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Okay I Haven't Been Saying Anything About It Because I Wanted To Draw Something For It But I Need To

okay i haven't been saying anything about it because i wanted to draw something for it but i need to need to need to

professor hidgens from the guy who didn't like musicals looks like ford and i can't unsee it

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8 months ago

So y'all know the Gravity Falls production bible that leaked three weeks ago. Someone in one of my discord servers pointed this out:

A quaint little town dwarfed by a roaring waterfall and impossibly tall redwoods, Gravity Falls seems like a charming, if mostly inconsequential, dot on the Oregon state map. Their main industries are mining, logging, and mud flap manufacturing, and the town is generally peopled with ornery lumberjacks, six-fingered truckers, and other standard rustic rubes. Beneath this fagade of wholesome American charm, however, lies a puzzling dark side--the forest is filled with gnomes, the lake has at least two monsters, there’s a cave that seems to lead straight to the underworld and an arcade machine which could best be described as possessed. Most of the townsfolk don’t notice these things, or if they do, they just laugh it off. However, to anyone daring and clever enough to explore it, Gravity Falls is a strange and wondrous place, as dark and adventurous as the depths of a 12-year-old’s imagination.
(the words "six-fingered truckers" are highlighted.)

And, naturally, that spawned an entire AU.

AU Concept: Ford was kicked out instead of Stan and takes a job as a trucker to makes ends meet since he couldn't go to college, while still studying the weird and anomalous however he can.

Digital drawing of Ford Pines from gravity Falls, mid-30s, dressed in a yellow trucker hat, flannel shirt, brown vest, khaki coat, jeans, and brown boots. He has his hands stuffed in his pockets and is glancing off toward the side. He looks tired, a little paranoid, and like he hasn't shaved in a couple of days. He's standing next to an 18-wheeler cast in nighttime shadows; the truck is red with two golden stripes down the sides.

Ford driving around from quirky small town to quirky small town, drifting through the liminal spaces of truck stops, meeting odd people in isolated diners, seeing strange things out on the road—a deer with too many eyes bounding across a two-lane highway, a flirty woman at a rest stop who doesn't blink or breathe, mysterious lights in the sky at night, inhuman growls on the CB or 50-year-old broadcasts on the radio—and taking notes when he stops for gas or food.

Aside from having gotten kicked out before graduating high school, Ford's the same person he is in canon.

A black & white digital comic. Panel one: a trucker and Ford Pines, sitting at a counter with coffee mugs. The trucker says, "Planning to drive through the night? Here's some friendly advice: never pick up a hitchhiker after midnight in Roadkill County. This stretch of Route 14 is HAUNTED."
Panel 2 and 3: an 18-wheeler driving on a dark road lined with pine trees comes to a stop.
Panel 4: Ford steps out of the truck's driver door and says "Hello?? Are there any GHOSTS here in need of a ride? Or... or demons? Banshees? Even a zombie?"
Panel 5: Ford waits a moment in silence.
Panel 6: Ford says, "Okay, well... offer's open. Feel free to just hop on in. Don't even need to ask."
Panel 7: The 18-wheeler drives away.
Panel 8: inside the truck's cab in the driver's seat, looking tired and disappointed, Ford sighs.
Panel 9: something unseen in the empty passenger seat says, "Do you mind if I turn on the radio?" Ford flinches, looks over in alarm, and yells "GAH!!"

He's still an ambitious guy, and here "ambitious" means working hard and saving as much money as he can—so, a long haul owner-operator who spends weeks at a time on the road. (He goes through a LOT of educational audiobooks.) Plus, this is the easiest way for him to get to travel the country; and since it looks like his "travel the world" dreams with Stan are dead, he'll take what he can get.

Since he's never in the same spot long and carries his life in a truck, almost all of Ford's research is in his journal. His bag of investigation supplies has an instant camera, a portable tape recorder, a thermometer, a flashlight, rubber gloves, and a few zip lock bags—and that's about it. It has to share space with all his clothes, toiletries, and nonperishable food when he's on the road. He doesn't have much opportunity to closely examine anything odd he finds, unless he's lucky enough to run into something when he can stop for the night. He has to cram his paranormal research around the side of his full-time job.

