#fucking triangles man

[0illipheist]

Quickly tried to do a dark dapple bay as a treat for not jumping out the window trying to learn how the Heck cc works today

(the more I look the worse it gets but we’ll just call it proof of concept and say no more okay I enjoyed myself for ten minutes and thats all that matters) Also thank u @minervamagicka​ and @rheallsim​ for the awesome default replacements u absolute kings 

[krysmcscience]

I have some questions about karaoke night, Alex Hirsch. Very Important Questions. Which I will happily scream at a poor hapless baby triangle who can have no answers for me, and possibly also does not have object permanence yet.

Follow-up that is I guess suggestive, but let's be real here, Bill's a fucking triangle:

Dude slipped right into his birthday suit, lmao

this is so stupid :D

Anyway, I don't care what anyone says, this brilliant individual knows what's up - Bill is absolutely way more of a monsterfucker than Ford could or ever will be, full stop.

[hypertechnica]

THE LOVE TRIANGLE

ford, fidds, and bill are living in a late 70s/early 80s sci fi psychological horror film that was buried upon release due to its explicit gay themes but quickly became an underground cult hit

numerous associations would decry its depiction of homoeroticism between its principal characters, but nobody could deny the surrealist film had its merit. “it’s like someone concocted an unholy combination between the shining and space odyssey and then died of the instantaneous nuclear fallout. why would anyone make this? are they stupid?” one reviewer said.

more alternates + sketch under the cut

[h4unted-d4rling]

I would be that one person in the town during Weirdmageddon where I’m like “is it just me or is that Bill Cipher guy kinda hot?” And everyone would look at me like

[looney-mooney-studio]

Thinking about that one joke in the Book of Bill that implied Bill might be the biological father of the Flynn kids. Thinking about how Linda Flynn had a secret career as a famous astrophysicist at one point. Thinking about how we don’t know exactly what Bill was doing in the 90s, and how he seems to want to skim over that part of his life, after Ford broke up with him for good but before the twins showed up in Gravity Falls.

Thinking about how Bill frequently hung out with famous musicians. Thinking about Linda, a brilliant young woman fresh off a bizarre pop star career, wanting to make a name for herself that ISN’T Lindana, might have found a new direction with an old friend (before he showed her his true colors.)

Thinking about Bill, fresh off a devastating breakup, trying again one more time to get SOMEONE on Earth to make him a portal. Trying to make the plan WORK. Trying to get a home for his friends in the face of a home dimension that was being destroyed (again). Having someone who’s COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from the man he was obsessed with, but who was no less brilliant and no less capable. (But, unfortunately for him, MUCH less gullible.)

Thinking about how Linda doesn’t want people to know about her former career as a famous astrophysicist. How she keeps this secret, even better than she did her past as Lindana. How she keeps the lid on this even TIGHTER. How she’s almost bitter about it. As if something HAPPENED.

I’m not saying Bill Cipher WAS Linda’s partner of at least five years, even going so far as to start a family with her before she saw his true colors and filed some sort of Uber-effective inter-dimensional restraining order against him, one-upping him so hard that he doesn’t even wanna think about it, but. Holy shit. Imagine

[aria-greenhoodie]

You see, @localcanadiancryptid22, I’m a motherfucker who LOVES drama, so I fw anything that can create that.

I’m normal. Btw. In case you were wondering.

[autumn0689]

Never have I ever expected to read the phrase ‘that old man fucked the triangle’ on Tumblr but here we are LMAO

[francislangdon]

the backlash against langdonmel does fascinate me i must admit. it shines such a light on various biases that people have when shipping a white guy with someone. like the bar actually has to be so high for women to be considered "shippable" with the leading dude. there are so many pairings that have obvious chemistry that people HATE and its like...okay do you just hate this ship bcos your White Boy of the Week is being shipped with a a woman and not a Man? a woman you perceive to be less attractive than him? (this next one isn't relevant to kingdon but this whole topic does make me think of it) a woman of color? and now, wrt kingdon, a woman who is Not Neurotypical? like at this point i think you guys Just Don't Like Women

