#gravity falls transcript

[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

[doesromandoart]

One last con

[willekieker]

don't enable him please

bonus

don't worry about stanley he's fine

[egginfroggin]

Good vibes and morale

Ford's chin is going to be the death of me

Actually, both of these characters are going to be the death of me. I love them. They make me ill

Mabel's right, by the way; good morale helps heal, and patient satisfaction (with care, etc.) is associated with improved patient outcomes. Mental and physical care are important for healing!

Thank you for poking! Take care! <3

(program: krita; time taken: about 4.5 hrs)

[bee-ina-boat]

hello billsteve nation. today i bring you ship chart. tomorrow? who knows. anyway ive been working on this character design line up study thing thats been taking awhile so until thats done! u get some sillies. eat up my friends 🙏

chart from here! :D!!

close ups under cut :3

[silly-ehggy]

@save-me-im-feeling I am going to strangle you (lyrics from the moon will sing by the crane wives)

(Reblogs over likes 🐛)

[fannishstuff]

My favorite thing about that interview is that, well, imagine Stanley Pines's face if he realized that Stanford was literally hand-designed by God himself to annoy him in particular as much as possible.

[dippermabelpines]

GRAVITY FALLS 1.04 - The Hand That Rocks the Mabel

[triangular-static]

FEAR and LOVE (I'm not sure there is a difference!)

[cutter-kirby]

I’m normal about this

[askbillcipherandceleste]

Click for better quality..

Transcript (by panel POV is Celeste's)

1- "Well I was running through the Outskirts, chasing some lines I found like I usually do"

2- "When I rammed into someone."

"BAM"

3- "That's how we met."

4- "It wasn't a fun start especially since we fought immediately after."

5- "And so we went our separate ways, but after kept on bumping into each other."

7- *Bill giving a smug smirk and Celeste stomping indignantly*

"I mean it wasn't till quite a few of these run ins that something changed."

8- "I had been roaming again but, had my cloak loosened since it limited my movement... So when we ran into each other that day.. UH well.."

10- *Celeste's tie on their cloak unravels*

11- "One wrong move was all it took after that"

13- *Celeste steps back the cloak on the ground, their circular half revealed*

"And my secret was out"

14- *Bill looks up*

"But instead of ridiculing or turning me in... He just gave me a look of understanding.."

"And Left"

Transcript Over

(AN- Really happy to finally show what the lines look like here.)

Also the reason Celeste wore the cloak was to hide their semi-circle half... That is what shows they are a defect by the way.. Bill saw it, meaning he knows they are a defect..

(They were hiding the moon underneath their cloak by the way.. forgot to draw that)

[kingofthewilderwest]

Bill Monroe challenges Mcgucket to a dueling banjo session. Who wins?

XD Here goes an unnecessarily detailed answer, as one might expect from me.

Father of Bluegrass Bill Monroe (1911-1996) was a virtuosic mandolinist (also no slouch on guitar) who incorporated fiddling influences into his playing. Rather than an old-style shimmering tremelo, Bill Monroe attacked the strings in an impressive combination of rhythmic adroitness and dogged melody. His playing had rhythmic quirks bluegrass mandolinists tease on today, but I think it augments rather than detracts from his iconic sound.

Historically speaking, Monroe stepped the game up for virtuosity in American country music. Even when he was in his twenties, performing duos and trios with his brothers on the radio in a more old-time style, his technical alacrity caught attention. Monroe fashioned bluegrass with blues and even jazz influences, such as the idea of instrumentalists taking turns doing technical instrumental breaks, one after the other. Thus, not only did he have to be at a high standard, but he pushed everyone in his band to match it. This man regularly performed hundreds of songs at a whim with good ear and improv ability.

Now, Fidds, my beloved... how does he compare? We hear relatively little of Fiddleford McGucket's banjo picking in Gravity Falls. What information we could glean is contradictory due to animation and sound design inaccuracy. I apologize for upcoming jargon, but I'll explain. ;)

McGucket owns multiple banjos. All banjos he's owned lack planetary tuners, which tends to indicate a low-cost banjo beginners and non-serious players use. However, given as McGucket has dedicatedly played banjo since at least the 1970s, and is dedicated enough to own a collection, this suggests a more invested player. (Of course, you can play for years and be passionate and still suck, but there's a higher chance you're good, hah!) Looking at the meta context, the animators would have no idea they were connotating lower-end instruments, so let's go with writing intent: McGucket is the banjo guy playing with love and passion for decades.

