#fexiled

[muirmarie]

can i request some mckirk for the three sentence fic meme? 👀 wouldn't mind some hurt/comfort if you need a prompt, but you're free to do whatever!

this one got a leetle too long for a tumblr post, so uhhhh here:

Title: told me not to fly too close

Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series

Ship: McCoy/Kirk

Rating/Warnings: T / none

Word Count: 1900 words

Episode tag for The Man Trap

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The salt vampire is dead, and Kirk sits with McCoy in Sickbay as McCoy gets checked out.

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He sits down, bumping his shoulder against McCoy's. Tries to gather his thoughts.

He needs, he thinks, an argument. Something persuasive, and logical, and emotional. Something to convince him to stay. Something to convince him—

He doesn't want to convince him. He wants to go back in time to a few days before, when he didn't have to convince him. When he was the only one who could get McCoy on a five-year deep space mission without any convincing at all, with just a smile, with just a question, with just—

[kurosakismixedbag]

My fifth work for the Ghost Swap exchange over at @fyeahghosttrick is for the prompt: Kamila and Yomiel building a contraption together for @fexiled

I don't know what kind of contraption this is but clearly something that looks like a windmill lol. They'll probably turn it into something bigger down the line, this is just the beginning.

(Ghost Swap prompt 5/6)

[identifying-cars-in-posts]

this is a kei truck appreciation post. little guys of all time :')

here's a couple i've seen around in my state. i think the white one is a honda acty, idk about the other one bc i didn't get to see the make before it drove off (you don't have to ID it unless you want to tho). they're such cute little trucks, i wanna drive one so bad 😭❤️

THANK YOU I LOVE THEM. i saw a suzuki carry yesterday and it literally made my day after a long ass day at work. little pockets of sunshine on wheels. to me

(i think the green one might be a subaru sambar)

[halogalopaghost]

would love to hear about a lesson twice learned! also skin bc good lord that word count 👀

sobbing. weeping, even, because that's not even the most up-to-date wordcount for Skin. I stopped keeping track because I have so much detritus I need to trim off of it, this last chapter is kicking my ass and I've tried no fewer than five ways to write it. Anyway.

A Lesson Twice Learned is about Leonardo Ninja Turtle's PTSD arc. Basically I said to myself "what if that wasn't the first time Leo accidentally hurt his father" and "how does one live with that kind of guilt" and "hey maybe I'd like to make myself sad today" and this fic was half-born because I haven't finished it yet. Unfortunately I don't have any really interesting lines to share from it,, just the concept lfghksg

[quirkle2]

ritsu and/or reigen for character bingo 👀

ritsu left, reigen right <3 did both cuz im ill hope this helps

[nonbinaryaziraphale]

hi this is a random message to tell you that i love your queue tag. just saw it in my notes on one of my text post meme posts and immediately filled in the rest of the quote in my mind 😂 it's one of my fave trek episodes lol :')

OMG THANK YOU <3 <3 😂

[anistarrose]

I'd like to propose a dark horse candidate for the most interesting line in The Book of Bill. And it's this near-unreadable, seemingly one-off joke from the "Skin" page:

[ID: tiny text reading: "Help! This is not Bill Cipher. My name is Grebley Hemberdreck of Zimtrex 5. I'm one of thousands of beings Bill has devoured over trillions of years whose souls are now trapped inside him. You have to free me! It's horrible in here. He just keeps playing the song "Good Vibrations" by Marky Mark on an endless loop. Please, please, this is not a joke! The Zimtrexians were once a proud and mighty people, but now our spirits long for release from this..." End ID.]

Okay, so Bill devours souls who then live out a horrible existence inside him. That's just some typical and expected Bill behavior, right? Nothing to be shocked by? Maybe not, but one thing jumps out at me... and of all things, it's the way that Bill keeps playing that Beach Boys parody (correction provided by @fexalted: no, not in fact a Smiley Smile parody, but a real song!) on loop.

Because in The Book of Bill, there's a recurring motif of characters playing music for a very specific reason: to repel an unwanted presence inside their head. This is what Elias Inkwell, and later Ford, did with the "It's A Small World" parody — they tried to keep Bill out of their brains. Or, metaphorically... to drown out his voice.

[ID: a Journal 3 page with a cassette taped inside. It's titled: "The World Is Small Ever After for Always." Ford writes: "If it's war you want, it's war you'll get! If you want to torture me? I'll torture you back!" End ID.]

