#portal fidds

[billford-dump]

Bill getting Ford a rare book for valentine's day.

There's maybe 5 known copies left and it's a reputable source of occult information that Ford has wanted to read for years and he wakes up on valentine's to this absurdly rare and valuable book sitting beside his bed.

Bill doesn't mention it. Doesn't give the slightest indication that it was from him.

(But he does smile internally when he sees Ford so engrossed in the book that he doesn't even react when he gets called for lunch.)

#gravity falls #billford #ford pines #bill cipher #what era? #who knows! #maybe fidds was trying to get ford to eat something for once instead of working on that dang portal all day #maybe stan just finshed cooking up some fish he caught #maybe something entirely different!

[koralin-evilcry]

Gorgeous husbands💙🏳️‍🌈✨

Help, I love them so much!!!!!!😭😭😭

#gravity falls #fiddleford hadron mcgucket #fiddleford #stanford pines #fiddauthor #fiddleford x stanford #gay wedding #parallel fiddauthor #portal fiddauthor #fidds

[godsfavoritescientist]

So there's this webserial called 'worm' about a world where superpowers started suddenly showing up in the 70's, and I'm trying so hard to think of a way to merge it with the stans-and-fidds 70s-and-80s plot events. The thing is, powers are caused by going through a traumatic event, and the powers are tied to both that event and to the person's various issues in ways that sometimes seems cruelly ironic. So you see my dilemma here, with there being so many options for events that could've given these guys powers

#godsrambles #fidds is easy: within worm's power classification system he'd be a tinker #which is where you get a superpowered understanding of how to create things that would otherwise be impossible #e.g. making killer robots far more advanced than current science is capable of #if working on the portal was what gave him powers though...... he could either get tinker powers specifically related to making portals #or if it was the greloblin then somethjng related to memory erasing #for stan. idk what would be the most upsetting. shapeshifting restricted to looking like other humans probably. #great for evading the law and for pretending to be ford for 30 years though #oh maybe ford would get precognition. ability to see hundreds of potential futures #maybe in combination with no longer needing to sleep. able to trap himself in literally endless rumination as he tries to figure out- #-how to stop bill #none of these are the Fun Flashy kind of powers though. stan would have fun with fire powers #oh wait. even worse for stan: powers that evoke leeches. able to temporarily steal or drain powers from others or something #or able to copy others' powers permanently in a weaker form than the original power. and he can have multiple weak powers at a time #in this world the mob would have powered folks in it of course so maybe a situation involving them could cause that power #OR. if his powers happened in the aftermath of the portal incident. #ability to teleport anything and anyone within his line of sight directly to him. #he'd be mad for 30 years straight about not getting that power before ford fell through the portal #that or the ability to summon common tools out of nowhere. such as a long rope #idk the powers are always very specific. pretty sure no one following me knows what worm is. #but you can at least appreciate the exercise of thinking up what powers would deal the most psychic damage to these guys

[sciencevillain]

redraw of the portal 2 portrait but with ford and fidds. I've seen a bunch of portal stuff on the dashboard lately and it reminded me of my better-world-turns-into-a-portal-au idea

#shoutout to the discord server this idea was born in two years ago. let me know if any of y'all wanna be tagged #also shoutout to the clip studio paint books brush #fiddleford friday #ford pines #reading back through the apparently fifteen pages of plot I wrote down?? and it is such a sad au #probably because I wrote it down right after finishing portal 2 for the first time and all the plot points were fresh in my mind #ford as cave and fidds as carolyn/glados is not a happy time #bwp au

[eldragon-x]

I'm thinking about Ford being the one to take out Bill with the memory gun made by Fiddleford again

#the two people who suffered the most from bills actions. the gun being what caused fidds downspiral which really set off bc of the portal.

[unearthlyfromage]

Happy Fiddleford friday! Did a funny little low-effort sketch of a Portal! Fidds before i head into work

Yes his banjo is also a sci-fi lightning spear. Because it's Fiddleford.

