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Jax Theory

I know someone at some point has said this before, and it might not even be true, but I've got it stuck in my head.

All his bs, all his making them his playthings, all his bullying, and all his torment.

What if it's to make the others stronger?

Like, what if he torments them so much because he thinks that if he can make them tougher, that if he can make them cold-hearted that they'll survive whatever Caine is throwing at them.

But then he leaves Kinger alone for the most part because Kinger has already lost himself somewhat.

It doesn't make sense, but when you look at how he was just willing and begging Pomni to shoot him, like he's making sure she doesn't get attached and can survive without anyone... it starts lining up.

He makes them hate him, makes them despise him, to force them to be stronger, and it worked with everyone.

But it hasn't worked with Pomni.

Pomni is still worried about him. Pomni can see past his tricks like she sees past Ragatha's tricks, and she sees that beneath all that hate is something he wants to keep dead and buried.

But Pomni is bringing the version of himself that he buried to the surface once more, and he can't handle it, because the last person who saw that side of him is gone, and he fully blames himself for that.

#ranting #the amazing digital circus #tadc #tadc pomni #pomni #tadc jax #jax #jax theory #the amazing digital circus episode 6 #tadc episode 6

Now that I'm thinking about it...

Does anyone think that if the call had gone through to Stan, that he would have known that wasn't his brother?

I mean, yeah, Bill had his voice, but even though they hadn't seen one another in years, I'm pretty sure Stan knows how his brother speaks and acts, and I just can't help but think he would have known something wasn't right the moment he heard his voice.

I mean, of course, something wasn't right, but like in someway would he have known that the thing speaking with his brother's voice wasn't his brother.

#gravity falls #the book of bill #stan twins #stan pines #ford pines #stanley pines #stanford pines #the pines family #questions #just some questions #angst #bill cipher

I really hope that the guardians of the Theraprism let Bill keep the last thing he has of his home.

I hope they let him keep it in his hat like he has been.

That it's not locked up and that Bill can't see it, touch it, or be near it until he's reformed.

I know he's a bastard and deserves whatever happens to him, but at the same time that seems needlessly cruel to me.

#gravity falls #the book of bill #theraprism #bill cipher

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Well, well, well! Hello. all you lovely people! It's been a hot minute since I did one of these lol.

As you can all probably tell, I've been dragged kicking and screaming back into Gravity Falls by "The Book of Bill." Because of this, I wanted to make a prompt list from all of my favorite lines of darker dialogue from the book.

Now I know this book is filled with dark dialogue from front to back, but these are the ones that stood out the most to me, and I know they stood out to others as well.

I hope you all enjoy this list, and if you use any of these prompts, please credit/tag me so I can come check out what you’ve created!

I hope you all stay blessed and safe throughout your day.

Lots of Love & Wishes: Celia 💙△💛👁️‍🗨️🖤

P.s. I did add some lines from the Axolotl’s poem I just felt like they fit well in this mess.

"Until there was no one left but me, covered in blood, alone in the universe,"

"Turn back while you still can, or live forever with the regret,"

"It infects other books!"

"Any regrets about causing the apocalypse?"

"Blame the arson for the fire."

"It's not with it. Trust me. You have to trust me,"

"Love is a trick and worst of all it's a trick you play on yourself,"

"Even his lies are lies,"

"I don't want to die alone,"

"I'm broken wanna fix me?"

"Once you kill with one of these, it becomes a "serious straw,"

"This book has no codes,"

"They don't even consider for a single moment the sheer improbability that they got to exist in the ONE timeline where they kept all of their bodily organs,"

"Maybe one day in the future all their good luck will finally run out,"

"I've peered into the souls of the madmen, but this was the first time I'd been in a mind that was collapsing like a neutron star,"

"Your world is controlled by dark invisible forces that need to operate in the shadows to maintain their power,"

"Some desperate part of him seemed to be trying to heal himself, hoping to weld his memories back together like one of his robots,"

"For the first time, I felt a kind of pain that wasn't hilarious,"

"Nightmares about trying to wash blood off her hands that never comes out,"

"Recurring nightmares about overhearing a fight between his parents he wasn't supposed to hear. Why do you think they were in such a rush to get the kids out the door for the Summer?"

"A single spark from the memory inferno hit me, and a hole sizzled straight through me like a laser through butter,"

"And if I ran into any symbols, I'd be ready,"

"Their screams getting louder and louder."

"Listen not to his lies!"

