#tibibibapvember

[blazenight-it]

I like how I've wanted to draw tibibibap fanart for awhile now, but THIS meme made me spring to action.

[kerink]

normal thing to say about your pawn

[against-all-odds-im-back]

Ford, you’ve got an audience…

I had to draw that moment from chapter 13 of @tempusedax-rerum’s amazing fic, tibibibap

Janet’s design based on @kerink’s lovely art

[candycatfalls]

wait. does anyone wanna do fic book club with tibibibap

[sanityisoverrated07]

The cruelest part of the human existence is that we will never be able to see ourselves through the eyes of the ones that love us.

Get this. It did in fact become a problem.

Reading Then it Becomes, it Becomes, it Becomes a Problem has been the most gut-wrenching experience. @tempusedax-rerum is an insanely talented author with such a beautiful way of expressing ideas of love and understanding. I cannot recommend this fanfic enough. I can’t believe I’m done reading it, I wish it would never end, but alas… good things and such.

Little thank you to Tibap under the cut:

I love this story.

I started reading tibap after it was recommended on one of Stump’s streams. I said I was going to binge-read it and they politely bullied me into taking my time. Because of that, I limited my reading to a chapter a day and time in between each chapter to process what I read and the emotions I felt. I had the wonderful opportunity to write out all my thoughts and reactions and share them with the author.

I began reading in August and I finally finished right as November has hit. This story has followed me through a rough transition into college and helped me during every step of the way. The ideas of love that are expressed through the characters helped remind me what I’m working towards, and my main goal in life. Tibap is a testament to the fact that everyone deserves love, and I find that to be so beautiful. Love is such an incredible concept and one that I was able to experience vicariously through the amazing storytelling.

I’ve learned so much about myself as I’ve read and wrote about this story. I’ve also learned so much about the beauty of collaborative art. I’ve gained so much appreciation for authors and creators and the heart that they put into their work. I’ve seen the way that the author puts pieces of themselves into their writing, and I am in constant awe of their courage and vulnerability to do so for an audience of the unknown.

This story has inspired me to create art, research psychological and philosophical topics, and even branch out into writing fiction myself. I am forever thankful for how this story has helped me grow and experience new things. It’s proven to me that there is so much talent in the world if you just know where to look.

I’ve never had such an emotional connection to a piece of fiction before, and I will always be grateful for the comfort it has brought me during one of the most isolating times in my life.

Thank you @tempusedax-rerum.

[stump-not-found]

i wanna draw gary

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gonna try drawin a specific tibap scene i likeeeee because @tempusedax-rerum again without end is just a day away

[tempusedax-rerum]

okay, tibibibap 2 progress update! I thought September was bad but it turns out October and November are much! worse!

OOUUHG. I hate looking at that. Well, I've been hard at work doing a research essay for the Gravity Falls non-fiction zine, so that's taken up significant time, but I'm hoping to have a first draft of that done relatively quickly... I'm officially on a 1 month break from university starting in December, so hopefully I'll have more mental space for writing.

Here's the graph:

HOO. Look at that drop. So, that huge drop in wordcount is there because chapter 9 was a BITCH and also it was written and rewritten twice before the sequel was even properly planned. Then I didn't remove any of those words from the total count until I did the 1st draft edit! Nothing of value was lost because 90% of what was in there got redistributed to other chapters. Funny to look at, though. It'll probably happen again with chapter 11 because that one was also previously written (9 and 11 (lol) were actually completed before The Lick Test was even finished, so it's crazy to finally be back at this part of the story, where the idea for the sequel started!)

Aaaaand here's the stats:

EIGHT MONTHS!? no. no, I refuse to believe that. It'll be like 3 months :) haha. yeah. writing is easy actually and everything is fine and nothing is wrong and I am NOT losing it. why would you even say that. it's fine :))))

I will officially say here that the first 47.37% of the sequel will begin posting SOON. As in... December. A day in December. One of the days in December! Not sure which one. But one of them! :D

Again, thank you all. Especially with a bunch of people reading this month for tibibibapvember, it's been so unbelievably helpful to get extra feedback. I definitely wouldn't be able to write this story without all your encouragement and support :')

List of all updates:

May 22, 2025

July 18, 2025

September 26, 2025

November 26, 2025 (you are here)

January 30, 2026

April 21, 2026

[stemmmm]

tibibibapvember chapter 3!!!!!!!!

