Journal 3 - Blog Posts
chat I've been making my own journal out of nowhere after listening to the Gravity Falls theme on loop for 3-4 hours, how screwed am I
Ack almost forgot to post! Inktober day 2!
Discovery!
The Discovery that started it all
I CAN READ AND WRITE FORD-ESE
FINISHED!!!✨
Bill’s got legs!! I’m so so happy I finally finished this!!
Thank you to everyone who’s followed along with its progress!
ok its gonna happen!
hoping I'll finish it by next week but it might take a little longer
should I turn that scene from journal three where ford goes to the truck stop for coffee and flips out into a comic
cause it sounds fun to draw
idk if i'd color it though
should I turn that scene from journal three where ford goes to the truck stop for coffee and flips out into a comic
cause it sounds fun to draw
idk if i'd color it though
Introducing: the Stanford Font
After many hours of tedious work, I can finally share with you my recreation of Ford’s handwriting in Journal 3!
Have you ever wanted to be able to make your own Journal entries and make them look authentic? Perhaps you just want to write “I love you” in Ford’s beautiful, sweeping lettering? Now you can!
It’s in no way perfect, mainly due to my complete lack of font-creating experience, but I did my best to make it as accurate to the Journal as possible! Below is a quote from the page labeled “July 18th”:
You can download Stanford here!
I recently bought a copy of the third journal from Gravity Falls!! ☺️
shoutout to stanford pines for a couple of things, but mainly for writing in flawless cursive while enduring -1 hours of sleep, weeping not for his failed partnership, several injuries, another betrayal, familial issues, and spite.
They got tired of the drama and eloped... together...
My dad walked into my room, saw Journal 3 on my bedside table, then gasped and said "I know what that's from!" lol I love him
I've had journal 3 for a thousand billion years but I never read it because it was my brother's.
Lucky for him, I'm in the most hardcore gravity falls phase I've ever been in in my life, so I WILL be stealing it from him.
FORDESE NUTS LMAO
(read alt for translation)
In Journal 3, Dipper mentions that McGucket’s gold tooth moves &, yeah, it fr does after rewatching the whole show. I’ve seen a lot of things while living in Appalachia but I’ve never seen that. Someone explain how THAT makes sense
For everyone who wanted it these are the B&N exclusive book of bill pages:
If anything is hard to read tell me and I can give a closeup :)
(I will also post the individual pages and not just the spreads soon)
I would also love to thank @himitsy-chan for providing me with a pdf of the original!!!
Why Gompers the goat is one of the most underrated characters in Gravity Falls
Despite being in over 20 episodes, getting multiple Journal 3 mentions, having dialogue directly referring to him, kicking off the plot of several episodes, including Weirdmageddon, he is barely mentioned by the fandom.
The majority of Gompers focus from the fandom has been being the subject of theories trying to connect him to Bill Cipher, due to the similarities in their eye design. While not confirmed to be connected to Bill Cipher, it is stated in the Book of Bill that goat pupils do not change when he possesses them, possibly as a reference to the theory.
Although any connection to Bill Cipher is only speculation, he is supernatural in his own right.
Gompers first came to Mystery Shack when a man attempted to pay for a tour with a baby goat. Based on Stan’s love of money, it can be presumed that he denied the offer. However the goat stayed, as confirmed by Alex Hirsch. By July 13th 2000, as seen in season 2 episode 8, “Blendins’s Game”, Gompers lives at the Mystery Shack.
In the present day Gompers is mostly a background character, only occasionally interacting with the main cast.
In season 1 episode 18, “Boyz Crazy” Gompers makes his first contribution to the plot. He chews off Ergman Bratsman’s license plate, getting him arrested and starting the conflict of the episode.
His second and more serious contribution to the plot is in season 2 episode 13, “Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons” when he attempts to eat Dipper’s 38 sided die. Dipper tries to get him to stop, causing him to fall through the roof of Ford’s lab. This begins the plot of the episode where in Ford and Dipper bond, allowing Ford to trust Dipper enough to help him repair the rift, leading to the beginning of Weirdmageddon.
All of this already makes Gompers an interesting character, but there may be even more to him than meets the eye. When asked about his opinion on Gompers, the official Bill Cipher Reddit account repiled “I LIKE HIM BETTER THIS WAY” implying he wasn’t always like this. In Journal 3 there’s a coded message on the page after “The Carny” page. After decoding the message it says “NEVER TRUST A WITCH SHELL CURSE YOUR EAR AND TURN YOU INTO AN IMMORTAL GOAT SO I HEAR” despite this not directly referring to Gompers, as the only goat in Gravity Falls we can assume that he was cursed, and turned into an immortal goat.
Maybe we’ll learn more about this mysterious goat, or perhaps he will remain one of Gravity Fall’s unsolved mysteries.
Love that Ford is canonically handsome
JOURNAL 3 BLACKLIGHT EDITION REVEALED! (Part 3)
Oh boy. This is it. The final stretch.
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I love the Plaidypus
JOURNAL 3 BLACKLIGHT EDITION REVEALED! (Part 2)
Time to come back where we left off last - GHOSTS! I know you ain’t afraid!
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Thanks a lot, I wasn’t a gravity falls fan when it released and I’m too broke to deal with scalpers
JOURNAL 3 BLACKLIGHT EDITION REVEALED! (Part 1)
Today’s a special day! Today is not only Father’s Day, but Alex and Ariel Hirsch’s birthday! Let’s celebrate by cracking open your copy of Journal 3, prepping your blacklight and invisible ink pens, and jotting down everything here in the special edition so you can have a copy for yourself without resorting to eBay or shady second-hand Craigslist deals!
I was lucky number 02149 to get a copy of the special edition of Journal 3. Well, lucky as in “I could afford to buy it and pre-ordered it back in March the exact day I heard about it going on sale.” Still, I am PSYCHED to share this with everyone! Admittedly I didn’t take photos of every single page – only the ones with black-light effects that were more than ink spatters. Some I had to take [kinda big] pictures of individually, to be able to read the text properly, and others were multi-page spreads that I couldn’t resist capturing in their beautiful glowy glory.
Of course I’ll be captioning them all for you, in case you can’t download/read them. Also, there’s a few secret codes in here! But did you really expect anything less? Also also, this is a 9 page word document (not counting pics), so I’m splitting it up into 3 parts. Especially considering the size of these pictures.
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based on that journal 3 page with the “BATCH OUT FOR WILL” mosquito bites because there’s no way ford would be that oblivious to both bill’s evilness and violent flirtatious advances without a little mind manipulation
bonus fiddleford because he is not mentally capable of dealing with any of this
Haha I wanna throw up
He got an F- on a history test
Referencing this
A Human's Touch
Toxic yaoi, HERE I COME!!!
(Felt like it needed more..)
In Journal 3, Ford mentions that he used to mess up Fiddleford's Rubik's Cube as soon as it was solved. Fidds solved it pretty easily no matter how much Ford tried to mess it up, but I liked to think Fiddleford had enough at some point 😂
"I had the face of the man who was destined to destroy Bill."
whatever you do, do not imagine how guilty and sad ford must have felt when he read this page about his best friend knowing that he was responsible for him to end up like this
"Bill is a true gentleman!"
NEVERMIND DO NOT TRUST HIS CRAZY ASS😨😨
“Different” - based off the “Better World” page in Journal 3 (Fiddauthor)
