#pines review

[f-imaginings]

If you've just discovered Billford from the Book of Bill you'll enjoy:

Knowing Me Knowing You on ao3!

If you're looking for fanfic to read that hits on the key dynamics from the Book of Bill, (despite the bulk of the fic existing before the books release) look no further! In the interest of tooting my own horn, to celebrate the new chapter I'd like to recommend a fic inspired by ABBA BABBA's musical back catalogue!

If you read the book of bill and wanted to see more of:

toxic old man yaoi billford

pre-betrayal worshipful billford (plus canon typical gravity falls anomaly research and hijinks)

post betrayal angsty possession billford (with bonus BORD!)

interdimensional cat and mouse portal billford (catch me if you can!)

Stanford getting it on with a triangle (and a human bill pre-betrayal) in many weird and wonderful ways

complex relationship dynamics between Ford, Fiddleford and Bill

Institute of Oddology toxic fidd/author/bill side story

Heist after heist with the henchmaniacs

Ford's portal adventures!

Terrible jokes that will make you laugh anyway!

A power dynamic that levels the playing field (Ford in control) and then decimates the field altogether!

Ford fell first, Bill fell harder!

Fleshed out backstories for the wider cast in Gravity Falls and a story that respects everyone's agency!

A Billford fic that takes a break from the toxic ship to spend a chapter with Stanley pug smuggling in New Mexico

Morally ambiguous Jheselbraum with past connections to Bill

Lottocron 9 and the infinity sided dice (including Ford's trip to the M dimension! Hate that place!!!)

Then you might enjoy this fic! It's just updated, with more chapters on the way, so if you're ready for a journey into mystery, mayhem and mischief, strap yourself in!

*author's disclaimer - Book of Bill DID align exactly with my fanfic and I was not disappointed!

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

for the record my official paleontologist review of Paleo Pines is

it's gorgeous

it's so cute

it's super fun

it takes too long to get into it, the start is just... slow. too slow.

it needs more tutorials/explanations of things in the game, I had to look up waaaaay too much stuff online just to understand certain things

I am once again begging game devs to hire me as a "taxon balancer" because why did we need four dromaeosaurs and not a single alvarezsaur or small running ornithopod/neornithischian thing? why are there no sauropodomorphs at all when plenty would be smaller than the ornithischians and theropods??? why is Wuerhosaurus in the Game at all when it's just Stegosaurus but Later???

I can accept Postosuchus and Desmatosuchus being there (barely, like I love Triassic Weirdos but like... idk, don't call everything a dinosaur then) but Dimetrodon????? Permia isn't even one of the seasons!!! come on!!!

a farming/ranching game without romance??? I don't have to have a pansexual crisis??? hooray!

how dare the number of dinosaurs you can keep happy on your ranch be finite based on dreamstones and not space

I *love* the flavor system and it took me way too long to figure out that favorite treats are based on each individual animal's specific favorite secondary flavor

I want more dinosaurs and more regions

you should be able to befriend animals without necessarily bringing them home (and yes, I know, you can send them to the wilds, but they look so OFFENDED, like... why can't I just make friends)

I'm addicted to this game, send help, I am hopelessly behind on Fossil Novembirb posts and I want to turn in a grant proposal this week

I'm glad I waited till after my big conference to play because of the aforementioned addiction

anyways I finished work for today, off to play some more la la la

[atlsanc]

(🌲📖 💚) GRAVITY FALLS

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Another old pagespread hehe. This is one of my fav cartoons ever, Gravity Falls! I really enjoyed the humor and the mystery within the show. Also I like how long it was despite having 2 seasons. I'm happy that the fandom is rising up again cuz that means I can bring up within irl conversations lol. Anyways enjoy~

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(Yoo why everyone drawing Stanford as a gilf-)

[hkthatgffan]

The Book of Bill was incredible!

I'm gonna save my full thoughts for the video, but I am so happy with how this book ended up being. It was the right amount of fun, clever, weird and Gravity Falls/Bill Cipher like to earn its spot as one of the best GF books ever!

I'm also so glad the book didn't do any massive changes to Bill or give him some emotional story that we as fans already didn't know beyond the Axolotl poem. That was something me and Hana both brought up to Alex in 2023 when we got an early look at the book and I'm glad.