I LOVE THIS OPENERRRRRRR!!!!!! you start by making this thing feel comforting and neat, go into how fascinating it is, all the possibilities it holds, and then you explain that its sleep. its the feeling of sleep. so fucking cool

"Like stapling his eyelids closed or reenacting the bible using all the vegetables in his pantry?" < equally unnerving possibilities for sure

"Unless Cipher had created copies as a decoy…" < ALWAYS! BE! SUSPICIOUS!!! ANYTHING COULD BE BILLS TRICK! FORD YOU FOOL, ALL OF THEM ARE EXACT REPLICAS! YOURE FUCKED!!!!

wandering through the wreckage that remained of the fight is sooo funnnn. ford is in hell, theres no time or ability to clean it up. and i love how bumbling and out of it he feels. man is stipping and stumbling over everything and cant make a damn decision to save his life. of course not!! hes EXHAUSTED!

"The insistent ticking of the cuckoo clock in the living room filled the cabin, tapping against his mind like water torture." < beautiful

pairing the making coffee with flashes of the horrors YESSSSSSSSSS!!!! THE MUNDANE WITH THE TERRIBLE!! THE THINGS YOU CANT UNSEE!!!! AUGH!

"He took a few gulps of the horrible coffee directly from the scalding pot" < my man

"pulled out the gloves that Fiddleford had made for him" < potentially the only time fidds gets a mention in both tibap and awe. i will keep a counter

ford going out to chase this strange woman, almost crying the whole fucking time, doing everything he can to comfort her the whole time he's bringing her back in. maaaaan…. hes a sweetie and hes in hell.

mad respect to you for being like the room with the shitty couch? not his fucking bedroom. i agree. we are shaking hands

"After a moment of consideration, Ford rolled the carpet up and left it next to the fireplace – better safe than sorry" < BOOOOOO what do you mean no bodyswap. cancel the fic. throw it out. start over. i am. nuts for how its literally the FIRST thing he does though. before he even thinks about getting her warm. priorities fucking straight

man we've ribbed a lot on fics getting too deep into details and getting swamped in logistics and i just gotta say. THIS is how you do it. this changing jan situation where every step is super detailed is a great example because every little step is described fully, but it's to emphasize the discomfort of the situation. it puts us in ford's shoes, makes sure we understand that he's physically having to do and repeatedly choose to do every little step. and it's hard and it's awkward! great stuff

ford saves this woman and as soon as he's past the miserable work of making sure she's not dying his ass goes full territorial interrogation mode. normal and well.

oh shit second fiddleford mention. F counter: 2

"Trying to reconnect with his estranged twin brother while he was struggling to undo the worst mistake of his life was not an appealing idea to Ford." < itll go reallly really well i prommy

ouu and then we contrast the opening with the mindscape being the exact oppositeeeee so cool!! OH my god you make these concepts so fucking magical

i adore adore adore that bill's natural 2-dimensionality can be used as an advantage for him and was a tool in him becoming so powerful. get it billy!!!

"It was an unparalleled act of staggering genius that proved just how under-appreciated he truly was." < I APPRECIATE YOU BILL!!!!!!!!

i love the unfolding mindssss. its strange, it doesnt make traditional sense, there's no analog. free defamiliarization!

"He couldn’t even get into Ford’s pants the usual way" < laurel how have they not already been fucking in this story

"And you know what? Nobody could blame him for being angry about that. " < YOU REALLY CANT!!

"He let the useless thing go and instead slumped against it, pressing his eye into the surface. The staticy fizziness tickled just a little in a way that felt strangely gregarious. “Sixerrrrr,” Bill whined miserably into the tesseract." <my favorite moment in all of tibap legitimately. i love this wet thing. i wonder if the shitty drawing i did of it still exists anywhere

so funny the contrast of emphasizing how important sleep is for ford's health contrasted with the fact that bill had been the one encouraging him to stay up and enabling it via possession. it still makes sense for him! portal's gonna be done in no time, a little temporary harm is completely fixable once bill's a god!

ouuugghhhhhhhhh bills just so in love with him is the thing. ford has standards and MY GOD bill respects a guy with some standards. and ford gets so many presents for it <333

"and optimized his neural pathways" < #his tumoorrrrsssssssssss

"The galaxy that he’d picked out for him was so pretty and the idiot hadn’t even looked at it before he’d rudely shut Bill out of his mind." < the wedding ring