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Have I ever mentioned on here before that Giovanni Pokemon is one of my favorite and most dearly held characters? I roleplayed him for a long time back in the day and so am deeply familiar with his character and his many iterations. :p

And have I ever mentioned that I actually think that his Rainbow Rocket iteration is deeply boring? Especially when compared to what came before? Like, I guess that I'm glad thar he's returned as a character and therefore I get to see him plenty in Pokemon Masters and all that. But I wish that we had the non-Rainbow Rocket iteration of him in the game instead.

There's just something so fascinating to me about how Giovanni had it all, but the moment he had an excuse, he just... Left it all behind. He had so much power and people who were deeply loyal to him, and he just... Left. Like, the people that followed him were loyal to a fanatical degree! What kind of person inspires such loyalty in his followers that years after he just up and abandons them, they still beg for him to come back? And why was Giovanni able to leave it all behind and put himself into a self-imposed exile so easialy?

There's just something to Giovanni. He's very neat to me! And I personally think that Giovanni is at his best and most interesting when he's more than just his affiliation to Team Rocket. He used to be someone. And that someone isn't the person he is now. And I just LOVE playing in that space of what he was and could have been!

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I only discovered that rotomblr is a thing today and I am absolutely delighted by its existence! I want to participate... But I'm uncertain in what capacity... I have... Many ideas and characters I could play around in the community with... But I'm uncertain what character to play around with and to what capacity... So here's a poll!!!

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You KNOW that Harvey is really in it when Scarvey is the more sane one in the situation that Harvey's gotten them into! I really should get my hands on Two-Face #1... Because it seems that's the exact situation that Harvey's gotten them into!!! >.<

Also I do love it every time Harvey pretends to be Twofie and Scarvey can't do anything about but cringe himself into a stupor in their shared headspace lol

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Me dealing with my ADHD lately just like...

I need a new hyperfixation... Hmmm... This is difficult... I've been half back into Gravity Falls lately, but it's not quite there yet... I watched What We Do In The Shadows and while it was close, it wasn't quite there for me yet... Maybe I could try Our Flag Means Death....? You know... This feels about right... Yeah! I think that I can hyperfixate here!

AAAAND HERE COMES THE TWO-FACE SOLO SERIES WITH THE STEEL CHAIR!!!!!

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Barks. Gnashes teeth. Howls at the moon. Chomps. Explodes.

When will people start putting out spoilers for and discussing the new Two-Face series that's supposed to start coming out today!??? I want to know if it's good! And spoilers are the best way to find out!!! AWOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

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I always love watching the Wizard of Oz whenever it happens to be on TV. Always something new to absorb and think about and joke about with my family. I just always find it fun how the Tin Man is always armed with an axe. I just really REALLY want the Tin Man to murder someone! He's supposed to not have a heart after all! Also when they give the Scarecrow a gun...? Always love that!!! :D

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Just curious to know what people think... I can elaborate on circumstances if you want, but I'm leaving the options open for you to fill in blanks if you so desire!

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I just came in here and I've just got to say... This Our Flag Means Death community we have here has discourse and I find this discourse fascinating. I don't really plan on participating in it, mind. I just find it interesting to read about.

Because like... I'm looking for a hyperfixation. I could hyperfixate here. My hyperfixation has targeted Izzy Hands in particular. But where's all the stuff where we get to see him suffer...? Yes yes, seeing him soft and healing and growing as a character is good and all, but where can I be to really wallow in the shit and darkness of it all? This man is terrible and I sure do love me a terrible man! I need to stick him into a jar and shake him around! I want to be in the shit where death is too kind of a fate for him- where his death would be a kindness not just to himself but to everyone around him! I need that sweet, sweet darkness of post-season 1, pre-season 2! Man got everything he could ever want! He was forced into autocannibalism and was EXCITED about it! I want to see him enjoy and relish in this fact before he gets gradually ground down into a fine paste! Though I suppose that autocannibalism is a pretty tough act to follow in terms of dark fucked up shit. :p

Like yes. I like Izzy Hands as a character. Possibly more than is warranted for his role on the show. (But also like... He got all of the interesting growth and some of the best parts of season 2 so sue me.) But as a new character and toy for my brain to play with, I kinda want to smack him on the floor a bit more than anything else... >.> Where my fellow freaks at?

