#idedinsed

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I know you've been posting new chapters of the bill fic on Tumblr (almost) every Friday. But do you have a schedule for posting the revised chapters to AO3?

Right now it's shaky because the first few chapters are getting edited/posted irregularly. Once we settle into a groove (probably after ch 7), I'd like to update weekly on Ao3 too—maybe Friday, maybe Saturday.

But I haven't yet reached the point where I can test that out and see if I can keep up with editing/posting weekly to AO3 while also writing/editing/posting weekly to tumblr. It might be too much for my schedule. If it is, I'll readjust.

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I don't really draw often but the latest episode of the gf fic inspired me

Amazing, 10/10 no notes, exactly what happened in this chapter

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The human brain is only capable of so much and bill has trillions of years worth of memories, so would he be able to fit it all in his human brain?

Debunked pop science. The exact limits of human memory are still being researched and the processes by which old memories are covered up or uncovered are still being studied, but the capacity of the human brain long-term memory is, for all practical/known purposes, unlimited.

tl;dr brains can't fill up.

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Permission to spam u with boops?

(understandable if no)

permission universally granted to anyone who sees this post

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What would the pronouns for a triangle/pyramid be?

I shall not worldbuild an entire alien language that's unintelligible/inaudible to humans at two in the morning. For all we know maybe his language's pronouns weren't gendered.

There are no English pronouns for a triangle because there's no overlap between humanity's gender system and shapes' gender system. To invent English pronouns for triangles would be to try to pluck triangle gender out of its original context and shoehorn it into a system where it doesn't belong. Ultimately, human gender pronouns are, to some extent, defined by where they stand in relation to the big two—female and male—even if where they stand is "in opposition to" or "as far away as possible" or "over yonder acting as if the other two don't matter at all."

Bill's gender doesn't have a relationship to two genders that didn't exist on the world his gender came from. Human pronouns carry no gendered meaning of any relevance to him—except insofar as getting humans to see him this way or that way is useful to manipulate them.

He encourages he/him because human sexism means being seen as vaguely male gives him power. Sometimes when referring to himself in third person he uses it. He doesn't care and doesn't "correct" people who call him anything else because there isn't a correct pronoun set. He doesn't perceive any of our pronouns as triangular.

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The new chapter went extraordinarily hard, I loved every letter and the axolotl was very nice

Thanks! I've been looking forward to the Axolotl reveal for a long time

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If Bill can see the future then how come he didn't know the tooth fairy was gonna try to steal his teeth?

Pay attention to that terminology. I've never said he can predict the future, I've never said he's clairvoyant. I've said he can see the future.

That means visually, with his eyeballs, see it. I cannot emphasize this enough times. He's actually, literally, seeing what is going to happen soon in the area that he's looking at. And just like how vision works for you and me, he has to look at something to see it. Remember this joke?

Mabel grinned evilly, lifted the hose, and sprayed it at Bill's face.

He ducked just in time for the stream to miss his head and knock off his hat. "Ha! You'll have to do better than that, kid! I can see every possible future branching out from this moment—you'll never land a surprise attack on me!"

"You can see the future, but can you see... this?" Mabel yanked on the hose. It pulled taut behind Bill's ankles.

He tripped, yelped, and landed on his back. "No," he said, staring at the sky. "Apparently I can't."

He could see what Mabel was about to do, because he was looking at Mabel. He couldn't see the hose tripping him, because it was behind him—where he wasn't looking.

If a cat's going to walk by his left side in one minute and a dog's going to walk by his right side in one minute, and Bill's looking left, he'll know the cat's coming because he can see it before it gets there, but he won't know about the dog because he didn't look right.

Go back to every single chapter where Bill's seen something happening in the future—7, 19, 27, 28 just for some of the most obvious ones—and that's exactly how his power works.

In addition, humans can only see a limited physical distance before far-off objects are too small to clearly see. Similarly, Bill can only see a limited chronological distance before far-off events are too distant to clearly see.

He wasn't literally looking at the physical place the tooth fairy was going to be when the event was close enough for him to actually see it.

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I've literally been waiting all week for today's chapter, I'm so excited. I'm 100% positive that if Alex Hirsch ever makes another show based in the world of gravity falls you NEED to be a writer on it.

@ Alex if you ever need another writer I'm totally available. I come highly recommended by people on the internet.

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Did you see the film theory on gravity falls and if so what did you think about it?

I assume there have been many theory videos about gravity falls. idk what "the" film theory on gravity falls is and I don't really like theory videos.

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I realized that the next chapter posts today (which is my birthday) very nice birthday present (ik it's unintentional but it's still a nice coincidence)

Lucky coincidence! Happy birthday.

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I know Bill said that a third dimensional being can't handle four dimensions but what would happen if a third dimensional being went into the second dimension, how would a Flatlanders react assuming they're still alive?

Exwhylia.

Or, if you prefer, you can find out how Flatlanders would react by reading Flatland.

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If Shepard tones are music to bill do you think he'd like this? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Ecb43qw98

This is like ASMR to him. This is like ASMR and also that one Fantasia segment that's abstract pretty shapes set to music.

Bill goes "shhh guys guys quiet you're gonna miss the best part" and it's the bit where the sound switches from going pl-bl-bl-pl-fb-lp to going fwoooOOOOO

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Do you think bill would like dreamcore/weirdcore aesthetics/music? also I feel like the chaotic nature of the everywhere at the end of time soundtrack would suit him well. What do you think?

