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their relationship can be summed up by a boomer “I hate my wife” comic
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While its eyes are not as big as its mummy's, this baby tawny frogmouth is still using its beady peepers to see the best it can
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with yourself like this who needs friends OR enemies
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Bonus: tailgate it's ham
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I'm still alive I swear 😭 Half a year after the first part, I finally finished the second :,,,, )
As an update, I am finally on x! Finally got to make an account as I've seen a lot of nice tf art there
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waiting at the bottom of the stairs .
i love that bill cipher is kawaii, like its so important to me that hes small and cute and silly and the most dangerous terrifying bloodthirsty being in all of reality.
imagine youre a citizen of the multiverse and you see a multi-story tall screen where the time police have stuck the poster for their #1 most wanted and its fucking this
the ward profile from tbob makes me laugh every time because it really hammers home that in a reality filled with terrifying monsters and powerful demigods its this yellow shape you should be most worried about
hes like the poison dart frog of demons
@foxieskullz bro what 😭 who would think that lmfao ur right thats the whole point of him, you dont take him seriously until its too late. hes a damn anglerfish
like just look at him in dreamscapers, dipper mabel and soos were "beating" him until he was over it and just snapped out of their win state. and in sock opera, the illusion of "i beat you once" made dipper think he could handle the deal until he realized far too late he had no idea what he was getting into. and then mabel said the same thing in weirdmageddon 3, only for bill to catch and nearly kill her.
bill doesnt WANT you to take him seriously; he wants to be able to get close to you and whisper in your ear; he wants you to see him as a friend, or at least someone easy to defeat; he wants you to let your guard down so he can worm his way inside and by the time you realize what hes up to hes already imbedded in your mind and owns your soul and its too late to back out
part of bills horror is whatever happens, you did to yourself. you knew and you agreed and you allowed it - granted it's due to manipulation, but they were all choices made of free will. the horror is in how avoidable it could have been, should have been; ford says it all the time, "stan would have seen through him." bill plays at being your friend and takes you for everything youre worth, your world ends because you dared to feel lonely, you dared to trust someone else
and part of the horror is what that does to your ability to trust not just others but trust your own judgement. bill doesnt start giving off red flags right away, except for to those who know how to spot them. he preys on the desperate and the isolated, and if youre not isolated hell push away your loved ones, make you doubt their love. hell make you think hes the only one who loves you or understands you and no one else ever will, and you come out of that relationship wondering about what it means to be loved and to be known
hes manipulative, hes abusive, hes a cult leader, and thats the point! hes supposed to be the guy you can trust and rely on and love! hes just a cute funny tiny little thing, you can beat me in a fight so dont even worry! im just trying to help you out! i just have your best interests in mind!
@glowing-and-confused never apologize this is a great addition! and i was dancing around the point but you said the quiet part out loud: learning to recognize the way bill manipulates and abuses people is good practice for recognizing those tactics in real life.
bill may be unrealistic and his motives are unrealistic but his tactics are frighteningly grounded.
@megarhyssa-sp yes! its important to remember that for as competent and charming and manipulative and powerful bill cipher is
hes equally dumb as fuck
tbob is a "tell on myself" in a lot of ways:
1. he shows you his hand. all his tactics and tricks are laid bare and now youll be able to spot them.
2. he shows you his weakness. oh he tries to cut us off with the required reading, but the problem is, hes so fucked up over ford that he cant help but over-share when given the chance.
as an addendum to this, one thing i noticed was that the only things bill ever redacts are info about his family and his old pawns
(obviously with the last one its meant to protect the identities of those people irl, but play with me)
so given that, what are we meant to make of this:
particularly given the tbob draft:
3. he shows you that his arrogance is always his downfall. here's the thing about the "my history," "sixer," and "losing sixer" chapters: all they do is reaffirm the above two points. bill shows us how he manipulates people, what he does to people who try to fight back, and how he is thwarted. but he either doesn't realize he's showing us these things or doesn't think it'll change anything about our willingness to work with him.
there is a warning not to summon bill painted on the cave wall, but ford summoned him anyway. do we really think we're smarter than stanford pines? bill doesn't think so.
bill's also of the belief that humans are selfish and predictable, he believes that our greed and ambition will cause us to overlook the warnings and our own ego will lead us to believe we can handle it, we can do it better. look at what i said above about dipper, for example: he wanted the password and believed himself capable of handling bill, even though he knew he shouldn't trust him.
but the thing with bill, abusive relationships, and cults is that if you have a social support system you can be pulled out of it. bill shows us his book and the whole time ford is screaming at us not to listen, showing his own vulnerability and admitting his own mistakes, trying to connect with us, to show us that yes it's easy to fall for but don't make my mistakes again. and the book ends with the pines rallying against bill and trying to bring us into the fold. and when we reject bill? he turns on stanley, it's all stanley's fault, stanley took us away from him just like he took ford. (but look at every bill interaction we have across canon, bill is always defeated by teamwork. he blames stan specifically because he's a true #1 full blooded hater.)
if we had been alone with him, the "my history," "sixer," and "losing sixer" chapters would just be things bill told us. but with the pines there telling us another side, giving us a different perspective, we're able to see them for the red flags that they are. because when you escape a bad situation, hindsight always reveals the red flags you didn't notice before. but they were always there. (go through j3 and "sixer" and see how many red flags ford just walks right past! and in the show, ford only realizes something's up when fiddleford finally manages to instill doubt.)
bill is always himself, you just have to be able to see what that means. and he either doesn't notice or doesn't care that he's throwing off these warnings. maybe he's so high on himself he really believes the lines he's selling are true. maybe he's so used to being around yes men he thinks we'll fall in line. maybe he thinks we're too stupid to notice, too spineless to question, too weak to fight back. maybe he doesn't know he's said the quiet part out loud.
but with bill and in real life, there are always tells. you just have to have people you can talk to about new relationships, new organizations, new communities, so your own words can be bounced back at you, you can see how your loved ones react, and you can start thinking about the situation differently.
pretty sure Starscream helps the autobot cause more than the actual autobots sometimes