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The Aesthetics and Environmental Storytelling of the Society of the Blind Eye

This is the third post to try and make sure that we're all on the same page as to where I get my ideas and thoughts about the Society of the Blind Eye! So in the last part I discussed the Blind Eye's symbol and how it can be used to indicate that they oppose Bill Cipher. If you thought that I was pulling that idea out of my ass in the previous post, then guess what! I have further evidence of it! And that evidence is the hideout of the Society of the Blind Eye itself! Because if you pay attention, it seems that the Society's hideout was built on top of the bones of a temple dedicated to Bill Cipher!

Now it's not too outrageous to think that there was probably a cult dedicated to Bill Cipher in Gravity Falls at some point, right? It's never mentioned in Journal 3 nor the Book of Bill, but Gravity Falls is very much a place of interest to Bill Cipher, and his influence there stretches back thousands upon thousands of years. And the hideout where the Society now resides... It honestly doesn't seem like something they would have constructed themselves. In fact, it seems to have originally been a temple to Bill Cipher that the Society has since retrofitted to fit their own purposes.

The connections between Bill Cipher and the Society's hideout are evident from the very outset with trying to get into the hideout in the first place.

Now obviously eyes are a symbol and motif that Bill Cipher and the Blind Eye both share. This room doesn't necessarily hint at a connection to the hideout and Bill Cipher inherently, right? To that I say, look at image above the door and secondly, to get into the Blind Eye's lair...

Well then, that's just a Bill Cipher right there! A triangle with an eye in the middle of it? You could even make the argument that the etchings indicating the X could be a stylized depiction of Bill's eyelashes! No hat or bow tie, sure, but that's still very much a Bill within the context of this series!

Now once you start making your way into the Blind Eye's lair, it's very clear that this place is old. Very old. Much much older than the building above it.

This place is entirely made of stone with no insulation. It's lit and probably heated by fire. This place is starting to crumble and fall apart, the cracks in the walls being held together by metal brackets.

By contrast the building above it...

It's a modern building with the electricity being wired through the walls and a modern lighting and heating system that's not dissimilar to what you'd normally expect out of any other building in Gravity Falls! Sure, it looks like there might be some cracks and dents in the plaster on the walls, but it's nothing too worrying or indicative of these structures falling apart! The building's been around for a while. And given the pneumatic tubes that Fiddleford likely had to have installed both within the Blind Eye's lair and the museum above it himself, that means that this building had to have been around for ~30 years at minimum. But that's nothing compared to how old the structure beneath it seems to be. It really does seem that the hideout had to have been built first and then the museum was later built on top of it. And the Society has just not been around long enough for them to have been the ones to have built the hideout!

Besides. It's a bit of an odd fit, right? A cult built around the idea of forgetting their own pasts placed underneath a location dedicated to remembering and maintaining objects from the past...? Or maybe it's just some delicious irony. I mean, the memories that they had erased are kept down there too after all. But if this building was originally run by a Bill Cipher cult...? Oh yeah! That absolutely makes sense! Of COURSE Bill would want his temple hidden underneath a museum! He basically IS human history after all, right!? He's had a hand in so many historical people's lives, events, and is part of their cultures! A temple dedicated to him underneath a museum that would basically be a shrine full of artifacts dedicated to him? He'd LOVE that! I mean, Ford had to get his various pieces of Bill Cipher memorabilia for his shrine/home from SOMEWHERE, right!? Additionally...

What right and under what circumstances would the Society be allowed to have these ancient Egyptian artifacts!??? Why would the Society even WANT something like these!? The Society has nothing to do with Egypt and their artifacts, so why are these here!??? But if this place was originally dedicated to Bill Cipher... Well then... That ENTIRELY makes sense!! OF COURSE there would be ancient Egyptian artifacts in a temple to Bill Cipher! He was the inspiration for the pyramids!

I also want you to take note of that light and how you can see the electrical wiring that powers it coming out of it and running along the wall. That's a clear indication that this building was built before electricity would or could have been installed into this lair and that the electricity was installed later. Another indication that the hideout is likely much MUCH older than the building on top of it!

And as one more pretty definitive piece of evidence that this lair had originally been built by a Bill Cipher cult... THESE PILLARS!!!

Now do those symbols look familiar from somewhere...? Well, some of them pretty heavily feature triangles and have a very Bill-adjacent aesthetic to them... But then there's also THIS!