"And he tended to rip out journal pages that had anything to do with his issues with others… especially me,"

"Is my strange way of seeing the universe a gift or a curse?"

"Is loneliness just the cost of greatness? And if it is… how long am I fated to endure?"

"On your own, you're a bunch of sepia-tinted nobodies destined for the dumpster of history,"

"Although the day had begun with us as strangers, it ended with us as brothers, bonded by vengeance and a newfound hatred,"

"Someone had reversed the Shaman's spell and had summoned me back! Who would it be?! A genius? An idiot? Oh. Oh my goodness me. Yes. It was both,"

"Can you collect them all before the end-times come?"

"How about that; you've got an inferior clone! Why didn't you just eat him in the womb? Think of how powerful you'd be!"

"Assemble all seven collectibles to open the seal,"

"The perfect weight to kill a man,"

"Says he's happy, he's a liar,"

"I grow maddened."

"A different form, a different time."

"He looked distant, more distant than I'd ever seen him before,"

"By a monster."

"He laughed joylessly,"

"It would eat you alive."

"Trust no one,"

"As the chanting grew louder, the forest was suddenly engulfed in flames, screaming laughter echoing, and then- I awake on the floor, gasping for breath,"

"I could see in the third dimension,"

"But being special comes with a price,"

"I've shut down the portal! Damn it all!"

"My mind reels from horror and humiliation! How could I have been so foolish!?"

"Saw his own dimension burn, misses home, and can’t return."

"I was wrong about everything!"

"Break my bones if you must, but you cannot break my will!"

"No, I won't give him the satisfaction! Instead of destroying my work, I'll destroy him instead!"

"That's because I've been knock-knocking your skull against the wall!"

"Has he done this before?? How far would he go?"

"I keep coughing up spiders,"

"My heart was in my throat until I heard the dial tone… the pay phone was out of order. The message hadn't gotten through,"

"You're my property. Don't forget it,"

"You gave me your blood, You let me into your mind!"

"From the graves around me arose a horde of cackling cadavers eyes aglow,"

"Why are you doing this?! Why won't you just leave me alone?"

"Without me, you'll always feel unseen, surrounded by dolts who don't recognize your true potential,"

"You've always felt alone in a crowd, haven't you? Who else will give you this feeling again?"

"Even if you got rid of me, you'd miss me. Admit it, you'd miss me,"

"The hillbilly abandoned you, your father won't want you returning without millions, you have no friends, and if you died out here in the snow. who would even miss you?"

"I have no one else,"

“I awoke from the hallucination, heart pounding, to find myself back in my living room, clock ticking, record skipping- and began to weep,”

"What if… he mocks me? What if he sees that I abandoned our family to become a recluse on the brink of madness?"

"Where did you all go? WHERE DID-"

"Shame is a powerful emotion. But if grows even more in the dark,"

"I thought I was protecting my family, but I was really protecting myself… from humiliation,"

"No, they mean nothing to you!"

"Because no matter what the idiot counselors in this smiling cage say, I don't need anyone, I never have, and I don't miss any of them!"

"I'm fine,"

"This morning I awoke to find my knuckles bloody and sore. He must have been punching and scraping the steel door like a caged animal all night in a frenzy to get in,"

“Someday… someone… will let… me… out,”

#gravity falls #the book of bill #bill cipher #writing

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I just think there's something so wonderful about the fact that in "Journal 3" Ford is telling everyone not to trust anyone, not even themselves. And now in "The Book of Bill" he's begging us to trust him, to listen to him, and to understand that he has been in the same spot we've been in before. He even tries to give us new hobbies or tips to help us get away from the book.

I think that's a beautiful display of character growth, shown in a very simple and very Ford fashion.

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His arc in BoB (and Bill’s parallel negative arc) absolutely destroyy me

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I know right! It's just so great to see the way he's changed from a man who believed he needed no one to a man who now knows that he can count on his family no matter what!

#gravity falls #the book of bill #stanford pines

I think that's a beautiful display of character growth, shown in a very simple and very Ford fashion.

#gravity falls #the book of bill #book of bill #stanford pines #ford pines #bill cipher #character growth #journal 3

Please hold on I don’t have the Book of Bill, that actually happens? Bill actually threatens to call Stan while possessing Ford and says he never loved him? And then implied that he’ll ☠️ Ford and make it like a suicide??? Why the hell Bill? And ppl still ship them together??? That’s so incredibly dark and disturbing

Yeah, the book of bill gets really dark at some points, that adult rating isn't a joke made by Alex to mess with people.

