#book of bill spoilers

[1v31182m5]

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#book of bill leaks #gravity falls #book of bill #gravity falls spoilers #book of bill spoilers #HE DEF SAİD THAT MENTİON DİRECT TO FANS I KNOW İT Alex sometimes makes jokes about bill fans too this was one of them #why else town's people who saw the Weirdmaggedon still like bill lol #bill cipher

[laur-the-cat-prince]

#dark heir #dark rise #cs pacat #will kempen #james st clair #these gay bitches #this scene left me emotionally destroyed #fuck this book #cs pacat is getting my therapy bill #the dark king #anharion #sarcean #dark heir spoilers

[ckret2]

So how about that new excerpt from The Book Of Bill.

And Ford wakes up not knowing whether Bill's deflecting or his own subconscious is calling him out.

#billford #the book of bill #the book of bill spoilers

[sarostheartistdude]

Dipper and Mabel finding the Book of Bill ...

#art #fanart #gravity falls #dipper pines #mabel pines #book of bill #dipper and mabel #pines twins #mystery twins #gravity falls art #gravity falls fanart #my art #digital art #request #astralphobia #gravity falls spoilers

[gfanlocalcryptid]

I think it's fitting that the first official preview we get is written by Ford. After all, his Journal gave us some kind of closure on the series, it seems appropriate that now that we're about to discover new dark secrets he's the one to introduce them to us.

#the book of bill #the book of bill spoilers #the bob #stanford pines #bill cipher #gravity falls

[mental-about-you-too]

Why I believe the Will Darling Adventures were originally conceived as johnlock fanfiction

I will die on this hill.

The Will Darling Adventures (Slippery Creatures, Sugared Game, Subtle Blood) by KJ Charles are my favorite guilty pleasure comfort books. I have listened to the audiobooks an embarrassing number of times. I can play exchanges of dialogue in my head from memory, reader’s inflections and all. If you haven’t read them and you like a mix of adventure and gay smut (plus it’s a trilogy so there’s time for more complex characterization and more gradual relationship development than you usually get in books of the genre), then absolutely go do that, and don’t read below—because here be spoilers. Also, because the books are a delight.

So. Grand theory.

To be clear: I am not knocking these books AT ALL (if I’m honest, the Holmesian flavor is part of why I like them so much). As in many really good works of fanfiction, the characters have ceased to be mere copies, and have gained their own original and internally consistent characterization. Kim and Will are not Holmes and Watson, but I am completely convinced that the latter were the inspiration for the former. Here are some of the parallels/moments of homage:

Watson => Will

Returned to England from war with nowhere to go; ended up in London: “I had neither kith nor kin in England, and […] naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.” (Study in Scarlet) => “…his mother had died from the Spanish ‘flu while he’d waited to be demobbed […] So, like everyone else, he’d come to London…” (Slippery Creatures)

Ran out of money as a recently-discharged veteran: “So alarming did the state of my finances become…” (Study in Scarlet) => “…his slide into poverty was unstoppable...” (Slippery Creatures)

War wound that nearly killed him: “For months my life was despaired of...” (Study in Scarlet) => “A month in hospital.” (Sugared Game)

Saved by an underling who never appears in the story: “…had it not been for the devotion and courage shown by Murray, my orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines.” (Study in Scarlet) => “If it hadn’t been for the bravest stretcher-bearer in Flanders, I’d have died out there.” (Sugared Game)

Retained his favorite weapon from the war: “I have my old service revolver and a few cartridges.” (Study in Scarlet) => “…the Messer, his old trench knife...” (Sugared Game)

Is asked to bring the weapon on adventures: “Put your pistol in your pocket.” (Study in Scarlet) => “Got your knife?” (Sugared Game)

POV character

Holmes => Kim

Has a bunch of names but goes by a middle one: William Sherlock Scott Holmes => Arthur Aloysius Kimberley de Brabazon Secretan

Has pretty hands, which are something of a fixation for the POV character

Doesn’t eat much: “My friend had no breakfast himself, for it was one of his peculiarities that in his more intense moments he would permit himself no food…” (Norwood Builder) => “They ate breakfast, or at least Will did, while Kim chewed a single slice of toast with distaste.” (Subtle Blood)

Withholds information because he doesn’t trust his partner’s ability to deceive: “You won’t be offended, Watson? You will realize that among your many talents dissimulation finds no place.” (Dying Detective) => “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you before, but subterfuge isn’t your strong suit.” (Sugared Game)

Withholds information for dramatic effect: “It was too bad to spring it on you like this, but Watson here will tell you that I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.” (Naval Treaty) => “Of course Kim would turn up after two months with some bizarre story; of course he wouldn’t tell it like a normal person.” (Sugared Game)

Plays fast and loose with legality: “Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.” “I shall be delighted.” “You don’t mind breaking the law?” “Not in the least.” (Scandal in Bohemia) => “I am absolutely not empowered to break the laws of the land, so I try not to get caught at it.”

