#reference to the book of bill

[nexstage]

Chapter 1: 72 hours

Inspired by @blabberoo GF’s AU

YOU'RE MY PROPERTY. DON'T FORGET IT. The hillbilly abandoned you, your father won't want you returning without millions, you have no friends, and if you died out here in the snow, who would even miss you? Turn on the portal. I’VE WAITED TOO LONG FOR THIS. BY THE WAY, I’M SENDING SOMEONE TO STEAL YOUR EYES. THAT'S NOT A JOKE. I HAVE A FRIEND THAT WILL STEAL. YOUR EYES. You have 72 hours. Don’t cross me again.

It was over. So. Fucking. Over!

3 days. He was given 3 days to choose between losing his sight and being tortured to the point of madness, or plunging his home dimension to an unthinkable catastrophe and falling into maddening torture anyway. What the hell?! Who would give this kind of choice?! Oh wait, Bill would! And if that wasn’t bad enough, he had to be the perfect pawn to do his bidding!

He should’ve listened to the cave warnings! He should’ve listened to Fiddleford!

What was he supposed to do now?!

His nearly-shattered mind urged him to pack his stuff and run away. Leave everything behind and start anew somewhere else. But then what? He had put all his efforts into the unknown and weird, it was something he was passionate about. Gravity Falls had the biggest amount of supernatural phenomena and creatures; by living in another place, he would be throwing away years of research. Unless he decided to publish the paper Fiddleford wrote for him it wouldn’t be the same if he settled in another town.

By doing this, Bill would be kicking him out of his own home! The nerve he had to act this way!

Never put all your eggs in the same basket. That was a phrase he should’ve taken into account when Bill told him about the portal when Fiddleford started to suspect. So much research, sleepless nights, and enthusiasm wasted on a pipe dream that was just a plan from a cliche overlord!

Who should he call? Fiddleford might be on Palo Alto as far as he is concerned. The townsfolk of Gravity Falls weren’t the most intelligent, any of them could call the police, and then the government would lock him up! Maybe his family? But would Pa or Ma believe him? What about Shermie? Or maybe Stanley? No, no. Why Stanley? What if he ruined everything again like in the science fair?

Only he remained and he barely trusted himself. What should he do?! There must be a way to eliminate Bill or at least contain him.

“The cave paintings! Maybe they have the answer!” Good idea! Why not? If they warned him about Bill, that means they must have a clue to get rid of that demon.

His legs sprinted towards the door. There was no time to waste.

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The first time he saw the cave paintings detailing Bill’s summoning circle and the warnings against it, Ford, regrettably, ignored them and found a way to reverse the “mechanics”, for a lack of a better word, of said spell which led to his first meeting with him.

Reading, and checking over the instructions and warnings several times didn’t appease his anxiety just added to his regret. Frustrations accumulated for trusting the wrong person bubbled to the surface as he screamed in the lonely cave, kicking the walls, almost breaking in pieces the flashlight to vent out his emotions.

There should be something here that could help him. There must be! Wasting time was a big no, trusting his research to someone else was a terrible idea! Think, Stanford Filbrick Pines! Think!

His eyes scanned for the nth time the paintings with Bill, the instructions, the warnings, as he recalled all the events that resulted in his fateful meeting with that demon. Had he done something that perhaps might have affected the power of the spell? No. He was settling in, then he began investigating the anomalies. During the summoning? He didn’t have powers, he didn’t feel any different when trying that summoning circle. He just reversed the original’s “mechanics”.

“Reversing it…” Mumbling those words, Ford’s stressed mind illuminated thanks to an epiphany. A pretty simple but crazily risky epiphany. What if he could reverse the whole system of the portal in a way that could prevent Bill from escaping? But escaping from what exactly? Death? Isn’t that what he deserves for everything he has put him through including his plan of conquering Earth?

However, could a reverse-engineered portal be powerful enough to kill someone like Bill Cipher? What if he evaded the shot? What if he was immune to it? Heck, what if the machine gave him more power than what he had already?

He mustn’t miss this. His foolishness had endangered the world too much for another failure to be the cherry on the top. Either this plan killed Cipher or at least imprisoned him.