That doesn't necessarily mean that Bill finds the voices of devoured souls to be troubling, let alone downright haunting, does it? Well... not quite on its own. But there's a "color" code on the page about TV static that says a lot:

[ID: a code consisting of colorful squares, translated to letters that spell out: "he never sleeps he never dreams but somehow still he hears their screams." End ID] (screenshot courtesy of @fexiled)

The context of the page implies these "screams" come to Bill especially when he listens to TV static, and the broader context of the book implies that these are the screams of his destroyed home dimension, Euclydia. Therefore, not necessarily those of the souls he devoured, from Zimtrex 5 and possibly other dimensions.

Except... do those two things really have to be mutually exclusive?

The beings that Bill devoured were accumulated over "trillions" of years, plural, according to Grebley. In Weirdmageddon 1, Bill claims to have resided in the Nightmare Realm for precisely "one trillion" years. So the "devouring" habit probably extends back even further than his time in the Nightmare Realm...

Enter @acetyzias, pointing out a very conspicuous word — and one of the only uncensored words — from Bill's description of destroying his home dimension:

[ID: the word "mandibles". End ID.]

Oh, and how does Bill describe the "monster" that destroyed his home to Ford, when Ford asks about revenge?

[ID: Journal excerpt reading: "Sixer, it would eat you alive." End ID.]

For a long time, Bill's destruction of his home has been associated with fire, even when the story's told by Bill himself. But through the way the book characterizes Bill's guilt — and characterizes how the consequences of what he's done remain lurking deep inside him — I think The Book of Bill lays out the hints for another motif: devouring.

And, well, when it comes to how Bill destroys things... it wouldn't be without precedent.

[ID: screenshot of Bill in Weirdmageddon 3, taking a bite out of the Earth. End ID.]

[eregyrn-falls-art]

And here it is at last! The Gravity Falls Multi-Artist Lyric Comic tribute to the Stan Twins, "Trouble"!

Stay tuned, as @stariousfalls is working on making all of this into a video version. That will be coming along in the next few weeks!

EDIT: here is the video!

And of course, Happy Birthday to Dipper and Mabel! (Even if this project was Grunkles-centric, Stan and Ford's stories wouldn't have come to such a heart-warming resolution if it wasn't for their niblings. Credit where it's due!)

Some credits and acknowledgements below the read-more:

(I'll have remarks and thanks in another post; but for now, thank you SO MUCH TO EVERYONE who worked on this and made it spectacular!)

CREDITS:

Polaroid Collage One: elishevart, zephrunsimperium, pinkplatiploo, mother-ofthe-universedraws, fordtato, shadeartstuff, creativepup, skysdrawings

I've been a beggar: lemonfodrizzleart

And I've been a king: kingsofjersey

I've been a loner: muria-art

And I've worn the ring: everlight_283 (instagram)

Losing myself: batman-gif

Just to find me again: tazmiilly & gin-juice-tonic

I'm a million miles smarter: eregyrn-falls-art & stephreynaart

But I ain't learned a thing: annakitsun3

I've been a teacher: gobblewanker

And a student of hurt: skysdrawings

I kept my word: orangephoenix6

For whatever that's worth: mother-ofthe-universedraws

Never been last: jackyjackdraws

But I've never been first: jasmine-sketchbook

Oh I may not be the best: stephreynaart

But I'm far from the worst: spectralreplica

Oh I may not be the best: elishevart

But I'm far from the worst: zkyeline

Oh, I've seen trouble: fexiled / fexalted

More than any man should bear: mischieflily

But I've seen enough joy: ginandshattereddreams

I've had more than my share: gin-juice-tonic

And I'm still not done: morcian-draws

I'm only halfway there: jamesfenimoreharper

I'm a million miles ahead of where I'm from: fordtato

But there's still another million miles to come: deerpines, orangephoenix6 & fordtato

Polaroid Collage Two: creativepup, cbmagus49, inkdrawndreamer, bluefrostyy, mother-ofthe-universedraws, fordtato, bewildred-grimsley, shadeartstuff, alphazed