Here you can see that those symbols on the pillars ARE Bill Cipher symbols! It's very likely that those symbols have always been there, long long before the Society took up residence within these temple walls! From this, I think that it's pretty clear to say that this hideout existed LONG before the Society of the Blind Eye existed, and that a group of people who dedicated themselves to Bill Cipher inhabited it long before the Society became the modern, current day inhabitants of it.

... But as the modern day inhabitants of this space, it doesn't seem that the Blind Eye cares much for preserving the historical sanctity of this place.

The Society seems to have taken what was there since long before them and vandalized it to suit their own iconograpy and purposes. Just like their very symbol. The evidence that I've shown thus far could be used to suggest that Bill Cipher had influence on the Society of the Blind Eye and perhaps used the Society to enact his own desires in the physical world, but I don't personally buy that idea because A) It would be EXCEEDINGLY dangerous for Bill to do so and B) The lack of care and in fact blatant defacing of this temple's features suggests the opposite to me! Hell, they don't even keep the place clean!!

Other than the main chamber: Canisters. EVERYWHERE! Entirely unorganized as far as we can tell. Hoarded in piles on the floors, not even on the tables that seem to have just been placed in here willy-nilly! Put into crates without a care. It's a mess! And that's not even mentioning the pneumatic tubes!

The pneumatic tubes were certainly not built at the same time as this structure and must have been installed later, likely by Fiddleford himself! They curve around everything, bracketed into place along walls and columns alike! And when they do go through the pillars...

Where the tubes go through the walls and columns, the stone is cracked, holes probably having been driven into them without a care or thought about how that would effect the building's structural integrity. The sheer number of pneumatic tubes and the haphazard way they seem to have been placed everywhere is likely even more of a reflection to how much Fiddleford had damaged himself and his own mind as he desperately sought to forget. And in that state, Fiddleford probably didn't even think nor care to think about what he was doing and how it would effect this base of theirs. And besides. What would it matter? This was a temple to Bill Cipher before them. And certainly no one would remember being in such a cult after the Society was done with the town.

And so that's all I really have to say about that. The Society's aesthetic is cool! You could call it something akin to Steampunk, but I think that the better keyword here is retrofitted. Or perhaps its darker counterpart- defaced. After all, retrofitting is something that Fiddleford does all the time and is all about!

Using bottle caps to make memory guns, mattress springs and jugs to make sea monsters. And I imagine that the Society was built much the same way... But in a darker sense. Taking the remnants of a temple to Bill Cipher, destroying its previous aesthetic and purpose and making it suit his own to create a cult of his own that would wipe away people's memories from them until he himself would deface his own memories so thoroughly that he could only become a mere shadow of who he used to be. Very tragic for Fiddleford himself. But a very interesting implied history and aesthetic for the rest of us!

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So I just finished watching Our Flag Means Death today and just... Punches the ground FUCK!

I've been looking for a good hyperfixation lately, and honestly Our Flag Means Death could be a good fit! But there's just... Not enough of it! Also just... Punches the ground GODDAMMIT IZZY! How could they expect me to not like this horrible, cynical bastard! This man is absolutely horrible! He's absolutely my type! And I love him! But how can I hyperfixate when he's my favorite and they killed him off!!! D:< I NEED this man to be put into more situations where he's forced to suffer!!! I need to stick him into a jar and shake him around! HNNNNG!!!!! FUCK!

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The Mark of the Blind Eye

Here is my second post about the Society of the Blind Eye in order to make sure that we are all on the same page with where my ideas and thoughts about it come from. A third one will be coming! (This series was originally only going to be 2 posts, but then this one got too long and I hadn't even gotten to the main point that I wanted to discuss lol.) But for this one, I want to point out a thing that I don't think that anyone's really discussed before even though indications of it do pretty clearly exist within canon... The Society of the Blind Eye seems to exist in opposition to Bill Cipher himself. And the symbol of the Society of the Blind Eye is a very good example of this relationship!

Is this observation too obvious? Or do I just sound entirely insane right now? Because I swear that I'm right! But I've never seen anyone discuss it before! I just think that if you think about the Society with the idea that they exist to oppose Bill Cipher in mind, it explains a number of things about how and why they operate as well as their aesthetics. But let's discuss the symbol itself first!

So first of all, I think that it's really neat how the Society- from its very first hints of existing to the series finale- it associates itself with graffiti.

This exists in contrast to Bill who- while his iconography also tends to be found in the backgrounds and little details of shots- tends to be found in more structural ways.

