#cipher translation:

[mossymultiverse]

(@works-of-magic) Hey, welcome back to rotomblr! I saw your log post and I'm Very intrigued. How old were these places you visited? Any compelling experiences you had while you were there? In places as old as they sound, there must be quite a history, hmm? Any cool stories about them?

oh goodness ive been double noticed

well first, to clarify- they weren't old as in, like, linear time. they were old To Me. they, uh.... i guess, they had history, yes, but when i said the places were old, i think i actually meant that I had history, history that i had inextricably tied in With Them, so seeing those places.... brought back the history as well. good history, for the most part, but with me the sweetness is almost always accompanied by bitter.

....actually, i. most of the places i visited.... are younger than i am. xls xlex qmklx rsx fi wecmrk qygl. they certainly do have a history though, one i am very curious to uncover.

and a cool story.... the new girl did not like the weird kid. the weird kid liked the new girl. ....anyway, is it gay to take a bite of the same apple that the bully just bit in half and then implied was a stand-in for you? or am i just projecting.

[crispytubes]

nightmare before christmas mayor lookin motherfucker (will delete later <3)

im kinda surprised people still draw him like a yellow onceler like I figured y’all would’ve moved passed all that by now

but whatever I’m not here to tell people what to do so I just did my own interpretation for fun (mainly based on Alex’s hypothetical canon design)

[sticcmann]

Eat up bill and kryptos people (me)

[irregularbillcipher]

so god forbid i’m seen just as an average human being

[tazmiilly]

[time-and-spuds]

I absolutely love Cipher from the new Splatoon 3 DLC

So I wanted to redraw it's Card in anothe-

Ah Wait wait wait no

That's the wrong one

But seriously I'm in Love with Side Order (Although I have yet to See Cipher in-game for myself )

I'm working on it!

[sporesgalaxy]

[ghlitchbee]

Cellbit: *Solves the cipher*

NO ONE LIKED THAT

[the-awful-falafel]

On another note: the way I render Fake Peppino's distorted gibberish dialogue can, in fact, be decoded, and is far from meaningless (although it's not necessary to understand the plot, since it's not like the other characters understand it either)

I'm not going to put up a translation guide until much later, since he doesn't have much dialogue in general at the moment, but if you want to figure it out yourself beforehand it offers a fun bonus :)

[wackytheorist]

THEY UPDATED THE WEBSITE I AM TRANSLATING THE CIPHER....

[ariapmdeol]

genloss binary translations

youtube description: Help Him -H

Stranger (Red): The Savior Friend (Blue): The Taken Friend (Green): The Villain

[mossymultiverse]

lie: moss has 6 eyes and ice magic like in Frozen

....lp hl rg rhmg rxv nztrx yfg. r szev urtfivw lfg sld gl xllo gsrmth luu, hrmxv. r xzm nzmrkfozgv uriv. dsrxs rh yzhrxzoob qfhg svzg zmw ortsg. hl r qfhg. kfoo gsv svzg gldziwh nv (dsrxs rh sld r ivxszitv nb uriv nztrx zmbdzb) dsrxs, bpmld, xlloh gsv gsrmt luu.

that being said, imagine having ice magic. or six freakin eyes. what would that even be like, to have so many eyes? can you just. see extra good?? ice magic doesnt sound too bad tho that would be nice to have sometimes

[svtskneecaps]

my biological peer reviewer (sibling) called this theory “fun” and said i should send it, so here goes

my personal theory is the feds ((”federation”)) created the eggs because they decided the best way to enforce “you can never leave” was to give the people something they couldn’t lose, like in the post by tumblr user alexaloraetheris (no relation to the smp) where their friend who might be a deity had said,

"When you die you descend to the underworld with nothing to lose. To keep you, they give you something to lose. When you want to return, they will demand it back. That's why nobody ever leaves. The only way out is to never enter."

i’m thinkin that on egg D-Day, at the end of the countdown, the feds weren’t gonna give the eggs back. they were just gonna hide them forever, or do something else, anything else, just keep them away from their surrogate parents, because then the people would just be STUCK, because people could theoretically take their eggs and leave, but if the eggs are missing, gone without a trace, then the residents CAN’T LEAVE, because presumably the eggs are STILL THERE, SOMEWHERE, IN NEED OF HELP AND RESCUE, if only the residents could find them ON THE ISLAND. if they leave the island while the eggs are missing, they are abandoning these things that have become their children.

