#the anti cipher society

[aria-greenhoodie]

“This paper looks to me as if it knew what a vicious influence it had!”

Was reading The Yellow Wallpaper for a class a few weeks ago and thought “woah this is so Abigale Blackwing-core…” so I drew it :3

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Wallpaper design alone under cut ↓ (see how many hidden Bill Ciphers you can find!)

[localcanadiancreature62]

@aria-greenhoodie The gays will reunite.

O'Pimm post epilogue - The former priest spends his days rotting in his cell,with the asylum staff workers not even bothering to interact with him unless to feed him food or give him something to drink as due to his catatonic state he merely just sits there and stares at the wall while repeating "William Lucipher" over and over and over. He just sits on his bed all day while wearing a patient gown,because he literally can't move due to his brain being too fried from the Anti Bill Shooter to control his body. He can't form any coherent thought or remember anything,because his entire brain is repressed and paralyzed from the gun. The Anti Bill Shooter works like the memory gun,except instead of erasing everything and the subject becoming erratic after prolonged use,it represses everything and basically locks away every memory and thought from the subject's consciousness as well as causes the subject to become catatonic and unresponsive,the memories are still there but they can't be accessed. The electricity that Mcgucket used to drive himself insane,was what caused O'Pimm's entire mind to be paralyzed. In fact,O'Pimm isn't even aware of his own condition because his mind is foggy and empty and since he literally can't form any thought,he is sort of unconscious. He is in a vegetative state,a very severe one. There is no hope for the former holy man,as he has been institutionalized for six months ever since that gun was used on him. He will likely stay this way forever. Until his beloved ex-wife Dorothy visited him after getting word about his fate via asking the high priest from the Western Holy Church about his location,the woman discovering that her ex-husband has gone insane and is now in a paralyzed state of catatonia. The doctors told her that her beloved Tinsley is unresponsive and will likely not answer her due to him not remembering anything or being aware of his surroundings,but she still tried to reach out to him as she mourned her beloved husband's former self the one that cared and was a sweet babbling follower of the Lord rather than the abusive grump that he became. She brought pictures of their time together,despite the man not even looking at her while he kept saying the demon's name over and over. Dorothy talked about stories of their relationship and the things they have done together,she told him about the silly times the heartfelt times and the depressive times,she kissed him and hugged him with every visit in order to provoke a reaction. Anything,any feeling or thought from her husband. She only left O'Pimm because of his behavior,but seeing him like this made her immensely regret that decision. Her husband was going through something horrible to the point of using some device on himself and she didn't even try to help. She talked and talked to him,she brought him and fed him his favorite meals,but still. Nothing,no reaction at all. Dorothy was starting to lose hope of regaining O'Pimm's former self,finding that it fruitless to bring back a man that's already gone as she considered on halting her visits. But then one day,when she kissed him,he actually turned to look her way and said her name again for the first time in months. "Dorothy?." "Oh my god. Tinsley!. You're back!" Dorothy exclaims as she cried tears of joy and tightly hugged her husband,the man being a bit disoriented as he just got a few of his memories back while he only started to process who this woman is. It turns out,the visits and constant exposure to his memories from his former life were actually working as the paralysis on his mind caused by the Anti Bill Shooter was wearing off as he started to gain bits and pieces of his memories and thoughts. He just needed something to jumpstart his brain back to normal and a passionate kiss from his ex-wife did the trick. He then got up to hug his wife better but then he almost stumbles as he realized he hasn't moved in literal months,his wife catching him before he fell flat on his face.

The doctors discharge him from the mental institution after doing a few tests regarding his mental state by asking him questions and showing him symbols of things to see if he responds normally,as well as giving him physical therapy in order to get him used to walking and moving his limbs again after whole months of immobility. O'Pimm realizes that in his desire to destroy the creature that ruined his life,he ended up ruining it more with him apparently going into a state of catatonia while leaving his wife to grieve his paralyzed state due to that damn gun he hired his co worker to build. He decides to let go of his triangular chase and cherish his wife instead,choosing to go on with his life rather than destroying it once more with his obsession. He goes back to his job as a holy man of God,and promises himself to NEVER associate with demons or other creatures like William Lucipher ever again lest that nightmare of an experience would happen all over again. With this chapter of his life over,he starts a new one with his wife as they discuss having children and consider adoption,finally being able to live his life normally without that damn triangle in his mind as he didn't see any sign of that beast anywhere. However.. he still has his fellow Anti Cipherites to worry about,and he worries for Thurburt who is still locked in that institution for exposing the truth about William. Perhaps he should pay each of his fellows a visit..

