#the two-dimensional dimension

[kismetmoon]

thinking about concepts with exwhylians’ third dimensional forms and / or flatland lines’ intermediate forms when converting from 2D to 3D bodies,,

[ID: five traditional black ink doodles of concepts for Exwhylian lines and shapes from Gravity Falls, all on beige paper backgrounds.

In the first image, an Exwhylian line is shown. It has a thin body shaped like an upside-down tuning fork, with thin pointed feet and a long torso. It also has a long thing tail with a star on the end. It has a star-shaped head with one blank eye. It is stood upright and slighting smiling.

In the first image, it is a line similar to the one in the first image, except is feet are more rounded and it has a raindrop-shaped symbol on the end of its tail. It is standing and tailoring its head to the left. Its feet are held close together and its tail is curled out to the left side.

In the third image, it is a line wearing a large triangular cloak. It has a circular head with a larger blank eye, a small point on top of its head, triangular eyelashes at either side of its head, thicker pointed feet and a plain tail. It is standing facing the viewer with no expression and its tail can be seen peeking out from under its cloak on the right.

In the fourth image, it is a line with a similar body shape to the one shown in the first image, but it has small hooks on its feet. It has the same tail as the line in the second image. Its head is a circle with another circle around it, a sharp point on top and a blank eye. It is posed as though it is hobbling along, titling its head over to the left.

In the fifth image, it shows a line and an isosceles triangle sitting together. The line has a larger circular head with a small eye and a similar body to the above described line. The isosceles has a black body, a long tail with a flame-shaped end, a circular blank eye and stubby legs.

End ID].

[mostlyvoid-partiallyflowers]

The most recent episode of Interview with a Vampire let's us see Lestat's side of the story and see how it compares to Louis' accounting of their relationship. As a result, it reaffirms just how unreliable of a narrator Louis is, but it also further illuminates elements of his character that the director and writers have been playing with since the beginning of the show.

There's this part in the episode where Lestat turns to Louis and apologizes and it's framed with Lestat turned to Louis on one side and Claudia on his other side. They're the angel and devil on Louis' shoulders, but who is the angel and who is the devil? And as my friend said, Armand and Daniel are placed into that same dynamic with Louis later on. We are being asked to decide who to trust, who's telling the truth, who's the good guy, but the fact of unreliability robs us of that decision.

This whole story is about Louis, he's the protagonist, though not the narrator, and he is constantly being pulled in two directions, no matter when or where he is in his story. He's a mind split in two, divided by nature and circumstance. He's vampire and human, owner and owned, father and child, angel and devil. He's both telling the story and being told the story. His history is a story he tells himself, and as we've seen, sometimes that story is not whole.

Louis is the angel who saved Claudia from the fire but he's also the devil who sentenced her to an life of endless torment, the adult trapped in the body of a child. He's the angel who rescued Lestat from his grief and also the devil who abandoned him, who couldn't love him, could only kill and leave him.

He's pulled in two directions, internally and externally at all times and so it's no wonder that he feels the need to confess, first to the priest, then Daniel, and then Daniel again.

He's desperate to be heard, a Black man with power in Jim Crow America who's controlled by his position as someone with a seat at the table but one who will never be considered equal. He doesn't belong to the Black community or the white community, he can't. He acts as a go-between, a bridge, one who is pushed and pulled until he can't take it anymore. He's a fledgling child to an undead father, he's a young queer man discovering his sexual identity with an infinitely experienced partner. He's confessing because he wants to be absolved, that human part of him that was raised Catholic, that child who believed, he wants to be saved. He wants to be seen.

Louis wants to attain a forever life that is morally pure, but he can't. He's been soiled by sin, by "the devil," as he calls Lestat, and he can never be clean again. Deep down, I think he knows this, but he can't stop trying to repent. He tries to self-flagellate by staying with Lestat and then tries to repent by killing him, but can't actually follow through. He follows Claudia to Europe to try and assuage his guilt. He sets himself on fire, attempts to burn himself at the stake, to purify his body, rid himself of the dark gift.

Louis is a man endlessly trying to account for the pain he has caused and he ultimately fails, over and over again, because he can't get rid of what he is. A monster. He's an endlessly hungry monster. He's hungry for love, for respect, for power, for forgiveness, for death. He's a hole that can never be filled. He can never truly acquire any of those things because he will always be punishing himself for wanting and needing them in the first place. He will never truly believe he deserves them and as a result, can't accept them if they are ever offered. He can never be absolved for he has damned himself by accepting the dark gift and thus has tainted himself past the point of saving.

[lesbianalanwake]

Beyond the shadow you settle for, there is a miracle illuminated.

[radarsteddybear]

2D art would be things like drawing, painting, mosaics, stained glass, photography, diamond art, chalk drawings, lettering, etc.

