realized that if 30 years is like few days break in a relationship for bill, then him checking on ford every few days to few months mustve been like checking ur phone for messages from ur partner every few SECONDS

I think a lot of people haven't actually read Flatland so you may not realize A. What Bill's eye mutation means and B. What precisely Bill did to destroy his homeworld.

Bill's home isn't completely the same as Edwin Abbott's Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (notably, women and men can be both polygons #feminism) but we can assume most of the mechanics are the same. The basic premise is that the world is 2D. Everyone perceives the world in a 1D way, along the plane. There's a part of Journal 3 that describes this pretty well.

Bill can see up to the stars because his eye is on the flat surface instead of on the side like everyone else, like this:

(He's also slightly 3D, as we can see in the show.)

But there's one more important Flatland detail. The denizens of Flatland (and therefore likely Euclydia) do still have organs "inside" their bodies. Since there is no depth, they're just on the inner radius of their bodies. The 2007 Ehlinger movie adaptation shows that:

If Bill wanted to "give his world a new perspective" and "show everyone what they were missing," he wanted to get everyone to look upward.

Meaning he probably tilted the entire world.

Meaning everyone not only slid off of the plane, but all of their organs spilled out and everyone died.

...Hence "so much blood."

(The only issue with this is that it doesn't account for the number of times Euclydia is referred to have been burned ("saw his own dimension burn / misses home and can't return", he only has ashes leftover), but I'm sure the act of turning an entire dimension upwards expends a lot of energy.)

also deciding to make stuff that 12 year old me would have wanted to draw

"Billy was right, dear… The stars do look pretty…"

the silly straws page wont leave my head

mista freeeeez

Not sure if I love this design yet, gonna maybe give it another go later, but oc x canon’ing is happening again unfortunately

Plus some bonuses :3

And I think we should be doing theraprism ocs in general actually. Can we start that?

spamton divorce cake

Just Checking In! (aka Something About Red Triangles)

Destroyed my inhibitions. Please accept my humble contROBution to the tawog community

Do you think Bill Cipher is his real name? The book suggests it is since he used to be called Billy but he also tells Gideon that his true name would drive mortals insane. But maybe he was lying! About which we’ll never know.

I personally think it would be really dumb for

an alien

with bizarre alien biology that involves speaking through some organ that clearly isn't a mouth

because his mouth is also his EYE SOCKET and occupied by an EYEBALL

who's not only from a different planet but from a different UNIVERSE

which is so different from ours that the LAWS OF PHYSICS aren't even compatible

because they don't have a THIRD DIMENSION

and who was named ONE TRILLION YEARS before any humans existed

never mind human languages

never mind "common" human names like Bill

to have a normal human name made with normal human sounds.

So I buy the "my name is unintelligible to your species; Bill Cipher is just a dimensional pen name I use because you can pronounce it" explanation, due to the alternative offending my sci-fi worldbuilder sensibilities. The "if you heard my name you'd explode with an expression of ecstasy and agony on your face" part in the Bill Cipher AMA might be a boast to sound cool, but nevertheless I buy that his name can't be spelled, pronounced, or possibly even heard correctly by humans.

The most common explanation I've heard for why he would claim his REAL name is incomprehensible if his name is actually just "Bill" is that he thinks "Bill" is lame and wants people to think he has a cooler name. But, if that were the case... why wouldn't he just... y'know. Give himself a cooler name? Like, who's gonna call him out on it? Birth certificate's incinerated. Parents aren't gonna call him his deadname in front of his friends. The only reason he'd tell people his name is Bill Cipher would be if he wants to go by "Bill Cipher."

When he goes by "Bill" and refers to himself as a child as "Billy" I'm assuming that that's, like... the dub version of his name. Like how the main character of Pokémon is named サトシ but in the dub it's changed to "Ash" because surely American children can't pronounce that bizarre foreign name!! Bill's real name is [EERIE INCOMPREHENSIBLE SOUND] and as a kid sometimes his mom called him [A SIMILAR BUT SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT EERIE INCOMPREHENSIBLE SOUND THAT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING TO US BUT TO BILL'S SPECIES SOUNDS LIKE A CUTESY VERSION OF THE FIRST SOUND] and when talking to humans he translates those as "Bill" and "Billy."

The need for respect

you think he talks to his clones

How do you characterize Grampa Shermie?

honestly i don't characterize him lmao. This is all i've really got:

he picked up the "you've gotta be tough enough to defend yourself" lesson from Filbrick just like Stan & Ford did and passed that lesson on to his kid(s); because we know his kid, kid-in-law, and grandkids do kickboxing.

he also picked up his parents' belief in higher education as the ticket to a better life. He's been to college.

he's the son that stayed near New Jersey to look after his parents

He never really knew Stan or Ford. Stan was kicked out when Shermie was just a baby. After Ford went off to college he rarely came home, and then never came home at all after he moved to Oregon. Shermie didn't know them well enough to tell the difference when Stan took over Ford's life. He only started getting to know Stan (disguised as Ford) in adulthood.

he's the last generation of the family to actively practice Judaism (and he's more invested than Stan or Ford at this point), and Mabel & Dipper had bat/bar mitzvahs primarily because their parents knew it was so important to Shermie. He did raise his kid(s) with it but D&M's parent drifted away from it.

he did actually want to go to Stan's (fake) funeral but couldn't make it for some reason or another—couldn't get time off work, had to look after his kid(s), somebody in the hospital, whatever. Normal practical real world problems. Stan faked his death in Oregon, and we know that he also provided a fake corpse because his funeral had a coffin and the Pines family would not have spent a bunch of money on a symbolic empty coffin. Which means the funeral was in Oregon, because it costs major $$$ to transport a body across the country and the Pines family, again, does not have that kind of cash. So it would be really easy for it to just be too inconvenient for Shermie to make it across the country to the funeral of a brother he didn't even remember.

As you can see, the scant few things I've headcanoned about Shermie are light on, like... actual characterization.

FOLKS!

Putting "seven eyes" on that godforsaken computer you get a picture of Jheselbraum (who we know was once a Henchmaniac) and a message that says: "LEAVE HIM. Escape to dimension (?) it's against the rules but it's the one reality where you may be safe from him"

The code under that says: "set coords to dimension: r34lity"

If you put "r34lity" into the computer you get some pictures of the Henchmaniacs in what seems to be our world and a text that says "they found a new home"

MY THEORY is that Jheselbraum still wanted to help her ex colleagues? Friends? And sent them to Earth, aka r34lity (which must be the name of our dimension in the Gravity Falls universe)

Thoughts?

H E L L O ????