#special edition journal 3

[amethystsoda]

compiled all the bonus video answers for tiktok questions I got about special edition Journal 3 🌲

[uraniumbones]

THE PASSWORD TO MCGUCKETS LAPTOP WAS STANFORD???

Totally normal research partner things.

[greenbunny7]

I've been thinking about how in Scary-Oke they got information to defeat the z-bois from the black light in journal 3

which raises the question, how did Ford learn this information?

Option 1 Ford heard other people singing a three part harmony near a z-boi or

Option 2 Ford himself was in a three part harmony

Which raises a follow-up question, who was Ford signing a three part harmony with? I mean, Fiddleford was probably one of them (if the timeline adds up that is), but that still leaves a mysterious third singer, It couldn't have been Bill because he was still trapped in the nightmare realm. Maybe it was manly Dan? Or lazy Susan? Or Stan

All that to say, I sketched/redrew a frame of Scary-Oke with the mystery trio

I actually found the cannon answer in the special edition of journal 3

A bit anticlimactic (and barbershop quartets are a four part harmony, not three) but I found it so here ya go

[dreamdemonden]

something I’ve been thinking of. possible theory

what if the reason Bill needs to take off his exoskeleton to feed, when it seems that back in Euclydia he could eat just fine, is because he’s a mostly 2D entity interacting with his meals in 3D space. It's incompatible with his biology so he had to find a way around it

wonder if the poor fella found that out the hard way :(

[mortifry]

Since GF is back on the map here is a my fit and pumpkin from Halloween 2014🫡

[lost-in-frog-land]

the book of bill is ruining my sleep schedule and I am going insane. I have to solve these fucking codes right now or I'll explode. I got into that website and now there's a suspicious countdown and I'm more apprehensive about that than my exam results and I am not joking. never have I felt more connected to Gravity Falls. I need to figure out what those numbers mean and which parts of the book are lies and what's going on with the countdown and until I've done all that I cannot sleep. I'm normal I'm normal I'm normal I'm-

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

I have an ambitious idea for a multi-media project

Long: details under cut

Preface:

Adam Savage is known for making meticulous replicas of the Grail Diary from Indiana Jones 3; they're printed on authentic onionskin paper, stitched together and bound with leather like a real old journal would be, stuffed with inserts like folded up drawings, maps, post cards, letters, wax rubbings, tickets from ships and blimps, receipts, to-do lists, photos made to look like they were taken with late 19th/early 20th century cameras, an old silver certificate dollar, Hitler's autograph, you name it. The ten dollar word of the day is "verisimilitude." These super high fidelity replicas are more than just props, they're meant to feel like a real lived-in historical document kept by a globetrotting adventurer from the 1890s to 1930s.

Gravity Falls Journal 3 wanted to be like this, but it's mass market, printed on glossy paper with fake weathering and fonts that look like handwriting. If Adam Savage made a Journal 3 replica, it would look and feel like a real field journal from the 1970s; it would have crinkly yellow pages with mold/water damage, the cover would have brass or gold foil inlays, each entry would be handwritten (and you would be able to tell it wasn't just a font because every letter would have realistic variability in shape and size, there would be a different number of lines per page, the margins would drift, it would be sloppy and illegible in parts)

JJ Abrams published a book that came close to this aesthetic, a nice midway point between the Grail Diary and Journal 3 in terms of quality. A collab with Doug Dorst, the book is sold under the title "S." but once you take it out of its slipcover it's a meta-fictional artifact made to look like an old cloth-bond library copy of a (fictional) novel from the 1940s called The Ship of Theseus by VM Straka. The text of the novel is inconsequential, a dry story about a sailor being Shanghaid onto a pirate crew (it's actually pretty authentic, evoking the feeling of being forced to read an overrated novel for high school English class), but the book is full of faux-handwritten notes in the margins with multiple characters trading it back and forth (with different colored pens used to show the passage of time), telling a whole new story about their attempts to crack the case of the author's mysterious disappearance/death and an academic conspiracy trying to stop them. It is VERY dense. VERY confusing. You have to work out the timeline yourself because each character has annotated the book from start to finish over multiple passes; you'll be flipping back and forth like a choose-your-own-adventure. And the icing on the cake is that there are dozens of inserts stuffed throughout the pages; newspaper clippings, posts cards, a napkin from a fictional university restaurant, old telegrams, folded notes written on loose leaf college-ruled paper, a cipher wheel, etc. It is mass market like Journal 3, but with a much closer attention to detail like Adam Savage's Grail Journals. The inserts are impressive as part of the meta-narrative, but they don't hold up to as much scrutiny. Owning the book is more interesting than the book itself.