[hkthatgffan]

THE ANTI-CIPHER SOCIETY!

From Alex Hirsch’s Instagram Stories!

[glassclownz]

ah yes, my first day at work will line up perfectly with the secret bill countdown. I don’t know what it means but thank you bill for being so convenient for me!

[supernovamoonlight]

I saw the wonderful anti-cipher society art work and writing of @aria-greenhoodie as well as a piece of art in which Bill Cipher was poorly attempting to flirt with Henry Jekyll from The Glass Scientists made by @spoopybard and came up with the meager outline of an AU. So, it likely takes place before the beginning of the first Volume of The Glass Scientists, but only by a few years at most. Henry Jekyll is approached by Bill Cipher in a way not unlike he approached Stanford Pines. However, Jekyll learned from his encounter with Count Dracula a few years prior to be careful of who he trusts and ultimately ends up having the Society for Arcane Science and Anti-Cipher Society work together. I don't know what happens next or how to write a cohesive storyline however, so that's all I can provide for this AU. I just thought it might be a fun concept if anyone wants to explore it further.

[cipher-containment-blog]

FELLOW ANTI-CIPHER SOCIETY ENJOYER!? HELLS YEAH! Here’s a question: how do you feel about Abigale Blackwing?

HOLY SHIT ITS YOU-- HI!! :D

Oooh yeah Abigale Blackwing!! Crazy early 1900s science woman? Hell yeah!

I know there isn't much on her (or any of the Anti-Cipherites for that matter) in the book, but I just think she's neat. I do love me a woman of science.

I also just gotta say, I love how you just went "Fine.. I'll do it myself" in making anti-cipher society stuff. Your art and backstories (especially for Abigale) are keeping this niche corner of nerds well fed--thank you for your service o7

[father-opimm]

That minging Thurburt made me make this "account" for the "Internet"..

(I finally made an account for the journalist's husband! :D. It's me @localcanadiancreature62!. I made this for @chaseerr0rcode's Anti Cipher Society side blog thing so i could be with them and @aria-greenhoodie loll).

Text for O'Pimm will be like this and text for me will be like this. This is a rp-ish sideblog and asks as well as interactions are highly encouraged. Talk to the grumpy and embittered priest,he won't be too mean :].

TAGS

#those lunatics (posts about the other Anti Cipherites)

#non drinking activities (things that O'Pimm would reblog if he had a tumblr)

#sermons (posts about O'Pimm)

#mod (posts about me,the creator of this blog)

#thurburt (gay ass posts that remind him of his dear the journalist)

#the blasted demon (posts about Bill)

#home (posts about the 1800s that remind him of his home time period)

RULES

• This version of O'Pimm ended up in 2024 after he and Thurburt were testing out Abigale's time machine,and thus they'll be staying here until the inventress manages to pinpoint them both. This explains why the priest has homesickness in a way.

• Don't try to fuck the priest. Don't. Only suggestive-mildly explicit things like being shirtless or dirty talk is fine tho.

• I won't immediately get to your ask! /gen. I have more hyperfixations than these victorian gays and the Anti Cipher Society soo don't get mad when i don't receive it lol.

• O'Pimm won't know what the fuck you're talking about if it's anything related to the modern world. Be patient with him.

• There will be a lot of mentions of drinking here as O'Pimm is known to be an alcohol,be warned.

• My version of him is kindaaa mean so i'm sorry if he ends up coming off as too harsh in responses ^^'.