McGucket is most often seen with open-backs, but also has had a Seeger (long-neck) banjo and a resonator. Open-back and Seeger banjos suggest McGucket plays in the old-time style, which is (often) based on repeated rhythms and chords. That we've never seen Fiddleford McGucket wear finger picks also matches old-time. Now, I love old-time, it's gorgeous. But. Old-time banjo doesn't... shred... so in a dueling session, this would be trumped by Monroe's more advanced approach.

On the other hand, McGucket has a resonator. Resonator banjos can and have been used for old-time styles, but in general: if you have a resonator, you're a three-finger style bluegrass picker. This is a very different technique than old-time and will start to put McGucket in the competition. It's also said in Journal 3 he loves listening to high-intensity bluegrass, and when we hear sound clips of McGucket playing, it's in the three-finger bluegrass style. They animate him wrong to be making those sounds, but those are the sounds they're evoking. So, given animation is always inaccurate depicting instruments and performance, bluegrass is the genre associated most directly with McGucket, the animators and maybe even composer might've had no knowledge of old-time and its sounds, and the soundtrack always evokes bluegrass-style banjo... the Gravity Falls team probably wanted to indicate McGucket played bluegrass-style banjo.

I'm not on a computer with speakers to listen to McGucket playing, but I distinctly remember A Tale of Two Stans. I can and have played that riff. I'll transcribe (more or less) it by memory rn.

McGucket is approximately playing the first few measures of Foggy Mountain Breakdown with the barcodes pulled off. He starts with the Foggy Mountain roll on a G chord, then descends to do a forward roll on an e minor chord. Without jargon, this means he's playing two very simple right hand patterns. These patterns are ones a baby banjo picker would learn in their first month playing.

And that's exactly what happened when you know how the soundtrack developed! Gravity Falls' composer learned some banjo for GF. He's doing what I would... learn baby-baby basics so you can record an instrument live. But this means that, because he learned juuuust enough to get the banjo sound in GF (S1 banjo sounds worse than S2 because of this learning curve, too), he can't depict McGucket as a skilled picker. He does an impressive job with the above measures given his inexperience (the tone is better than I'd expect), but the material itself is rudimentary.

Contrast this with Bill Monroe in one of his beloved instrumentals, Southern Flavor (he is the mandolinist who starts the song, first soloist):

Given what Gravity Falls put in the show, McGucket wouldn't stand a chance against Monroe. McGucket wouldn't get hired by Monroe. Obviously we have to do legwork to go beyond imperfect depictions - the limited knowledge and playing ability of animators and composer - so it's very fair to say McGucket is better than anything presented. But, even then, he's got zero shot competing against a professional who expanded virtuosity of a music style and forced musicians around him to get up to his level. Bluegrass had come into its own and many, many, many amateur players were playing breathtakingly by the 1960s and 1970s. But you ain't gonna beat the master who got 'em all there.

[the-dw-archives]

Dirty Pages 001: Hello notes

[gravescore-records]

Meeting Log #72324, V-Type, Code 39168518

Transcript: Furhn enters Clawdy's office one day after a cursed object in the form of a book is released to the public en masse within the boundaries of Universe H14-5CH to discuss the apparent fate of what was thought to be the late [REDACTED]. He is visibly, if not understandably, concerned.

Furhn: "If I might intrude, boss?" Clawdy: "Given you said this was urgent, you may. What is it that you seem worried..."

She trails off as Furhn holds up the front cover of the cursed object to her, showing her the visage of the author's silhouette. Her expression, what little there is with just two large, green eyes, drops considerably as she takes up the book from her subordinate.