Then a new doubt crossed his mind. Would the portal be able to trap the demon once he reverse-engineered it? He could try—

No no! Screw trying! It was his duty. He couldn’t fail. Success was a must!

He had a clue on how to defeat him, all that was left was to work on it, perfect it to a t.

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His bag pack had everything he thought thrice he would need: the last leftovers of food and cereal, a bottle of water, his crossbow, a notebook and a pen, the flashlight, the journals, and the blueprints of the portal.

His destination: Crash Site Omega.

The number of hours there: 7 maximum. Rest was forbidden.

The task of reverse-engineering the portal might require new parts, circuits, and much more fuel to empower it. A highly advanced core that could withstand whatever attack that monster had in mind if he retaliated.

Ford slammed the door behind him. The weather roared at him, freezing air, white snow, and gray sky. None of that foretold anything good. It didn’t matter. He would fulfill this duty even if it killed him. The world needed it and so did he.

[shattered-daydream]

I was inspired

[creepst-crypt]

*sob*

Og^^

[watermelonbuns]

Idk what I was going with this 🥒

[miaogo]

Really proud of this one (1/2)

Rare happy Fiddleford sighting (2/2)

Look out

[justarandomart]

smol demon guys!

[doctorsiren]

Thinking about how (a humanoid) Bill would see Ford be older after those 30 years (because that’s how people work), and so to try and appeal to him again, he makes himself look older too (I mean, he’s WAYYYY older than Ford actually, but I just mean visually)

But then after he’s killed and sent to the Theraprism, he goes back to his original twink look, and I say this because I already did a drawing of my humanoid Bill in prison and I like how that design worked with his pathetic traumatized orange jumpsuit look more than I think I would like it with an older looking version 😁 plus uhh I don’t wanna deem that drawing “not canon” to my brain so yeah

[crazycometspecular]

At least he didn’t overreact

[theultimatefandomjumper]

i forgot to put this here but UUUUGGHHHHHHHHHH i can't not share

[glassclownz]

he’s not helping with the ford situation

[haunted-pool-noodle]

euclydia was destroyed, what, a few trillion years ago? we can joke about it by now, right?

(audio is of course from john mulaney's "The One Thing You Can't Replace")

[Video description:

Bill Cipher is shown, heavily zoomed in so that only the top half of his eye is visible.

The speaker in the audio says, "And I had that thought, that only blackout drunks, and Steve Urkel, can have." The audience laughs.

It zooms out to show that Bill is floating in front of the remains of Euclydia, the rest of his body covered in blood.

"Did-" The speaker is cut off as the audience continues to laugh and clap.

Bill looks at his blood-covered hands, then turns to look behind him. He glances back at himself, and jumps back as he notices the blood all over him.

"Did I do that?"

It zooms in on Bill's haunted expression, sharply contrasted by the humorous tone of the words. End description]

[synthsays]

Monster Falls girlies how we feeling about this one.

Happy Fiddleford Friday Y'all

(Bonus art under cut)

And one for the fiddauthor peeps

[shattered-daydream]

Fish want him women fear him

[chillybarba]

The Book of Bill | Transcribed (Includes B&N Pages)

Hello y'all!! Over the past 2-3 weeks, I've been working on transcribing TBOB for my friend. This here above is the link to the FULL transcription of the book, including the translations of all known codes.

The layout of this document was heavily inspired by @fordanoia who is the creator of Journal 3 Transcribed!

Also, comments are on in case of anything I missed or mistyped, etc. Don't be afraid to leave a comment or suggestion!

Anyone is free to use or reference this document as they so please. I hope it's useful to someone!! Much love, enjoy <3

[vtkuu]

absolutely love how early on in the Oregon Parks promo campaign everyone was under the tweets being like "alex what is this" "alex we know it's you" "what are you plotting alex" and now everyone is screaming and crying in the replies for Park Ranger Gus Burnside and asking if he's okay

he got the fandom invested in his twitter roleplay character in the span of ~a week. i'm afraid there's nobody doing it like him— anyone who thinks they can pull off a Gravity Falls revival hoax/troll/etc should quit while they're ahead, truly

[miaogo]

Suggestions

Gonna post these here before i post em on tik tok

Doubt

For these first two drawings I’ve used paintings as a reference (I’m pretty sure they are easy to catch)

Nightmares