S tier steven universe moment is when connie finally realized that all of steven’s parental figures sucked shit at being parental figures and have been relying on him for emotional problems the whole time and she calls them all assholes
Steven universe future beautifully reframes a lot of stevens “mature” “growth” moments as moments where his guardians failed and he learned to be easier for them to take care of
Thinking about that episode where he leaned that the sea spire was just a test and the gems make an impossible to fail test to try to give him a win and the moment where he learns that the gems feel like bad parents and learns he can cheer them up by pretending everything is great is maybe the single biggest character moment in the whole show
Where Euclydia is more similar to Flatland, talking about the 3rd dimension isn’t illegal, and Bill becomes the Chief “Circle” due to his powers to see the 3rd dimension.
This is has been in my head for a while. It started with me just needing an excuse to draw Bill in a ruler cloak lol— but then I thought about it.
Chief Bill was taken from his family as a child as soon as they discovered his power to see the stars. Raised by the Grand Council (or Circle Council), Chief Bill is higher than the President of the Grand Council and is treated as if he is from the 3rd dimension himself (beyond revered; basically a god). The thing with the Circles— or Priests—, however, is that they are the “inspirers” of everything worth doing, not seeming to do much of it themselves. And of course Chief Bill isn’t happy about this. He orders people around, getting everything he wishes except the opportunity to do things himself.
From Flatland ^
I did a very quick comic on it :)
Being raised by the Grand Council has made him a bit spoiled— it’s also made his knowledge of good and wrong a bit crooked. Does he approve of destroying irregulars? Does he think murdering Chromatists is necessary? Who knows!
Why is it called Theraprism cipher? Shouldn’t it be something related to Bill’s home dimension Euclydia since he said that it was his native language? 😭
Wow gang the BOB sure was whacky. Im sure Bill 'Doctor said three sips a day to make the visions go away' Cipher will handle being in a medical-like environment very well. Yes sir no problems at all.
alright so i’ve been fucking with thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com for a while now and i figured i’d share what worked for me and actually made something cool happen!!
thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com codes/words that work
these are all the things i’ve typed in so far
stanford pines (or just ford, sixer works too)
stanley pines (or just stan)
mabel (click multiple times once you type it in :3)
dipper
soos
wendy
robbie
fiddleford mcgucket (or just mcgucket)
gideon
pacifica
bill
history
bill cipher
triangle
axolotl
portal
weirdmageddon
weird
love
death
life
pines
shape
blind eye
gravity falls
hologram
theraprism
mystery shack
tad strange
god
i’m not gonna spoil anything by saying what they lead to, but feel free to reblog with your own findings! have fun :3
edit: “gun” and “who are you” also work!!
edit 2: TRY “matpat” OR “theory” I PROMISE YOU WON’T BE DISAPPOINTED
edit 3: GIGGLING OMG Y’ALL TRY “break up”/“breakup” AND “divorce”
OKAY I REALLY NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS BECAUSE IT HASENT LEFT MY MIND
Bill’s world is COMPLETELY DOGSHIT AND OPPRESSED HIM IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE
We know that Bill’s world is very similar to Edwin Abbott’s Flatland, as said in the Bill Cipher AMA and the picture of flatland in the book if bill on the chapter cover of his origins.
So we can assume that the same laws and way of life that exists in flatland also apply to Bill’s dimension.
First of all, Bill could be canonically adopted.
Just to give a little background, in flatland, if a shape has a son (only men are shapes, women are lines) that shape gains one side. (A square has a son, it’s a pentagon and etc). Isosceles triangles that are deemed acceptable to have kids don’t follow this rule. The isosceles triangle would correct one of its angles by a half a degree, continuing until they become an equilateral triangle. This is their whole purpose so that they can eventually have a triangle start a new line of polygons that can make circles.
In Flatland, isosceles are deemed lower in society than polygons and are less educated than polygons. So once an isosceles triangle has a equilateral child, they are IMMEDIATELY TAKEN AWAY FROM THEIR FAMILY AND PUT WITH A POLYGON FAMILY SO THEY CAN BE INTEGRATED INTO A “NORMAL” SOCIETY AND NOT CORRUPTED BY THE ISOSCELES.
Not only is Bill’s existence really rare and takes a lot of time and generations, he is immediately taken away from his family and put in a family that are higher on the social latter than him. This could EASILY lead to his family not respecting him in any way. (Really proves what Hirsch said in one of his Q&A)
Another thing that royally fucks him over is his mutation to see the third dimension
He was born with mutation that if he even TALKED about it he would be EXECUTED. A square (the protagonist of Flatland) was only sent to jail for life but since Bill is a triangle he would have easily been executed, no questions asked. The flatland government loves executing people in the book. That’s like if a person was color blind and said the sky was grey they would be killed.