And yes, he does take control of Ford's body and makes him call one of Stan's numbers for one of his old businesses to tell him that he never loved him and it is one of the things that affects Ford the most.

Like everything else, Ford just seems kind of annoyed, but when he sees Bill call the number they saw on TV he actually seems to lose it in my opinion.

I mean we're only reading it from Ford's pov afterward, so I can only imagine what he was feeling during that time of actually watching it happen.

And I don't really know if people ship them ship them, I feel as if a lot of artists are using it as more of a way to make art of Ford getting back at Bill for everything he's done by rejecting him and reminding Bill that no one in the Pines Family (especially Ford) need him.

#gravity falls #bill cipher gravity falls #the book of bill #standford pines #ford pines #Stanley pines #stan pines #billford

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prompt #88

“Why are you crying?” Hero asked, removing their arms from Villain’s shoulders for a second.

Villain brought a shaky hand to their face, and recoiled instantly. “I.. I don’t know,” they sobbed, pulling Hero back into their embrace.

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Language in TFP

A couple things I’ve been thinking about lately:

1) We aren’t sure how the translation process/language learning process is for Cybertronians, even though there are several effective and reasonably plausible ways for them to have learnt English.

They also might look things up in real time fast enough to learn on the go to supplement base knowledge– It’s handy when your brain is basically a high end computer!

But what we do absolutely know is that they’re not organic.

So how do they replicate the sounds of human speech, which are highly dependent on our actual physiology? We know that in some TF media, Cybertronians have a tongue equivalent (glossa), but is that the case in TFP? I can’t recall ever seeing a bot stick out their tongue or ever seeing one when their mouths are open wide, like when yelling.

So there may be a real physical difficulty for them when speaking English, at least at first. The effectivity or accuracy of work-arounds may vary.

For example, can a Cybertronian replicate a glottal stop effectively? So many human speech sounds depend on the glottis, something they don’t have, but may have an equivalent for. We don’t know exactly.

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2) There are some concepts and words that would just not translate, and some concepts that are familiar but so different with humans that it would be completely bizarre to them.

We see this a little bit when Ultra Magnus asks Optimus what a kilt is after Agent Fowler mentions it, and Optimus admits he has no clue.

Clothes, or items like shoes, etc. are all totally foreign as concepts to Cybertronians.

Food items or similar are somewhat irrelevant to them, so they might struggle with that in terms of building vocabulary; In TFP they have one primary source of fuel, energon, although it does have variations like engex and other refined forms. We never see them eat solids of any kind in TFP that I can recall.

But I can imagine them initially being surprised at learning about humans and human language, and how extremely different life forms on Earth are and how the language reflects that.

Arcee: “I did a little drive around to check out the locals. They have this place called a cafe where they source their fuel, like a canteen or bar, but they seem to be able to eat pretty much anything, so I’m not sure what they were doing. Maybe a social ritual. It was weird, they seemed to go in and out pretty quickly… Maybe they don’t like to eat around others? Do we know if humans are defensive over food? They all looked different, maybe they only eat around their own group or something.”

Ratchet: “Pff, nonsense. These are organics, if the rest of the organic land animals we’ve seen on this planet so far are anything to go by, they have a primary diet of grasses or plant matter, perhaps mild carnivorous tendencies, something along those lines. The humans aren’t so different from the other organic life here, they just appear to have higher cognitive functions. Biologically–”

Arcee: “I did some recon and found this.” (Shows a paper take out menu.)

Ratchet: “These are all ingestible??? They can fuel themselves with ALL OF THIS????? Beings so tiny… I wouldn’t have imagined. Although I suppose it makes sense, they must require more energy than other smaller, simpler organics. Is this desert area so barren because they’ve stripped it of nutrient giving material? How do they process or store it all?”

Optimus: “We should be careful not to transgress on any contested or sensitive human territories. It is good to learn more about the native life before we attempt to engage with them directly; This is potentially valuable cultural information. Well done, Arcee.”

Bulkhead: (Looking at the menu) “They have 50 different words for fuel fluids alone! THEY HAVE 50 DIFFERENT FUEL FLUIDS!”

Ratchet: “Remarkable… What is [coffee]?” (looks it up) “THE HUMANS ENGAGE IN WIDESPREAD CASUAL DRUG USE ???”

