#ford on fire

[theredumbrellatheory]

da homie @gas-station-scout has been Haunting me with this ⬆️ image and it drives me Insane so naturally i created this ⬇️ image in response - :3

(also inspired by image below cut + ford in hell w/o text lol)

(if u use this 4 anything consider tagging me, i j love memeing lol - mostly same @ here everywhere else)

[candycatfalls]

bill cmon man this is getting embarrassing

[lunarrosette]

I understand bill cipher bc if I fumbled Stanford pines I’d also start the apocalypse

[skipppppy]

My “what if the rest of the Henchmaniacs could possess people the same way Bill does” idea did numbers on twitter so I’m putting it here for your enjoyment

[mint-fixates]

There's this weird take I've seen floating around on TikTok that Bill doesn't actually care about his family/dimension or Stanford at all; that we're supposed to take everything in TBOB as non-canon basically because he's lying to garner sympathy from reader to make a deal with them. I'm all for having your own interpretations of media, but I just don't think this idea that Bill is a completely heartless unfeeling creature is supported by canon at all. In fact, it kind of feels like the opposite of the point of the book.

Like, yeah, most things Bill says should be taken with a grain of salt because he lies a lot, but he's not actually a very good liar? It's usually pretty easy to clock when he's full of it. But okay, even if we assume every word Bill says while trying to recruit the reader is a lie, there are three major things that this doesn't account for.

Bill is not the only source in the book. The lost Journal 3 pages were written by Stanford, we only know about the interdimensional Taco Bell incident because of an included police transcript, etc.

Even once he's lost any chance of making a deal with the reader to escape, Bill is having a complete breakdown and mentions all the people he so totally doesn't miss for real you guys. Why bother with reverse psychology double-lying for sympathy once his shot at getting the reader on his side is already gone?

Trying to garner the reader's sympathy makes sense to a certain extent, but why go out of his way to make himself look pathetic? Does revealing that he got drunk and cried over his ex in a fast-food drive-through really help his cause if that cause is to convince the reader he's still a powerful being capable of starting the apocalypse again so they can rule with him?

And that's all without even mentioning that, as previously stated, I think the entire point of the book is missed if we're interpreting Bill as having no genuine feelings or attachments. The book ends with Stanford healing from his past by being open about what he went through with his family and accepting their help, while Bill insists he doesn't need anyone and refuses to heal, actively making himself worse in the process. The clear theme imo is that accepting your past and accepting help from people who love you is essential to healing, while denying those things just makes everything worse. If Bill doesn't actually care about his family, his dimension, Stanford, or anything/anyone else, he has no trauma to heal from or regrets to learn from that he's refusing to accept and deal with, and the entire meaning of the book is made moot.

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

Why?

[doctorsiren]

My Halloween costume! Bill Cipher, of course! ( + some progress pics I took this morning while getting ready hehe )

[trianglefans]

Fellas, is it gay to create a shrine to the entity trapped in your computer?

More William 95 au art! Thinking about the concepts of computer rooms and computer desks and how they are similar to shrines.

[shrewisweird]

camping alone

[celestinesky]

[coolthingsguyslike]

[sillyballooncupcake]

[stephreynaart]

Not sure how to put images in asks so here's a screenshot of my receipt in google drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1skq-8rB3TSIlbd8sK9OFDJoPy8NlyZqE/view?usp=sharing My request is Portal Ford, in way over his head (funny and/or angsty). If you'd like me to get more specific I totally can, but I don't really have anything specific in mind, this just seemed like a fun prompt. Thank you for doing this!

He makin friends

I decided to reuse an old drawing I never finished for this.

Thank you so much for donating!

[jellyskink]

Does domesticated ford still have the green college shorts?

He used to

[monstrousmuse]

These are some of my favourite excerpts from the recent Alex Hirsch interview. They are…well…

“Whatever connection that Bill was able to create with Ford where he was able to ring him up at a moment’s notice - pop up in his dream, pop up in his thoughts, possess him, to take over his body to do work - whatever that connection was, was somehow severed or nullified by Ford’s falling into the Nightmare Realm and getting lost.”

…

“Ford disappearing for thirty years is like somebody saying they’re ghosting you and then texting you the next weekend.”

…

“‘Ford’s gonna be back. (…) Oh, we had such a big fight. Oh, Ford’s so mad at me, oohhh…’ (…) A will-they-won’t-they take over the universe relationship. He’s gonna-he’s gonna march off in a huff and he’ll be back, ‘cause we’re- is Ford gonna find anyone else in the Multiverse that strokes his ego as well as Bill does? Is there anybody else that’s gonna make Ford feel aa important as Bill- no, of course not. Ford needs validation, and so Bill knows Ford’s gonna be back eventually. (…) I don’t think that hunt was too aggressive, between Bill and Ford.”

-Alex Hirsch, 2023

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part two

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Ford Probe I, 1979, by Ghia. The first in a series of futuristic Probe concepts has been destroyed in a fire following Monterey Car Week where it had been displayed. First show at the Frankfurt Motor Show, the concept car has been owned for the past 20 years by the Scott Grundfor Company. “It is with utter sadness and a heavy heart that we have lost our 1979 Ford Ghia Probe I Prototype in an accident on the highway late in the day on Sunday after showing the car at the Pebble Beach Concoursd’Elegance,” the company said in a statement. “We are a family oriented company, and it feels like we have lost a member of our family today.”