[localcanadiancreature62]

AUGH. WHY. AUGH HOW DARE YOU REMIND ME OF THIS FACT. FUCK

you know even if billford is what brought me into gravity falls, i should have known that fiddauthor is what i will stay for

I mean, yes billford is great and i love it and it's pure angst and pain (both physical and psychological) and manipulations and agony and everything but. but. fiddleauthor is everything i value in a good ship, its a)friends to lovers. they are great friend and they get each other and they are there for each other. b) BELIEVABLE. the homophobic environment, the desperation, the fiddleford's wedding with a woman he doesn't love, the escape to gravity falls to be with the one man who Understands you. AND ford being "different" in one way, nobody suspected he was "different" in another. and wait, not "different". a FREAK. neither of them can let anyone think they are anything more than friends

and c) (optional, really, but greatly appreciated) they are a scientist and an engineer. i just love science in romance, cant help it

but lets get back to how REALISTIC fiddauthor is. and it has variants. both of them in love and dating and keeping their relationship a secret because letting anyone know is dangerous? yes. neither of them realizing what those feelings are and just enjoyind spending time together with occasional lingering touch or look? or even staying late at night, whispering to no one but moon and a man in front of them how lucky they are to have each other? sure. what about one-sided romance? fidds getting the hots for stanford or ford realizing why he had never been interested in a girl in school - you can have anything. and don't get me started on how sorry i am for fiddleford's wife, because she probably genuinely loves him. she just wants her husband to be home with her and their son, and fiddleford just... can't. that life is not for him and hes too afraid to admit it to himself, let alone emma may.

but then, hooo, then comes little billy. billy who plays with their feelings, fiddlefords in particular, definitely knowing what keeps the man up at night. he teases, he teases so much, he wants to tear them both to shreds and keep ford to himself, all broken and alone. god, if there were any gentle kisses or forehead touches between the scientists before, bill does that he posseses fords body and he and fidds have sex. and its awful. and its good. fiddleford doesn't get to say no, and even if he did, he couldnt say no. not when its ford, or his voice or his hands or his lips. and the funniest part? ford wouldn't remember or KNOW about that. fiddleford of course feels awful, feels like he used his friend, abused his trust, ruined everything. bill, manipulative bitch he is, just messes with their relationship, with fidds mind and ford sense of reality. atta boy.

in conclusion: fiddauthor is beautiful, a piece of art, and billfiddlesford is an upgrade version, special pain edition.

[bijoumikhawal]

Realizing RTD is kind of replicating some of the criticisms there are of men that have two wives

[uno-san]

Bill Cipher Vs. Self-Hatred

Howdy y'all! Today I just wanted to go over some thoughts I had over everybody's favorite triangle that may or may not have occurred to some of you already. Naturally this will contain Book of Bill Spoilers.

To start off our little essay I thought it would be important to first sum up my thoughts on one of Bill's more complicated relationships: Stanford

Now we've all seen his dynamic with Stanford plenty of times in the show but with recent information coming from both the Book of Bill and thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com more light has been shed on the subject from both Bill's perspective and Ford's.

There's more than meets the eye when it comes to dissecting Bill's interactions and thoughts on Stanford, with the ever enlightening "EVEN HIS LIES ARE LIES" making theorists scratch their heads. Within the Book of Bill are these codes and their meanings: hbh grfwru ri d gliihuhqw nlqg/ zkr zdqw wr pdnh klv sdwlhqw eolqg

eye doctor of a different kind/ who wants to make his patient blind

Qeb alzqlo pxvp/ qeobb pfmp x axv/ tfii jxhb qeb sfpflkp/ dl xtxv

The doctor says/ three sips a day/ will make the visions/ go away

Ixvvb hdwhu/ edeb eloob/ zrxogq'w gulqn/ xqohvv lwv vloob

Fussy eater/ baby billy/ wouldn't drink/ unless its silly

As well as:

Finding out that both Stanford and Bill have a genetic mutation that made them Black Sheep suggests the possibility that Bill saw a kinship within Stanford. After all, he did make the offer for Stanford to join him. No doubt being able to sympathize with Stanford's situation yet misreading his motivations, causing the rift in their once savable relationship once Bill's lies were uncovered.

Now I'll admit it was others who came up with this theory in particular, especially when drawing comparisons of how Stanford was treated and how Bill allegedly was for having a strange eye. Stanford, in some form of other, might represent how Bill was before he saw the destruction of his world by his hands. A mere outcast looking for his place in the world. To be believed rather than ridiculed or "fixed".

Self-Hatred

And now we get to the Bill we all know today:

The chaos loving and nightmare inducing three-sided maniac, who may be hiding more insecurities than he ever let on in the show, thanks to the Theraprism.