He doesn't live in Gravity Falls, but he knows it exists. Every time he moves—to Chicago, to Nebraska, to California—he seems to inch closer. He currently lives in Portland and usually hauls loads between the Pacific Northwest and Chicago or New York. He stops at the truck stop outside Gravity Falls when he can and has gone fishing in town a few times. He doesn't have the benefit of extensive research to know that this is the weirdest town in the world; but it seems pretty weird to him, there are local rumors about the town, and he's had some weird experiences in the area.

A lined digital comic. Panel one: the inside of an empty diner, with booths on the left, a counter on the right, and a door in the middle.
Panel two: the door's slammed open and Ford is standing in the door, holding himself up with a hand on his knee, shaking, disheveled, and clothes tattered, and gleefully announces, "I JUST GOT ABDUCTED BY ALIENS!! Please call a doctor."

Plus, he can't explain it, but it's like the town's calling to him. He wants to move there, but it'd put him over an hour outside of Portland where the nearest jobs are. Maybe if somebody chucked him like $100k to build a cabin in the woods; but what are the odds of that?

He does know Fiddleford. Truck broke down somewhere and Fiddleford kindly pulled over to fix it on the fly. They looked at each other, had mutual knee-jerk "dumb trucker/hillbilly" reactions, and within ten minutes both went "oh wait you're the most brilliant genius i've ever met." Fiddleford's living the same life he was in canon before Ford called him to Gravity Falls—with his family in California, trying to start a computer company out of his garage—but they make friends and keep in contact.

One time Ford stops at a kitschy roadside knickknack store that also sells new agey magic things—crystals, tarot cards, incense, etc. He bought a "lucky" rearview mirror ornament that looks like an Eye of Providence in a top hat and hung it from his cab fan, and ever since then he's had weird dreams whenever he sleeps in his truck.

Digital drawing of a golden coin hanging from a chain with Bill Cipher etched in the middle. Text around it says "Come closer, I am just— I am just a normal lucky ornament"

Things I don't know yet: what Stan's up to; or why Ford's the one who got kicked out. I tend to believe that in canon Stan wasn't just kicked out because he ruined Ford's college prospects, but rather because the family thought he deliberately sabotaged Ford; so in this AU, Ford would've been kicked out over a proportionate crime.


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8 months ago
This Is Probably Like My Favourite Comic Ever Made In The World I Think

This is probably like my favourite comic ever made in the world i think

8 months ago

I think I am the way I am partially because my first ever big video game with a story was Super Paper Mario. The narrative is kickass but honestly more than anything I haven't seen many examples that come close to how visually coherent Super Paper Mario is. The amount of geometric shapes in the art direction of the game really drives home how many characters could only exist in 2D, which really drives home the ability to swap to 3D!!!! It's so cool!!! and all the weird equations in the sky and the bizarre (even for Mario standards) enemy designs and the way each world seems to have a unique pattern to the way the world layout is stylized.....its absolutely incredible

8 months ago

I LOVE THIS GIVE ME MORE

So a while ago some friends were talking about fans who claim the Same Coin theory is canon. And I made the mistake of saying:

Do you know who also has tons in common with Bill? Mabel. Yet nobody claims Bill reincarnated as Mabel. …wait now I want a "same coin but it's Mabel" AU. Funniest Bill reincarnation option. The all-seeing arsonist is making macaroni glitter art. The omnipotent tyrant is crying because a unicorn called her a bad person.

And then I overthought it for two months.

So—AU where after death, Bill's soul shoots 13 years into the past and reincarnates as Mabel. I'll call it ✨ Sparkly Coin AU ✨

Digital drawing of Mabel Pines and Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls cheerfully pointing at each other beneath a banner (depicting a prism dividing light into purple, green, and orange beams) that reads "Same person due to non-chronological reincarnation". In a close-up panel on the right, Mabel, irritated, says, "Wait, what? You're joking, right?" In another panel, similarly disturbed, Bill says, "Yeah, I didn't agree to this"

Don't leave yet. Lemme show you why it works. Behold the eerie amount of parallels in their personalities, dialogue, behavior, mannerisms, tastes...

