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Axolotl sometimes visits Bill to check on him (and lets him look at the stars 😭)
It's a bit lazy but I was trying to add meaning to it and use a metaphor about picking flowers alright??
Part 3
Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3
He gets one half hour of supervised outside time. He won't admit it, but he appreciates being able to see the stars.
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"I have never seen something more beautiful" omfg too precious
Bill at therapy! I made more! Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Ignore how inconsistent I am….I just doodle and go with whatever
Credits to @morimoru for the original concept and art!
here’s a Rubarki, she’s not fleshed out so here’s her concept art 👍.
Also love the original character in the first one! If Rubarki was in the theraprism, she would probably just hang around. While stuck in her ‘mini form’ (5’8”ft) within the theraprism preventing her from turning to her true form. She would most likely be quiet and probably listen to Bill rant to himself, really thinking nothing of it given she’s probably been there for a few decades. Usually keeping her insanity in check by distracting herself with cooking therapy.
Draw your character with Bill in group therapy
he’s having fun in the theraprism.
put your characters in the angy corner! >:)
the theraprism has a new patient...
I feel like they will all become the best friends ever
(this is like, an oc insert but he got caught between his realm and the spirit realm)
I hope I did your sona justice 😁😁🩷🩷🩷
Guys cringe is dead, I ate it
Self insert cuz my sona is also a cyclops
I wanna see more Sonas trapped in Theraprism, Bill needs his new henchmen
Bill likes to talk to himself a lot
Since a bit of you liked that last Bill/Baby Bill thing
Have some more doodles 🙃
Introducing my Theraprism OC!!!!!
Her name is Lacuna and she is a personification of dark matter!!
Once again Star Wars is present in the design, can you guess where?
Situationship with ford so bad it sent him into psych ward
Cute baby
Image of a baby giggling in a cozy blanket "Look at this little bundle of joy! 🍼👶💖 Can't handle the cuteness! 😍✨"
So, Dr. Axolotl, right?
This took me longer than I like to admit
Some Book of Bill musings about the theraprism below the cut.
Bill getting sectioned by the Axolotl (and time baby?) is wild to me.
What sort of therapy would be effective on an unwilling participant with such extreme issues with authority?
Do they enforce medication schedules, is there mandatory CBT or DBT sessions to make him feel bad about his decisions (and is guilt ever an effective method when dealing with someone with Bills issues) or do they do Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Can you use EMDR to process traumatic memories if the patient only has one eye (probably) or would they utilise tapping or electric pulses to trigger bilateral brain movement.
I know they do art therapy and have unhelpful patronising motivational posters on the wall, but who decides by what metric these "offenders" reach reform by?
And who decides their reincarnation fate, is there any oversight there to make these reincarnation decisions client led or is it just one more thing the offenders have to accept they have no control over. They are already dressed like prisoners and subjected to solitary confinement (which can be a passive form of torture in some cases).
Do they address the root traumas effectively given the owners of the theraprism seem to be all powerful (but not powerful enough to eradicate the systemic problems that cause the initial traumas) or do they victim blame and reinforce narcissistic injury through this process.
Are you cured when you stop fighting? When you give up and conform?
How is the theraprism a just solution and who controls it behind the scenes?
Are you free when you admit guilt (Bill already described himself as a monster) or when you take accountability?
Is accountability helpful at all when the Theraprism only seems to release patients to be completely reincarnated to a new form and life? How are you meant to make up for your failings in this life if you're just continually punished for it until you reach reincarnation stage and then continue to be punished in the next life (by only getting reincarnated as bugs or lower life forms if the butterfly is anything to go by). Everyone just trusts that the Axolotl is the good guy, same with Time Baby, but by what virtue are they in charge (when they seem just as mysterious, ambiguous and overpowered as Bill sometimes) and what have they done to prove they are worthy of this huge responsibility?
I have so many questions about the actual efficacy of the theraprism past a funny punchline for the Book of Bill.
BILL DOODLES
gravity falls fixation hitting me like a bus again
Bouncing around the idea of the Theraprism in my head led me back to a video i had seen that i forcefully tied to the concept. That being Jacob Geller's "Time Loop Nihilism", specifically the snippet from "Through the Flash". Like, if somehow Bill were to actually get better over time, the exchange in that segment of the video would be fitting i think. Below, maybe paraphrased, im writing it from the video.
"I feel like I maybe liked the old me better. The old Ama. It was easier."
"And what's the difference between the two?"
"The old me did everything one way. And only thought about one person. Now I try to help everbody instead of killing them...I used to be afraid. I know I can't take it back. I know i'm the worst person who ever lived. I know that. I'm not afraid anymore. I'm only scared of me."
"I see, and that means you've been two people?"
"How can you not see the difference? I'm so much better now. I am."
"I think you've done a fine job. And it's true that in the past you were a terrible witch. But I think there's only one Ama. And I think i'm talking to her."
(From "Friday Black", by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah)