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I've decided to make a masterpost with all the pages of ImpROBaBILL Improvements in finished form (that will be edited to add more as they come out). Here it is- all 14 pages so far!

(I'm also gonna have this pinned on the blog since it's my Most Popular Thing™.) Part 1 post | Part 2 post | Part 3 post | Part 4 post

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Transparent jumpsuit Rob if you want it for some reason | Early sketch versions of Part 2 and onwards

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It's part 4 of my surprisingly-popular Theraprism Rob+Bill crossover comic, ImpROBaBILL Improvements! This one was experimental with its format, and future parts won't have as many... paragraphs. I hope you like it! Up next: chapter 5: Needlefelting (working title).

Read the whole thing in the masterpost or navigate to:

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Rough sketches for Part 2 onwards

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I thought too hard about the circumstances of the (not really an AU, more of a series of loosely connected drawings) Rob Cipher AU. unfortunately, I came up with this.

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robsicle friendship(?) doodles!

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if I had no pop culture knowledge and you told me the ShamTotal was based on a real product, just with one of the words in the name changed, I would definitely not assume "sham" is the word that they kept the same

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it's happening! next i have to make a version while actually looking at pictures of them. expect that at some point maaaybe.

continuation of my text posts proposing sasquatch/bigfoot dipper and slime mabel for monster falls! I might want to come up with a different name for this version of a monster AU if I go with something different from the standard picks for stan and ford, but I don't really know what it should be yet.

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gravity falls plot hole: in A Tale of Two Stans, Stanley says "I have a mullet, Stanford" in a scene that's supposed to take place around 1982. However, the word mullet for that hairstyle only became a thing when the Beastie Boys used it in 1994 (despite many passionate people swearing up and down that it was around prior to 1994, no proof has ever been found of any use of it earlier than that- see this Reddit comment for some pretty concrete examples of its conspicuous absence.) in other news, the term "bucket list" was coined for the 2007 film of the same name and that one has nothing to do with gravity falls but I just thought you should know. What a world we live in

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PFFFS, TWWWOG, and What's Next

I just finished watching TWWWOG, the whole thing so far. What a ride- my ballpark is usually more "point out funny little details" than "give an actual critique", so I'm not the type to give an actual review, but, to sum it up: Gumball is back and I'm so glad it is! there were definitely some insta-classics in there for me!

Regarding PFFFS (excuse me if you're coming across this through tags and have no clue what that is- it's my long wacky crossover fanfic that this blog is supposed to center on): Obviously a ton of stuff contradicts it... but a ton of stuff is also weirdly close to it. the Awesome Store guy wears a hood, and it looks pretty much like the hood I've been describing & drawing him with for a long while! he's a tough-love father figure for Rob! there's the not-S&P-approved gag, which basically makes that episode a gravity falls crossover already if you have the world's laxest standards. And, if anything, the tenuous Stan&shopkeeper similarity is strengthened by the stuff he says and does in these two new appearances. like that last line about selling junk to people! AND THEY EVEN USED THE WORD "INTERDIMENSIONAL" WITH REGARD TO THE SHOPKEEEEEEPER! Should I be calling him shady guy now?

I know for sure that there were some details/gags that lined up uncannily well with details/gags in PFFFS, but unfortunately I wasn't taking notes, so I'll just have to post them as I remember them:

the thing with Gumball and Darwin getting entangled in the most recent chapter happens several times in TWWWOG, which isn't a major thing but it was fresh in my memory at the time since I just wrote that chapter before watching

there is a running gag in PFFFS with there being a ton of characters named Bill. now we know Idaho has an uncle Bill, which is another one on top of the pile, and brings Gumball's canon-characters-named-Bill-count to 2, or even 4 if you count William and Billy as "potential Bills"! How to get all of these people in the same room in the fic, I wonder...? No, I need to add more of them first. That isn't a joke. (Remember this tag that has been on the story this entire time but hasn't been relevant yet?)

Sarah being freaky strong has actual canon backing now!

there was a chapter called The Survivalist in the fic, and an episode called The Survivalists in the show.

As expected, Elmore's citizens become vigilante chaos-makers and set everything on fire when any incident happens, a pattern that existed in the original show, was referenced in PFFFS, and reoccurred in TWWWOG.

I just noticed that PFFFS and TWWWOG both have acronyms with a triple repeated letter!

Now, so I don't sound delusional: there are obviously a ton of differences, maybe even more differences than similarities when it comes to background stuff that would affect the present in both canon and the fic (obviously the events in the present day are not at all similar because of the drastically different settings). I already accepted as far back as the miniseries that the whole "elmore is still around, but in the void" thing isn't canon, so I'm not worried about that. But how to square the differences? Do I keep going with my version of, say, things like the Shopkeeper's appearance? Do I change it and pretend it's always been canon-compliant? Do I write an extremely meta chapter to make an in-fic excuse for the changes to the continuity? I'm leaning towards this third option, and I have some ideas on how to write it, but nothing that has fully crystallized into a usable chapter outline yet. Much to think about. Maybe the shopkeeper's appearance isn't even described thoroughly enough to justify bringing up the discrepancy, all I said is that he's made of shadows (right) and has a middle-aged man build (wrong). Maybe that was a bad example to use. what about that doll from the cheapmas? I gotta work her in somewhere! But how? At this point, I'm rambling.

My goals for PFFFS "season 2": shortish chapters that feel more like actual episodes of the show(s). I want to try writing chapters with the actual formulas the creators of the shows have talked about- I have an idea for utilizing the "monster+emotional conflict" setup gravity falls uses. I'm planning an ambitious chapter where the A-plot is about the Gumball characters and arranged/written like a Gumball episode, and the B-plot is about the GF characters and arranged/written like a GF episode- it'll all take place in the same setting, but the characters just narrowly miss each other while unknowingly interfering with each other's plots. More focus on humor and escalating plot developments than on internal emotions/drama. Increasingly prominent interdimensional stuff. I'm going ahead with a plot point based on this. Most of the confusing stuff that happened in "season 1" will be explained. More on Sarah's parents. anyways, that's my rambling.