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3) We don’t know about how age (hardware age, age overall, etc.) affects Cybertronians in regards to mental acuity as it relates to language learning. Would older Cybertronians have somewhat more difficulty adapting to using a new language, or a completely different language like ones spoken by organics due to the possible difficulty in physically replicating some sounds– Even if their processors don’t actually struggle all that much in regards to learning it, and adapting to using it was the primary struggle?

My great-Grandma spoke Slovakian and learned English later in life; She did well, but as anyone who knows multiple languages or is from a bilingual family knows, often vocabulary was forgotten momentarily in one language or the other, so it would just be substituted with the right word in whatever language it could be remembered in at the moment. Sometimes it just happens no matter how fluent or how experienced with a language someone gets.

Where I’m going with this, is that I really like the idea of Ratchet sometimes getting frustrated with English and just using a Cybertronian word instead, but then refusing to mention it or translate it because it’s one of the few ways in which his age shows so he tries to just cover it up. Or if he does acknowledge it, he tries to keep it on the down low, but every now and then you just hear him yell a random word and you know it’s because he just remembered it.

I recall in S3 when Raf mentions Ratchet has been teaching him Cybertronian, at least the text form of it, to assist with tech work at the base…

But that might also result in cultural etc. language concept problems, too! Just the other direction.

Ratchet: *tries to casually, secretly slide up to Raf despite being the boxiest bot in the base* “Hello Rafael, may I interrupt briefly?”

Raf: “Yes, Ratchet? I’m working on–”

Ratchet: “What is the word for 01010101010″

Raf: “…I have no idea. Can you describe it?”

Ratchet: “You know when you get some wear and tear around the edges of your armour, perhaps some damage from the elements, and you need to debride, treat, repaint, and replace the sealant?”

Raf: “Uh, no.”

Ratchet: “FFFFF OPTIMUS WHAT IS 010101010″

Optimus: “Rust.”

Ratchet: “RUST”

idk I just think it’s fun to think about space robots having to cope with weird human stuff

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THE GREATEST JOKE ADVENTURE TIME HAS EVER WRITTEN

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People like to make fun of animators but jokes on them…

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WHY’D YALL LEAVE OUT THE BEST ONE?

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Can’t forget this gem.

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You can’t go three whole seasons without letting Optimus swear once

Bill Twin Theory 2024 (This is messy since I tend to ramble.)

A theory that I've always really liked is that Bill had a twin too so I wanted to point out some things that made me rethink this theory since I've gotten back into Gravity Falls.

(Note: I know Bill probably doesn't have a twin because we never know what Alex will pull, but I'm just rambling at this point)

It always just made perfect sense to me, and yes, I know he didn't target the Pines because they were twins, he targeted them because Ford was exactly what he needed, but just the thought of him being a twin himself.

It made all those snide remarks he made about the Pines siblings even better.

Especially the comment he made to Mabel during Sock Opera…

"Who would sacrifice everything they've worked for just for their dumb sibling?"

We know Alex has said that Bill thinks Mabel is just like him a perfect agent of chaos.

Then there's his constant resentment of Stan even though Mabel and Stan are a lot alike in some instances and that means that in Bill's way of viewing things, Stan is just like him, they are both con artists after all.

In "The Book of Bill" the first time he sees Stan is on the TV and Ford is complaining about him. He calls Stan an inferior clone and suggests that Ford should have eaten him to gain his power.

He calls Stan while possessing Ford to tell him that Ford never loved him when Stan hasn't had contact with Ford for years at this point and he has absolutely nothing to do with this. (That doesn't matter, of course, since Bill just wanted to hurt Ford.)

He then blames Stan for everything, every little thing, not just his plan going up in flames, but for little things as well, even though Stan didn't do it alone… almost like it's not really Stan he's talking about.

If he sees Stan as a better version of himself, someone who got everything he ever wanted even though in Bill's opinion he screwed up everything, then I can see why he resents him so much.

If Bill had a twin, I don't think he ate them, what I do think though is that when he wanted to show everyone in his dimension the stars that his twin told him not to, his twin warned him something bad would happen, and he didn't listen which cost him everything.

And maybe he resents them even though he was the one who did it, maybe he thinks that they should have tried harder to stop him to talk him out of it.

So we're gonna look at this from an outsider's point of view really quick, and see things on a two-dimensional scale like Bill does, stripping the characters down to their bases.

Bill, Stan, and Mabel are all chaotic which is their core.

Ford and Dipper are both logical which is their core.