A series of captioned screenshots from Gravity Falls.
Screenshot 1: Bill Cipher during Weirdmageddon, with arms raised, floating over the burning town and surrounded by weirdness bubbles. Caption: "—an endless summer where we'll never have to grow up! Here the sun shines all day, the party never ends—"
Screenshot 2: Mabel sitting at her desk in Mabeland, her arms raised, a beautiful colorful view out the window, while Dipper and Soos look on in horror. Caption: "This party never stops! Time is dead and meaning has no meaning! Existence is upside-down and I reign supreme!"
Screenshot 3: Bill, as Bipper, fists raised looking furious. Caption: "Nothing is stronger than the power of—(Love?)—Bill!"
Screenshot 4: Mabel, eyes sparkly, face squished against Grunkle Stan's. Caption: "You can't stop me! I'm a being of pure energy with no weakness!"
Screenshot 5: Bill, swinging his arms jauntily. Caption: "Are you kidding me? I'm puppet CRAZY! People call me Puppet Crazy Bill!"
Screenshot 6: Mabel, talking to Gabe Benson excitedly. Caption: "All I want is a puppet! Everyone loves puppets."
Screenshot 7: Mabel holding up her puppet Bear-O the Great over an image of Bill as Bipper, stretching out Dipper's face creepily. Caption: "(likes the creepiest puppets in the word)"
Screenshot 8: Mabel laying on her side, cheek propped in hand, eyes half-lidded, trying to look romantic, atop a pile of books; over an image of Bill in a similar pose on a bearskin. Caption: "(thinks this is working for some reason)"
Screenshot 9: Bill surrounded by all his Henchmaniacs, over an image of Mabel meeting Grenda (feeding her pet lizard) and Candy (eating popcorn off forks taped to her fingers). Caption: "(befriends weirdos and outcasts)"
Screenshot 10: a series of panels from the comics where Mabel proceeds form anger to realization as she says, "What's WRONG with you guys! This is an IMPORTANT MISSION and you're just all being TOTALLY SELF-CENTER— ohhh... Oh, Mabel, you gotta work on yo'self"
Screenshot 11: two pictures from Sock Opera where Bipper tries to talk Mabel into betraying Dipper and she turns on Bipper. Caption: "(reexamines her selfish streak when confronted by another facet of herself)"
Screenshot 11: Mabel sitting on her bed talking to a disinterested Dipper. Caption: "You're spending a lot of time with old Fordsy lately, huh?"
Screenshot 12: Bill holding Grunkle Ford in mid-air and manipulating his arms. Caption: "Ah, don't look so sour, Fordsy."
Screenshot 13: Mabel, fists raised triumphantly, looking at Dipper while Soos is kneeling in distress in the background. Caption: "Mind control is option!"
Screenshot 14: Mabel riding on her cartoon imaginary friends Craz and Xyler's arm throne. Caption: "(Bill gifts Mabel her dream boys)"
Screenshot 15: Mabel hugging a unicorn in her sleep. Caption: "(Bill invades every Pines' dreams but Mabel's)"
Screenshot 16: Mabel floating in the air, about to be stuck in a pink bubble by Bill at the start of Weirdmageddon. Caption: "(Bill gives Mabel the nicest prison of anyone in town)"
Screenshot 17: a sepia-tone image of Bill's orb-like Nightmare Realm, but Mabel's prison bubble has been superimposed over it; next to a screenshot of Mabel's prison bubble, but Bill in his Nightmare Realm has been superimposed over it.
Screenshot 18: an exchange from Twitter reading "Dear Alex Hirsch, WHY NO GOTH GIRLS IN GRAVITY FALLS????" Alex Hirsch: "Does Bill Cipher count", next to a drawing of teenage Mabel with goth clothes, pastel tattoos, and asymmetrical hair sitting next to a frazzled Dipper, labeled "teen goth girl Mabel (by Alex Hirsch)
Screenshot 19: Mabel forming a smile in clay with her finger, over Bill forming a smile on the Earth with his finger.
Screenshot 20: Mabel swinging a golf club at a Lili-putt-ian, over Bill swinging the Shacktron's leg at it like a golf club.
Screenshot 21: Bill with his left hand magically sized up to the size of his body in preparation of smashing something, over Mabel with her left hand magically sized up to multiple times the size of her body in preparation of smashing something.
Screenshot 22: Mabel scratching her head with a wooden carving of Robbie, over Bill scratching his Back with Ford who's been turned into a gold statue.
Screenshot 23: Bill about to take a bite out of planet Earth, over Mabel pantomiming eating the sun.
Caption 1: "Bill genuinely believes that Mabel's kind of like him. He sees Mabel as a chaos agent, like, Mabel has got a little bit of a seed of anarchy in her, she's a little bit selfish, she likes to have fun at whatever cost, and Bill is all those things times a billion."
Caption 2: "Mabel, on the other hand—her, I like. "Fun" is just another way of saying CHAOS, and I'm the master of that! Here's a list of some REALLY fun things:"

I could have kept going but my attention span ran out. All right, we all on board now? Convinced we could segue from one personality into the other? Great. Now here's why you should be interested: the juicy post-Weirdmageddon angst potential.