#fiddleford friday #the boy on his day #gravity falls #gravity falls fanart #fiddleford mcgucket #put some respect on my mans portal fidds he needs more love and recognition fr fr #the shit this guy would get up too?? immaculate #back at it again with drawing his wedding ring around his neck

[equilateralromance]

@harmonic-raindrops the dress is about trans joy!!! in portal trio au, fidds' dresses were gifts from bill when they lived together with ford in the early 80s. now they're a precious remnant of a life fidds' no longer remembers, but occasionally he still wears them, like in this picture c:

#portal trio #the dresses are not drag but fidds' way of letting go of the cishet masculinity he felt the need to uphold in his nuclear family #as a trans man #he is in fact genderfluid between man & agender but doesn't have these terms in his vocabulary #the main thing is he is old & happy doing his gardening at the manor #even if he doesn't remember much of how he got there

[fiddle-ferb]

Fidds before and after the portal incident

@athgalla @guardianoflightanddarkness @gravityfallscustomplush @tazmiilly

Oh no it all went wrong 😂😂😂

#gravity falls #fiddleford mcgucket #fiddleford hadron mcgucket #fidds #Before and after the portal incident

[lesbiten]

love the guy but how ford managed to not immediately scare fiddleford off is beyond me

#'hey friend! want to come live in my cabin in the middle of the woods to help me build a portal to rip apart space and time?' #'by the way i have lived alone for MANY years and my primary social interaction comes from local monsters. and the mailman' #'yeah no its fine just come live with me for a while. leave your wife and son. i promise itll be fine.' #(narrator voice) it was not; in fact; fine #i want to know what in fidds head prompted him to agree to this and go through with it. what is wrong with him. (affectionate) #simon says

[ckret2]

You know, after seeing your evil Ford au, I wonder what would happen if evil! Ford, met cannon! Ford. I feel like Cannon! Ford would hate him because he's just an example of what would happen if he haven't learned his lesson on perfection and how it's impossible to reach and how he doesn't need to impress people to be happy. I wonder what evil! Ford would think of his original counter part..would he be a little regretful? Since his cannon counterpart got more happiness than him? It's honestly intriguing to think about.

That's actually part of why I made Evil Ford: I was thinking about a dimension of lost Fords (like the dimension of lost Mabels in Don't Dimension It) and asked myself, which Ford alternate would Canon Ford most hate to meet?

So yeah you're right, Canon Ford would HATE Evil Ford—but not for thematic "you haven't learned the moral lesson about perfection & family" reasons. That's how audiences think about characters, it's not how people think about other people. When's the last time you hated somebody in real life because they missed the point of their own narrative arc—rather than because, say, they're rude to cashiers?

No, the reason Canon Ford hates Evil Ford is much simpler.

Similarly, meeting Canon Ford wouldn't make Evil Ford feel regretful because Evil Ford still thinks he made the right decision. What does he care if Canon Ford is "happier" if he only found contentment by—what—giving up on his high ambitions and settling for being a washed-up burnt-out ex-academic with no memorable achievements to his name? Evil Ford would rather die as a miserable overachiever than live as a peaceful slacker.

And he didn't spend thirty years on a completely different life path from Canon Ford without developing a totally different perspective.

Note: when Canon Ford found out Bill lied about the portal and declared he'd stop Bill no matter what, Evil Ford thinks that's Ford betraying Bill, not the other way around.

Also note: Evil Ford thinks Canon Ford is only motivated by anger over being deceived—not concern for the safety of the whole planet. Like yeah sure, he's HEARD that excuse; but that's what he thinks it is: an excuse. If he'd decided not to forgive Bill, he probably would've used the same excuse himself. A convenient, heroic-sounding moral justification for a thirty year vengence quest—but he doesn't really care that much about who's running the Earth, why would his alternate self?

(And really, Canon Ford? Thirty years? Thirty years?? You never found anything more productive to do with all that time than stalk your former mentor because you're MAD about ONE LIE?? If Canon Ford had said he thought killing Bill would net him more interdimensional fame and praise than he'd ever have as his underling, then Evil Ford could understand THAT—he himself has had misgivings about the fact that he's signed up to spend all eternity playing second banana—but as it is, though...)

Also also note: Evil Ford never reconciled with Fiddleford because he never acknowledged Fidds was "right" about Bill. He spent two-thirds of his life estranged from his brother. He moved across the country from his family. He made no friends in Gravity Falls, and likely no other college friends than Fidds. But he spent over half his life working with, dreaming with, living with Bill Cipher.

Evil Ford is evil; but he's not heartless.

Bill's the muse that gave him the blueprints he needed for his greatest invention and for the culmination of his life's work as a scientist and explorer. Bill's a near-god who hailed Ford as the greatest genius of his century, the man who's going to change the world, and via divine weirdness intervention he personally made sure that prophecy come true. Bill's the guy who—after Ford's embarrassing failure of a portal accident—welcomed Ford into his gang with open arms and the assurance that all his hard work wouldn't be for naught. He's Ford's longest-lasting friendship, his partner in crime and in science and in just about everything else by now, the person he trusts to puppet his body.