Commenting generally on dreamcore/weirdcore as a person who is aware of what they are and what their goals are but who doesn't personally regularly consume them and so is currently skimming a lot of pictures & playlists to compare to What I Think Bill's Tastes Are:

Look at a bunch of weirdcore and it's pictures of very mundane things in very mundane places, feels kind of like an old Polaroid, but framed (and sometimes added to in photoshop) in such a way to make it seem unsettling or eerie—to humans. Dreamcore is pretty similar except with less unsettling vibes, and more photoshopping of impossible things (ex: skies for floors), to evoke the sense of being in a dream. To humans, weirdcore is Very Strange And Threatening and dreamcore is Very Strange But Nonthreatening. To Bill? I think it would just hit him as "pictures of very mundane things." The things that make these aesthetics eerie and otherworldly to us are just part of his regular life. On a weirdness scale of 1 to 10, Bill considers Earth to be a 2, would probably consider weirdcore/dreamcore a 3, and he starts having fun at a 5.

He's a dream demon, he spends a lot of time inside humans' dreams, he probably sees forty liminal spaces with unseeable doorways that recede into the shadows each week.

To humans, places like that are barely-remembered phantom realms we only experience while vividly hallucinating in the dark at night, and in the waking world we use dreamcore to recapture that sense of unreality and weirdcore to sprinkle on a little dread. But to Bill, that's like, where he does his business transactions with humans. That's his workplace. That's like going to the office. Dreamcore is like human tourists visiting him at work and then going home and trying to make badly-remembered fanart of his office.

I feel like we get a pretty good glimpse of his preferred aesthetics during Weirdmageddon, with the Fearamid, the penthouse, and that ridiculous car—not to mention the mess he made of the town. As far as his aesthetic/artistic preferences go, the vibe I get off him is like... 20% Lisa Frank meets Clive Barker, 30% Hollywood Regency, and 50% the way a teenage boy in the 1990s would decorate his room if he was given a million dollars and no rules. The majority of dreamcore/weirdcore is too subdued, understate, desolate, and beige/pastel to reach his standards.

I can understand the instinct to tack that on him, though. I think weirdcore would love Bill. C'mon, try it out.

It works! It works.

I just don't think Bill would love weirdcore back.

Same goes for the music; to be incredibly reductive of a very loose umbrella term, most dreamcore music sounds like soothing relaxing 60s/70s music, played slow, with some static and an echo effect, and occasionally throw in some vaporwave or retrowave for variety. Weirdcore, pretty similar from what I can tell, but with more electronica and less of the 60s/70s music. Some of the most experimental least-conventionally-musical music might start to edge into "yeah this hits the same as listening to Shepard tones for five hours straight" but I think most of it only sounds like "weird music" to humans, and to Bill would sound like "human music." Nothing we've seen about his musical tastes so far suggest to me that his preferences are "dreamy" rather than, say, "party."

About Everywhere at the End of Time specifically: this thing is six and a half hours long, and I'm not gonna sit and dedicate my full attention to six and a half hours of concept-driven experimental music to figure out whether I think Bill would be into it, so unfortunately I'm only able to give a half-ass answer to this question with a subpar understanding of the thing I'm being asked to comment on.

Based on what Wikipedia tells me the albums are about, I think he'd respect the artistic ambition because he strikes me as the kind of guy who likes to think he's sophisticated as heck and able to Appreciate things that are Deep; and then he'd probably try to comment on how accurate it is—because like, hey, dream demon, he's probably been in and out of the heads of people with Alzheimer's. "He'd respect the artistic ambition" isn't necessarily the same as "he'd like it." I fully think he'd sing the praises of something he hates and/or that bores him to death if he thinks sophisticated people like it. (Alternatively, if he hates something he thinks people think is deep, he might go "it's pretentious and overhyped and if you were HALF as sophisticated as I am you'd be able to see that too." There's no room in his world for admitting "I think it's sophisticated but I don't personally like it.)

Listening to little fifteen-second chunks of the soundtrack on youtube while randomly skipping over several minutes at a time, I think that he'd think the first few stages just sound like normal human music (even as, from our perspective, they get even more staticky & distorted), and wouldn't fully appreciate the way the sound/memory progressively declines in those sections just because he's a little too alien to fully grasp the "wrongness" of it. From stage 4 on it starts to sound like the kind of "noise" I think Bill might register as "good music", a la Shepard tones or tornado sirens; but I'm not about to dedicate enough specific listening to pick out any sections that REALLY strike me as "yeah this is what I think Bill thinks music is," so that's just a preliminary answer. the Caretaker's attempts to represent the melancholy, depression, and confusion of having your mind and memories shut down on you might accidentally sound like a bop to Bill's alien tastes.

[ckret2]

like hell he tips the driver lmao

although having written a long-ass post about aaall the little ways Bill manipulates and controls the Henchmaniacs, I have to admit that even though he's definitely doing all that, he himself isn't actually putting as much thought into it as I am.

like he wasn't CONSCIOUSLY THINKING "if i trick teeth into paying rent he'll never be able to leave." he was thinking "oh that motherfucker has money????? i want money. what's he need money for anyway, i pay all the bills, he owes me for that"

(he doesn't pay any bills, he just scares off anybody who might try to issue them)