#cipher mood

[creepst-crypt]

erm he’s right behind me isn’t he

[mistxmood]

goofy aah

(Youtube link!!!)

this was really hella fun acthually yaay! background can be found here

Image description below cut!

(psst you should also check this out)

[Image Description: Mabel is lying down on her front besides her bed in the Mystery Shack. She's wearing a purple headband and skirts, and a mint-colored sweater with a piece of nacho snapped in half and dipped in guacamole on the front of her sweater. She's reading The Book of Bill, which is flipped onto the "Origins" section of the "My Story" chapter.]

[She then says, "Oh, look," and perks up as she starts to pick up the book. She shows it to someone off-screen, focusing their attention on Bill Cipher's baby picture as she gushes, "It's the picture I took of you the first time I ever came here!"]

["Look at you, so young and happy!" The book descends, revealing Bill Cipher sitting opposite of her. He has his arms and legs crossed and looks completely disgruntled. He's wearing his orange jumpsuit and has a jagged crack over his surface that reveals TV static within him. Static also jumps around his form. Mabel, continuing on, bemoans, "Where did the years go?" End image description.]

[oddzo]

Twink death but make it literal

Monster Falls au my beloved

I don’t have a human Bill design so I used that old popular twink design lmao

Below is the photo that started this entire drawing- I had the thought “what if that but monster falls and t-posing?” Then “what if I put Bill in the family guy death pose too?” And now we have this. I love my brain sometimes :]

I’m currently on a trip so no more sculptures for a hot second, sorry bout that :’)

[knockknockwhosthereartistism]

“He goes to a different school I swear!”

[sluug-juice]

Some doodles I did last night! (⁠｡⁠•̀⁠ᴗ⁠-⁠)⁠✧

[krysmcscience]

Saw this post and couldn't resist because,

1.) @tesscourtes' human!Bill is a lil cutie-patootie menace that I very badly wanted to draw, and,

2.) I have a - M I G H T Y - N E E D - for any version of human!Bill to find any way he possibly can to annoy Ford a whole lot :D

Also, 3.) I like to headcanon that Bill's knowledge in The Sciences is mostly limited to 'Ways I Can Make A Really Cool Doomsday Portal', and everything else he knows is just a slapdash mix of the stuff he remembers from whatever schooling he went through on Euclydia, a whole awful lot of lucky guesses (which he WILL gaslight you about if you tell him he's wrong), and - naturally - conning all the rest of the answers he needs out of any more educated saps who are unfortunate enough to be around him at the time (answers which he will then proceed to take credit for), so as far as I'm concerned, this "outfit" is perfect for him.

Ignore the shitty backgrounds, I am sick to death of doing backgrounds, I just want to draw goofy shenanigans, okay???

[bricky-brikson]

Thinking about the "trilion and 12 years old" joke about Bill and thinking about his psychological development after the Euclydia massacre

In the show, we see that while he can plan ahead and manipulate people, he's often foiled by his own impulsiveness/anger/emotions. His ultimate goal is to escape the Nightmare Realm/Dimension 0. And sure, he says this is because he promised the Henchmaniacs he'd help them, but ultimately as others have pointed out, Bill is terrified of death. He wants to live forever - have "a party that never ends with a host who never dies". All he cares about is himself, his own survival and hedonism

All this to say, Bill has the emotional development of a teen. He hasn't gotten past the self-centredness nor the reward/adrenaline seeking behaviour, but has emotionally evolved enough to be able to manipulate people and such (and be able to feel guilt, even if it's just a picogram). Though his immaturity shows when he doesn't get his way.

One might think that, being a trillion years old, he would've developed a bit, but here's the thing - major traumas can "freeze" people at certain developmental stages. We don't know how old Bill was when Euclydia was destroyed - though considering his behaviour I would bet he was a teen.

(Or whatever the equivalent of that stage is for his species. They have exoskeletons- do they have instars then? Whatever, that's not on the topic of this post)

Seeing his entire dimension destroyed after (what was probably) a well-intentioned attempt to show them what he saw ("They'll see. They'll all see.") permanently emotionally stunted him. However it was he got his powers, he was a teen/young adult with powerful abilities who had just erased an entire dimension from existence and was now accountable to no one but himself while also being deeply traumatized. His constant partying and implied substance use were probably the only coping mechanisms he could think of, dissociating because he has no idea how to actually confront what happened. The way he talks about the massacre - he detaches himself from it yet still admits guilt ("A monster."). Only post-divorce does he implicate himself in the event, though still obscuring its true nature ("I liberated them.").

Being surrounded by individuals who are similarly maladjusted for most of his trillion-year lifespan certainly didn't help things. The Henchmaniacs are likely somewhat stunted as well, or at the very least don't offer much in the way of mature/emotionally adult conversation, especially since Bill reacts so poorly (read: homocidally) to any sense of malcontent.