Stan has Ford.

Mabel has Dipper.

And Bill has…?

Chaos and order are huge underlining themes in Gravity Falls, these forces are always pushing and pulling against one another.

You can say that the Time Baby was Bill's order in this mess, but was he really?

Bill took out the time baby not once but according to his journal twice.

When Stan and Ford go up against one another they are evenly matched in different ways.

When Mabel and Dipper go up against one another they are evenly matched in different ways.

And when they all go up against a common enemy that enemy loses nearly every single time.

They're their own people, but they complement each other.

Bill doesn't have that.

We don't know everything Bill lost when he destroyed his home, we just know it was his fault, and he knows it's his fault.

Bill doesn't want to be alone in that guilt so he tries to make people just like him.

So if we're going with the twin theory which are, let's go back to the comment he made to Mabel during Sock Opera.

"Who would sacrifice everything they've worked for just for their dumb sibling?"

Well…

Mabel would and did, Dipper would and did, Ford would and did, and Stan absolutely would and absolutely did.

Bill is the only one who didn't and he lost everything because of it.

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“go bleach your roots creep!” this read

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oh damn.

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“fine!”

#sailor moon #sailor mercury #on my list #watch list

Small Spoilers For The Book of Bill:

I still can't get over that after all that shit that Bill did to Ford that the thing that truly affected Ford, that what truly horrified him was Bill picking up the phone and trying to call Stan to tell him that Ford never loved him.

Like even after everything and even after Ford was still so angry at Stan the thought of the last words Stan ever hearing from him was that he didn't love him (not just that he didn't love him but that he had never loved him) about made Ford completely lose it until he heard that the payphone was no longer in service.

No one can tell me that if he hadn't heard that dial tone Ford wouldn't have gone off the deep end right then and there.

#man was hanging on a thread and that thread was nearly cut #book of bill #book of bill spoilers #the book of bill #the book of bill spoilers #the pines twins #pines twins #stanley pines #standford pines #stan pines #ford pines #bill cipher #gravity falls #gravity falls angst

I love the fact that in “Transformers One” it seems like they're trying to make up for the fact that Bee hasn’t been able to properly talk in nearly every universe, by making him a chatterbox.

I love how talkative he is! He’s just excited about everything and it fits him so well, and it’s so cute!

#transformers #transformers one #transformers gen 1 #bumblebee #b 127 #so cute!#transformers prime

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EAH AU: RedWolf Angst Edition

I don't know if it's just me but as much as I love Red Riding Hood and Badwolf together living happily ever after with their two daughters I need angst.

So I started thinking about how much more heartbreaking it would be if Cerise didn't know that Badwolf was her Dad and that Ramona didn't know that Red was her mom because they had separated for safety.

Red wasn't allowed to tell Cerise about her father or her sister again for safety reasons and fear that if she said who Cerise's father was out loud someone might hear and take Cerise and Ramona away, with Badwolf being the same way.

And now with Cerise in Ever After High Badwolf sees her every single day, he sees how much she's grown and how he missed everything. And he wants so badly to go and talk to her, to embrace her, to just stand in front of her and really see her if only for a few seconds. He can't though, he knows he can't, because that would put them all in danger.

Red on the other hand doesn't get that torture/privilege she doesn't see Ramona until way down the line and it's only for a brief moment. It's only for a few seconds while running around town does she sees her oldest daughter, and she wants to run to her and hold her close like she had once done so long ago; then she blinks and she's lost in the crowd.

And in this world, Cerise doesn't really have any outer wolf traits, but she does have inner wolf traits speed, strength, agility, the need to be in the woods at all times, to rough-house, to bare her teeth when a threat shows its head. She doesn't know why she does these things, no one else does these things, and she doesn't know why there's this empty feeling in her chest whenever she hears a wolf howling at night.

Then there's Ramona who has no clue why she feels so hollow even if she's around her Dad and the rest of their pack. She doesn't understand why when she sees flashes of red she feels a sort of nostalgic longing and sometimes a little teary-eyed. She doesn't know why she feels like she's missing an important half of herself that she can't fill no matter how hard she tries. She's not alone, she knows she's not alone, Ramona is almost never alone, why does she feel like she is?

Don't even get me started on how Red and Badwolf long for one another, how they both stay awake at night wishing that the other was with them, wishing for one more night or one more morning just anything other than longing glances.

I know this is a messy rant, but I've been thinking about this for like two days and I really needed to get it out.