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Finally finished watching all the Capaldi seasons of Doctor Who
#tldr it was really good#and i can still identify every single plot point that made teenage me pissed#and i either really like them nor or am just ambivalent to them#like i really enjoyed everything that these seasons put out with few exceptions#and from what i remember of watching the ones before him capaldi probably had my favorite finale#and s10 def had my favorite actual finale out of the 3#twice upon a time was also really good#and prob my favorite christmas special out of the bunch#wedding of river song is a very close second though#definitely would use the capaldi seasons as my baseline recommendations for anyone i tried to get into it#again from ym memory of watchiong the smith run as it was airing i didnt like clara much#but watching the capaldi seasons ive either warmed to her a lot or shes jsut way better in these than she was in s7#bill was also really good#if sort of underdeveloped#but one season only thats kinda expected#overall i do now sorta wanna move into s11 but ive not heard a single good thing about how cinbal has handled the show#so im really hesitant#especially since i know the amster comes back#which is just souring my entire preconception of it since i found missy's end in s10 to be perfect#ill probably watch the first ep tonight and then give it some time before the next one#if i even watch it#for now though i should probably get back to qc'ing ry*kendo so florida doesnt kill me
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Alex Hirsch going "I'd be interested in exploring Bill confronting all of his lies" during the Seattle book signing and him going "This is my child. Please be kind to him. He doesn't deserve it though." during the San Diego book signing...
It makes me incredibly happy that he's just as obsessed with this problem triangle as we are.
#been watching the interviews and q&a#its interesting to see how much was rehearsed and how much was improvised during the interviews#this man really gives 110% to be as entertaining as possible every second#but yeah also makes me really excited that he's taking this direction with Bill#idk there's a lot of cynical fans out there assuming creators hate anything resembling fandom desires and it's like#yeah sometimes fans can be REALLY out of left field but sometimes. good stories are good.#anyway bill redemption arc when#bill cipher#gravity falls#the book of bill#Alex Hirsch#tbob book signing
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Been thinking about how Bill legitimately had a horrifying reason (the literal progressive disintegration of the nightmare realm that erases whatever it disintegrates from existence completely) to move himself and his crew into a new dimension. Like that's terrifying. And yet he never utilizes this to his favour. He could have been honest about this with Ford, and you KNOW as long as Bill didn't mention plans of overtaking the earth, Ford would've made the portal for him, both out of Ford's own interest and because Ford when faced with these big moral questions will pull through. But this is a card Bill NEVER plays because although he needs to leave the dimension, he cannot lose face. He can't put aside his pride and admit to the humility that he needs to flee from his dimension, that he's not actually all powerful. And so instead he pretends to be a muse and when Ford figures out something else is going on, instead of being open and humble and saying that his dimension is unravelling, Bill focuses on that he's going to over take earth, that he's actually been a monster all along, surprise Ford!
And part of it is definitely because Bill's built himself up on power and violence and to grovel and earnestly ask for help, to admit that he cannot stop the unraveling of his dimension completely invalidates that; showing vulnerability? Can't do that, even under the guise of lying to get his way. And part of it makes you wonder if it's also a form of self-sabotage, because underneath his deep denial Bill is guilty over what he occurred; he sees himself as a monster and so he'll be that monster, and having people recognize that feels good in the same way that pressing a bruise feels good. But it makes you wonder what would've happened if Bill even just was open about his dimension unravelling and had lied about overtaking the earth.
It's also interesting because although Bill has SOME charisma and can manipulate people decently well (as evidenced by his cult, and pandering to people's desires with Ford, Mabel and Blendin), he refuses to be vulnerable, refuses to not be true to his off-putting self, even when if he was just vulnerable of pretended to not be himself, to put aside the (false) pride he has in himself he would've gotten a portal by now. and part of me wonders if it's because it's this false pride that built on insecurity and denial on who he is he cannot drop that mask.
Further thoughts on this!
#hugin rambles#hugin rambles gf#uhhhh yeah anyways Bills a delightfully complex character#and I think thats why also Bill fell hard for Ford is because Ford was vulnerable with Bill and actually CARED for Bill and got to peer#into the vulnerable bits of Bill and cared for him#but yeah fascinating. rotating him in my head whooo#bill cipher#billford#the book of bill#TBOB#gravity falls#but seriously the idea of Bill becoming honest with Ford instead of being like HAHA I TRICKED YOU bounces around the ol noodle with vigor#like dude thats a HUGELY typical self sabotage thing. like why YES im what people think i am.#hes interesting because hes good at manipulation. but also at the same time bad at it because he refuses to not be himself.#which... yanno i can respect. truth to being yourself even if thats offputting and annoying. but certainly makes it more difficult#re: manipulation. and then there was ford who was just. really into Bill in entirety#congrats! you guys match each others freak and toxic neediness to the t#gravity falls meta
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Last night after reading a bit of the Book of Bill i went to sleep.
i had a dream that i had to team up with Bill Cipher to assassinate an angel.