Has a brother seven years his senior, whom we meet (several adventures in) at a gentlemen’s club in Pall Mall, and who looks like him but bigger: “Mycroft Holmes was a much larger and stouter man than Sherlock.” (Greek Interpreter) => “He looked like someone had drawn a caricature of Kim as John Bull and not been kind about it. He was significantly bulkier…”

The club (The Diogenes => The Symposium) has a Strangers' Room, and in at least part of the club: "no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed" (Greek Interpreter) => "speech is strictly forbidden" (Subtle Blood)

Chases down the leader of a mysterious criminal organization who appears respectable in normal society, and who stays one step removed to leave no evidence of his involvement: “But the Professor was fenced round with safeguards so cunningly devised that, do what I would, it seemed impossible to get evidence which would convict in a court of law.” (Final Problem) => “[Arrest him] on what grounds? I’ve got a lot of nothing. Straws in the wind, and fears, and the words of the dead. The case needs to be iron-clad, and mine is wet tissue paper.” (Sugared Game)

Has a chat with this adversary before the action kicks off: “…I was seriously inconvenienced by you” (Final Problem) => “It has caused me enormous inconvenience” (Sugared Game)

Better at hand-to-hand combat than he looks like he should be: “I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling…” (Empty House) => “Where did you learn knife fighting?” (Slippery Creatures)

Lounges around in a purple dressing gown (Blue Carbuncle; all three Will Darling books)

Tall, slender, pale, and dark-haired, with remarkable eyes (at least, the POV character sure remarks on them a lot)

Other parallels:

Inspector Lestrade (“lean and ferret-like as ever”) => Inspector Rennick (“He was a short, shrewd-looking man who sounded North London.”)

An aortic aneurism renders prosecution of a criminal moot: Jefferson Hope (Study in Scarlet) => Lord Waring (Sugared Game)

Will’s expectations upon meeting Waring line up with a description of Moriarty: “His face protrudes forward, and is forever slowly oscillating from side to side in a curiously reptilian fashion” (Final Problem) => “[Will] wasn’t sure what he expected. Something snakey, some reptilian air of cruelty…” (Sugared Game)

This rather iconic phrase: “He sits motionless, like a spider at the center of its web...” (Final Problem) => “…sits like a spider at the centre of a web of obligations...” (Sugared Game)

Alongside the parallels, Charles adds elements often found in the best works of fanfiction: in addition to the on-page romance, there's expansion of the characters' backgrounds, including an exploration of class and privilege, plus a fix-it-esque resolution of the issue of Holmes'/Kim’s dishonesty (I for one always wished Watson would confront Holmes about lying to him for cases).

There. Cataloguing all the parallels was taking up a ridiculous amount of space in my brain, so now you know & I can stop obsessing over it so much.

#this is less a conspiracy theory and more a love letter #will darling adventures #sherlock holmes #john watson #sherlock holmes fanfic #johnlock #acd holmes #kj charles #will darling #kim secretan #slippery creatures #sugared game #subtle blood #will darling spoilers #inter-fandom meta #i will die on this hill #thank you for coming to my ted talk #edited to be even more unabashed in my appreciation of these books #also i listened to an interview with kj charles about comfort reads and these fit the bill

[underwater0firework]

"i-it's not like i l-like you or anything!!!"

*kisses you*

*kisses you again*

*cuddles you tenderly while you sleep*

...

*allows you to comfort me in the confrontation of my newfound mortality*

*cries when you leave the house for 3 hours*

*defeats your evil doppelgängers with you*

*dances to your favorite song with you*

*pledges to stick by your side until you die*

*saves the world with for you*

*shares the secrets of the universe with you*

*travels the multiverse with you*

*shows you my favorite places from when i was younger*

*uses my one last glimpse at omniscience to look into how you felt when we had sex*

*saves your realm from catastrophic destruction*

*learns about your favorite game for you*

*takes care of you when you're old*

*keeps your consciousness chained in my dreamscape long after your mortal life ends until i can convince you to become an immortal with me*

....

(yeah. normal levels of obsessed.)

