Guys, Like. Are We Getting A Gravity Falls Revival? With The Book Of Bill And The Website Cypher Hunt

guys, like. Are we getting a Gravity Falls revival? With the book of bill and the website cypher hunt I really think— things are looking up for us, guys.

Xiangliu and the Allegory of the Cave

Can we talk about how the Nine Headed Demon’s story is a direct use of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave!? Like aaaaughhh. I believe the show references this but not in the English version.

The Allegory of the Cave goes as follows (obviously simplified for time): Several prisoners are chained in a cave, facing the shadows and away from the sun. They think the shadows are all that exist. One of them gets away and sees the sun. He returns to the cave to free the others, but they kill him.

Like, I think it’s SO COOL to use the allegory of the cave as a backstory for a villain.

Xiang Liu is such a fascinating character, and my favorite villain so far.

(oh also, yes, his story is also very Pandora’s box. I love mythology aaaahhgh)

"Your tunes do not bring me joy, Calypso"

Gravity Falls Could Finally Get the Queer Representation it was starved of in 2012

With the Book of Bill coming out, a new cypher hunt underway, and a general revival of hype for Gravity Falls, it’s not far out to guess this might be build up for something more :) And if we get a Gravity Falls season three, it can FINALLY actually be queer. It’s 2024. We’re post-owl house. Tad Strange is already confirmed to have a thing for woodpecker guy, and we haven’t even gotten a third season/spin off show or anything yet.

Just think.

Cherif Blubs and Deputy Durland can be more than a joke. Wendy can be bisexual. Ford can be canonically the gay-ace-otherwise queer man he is. Mabel can honestly celebrate all kinds of love. Those two old ladies who weren’t approved in the love god episode could finally see the light of day.

Gravity Falls, the cartoon that pushed hardest for queer representation and was fought for every drop of it, could finally be as colorful and gay as it wants to be.

I just think that would be really cool.

After God Games

Helios: The sirens?

Apollo: I was taken by surprise, okay? Dad just popped me into the arena and went "yo fight your sister about Odyseus or something".

Helios: And you didn't consider my cows as a reason?

Apollo: I panicked!? And the sirens do write bangers.

Helios: After I considered you as my sucessor!

Apollo: Look, honey, Hector was my champion and I didn't even considered Troy a reason. Is nothing personal.

Three common harmful comparisons to avoid when writing diverse characters

When writing diverse characters here are three harmful comparisons that I HIGHLY recommend avoiding.

Don’t compare women to flowers. This has huge ties into harmful Purity Culture and a general perception that women are ‘beautiful but easily damaged.’ This comparison is textbook misogyny and should be avoided. Exceptions would be if you have a woman character who is literally a flower or some way (like some kind of wood nymph fantasy character). In this case, I’d recommend throwing in a male flower character as well, just for good measure.

Don’t compare Asian people to animals. Just don’t compare any diverse group to animals. Or let’s just not compare humans to animals at all, shall we? Asian people have been historically discriminated against by being compared to rats. Being compared to pandas is another common one. Let’s just absolutely not do this, ok? Any exceptions… can’t really think of one. I’d say even making your Asian character somehow literally animal or part animal is pretty problematic, unless the whole cast is shapeshifters or something.

Don’t compare POC characters’ skin to chocolate. This is literally so common in books. It’s fetishizing and objectifying. There’s lots of words for ‘brown.’ Just stop doing this, ok? Exception: there’s not really one. Don’t compare people to food.

those are three common comparisons to avoid in your writing! Got any more? Let me know in the comments.