3D art would be things like sculptures, mobiles, dolls, amigurumi, other three-dimensional crochet/knit items, puppets, etc.

Reblog for sample size!

[heretodefyfate]

gosh, seeing people happily discussing about their OCs make me want to show my OCs too but then i realized i still have not make any "official" art of them and their background details are still being worked on

[magpiesbones]

worst thing about being disabled is that now I am fully and completely aware of exactly how much I am worth to everyone I know. And it is not a lot!!

[victorian-leviathan]

I'm not pondering my orb I'm pondering the fact I can't watch 3D movies or even imagine what they're like because I have no concept of depth perception or what the third dimension looks like

Oh People of Tumblr please explain to my little 2D self what a 3D movie is like

[nachtsoklein]

hi, currently thonkin abt kurt bein there to help w the dimensional fuckery of the avengers academy n how seein that made me realize how much in recent years (read, like a decade at least) they've sorta. set aside the whole matter of fact that when kurt teleports it's technically twice, once into the brimstone dimension, second time onto the main plane, hence the smoke n smell ; his transport thru the former is done so quickly & instinctively he's not even consciously aware of Being in that dimension, but he still hops those dimensions & is implied in some instances to be able to target pocket dimensions for his return target, ie bamf outta the main plane n stay out. i just think that typea dimensional fuckery is really cool.

[strangelyregular]

how have analog horror creators not gotten their hands on old geometry videos yet? am I the only one who sees the potential here???

[hershelwidget]

I told you I was gonna do it

Very rough sketches of this silly silly family. I don't think about it enough so this weekend I WILL be thinking about it and my Braincells will just have to DEAL WITH IT

Bonus image

Dime is like a dog toy in the sense you can squish him and he'll squeak and all dogs within a 20 kilometre radius will hear him and charge straight to his location and maul him affectionately

[lolmanthecat]

Unexpected math joke detected. This was a very pleasant surprise.

[kismetmoon]

More exshylians design!!

Very pretty,very beautiful😭

aw, i’m glad that you like them !

i’m definitely going to make more of these guys in the future, they’re so fun to draw. but here’s my first run down on their adapted biology and basic body plan for exploring a new dimension in the meantime :)

[ID: a traditional black ink pen drawing of an Exwhylian line, an original conceptual character from Gravity Falls.

It has a round head with a white eye without a pupil and a small sharp point on top. Its body is black and thin, with no arms and two spindly legs that end in small fat hooks. It also has a thin curved tail.

It is stood facing the viewer directly with its tail behind it. There is text at either side of it. At the top left the text says “no pupil yet. eliminates potential seizures”. At the bottom left it says “adapted long hooked cilia (akin to spider legs) to allow all terrain and anti-gravitational movement”. On the right is says “still retains basic line body plan on top half” and “single extended cilium now acts as a pseudopod and aids in balance”.

End ID].

also i left just the body plan without any text under the cut :

[ID: the same image as above, but with no text. End ID].

[homunculus-argument]

Another worldbuilding application of the "two layer rule": To create a culture while avoiding The Planet Of Hats (the thing where a people only have one thing going for them, like "everyone wears a silly hat"): You only need two hats.

Try picking two random flat culture ideas and combine them, see how they interact. Let's say taking the Proud Warrior Race - people who are all about glory in battle and feats of strength, whose songs and ballads are about heroes in battle and whose education consists of combat and military tactics. Throw in another element: Living in diaspora. Suddenly you've got a whole more interesting dynamic going on - how did a people like this end up cast out of their old native land? How do they feel about it? How do they make a living now - as guards, mercenaries? How do their non-combatants live? Were they always warrior people, or did they become fighters out of necessity to fend for themselves in the lands of strangers? How do the peoples of these lands regard them?

Like I'm not shitting, it's literally that easy. You can avoid writing an one-dimensional culture just by adding another equally flat element, and the third dimension appears on its own just like that. And while one of the features can be location/climate, you can also combine two of those with each other.

Let's take a pretty standard Fantasy Race Biome: The forest people. Their job is the forest. They live there, hunt there, forage there, they have an obnoxious amount of sayings that somehow refer to trees, woods, or forests. Very high chance of being elves. And then a second common stock Fantasy Biome People: The Grim Cold North. Everything is bleak and grim up there. People are hardy and harsh, "frostbite because the climate hates you" and "stabbed because your neighbour hates you" are the most common causes of death. People are either completely humourless or have a horrifyingly dark, morbid sense of humour. They might find it funny that you genuinely can't tell which one.

Now combine them: Grim Cold Bleak Forest People. The summer lasts about 15 minutes and these people know every single type of berry, mushroom and herb that's edible in any fathomable way. You're not sure if they're joking about occasionally resorting to eating tree bark to survive the long dark winter. Not a warrior people, but very skilled in disappearing into the forest and picking off would-be invaders one by one. Once they fuck off into the woods you won't find them unless they want to be found.