Clawdy: "...and that alone answered way more questions than I needed. So, how much have we examined of the book itself?" Furhn: "I had it examined in its entirety with Hybridic's help. We can say with certainty that this particular book is the most strongly connected to its creator, who we can confirm is doing time in the Theraprism with one of the Fragments we've been looking for." Clawdy: "I see...how soon can we extract them from the Theraprism?" Furhn, taken aback: "Excuse me?" Clawdy: "You heard me. How soon can we extract our Fragment from the Theraprism?" Furhn, uncertain: "I'm not sure that's what we want to gun for, Clawdy. This Fragment, she's there for her actions as a Mad God of Chaos. Bringing her out could mean danger for everyone here." Clawdy, holding up the book: "The same could be said about the goddamn triangle, and yet he managed to get this brought out to mortal attention in bookstores everywhere in...lemme guess, H14-5CH." Furhn: "You make your point...it may take some time, but with time, we can get ahold of her as soon as next year, about halfway February at the latest." Clawdy: "Good. If he found out about her presence there, he could easily use it to get to me, and that'll be a far worse problem than a Mad God of Chaos. At least for the Mad God thing, we have protocols in place. We've never had to deal with him, however, so we've never thought to put up any defenses in the event he ever shows up. I'm gonna start taking any chances I can to get the material needed for us to defend ourselves from his power." Furhn: "That's a fair enough argument...alright, I'll see about making arrangements while getting this copy of the book stored away properly and out of the sights of any and all susceptible minds."

Clawdy lets out an audible sigh of relief as she hands the book back to Furhn, entrusting him with the safeguarding of everyone's mindscapes and ensuring the safety of a powerful Fragment.

Clawdy: "Thank you, Furhn. You've always been good to me." Furhn: "And I have no intentions of stopping. Take it easy for now, boss. I got this covered." Clawdy: "Alrighty then. You are dismissed."

He bows to her before he departs from her office with the book. After roughly five minutes of being alone with her own thoughts, she rises from her desk.

Clawdy: "Welp. I need to not think about this for a while. Maybe a little gaming will do me good..."

End Transcript.

I think you can guess who this is about based on clues in the transcript and tags. Happy reading! - 🎶

[butchdarling]

Transcript:

Alex Hirsch: The way that Craz and Xyler talk where they're like... They'll have the intelligence of like, a golden retriever or a fruit roll-up that came to life. Like I remember, those were some of the jokes that Matt drafted into the script that made it all the way to the end, like I didn't want to touch those because it was such a funny, like, their thought process.

Mike Rianda: Yeah.

Matt Chapman: Do you remember, there was one where, it may have been the one where they eventually say "Mabel's saying something right now!" or whatever, where one of them eventually said something like "[goofy] Are you thinking about the Olympics?"

Hirsch and Rianda: [laughing]

Matt Chapman: And the other was: "[goofy] I totally am!" And we found out you can't say "the Olympics"

Mike Rianda: That is like, heartbreaking, because I have thought about "are you thinking about the Olympics?" since this was on the air.

Alex Hirsch: Yeah, that's... We weren't allowed to use proper nouns in the series, so we couldn't say "superbowl" we had to say "football bowl", and a line like "[goofy] Are you thinking about the Olympics?" "I am!" Like, without the word "Olympics" it was nonsense. Like, it was already nonsense? These guys sort of remind you of an old t-shirt of a logo, like, but without being able to reference it, it was like, abridged too far. And that was often the most heartbreaking thing was getting a joke that we all busted up at, and then I get the note and I can't think of a way to save it. I'm always trying.

End Transcript

can you guys please listen to this cut bit from the gravity falls director's commentary because it's killing me

thank you @lesbianrecordplayer for the transcript

[tanyiishka]

A FNaF and Gravity falls crossover by MEEE(⁠つ⁠✧⁠ω⁠✧⁠)⁠つ｡⁠*ﾟ⁠+ *

A transcription If you don't understand my goofy ahhh handwriting:

(Above)

Dipper: So, you're a zombie?

Mike: Yeah.

Mabel: Woah! Purple!

(Below)

Mabel: Stickers!

Dipper: Sorry..

(Michael Afton design inspired by @chloesimaginationthings )