Windows and carpets. On dollar bills and commercial products from makeup to DVDs to children's costume props all alike. These differences in how they appear speaks to how the Blind Eye exists in opposition to Bill Cipher. Bill Cipher is larger than any individual on Earth. His existence transcends space and time. He has existed since before humanity and he has had his hand in countless human social movements. From the Egyptian pyramids to the foundation of America, even having a hand in early computer technology. Bill Cipher is more than just a character. He exists within the very structures of human civilization within the show.

Meanwhile the Society by contrast has only existed for ~30ish years by the series' start. And the most significant way that it exists is in opposition to Bill Cipher. In a way, Bill Cipher's existence is cultural... Meanwhile the Blind Eye's existence is countercultural.

I don't think that the modern iteration of the Society ever realized it, but its primary form of iconography- the crossed out eye- is actually simultaneously just a GREAT aesthetic symbol (easy to recognize and duplicate but also looking fantastic to boot) but that it's also rather clever in how pragmatic it is for the Society's unmentioned but inherent secondary purpose. That secondary purpose being to oppose Bill Cipher and to wipe his influence from Gravity Falls.

We all know how Bill is able to look through symbols of himself depicted in the real world. He also seems to be able to look through images of eyes in general (given how he also tends to watch the world through the eye-like patterns on Birch trees). We also know why and how Fiddleford came to found the Society, that he was distressed by the supernatural things he saw- what was beyond the portal especially- and so sought to erase the memories of those distressing things from his mind... Only to realize that others could "benefit" from this as well. The memory gun at the center of this cult would eventually become the very same object that would kill Bill Cipher in the series finale. It was only because of the Society of the Blind Eye that Bill was ultimately able to be defeated! But it's not that much of a stretch to think that Fiddleford may have been using the Society of the Blind Eye to protect Stanford from Bill Cipher from the organization's outset, right? Not only do they use and were the protectors of the weapon that would eventually kill Bill Cipher, but we learn in the Book of Bill that Fiddleford's repeated use of the Memory Gun actually entirely inoculated him from Bill's manipulations! Fiddleford's mind was so damaged, that merely existing within it was physically able to harm Bill! The Blind Eye could easily drive Bill from the mind of anyone he possessed so long as they knew it was him. And given how Bill treats the bodies of anyone he possesses, certainly that would fall under the scope of the kinds of experiences the Blind Eye seeks to allow people to forget. Additionally, the mere symbol of the Society- if applied to already existing images of eyes and of Bill Cipher himself- would keep Bill from being able to look through those symbols, thus limiting his vision! Perhaps this is why in many depictions of the Blind Eye symbol, the X over the eye is emphasized and shown in a different color than the rest of the symbol and the eye itself.

Whether the Society knows it or not, their existence and activity in Gravity Falls puts limits on Bill's power and influence there. (If anyone in town can just kinda randomly get their memory wiped at a moment's notice, it makes it much much more dangerous for Bill to possess ANYONE in town.) And given who founded the Society and when and why he did, I have doubts that fact is a mere coincidence!

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FiddAuthor be like-

Ford: I can make him better!

F: I can make him better- He can make me better! I can't possibly become worse!

Meanwhile FiddleStan be like-

Stan: He can make me better! Maybe I can make him better too...?

Fiddleford: He could make me better...? Maybe. But I can make him so much worse.

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......... Is consumerism at the core and the root of the enshittification of everything...?

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I do so love learning new things about myself! :D

So normally I take T (low dosage), an antidepressant, and a drug for my ADHD (pediatric dosage). I haven't been taking the T for super long, but when I started taking it, it really didn't make my other two meds feel extra effective! But because I have ADHD and get anxiety over phone calls and scheduling things and medical stuff, I've been running out of some of these drugs one by one. First I ran out of my ADHD med. It utterly DESTROYED any sense of a sleep schedule I was forming! And with running out of my antidepressant... I knew that I would likely have withdrawal symptoms... I was expecting headaches and moodiness... what I got instead was MUCH more weird and interesting!!! I had one day of headaches, sure. But for the rest of the last few days... My brain refused to do any kind of cognitive function that required the wrinkling of my brain. So basically... It made me a thembo!!! I think that I'm just a chronic overthinker! And so no antidepressant? Thinking rights have been revoked! Very funny to me. Not painful. A bit annoying. But mostly thembo time!!! Just am forced to be stupid lol.