but then in came the brazilians. and shit went south. because see, the spenglish (spanish / english) streamers were INVITED, but the brazilians CRASHED; the feds didn’t INVITE THEM, they weren’t EXPECTING THEM, but they can’t let these guys leave either, so they PANIC, and they scramble to give the brazilians the same thing--something to lose. the new egg had a brazilian jersey, homie was TAILOR MADE for them to pack bond with. the feds didn’t have time to send out multiple eggs, it was all or nothing, so they picked something they could reasonably assume all five of them would find endearing because they don’t know shit about these guys--they had a week to observe the OG batch, but all they know about these newbies is the brazilian flag on their boat--and so they sent the little egg out to become THEIR THING, the thing they couldn’t afford to lose.

it leaves open why the eggs are cracked too, bc idk what’s going on there lol, either 1: the eggs cracked because they’re hatching and the feds picked that date bc they wanted to yoink the eggs before they got Too Powerful, or 2: the feds were the ones to crack the eggs as an excuse for why they vanished--returning the eggs untouched would open too many questions the feds don’t want them asking; this way, instead of being concerned specifically with “why were the eggs missing”, the residents presume they know the answer--the cracks.

but yea i’m just gonna add as an aside that personally i think cucurucho / osito bimbo / the white fucker is way more active again because the feds are still scrambling to keep up with the brazilians (which, again, the feds weren’t expecting), and the binary fuckwad came in to put the fear of god into the newbies--maybe so they didn’t get too focused on the morse code transmissions; iirc max was theorizing that both osito and binary were part of the federation ? and if so it does make sense that the binary entity went to fuck with cellbit immediately after cellbit was introduced to the conspiracies of the island, yknow, a warning shot. i think they want them to be focused on the eggs.

BUT THAT’S JUST A THEOr

[anonymouspuzzler]

a story about a pumpkin

[Image ID: Four images in sequence, each containing a photo of a small pumpkin with a painting of Lady Trudy from the comic Be Kind My Neighbor on the front. In the first three pictures, there is about a paragraph of text around the photo in the cipher language from the comic, and the photo becomes steadily darker and more saturated. There is also a light chromatic aberration effect on the text in the third image. In the final image, there is a closer crop on the pumpkin photo, which is much darker and has a chromatic aberration effect, with a single line of text in the cipher language along the bottom of the image. End ID.]

[warpolomewdarkmatter]

so zurg text from lightyear does make sense and the guide to deciphering it can be found in the artbook (along with a warp shaped straw i can grasp). so i compiled some screenshots from the movie along with "translations"! :~) do with this information WHAT YOU WILL. and know that zurg can apparently READ BACKWARDS.

[frootbyethefoot]

this has been sitting in my head since i finished my gravity falls rewatch. something about the spiral and master manipulators idk! (text is from the magnus archives episode 187 "checking out" btw!)

[ID: a digital comic containing five images drawn in a simplistic, lineless style. the first image is of stanford pines from gravity falls sitting in a small, purple chair. bill cipher is standing, and in between him and ford is a bright blue chess board. fords text, in a dark greenish/yellow reads, "No. You’re dangerous because for all the torture and cruelty, you still somehow got us to think you’re our friend." bills text, in a bright yellow and slightly warped reads, "I am your friend." the next image is of a large piano with a pink martini sitting on top of it. fords text reads, "No. You’re not. That’s just what you distort. It’s why you spin, but you never quite lie. The corridors, the warped body, it’s all just set dressing, isn’t it? It’s not the reality of what you actually are." the third image shows bill in front of a tear in the universe. he has his hands out, as though gesturing or emphasizing something or someone. fords text reads, "Even I didn’t see it properly, not at first. Not until the tunnels, when you wouldn’t help. When you laughed." bills text, directly underneath, reads, "Oh, come on. That wasn’t a deception, that was barely a betrayal!" the second to last image shows a simplified interdimensional portal in bright blue, with fords text saying, "You worked to hurt us and help us, all with the same smile, until we can barely tell one from the other. Keeping us off-balance, constantly second-guessing our own opinions of you. Never quite crossing a line we could never forgive, but never putting yourself on the line either. And when one face finally stopped smiling, you just changed the face." the final image shows gravity falls forest during weirdmageddon, heavily tinted in red. bills text reads, "Fine. So if that’s all true… why? Why would I do any of that? What’s my actual motive?" while fords says, "I don’t think you even have one. It’s just what you are." finally, bills text ends with "Oh, well done. Very poetic."]