Oh I keep on searching for the City of Gold: vililae

So I'm gonna follow this yellow brick road: cbmagus49

Thinking that maybe it might lead me on: cutebatart

I'm a million miles farther: hellmandraws

And a long way from home: eregyrn-falls-art

I know that there's a plan that goes way beyond mine: possumbreath

Got to step back just to see the design: pottersfieldcustodian

The mind fears the heart: rechoclo

But the heart doesn't mind: novantinuum

Oh I may not be perfect: tazmiilly

But I'm loving this life: hubbabubbagumpop

Oh I may not be perfect: athgalla-arts

But I'm loving this life: thisiswhereidraw

Oh I've seen trouble: purblzart

More than any man should bear: shadowofaghost5

But I've seen enough joy: alextwdgf01 & fordtato

I've had more than my share: dragonsheepstudios

And I'm still not done: acetyzias & stephreynaart

I'm only halfway there: cryptidjeepers

I'm a million miles ahead of where I'm from: chiiroptereh

But there's still another million miles to come: stephreynaart

Polaroids Collage Three: cbmagus49; fordsy; fordtato; puppylove24680; sciencevillain; lemonfodrizzleart; mother-ofthe-universedraws; possumbreath

Polaroids Collage Four: jamesfenimoreharper; gin-juice-tonic; rusted-blue; shadowofaghost5; cutebatart; possumbreath; fordtato; nour386

Polaroids Collage Five: fordtato; pinestwinssimp; tazmiillly; melodramaticwolf; eregyrn-falls-art

[forduary]

Forduary 2025 Themes

The gods of Gravity Falls have blessed us with a set of themes this year!

Thanks to The Book of Bill, there are now four books within the Gravity Falls universe (even if only two actually exist as books in ours) and four books is perfect when applied to four weeks in a month!

So this year's themes are:

Week One: Journal One

Young Researcher Ford at his most excited and enthusiastic point!

Week Two: Journal Two

Dark Wizard Ford uncovering spells and curses!

Week Three: Journal Three

Still some enthusiasm before that descent into obsession and betrayal.

Week Four: The Book of Bill

From muse to monster! Explore the extra details revealed within this cursed tome!

In light of the new content, this year we will allow SFW Bill/Ford content. Please tag it so we can tag it as well and anyone who would like to block it can do so effectively.

Art by @fexiled and @ginandshattereddreams

[dustykneed]

sorry @margottrek you know i just had to do it to em...

i wanted to draw a silly little comic with spock's rolled up sleeves but somewhere along the way it turned into a "can your chinchilla spock hold x" thing brought to you courtesy of the mcspirk discord... anyway feel free to give me more things for spock to hold.

"a small potted cactus" (@kaklord)

"baseball bat with nails in it" (@fexiled)

"that (one) rock from that one tos episode" (fex)

"a cat that is very stretchy" (aka kitty bones) (kak)

"a yellow pikmin" "very pick upable" (kak)

"tiny sword" (margot)

this one isn't anything i just thought it was funny that i somehow missed one in the middle lmao. oough.... adhd...

"quartz stalactite" (left) (fex) "quartz stalagmite because it's different" (right) (kak)

"does the edge of the (dusty's ipad) screen count as a holdable shape" (it does) (kak)

[slowlyvaliantmoon]

maybe they just need to go outside and play in the snow.

maybe I need them to.

Background picture taken by me a couple weeks ago when it snowed :). I saw the woods and it reminded me of a certain Gravity Falls in 1982, and made me think of a certain two Stans who could've bared to have some fun in that snow instead.

I won't lie, this piece by fexiled for whatwouldteslado was in the back of my mind as I came up with this.

[muirmarie]

slams into your askbox, i saw the words timeloop sequel and i need to know more immediately

@thegeminisage

ty both!

if anyone hasn't read the time loop fic (it ends or it doesn't), please don't read the readmore, because it contains extremely big spoilers, and that fic is probably the only fic i've ever written that i'd say this about, but spoilers really do matter here imo.

okay! the time loop fic sequel.

this one i have very little actually written out, because i have other fics i need to finish first, but i still consider it an active wip because i go in it pretty routinely to make notes (so many notes).

this is almost def going to be in the 30k-40k range, though (maybe more, idk, we all know i'm a terrible judge), and it's absolutely on the back burner for now.

The working summary is long lmao, BUT:

Three months after they're rescued from the time loop, Starfleet Command asks the Enterprise to pick up Ambassador Sarek and Amanda Greyson and accompany them to the Arexilian home world. It's clear that Starfleet hopes to leverage the Arexilians' goodwill towards the triumvirate into reopening talks with the Federation, and aren't above using Spock's father to do so. Kirk uses his own leverage to get two weeks shore leave on Vulcan before they leave. But what should be a pleasant shore leave before a pleasant voyage to a pleasant people quickly starts developing snags: another Federation ambassador is coming along for the journey, and it's clear that he has his own axe to grind, Spock's parents have their own opinions about Spock's relationships—both those disclosed to Starfleet and not—and the triumvirate is still dealing with their own fallout from their choices on Arexon-3, as much as they might like to pretend it's behind them. Most importantly of all, Bones has to find a way to make Sarek like him.