I had to carve out its heart so that Bill would let me go.
I woke up very tired.
#tw gore#cw: gore#also bill cipher fell in love with me in the middle of the dream but we dont talk about that part#i don’t remember what the angel was saying to me but i just really wanted to go home#ANYWAYS#i tried to portray the gore more cartoonish to not scare you guys#i dont want y’all to feel uncomfortable#have a good night!! :3#bill ci the demon guy#bill ci the all seeing eye#bill ci the triangle guy#bill cipher#book of bill#gravity falls fanart#gravity falls spoilers#gravity falls#paint markers#eyestrain#fallen angel#angel#divine imagery#the book of bill#chicken doodles#gravity falls show#cartoon#self insert#bill cipher x oc#bill cipher x reader
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Blood Blossom Au: Baby's First Commissioner Meeting :)
TL:DR This Post: Danny (orphan) gets poisoned with blood blossom extract by Vlad. He runs away from him and ends up under the care of one Pre-Robin Battinson Batman! Starry is loudly pushing her batdad agenda.
(Also known as "Late At Night, When The Nightingale Sings" on my ao3!)
This was a fun rough idea I've been sitting on for weeks, thinking about how Commissioner Gordon and Nightingale's first meeting might go.
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Commissioner Gordon likes to think that he's adjusting to the new normal of Gotham very well, -- the new normal being grown men running around dressed like bats, in military-grade strength body armor, committing acts of vigilantism, -- and slowly, little by little, he was no longer being surprised when this new normal pops up out of the shadows like the world's most terrifying daisy. His shaving lifespan thanks him for it.
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The kid is a surprise though.
Granted, he seemed to be a surprise to the Bat too.
There's been a string of murders lately, -- which, in Gotham, is kind of like saying there's been another storm during monsoon season. And there's just been another; in some dilapidated building down in south Gotham, with the broken, boarded-up windows and mildew-crawling walls to match. The victim is a man in his thirties, multiple gunshot wounds to the chest, left in the center of the room for the blood to pool out around him.
The place is already secured when he arrives, the building swarmed with officers and the forensic detectives. The Bat emerges shortly after he does -- or, he might've been here the whole time, hiding someplace dark and shadowy. For his own sanity, Gordon doesn't think about it too hard.
The kid is a surprise, and he appears like a bolt of lightning.
He shows up in the middle of a conversation Gordon is having with the Bat.
A whistle, sharp and loud, slicing through the air, meant for open air rather than a confined space. Gordon's ears pierce and protest the sound, and the solemn, murmured chatter floating through the room abruptly cuts off like the swing of a gavel. As he turns towards the sound -- as they all do -- he swears, up and down, that he sees Batman's shoulders jump, just slightly.
At the source, perched on the window, is a boy. A boy in a gray-blue scarf and an oversized black hoodie, one that hangs off his frame and has ace bandages wrapped around the wrists in some attempt to cinch the sleeves. The hood is up, big like the rest of it, and threatens to swallow the upper half of the boy's face whole in the fabric. What upper half Gordon can see, is smeared with some kind of opaque, black face paint. He's holding onto the side of the frame with one hand, on his hip is a grappling hook. A familiar grappling hook.
Gordon has multiple questions, and his officers tense up.
Martinez puffs up, brows furrowing as his face shapes into a frown. Shoulders rolling back. "You can't be here, kid--"
The reaction is immediate, like a spark to gunpowder, the boy yanks his fingers from his mouth and his mouth twists into a scowl. Head snapping over to Officer Martinez, his hood manages to stay on but Gordon swears that as he bares his teeth, the glint makes them look sharper than they should be. His voice is rasp and quiet and harsh; snappish in its hissing; "Put a fuckin sock in it, Martinez. I'm not stayin."
Martinez reels back, and the boy immediately veers his attention off him. Like a switch, his demeanor drops. Despite half his face being covered, his mouth twists into a cringing, apologetic smile. Slanted and off-beat, embarrassed. It'd be disarming if this wasn't Gotham, and if he didn't just hiss at Martinez like he was about to bite his head off.
"Sorry." He whispers, voice deceptively polite and softer now. Gordon has to strain his ears to hear him. "I was looking for him."
He points his finger towards-- Gordon? No, Gordon follows the direction, and finds himself looking at -- the Bat.
