I appreciate Gravity Falls immensely - for many reasons, but particularly for the way it approaches weirdness. While Gravity Falls’ anomalies are often dangerous for the characters, the show and narrative still depict them as something to be observed and understood, not as manifestations of evil needing to be destroyed. Even the most vicious of the supernatural beings, Bill Cipher, is made a villain by the actions he’s taken - not by simply being different. In fact, Bill’s weird behavior is often played for fun by Bill himself, and he’s even shown as charismatic at times. When Ford enters in the second season, the message is made clearer yet. He may not always have been accepted by others, but Ford’s uniqueness, curiosity, and unabashed individuality are admirable traits. Out-of-the-box thinking, by the Mystery Shack rebels and ultimately by Stan and Ford, ends up being what saves the world. Gravity Falls celebrates weirdness from beginning to end, summed up by some of the last words of Journal 3 -
“Stay curious, stay weird, stay kind, and don’t ever let anyone tell you you aren’t smart or brave or worthy enough.”
I recreated all these playlists on Spotify ✨
I Love You, It’s Ruining My Life Songs
You Don’t Get to Tell Me About Sad Songs
Am I Allowed to Cry? Songs
Old Habits Die Screaming Songs
I Can Do It With a Broken Heart Songs
We have exactly a fortnight to go through the five stages of heartbreak before THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT arrives. 💔 Thankfully, Taylor and Apple Music made these playlists to prepare us.
Press play and let us know what stage you’re in. 🥲
Does this count as a TBoB spoiler?? Idk you decide
Is it okay to send you (platonic) valentines asks?
Yes! I almost never get asks, this sounds fun :)
Bill Cipher is labeled as “Creature #326” in Journal 2, as shown in Dreamscaperers
Since there does not already seem to be one, I propose that 3/26 is Bill Cipher Day. Let’s get weird, make nonsense, and have fun!! :)
1-1: Axolotl lore
1-2: mentions historical people he’s known
1-3: new codes/ciphers
1-4: talks about having cults
1-5: Billford crumbs/fuel
2-1: intentionally vague about his backstory/raises a lot more questions
2-2: instructions for how to summon him
2-3: breaks the fourth wall
2-4: says at least 1 curse word
2-5: blatantly lies about something in the show
3-1: cosmic horror monster Bill shown
3-2: mentions an anatomical quirk he has
3-3: free space
3-4: mentions trauma he has/family issues
3-5: quickly changes from funny to dark or vice versa
4-1: real-world cultural references other than We’ll Meet Again
4-2: complains about a human cultural norm
4-3: casually says something extremely disturbing
4-4: one of Ford’s embarrassing secrets has to do with Bill
4-5: genuine emotional vulnerability
5-1: explains or hints at how he got his power
5-2: mentions his history with other cosmic beings
5-3: references real-world conspiracies
5-4: lore about the mindscape/dreamscape
5-5: tries to get the reader to help him
weirdo!!! I love him!!!
weird little freak!
Be gentle, it’s his first time living
I KNOW WHAT YALL WERE THINKIN “OH YEAH OWLS FINALLY GONNA DRAW A DICK” WELL JOKES ON YOU YA FUCKIN PERVS
Haven’t collabed with @renconner in a long while for a mini comic (minus our big one, Instinct). We were talking about one of Stan’s lowest moments involving being outside with that damn sign, so we decided to make a comic with Stan remembering it. I’ve also kinda of assumed Filbrick would lie to Ford about what’s going on with Stan (Stan probably did too to some extent).
21 - she/her - autisticGravity Falls is real and it will never dieFuture supergenius / The Chosen One / Bill’s therapist(All titles conferred by Alex Hirsch)
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