#this is about kindafooey's blood chains btw #i caved and read it again #all of it #its still the best fucking gravity falls fanfic to exist #bill cipher is back and so is my INSANITY #billford #bill cipher #book of bill #gravity falls #stanford pines #blood chains spoilers

[moghedien]

we don’t need a Moghedien cameo next episode but there’s enough evidence that there might be one that I’m not convinced it’s definitely not happening, and imma just say that if Moghedien’s first appearance in the show is the same episode where Nynaeve goes full sul’dam and starts dragging a woman around on a leash, I’m never gonna recover from that

#Rafe a crisp $20 bill will be in the mail #along with forgiveness for not making Nynaeve say she’s afraid of spiders or giving her stigmata for no reason #wheel of time #wot on prime #wot show spoilers #wot book spoilers #nynaeve al'meara #moghedien

[voicesofrapture]

[ Listening to the novel based radio drama (again) and..

Bill McDonough and Andrew Ryan should have just kissed and made a polycule with Elaine.

Bill has two hands: one for Elaine and one for Ryan. ]

#bioshock novel #bioshock spoilers #i guess? #'oosea' (mun posts) #bill McDonough #andrew Ryan #elaine McDonough #bioshock book

[wizardwomenwisdom]

went into heartstopper season two thinking i’d be facing my e.d. today but instead i’m convulsing with running-away-from-home trauma.

#alice that wasn’t in the books!!!! n you’re getting my therapy bills!!!! #heartstopper #heartstopper spoilers #kind of #heartstopper 2 #charlie spring #darcy olsson

[unachinrileys]

No but why did silo make the choices that they made....George is literally so irrelevant why did they give him a backstory I never want to see his face again. But on the other hand they completely sidelined lukas?? Like wdym he's going to the mines shut the fuck up

#like george is probably mentioned in the books about 10 times max he isn't supposed to cross my mind EVER #ppl on the internet shouldn't have been given the chance to be obsessed w him he's not supposed to be important enough #lukas meanwhile. is my darling boy. why did i only see him for 5s #actually giving billings a personal i Can get behind though. i love him your honour #silo #silo spoilers

[godsfavoritescientist]

How do I explain the ways in which the bill origins fic 'A Romance of Many Dimensions' by haley3 rewired my brain without needing to give paragraphs upon paragraphs of context. The fic is something like 200,000 words long. Almost every single good moment calls back to things that are set up earlier in the fic

#godsrambles #girl help 'the colors in our universe are the same as the ones in his home dimension because our universe is made out of a piece of bill' #makes NO sense without adding way more context #not to speak of 'bill is obsessed with ford because he can Feel the same cosmic thread connecting them as the one that drew him towards- #-meeting his henchmaniacs which makes him convinced against all odds that ford is gonna join him' #and the long beginning is set in flatland. its what finally got me to read the book flatland #and now I will literally think to myself 'its not that i Have to do x or y tasks. i GET to do x or y tasks isnt that great' #'i get to live in a physical form that experiences so many vivid thoughts and sensations while on bills favorite planet in the multiverse' #and i will be like 'why should i drag my feet about learning this or doing that. bill was literally trapped in a 2d world-' #'and KILLED to be able to experience a life as 3d and colorful as the one im in' #'and just like bill was so desperate to learn and see and do Everything that the axolotl gave him a ton of power so he could do that.' #'i Also want to learn and do and see everything i possibly can. and i literally HAVE the chance to do that' #'so i'd better start actually Trying to do and see and learn everything i can' #and then i brush my teeth slightly more often or whatever #fucking unhinged and ridiculous way of getting myself to do tasks #the events of this fic arent even my headcanon for bills powers and backstory. i just think its neat! #and now my brain has been permanently rewired by a got dam fan fic. #anyways sorry for all the spoilers but i mean. i doubt many folks would decide to read a fic that long without being intrigued by spoilers #most frustrating thing is that the hard hitting spoilers SEEM understandable without context. #but i promise there is a lot of context missing that makes it make sense why they are good plot points and not just weird random happenings #edit: its 200000 words not 600000. how did I misread that

[farsight-the-char]

Some comic shops got the new Transformers issue "early" so issue got spread online already.

Pun Intended, it is METAL AS FUCK!

DWJ is incredible.

#Transformers #Wednesday spoilers #daniel warren johnson #energon universe #We have the preview for issue 4 already #Something got delayed #... #In many ways this could be seen as a continuation thematically #Of DWJ'S Beta Ray Bill book

[ckret2]

All right here's the rundown re: how this affects editing my fic to be TBOB compliant, because after "SWEET, NEW LORE DROP" that's my biggest priority:

It would be a retcon, but I don't think it'd be too hard for me to edit in Ford guiltily thinking that he's lowkey suspected bill could return since last summer, I can tweak a few early chapters without too much difficulty. Maybe have him belatedly confess to Stan that he had a reason to be worried about this; have Stan go "yeah I figured you were worried after you did two hundred brain tests on me to see if Bill was still in my noggin." I don't think he'd confess to Fidds, but he's always kept Fidds partially in the dark about Bill so as not to "burden" him, I can work with that.