The Bat, who always looks stiff as a pole, now looks even stiffer. Somehow. Well, the explains the grappling hook attached to the boy's waist.
"What are you doing here?" The Bat says, gruff and unable to completely smother the stumble of surprise in his tone.
The boy still holds a sheepish smile, and slips off the window ledge. His feet hit the creaky boards with a near-silent thud, the Batman finds his feet and rapidly begins crossing the room.
Gordon notes the slight tremble in the boy's legs as he straightens. He adjusts his scarf, which droops close to his knees now that he's standing, and slings a backpack -- how long has had that? -- off his shoulders. When the Bat reaches his side, he does as he always does, and looms over the boy like a spectre. A threatening mass of shadows cloaked in all-consuming black. Standing next to him, the boy looks teeny in comparison.
The Bat is a man who terrifies even the most hardened criminals, Gordon has seen grown men shiver in fear at the mention of his name. And yet when the boy looks up at him, he doesn't even flinch.
Instead, his sheepish smile melts away like ice under the sun, holding only traces of his previous embarrassment. It remains as a shadow on his face, a small upturn at the corners of his mouth. The boy pushes his hood back just enough to reveal glinting, ice-flint eyes surrounded in tar-black face paint. He holds the backpack up with one arm. "You forgot this."
#I have never seen Batman (2022) so really I'm just using battinson and crew as templates for my fic. but hey what else is new lol#dpxdc#danny fenton is not the ghost king#dp x dc#dpxdc crossover#dp x dc crossover#dpxdc fic#dpxdc au#dp x dc au#dpxdc fanfic#i dont know shit about detective work or true crime so forgive me for any bad terminology or incorrect procedure for how these things work#just a fun rough idea for how i imagined gordon's first meeting with nightingale goes LMAO. im sticking to the idea that danny doesn't#officially join the field for a *while* due to more than just health reasons. so his first appearances are brief and usually to give B smth#danny: im only here as express delivery for vader's little brother over there. yall stay safe tho.#bruce: *kill bill sirens bass-boosted* ohmygodwhatishedoinghere#batman: how did you get here... | danny: you have so many spare grappling hooks it was pr easy to just grab one and go#also danny is whispering on purpose because he doesn't have his ghost form to fall back on as a secret identity. so he *is* actually taking#extra steps to keep his identity safe. and people usually sound different when they're whispering. he also has personal beef with#office martinez despite the fact that they've never met. Danny's HEARD of his ass. he hATES his ass.#Martinez: *to batman* freak | danny: im going to Bite Him. | batman (reluctantly): hmr. please don't. | danny: im going for his shins#Martinez and Nightingale have this whole thing going on between the two of them. danny WILL slap a sticky note on Martinez's back that says#'asshole' on it and its the one spot square on his spine that martinez can't reach.#someone: why are you beefing with like. an actual 12 year old | martinez: HE'S A LITTLE RAT. THAT'S WHY. he's here to torment me#battinson: *did you grapple the whole way here* | danny: yah. it was kinda fun. i would've gotten here faster but i kept having to stop#battinson: *hnnn* im driving you back | danny:.. are you sure? | battinson already pulling him out of the room: y e s#i've been thinking about this for literally WEEKS. what did bruce forget? good question! i'll figure that out if or when i get to this#danny has Issues behind the word freak so its like a mini beserker button for him regardless of who the word is aimed at lol. lmao#martinez calls batman a freak once while nightingale is within range and its just the doom ost as danny simply Disappears from sight#like oops. you are now. In Danger. rip couldn't be me.#blood blossom au
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I'm so mad that post was misinformation because there is actually an EXTREMELY important conversation to have about the production schedules artists are forced into. There's no need for exaggeration, the conditions are bad.
I work for webtoon. My publication schedule is weekly. While publishing I'm required 10-15 pages a week. Fully colored.
This means I'm finishing a 150 page fully colored graphic novel every 10-15 weeks.
When my comic is not updating, I am not getting paid. Any time writing, editing, or off is out of my own pocket. I don't get healthcare. They do not provide any assistants. They expect me to promote myself; they chose to deprioritize me before I even launched and gave me an end date half a year in. I never had a chance.
And this is the industry standard! Every company has artists forced into crunch hours, overtime, and burnout. Artists are literally dying early due to it. So many of my friends can't afford to go to the doctor.
It's unsustainable and untenable, and it's also the expectation our audiences have.
If we want to have this conversation, there's plenty of conversation to be had with the realities of the situation. It's bad as is.