My idea

I want to create a boxset for Dracula in which the story is separated out into its constituent parts; Jonathan Harker's illegible shorthand journal, piles and piles of letters between Mina and Lucy and Van Helsing and the suitors (each with their own recognizable handwriting), real playable wax cyllinders with Dr. Sewards voice recordings, the water-damaged journal from the captain of the Demeter, newspaper clippings about the horrible storm and the large dog and "bloofer lady" sightings, and then a big stack of typewriter carbon paper where Mina painstakingly collated it all into the manuscript for the novel itself. The novel claims to be stitched together from a hundred different sources, and this boxset would actually BE the original sources! There would be old 1890s kodak photography, Jonathan's train tickets from across the continent, maps showing the exact paths of the Demeter and Dracula's dirt shipments and the suitors' chase along the rivers back to Transylvania. Lucy and her mother's wills, stationary with Lord Godalming's letterhead, an old rosary, a crucifix, some garlic flowers, lots and lots of communion wafers, Dracula's book of train schedules, and MOST IMPORTANTLY OF ALL the paprika hendl recipe!

Dracula Daily allows us to experience the story chronologically, but I would like to experience it the way the characters themselves would have, piecing together all the disparate clues over the course of 6 months. It would be an enormous and unweidly boxset, like the special edition of a video game.

The framing narrative would be that the box itself used to belong to Bram Stoker. He was a close friend to the Harkers, and they gave him all their first-hand documents so he could eventually publish their story.

I don't even know where I'd start!

[journal-three]

I feel so bad for anyone who doesn't have the Special Edition Journal 3

[hkthatgffan]

Hi! I’ve been a huge fan of your content for a while. Thank you for all of your fun edits and behind the scenes type content!! I wanted to reach out and let you know that I have a copy of the signed special edition Journal 3 blacklight edition (I don’t have it with me atm but I think it’s copy #03258/10,000+prototype) and would be more than happy to lend it or send any pictures/scans if you ever need any for a video (sorry if you already have a copy. I just wanted to throw it out there). I did get it as a birthday gift when I was a lot younger, so I don’t have the original packaging but I have all the notes/additional pieces it came with. Just let me know!

Thank you. :)

[commandernightshade]

journal #3 is done!

or about as done as it'll get! Here's a compilation of all the crap I put in here. Part one!

[hyperfixation-stationn]

I can’t find any scans of the special edition Journal 3 with a high definition look at what’s under the pictures…

What if I… what if I scanned my journal and edited them…. Hahaha…..

Oh

(The editing process)

[amethystsoda]

With the Gravity Falls fandom reawakening this summer, I wanted to do a quick tour of the Journal 3 special edition (with black light!)

[qqweebird]

actually seething bc i just found out how much cooler the limited edition journal 3 is than the standard edition

[bucky-boychik-barnes]

I could ignore housework and instead go to B&N where they have Journal 3 and Book of Bill ready for me to pick up.

Just need to shower and get dressed first and where the fuck is my energy.

[bumpscosity]

bad news is i'm officially broke but good news is

[localcanadiancreature62]

AHAAHHAH THE GLOWING ONES. BILL'S FUCKING CLAW HANDS. THE DRAWINGS. BILL OFFERING A WHOLE ASS UNIVERSE FOR ANYONE WHO FINDS FORD. GOD.

some snippets of bill and ford talking to or referencing each other on journal 3. bill just starts writing stuff on the journal while ford is sleep deprived and high on caffeine

he also scribbles some drawings of himself while ford wants to write his shit in peace

then theres also when they first met on the nightmare realm and bill offered a fucking galaxy to whoever finds sixer first