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In the Bill Cipher AMA, Bill commands his fangirls to form a human throne to await his coming. Subsequently, during Weirdmageddon, he constructs a throne himself out of petrified humans, in addition to setting up a penthouse suite with a couch made from living human skin.

In this essay about Bill's human furniture kink—

noescape

mr nightmare

#bill cipher #love for ever n ever

caterpie

Kirby’s Adventure (1993)

anfae

May the starsheep bring you home

shuuubes

thank you starsheep, this is better than uber

anfae

you're welcome, don't forget to give it 5 stars

shuuubes

5*, didn't talk to me on the ride, only baa'd gently when it was time to disembark from his celestial floof

anfae

the starsheep thanks you

annoyangle

CLEARLY THE LIGHT OF CONSCIOUSNESS WAS WASTED ON SOME PEOPLE

noescape

* munch munch munches on my popcorn with my little clown nose on * ☀️ 🪐

Line art for a story I have been working on in which folds elegantly into the Book of Bill… more coming soooon about the cosmic silly straws xoxoxoxoxo

triangleguy

add butterfinger to gravity falls

original image under cut

nyctibiius

she has been pickled for her crimes

guooey

geistboy1

to celebrate the book coming out i drew a whole boat load of bill because hes very fun to draw

anistarrose

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 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.]

#Gee Willikers u think so #* blinking rapidly *

technological-existentialism

noescape

I like when these kinds of synchronicities occur… this little blip of data registered from my eyes + occipital cortex has warmed me and set the framework for my RAS today *strikes a silly pose* also 858– I’ll have to dive around on that one *.^