#lost journal pages

[siro-cyll]

The Uncharted Mansion

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Once again, Gravity Falls has contradicted my ability to predict its unstable weather patterns. While cataloging several anomalies in the woods miles from my cabin, I became lost in a freak blizzard that I was gravely unprepared for. I had no choice but to seek refuge in the nearest cave and light a fire for warmth. As I tried to stave off the cold, I realized the cave was not made of stone but dense trees frozen in an arch, creating a dark tunnel that stretched beyond the firelight. With the storm raging behind me and my curiosity piqued, I ventured forth to get my mind off the storm. To my astonishment, the long tunnel yawned wide into an extravagant courtyard surrounding a massive decadent mansion that rivals the one owned by the Northwest, only more overgrown. It seems I have stumbled upon: The Uncharted Mansion My amazement at the unmarked domicile aside, I decided I had to take shelter inside until the storm passed. I'm sure whoever resides here wouldn't mind, given the circumstances. I gained entry through a cellar door at the back, and as the exterior suggested, the interior had not been touched for some time. A quick sweep of the place told me I was alone. Each room was fully furnished with furniture covered in dust-covered sheets. Given the eerie yet enchanting atmosphere, I half-expected something to come alive to talk to me as some beast-like prince resident to make himself known. Maybe I'm overthinking this. Chilled to the bone, I lit the hearth in a lavish parlor using some dried wood nearby and settled onto one of the covered fainted couches to take in my surroundings. My mind tumbled with what secrets this place could hold as my excitement grew. I had not found any records of this mansion in my research, but it looked as old as the one owned by Northwest. Surprising no one, my first thought was that this place had to be haunted. Also surprising no one, I had brought my emergency ghost-hunting kit with me. While I has unprepared for such a drastic change in the weather, I'm always prepared for an impromptu ghost hunt! A somber portrait above the hearth caught my eyes as I set up my gear. The profile of a pale young woman with long dark hair holding a barn owl with a bowtie stood out against the black background framed in gold. Engraved at the bottom were the initials "B.B.B." Her initials? Her manner of dress was reminiscent of nobility during the pioneer days. The longer I gazed at her, the more my face warmed at the possibility of making contact with her. Would that count as a girl talking to me if she responded? Ghost girls are still girls, right? Then it occured to me that I had no clue what to say to her. "How's death treating you?" would probably get me slapped. I spent an hour rehearsing and trying to be as charming as possible before starting. After hours of trying to detect any paranormal activity, I concluded that I was getting the literal cold shoulder from "BBB", which was likely given my track record with women, or this place was not haunted despite its atmosphere. Pity. I was hoping I would be able to talk to someone tonight. This place had become quite lonesome once the excitement wore off.

For years now I've wanted to make lost journal pages for Journal 1 and 2, and I've finally started! With @lord-rosenth0rne's help, we've started here, at Thorne's mansion! We had a lot of fun with this, messing with codes, and even throwing in a cameo of my oc, Riddell.

We want to keep exploring Ford's journals, along with my Tumble in Time continuity. Thorne is a fruit bat vampire who ends up being roommates with Orion, and these pages happen before Orion comes crashing into Ford's life.

If you want to take a blacklight to it, check out the read more~

No Ford blacklight commentary here, it's all Bill for some reason...

[acquagalaxies]

I love how we're concorderly obsessed with that line from the book "one thing led to another"

"so grunkle ford how do you know bill?"

"... that's not important."

[jackyjackdraws]

"No way! I like sweaters and writing in my diary too!"

[mushiver]

Ford woke up from a nog-coma and dropped his snow globe from Fiddleford

You're telling me he fell asleep holding the snow globe from Fiddleford .........

[peitalo]

i need some of you (most of you) to reread book of bill with the understanding that every word is a lie before regarding anything as true i thought that was a given evidently not

why would bill cipher’s autobiography not be biased and warped to his own tongue. hello

[h1yac1nth]

“I’m yours to have and to hold

Darling you’ve got full control of your puppet”

version without cipher text under the cut :)

[creepst-crypt]

I’ve spent an embarrassing amount of time on the website trying to find more codes😭

Website page>

[frootbyethefoot]

every new piece of information i learn about the book of bill makes me feel like this

[bugsinshoes]

FIDDAUTHOR NATION HOW ARE WE FEELING 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️