#and people get mad at us about 'short updates' lmfao#the companies are absolutely abusing our passion and our desperate situations#but readers genuinely offer little to no grace#if I am going to be able to leave#then the conditions for me to be able to leave need to exist#and they just Dont right now#I'm not making nearly enough to pay my bills without webtoon#I NEED the job#I dont have a car#I cant fucking afford one#I can't drive anyway#I NEED TO WORK#THIS IS MY JOB#I want to leave I'm being mistreated but I CANT!!!#anyways. whatever#I'm so fucking upset that someone just idk spread misinformation#and now the conversation is about like nooo she was under the same shit conditions as everyone else#she's just a really good writer#like okay that's awesome and I'm really glad#but WOULDNT IT BE NICE IF SHE WASNT ALSO OVERWORKED?#AND ALSO IF GOOD WRITERS WERE ABLE TO WRITE WELL WITHOUT HAVING TO BE OUTLIERS???#god it makes me so so so mad!!!!#fucking ruining a really important conversation to have!!!#we're mistreated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we just are!!!!!!!!!!1#I'm not paid enough to build the savings to take risks!#this 6 month break was EVERYTHING#I NEED to start working to pay my bills now#like it's over I ran out of time#its heartbreaking#I hate it here
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He's watching Ten Things I Hate About You, by the way
#Last Bill#He's really good for artblock doodles for some reason?#Probably since he's just a triangle#But he's also really good for getting better at showing emotion through eyes#gravity falls#book of bill#Sort of I'll tag it anyway#billford#Implied#bill cipher#bill gravity falls#gravity falls bill#Hal.art#🕶🔌#doodle#sketch#the book of bill
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why is there such a big thing in dw fandom that people think the companion needs to be relatable to the audience. do u not sometimes want to see someone in completely different circumstances/with different traits and flaws to u. personally i would find it incredibly boring if i could relate to every single companion
#i mean they function as the audience surrogate sure but u dont need that 100% of the time#‘why are they always the most special person in the universe’ first of all most of the time that is not true#but also because it makes a good story if theres mystery behind them and they do cool shit????#and like. people can and do relate to amy/clara/river#i personally dont really relate to any of them except bill#doctor who#this is another v rtd brained take i think#mine
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i actually have confirmation that this is the silliest guy ever shown on television trust
#collecting bill/bipper images because im looking to change my pfp on tiktok/discord#and because i think theyre a good thing to have in general#i say it a lot but that first one is my favorite image in existence#its the embodiment of !!!!!!#gravity falls#bill cipher#bipper#i do also really like the second one#hes approaching..!#anyways
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Cannot believe that 'access to quality art and writing made by other people is a luxury not a right, and artists and writers deserve to be compensated for their labour, because as much as I believe in the ethos of UBI, we live in a post-capitalist hellscape, and creators need to eat' is a controversial opinion in Leftist spaces.
#'if you are consuming the product of someone's labour you should compensate them fairly for it for as long as we live in this shitty#capitalist world' should not be a polarising stance#but apparently the leftist praxis leaves people's brains when you remind them that artists and creatives also need money and food#and that idealism does not pay the bills#anyway. I am anti-pirating from indie creators (which. authors are.) AND anti-AI. until we have good UBI. Then you can go nuts#but until that day saying 'it's okay to steal wages from creatives' is really not a great leftie look lmao#We Live In A Shitty Capitalist Society and the way to combat that is. surprisingly. not to take other people's livelihoods.#work towards UBI. We should all be doing this. But in the meantime don't shit on fellow poor people scraping a survival#it's really that simple
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UMM?? GUYS??
Alt coz ik the quality is bad::
[The mind Bill knows best. Pure ego. Putty in Bill's hands. Bill will also reveal that, while he was possessing Ford in the 80's, he ripped out a number of pages from Ford's journal and erased his memory of them. Bill will show the LOST PAGES from JOURNAL 3 that have never before been seen]
DOES ANYONE WANNA TALK ABOUT THE MEMORY ERASE THINGY COZ IM GOING PRETTY MUCH INSANE OVER THIS INFO. WHAT.
#ok but imagine if this is really what coulda happened. that bill suddenly realised that ford is the only one he's been THAT vulnerable with#and that he might or might not have fallen for him in the process#and in the pure NEED to avoid any sentimentality he doesn't only DENIES all that happened between them but also erases the memories of ford#like?? the first and only relationship he ever felt safe in enough to be honest about the reality of what happened to euclydia??#or the fact that it might or might not has been the only relationship in which he let himself be intimate with sb??#and this relationship CRUMBLING COMPLETELY#bill fumbling SO BAD that he wants to deny that any of that happened in the first place??#it kinda eliminates his manipulation of “hey look so we've been close w each other once so why not get back to that for old time's sake!”#but GOOD GOLLY this guy sucksss at manipulations anyway but is like an expert in the art of denies#it just adds such a huge ass layer to him as a character#this is prolly non canon btw but STILL#gravity falls#bill cipher#stanford pines#billford#book of bill#alex hirsch
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What do you think are Dippers and Bill's favorite ice cream flavor(s)?