[infamously-winking]

Silly Straw Page Fully Translated:

hbh grfwru ri d gliihuhqw nlqg/ zkr zdqw wr pdnh klv sdwlhqw eolqg = “eye doctor of a different kind/ who wants to make his patient blind”

Qeb alzqlo pxvp/ qeobb pfmp x axv/ tfii jxhb qeb sfpflkp/ dl xtxv = “The doctor says/ three sips a day/ will make the visions/ go away”

Ixvvb hdwhu/ edeb eloob/ zrxogq'w gulqn/ xqohvv lwv vloob = “Fussy eater/ baby billy/ wouldn't drink/ unless its silly”

215 858 117 450 110 628 19 211 120 2256 216 951 25 256 27 532 212 506 18 1317 110 1137 221. 658 23 1330 210 231 118 929 112 2043 = “Twisted out of shape after the kill, the ghosts of his family are haunting him still.”

we’re not talking about that last cipher enough…

[huginsmemory]

I find it so funny how Ford writes about the woodpecker marriage thing in Journal 3. Like. Why would you stumble across this in your search for the towns history specifically? Were you looking up Gravity Falls marriage laws? Perhaps interspecies marriage laws?

[eijimiyuuki]

Billford has taken over mu life

[heavenlyascent]

You can tell what the ship war/Tifa vs Aerith/Whose the “True” Heroine/Love of FF7 is about because it never includes Barret, despite him being a romance candidate (even IF the OG boiled it down to one big antiblack gay joke), or Yuffie (thankfully because of her age though I shutter to think how she would have been treated if she was an older, viable candidate), or Zack despite his bond with Cloud, or Jessie for that matter. All these are background elements to the ongoing fight over who is the default love interest and thus true love of Cloud.

Which is boiled down to, which one of these women are meant for this man.

It doesn't care that Final Fantasy 7 is a world-spanning story about humanity, genocide, imperialism, and trauma. It ignores that while Cloud is ultimately our main character, it's a story of an entire cast of main characters who are just as important to the ever moving plot as Cloud.

And really, as it insults Tifa and Aerith by trying to suggest one's story is more "important" than the other, it also insults Barret by completely ignoring that his efforts are the instigating factors OF the story and that the running theme of saving the planet? Is because Barret was the first one to scream it in the narrative. It ignores Yuffie's and Red XIII's fight to preserve their dying cultures in a world that actively wants to destroy them for the sake of capitalism. It ignores Cid as someone whose dreams were crushed by capitalism and become so consumed by his pain, he hurt everyone around him. It ignores how Vincent played an active role in Sephiroth's birth and the core corruption of Shinra.

And I think it absolutely misses the theme of FF7 and Cloud in general. Cloud loves everyone. He loves all his friends. If the Remakes and Rebirth did anything, it put on display that there's not one single person that Cloud loves--but all those he has met. Yes, he loves Tifa and loves Aerith and maybe in one or both, he has romantic feelings for them but he clearly loves Barret, Red XIII, Yuffie, Zack, Jessie, Bigs, Wedge, Reeve/Cait, and--as we'll see later--Cid and Vincent.

If any of them died, Cloud would have been devastated. Aerith is special and he mourns her in a specific way because she's AERITH. Not because she's the ONE. SHE'S AERITH. Irreplaceable just like Tifa, just like Barret, just like Yuffie, just like Red XIII, just like Zack, and Cait/Reeve, Cid, and Vincent.

For the last near 30 years, the ship wars have rewrote Cloud's intense love for the people around him as just a heteronormative love story and it's gross.

None of the characters deserve that, but specifically Cloud, Tifa, and Aerith who are so much more than players in a stupid love triangle.

[thenormalenjoyerr]

i need to be annoying about a certain brand of comments on nsfw art but i have class

[gardenoflies4]

Every now and then, I'll be having a good day and suddenly be hit with the biggest wave of sadness when I think about Bill and Ford's relationship.

