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The Ford is Stan's split half. And the post you did a while ago about Stan being ford's evil doppelganger to the town's creatures. Literally no one has any idea about the situation lol

Literally no one! The supernatural creatures think Stan is Ford's doppelganger, the humans think Ford is Stan's personality being cut in half, Shermie's probably gonna spend ten minutes assuming "Ford" performed necromancy to resurrect "Stan," Fiddleford's got like 54% of his memory back and probably barely registered that the "visiting researcher" he worked for and "Stanford Pines" are the same person just in time to learn that the "Stanford" he's known for the last 30 years is some other guy completely, no doubt someone out there assumes one of them is a clone, and meanwhile Bill Cipher can't even tell when they've switched on him. Nobody knows what's going on. This town's mastered the art of "well that's none of my business."

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I know youre respectably ignoring Hazbin rn to stay focused on GF, just had to say I read a radiostatic fic of yours from 2020 (microphone shenanigans) without even realizing it was you (was hoping through bookmarks) until I went to the comments and saw you replying and having called the ship a rarepair. Which is wild for me as someone who became a fan once the show was out. Anyway, wanted to give kudos for having them both so in character to current canon, while still a really funny banter of a fic besides

Oh Vintage Electronics, that's one of my best 😁 At the time, it WAS a rarepair! (At least compared to bigger Alastor ships like charlastor and radiodust.) I get the sense that it's exploded in popularity since the show put a spotlight on their rivalry—buuut that might be because two of my mutuals got into radiostatic and now I keep getting fanart on my dash lmao.

From what I've heard/seen about the show so far, it sounds like they went the EXACT way I was hoping they would with Vox & Al's dynamic: Vox is obsessed with Alastor and desperate to prove his superiority, while Alastor detests Vox and realizes that the best way for him to prove his superiority is by acting like Vox is beneath his notice.

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Couple I spotted in this chapter: "climbed into the back seat slid across the bench" should probably have either a comma or an and? "He assume all third dimensional objects" is missing a d, and bonus from chapter 48 "casual shift his posture from kneeling" has been de-adverbed.

Thank you for the help 🙏

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wait how many people actually knew about Ford and his return to town prior to Weirdmageddon

do you think there are any slightly out-of-the-loop townspeople who just, like,

assume that one of the Crazy Random Weird Things that happened during Weirdmageddon was that Stanford Pines got magically split into Stan and Ford Pines and then for some reason that change didn't revert

"That's Stan's twin Ford" yeah okay sure if I was magically split into two people I suppose we might call ourselves "twins" for simplicity's sake. if somebody's SURE that Ford didn't exist prior to Weirdmageddon even hearing him get called Stan's "twin" or "brother" might not clue them in

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Do y'all think Fiddleford has a PhD or just a bunch of master's degrees

(and is there a canon/interview source that specifies? Couldn't find/remember one.)

It's not a matter of intelligence; he absolutely COULD have a PhD if he wants one. But pursuing one means focusing on researching and writing about one specific narrow topic for several years, delaying starting your career (or going to work first and then later going back to get the PhD), and specializing in one very small field; and when you come out of it, you're geared to either work in that one narrow field or continue with research.

Fiddleford had a young family to take care of (can't spend extra time in academia), and prior to joining Ford he was developing computers in his own garage (not working in academia or applying his research in some small field). Considering he makes everything from giant mecha to guns that can target and suppress memories to vocal cord-altering medications, he doesn't seem to be a specialist in any one particular field, but rather broadly educated in a bunch. Pursuing a PhD might just not have made sense for his career goals and life.

On the other hand: he is very much making original groundbreaking inventions at a rapid pace, so it wouldn't be a surprise if he did the same thing in academia in order to get a doctorate. We know he can write sweeping academic papers in his spare time. And this is the cartoon where one dude can rack up 12 PhDs, so the amount of time it would take might just be considered a non-factor for this show.

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Not sure what your icon is, but in a small square it looks like a skeleton bird. So that's my suggestion, skeleton bird

This is my icon!

It's a skeleton with an alien mask and a fur cloak. I call it the skelien.

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I don't know if the scene you're planning takes place from the point of view of a "god" or an observing mortal. If it's the latter, someone who literally can't be looked at directly so they can't even be described. Trying to look at them just hurts the eyes and causes haunting whispers. Gods don't have a problem though

it's vaguely from the axolotl's perspective, more accurately it's third person omniscie-ish

but the narration might not be able to look at it directly

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Today's chapter took my breath away. It was incredible and I'm going to be thinking about it for bleventy billion years

Nearly as long as bill's been thinking about it! :) Thanks, glad you enjoyed!!

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Random god ideas: - Sentient armchair - Shape-shifting slime mold (it's always a slime mold, it just changes physical configuration) - Something akin to a staticky balloon animal, but more zappy (I have no explanation for the armchair, I'm just scraping the surface of the pond to see what I get).

Canon's already had a sentient armchair and one of Bill's Henchmaniacs in Journal 3 is some kinda slime or goo so I don't want to risk overlapping that too much...

