Tired pain

Everything is mysteriously painful Known as freak cipher on everything else. I really like bill DO NOT DM ME UNLESS WE ARE MUTUALS

[gravitybrawls]

Who would win a fist fight?

Gay Ford

Aroace Ford

Bi Ford

Remaining time: 6 days 1 hour

Submitted by @neoismynameig

if anyone wants these for pfp reasons or something go on and take them you only live once

[stinkytoe1]

None of the above, Ford is a monster fucker.

[500crimes]

Bill is using your neural synapses to play make-believe as a bomb disposal expert.

[y0cotharey]

Bill w fur?

[sleepy-spacetronaut]

I have a feeling that pre canon Ford would have been absorbing all sort of knowledge from Bill without truly filtering it, because to him Bill is a holder of truth.

Bill might as well have gone into his dreams and said Six-Seven while doing the gesture ONCE, then left it at that without explanation. Ford would have been plagued by this for the next decades, convinced it must be a key element to something—maybe that would help him unlock something important about the theories that make up the universe!!—up until he realized what Bill truly is as a person: a filthy dirty no good liar.

He would then dismiss it entirely, blocking it out from his mind. Later he returns to Gravity Falls, reunites with his family, defeats Bill , and everything seems to be going well.

Then the year 2025 comes, and suddenly he hears the number combination he thought he had buried deep in his psyche. Mabel and Dipper show him this meme on the internet that the has become an integral element in the convos of younger kids .

Ford would require several days to process this and then make peace with it, after hurling TBOB into the bottomless pit again after it got spit back out.

[trickengf]

For anyone who makes Gravity Falls fanart, having this is absolutely AMAZING!

[kelp-slushie]

hai guys!! i have a print store now!

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check it out if you’re interested!! being a broke college student is no joke 💔

Shop gallery quality Art Prints by Silas.

[yummycrummy]

woaah watch out it's the triangle guy !

[sweetwindoracle]

that was…uh…an accident…

[sweetwindoracle]

coenobill

[gravitybrawls]

can you say a lot of things about bill cipher(and how you view him)

CAN I? YOU BET YOUR ASS I CAN.

throws a dart at a list. billford metaphors.

Do I think billford as a ship is the only correct interpretation? No. Do I think interpreting them as Just Buddies and nothing but Buddies is wrong? abso-fucking-lutely.

And I'll tell you why. Gravity Falls is all about ✨💕BAD RELATIONSHIPS💕✨

Mabel and Gideon, Soos and Giffany, Dipper and Mabel's divorcing parents, McGucket and Emma-May, Sevral Timez and their producer and then Mabel, I can go on for a long, long time. And it's 1am so I might! But Bill and Ford fit right in with this crowd. Clearly the bad relationships of Gravity Falls aren't exclusively romantic but look at this list and tell me there isn't a majority.

There's a ton of ways you can interpret them but here's what I think is the most interesting take.

In Boyz Crazy, Sevral Timez tell Mabel the details of how their producer is excessively controlling to them under the guise of loving them. They're unable to notice the unhealthy treatment until Mabel points it out, because being clones, they were born into it. Mabel goes on to recreate the conditions they used her to flee and they're unequipped to push back or leave on their own.

This is obviously a pretty clear metaphor (intentional or not) for how children born to abusive parents will often find abusive partners- but the important part is that Bratsman is also their employer.

He's controlling in the same way as an abusive parent and later abusive partner. This is what Bill does to Ford.

It's getting late I'm getting less lucid.

Ford's entire childhood he was surrounded by people who were pushing him to be Special. He was determined to make people see him as more than a freak and being treated like a person was his reward for working harder than is healthy to overcome their preconceptions. This was compounded by his father's pressure for his sons to essentially make up for him having them by becoming rich.

Then Bill comes along. And Ford doesn't know anything different.

Ford's going to run out of grant money because he's hit a dead end in his research. Bill slides in at the height of his desperation. He pushes Ford to dedicate his every waking and sleeping moment on the portal and causes him severe harm for wanting to back out (even if for Bill it's a remarkably pulled punch), and makes him cut off his only friend for his work. He even causes Ford to have to fight himself in order to keep from activating the portal.

Billford is a toxic romantic relationship and a metaphor for workaholism.

Don't think it's romantic? I don't ship it but you have to accept it's cannon. Don't believe me? Try leaving your crush a pile of dead rats after you've explained how you view that as a romantic gesture and then throw a party where one thing lead to another and then trap him in an enormous stone pyramid and sing an increasingly shrill song to them until they confess their true feelings and call me in the morning. Also have you read the book of gatsby? because just because daisy's into daisy doesn't mean she wasn't at least into the idea of gatsby.

throws another dart . human bill.

Human Bill designs piss me off no matter what they do because it's always wrong for him. I see people draw him as a white little twink sexyman and that feels wrong and then I see someone draw him as still a little twink sexyman but black this time and it feels wrong and I see them draw him like a triangle shaped fat person and that feels wrong and he's always too young or too old or too gnc or not gnc enough or too skinny or too fat or too robotic looking or too human. to put it simply he cannot look like a person without it being Really weird to me. I think it's because the only form that makes sense for him is a fluid one where he changes situationally on his own whim and whenever you make your own character to inject him into you're visually confining him to your own expectations for him which breaks from the very nature of his character. He was written to do as many unexpected things as possible in the shortest amount of time he's onscreen and making him be one static form is reductive to him.

