#blacklight journal 3 spoilers

[hereforagoodtimenotasmarttime]

Thanks a lot, I wasn’t a gravity falls fan when it released and I’m too broke to deal with scalpers

JOURNAL 3 BLACKLIGHT EDITION REVEALED! (Part 1)

Today’s a special day! Today is not only Father’s Day, but Alex and Ariel Hirsch’s birthday! Let’s celebrate by cracking open your copy of Journal 3, prepping your blacklight and invisible ink pens, and jotting down everything here in the special edition so you can have a copy for yourself without resorting to eBay or shady second-hand Craigslist deals!

I was lucky number 02149 to get a copy of the special edition of Journal 3. Well, lucky as in “I could afford to buy it and pre-ordered it back in March the exact day I heard about it going on sale.” Still, I am PSYCHED to share this with everyone! Admittedly I didn’t take photos of every single page – only the ones with black-light effects that were more than ink spatters. Some I had to take [kinda big] pictures of individually, to be able to read the text properly, and others were multi-page spreads that I couldn’t resist capturing in their beautiful glowy glory.

Of course I’ll be captioning them all for you, in case you can’t download/read them. Also, there’s a few secret codes in here! But did you really expect anything less? Also also, this is a 9 page word document (not counting pics), so I’m splitting it up into 3 parts. Especially considering the size of these pictures. 

Keep reading

[sovonight]

and that’s where ford got his plaid shirt

[novantinuum]

this page is really pretty- probably my favorite

[hollycrowned]

I can imagine Mabel, feeling guilty and afraid for her brother after he was possessed by Bill, drawing this as her way of making light of things. I imagine she would think it’d be nice for Dipper, when he goes back to read her entry later, to be able to lift up Bill’s horrible note and laugh at her drawing. Mabel’s not perfect—no character in GF is—but she’s a good sister, and this is a really sweet moment in the special edition.

[molonara]

Best order to enjoy the series:

Season 1

The Shorts aka season 1.5 (Dipper’s Guide, Mabel’s Guide, Fixin it with Soos, Gravity Falls Public access, shop at home w/mr mystery)

(Optional) Gravity falls Time Pirates book (this just has one secret page with big lore significance that you can look up)

(Optional) Dipper’s and mabel’s guide to mystery and nonstop fun

Season 2 Side A (up to Not What He Seems)

Mcgucket conspiracy corner shorts (Watch after Not What He Seems)

Season 2 Side B (stop before Weirdmagedon) <== Where the ship starts.

‘Pocalypse Preppin shorts (before Weirdmagedon)

Weirdmagedon (end of Season 2) <== Big ship stuff here.

(Optional) look up the cipher hunt, the arg that took place after the series ended.

Journal 3 book (there was a special edition with extra blacklight pages that you can just look up, as getting this edition will be very difficult) <== Ship lore.

Gravity Falls Lost Legends book (they edited slenderman out of later prints)

The Book of Bill <== The man on triangle action is huge here and is the reason why you’re seeing all the billford art rn (big spoilers for rest of series) (There is also a tie-in ARG website that can be found in the book with lots of codes)

Speaking of codes, there were lots hidden throughout the series, but no shame if you just want to look up solutions. This isn’t a full compendium of all the stuff of the series out there, just the most relevant.

Hope this helps.

Compelled to watch Gravity Falls for the sole purpose of finding out how a triangle and human man relationship works

[weirdmageddon]

blacklight journal spoilers

[hntrgurl13]

Adorable Blacklight Journal 3 spoilers under cut!

This is adorable as fuck 

[rum-and-shattered-dreams]

This is in response to the cryptogram on this post from @stariousfalls (Psst.  There’s a more amusing take on this from the talented @doberart here.) I’m just having feelings about this…  I’m imagining that people think he’s incredibly handsome but he can’t fathom it…  And he is oblivious to the idea that they’re probably flirting with him…  There are so many possibilities with this information.   (In case it’s tough to read the thought bubbles say “Are they talking about me?  Do they think I’m a cryptid?  Some sort of were- er… fox?”   (Also did Stan put that bumper sticker on the RV because he heard people calling Ford that?  Was that some sibling rivalry there?)

[456art]

Before you look it up, be warned that it's sort of a blacklight journal 3 spoiler

[inktheblot]

Stanford Pines, post-Weirdmageddon: This is all my fault. I've been such a sea otter on you all.

[thesnadger]

Spoilers for Blacklight Journal 3 in the Three Letters Back cipher:

To me the most painful part of the blacklight edition was wkh klvwrub sdjh. Zkhuh Irug zulwhv grzq doo wkh hadpsohv kh'v irxqg ri shrsoh Eloo xvhg lq wkh sdvw, dqg zkdw kdsshqhg wr wkhp. Kh'v mxvw ohduqhg wkh wuxwk derxw Eloo, kh'v orvlqj vohhs, orvlqj frqwuro ri zkdw'v kdsshqlqj wr klp, hwf. Dqg wkhq kh vwduwv wr uhdolch wkdw wklv kdv kdsshqhg ehiruh, lw'v d fbfoh wkdw nhhsv kdsshqlqj ryhu dqg ryhu dqg dozdbv hqgv zlwk wkh shuvrq zkr khoshg Eloo ehlqj wruphqwhg lqwr lqvdqlwb. Wklqn derxw krz ghvshudwh wkdw pxvw pdnh dq douhdgb ghvshudwh shuvrq.

[hereforagoodtimenotasmarttime]

Love that Ford is canonically handsome

JOURNAL 3 BLACKLIGHT EDITION REVEALED! (Part 3)

Oh boy. This is it. The final stretch.

Keep reading

[standforford]

this is the only thing in journal 3 that matters

[sovonight]

This door is supposed to reveal how you’re going to die! When I opened it, I saw myself getting eaten-- by ANOTHER CURSED DOOR!

local researcher is reminded of his sense of self-preservation, finally leaves cursed doors well alone

[novantinuum]

Ford: "Don't sniff this book the invisible ink is poison" Me: *inhales deeply*

[hollycrowned]

favorite things about the blacklight journal (so far):

I love that the photo of Alex is his twitter icon because it will always always remind me of this.

the little splatters of blacklight ink in random places makes it really feel like Ford was losing it while he was going back through the previous pages, and like he couldn’t always see what he was doing with the invisible ink

the removable pieces! the inclusion of the paper from Irrational Treasure and the “Do You Like Me?” note is. fantastic

Bill’s Shitted On ‘Em List: An Interactive Timeline

I still love the My Muse page the most. I think the blacklight is gorgeous and the stars lighting up is fantastically executed

BIPPER AS A CAT!

“This guy should spend less time reaping and more time at the gym!” jfc Ford the man is dead

that the password to the laptop was “STANFORD” okay, as someone who has experience w using her crush’s names for passwords, I feel u Fiddleford

also related: the “silver fox” line

the last page! deserves it’s own post but can I just talk about how smart it is? like it was clearly very thought out! someone really thought about how the ink absorbs light and how that can be manipulated by the reader! I didn’t know that it was possible to make that page even more bittersweet than it already was, but it really is an incredible addition

the final blacklight illustration closes it with that sense of magic that I think the Bill statue represents (or at least it does for me). Bill is a mascot as much as he is a villain, and he’s a piece of the magic and the mystery and the wonder that is waiting in the woods; that the last blacklight image is of the statue captures that.

I’m not even done looking at the thing, there’s just so much to love