A digital line art comic, featuring six panels of Mabel in roughly the same position gradually growing older as events happen around her. Panel one: Mabel looks sad as Dipper hugs her and says, "It isn't your fault, okay? It's Bill's. No one else's." Panel two. Mabel hides her face in her hands as a counselor says, "It isn't your fault." Panel three: Mabel smiles weakly as Ford holds her shoulder and says, "It wasn't your fault." Panel four: Mabel says to herself in the mirror, "It's not my fault! It was BILL'S!" Panel five: a caption says "However. Then she finds it WAS her fault." Mabel sits on her bed and silently stares off with a haunted look. Panel six: continuing from the last panel, Mabel crosses her arms tightly and laughs unhappily.

As long as a small fringe of the fandom still thinks Weirdmageddon is Mabel's fault, why not amp that up x100 and have some fun with it?

Is everyone sold now? Great. Let's get into the details. I've got 8 more pieces of art under the read more.

So the AU starts the instant Bill dies. Thanks to invoking his deal with the Axolotl—one way to absolve his crime, a different form, a different time—the Axolotl gives him a new shape and shoots him thirteen years into the past. Apparently, the Axolotl thought it would be very funny to stick Bill in the family that defeated him.

Which probably made for a jarring transition.

A lined digital comic. Panel one: Grunkle Stan punching Bill cipher into shards. Panel two: Bill's soul, glowing white, appearing in front of the Axolotl. Panel three: Bill's soul has turned into Mabel's glowing white soul. There's a clock rewinding backwards to represent time reversing. Panel four: Stan, grinning broadly and crying tears of joy, holds swaddled babies Mabel and Dipper. Dipper's asleep but Mabel looks up at Stan with trepidation.

(It's fine, she's like 10 minutes old, she probably can't even tell who she's looking at. Not being able to tell who she was looking at is what got her into this situation ayyyy)

When Dipper & Mabel come back from Gravity Falls complaining about this triangular jerk Bill, their parents mention that Dipper's name was nearly Bill. See, after they knew they were going to have a boy, one night their mom dreamed about a visitor—some kind of magic pink salamander??—calling her child "BILL." Then at the next sonogram they found out they were having twins, the girl must've been hidden at a weird angle the first time, and they wanted matching names, so they thought, Bill and Bell. But they didn't really like Bell; but eventually they stumbled on Mabel, so to keep the names matching they switched from Bill to Mason. Isn't that the darnedest thing?

(Of course, Mabel and Dipper assume Bill harassed their parents to try to trick them into naming a kid after him. To be a jerk.)

When Bill meets Mabel, he's unaware that she's his future self—Bill's notably bad at doing things like, say, double-checking to see whether he's going to die anytime soon—but like... he can tell something's up.

Lined comic. Panel one: Gideon Gleeful says to Bill, "Now what I don't get is why you locked Mabel in such a nice little utopia but didn't reward the other fellas that helped you get here. (Don't get me wrong, I'm glad you did, but still.)" panel two: Bill stares off and says, "I've got a weird feeling about that kid. I don't—think—hurting her is a good idea." and then he falls silent. Panel three: Bill gives Gideon a tired look and says, "Why, do YOU want her?" Gideon eagerly says, "DO I?!"

Naturally, before visiting Gravity Falls, there were echoes of who Mabel used to be—but nothing anyone would be able to identify without context. All her Bill-ish quirks either smoothed out with time (see: how between second grade and fourth grade Mabel went from being the "freak" to the popular girl in class), or else they were accepted by her family as Mabel-ish quirks.

