#blacklight journal 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. 

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[f-imaginings]

For the folks curious about the last chapter, journal 3 blacklight edition gave us that little gem.

[julientel]

I’ve been BITTEN!

[podcastenthusiast]

Oh Bill, trying to recruit new pawns while possessing Ford’s body without his consent.

[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

[456art]

Headcanon that Fidds Sits like Me™

[lydiahosek]

God bless you!

[stariousfalls]

im laughing so hard over 1 and 2

[flo-nelja]

My biased reading of Journal 3...

... as a BillFord shipper.

(contains a few spoilers for the UV version) (contains also a few plot bunnies)

‘My Muse’ page: at this point, Ford’s not sure Bill’s not part of his unconscious mind. He becomes more and more sure of his existence with time.

‘Soothquitos’ page: Yeeeah someone who is good as codes surely couldn’t understand ‘BATCH OUT FOR WILL’. It’s called denial, Ford. Dipper understood their messages instantly. I’m sad soothquitos are not used more in fic. They’re awesome.

‘A Bit of History’ page: His discovery of Bill is listed as an important date. Aww. It’s safe to think he fully believed he was real at this time. And this change of heart mean either Bill giving him physical proof (I like to think he taught him a bit of magic), either a lot of encounters.  

Art hoarded by the Northwest: You’re jealous, Ford. Don’t pretend. (my headcanon is that he stole a lot of his collection from the Northwest)

I really love the UV version. I wonder: how did Ford learn all this? Did Bill brag about all this? Did Ford madly research all of Bill’s appearances in the past, never able to connect them logically before te betrayal? 

Also, do you have headcanons about other historical figures he could have met? My guesses are on Pythagoras (of course), Gerbert d’Aurillac, and I’d like to find someone in the French Revolution, as Bill is very visible on the French declaration of the rights of man.

‘Category 9′ page: “I prefer dreams with my Muse”. Of course you do. ^^

‘The Muse has Spoken’ page: I love how he draws a rising sun out of joy. Aw, Ford. 

‘My assistant’ page: Here is one of the things that intrigue me more. We know Ford has his big shrine to Bill. It’s canon. It’s never mentioned in the Journal. Maybe there were no reasons? Maybe he’s shameful of how he got them? But here, when Fidds talks about the photo of his wife and kid, and Ford mentions his picture of Nikola Tesla, I can’t keep thinking: you have not only this, Ford. You have pyramids on your desks. You have A LOT of pictures of a loved one.

Also, the next page, “Could F really appreciate the complex fates that brought me and my Muse together?”. No, he couldn’t. ^^ He would be right about it. ^^ I wonder when the scene from the show Ford-meditating-with-pyramids is, timeline-wise.

Ford seeing Bill in the sky as a constellation is one of the few things which are very romantic-coded and don’t really make sense as friendship or religion.

‘An Encounter’ page (and the ones following): Really, once I got over the deception that possession wasn’t a usual thing for them, I got to really love this pages. ‘I felt a physical chill’ and “This is a feeling like no other’...

Also, I wonder if part of the hurt Ford feels (the bleeding eye) is due to natural possession, Bill being too much for his body, or if all of it is him being a sado-masochist little shit ‘THANKS FOR LETTING ME BORROW YOUR BODY SIXER ENJOY THE MYSTERY BRUISES’

The ‘My Muse was a monster’ page may be my favorite. It’s not fear for the Universe  yet- that he will show later because he can be quite responsible sometimes - It’s pure emotional devastation.

‘Bill Cipher’ page: First time he uses his name. One of the most shippy too.

The stroke through text ‘Bill has proven himself to be one of the friendliest and most trustworthy individuals that I’ve ever met in my life. What a guy! I honestly couldn’t trust him more. Not evil in any way, Bill is a true gentleman’. It sounds like something he wrote before. But that he didn’t put in the Journal because it was private and useless to science. Somehow I’m quite sure Ford has a big heap of these private pages talking of Bill. (I saw headcanons that Bill wrote it while possessing him, but possession changes the handwriting)

Also, ‘a true gentleman’. Another thing strongly romantic-coded. You don’t say this about your friends or your gods.

‘will seduce you with never-ending flattery’. Yes he did. ^^

‘LIAR MONSTER SNAPPY DRESSER’: still caring about his clothes, Ford?

In the UV version: The part about Bill replacing the word ‘burden’ with ‘sea otter’. Yes, is it hilarious. But I can’t get over how scary it is. So Bill can change things in Ford’s mind, with long lasting effects. He could have entirely destroyed his language centers. What couldn’t he do? Could he replace feelings with other feelings? I smell darkfic. Please write all the darkfic.

‘Hiding places’: Small drawings of Bill. Everywhere. He still can’t stop drawing him, even if he strikes them through later. Also, the UV version of the ‘My Muse’ page. It was post-betrayal, and he took the time to draw a so pretty and threatening Bill.

The UV version makes clear that Bill can possess Ford again, as long as he sleeps. It was never really clear, so, good for ficcing ^^ We have less pre-betrayal possession than I hoped for, but still a lot of potential after.

‘I’m back’ page, UV version: So you love Eurythmics, Ford. I guess you never listened to “Sweet Dreams” the same way after Bill betrayed you. Music fans, do Eurythmics have other songs thatt could be good for a BillFord fanmix and Ford listening to break up songs

‘The Nightmare Realm’ page: One of my favorite sentences is ‘I was so crazed from fatigue and rage that my first impulse was to give myself up to Bill so I could curse him right to his face’.

The very ending: I’m still baffled that it was Dipper who has the idea of destroying all the Bill artefacts. Ford should have destroyed them post-betrayal. Or just after Dipper discovers them, to make sure there’s no more misunderstandings. Or after vanquishing Bill, if he kept them as a reminder of his duty. But really, he would have KEPT them???

Also, I was talking sooner about what Ford never mentions. He never talks about the way Bill tortured him. It can be because the Journal has to be readable by children. He can be because his low self-esteem strikes again and it was too heroic for him to mention. It can be because he can’t even bear thinking about it.

Or it can be because it was MA-rated. We’ll never know. ^^

[haberdashing]

how many people out there have already done the “bill cipher summoning ritual”, i wonder...

[space-owl]

Idk what you all think but that was one of the best parts!

[hereforagoodtimenotasmarttime]

Love that Ford is canonically handsome

JOURNAL 3 BLACKLIGHT EDITION REVEALED! (Part 3)

Oh boy. This is it. The final stretch.

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[ravenatural]

I KNEW IT I FUCKING. KNEW THAT THE PASSWORD TO THE LAPTOP WAS STANFORD

[knicks-knacks]

Help.

[sovonight]

and that’s where ford got his plaid shirt

[podcastenthusiast]

Iconic.