Thankfully I got my refills now and took my meds. So thembo time is ending. I can feel my head clearing up already. I can feel my brain wanting to do higher cognitive function, but my brain not quite being up to the task yet. What an interesting experience though! Apparently me on T but not antidepressants and ADHD meds... makes me a thembo! Just... So stupid. But also not necessarily unhappy. :p At least while actively going through withdrawal. But I'd rather not go entirely off them if I can help it!!!

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Hey! As a fandom and community, can we please please PLEASE talk about searchfortheblindeye more!???

It's obscure! It's considered noncanon! But I also think that it's interesting and worth looking at! Especially if you fuck with Fiddleford and the Society of the Blind Eye as a concept at all! I personally think that it's the first instance we have and can see Fiddleford being Alex Hirsch's very special man and Blorbo for his own series and honestly I love that for him! I also think that it was Hirsch's first unofficial testing ground to see how far he could push the cryptogram stuff, what the fandom could solve, whether we would actually engage with that kind of stuff at all, and is basically the spiritual predecessor the Cipher Hunt and ESPECIALLY thisisnotawebbedsitedotcom.

I URGE you to read the Gravity Falls wiki page about it because I have my own thoughts biases and blind spots concerning the page! The website no longer exists, but was thankfully fully archived on the Gravity Falls wiki, so go read it to understand it and the kind of experience that it was! But I guess that I should give a summary for newcommers who can't be bothered read it right now to describe what it is and why it is interesting, even if only on another surface level.

So at the end of Gravity Falls' season 1 finale "Gideon Rises" the audience watching is given a cipher. Search for the Blindeye. Later this would be revealed to relate to the series of animated Gravity Falls shorts that Disney would release between the ending of Season 1 and the start of Season 2 known as "Dipper's Guide to the Unexplained" that would reveal the symbol that would later be revealed to be the symbol for the Society of the Blind Eye in piecemeal sections.

A day before Gideon Rises had aired a website had launched. Searchfortheblindeye.com. How curious. It was a website that Alex Hirsch had addressed before in a handful of ways while it was online. Hirsch specifically said that it was not affiliated with Disney... But he didn't say that he didn't have anything to do with it! And we sure do know how much Hirsch likes to mess with the Gravity Falls fan community when he can!

On the surface, it really didn't seem like searchfortheblindeye had much going on. It featured a gif of Bill floating and had the remixed iteration of the main Gravity Falls theme that was featured at the end of Dreamscaperers as the website's audio. But in the source code there were encrypted messages! The messages seemed to feature 2 characters who didn't like one another very much. One is pretty undeniably Bill Cipher and the other seems to be the person hosting/programming the website. I'm going to be fully honest, I think that the other person, the person who is presumably the site's programmer is Fiddleford. One of the very first messages on the site was "LIAR. MONSTER. SORT OF OK DRESSER. TRUST NO ONE." Which establishes this person as someone who is aware of Bill, the Journals and what is written in them, but is decidedly NOT the Author (Ford)! Given the name of the website, the person running it has to be someone that is entirely fine with being associated with the Society of the Blind Eye. And again, they are someone who can program a website, and- from what can be gleaned from the person running the site and Bill's interactions- very much dislikes Bill (the feeling is mutual), and is quite the intellectual. Fiddleford meets all of these criteria! The messages and things on the website would foreshadow things that would show up/happen/be said in the series itself long before they would actually be seen or happen. I think that it's pretty damn safe to say that someone who worked on the show was involved with this website if Alex Hirsch wasn't behind it himself! So it might not strictly be canon... But it IS a lot of fun and is interesting! And I think that it gives us an interesting insight into what was happening as Alex Hirsch and the rest of the people who worked on Gravity Falls were thinking as they were fleshing out Fiddleford as a character! And I think people should at least mention it sometimes! Also fun fact, the website features Gompers' backstory lol. Like the Gompers backstory stuff as it appears in searchfortheblindeye.com still gets vaguely mentioned in new Gravity Falls media sometimes. So while it may not strictly be part of Disney's Gravity Falls' canon... I like ti imagine that the website and the things featured on it are kinda sort of part of Alex Hirsch's headcanon lol.

In any case... If you want more drips of sweet, sweet Fiddleford content and context, read the wiki on the website!!! If you want to see Bill and Fiddleford directly interact with one another on a speaking level, read the ciphers as they were catalogued!!! And... Well... If you're not a coward and enjoy FiddleBill or want to see the appeal of the toxic love triangle disaster polycule's least popular and least loved side, read the wiki on this website because I seriously think that you will get a kick out of it!!! Also it might be the most we may ever get out Cult Leader era Fiddleford! A part of his life that I find deeply fascinating and for which I scream to heaven high that we don't get to see more of!!!