Bill is still the chaotic nightmare that he always has been and always will be. This was a book I'm sure no fan saw coming or even expected...including me. But we are so better off as a fandom now because of it. I am beyond happy that we got it and I hope it's a success!

I'd even dare to say this was better in many ways to Lost Legends. I finished reading this book happier and more loving of Gravity Falls than I did before I read it.

It's a must read book for any fan alongside Journal 3. You won't regret reading it!

100% worth it!

Now to wait till my Barnes and Noble copy arrives!

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

your honor they're everything

[tazmiilly]

[aryesdanger24]

[whocanbelieve]

Book Review: Gravity Falls Lost Legends

Reccomend: 10/10

If you are a gravity falls fan absolutely. If not, probably want to watch the show so everything is clear.

Plot: 10/10

Loved the narration choice, the individual stories, and what it adds to the gravity falls universe.

Art: 10/10

In keeping with the show.

Creativity: 10/10

In keeping with the show, especially like the narration choice.

[daystarvoyage]

Well saw the SPOILER of the book of bill.

(COURTESY OF THE ROUNDTABLE ON YOUTUBE)

hope, everyone enjoy your purchase may I say

All these characters would need guidance counseling after reading the dreamscape page.

Edited Other news

(Pacifica needs therapy,)

Also Yall Owe Mabel an apology!

(and Stanford needs to go on a date.)

[tumblingxelian]

Hello again!

Sorry it took me so long to cover these but they are here now, my reviews and analysis for RWBY Beyond!

[aha-my-villainous-thoughts]

My year in review - brightly coloured, girlishly whimiscal and unbearably horny! 💜💙💚💛🧡❤️💖

Honestly, this year has been an absolute blast. There's been ups and downs, extreme beloved highs and some batshit crazy moments, but I wouldn't trade it for anything. Thank you for the prompts, the tags, the DMs, the collaborations and all of the loved up pirate brainrot a creature could wish for.

Huge shout outs to some of my beloved mutuals - @sherlockig for her endless support and screencaps, @bizarrelittlemew for being the telepathic kinktober collaborator of my dreams, @sugashook for being my dream Ed girl through and through, @palavapeite for just the best tags and hype, @luniak for an incredible RBB collaboration and @mxmollusca for inspiring the most dazzling piece of art I've done this year.

There have been so many incredible moments from this year, and so many of them came from this crew! more huge love to @blakbonnet @caerbannogbunny @serious-goose @blackbeardskneebrace @endevouring-to-surprise @gentlebeard for everything from gifs to fics to full on clowning to keeping each other's boats afloat! I would tag everyone but I don't want to be a giant nuisance but I just wanna say I love you all and can't wait for the insane hiatus hi-jinx for S3!! 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

[hopepaigeturner]

Hope's Review of S3 : Kanthony & Francesca

Note: These are my opinions, that does not make them right, nor am I posturing that they are the only opinion. Very up for discussion with y’all as long as it’s respectful.

Note: I do not stand for hate against any actors/actresses or writers. Please, please, do not send hate to them.

As I said in my past posts:

I loved moments, far more than the writing.

Kanthony:

And this couple is the personification of the above sentence.

I adored every single scene with Kanthony. Anthony my-wife Bridgerton stole my heart. The kiss during the dance. Announcing the baby. Competitive couple goals. My heart melted with how they looked at each other, how intimate they were with one another. Whenever they came on my screen I squealed.

However…I really didn’t rate their arc this season. Do we remember the interview where Simone talked about how this season we were going to get Kate settling into her role as Viscountess? Where did that go?

They bopped in and out without much coherency. I feel as if the writers wanted them for that one scene with Colin re: marital advice in the middle of the season but didn’t have a clear idea for what other scenes they could do. And I do think it was more than just Johnny and Simone’s schedules.

Yes, it was nice for them to take a little extended honeymoon for themselves to have a child when last season was so full of tension and sacrifice. And it is heart swooning that Anthony wants to have the baby in India—but two different excuses to get them off screen? Why not just the one? The key with Kanthony is that they both know they cannot fully shirk their responsibilities—nor if they’re being honest would the pair wish to—but their love story was about finding someone else to share the burdens with. Having them pop off to leave Benedict with it all not once, but twice, seems a bit of a disservice to their characters.

