GUYS THERE’S ANOTHER FANART FROM CH. 26 @dontjinxit18 drew Bill leaving Stan and it’s marvelous! Check it out!
@sapphosscribe
https://archiveofourown.org/works/58360870/chapters/163920049
First of all, there is an update coming this Sunday for A Human Condition!! I think you’re all going to enjoy it! It’s been a long time coming and I’m excited to roll it out!
Secondly, though this is not strictly Gravity Falls fanfic news, I recently went to help my mum go through her bookshelf and HOO BOY! Did I learn ALOT!
My mother, gentlefolk, the original fanfic girlie, has totaled out with 425 romance books, 45 of which are exclusively time travel tropes, 34 are thruples, 27 are gay/lesbian and an INCREDIBLY SURPRISING 64 of them are supernatural romance featuring either a vampire, werewolf, sea monster, demon, demigod, or shapeshifter.
She has also informed me these are just “the best ones” the others she donated to the library and gave away at book swaps back in the day.
Pic of said books below for reference:
She’s insane and I love her 🥰. She’s the one who turned me into a reader in the first place and inspires me to write everyday.
This has been a brief mother appreciation post.
See you all on Sunday. Your patience has been appreciated! 🥳
It’s here! Thank you for your patience! Editing this took FOREVER, but now it’s here for your reading pleasure. Enjoy! 💖
Not related to the latest chapter, but everytime I see Bill being ignored or mistreated in this fanfic (deserved, but damn) I just want to plug my eyes out like this is too much man. Honestly how the hell this two (Ford and Bill) are even getting together in the end? At this rate one of them is offing the other, I'm pretty much convinced
Not to worry, dear reader, there’s a plan in the works 😉 Some larger plot points are slowly shifting into place.
Summerween is coming…
It’s a meaty one too! Eat up!
Me this week and in the past. Once again, a big ‘thank you’ to all my lovely artists who continue to inspire and delight me 🥰☺️
@knockknockwhosthereartistism @orpheuswasmine @crypt-idkeeper @ilay-snt @fadedkat @raviolireptile
GUYS GUYS GUYS!! @orpheuswasmine’s posters are done and they are magnificent!! There’s also a great character analysis to go with it!! Ahhhhh!!! 😆😆
Expect an update tomorrow. I know you’ve all been patiently waiting 😉🥰
I WAS GOING THROUGH SM BUT HERE THEY ARE !!! Took so long hope you all like them though !!!
This took me a while !!! And I can talk about the Bill vs Billy whole thing now 💀
Basically, how I read a Human Condition, it’s practically this whole dichotomy of Bill vs Billy and no one is aware of it. Believing Bill can change is an act of believing Billy is there, believing Bill can’t change means Billy is dead.
Billy is the root of Bill’s empathy and change, or what Bill would call, the root of his weakness. Bill considers Billy weak and deadweight, something worth forgetting. In the first lines, we ever read from Billy in A Human Condition is, “Just fit in”.
In the beginning of the Billy storyline, he himself in a major contradiction to Bill’s own beliefs and self-worth. Billy is what everyone hopes to achieve in the end, but Billy died the day Bill destroyed their dimension… right? Yes and no 🐺
The remnants live on and begin to crack through ways that Bill has taken notice of, especially when he’s with Mabel. It’s moments where he spends time with Mabel, I picture the hostile face shifting to a more softer and rounder face. Mabel brings out the best in him. Unknowingly the reason Billy returns. It isn’t just Mabel that brings the Billy side out. It could be objects of interest or of fear and even guilt. Objects of interest could be the silly straw or the spaghetti scene from the recent chapter. The fear and guilt of Billy is brought out by Ford when he chokes him out or when Bill wanders into the mind space Ford had locked up.
I have more to say about Billy, but man I gotta talk about Bill because I got so much to say about him.
Bill is a cheat, liar, and other say, a monster through and through. But Bill is simply a manifestation of survival and going against all of that he knew. The line in chapter 27, “Yes. I’m completely cured. My irregularity will not affect my ability to fit in, your excellence.” This is a lie that Bill said, this was an act of wanting to survive and protecting himself. This is also the point in the Billy storyline that Billy starts to identify himself with Bill and this is the same chapter where his mother and father starts to call him, Bill, as well.
This is the plantings seeds of Bill, that continue to thrive even after failing the very thing he was manifested for. He allowed not just himself but Billy to die. It’s only now they have another chance, but Bill believes he’s the sole reason why they had survived for so long before. Billy is weak and can only bring in danger. This pathetic, weak, piece of him is holding him back, and yet it is something worth protecting just to survive.
We see Bill truest form through lines like, “But Bill wasn’t weak. He was strong and he was smarter than all of them. They didn’t see it yet, but he could prove it! He only needed time. He wouldn’t be a burden, he would be a credit to all triangles, like his parents had said. He was different than other irregulars. He was better.”
But the next line is, “Because Bill was weak in the eyes of Euclydia. He was a freak, an irregular. He was made wrong. And yet. Bill wanted to live.”
Bill is a manifestation of wanting to survive and not letting anyone in. Even in this weak human form, that motivation drives home. He is protecting not himself but Billy as well.
I imagine if you were to enter Bill’s mind, it would be this split down the middle where Bill and Billy are seprated, but both of them have a piece of each other. Bill with a younger and triangle Billy, while good old human Billy is trapped with a more familiar triangle Bill.
Here’s pictures without the word 😼
That’s how read Bill and Billy’s storyline and interpreted it. The drawings showcase them and in their own spaces. I like to think Bill is in the darkest part and only he and Billy illuminate the space. I gave him crazy long hair that would be everywhere since he is everywhere and because having long hair is great, but such a pain to try and maintain and take care of.
Billy looks the most like Bill’s human form, since he practically accepted this and the only artical of clothing he’s wearing is the sweater Mabel has gifted them. He’s in the brighter and hopeful side since he holds all the good parts. He’s just trapped with a piece of Bill, still trying to guard him.
Can’t wait to see what A Human Condition has in store and I’ll probably continus on with this theory/headcanon 😭 I actually have some headcanons about Bill and Billy, but idk if anyone wants to hear allat 💀
@sapphosscribe AGAIN, you’re such a talented writer! Got me thinking and all 😭 can’t wait to see what you have been cooking up 😼
Live footage of Stan taking Dipper and Mabel fishing in episode 2 😂
Already we got some art for the new chapter!! @axoltheartist has captured Bill’s EXPERT coin flip technique 😂😂
a very short comic of @sapphosscribe’s A Human Condition on AO3 (Ch 30, specifically) Bill’s coinflip spoke to me
Get hype 😉
She/her. (25) A voracious reader and writer. I’m posting updates for my stories on here. Find me on Ao3!https://archiveofourown.org/users/SapphosScribe
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