[mbat]

and thinking about the difference between bill and fiddleford when it comes to fords hands and fords 'genius'

bill makes fords polydactyly a focal point, something impossible to ignore. he tells ford that he'll fit right in with bills band of "freaks" all because his hands are a little different than other humans. he never lets him forget it, even if he says it as something to be proud of, but he and everyone else knows that ford kinda never stopped holding onto the insecurity that was associated with this trait. bill also never let ford forget his smarts, he played into the what ford always wanted to hear about his smarts, but fords brain was only ever a tool to bill. fords hands were (part of) a reason bill wanted to bring him along in his crew, and fords mind was simply a means to an end

and then we have fiddleford who, upon meeting ford for the first time, immediately saw ford as this genius who cared about what he had to say and they connected over their shared love for all that nerd stuff, and it was something that was important to them both and brought them together, and kept them together

and fiddleford says he didnt even notice, after hours and hours of sitting in a room with ford and them focused on eachother (and math)... he didnt even notice that fords hands were different until afterward, when he was looking at a photo of them both. this thing ford had been forced to worry about his whole life, and it wasnt even a thing to fiddleford.

ford wanted to be known, to be loved, for his brain and what he could do. and, in my opinion, it sometimes feels like he almost wanted to make up for the fact he was different, to prove he wasnt 'less than' because of some difference he was born with, this thing that everyone made such a big deal out of

and between the two biggest people in his life (aside from his brother of course lmao), one focused on and made a big deal out of his difference, and the other didnt even notice it. one saw his genius as a tool, and the other saw it as something amazing and admirable.

hell, if the bit of their conversation in the book of bill when they meet is, well, when they meet and is their first words to eachother... the first name or nickname that bill calls ford is, of course, sixer. and one of the first things fiddleford calls ford... is friend.

and i just feel like it says a lot about those two relationships and him.

[legobiwan]

I need to get this out of my system.

Book of Bill spoilers below, I will not shut up about this.

"Unfazed, F has been making hot cocoa and welding rivets while playing Christmas songs on the radio. (These songs make no sense. Why did Rudolph forgive his tormentors for their mockery of his facial deformity? He should have used his red-hot nose to burn his oppressor's workshop to the ground. A lesson to all!)"

Emphasis mine.

Ford. Stanford. Fordsie. You are starting to sound just a liiiiitle too much like your three-sided "Muse" there, threatening arson as retribution for a perceived slight.

Here's my theory. The Krampus incident seems to take place not too long before the failed Portal test. It really seems like Bill was doing an excellent job of isolating Ford and fostering all those feelings of resentment he held onto for the majority of his life, to the point where Ford advocates for vengeance via fire. (Which sounds a lot like you-know-who).

It's not impossible that if the Portal incident had gone differently - if Fiddleford hadn't accidentally gotten sucked through, revealing Bill's true nature -

Well, given what we see above, it's pretty damn likely Ford would have joined Bill's squad for the apocalypse.

Which is just...wild. We talk about the similarities between Stan and Bill, but I think this book really brings home the staggering mirroring between Ford and Bill, and just how close Ford came to losing himself completely.

[sneaky-snake-907]

TBOB spoilers:

Ford: "There is something so galling about seeing your OWN FACE committing crimes on your own TV!"

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Bill: "WELCOME BACK TO PUPPET HOUR WITH BILL! SAY HI, KIDS! TODAY'S PUPPET IS MY OLD PAL SIXER."

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Poor Ford kinda had his identity stolen twice. After he had stopped Bill from being able to gallivant around in his body, and fell into the portal, Stan used his name to sell fake junk.

[galilelgalileo]

BLOWS DUST OFF-HEY OKAGE BUDDIES WHATS YOUR OPINION ON A FAN SEQUEL? - SPECIFICALLY A COMIC?

Any way I’m working on a fan sequel that takes place 200 years after the original and I really wanted to go a female protag route because I felt like there’s something untapped in such a concept. And also a second legit over powered evil king as well

I’m hoping to get the soup and heart of the series, which it’s tongue and cheek pokes at jrpgs and the roles we play in such games and how I can we do a similar vibe when it comes to both sequels, how a new set of characters act when they have the pressures of the original cast on them and as well as how our new protag is with both our titular evil king and a new king as well. I’ll keep posting the process as I go on!!! Wish me luck!!!!

[dipperpines-kin]

Every Glowing Page in the Special Edition Black Light Journal 3. Thanks to FaithDarlingCrafts on Insta for the video!

Enjoy!

Want the Extra Lost Legends Pages from the Barnes & Noble Edition? They're right here

[dippersguidetotheunexplained]

im just redacting the first section of this dont worry about it

its driving me crazy bc it feels like alex wanted to write something Edgier but was afraid to actually sit with the implications of anything he was saying so we just end up with this weird mix of poorly placed unfunny jokes and horrific accounts of abuse and its just really frustrating to me. i feel like the widespread response to ship billford As A Joke is in part fueled by this tone whiplash i was talking about because its like what do you even do with that. the original work does not even take this seriously for longer than half a page at a time so what incentive do you as a fan have to i guess. like it feels like people read the "he cant take a joke" thing at the end and took it at face value

[slimslamflimflam]

Wait if all the journal 3 pages were restored after Weirdmageddon why does Bill’s book insist there were still missing pages that just conveniently happened to pertain to his incredibly sad backstory and concepts brought up earlier in that same book