Francesca & John:

I LOVED John and Francesca’s storyline. I loved their courtship; I liked their chemistry and their interactions. The song he got rewritten for her? Swoon.

I liked that Francesca taught Violet some lessons in love, I thought this was one of the more interesting and meatier storylines. I like that Bridgerton is showing us how valid different types of romances are.

I liked that both had to go out of their comfort zones for their love, they needed to be bold. John in asking Francesca to dance at the wedding breakfast, and Francesca standing up to the Queen.

However…the ending got things a bit muddled, especially in the last episode. Francesca and other characters kept pushing the idea that her marriage was her ‘getting it over and done with’, or that her marriage was a way to “escape the family” or have time to find herself. Combined with her reaction at the wedding, it made me doubt Francesca’s intentions with the romance. Was it really because she loved him?

A mina contribution around this is that I still don’t know who Francesca is. Unlike other characters, Francesca has not been built up for the last two seasons, tf it was so important that from the get-go we got a clear idea of Francesca’s motivations, her views, her personality. And we got some of it, but I felt like it got a bit muddled because they immediately got her together with John. I would have loved this season to be a season of us finding out who Francesca is before she is linked with another person.

However, I'm not really peeved or worried about all of this. Whether Francesca is a lesbian, or whether her marriage with John is one that does not have much sexual desire—does not negate her deep love for him. It's just in the next season/s the writers need to show the deep love. I would also find it refreshing to have a couple that deeply love each other without the need for sex. Especially in our very sex-driven culture.

On the topic of Francesca and John…

Franchaela

I was gobsmacked when I saw Michaela come in. I literally paused the show and had to take a moment. Afterwards, (while it did take me a minute to put aside my love for Michael Stirling and sigh a little mournfully for some of the storylines we won’t see), my brain then did a 180 and has now gone down a rabbit hole around this new dynamic/story. I just hope that the writers can do it justice.

Also, I think I saw a comment in an interview about how its really cool they’re going to show a ‘happy queer love story’ on Bridgerton. And all I was thinking is how When He Was Wicked is the most angstiest book in the entire season--but at least we’ll still get a HEA.

Also, I know a lot of people are annoyed about Francesca’s reaction to Michaela, and I think that can be taken multiple ways. I saw a post (apologies I can’t find it otherwise I would credit you) that pointed out that for non-book readers, they would have no idea the purpose/significance of Michaela without some obvious moment like we saw. They might have just assumed she would be a friend for Eloise. Personally, at the first watching I was a little disappointed because it piled on top of other moments in the episode that seemed to undermine Francesca and John’s relationship. But again, it will be very easy for the writers to show the love between John and Francesca in future season so I’m not too worried about this.

But do you know what we do get now…

We get the BPSC=, otherwise known as the Bridgerton Pining Society. Est. 1817.

President: Sophie Beckett.

Vic President: Michaela Stirling.

Honorary member: Benedict Bridgerton

I mean, did you see how fast Michaela's smile dropped upon learning that Francesca is a Kilmartin?

[softpine]

caroline must have been so sick when insidious came out

[alphamalereviewsfanfics]

CAN YOU TASTE MY LUST? CAN YOU FEEL MY SIN? By Heartofhubris

SUMMARY: “But, the issue had arisen during your nights when he filtered into your dreams. Nights of imagining him taking you in the pews,laying you out on the dark woodtostrip you bare to his whims.
When you focused back into the Father, you felt your blush travel up to your ears. The thoughts would only offer more confessions, and you didn’t want to add in more sins you had to confess.
“We are all sinners,” Father Ford said.

Enjoy the sacrilege, you damn heathen

Priest Ford AU where he's aware of what he can do and he does it.”

PREGAME: Happy Easter my fellow alphas!!!!! My partner requested this one and I thought it would be silly if I was a bit sacreligious on this holiday because I kinda hate it 😎😎😎 not because of like the religious shit itself but like because the rabbit shit doesn’t compute in my brain and also because of how my family celebrates good ole Easter but what can you do. I’m not catholic, but I was raised pretty non-denominational Christian and I haven’t been to church since I was 10 so like I know nothing about this shit. I’ll take most of my knowledge from watching midnight mass so like if it’s insanely inaccurate to how this catholic shit goes then that’s not on me that’s on the author, who describes themself as “catholicphobic.” Also I only read this twice instead of my usual five times before reviewing so sorry if the review sucks ass that’s just the alpha way though.