Basically... PLEASE LOOK INTO THIS THING! I WANT TO SEE PEOPLE PLAY WITH THE IDEAS IT PRESENTS AND SEE PEOPLE ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT IT SOMETIMES AND NOT JUST MEEEEE!!!!! Also I think that I might have solved a mystery that went overlooked about it...? But that's neither here nor there

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A Note About the Society of the Blind Eye's Uniforms

I am entirely certain that I am the only person who has ever noticed this and therefore the only person that cares and is bothered by this. But I do wish that when people drew Fiddleford within Society of the Blind Eye garb that they changed his outfit up a little from the standard uniform. Because as the leader and founder of the organization, it would be useful for his outfit to be slightly different in order to distinguish his rank and role in the Society, and it's also a fun excuse to dress Fiddleford up in something a little more fancy!

For a moment I want all of us to take a moment to appreciate the Society of the Blind Eye's standard uniform.

It's a design that is simple, effective, and yet quite visually distinct and interesting. Those deep reds that make it stand out in much the same way that the Journals do.

A simple, clean design that makes it easy to animate and duplicate, but can also be mildly altered to suit the variety of Gravity Falls' different body types while maintaining that cohesive appearance!

But it also has just enough bespoke and little details to keep it from being generic!

The hoods being low enough to cover the wearer's eyes and frame the rest of their faces in shadow, speaking to the anonymous nature of the organization, while also giving them an intimidating appearance.

A little bit of pragmatic design where they have drawstrings to protect the members from the energy blasts of the Memory Gun while they are observing it being used. (Though unless the outfits are like... Lined with some kind of metal, the drawstrings would likely do little more than protect their eyes from the bright lights.) But when the hoods are drawn down like this, it also emphasizes the Society's symbol and in a way make the members of the Society almost look inhuman!

And apparently they're pretty comfortable to boot! They sure look cozy!

But I think that I might be the only one who's noticed... Hey! Ivan's outfit is actually slightly different from the rest!

Unlike everyone else whose hoods flop down in the back to a soft point, his stands up to a sharper point! And his outfit and hood also lack the split down the middle that everyone else's outfits feature!

It's a small difference, but if you know this and pay attention, you can visually pick Ivan out in any scene that he's in!

And within the organization itself, these are likely deliberate differences to distinguish Ivan's role within the Society's higherarchy. Tragically, we never get to see Fiddleford in his Society of the Blind Eye robes, though there is little doubt that he had such an outfit, if he didn't outright design the Society's uniforms himself! And given how Ivan has custom robes, it's very likely that Fiddleford did too. Likely robes that were even more distinguished and fancy than Ivan's!

So please! When drawing Fiddleford as the leader of the Society of the Blind Eye, I would LOVE it if you gave him some little extra defining features to make him stand out from the rest of the Society as a very fancy, distinguished, and important boy! And if I may make a suggestion....... HOW ABOUT A CAPE!???

Now it's possible that this statue might not have been originally depicting a Society of the Blind Eye member and the symbol could have been added later, the details of which will likely be discussed in my next Society of the Blind Eye post but like... Fiddleford could look hella cool in a cape. He deserves it! A cape would be neat! But it's certainly not necessary. I just want to see more varied, silly, and interesting designs with Fiddleford's Society of the Blind Eye outfit is all! :D

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Okay, so it looks like there are a small number of peeps out there who are just as weird and fucked up as me who want to hear me dump my unsavory ideas regarding the Society of the Blind Eye upon the world for their enjoyment! And I am kinda hella thrilled to hear this! I'm currently off my antidepressants and going through withdrawal symptoms! My brain is feeling super weird! I am having a hard time trying to censor myself right now! So fuck it! Tonight we ball!

But first before I get into the headcanons and terrible, horrible ideas, I want to make 2 posts about things we concretely know, can glean from context clues, and see in canon Gravity Falls media so that we can all get on the same page. Alright? Alright. Alright!

Also I was wondering... For the few of us freaks who are into this kind of thing, I'm half tempted to make a Society of the Blind Eye Tumblr community group. For fun and the hell of it! Would that be a thing people would be interested in having, seeing, and participating in...? Just curious to know. Because I sure do love my fictional cult stuff! :D