Is that a very skewed perspective on Bill? God, yeah. But it's Evil Ford's perspective.

If someone told you that all your suffering is due to the one person you trust most in all the world and the one person outside your family you care about the most—someone you've known for over thirty years—and your life would be so much better if you'd ditched this person the very first time you didn't get along—and that ditching them would have been the moral action—and that, in fact, you should have dedicated your life to killing this person...

Would you regret your life? Would you envy the life of the man who told you all this?

Or would you despise him?

How much more would you despise him if you knew he was you—had lived the same life as you—and that he had killed the most important person in your world?

Oh, Evil Ford resents the hell out of Canon Ford. Who are you—you slacker, you betrayer—to say you're "happier" than your counterpart? How do you deserve that "happy" ending? How is that fair?

Evil Ford only has one regret: not locking up his entire family before Weirdmageddon, where they'd all be safe... and where Bill would be safe from them.

#stanford pines #grunkle ford #gravity falls #evil ford au #fanart #my art #(I made these pictures much tinier than i usually draw to ensure they'd actually upload lmao)

[zephrunsimperium]

He’s done! Portal Fidds!!! 💚💚💚

#gravity falls #fiddleford mcgucket #just in time for #Fiddleford Friday #fiddleford #gravity falls AU #Zephy’s art

[fridgrave]

another dumb au. fidds made a deal with bill, sent ford into portal and tried to erase bill with memory gun, after what with blind eye society he turned gravity falls into dystopian paradise according to the precepts of orwell

so... in timeline of the show he's a mayor. he has personality disorder because of bill's print on his mind (fidds "switches" everytime he loss his eye patch), bill has personal scores on him, stanley still tries to bring his brother back and dipper & mabel solve mysteries of this town being always watched my SOTBE

#gravity falls #fiddleford mcgucket #damn.... #i can't describe the shame and guilt i feel every time i come up with something #vestige au

[godsfavoritescientist]

AU where Ford was so down to end the world that he told Bill this during their first meeting, and Bill went "oh shit really? Let's end the world together!" and everyone was on the same page about their plans from the beginning

#godsrambles #ford being fine with ending the world isn't even that hard to imagine #the line 'we could make a new world. a better world' (paraphrased from weirdmaggedon) could have so easily been said by researcher era ford #he knows the world has issues. and he feels like he could solve all the worlds problems if he was given the chance to. #ford wanting to take over the world is such a fun au concept to me idk #ford and bill plotting to take over the world together. imagine the shenanigans. #I think they would still end up having a messy breakup. but itd be interesting to think about what would cause it instead of betrayal #imagine... ford inviting fidds to help with the construction of the portal. and knowing from the beginning that it would end the world #and deliberately trying to keep that a secret from fidds. #fidds having a horrified realization eventually. and ford desperately trying to explain himself and convince fidds to believe in his cause. #its not 'evil ford au' its 'ford is on board with ending the world au' there is a DIFFERENCE. he genuinely believes in it! #he genuinely believes it'll make the world a better place!!! #godsficideas #tags essay

[webowzr]

the way you people project onto ford is ABSOLUTELY INSANE!! and the way you use that blatant projection to piss on others who do the same is also crazy.

ford wasn't a good person pre-portal. while yes, characters like bill are way worse, ford doesnt get absolved of his failings just because bill tricked him. ford is /incredibly/ self obsessed, and through his journal entries you can see just how self-absorbed he is. he doesn't care about how his actions could benefit others (its why he's so against his journal being published) instead he only cares about the glory HE could derive from his actions. he waxes poetic about "not wanting to be another tesla" and the book explicitly compares ford to icarus. fidd's actually goes out of his way to PLEAD WITH HIM to stop the portal, because fidd's now knows it's dangerous and warns him, but stanford is so blinded by his own self-importance he ignores fiddleford until reality slaps him in the face and shows him how wrong he is.

speaking of manipulation, ford manipulates and lies to fiddleford CONSTANTLY. ford lies about where he got the idea for the project, he lies about who he's working with, ignores fiddleford if fidds doesn't comply with his wants, and is constantly paranoid about fidds 'true intentions' (lol) .

STOP woobifying ford, stop pretending ford is some innocent guy. its quite frankly disconcerning to see how many of you guys claim he's ur fav or whatever but dont like the flaws that make him a compelling narrator. i LIKE ford as a slightly immoral person who grows and changes, whose willing to do ANYTHING for what he wants even if it isn't the best move, a 'smart-guy' who uses questionable tactics because part of him does believe it's the best thing to do.

