I’m In Awe - Blog Posts

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this ad wants to hire philosophy specialists to train their AI.

in philosophy.

they want to train the machine that can't think on the subject that's literally thinking about thinking.

someone smarter than me write in the comments how the classical philosophers are freaking out in the afterlife

(diogenes brandishing a texting autocomplete feature: Behold, a man!)

alfred gave them the sheets

I have zero head canons for most of these, but thought I'd draw them hanging out anyway

This is… genius oh my god.

I made a past post showing parallels between Gideon & Bill a while back but the main parallel I noticed are their relationships to Ford and Mabel:

They used to be close to Ford/Mabel before their messed up actions caused a falling out between them

Gave them chances to join their side

Held them captive during the course of Weirdmaggedon

Now this could've been accidental and me just reading into things but the Book of Bill had this recurring idea of Bill being Ford's toxic, abusive ex. It just really cemented this parallel and the idea of Bill being Ford's Gideon.

IN ADDITION - While this might be reaching, I think with this idea in mind, there's an additional way to read to Gideon's line:

"Bill explained it to me nice and simple. She was always destined to be mine. Now that I have her trapped in a cage, she'll learn to love me. I have an eternity to wait"

Another way to read that is, Bill's projecting onto Gideon & Mabel a bit and this was what he initially had planned with Ford: Keep them trapped, and use the endless amounts of time they have to make him "learn" to love him, but then the barrier surrounding Gravity Falls derailed that