Which is to say, I think part of why Ford was important to Bill was because, compared to him, Ford was more emotionally developed (Ford is emotionally stunted in his own ways, but not as severely as Bill IMO). Subconsciously, their relationship was reaching a hand out to the scared teenager in the centre of Bill's psyche and offering him someone to lean on- someone who had their shit a little bit more figured out. A kind of figure Bill hadn't had since he killed his parents.

Of course, such vulnerability probably felt so alien that Bill tried to distance himself. I always wondered - why didn't Bill just lie to Ford about his plan to take over Dimension 49'\ ? Ford would've believed him, finished the portal, and Bill's plan would've been fulfilled. Well, I think it was Bill trying to burn the emotional bridge. In his own impulsivity, his own desire to dissociate instead of confront, he would rather make sure that he would never be able to be vulnerable to Ford than fulfill his grand plan.

...

I don't remember where I was going with this. There's no conclusion. I'm spinning this triangular multidimensional tyrant at physically impossible speeds in my mind and if I didn't write something about him my skull was going to turn into a fine powder. It's almost 2 AM, so it's entirely possible this post makes 0 sense, in which case feel free to inform me of that in the notes.

[pinkegodeath]

tumblr sexymen but i redrew them as the mouth album covers

textless versions down below

[i-love-fordsy]

if you had to pick one... nacho cheese or cool ranch doritos?

NACHO

Ps: I’m made out of a sugar cookie :)

[rabbitindemun]

I will never get over this fanfic..

here ya' got, some FlatDreams doodles i did, sorry if it's a little confusing, i wasn't in the whole mood to draw, but i was reading the fanfic again * sobbing * and i was CRAVING for drawing a bit of it- (and some little billy drawings because, well, he's my spiritual animal HSHAH) (btw if you have any ideas or recommendations for drawings or minicomics please let me know... I want to draw these beautiful creatures of evil and my mind is DRY-) just in case

[idliketochill]

[book of bill spoilers] Can’t believe he goes to therapy now wtf (and onesided toxic billford exes??? Real shit?????)

Just paying tribute to my roots :))

[mushroomybee]

likes, reblogs, follows appreciated ! 🌟

[mistxmood]

SHES DONE

[blathersthecat]

Imagine if Ford didn't know Bill made him get the 'Flirty Gal' tattoo and the way he found out was when he was about to sleep with Fiddleford and HE noticed it.

Fiddleford would just smirk and be like "Nice tattoo, flirty gal~" and Ford's just like ???!??

[hottreesinurarea]

In another universe I wrote an essay on how a lot of Bill's lore could be interpreted as him desperately trying to find a stable, safe home after the destruction of Euclydia, then created a multi-chaptered fic based on the many "Bill becomes human for redemption arc" aus centered around Gravity Falls and the Pines family becoming his home.

Not this one though.

[nerdy-hyperfixations]

Also as a side note can I say: yes I know Bill is an unreliable narrator. I fucking love reading unreliable narrators, so as someone who loves reading unreliable narrators I wanna mention that "unreliable" doesn't mean "everything they say is a lie" if that was the case, what would the point of even reading it be.

It means read with skepticism and analyze the text to see what might be true and what might not. If an unreliable narrator tells you the door is yellow that doesn't automatically mean the door is actually purple!!! Just be careful of how their warped perception of reality actually distorts the text

So yes. Technically, Bill could be pretending to regret destroying his universe. Technically, the part in Ford's where he grows distant and calls the being that destroyed his universe a monster could be an act, or the entire part of that journal could be fake and made up by Bill. But consider: if the parts were fake why would Bill include the random anecdote of Ford going out in the blizzard that doesn't serve to grow sympathy for him and only proves he was a "bad muse" that didn't help Ford out. Why would he include any of the parts where him and Ford argue at all really? Plus, considering he seems to argue with the account, saying Ford didn't get his humor, lends the idea to me that this is Ford's real, lost journal entries. And if it is, why does Bill keep a dust particle of the last remaining piece of his dimension in his hat for millenniums? Is it more understandable to assume this is the truth at this point than search for radical explanations on how Bill fabricated the events to lie?

There are parts that are obviously fabrications by Bill. Obviously, when he says he "wasn't upset at all" over Sixer, he's lying, and the punch-line is the next page shows an actual account where he's crying. You can tell he was lying because the text shows a different story than what he says. In general, the story is told by a very unreliable narrator and should be read with skepticism. But you should also take in to account when the story is telling the truth.

The book is *supposed* to make you feel bad for him, but that doesn't mean everything he says to make you feel bad for him is absolutely 100% a lie.