So Bill’s vision is illegal, he’s the lowest on the social chain, in a family that is higher socially and could easily discriminate against him. What else could his family do?
FORCEFULLY MEDICATE HIM WITHOUT HIM KNOWING.
Yeah on the silly straw page the codes tell us that Bill when he was younger was taken to the eye doctor by his family and got a sort of prescription that made the 3rd dimension go away. We don’t know how long he didn’t know but we can assume it was for a while.
“The Doctor says Three sips a day Will make the visions Go away”
“Eye doctor of a different kind Who wants to make his patient blind”
He was literally forced to be normal.
And to get off track a little, I understand that “make his patient go blind” means ‘blind from the truth’ but what if they actually tried to make him go blind so he couldn’t see the third dimension anymore?? DO YOU REALIZE HOW FUCKED UP THAT IS?? BILL IS BASICALLY THE GYPSY ROSE OF HIS UNIVERSE
Back on track we also need to talk about how Bill DESPISED being normal.
We know that Bill is a wild person, always looking to have fun, loves the weird things in life! But in his world, everyone hated things that were not socially acceptable. In his universe, his socially assigned purpose in life was to get a family and have kids. Like I said, everyone wants to have kids in his universe that eventually become circles (the highest on the social latter). Bill would NEVER want to have such a boring and meaningless life! For his only purpose was to continue a line of oppression and meaningless things like “social status”. But his world would probably force him to have kids or else throw him in jail.
Really explains why he said no one has a purpose, and that you can make your own, because he made his own.
Also his differences caused him to possibly get bullied in school. This is implied from his description of his pyrokenesis power
There’s a bunch of reasons why he would want to destroy his dimension, But from what we know, it was completely by accident. Now we don’t know if he was lying, but from his origins page and the other evidence we know that it was at least partially on accident or something that so out of control that it destroyed his whole dimension. He wanted to prove everyone wrong by showing them the beautiful stars he saw, but ended up killing them instead.
And he regrets it.
He had SO MANY reasons to hate his dimension and destroy it without a second thought, but he misses it, misses his family, his people. They haunt him.
None of this trauma excuses anything he does in the future, but the fact that he misses such a horrible place that treated him terribly to where he literally goes insane from guilt and self hatred is truly tragic.
If anyone has anything to add to the “shitty things that happened to Bill in his universe” feel free to add!
it is cruel and unusual punishment that i was born to have the wordcount of charles dickens in a society that insists on everything using the 240 words or less aisle
I've seen some folks saying that the reference to The Great Gatsby in TBOB was just a joke Alex didn't put deeper meaning into—which might be true, IDK the man's motives for choosing Gatsby specifically—and that there's no way the book has any deeper relevance to Bill's character beyond the eye doctor thing—which is totally wrong. Whether or not Alex intended parallels, there ARE parallels. So, for those of you who didn't read or didn't pay attention to The Great Gatsby:
the book's about a guy who started out as an unimportant loser with starry-eyed dreams, who very quickly gained a lot of power/gold and now presents himself as this dapper fancy well-dressed super important guy.
He constantly throws huge parties, he's got a reputation for being THE party host. But it's a sham, he's pouring all these resources into this party to make himself look so cool but he's living at the very edge of his means.
He lies about his history, lies about how he got his money (spoilers: he's a criminal), lies even in how he presents his personality—he's a con artist, he's always wearing a mask.
The reason he's doing all this—putting on the mask, making himself look so great—is because he's trying to reach across this very thin boundary to a better life he can see, JUST out of reach, so close but something he's never quite clever enough and rich enough and persuasive enough to reach. Every night at his parties he stares at his goal, he can LITERALLY SEE it, he just can't reach it himself.
The best he can do is briefly charm and dazzle someone on the other side of this social boundary, but he can never quite persuade that person to help him cross over; in fact no one on the other side of the boundary thinks he has a right to cross it.
He finds somebody—the guy narrating the book about him—who's very lonely, socially awkward, and disillusioned, whom he can easily awe with his stories and persuade to help him reach his goal, come on please, it'll be harmless! (It is not harmless.)
He loses control over the act he's putting on and over the people who only follow him around as long as he's still got the resources to keep them entertained and loyal.
It ends with him getting murdered by a guy he has LITERALLY never met before—by which point everyone has realized that he's a nobody making it all up as he goes along who was just desperately chasing the illusion of a good life and the admiration of everyone around him.
The narrator ends up disillusioned with him and the whole culture around him of grasping and clawing for a glitzy glamorous life at the expense of the regular people who are manipulated, trampled, and discarded in the process.
Now tell me that Gatsby doesn't have any parallels to Bill's character. And this is just based off reading the book a decade ago—there's probably tons of little details I don't even remember. The book may well have been chosen as a coincidence, it did recently hit the public domain. But if so, it's a VERY GOOD coincidence.
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