Maybe The Real Treasure Was The Boops We Made Along The Way

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I wish I was the book charts

BOOK OF BILL TALK

spoilers ahead

I ship Billford now

IN MY DEFENSE TO THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN WITH THIS SHIP FOR YEARS:

I’m demi-ace and it’s hard for me to see a ship if I don’t see a connection and OH BOY. We get some abusive, kinky and toxic-ex shit. Like it’s awful, but I love me a toxic ship narrative and I am FUELED UP. Bill was probably more down bad than Ford.

I will say, I’ve always respected BillFord. But it’s the same with me and FiddleStan or Mabifica. I just couldn’t see it. I love the artwork and fanfics for it, but uhhh….

Expect fanart in the future

BUT! I also got me some GOOOOD fuel for Fiddauthor. Seriously, who makes two handmade Christmas presents for his “friend”, and then completely forgets to get something for his wife??. Fiddleford McGucket, that’s who

They’re so fucking cute ommgggg

This would be my Mabeland. Have fun ever getting me out

my hot take is that gravity falls needs a theme park right the fuck now

Liam & Billy plushies I made from @pengychan Flat Dreams fan fic! One of the best Gravity Falls fan fics I've ever read in my life time.

Studio Bad Egg went on a livestream yesterday to talk about their Cipher Cult Kickstarter, and shared concept art for some of the major items

Someone else who had seen the concept art for the Bill and Ford pin earlier described it as “likely to cause ship fuel” and

They weren’t fucking kidding

(This is the final design, which I still love! It was chosen to be more cohesive/consistent with the design of another pin)

I love when Hana drops a video and I clear 2 hours of my day

My interview with Rob Renzetti! (w/ fixed link)

I got to sit down with Rob Renzetti, co-author of Journal 3 and Supervising Producer on Gravity Falls, and also just an animation legend, who was genuinely just such a delight to chat with (super nice!)

Hear him answer my questions about:

Ford's characterization

Journal 3's writing process

the Gravity Falls timeline

the SearchForTheBlindEye website

Jheselbraum the Unswerving (the Oracle from Journal 3)

Ford's relationship with Bill

the "Better World" from Journal 3

The Horrible Bag of Terrible Things

Thoughts on the Book of Bill

and MUCH MUCH MORE!

RICHMOND I AM LOSING MY MIND!!! PLEASE START PEOMOTING THE KICKSTARTER! I WILL GIVE YOU SO MUCN OF MY MONEY FOR BILL ITEMS

I’ve been making up lore about Jheselbraum since fall 2022, so I’m writing it down and documenting it before The Book of Bill comes out just in case

I imagine she’s about 8-8.5 ft tall and her skin is purple; this isn’t canon, but most fanartists draw her this way. In my personal headcanons/lore, Jheselbraum Adastra was born as a mostly regular person in Dimension 52, with a twin sister. They were good friends and had happy lives, until Bill Cipher attacked Dimension 52 in their mid-20s. With no barrier to hold Bill in, he did a great amount of harm to their dimension. Jheselbraum and her twin joined a rebel group and fought Bill for about a year. Eventually, they devised a plan to defeat Bill by forcing him back into the rift. Her sister was plan B – she’d built something like an early quantum destabilizer, with different technology. The rebels’ plan works somewhat, but not well enough, so her sister confronts Bill on a mountaintop as he struggles to stay in the dimension. Not wanting to risk another failure, she overloads the machine (it’s powered with some kind of light magic). Despite Bill’s truthful warnings, she shoots him with it, blasting him back through the rift. It instantly explodes, killing her and destroying the top of the mountain. The fight is over, but Jheselbraum is devastated. She knows of the Axolotl, and immediately invokes him to reincarnate her sister. She builds a temple to him on top of the mountain where her twin died, hoping this will help (there’s a large, roughly flat surface there after the explosion), and soon creates the zodiac prophecy as a way to defeat Bill (this is how she eventually knew about Ford and his mission). Jheselbraum holds this grudge against Bill for a billion years. She becomes more and more powerful in order to defend her home again if necessary, makes herself immortal, and waits.