But MAN. For the last two weeks I've been posting chapters about Ford worrying that the tiny interdimensional rips are about to rip open again, if I'd known this a LITTLE bit sooner I could've incorporated Ford worrying about "IS IT THE FUCKING BOOK THAT DID IT."

Still, that's 100% something I can include on rewrites EASY, he ALREADY suspects that it's bill's fault the rips are opening, we can just tack on "maybe it's Bill and his book magically trying to reconnect." If he lets that slip to Bill, Bill can go "WAIT YOU SAW MY BOOK, WHAT DID YOU DO WITH IT" "threw it into the nightmare realm" "YOU WHAT!!!"

This plotline is just a PARADE of Bill angsting over his own death—I think yesterday's chapter makes that clear lmao—angsting over the loss of the tool that might've helped reversed his death just fits right in perfectly.

But I'm hesitant to make those edits until we see more of the book, in case even that much lore ends up changing when we learn more stuff.

So far, so good!! Easy edits!! Keep it up TBOB, let's go!!!

#(*knocks on wood*) #the book of bill spoilers #about my writing #bill goldilocks cipher

[phonoix]

I might hate the show ending more than I hate the book one.

#shadow and bone #no shade to the book ending at this point i LOVE IT. #just make the crows show at this point. leave shadow and bone be #shadow and bone spoilers #sab spoilers #Leigh how could you let this happen? #I don't think i have the strength to watch this again #now I'll go read the books again to give myself some peace #also Netflix you need to pay for my medical bills. not because of emotional damages but because you gave me an aneurysm.

[vaguelyhauntedcornfield]

Okay but like I really need to rant about this a bit so like spoilers for ep 3 of tlou below but like

idk I’ve never played the game so I had no idea what to expect going into this, but when Frank showed up, I was like “I can’t tell if Bill is going to kill him or marry him.” WELL. Nick Offerman did such a GOOD job of looking on guard and uncomfortable. His shoulders are like up to his ears the entire meeting sequence and it made me so jumpy, and then we skip 3 years and he’s so visibly relaxed. And my heart started to melt. And I found myself so enamored with these two men who, against all odds, found love in a situation where that should have been impossible. Frank was the last alive from a group fleeing a collapsed quarantine zone, Bill a preper who had decided to be alone long before the pandemic even started. We expect Bill to die the whole time--comments about him getting old faster than Frank, getting shot by raiders. The jump to Frank being sick...they showed so much through his paintings. You weren’t expecting it, and they showed you through his art how his illness has been progressing, and how him being able to see that himself affected him. They showed how Bill broke down and made a deal with Joel to get medicine despite saying he never would. This show. THIS SHOW. I was sobbing up until Bill became weirdly calm during the dinner, because I realized he’d made the decision too. They died on their own terms in a world where that had become nearly impossible. They had a beautiful life together in a world where that had become a pipe dream. Two characters that we never even meet thru the main characters, not in the present day, but who matter so much.

#also i have a lot of feelings as a chronically ill artist about everything with Frank (not bad ones! just like i feel a lot 🥲) #it hit close to home #honestly bill resonated with me too but not bc of the preper conspiracy theorist part lol #more bc of the self-imposed solitude and not seeking out relationships #i know from other posts that this is nothing like how they were in the game but this seems like such an improvement tbh #like this episode deserves awards for how much it hit me in the feels #tlou hbo spoilers #the last of us spoilers #it's 5 am so like i am not coherent but i also cannot sleep #idk how we got my horror-hating mom hooked on this show and now we're making her sob over gay romance like #that right there tells you this show is good lol #i feel like i could write an entire book on how illness can impact art and handwriting #my handwriting became that of an entirely different person when i started to get sick #my drawings changed too #tho maybe not in a way anyone but me noticed #my friend who has a similar health issue just with more presentation had to give up art almost entirely #idk it's a kind of hard i can't explain and that i dont think you can understand unless you've experienced it yourself #seeing the progression of your symptoms in the things you create #seeing how you're unable to hide it even with care #idk man #it's honestly an emotion i dont think i could name #but i feel it so strongly every time i look at more than a few lines i've written by hand #or at a page of studies ive drawn #i feel like they never made frank a tragic character. they never made illness tragic #they just made it real #the tragic theme was the idea of one without the other and it went both ways #they hit on that repeatedly throughout the ep #and in the end they didn’t have to face that tragedy #idk i feel like it’s one of the few depictions of chronic illness/terminal illness ive seen that doesn’t play the illness as tragedy #and i found that…refreshing