#silas birchtree

[jesse-pinko]

This fandom is seriously sleeping on Silas Birchtree and Billville there is soooo much to work with there in terms of potential fan content you can tell so many different stories from so many different perspectives there is so much you can run with based on what we’re given it’s so creepy and good!! Tbh I kind of wish Alex hadn’t given us the full story I think it would have made a great spinoff for Gravity Falls’ now grown audience

[crunchieclowniez]

It’s never gonna happen pal

[ewwwwitsmary]

Silas birchtree drawing

Program: procreate

[crazycometspecular]

Silas B. with a C.

[eeriedragone]

he's great to combat artblock, beware though, if you make fun if him he WILL send you his fiercest soldier 🦂

Full page below:

[antonymziie]

something something corpse possessed by a demon. i don't know, i think silas is a pretty swell guy

[sticcmann]

wheres the silas birchtree fanart at. i need it

[ckret2]

I figured it out

[dottyistired]

i'm not seeing any posts about it here yet, but they solved the silas birchtree riddle on reddit and there's some pretty juicy lore! first, entering "paranoid" backwards nets this conspiracy board:

then, from the black letters in the corners of some of the pages people pieced together the code "connect the dots", backwards again, gets a whopping 12 page chapter about the ciphertology cult! it's...something.

so in summary, bill puppeted a guy's corpse, became a cult leader, seemingly married over a hundred people, mass-possessed his followers, tried to get them to build his portal. his lone dissenter was a spinster who made anti-bill chick tracts and started a fire. a waco-style shootout ensued, killing silas' already-rotting corpse a second time in a disturbingly detailed manner. at some point he made some of his followers drink the kool-aid too.

entering the lady's name, emmaline butternubbins, into the computer finally gets you the reward for solving all the riddles: hd wallpapers of various graphics from the book of bill. but frankly this is more interesting and fucked up to me.

(alt text under cut, wip)

[Image 1: A cluttered conspiracy board centered on Bill Cipher. Red string and pins connect various newspaper clippings, photos, drawings and pamphlets.]

[Image 2: A history-book style chapter page. Header "LESSER KNOWN AMERICAN CULTS."

"Have you ever heard of Orchard Lake, Kansas? Chances are you haven't. It was erased from every map, book, and historical record, and the US Government's official position on it is "stop calling us or we'll send a drone to your house." (I learned this the hard way.) But if you drive to the exact latitude and longitude of you'll see bullet casings, faded billboards, and bow ties strewn across the desert sands.

That's because Orchard Lake had another name before it was wiped off the record: BillVille.

CHAPTER 3: BillVille

The First Cult In History That Was Right

FIG A: A tumbillweced

As a historian of esoteric religions, I thought I'd discovered the strangest sects America had yct to offer (see "Chapter 3: Kevin's Gate") but that all changed when I found the following items tucked away in an old trunk in an estate sale on the out- skirts of Bootstrap, Missouri."]

[fallingbecauseofgravity]

bill has a type and it's men with tree last names. Stanford PINES? Silas BIRCHTREE? keep the pokemon professors away from this man

[ikurko]

[lothcat-lothcat-lothwolf-run]

Gravity falls photography study two: electric boogaloo

Note: I did not carve into this tree! I stumbled across it on a hike. Carving into trees hurts them!!

[malumshin]

Pov:

You investigate a cult just to start feeling like you are watched by something.

[clovreat3r]

Made in the Image of Bill

Closeups of the quality gets roasted (just like bills family) ->

[xtreme-cringe-warning]

Ennard vs Cyn vs Bill Cipher, all oiled up. Who’s winning the twerk off??

[eeriedragone]

Bill is my new Muse fr

Song info below

S'i' fosse foco, ardere' il mondo,

s'i' fosse vento, lo tempestarei,

s'i' fosse acqua, i' l'annegherei,

s'i' fosse Dio, mandereil'en profondo.

s'i' fosse papa, sare' allor giocondo,

ché tutti cristïani imbrigherei

s'i' fosse 'mperator, sa' che farei?

A tutti mozzarei lo capo a tondo.

S'i' fosse morte, andarei da mio padre,

s'i' fosse vita, fuggirei da lui:

similemente farìa da mi' madre.

S'i' fosse Cecco, com'i' sono e fui,

torrei le donne giovani e leggiadre:

e vecchie e laide lasserei altrui.

"S'i fosse foco" performed by Fabrizio De André

(S'i' fosse foco, arderei 'l mondo,

s'i' fosse vento, lo tempesterei,

s'i' fosse acqua, i' l'annegherei,

s'i' fosse Dio, mandereil'en profondo.)

This poem was originally written by Cecco Angiolieri, and it is meant to be improper and silly, going against the vaules of the time (at least this is what I found out after 5 min of research haha, and it reminded me of a certain triangle).