You know, Finland.

[milkymars]

Everything we know about Bill Cipher's past so far

His home was called Euclydia and it was entirely two dimensional. ("Flat minds in a flat world with flat dreams.")

Bill was unique among his people because he had a mutation that allowed him to see the third dimension. This can mean that either a) Euclideans don't have eyes and Bill is the only one who had one or b) if they did have eyes, he literally had a third eye.

Bill's parents were most likely named Scalene and Euclid. Entering either of their names into the computer gives the prompt LIFE FORM NOT FOUND. Bill is stated to only draw red and blue triangles in art therapy, so those were probably their appearances.

From the code JUSTFITIN, you get this colour-coded poem:

Rock a bye billy Please don’t you cry It’s not your fault You have that strange eye Stay safe with mommy You’ll never fall And we’ll always love you Sharp angles and all

Bill says that everyone in Euclydia loved him. However, it's more likely that he was feared because of his mutation and talk of a third dimension. Bill has said numerous times that love and fear are the same, and if you enter WELLWELLWELLBEING into the computer:

Bill's parents took him to a doctor to help suppress his vision of the third dimension. This has been discovered through the codes on the silly straw page:

Fussy eater, baby Billy / Wouldn't drink unless it's silly The doctor says three sips a day / Will make the visions go away Eye doctor of a different kind / Who wants to make his patient blind Twisted out of shape after the kill / The ghosts of his family are haunting him still

Bill is responsible for the Euclidean massacre. Reversed audio on the website says that "the sky is on fire", and when Bill talks about liberating his dimension, his eye shows a fiery landscape too. Though he claims to have liberated them both in Weirdmageddon and the transmission with Time Baby, he is regretful and misses home. If you type in EVENHISLIESARELIES, you get a transcript of one of his sessions in the theraprism.

And from the axolotl's poem in Curse of the Time Pirate's Treasure:

When he tells Ford about his home dimension, he says that it was destroyed by a monster. And when Ford says that he could seek out the monster and get revenge on it, Bill replies: "Sixer, it would eat you alive." Bill also says that if he tries to talk about the day Euclydia was destroyed, there's a loud buzzing in his ears and he blacks out for 30 seconds. Still, he tells others that he freed everyone and that they are grateful for it. Until he gets drunk and starts calling out for his mom, asking her where she went...

[neonross]

DREAMCAPTOR AU, FIDDLEFORD REF and lore rambles eheh

Grunke stan and fiddleford in this au run the mystery shack together, stan hosting the oddities and fiddleford running the ''mystical'' part of the attractions-

THERE IS A CLEAR DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE TWO ATTRACTIONS☝️💥💥💥/hj/hj XDD

now, to the nit and gritty of some of their lore, the twins are still visiting their ''great uncle stanford'' with the surprise of another oldie who the twins

mistankenly assume [mabel] they we're married, and the two kind of just wen along with it, and their summer happens-

relatively similar. however, fiddleford himself wasn't much of a fun of this set up, as you ya'll know he has ALL of his sanity and memory intact so he knows all he danger that lurks in gravity falls, but there's also another reason why he'd prefer to keep stans family out

the two have been hunkering down on gravity falls after fords ''leaving'' their dimension, and have been doing all they can to hide their dimensional signature from him, to avoid the possibility of him returning,

they've done all they could, even faking their own deaths so their families won't try to get in their way, stanley still faking his deah here and now fiddleford doing the same, no one knows anythn abt this except them

[crayolamark]

Do you see them too?

☆ TWT • TIKTOK • INSTA ☆

I got lazy near the end, but there's some things I wanted to say about this:

-Scalene's second eye is intentionally hidden behind her hair, to resemble Bill

-The constellations seen in the starry sky near Bill are Ford's favourites as mentioned in TBOB, as well as dipper's birthmark and a shooting star (and the pisces constellation because I'm biased)

-Bill is front facing, while his parents aren't, for obvious reasons

-The "sky" in the background of his parents is gray and empty, also for obvious reasons (representing the state of their dimension and the fact that they cannot see the stars)

-His parents are SUPPOSED to look relatively lifeless, as well as their interactions with each other, to 1) ALSO resemble their deaths and 2) to highlight their two dimensional and simple being

-Scalene is heavily inspired by Lapis (Steven Universe) and Euclid is a carbon copy of Satan (Disenchantment), but many have pointed out that he looks like Spamton and I fw it.. if ur active on twt u probably saw my tweet abt this already

I'm also opening commissions soon!!!! (this time fr.. I hope...), the commission sheet with the prices and all will be on my twt and most likely also tiktok