#the book of Bill

[mikimuun]

bill gets reincarnated!

[1rubydoodles]

based on this tweet:

I know he has great machinery and raccoon illustrations even after insanity but I like to think he just can��t draw people for the life of him

[umboloae]

Bill drawing I've made today! ✨ (Love drawing him in different outfits, he's basically my model at this point)

[hellmandraws]

I just really wanted to draw them in their outfits from that one photo in TBOB. They look so cute/ridiculous. 🤓

[nebulousgaythoughts]

Hey so this is insane

"I suppose I just flew too close to the sun."

[birdskullz]

if u were curious about what i get up to on twitter lol

[cammy-mcspammy]

Some requests of my bill design 😏

I was in such a bad art block att too 😭

[evilgoodguys]

forgot to share this here, Happy Halloween!

[tourmalinenoir]

I've seen how some of yall talk about this man, that shit soundin like Bill on alt accounts

[cheryybutter]

Gravity falls art dump from October.

Kinda sad I lost interest in it so fast, but I blame Mouthwashing and Arcane for that

[kimpuntoexe]

toxic old men yaoi, my human bill design and dead rats as an apology gift

[squidflavoredsoup]

freezing my ASS off

[miize]

Dream about me

[citricacidprince]

Mabel making a shitty doodle of Bill and putting him on the wall of the living room or the kitchen so Bill can look through it and watch just how happy the family is now that he’s gone and stuck in therapy hell or whatever lol

Before you go “Aw, is she trying to include him?” No, this is psychological warfare. She’s hopes Bill wants to tear his arm off in a manic frenzy while watching the Pines Family have another shitty movie night knowing he can’t do jack shit. This can be her petty revenge, as a treat. <3

[pixeltwix]

👁‍🗨Ciphertology & The Dixons👁‍🗨

Sooooo…Emma May’s family was involved in a cult, right? Let me elaborate. As a fellow creative I have been known on many occasions to forget details big and small about my own world, but names? No, names are never something I tend to duplicate unless for a very specific thematic or world building reason. So color me stoked when I was curiously learning about Bill’s cult arc in the 1950’s and found one of his first followers was a young girl with the surname, you guessed it, Dixon!!

Considering Alex Hirsch is very purposeful with things and little hints, while also leaving the audience to figure things out for themselves while he sits back and laughs, I can’t help but feel the surname Dixon is a bit TOO coincidental in this instance. From what we see, Ciphertology and the followers were a mash of a bunch of real life cult references while doing the usual Hirsch thing of filtering Bill into a concept perfectly well.

All in all it’s a very interesting thing, but what I found more interesting were the people involved. Sure you have the puppet leader, Silas Birchtree and a bunch of other out there names, but amongst sits a simple ‘Madeline Dixon’….. Alex Hirsch I’m going to screAM :D

From what we learn, after the cult is forcibly disbanded by the US government and every trace of the town is wiped off of maps and history books, the people are spread throughout the country and given opportunities to start life over again. Not everyone followed that however and some continued to follow the Bill Cipher cult. And honestly I can’t help finding myself bouncing back to the very concept that is-

What if Emma May Dixon grew up in a recovering cult family? What if her family still believed in the cults teachings like some and practiced it in secret at home? And if that is true how am I meant to feel towards the idea that her future husband, Fiddleford McGucket, would become a cult leader himself all because of the very thing that was the foundation of her own cultish upbringing?

Honestly if that’s what Alex was shooting for, I’m calling him a genius cause that’s such a fascinating idea to work with. The concept that Bill has personally affected and rooted himself so deeply into the show and it’s characters that even those we don’t get to see still have dealt with him to some degree.

It just all feels too perfect too. The surname Dixon implies enough, thanks to Alex’s upfront and to the point naming, that Emma May too is a southerner like her husband. Or at the very least she’s in that farmy side of the country. And where did Ciphertology come from? Orchard Lake, Kansas. Madeline Dixon very well could be Emma May’s aunt or older sister considering the cult began in 1952. And assuming Em’s the same age as Fiddleford and the Stan twins then we can assume vaaaaageuly that she’d be born in 1955. Meaning she’d be either growing up in that recovering environment or indoctrinated into it.

We can assume well enough then that she didn’t follow the cults teachings considering she seems well adjusted with her family, living in Palo Alto, but it also kinda reaffirms why she’d be so quick to throw divorce on the table once she sees Fiddleford’s memory wiped condition. That on top of we can only assume his behavior was alarming and erratic and a far cry from the personality of her husband that she was used to (especially when you consider bRO made a homicidal pterodactyl robot because he was so distraught and upset towards the idea of being divorced..like yeah man..that might solidify her decision my guy..)

But if she ever saw the symbol of Bill’s eye or anything in relation to him anywhere in Gravity Falls?? Especially the Society of the Blind eye symbol spray painted all over? After either learning to fear Bill or worship him in her upbringing depending on what their family did after the cult was disbanded? I wouldn’t blame her for high tailing it out of there and worrying for her and her sons life- (Fiddleford..Emma May..I am your biggest fans, but y’all have me bonkers sometimes) But also consider how most ex cult members naturally want to give the very opposite traumatic life that they lived to their child? If Emma May were to see semblances of what she relates to Ciphertology in Gravity Falls, I don’t have a hard time believing she was getting tF out of there for the sake of Tate’s well being & future

In short- hi, I now believe Emma May’s family was in a cult and the very idea of that will ruminate with me for awhile :D But also double hi?? Madeline DIxon looks vaguely similar to how I envisioned and draw my Emma May design? Coincidence, I think nOT :P