#i won't hear mabel slander btw i just won't! sorry!

[irregularbillcipher]

i'm so sick of people who use the fact that mabel is very much like bill (yes, true!) and that bill even likes mabel (again, yes, true!) and understands her in some ways (again yes!!! true!!!!!!!!!! what was the bubble but a party that never ends with a host that never dies?) and then twist it to fuel their mabel hate. like for one, every pines family member has some deep commonalities with bill because he's an effective villain and plays off the heroes of the story so well! but ALSO because it completely disregards how their core philosophies about the world and people around them differ and it bums me out

i have said this before, exactly like this, and i will say it again. the main difference between bill and mabel is that bill finds the universe and the people in it constricting and dull and frustrating while mabel sees the beauty in dull people and things and sees them as full of potential. bill sees something boring, he destroys it, mabel sees something boring, she gets out her glitter glue. mabel is so filled to the brim with love and affection for others and such a wild desire to make everyone, including herself, happy at all times, and bill is trying so hard to be happy that he deliberately hurts people, ruins his own life, ruins the lives of everyone around him and then doesn't understand why he's so miserable. like these two are fascinating because they are both remarkably similar and WILDLY different and, most importantly, they are interesting to look at as foils because mabel is a good person

#that being said i do love aus where bill is like stuck on some human form or some shit and has a weird friendship with mabel #like she doesn't forgive him and he sucks but she's the only one who he actually gets along with/who gives him the time of day #they have an animal crossing island together where they deliberately pick all the ugliest villagers and gift them the ugliest clothes #bill is doing it because he thinks eyesores are fun and funny and mabel picked 'em because she wants the most unloved #villagers to feel loved and happy so her island is a sanctuary. also she thinks the ugly clothes are cute #i won't hear mabel slander btw i just won't! sorry!