#bamfau comic

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immobilizing panic attacks triggered by nursery rhymes are probably a symptom of being completely normal and not needing any help at all.

inspired by an ask from @randomfangirl2002! now i really need to stop procrastinating on the fic. long comics are fun but this took like a WEEK for some reason

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Bill’s been around like 10 times longer than this universe has. But he’s never had a best friend to goof around and play terrible video games with, so some experiences are still new to him.

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have some little AU things while i continue to procrastinate on writing the fic

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just wanted to draw AU Bill being a protective dad again. also am i the only one who finds that one gnome REALLY creepy

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i’ve been really busy with Artfight and working on the fic, but i still love drawing them when i can

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Mabel made matching BFF sweaters for her and Waddles, so why not her and Bill. anyway sorry i’m posting like 2 comics a day about these guys

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just a little fic in comic form i guess, about an alternate way they could have ruined Bill’s day in Sock Opera.

i imagine Bill is CRAZY touch-starved. a trillion years without a physical form has gotta mess a guy up. he’s always shoving people around and shaking hands and leaning on shoulders and stuff, but he doesn’t actually feel anything when he does it. possessing living bodies gives him a semblance of physical sensation, but it’s still just a shadow of the real thing.

also, i think Mabel gives, just, the best hugs in the universe.

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prompt 3 for Billtober was “Trust No One”, so i ended up doing this. i wanna try and turn as many of these prompts as possible into Friendship AU content.

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In which Bill makes a grave tactical error.

i thought maybe this one was too OOC but my friend told me to post it anyway. idk, maybe i’m just writing totally different characters at this point. i just love the idea that Bill’s not used to people actually liking him when they don’t want something from him. so it totally kicks the legs out from under him when Mabel, someone he’s pretty much nothing but a burden on, just offhandedly mentions that she loves him like family.

(don’t tag as shipping)

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(follow-up to this drawing of Bill yelling at Gideon)

luckily she catches up to him before he gets to the zoo.

i started making this just as a little character exploration thing, not planning to post it, but i ended up spending way too long on it not to. i still really like the idea of bill trying really hard to make up for hurting mabel in the past by being an aggressively good friend now, but not really fixing anything because actually acknowledging the bad stuff he did in any real way is way too painful.

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Bill is of the mindset that bad feelings go away if you just ignore them long enough. most commercial mood ring brands just don’t have the bandwidth for ~1 trillion years of repressed mental health problems

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Mabcifica is a thing in this AU btw. i wanted to show that before pride month ended

(they’ll be fine, don’t worry. a chimera is a mild annoyance to these guys)

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one of the major monsters of the week i’m planning to include in the fic is this little chimera cub that Mabel befriends, and i just had a little comic idea with it.

also the first chapter is not too far from being ready to post now, i’m sorry it’s taking so long but i’m doing my best

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Maybe if he kills enough brain cells he can finally forget how badly he fumbled that old man…

so these are a testament to how bad my hyperfocusing can get. i decided to see if i could make a decent looking comic just by drawing with my finger on my phone’s drawing app. and now LITERALLY SIX HOURS LATER, i have these. enjoy i guess!!

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they’re besties and they haunt my every waking moment. also my dreams

based on this:

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i still get the urge to make comics of them, even while writing the fic. it’s exhausting

this would be from a hypothetical little mini-arc where they run into Bloody Mary and she’s still pissed off at Bill and they fight her in the mirror world or something