Three lined comics. Comic one: panel one: young Mabel is running and laughing, elbows extended and forearms hanging down the way Bill tends to float. Panel two: Mabel stops running and turns to look as someone shouts, "Hey freak! Why do you run so weird?" Panel three: Mabel runs moving her arms more normally (captioned "running like Dipper"), with a look of intense concentration and humming with focus. Comic two: someone off screen says, "You can't wear a sweater, sweetie, it's the middle of summer." Young Mabel, arms crossed and stepping on her foot, cries unhappily, "BUT MOMMM, I'M COLD!!" Dipper points at her and says angrily, "She's COLD, mom!" Comic three: Panel one: Toddler Mabel clumsily holds a cup as somebody says, "That's right, Mabel... just lift the glass, you can do—" Panel two: Mabel pours the glass on her eyes as someone says, "O-oh no!" and laughs. Panel three: older Dipper and Mabel, immediately after Sock Opera. Dipper tiredly says "And then Bill poured soda on my eyes? Like how you used to drink when we were three?" Mabel says "Haa, what an idiot!"
Panel one and two: Bill holding a glass of time punch and seriously pointing at it vs Mabel holding a blender of Mabel juice and seriously pointing at it, as they share a word bubble saying, "A real party needs three things: dance music, crazy punch, and pyrotechnics." Panel three and four: Mabel leaning toward a wary-looking Dipper, wrapping an arm around his shoulders, and grinning at him, versus Bill leaning toward a wary-looking young adult Ford, wrapping an arm around his shoulders, and appearing to "grin" at him, as they share a word bubble saying, "Trust me! I know everything and I'm always right!"

After they meet (and kill) Bill, they have the context to understand some of Mabel's behaviors... and unfortunately, some of Mabel's latent Bill-ness starts surfacing after she's been directly exposed to her prior incarnation.

Panel one: Dipper leaning in a doorway saying "Hey Mabel, Mom says it's time for omigosh what's wrong with your eyes." Off-screen Mabel says, "I got cat contacts and fake lashes! Are they cool?!" Panel two: Dipper, grimacing, is silent a moment, then says, "Are you feeling... normal?"
Panel three: A colored picture of Mabel saying "Yeah? Why?" She's laying on her bed and wearing yellow cat eye contacts, dramatic lashes, a cat ear headband with a tiny top hat in between, a triangle necklace, a yellow sweater with a grid pattern, and reading a book on the pyramids. She has a blue lava lamp with a triangular sticker; on her wall are two yellow macrame triangles, a poster of a shooting star, and a psychedelic poster of an astronaut surrounded by multicolor planets in front of a triangle; and on her bed is a cyan & magenta retrowave-ish bedspread and a round zodiac symbol blanket.
Panel four: a grayscale version of the previous image with everything related to triangles, pyramids, gold/yellow, Bill's appearance, Bill's zodiac, Bill's blue flames, the Fearamid, and the Weirdmageddon interdimensional rift highlighted. Panel five: Dipper silently stares, very uncomfortable. Panel six: Dipper squints and says, "Please take out the contacts so I know you're not Bill." Off-screen, Mabel says, "Ugh, fine. You don't get fashion, bro bro."

The part of the Pines family familiar with Bill thinks the worst case scenario is that maybe Bill's survived and is slowly possessing Mabel; but far more likely, they think this is just some weird way of trying to subconsciously process last summer. Mabel doesn't think she's being weird, you guys are being weird, stop giving her weird looks. They get attacked by one triangle and now she can't wear yellow or pick up macrame as a hobby??

(It's not all red flags and uncomfortable triangle imagery, though. When Stan asks her what she'd like as a gift for some important event, she shyly admits that she thinks she's starting to outgrow her plastic gem jewelry and maybe she's old enough to get her first piece of real gold jewelry, if that's not too expensive? And Stan's never been so proud of her. Thirteen years old and already thinking about buying gold!)

But of course, the real fun starts when Mabel finds out.

A colored comic. Panel one: Mabel says "Hey, Grunkle Ford! What's that weird mirror?" Ford, holding a hand mirror with an hourglass on the back, says, "Supposedly, it's a magic mirror that lets you see your past lives—if you have any. I don't see anything strange, though." Mabel says, "Wow! Can I try?" Panel two: Ford stands behind Mabel and says "Well? See anything interesting?" Mabel looks into the mirror, grinning, as it starts to glow. Her eyes are briefly slitted like Bill's. Panel three: Mabel whirls around, pressing the mirror to her chest, and looks up in terror. After a long pause, she says weakly, "I've gotta go."

That's the face of a girl who's just discovered that she tortured her great uncle. Now imagine running into the brother she possessed.

But I've already spent a million words and thirteen images on this post. If enough folks are interested in the AU maybe I'll expand on it later. Let me know what y'all think.


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