Now,, here I will make a caveat. Often, I see people writing aus where the theraprism forces a human form upon Bill as means to bring about meaningful growth in him. I think you can use the inherently reductive nature of assigning him a human form that's not as flexible as his lovely equilateral form as a brilliant metaphor for psych abuse and a great allegory for how he responds to their methods.

On the positive end of human Billses I think it's a fun character design exercise even though it will Always piss me off. I think it's really interesting how nobody ever draws him human the way he draws himself in the book of bill (buffass romance novel hunk)

His relationship to gender is another thing I don't see people talk about a ton. I may be wrong but I can only think of two people he's ever long-term possessed and that's Ford and Silas Birchtree. Other than that we have evidence that he's only ever (successfully) possessed men (but he did try to get Pacifica that one time). He draws himself as a buff human guy and dressed the ciphertologists in ties. But then again, does THIS look cisgender to you?

If you can point to a physical sex characteristic on this thing I'd be IMPRESSED. Then again I wonder what that corner's for. much to think about

[kittywir3]

Working on a lil somethin somethin👀

Staring VERY hard at the reactions my fav Bill artists are suddenly giving me. THIS is inspired by yall. Like quite genuinely. I'm now super pumped to make BETTER things for you to enjoy than that previous LESS GOOD thing! I would've probably wallowed in bed just watching markiplier if my post didn't blow up this morning because of you all. Thank you so much for your interest! Even the people I don't follow. I'm so glad you enjoyed something I created!

[glowing-doodles]

I have been thinking about this post all day.

[f-imaginings]

I've noticed that there's a big schism in the fandom between the billford fans who like human bill stories and the billford fans who are triangle bill truthers.

It's interesting though bc a lot of the human bill fans out there I've talked to will read every fic and love triangle bill as much as any other portrayal, and a lot of the triangle bill fans I've spoken to only read triangle bill fics and block, don't interact with or otherwise look down on alternative portrayals of Bill.

Just because I've noticed this split, it doesn't mean everyone has or feels the same way, so I want to I guess fact check myself here and get a feel for everyone else's feelings.

Do you think that...?

There isn't a schism you're overthinking things

There is a noticeable divide between human bill and triangle bill fans

Nuanced answer (put it in the tags!)

Voting ended onMay 4

[stinkytoe1]

I genuinely really do not like human versions of bill at all because it's taking away quite literally the most important aspect of bills design.

It doesn't make sense to me how people could degrade a literal god into a weak human, be real. Humans are weak. Turning a god into a human just baby-fies it

Especially when it comes to aliens.

Also the human bill cipher designs just suck in general there are no good ones. The only ones that are even remotely good is the humanoid ones.

Also human bill cipher fans piss me off because they don't use correct tags in ao3. So many of them don't use the human bill cipher tag. Its really really annoying

[f0xseven]

hey this is a pretty rude comment to leave on a post by someone who is talking about how they feel like people are rude about them enjoying human bill.

its okay to dislike things but lets be considerate of others who are creating art for fun especially when you are commenting directly on ops post

[stinkytoe1]

Oh sorry! Sorry, I didnt understand op was getting hated about that, I didn't know that they were a fan of that but I'm kinda confused because I don't really see any hate towards people who like human bill ciphers, is it an often thing that occurs?

To add to my comment, I was just giving examples why some people really don't like human bill ciphers, since I don't like them for those reasons.

[f-imaginings]

I've noticed that there's a big schism in the fandom between the billford fans who like human bill stories and the billford fans who are triangle bill truthers.

It's interesting though bc a lot of the human bill fans out there I've talked to will read every fic and love triangle bill as much as any other portrayal, and a lot of the triangle bill fans I've spoken to only read triangle bill fics and block, don't interact with or otherwise look down on alternative portrayals of Bill.

Just because I've noticed this split, it doesn't mean everyone has or feels the same way, so I want to I guess fact check myself here and get a feel for everyone else's feelings.

Do you think that...?

There isn't a schism you're overthinking things

There is a noticeable divide between human bill and triangle bill fans

Nuanced answer (put it in the tags!)

Voting ended onMay 4

[stinkytoe1]

I genuinely really do not like human versions of bill at all because it's taking away quite literally the most important aspect of bills design.

It doesn't make sense to me how people could degrade a literal god into a weak human, be real. Humans are weak. Turning a god into a human just baby-fies it

Especially when it comes to aliens.

Also the human bill cipher designs just suck in general there are no good ones. The only ones that are even remotely good is the humanoid ones.

Also some human bill cipher fans piss me off because they don't use correct tags in ao3. So many of them don't use the human bill cipher tag. Its really really annoying

[abnormal-creature]

finally finished this animatic! song is "the baseball game" from falsettos

[does-the-song-fit]

Bill cipher from gravity falls and the song 'i'll never smile again' by Tommy Dorsey https://open.spotify.com/track/2Pi0rY9FcbaecqO0AyhXbu?si=F-w_dcK4SFydUWpQqxrvzg trust me,, I swear it works since bill plays the piano & also bill & Ford broke up & bill got drunk and arrested over it

Does it fit?

Yes

Lyrics, but not vibes

Vibes, but not lyrics

No

Voting ended onApr 26

Lyrics below cut:

I'll never smile again Until I smile at you I'll never laugh again What good would it do?

For tears would fill my eyes My heart would realize That our romance is through

I'll never love again I'm so in love with you I'll never thrill again To somebody new

Within my heart I know I will never start To smile again Until I smile at you

Within my heart I know I will never start To smile again Until I smile at you

Until I smile at you

[montikettushko]

I was a child of an animation meme community and now I'm cursed for the rest of my life