#rockabye billy

[candyh0rns]

Idk when Im gonna get over this cartoon

I already rewatched the entire Gravity Falls series aaaand didn't cry this time! The endings are always hard to watch for me especially when Im emotionally attached to a particular cartoon. But this time I have more to explore with it! Still waiting for the book and the website isn't completely solved yet!

Hope we gonna see something more in future, like with pines bros or smth.

Yea Im talking some emotional shit under pic with gay triangle trying rizz up old guy ;p

[moooclipse]

Wanted to try a go at an animation to rockabye billy. Admittedly I haven't read Journal 3 or the Book of Bill, just seen a few bits and pieces ^^'

I didn't have much of an idea for the background for Euclydia and just ended up going with a grid like graphing paper! But then while working on this I had the idea that maybe being in the theraprism reminds Bill of home sometimes with the grid pattern the tiles on the floor and walls create.

[tvb0y]

TW// BADLY DRAWN BLOOD

Rockabye billy

please don’t you cry

it’s not your fault

you have that strange eye

stay safe with mommy

you’ll never fall

well always love you

sharps angles and all

[thesitharts]

The lyric "stay safe with mommy, you'll never fall" feels very specific, like what does that mean in the context of Bill's home dimension?

Could him just falling off of their dimension been a real risk? Losing his grip on reality and falling up into the stars he so admired?

Much to think about.

[hulltry]

My boogily bear

Hehe I listened to Rockabye Billy on repeat

[taco-bee]

Milk in the microwave did a rockabye billy cover and it's sounds awesome

[magnetic-maverick]

Love this so much

[lunaeclips]

If you want to cry because of an interpretation of Bill’ past, be my guest!

[lavenderfursworld]

I have only just discovered milk in the microwave + axie’s cover of rockabye billy and now my life is changed holy this is going on Loop

[t1na1ta1]

Reading appalling posts on twt from a howdie stan after crying over bill and his parents is the unfortunate evening I definitely didn't just have

It's not your fault you have that strange eye ☹️

[candyh0rns]

You murdered us all.

Why did you do it?

Hiii folks some draws I've made while rewatching the series! Still I'm not done with it yet I only finished season 1 :p

Also I did some new design for Bill he looks so △👌

Also there's Ford.

[rainofdauwuand0w0]

Made by milk in the microwave/terminally silly and ft AXIE, rockabye billy, gravity falls fans. Enjoy :)

[thepotatowithahat]

This shit is so good.

Finished!

[wistologic]

i think that for the smallest of seconds— they really did see the stars.

if only for a moment, before everything fell down.

design/flatland ranting vv

seen a lot of ppl drawing bill’s parents as they’d be in the flatland movie, but none for ehlinger’s film!! so i thought id give it a try. i stole the eye design from the movie tho lolol

i think it def more likely they were more similar to the movie, considering it seems euclydia acts as a sidescroller… so when bill tilted it, they all just fell off into the stars as opposed to the gory option of their insides falling out.

personally i like the idea that the film is closer to form though! i love the concept that we, as 3d beings, could see their insides, just as a 4d being could see ours

[oneshotgremlin]

Up and Down

Thoughts on how beings generally perceive their world one spatial dimension lower than the dimensionality of the space they inhabit:

In the flatlands, the way people perceive the world around them is through lines, and so visual receptors HAVE to be on the edges of their shapes

Otherwise by all accounts the person would be effectively blind

So Mrs.Red and Mr.Blue have this strange yellow boy

Who appears to be born with no eyes

(It’s directly in his center, but without tests and doctors nobody can see it)

And for all intents and purposes, the boy is blind

He has to feel his way around buildings and people (in his hand a black cane that his parents bought to aid him)

And he doesn’t know what his parents look like, and only knows them by their voice as they guide him

They love him all the same, regardless

(Meanwhile, he stares up at the infinite expanse of the night sky. But the thing about infinity is that it makes where you stand so infinitesimally tiny in comparison, and no matter how far you run side to side the stars do not move an inch for you. And if they’re all someone sees, the only logical conclusion that can be drawn is that where they are is unspeakably, claustrophobically small)

(It doesn’t matter if the kids at school bully him and the adults look at him with pity and disdain that he can’t even see, because don’t they know how SMALL they are? Don’t they know how small EVERYTHING is?)

And so, with years and years and nowhere else to go, Bill reaches UP

(And no-one else has tried before, because why would they? There is no up or down to conceive, only forwards and backwards and left and right.)

It takes unimaginable amounts of energy to punch a rift into a dimension. In a time and space unmeasurably far away, a six fingered man and his five fingered twin would learn that lesson well

In the flatlands, it’s less of an interdimensional portal looming ominously in a metal room and more of a calculation

l is for length. w is for width. h is for height

And like a computer told to divide by zero, everything falls apart

Did you know that when energetic particles that erupt from the stars collide with a sufficiently nitrogen rich atmosphere, it produces the color blue?

Did you know the only reason the flatlanders didn’t drift off into the freezing cold yet boiling hot void of space, despite not having a planet with the volume and mass needed to produce a gravitational field, is their dimension’s lack of third dimensionality?

Like insects pinned underneath glass, yet the glass protected their corpses from falling apart?

They scream. He cries. He laughs. They die.

It’s an old saying: “When gravity falls and earth becomes sky beware the beast with just one eye”

And when little Billy looks away from the stars, looks down to finally see his tiny, minuscule home

For the first and last time, he sees a blue triangle with a hat, and a red triangle with a bow.

[plogieplogie]

It's a fine song (I would change a few lyrics) but the way she sings it is just so fucking tacky 🤦‍♀️