Someone far more traumatized

Who's had to convince himself to fully be the bastard he is today

But if the theory that Bill had a type of kinship with Stanford thanks to their mutations was true, then wouldn't it be possible that his relationship with someone else might represent the inner struggle with himself?

For you see, the original title of this post was...

Bill Cipher Vs. Stanley Pines

As my own theory is that Stanley Pines is what Bill decided to project his self-hatred on. Nobody can doubt that the two have similar qualities, yet as I read the Book of Bill and thisisnotawebsitedotcom I couldn't help but notice the absolute malice that Bill has for Stanley whenever he's mentioned.

There have been many opponents before that have strived to take Bill down. Whether that was the Shaman, the Anti-Cipher Society, or Time Baby, none of his interactions with them have appeared as vitriol as compared to Stanley.

Not even Stanford has this same reaction, who, by really no contest, was the closest to ever defeating Cipher by himself. Both with the gun that he near successfully killed Bill with and the secret of the barrier of Gravity Falls he refused to give up. Bill didn't even have a real interaction with Stanley until the last episode.

Yet it isn't Stanford that causes Bill to break while he's in the Theraprism. It's Stanley.

"-A resume-inflating, cheap trick loving, past-denying overgrown child protected from failure only by a force field of DENIAL AND shamelessness!"

"Self-pitying"

"Stupid"

"Smug"

"Hack Jokes"

"UNWORTHY"

Now it could be just me, but those are a lot of specific insults to fling somebody's way that you've barely interacted with. Especially if Bill credits the Twin Swap to Stanford entirely as opposed to allowing Stanley the credit.

"STEP RIGHT UP, it's time to play my FAVORITE GAME!! BOOTLEG SIXER over HERE spent a LIFETIME trying to hide his humiliations, BUT I'VE BEEN INSIDE HIS MIND, so NOW they’re ALL YOURS for the low low price of BEING MY NEW PAL! ITS SHOWTIME FOLKS, AND THE ONLY WAY TO LOSE IS TO BE NAMED STANLEY PINES!"

“SHAME:TM - IT'S THE ONE FRIEND WHO NEVER LEAVES!”

This out-of-character hatred doesn't come from the fact that Bill thought Stanley wasn't worthy, it comes from the fact that Bill sees himself in Stan. Who by all means is a lying and conniving screw up. Somebody who let his family down.

This could possibly be proven by the poem Bill had wrote about Stanley:

The whole poem suits my point but I decided to highlight the sections that caught my eye specifically. That when you put into consideration Bill's clear trauma and regret about the Euclidian Massacre, his own words can clearly be flipped back on him.

That he sees himself as a curse and a mistake. A self-made monster. Someone who's left the past behind when the loss of his home is still on his mind.

And what truly gets under Bill's skin about Stanley Pines?

"He got his life and family back.

His big break, it finally came,

Redemption from a life of shame"

Stanley got back what Bill can't.

[aria-greenhoodie]

Abigale Northwest, your wings are clipped and your nest is full. How do you keep your fledgling safe when you cannot fly for yourself?

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Ok so. I have a very specific interpretation of Abigale Blackwing/Northwest and I’ve constructed a whole narrative so I’m going to vomit some bullet points here because I’m CRAZY.

After the conference that got the Anti-Cipher society disbanded and had Thurburt Mudget Waxstaff III institutionalized, Abigale fled the scene for fear of meeting the same fate.

As an unmarried woman with an eccentric personality (and a checkered past according to my own headcanons) she would have been VERY at risk of being institutionalized as well, and mental hospitals in the early 1900s were uh. Definitely not great places to be if you’re a woman (Obviously it’s not great for men either but they did some real heinous shit to women specifically), and Abigale knows that.

While in hiding, a wealthy man by the surname of Northwest finds and approaches her with an offer; he would offer her safety from authorities and mental institutions in exchange for her hand in marriage.

Not seeing another way out, and her paranoia flaring due to still being taunted in her dreams by that damned triangle, she agrees.

She HATES her husband. Fucking DESPISES him. She hates their house, she hates how he refuses to let her tinker and invent in peace, she hates his rules and mannerisms. She is MISERABLE.

The only good thing to come from that man is their son. She ADORES her boy, and desperately wants to keep him safe and well.