REVIEW: When I was younger I desperately wanted to learn latin. I watched this Wes Anderson movie called Rushmore (it was an earlier one so it wasn’t filled with the crazy aesthetics he has now) and I was in love with the idea of taking Latin and going to a Latin club and reviving an almost dead language. It drove me mad and I would try to teach myself Latin with google translate (because duolingo and sites like that weren’t really a thing) and I learned all about the etymology of words in the English language and I was obsessed with it and I would tell everyone what the root of certain words was and it annoyed the shit out of people (especially my sister). Anyways the point of all this is that Latin is not sexy. And it never will be sexy to me. And I don’t know why I was so fucking hung up on the mention of latin because like there aren’t even any latin words in this fic!!!!! It just mentions it!!!! So moral of the story don’t be me. This is pretty well written though bro. The author succeeds with constructing a kinda like repentance vibe in the first few sentences. Like it feels like there’s nothing else to be written besides priest porn. Like that’s the end goal. Even if there wasn’t priest porn in it I would get the vibes of priest porn like just read the first few sentences l think Aw man this’ll either be some good religious horror novel or some killer priest porn. And I respect the hell out of that bro like it got the tone down bro. And like the porn itself is pretty well written like man I’m bewildered that the tone just fit so well bro like I don’t get it I’m baffled bro this is insane!!!!!! Like the porn was so well written bro it has tone and emotion to it you don’t get usually bro trust me. Anyways my partner said they were really into this fic and I gotta support them on that it was well written even if I find the father thing kinda silly but like I don’t know I’ve never tried it. Also priests are silly and I couldn’t see Ford into religion like characterization wise buuut I’m putting the mischaracterization aside because it’s just made for people who want to get off to priest ford pines and I gotta respect that. So if you’re into ford pines and you’re into priest shit this fine Easter Sunday then do some sacrilegious shit and read this fic

RATING: 6/8 fingers (BETA MALE STATUS)

Happy Easter and Ramadan and Passover and death anniversary of Margaret Thatcher my alphas 😎😎💪💪🔥🔥🔥

[hkthatgffan]

NEW VIDEO!!

Journal 3 is arguably one of the most beloved books not just for Gravity Falls, but for any Disney show, period. Despite that though, there are the occasional folks who don't feel the same way and just outright hate it for the most weird reasons.

In this video, we look at the rare 1 star reviews for Journal 3 that are genuinely confusing, yet hilarious!

Here's a few examples...

Yes, they were hilarious to read, lmao.

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Comment :

It's charming beyond words! Just the fic I needed to read today. With a good amount of plot that doesn't overwhelm and emotions that one could easily feel oneself (you know, not too complex to makes you wonder "when did he have time to think about all that?")

Arthur's desolation wasn't paralyzing, his world didn't fall apart because Merlin was gone and that's new among the fics I read, it was good.Yet the emptiness he describes is moving, I don't know if he is denying himself or if he really can't put his finger on what he is and that makes it even better, written in such a real way.

The dialogues, although brief and few, hit the nail on the head.

THE AFTER HE MEETS MORGAUSE IS A MEDIEVAL TALE WRITTEN IN MODERN LANGUAGE (it's a compliment) There is lyricism and rhythm in those lines, there are raw emotions and an evolving psychology. It is a very well constructed point of no return for this narrative.

I loved it!

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Merlin (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin) Characters: god. everyone, WAIT NOT GOD THE CHARACTER GOD LIKE THE EXCLAMATION OMG, god is nowhere near this Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Episode: s02e09 Lady of the Lake, Episode: s02e08 The Sins Of The Father, Merlin Leaves Camelot (Merlin), i dont know if this is angst? happy ending though!, like three quarters of this is just arthur pining lol Series: Part 2 of every way i couldve fixed him (bbc merlin 2.08 sins of the father) Summary:

At night, when the day's been too long and everything too demanding, Arthur lets himself think about how he wants Merlin to come back, just so he can turn him away. How he wants Merlin to come back just so he can yell at him and let him come back, anyway. How he hopes Merlin won't ever come back because he's scared that, if he does, Arthur will skip the yelling and the anger and go straight to relief. To forgiveness.