But staticky balloon animal, that's really fun, I love that. Flashes lightning when it gets irritated. Makes squeaky noises. Pop one of its limbs and you have to quickly tourniquet the wound before all its air leaks out. Yeah that's a fun character concept, I'm going with that

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A being made up of mix match parts (think like discord from mlp) that is just the local hooligan. Mischief like graffiti and disturbing the peace, annoying but harmless if you ignore it also destroy countless lower beings

spray paints a wall and now half of bill's home planet is purple lmao

I like the idea of a mixed parts hooligan. Random bystander who got dragged into the scene

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If axotolt is a defense attorney, what about a stork prosecutor. They're one of the animals that eat axotolt, and there is the stories of storks delivering babies. Representing all the zillion of lives Bill destroyed and the zillions that never came to be after the dimensions were destroyed

A coherent pantheon is the opposite of what we're going for here. If it's deeply symbolic and if there are salient meaningful ties between the different members, it's failed our goal.

This isn't like, the gods of Mount Olympus who are all part of the same organization. They're not a club or a team. I'm calling them a "pantheon" tongue-in-cheek style. They have no relation to each other. Most of them didn't know each other before the scene I'm dumping them in. There is no evidence that they are, in fact, actually gods. What they are is:

for whatever reason, extremely powerful. (Powerful enough that "gods" is the only strong enough word to describe them.)

and

due to being extremely powerful, qualified to deal with extremely big problems.

Problems like an entire dimension breaking. (Hence why they've got a civil engineer on the scene.) They didn't actually know the whole damn thing could catch fire. It's sort of impressive.

The reason I opened this up to suggestions is because 10 different people have better odds of thinking up 10 totally disconnected completely random things than one person is of thinking up 10 things that don't have any relationship to each other.

This is the TV show that went "what should Bill's minions look like? Um... fuck it, dentures with legs and lava lamp with a bowler." This is the TV show that shoved aside bigfoot, mothman, chupacabras, jackalopes, aliens, werewolves, and vampires to go "you know what? Wax figures." This is the fanfic that had a magic hair growth lotion that accidentally grows extra limbs and a crane game full of creepy haunted dolls. Y'all are going too deep. Shallow it up.

(Also I don't need suggestions for the gods' jobs—just weird design ideas. I already have the scene I'm going to use them in; I can handle assigning them jobs.)

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You think that at least one of the reasons axotolt is so keen to defend Bill is because he first met him when he was just a little powerless shadow. To keep the ant metaphor, I feel I would feel a bit fond of the ant that revealed the intelligent ant society, even after he set fire to that ant colony, a few beehives, and some birdnests.

You'll see why he takes on Bill's case eventually. :) But yeah—the fact he'd met Bill predisposed him to be interested in the case.

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God history would have been vastly vastly different if axotolt has just continue his path without veering, causing the eclipse in the minute, and Bill not having to shout/catch his attention. The sheer difference just one different step he can make causes. Boggles the mind

I wonder. Bill's already on a firmly self-destructive path; if it hadn't been the axolotl that gave him his first sharp stab of self-awareness, would it have been something else? After all, he IS exploiting people and those people DO have worth and his actions DO matter. It doesn't necessarily NEED to be the axolotl that makes him realize. It's just one of the most horror story ways he could have realized. If he'd never had that flash of self-awareness, though—would he have been even worse?

Would he still have destroyed his dimension? He might have. I think he probably would. You'll see eventually.

He probably wouldn't have a lawyer willing to bail out his dead ass a trillion years later, though—so there's that.

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@redactedtimes said: A rat king that is a god of hunger, assimilating and devouring anything it can get the chance too. Yes this is just a lovecraftian Disney joke-

NOW we're cooking. If I can cast it as like, a local mayor or a CEO or something, even better.

Chapter 49 was an amazing chapter!!! I loved the parallels between Bill and Stan as well as Ford. I wonder if there are any other beings like the Axolotl. I do agree that being acknowledged by a cosmic entity would be terrifying. Bill to me pretty much is one

I think The Axolotl is the only big god-tier axolotl; but there are other big god-tier non-axolotl entities. A few will make a (probably) brief appearance in a future chapter!

One of them is a Time Giant engineer. Hardhat and jumpsuit and all that. Haven't decided on the others' designs yet.

I'm willing to take ideas for weird Gravity Falls-appropriate divinities.

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Has no one reprimanded axo for talking to lower life forms and giving them mental breakdowns/existental crisis. I know they are basically ants to him, but they are ants whose language he can understand

no Prime Directive in his neighborhood

to be fair, the ant shouted at him first. If an ant shouted at me you bet your ass i'd talk to it. If it didn't want an existential crisis then it shouldn't have revealed intelligent ant civilization to me. That's on it.

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The Unicorn and The Red Bull by Hidemi Kubo - The Last Unicorn (1982)

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What about an Auhizotl? If you don't know what it is it's basically a lake cryptid with a hand on its tail that drowns people and eats them. Or a Kappa (I know they are very violent creatures but I think they have potential)

I'm following in the show's footsteps of steering away from using existing mythology/folklore/cryptids in favor of coming up with original things that are infinitely stupider.

Keep in mind that so far we've got an axolotl—we are not using the Xolotl theory, I'm talking about a literal gigantic immortal psychic axolotl—who works in a law office; and one engineer who's capable of time travel and firing lasers from her brain.

This is what our pantheon looks like. These are our gods.

Look at the kinds of things that make up Bill's Henchmaniacs. God-tier entities are 5% less weird and 50% more godly.

The goal here is the opposite of a thematically-coherent group. These gods are NOT related to each other.