Unfortunately Mr. Northwest is a huge piece of shit to both his wife and child so that doesn’t go very well.

Abigale feels trapped. She thought this marriage would cement her freedom from the asylum, but now she just lives in a different type of cage. She’s not sure how much longer she can take this before doing something drastic.

I have a different artpiece about that drastic thing she may or may not have done…. Teehee…. I’ll post it later 😇

Anyway long live Abigale Blackwing I am her biggest and only fan and proud to be

[localcanadiancreature62]

IM FUCKING CRYING. THIS IS LITERALLY SO THEM HELPPPP

The murder-love triangle

(Between Horace, O’Pimm and Thurburt) in a nutshell

[localcanadiancreature62]

Behold,the pathetic copywriter/journalist man. @/aria-greenhoodie Look at him,look at the result of your infection spreading to me.

[breadmate500]

IS ABIGALE BLACKWING A NORTHWEST?

I say yes.

- moves west (Oregon)

- married into an impressive fortune (northwest’s are rich)

- massive mansion (northwest manor)

DID SHE START THE BLIND EYE SOCIETY IN GRAVITY FALLS?

I also say yes.

- she was part of the Anti Cipher Society so I think she moved to gravity falls and built the foundation for The blind eye society (more theories on Abigale coming soon)

[year2000electronics]

i’m thinking about all the different portal-builders and people who partnered up with bill in the book of bill. in general i feel like they can be sorted into two categories:

- part of some sort of group or commune (the aztecs, the anti-cipher association, the salem witches)

- alone, but had some sort of power over people and society or power that could spread to other people (the pharaoh, elias inkwell, the shaman, the wizard)

so bill was able to make impacts on those parts of history and plaster his face in places because of the power and numbers he had access to… and it seems like he sought out powerful people on purpose

ford, meanwhile, summoned HIM, wasn’t sought out, but was able to not only build a portal with just the help of fiddleford (and a few construction workers, depending on who you ask and when), but also, as a loner with absolutely zero sway on society, had an entire basement study’s worth of bill artifacts and hid bill triangles all over his home. this nerdy little outcast is basically running a one-man religion all out on his lonesome here.

i wonder how bill felt about that, y’know, all the artifacts and the cabin decor and stuff. did he find it flattering? was he over it? every object using bill’s visage is a peephole for him, so he says, so i imagine he’s never gonna turn down more opportunities for his face to be everywhere, but he doesn’t seem to get much out of being worshipped as a prospect? i mean, he wants a portal, not to be prayed to. but i wonder if he found just one little guy doing it charming. like, ford is trying to do the work that is typically reserved for entire churches and social gatherings, he’s been walking around with a ritual dagger for 20 minutes trying to figure out what the hell he’s going to do with it. i wonder if that would make bill laugh.

[localcanadiancreature62]

OUGGHHHHH. IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL. So poor man O'Pimm ended up getting fucking prophetic visions as a kid and now he suffers from them 24/7. Man.. ALSO LMAO HIS FOLKS REALLY THOUGHT THAT PROPHETIC VISIONS WERE FROM GOD "hm yes our child constantly gets tormented by visions of the future and various other worlds that's surely perfect priest material" fskdndndns. Also he took up drinking to stop the visions :((. OH IS THAT GAY I SEE?. YESSSS. THURBURT WILL HELP HIM DEAL WITH THE ISSUES™.

@localcanadiancreature62

Still working on my O’Pimm backstory but here’s what I got so far:

Tinsley O’Pimm is a man who from a young age suffered from having visions of the future and of other realities(cliche I know) so his parents sent him to work in the church because surely their son having visions must be an act from God right?

Tinsley has trouble telling the difference from what is reality and what is just another vision because he has them so frequently. So a certain triangle strolls along and offers to help him get relief from these said visions iffff Tinsley could help Bill with a little something Bill is working on. Tinsley…while hesitant, agrees. This turns out to being the worse decision O’Pimm has ever made. It left him, kicked out from the church and being charged for a murder he didn’t commit, O’Pimm finds relief from reality, by drinking.

The same visions that once caused him distress, he now finds relief in them because reality for him currently is terrible.

However once he meets the Anti-Cipher society, Thurburt makes him want to start focusing on the here and now again. Thurburt kinda grounds him.