Huh, good question. I'm not sure!
Dipper probably has some kinda plain taste like chocolate, but he might be adventurous enough that he prefers pistachio.
Bill, meanwhile - where to start? Eggplant? Liver? Caviar? Tiger Tail? It could be anything weird, but honestly it might be funnier if he's the one who just likes a good vanilla.
#answer#I mean we know he's a fussy eater so it's plausible#Also tiger tail is a mix of orange and licorice#That's a real thing people eat#Why? I do not know#And to be fair - a really good vanilla ice cream is pretty baller#It's just funny if Dipper's the one who's more adventurous there so he can tease Bill about it
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I love how all of the billford AU's are either we're going to fix them and make it wholesome or we're going to make them even more toxic and make this SITUATION EVEN WORSE
#both are good#I love all the sad wet cat pathetic human Bills#i also love all the fucked up Fords just as much#its fun putting them in situations#my own AU (which im TRYING to get outlined) is a fix it fic of sorts but I really love just how fucked up this ship can get#gravity falls#billford
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I know I'm late (I have my copy of the Book of Bill but I've yet to read it bc I've been busy) but BoB basically making BillFord canon in the year of our lord 2024 is so fucking funny and weirdly vindicating bc BACK IN THE DAY!!!! I saw that shit. So many of us saw the way Bill acted around Ford and went, "...he kinda fruity, huh?" and we were MOCKED!!!! SCORNED!!!!!!!! TOLD WE WERE "glorifying abusive relationships" WHEN ACTUALLY, WE SAW THE TRUTH!!!!!!!! 😤😤😤
#bill cipher#book of bill#book of bill spoilers#kinda i guess#also this isn't that deep I just think toxic old man triangle yaoi being HEAVILY IMPLIED as canon is fucking hilarious#tbh I *personally* think Ford is aroace and Bill is... Bill....... so that never would have worked out anyways LMFAO#but Bill being a bitter messy ex is fucking hilarious#Bill really is a little bitch tbh and I love that for him#billford#billford shippers are eating good and I love that for y'all
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so god forbid i’m seen just as an average human being
#bill cipher#andrew kryptos#gravity falls#not gonna tag flatland because it seems too tangentially related but you guys get why i draw their mortal designs grayscale and victorian#for anyone going 'what's going on with baby bill's chest???' that's a victorian scoliosis brace#they're mostly covered by clothes usually but with a low collar you would be able to see parts of it#i usually translate his mild irregularity to scoliosis#just realized there's no full drawing of canon era bill in his stupid used car salesman suit. ah well#just know the jacket has a smilar triangle shape to the jacket he wears in the last flatland era drawing and has triangle buttons#you guys have seen it i posted that design before#a good portion of these drawings is just me going 'hee hee victorian fashion fun.' loved drawing andy's stupid big coat#also-- if you notice there's a jump in bill's clothing quality from the pictures where he's around 8 to the one where he's a teen#that's chuck's doing. he was like 'well if you're going to work in a tailor shop you should look the part >:('#and bought bill a 'uniform' so he had some nicer clothes. bill's folks don't really bother getting him nicer clothes most of the time#but if someone else is paying they won't turn it down and he picked up on that
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gabriella and cricket attack GO [I FORGOT ONE 😭😭😭]
also. whole lot of characters i havent drawn/colored so much yet + some little teen concepts
finished s3 recently it was very good. seasons just keep getting better
Had to come back and edit a lake episode Tilly in
#big city greens#bcg#big city greens fanart#sooo many characters in this one#cricket green#gabriella espinosa#bill green#alice green#nancy green#gloria sato#remy remington#dont love his older design bc its just him but slightly taller idk#andromeda bcg#bcg andromeda#??#kiki kitashima#weezie eastman#kiki bcg#weezie bcg#bc i didnt even know they HAD last names#benny bcg#good lort. ohgh#also wanted to doodle cricket and gab as that one pn2 “can i just punch you in the shoulder really hard” bit but it is soo late rn#some of the first 3 look weird bc i only did like 1 quick sketch and didnt rly try too hard on Anatomy mb#nancy green my lovee#Tilly green#i posted this so late at night i kept forgetting things guys im soo sorry pls enjoy the lame asf bf one
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