Because, yes, they HAD a relationship. Whether it be platonic, romantic, or a secret, sinister third option, it was deeper than just research partners. They were close in a way neither had ever experienced before. It's not just implied, it's outright CONFIRMED both by the Book of Bill and Alex himself.

And I'm not here to preach about how perfect BillFord is because it's not. It's toxic as shit, and THAT'S WHY I LOVE IT. It's nuanced and interesting, with enough layers to make Shrek himself blush. Because yeah. Bill was an abuser. He manipulated Ford for years, and tortured the ever-loving shit out of him both in 1982 and Weirdmageddon. He has no remorse, and is completely irredeemable.

Yet Ford did mean something to him. Through the snippet of a therapy session in thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com, Bill admits that he did care for Ford, but played it off as Ford being useful (this guy is in the Theraprism for a REASON). During Weirdmageddon, he could've killed Ford. He really could've. But instead, he turned him to gold and paraded him around like a trophy. He even used Ford like a stress toy in a deleted scene. He went on a drunken rampage because his wife was lost to the multiverse, for god's sake.

But Ford MEANT SOMETHING TO HIM. On a deeper level, Ford was the only person to ever truly understand him. Not just as a freak. Ford was different from the Henchmaniacs, from what we can gather. The Henchmaniacs were outcasts, sure, but they lived in fear of Bill. They were chaotic as him, but they couldn't really get to know him if he had the power to demolish them with a snap of his fingers. The Henchmaniacs were his squad, but Ford was his PERSON.

Ford, despite all the worship and idolization, wasn't afraid of Bill until Bill revealed his true colors. Bill was able to mentally spar with him, and have normal conversations outside of the portal. Like, sure, Bill could have been just playing nice to get what he wanted, but it actually seemed like he enjoyed their talks. I mean, I wouldn't ravage an interdimensional Taco Bell over someone I was secretly annoyed by. He saw when Ford broke his stress ball and immediately went to talk to him. I mean, sure, his advice was shit and OBVIOUSLY meant to manipulate Ford away from thinking about his brother, but he then proceeded to reveal to this random-ass human the only remnant of his home dimension. Something we're not even sure the Henchmaniacs have ever seen. He was VULNERABLE.

So now all I can think about is Bill spouting off random facts about history he may or may not have been involved in, and Ford sitting in his little chair in the mindscape just... enraptured. Not just because this extraterrestrial deity choose to spitball fun facts about slip and slides, but because he's just INTERESTED. Bill can make a weird, insane joke that makes sense only if you squint at it, and Ford laughs. Not because he's afraid of being smote. Not because he worships this being. Just laughing because he finds Bill endearing. He understands Bill's humor, his cadence, his weird way of seeing the world, and just rolls with it because he's the same way. Because let's be real, Ford's weird as shit too! This man has tasted human blood, for fuck's sake. And not just tasted it from a cut, I mean CRAVING IT LIKE A GODDAMN VAMPIRE. The blacklight version of Journal 3 is wild, that's all I'll say.

They just... god, I think about them way too often. The more I mull it over, the closer I lean towards the "secret, sinister third option" actually being canon because I don't even know what they are anymore. They're the embodiment of "Are they lovers?"

"Worse."

[stvrmaker]

I’ve become unhinged about this stupid triangle.

[in-this-essay-i-wont]

Yk I think a lotta the bill cipher designs out there are definitely underestimating how WEIRD this guy is like. No bro he would not be a suave, put together, sane looking handsome man/thing. Ohhh no bro he gonna look fucking WEIRD and he definitely acts the part in the show. Like the way he talks, the way he carries himself, as much as he’s good in the art of manipulation, he is incredibly off putting about it.

Tbh? This is probably what drew ford in more then anything else. Bill manipulated him yeah- but he was also just so confident in his weirdness- he was ODD and not shy about that idea. He enjoys being odd to humans, he enjoys their discomfort. And ford never had a place to be as odd as he is, as much as he thought gravity falls would provide this refuge- it was ultimately bill. Bill was this big weird off putting refuge from the normal world that ford always craved so dearly.