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Boxed and ready for shipping

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Unreliable narrators are one hell of an idea. You can just write whatever, and if a reader points out "hey the way this scene happened should not be physically possible if it's done the way this character described it", you can just be like "yeah I don't trust that fucker either."

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My contribution to dimensional dreams

@billfordzine

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Happy birthday to these old farts! (Sorry for disappearing for a bit - I recently switched jobs and apparently, that is emotionally and mentally exhausting. Who knew! The next part of the Collapsing Vectors comic is in the making - it's going to be a longer one, unless you guys would prefer if I posted it in two parts?) Do not repost here or onto any other website. Reblogging is encouraged!

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My tablet has been collecting dust lately, so I decided to go out of my comfort zone and practice shading. Surprised myself! :)

My process from outline to lineless:

Edit: Ford's eyes are NOT blue. Changed them to brown :)

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“First and foremost I’m writing for myself,” I hiss through my teeth, resisting the urge to refresh my email for an Ao3 message for the 100th time.

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"just write a little every day" ok but what if i write nothing for 3 weeks and then suddenly type like i’m being hunted by god

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gnawing on these metaphors. so good

just thinking about the contrast of ford's open field of golden wheat as a mindscape vs the greyscale pine forest in stanley's head.

something something ford's mind being the opposite of a forest as a metaphor for how he became uprooted from his human connections in favor of bill's monocropped scape. a tilled, controlled field that is being slowly drained of its nutrients for profit.

something something, stanley's mind being a pine forest because he never surrendered for his family, never gave up on them, but it wasn't returned so where was the color? nowhere except inside the mystery shack. where his family is.

there's also a metaphor to be made here about pine forests - how pines grow in poor soil and tend to be fire-resistant, needing controlled burns to prevent being outcompeted by other species - but i haven't finished sorting that one out yet!!

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too often

y'all ever think about stan's time in the mental ward

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OMG STOPPP 😭❤️

ITS PERFECT. I love love love the stagelight-esque feel you went for! Stan isn't a reliable narrator in writing, so why would he ever be in art? That bathroom isn't supposed to feel safe or comforting at all and you captured it perfectly.

Bathrooms are supposed to be private, but mirrors make them rather the opposite— Stan has to confront himself for the first time since he arrived home, and he absolutely hates what he sees.

This is going straight into my fanart folder (yes I have one, fight me) and I just want to thank you for bringing this scene to life. You've captured Stan's internal storm perfectly. Stan deserves all the art and all the love (even if he doesn't think he does) 💜

Home Is Where the Heartache Is- Waflle Warrior

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59344912/chapters/152811541

I know the bathroom doesnt look like that but i wanted to show how fucked up our poor dude is. And lets be honest he is an unreliable narrator. I love the atmosphere so much i just cant

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I wanted to make a comic of one of my favorite parts of the book of bill so I did

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I love making a gag character for D&D, forgetting they’re just a gag character, and then take a step back to look at the original ref

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i used to be too shy to interact w fanfic authors, but after i finally started to do so, that i realised they're the same @ me

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crazy that gravity falls was like, hey what if we made twin brothers, and one of them is the worse one. he gets bad grades, he likes to punch his problems, everyone thinks of him as “the other one.” he’s engulfed in a shadow that’s shaped like him. he doesn’t even have his own name—it’s derived of his brother’s name, the only one his parents planned on having and using. everything about him is derivative—imitative of another person (his twin brother) (the one everyone likes and wants) and is disapproved of for that reason (he isn’t just “bad at this thing,” he’s “not as good as his brother”). and then he ruins his brother’s science fair project (the one next to his own—no one noticed it because it’s not good, it’s almost stupid next to a “perpetual motion machine” made by a high schooler) (he tried to fix it) (he doesn’t know how; he’s not as smart as the guy who made it) and he gets kicked out. the potential of the money his twin could’ve made is enough to throw him onto the street, and he can’t go home until he makes that money back (the money that was never gained and therefore was never lost. he never had a chance of making enough). he took every job he could (his brother went to school). he got banned from multiple states (his brother bought a house). he traveled internationally and went to prison and had people try to hunt him down and kill him because he couldn’t make enough money (his brother’s house has three basements. he made them himself, as secure as can be). and when his twin finally summons him for help, things go wrong (he messed up this machine like the last one) (he doesn’t know how to fix it. he isn’t as smart as the guy who made it) (he tries to fix it) (he was never any good at reading and these blueprints are impossible, coded and fragmented and in a science that he didn’t know existed) (he tries to fix it). the townspeople ask who he is, and he doesn’t even say his own name (it was hardly his to begin with). and he invites them to a house that isn’t his to show off experiments that aren’t his because he needs to make money that can’t be his. everything he does for the next 30 years is in his twin’s name, for his twin’s sake. he had two funerals for himself and it isn’t even his body in the casket; he had to wear his brother’s name to both of them. if he had died before he fixed the portal, that funeral wouldn’t have been for him. we meet him as a funny and unique character, but in-universe, he’s only ever been defined by someone else.

and then they went, this is entirely in the background btw. most of that is going to be revealed in one episode and won’t be addressed again. he’s a primary comic relief, even. I’m ill about this.

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Don't hurt me like this 😀😭

A tale of two stan

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I FINALLY POSTED CHAPTER 7 OF HOME IS WHERE THE HEARTACHE ISSSSS

GO READ GO READ GO READ

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