They're basically all working through their own trauma, there's elements of Arexilian generational memory that McCoy ends up with due to going into the device some 270-odd times (I've been playing with him having dreams of flying), the other Federation ambassador is trying to get information on what the Arexilians did (both the teleportation, but also, they're beginning to suspect, why/how the sun exploded.....possibly w/ interest on that as a weapon), Sarek & Amanda are both extremely nosy in their own rights, I think Sarek & McCoy end up hostages at one point, Kirk won't admit it but he doesn't exactly trust his CMO right now, Spock can't hear 0900 without checking his wrist to make sure the mark is still there/the loop hasn't restarted...

At its heart it's them navigating the fall-out of what happened, and how actually being in a relationship together works when they're still struggling to remember what normal even feels like.

Plus it's the fact that I really like those purple feathered humanoids, and I think it would be really fun to get to explore them a little more! (like, did you know: they're extremely long-lived! Their lifespan averages about 340-400 years, so despite the fact they'd been on Arexon-3 for 800 years, there were a handful of them who returned to their homeworld whose parents had actually been born there!) Plus the idea of generational memory bleeding into McCoy's dreams means I have an interesting way of exploring it (for me, I mean, it might not be interesting for you, but I'll try lol) rather than just, say, info-dumping.

Plus I just really liked the dynamic I set up between the trio and Larissaya & Iratha - and the idea of the Arexilians and those that stayed on their homeworld (I haven't decided on a name for their homeworld yet) having to adjust to being back on the same planet again? Also very much Interests me. And I'm very, very fond of Iratha. They're my (gender neutral) girl <3

It's also supposed to be for my Planet Vulcan prompt for my bingo card hahaha, although we're maybe a little past that. But they DO go to Vulcan!!!

Part of me thinks that I might split up the shore leave on Vulcan and use it as bookends. Actually, now that I write that here, I'm almost definitely going to do that. Okay, lmao, I'll stop rambling now, if any of you are still with me ilu <33333 tyyyyyy

[gf-seasons-zine]

GF Seasons Zine Contributor Spotlights!

Hey everyone! We have @fexiled as one of our awesome contributors!

Grab your copy of the Gravity Falls Seasons Zine here- the shop is open until November 7!

Stay weird!

The GF Seasons Zine Mod Team

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[tobyig]

Also, can we talk more about the relationship Darth Sion and Meetra Surik (fExile) in KOTOR 2?

You as the exile go to fight him in Trayus Academy and he talks of how much he hates Darth Traya, then says

"I hate you because you crawl within my head as she does, but your presence holds no thoughts, no teachings, you are just… there, unspoken. I hate you because you are beautiful to me. And in that weakness lies death."

Like he watched you throughout the whole game--the beginning when he finds you on the harbinger, then he finds you again on Korriban, and of course the final fight. He has been following you so much. Of course he falls in love.

So many times during the game, especially at the end, it is hinted at/stated that Meetra Surik has an unavoidable call to her through the Force. A part of the very end before you land on Malachor V is debating whether your companions are here with you because they want to be, or because you want them to be.

So yes, of course Sion falls in love. And of course it ends in us killing him. How else could it end?

[caravanlurker]

aaaa here are first two submissions for @fyeahghosttrick 's ghost swap 2024

this one wasn't signed, but whoever prompted Yomiel wearing Pearl's Side Order outfit.... I love you, thank you

and here a small diorama of the aftermath of @fexiled 's prompt, the pets' fateful battle against a Bissel vaccum cleaner.

[stanuary]

Well buckaroos, looks like it's time for this old month of Stanuary to mosey along to greener pastures once more.

Thank you all for participating and keeping the joy of Stanuary alive for its 8th year running! Whether you created something or simply shared your love for others' creations, it wouldn't have been the same without you here. ♥ I'm so happy you all enjoyed the double dose of prompts this year; maybe we'll do it again sometime? 👀

Don't forget to check out @forduary if you're looking to give our boy Ford some love too!

See you next year! ♥

Love,

@fexiled