ALL THIS BEING SAID, characterize ur ford however you want. you want to make him more of a victim? go for it!! you want to project onto him? feel free!! just dont pretend like ur characterization is completely correct without facts to back it up. and dont shit on peoples ships (srsly u guys r getting mega petty nowadays) because fiddauthor or billford or whatever isnt particularly healthy either!!

#bill cipher #tw discourse #stanford pines #gravity falls #feel free to add/discuss

[eldragon-x]

That anon got me thinking about Bill ruining Ford's life actually can we talk about that

#Journal 3 sure did use the opportunity to make Bill more fucked up #tho to be fair the show already established that they had a weird mix of a friendship and a muse-worshipper relationship #which unfortunately doesnt really get explored I feel but regardless J3 just makes it so much more devastating because it goes a little mor #into detail #screaming crying throwing up whenever I think about bill causing ford to start distrusting fidds #like they were clearly pretty good friends but in the span of *two years* ford grew to trust bill so much that he believed him more than #fiddleford even when shit went horribly downhill #and Again ford wouldve CONTINUED trusting bill post-mcgucket-portal-incident if things didnt spill out #fords life fell apart in one night. god. #the fact that ford also put enough trust into bill to allow him to possess him whenever he was asleep. which turned into a living fucking #nightmare post-betrayal

[cheemscakecat]

Can’t find it, but I saw someone draw Fiddleford erasing Ford’s memory into goo and it gave me pain. Here’s my reasoning for why that didn’t happen/wouldn’t happen.

Fiddleford isn’t nearly as athletic as Ford. Now, there are probably Blind Eye members more capable of chasing after Stanford if they were trying to forcefully erase his memories, but that doesn’t mean they’d be successful. The man may be depriving himself of sleep, but he’s built up enough brute strength and endurance to escape. He made it home after collapsing in a truck stop parking lot, and managed to fight Stanley in the portal room.

The Blind Eye members wouldn’t know the layout of the forest and mountains as well as Ford. He spend years out by himself in nature, trying to drink in every detail. Even the members who know the forest because they grew up there haven’t looked at the forest the same way as him. These are people scared of the supernatural who willingly joined Fiddleford’s memory erasing cult. They aren’t going to be experts in Gravity Falls guerrilla warfare.

The memory gun eventually made the Blind Eye members forget who their founder was, and the forced use on the townsfolk made everyone stupider. The young people like Soos and Wendy haven’t had their minds erased as often, so they aren’t affected like the adult population. While pre-portal journey Ford would be up against the first generation of cultists before they forgot Fiddleford, I still feel like the effects of the memory gun would hamper their efforts to hunt him down. Especially if he goes into the mountains and woods full of creatures these cultists have been trying to forget.

Bill would be annoyed like a bratty toddler if Stanford lost his memories, so he’d oppose it too. Not out of care for the man [shipping them is extremely gross], but because he’s impatient to get that portal running, and takes too much delight in tormenting Ford. Knowing this group of people is afraid of the supernatural, should Ford be captured by the cult somehow, Bill would intimidate them into letting him go. Or beat them up using his body.

5. Ford was becoming aware of Fiddleford’s use of the memory gun before he left the project. He was already getting [rightfully] paranoid about Fidds before the reveal that Bill was evil, but that paranoia only got worse after the fact. He’s no coward about it; the man still went into town and was chasing Blind Eye members to try and find out who they were. But yes, Ford is smart and anxious enough to watch his back in town, in case the Blind Eye tried to get him.

6. Fiddleford wasn’t just the founder of the memory erasing cult, he was also the most addicted to using the machine on himself. Which explains why he lost his mind and became homeless so quickly, while the other members like Ivan are still sane enough to run the cult. Pre-portal journey would also be the time when memories about Bill were the freshest, so it’s safe to assume Fidds was using that ray on himself plenty. Even though both men were in a deteriorating metal state, Stanford was not as unwell or near the point of insanity.

7. Ford was always better at dealing with the stress of dangerous anomaly attacks and horror, which served him well in those thirty years beyond the portal. He also survived for 30 years while an outlaw, homeless, lost, and still at risk of possession [until he met the Oracle]. If it got bad enough in Gravity Falls and the cult was looking for him, Ford could survive in the wilderness just fine. Or escape to another town in Oregon or the surrounding states. But he’s probably return as soon as he thought they had given up to make sure the portal was secure.

8. For Ford to be turned into a shell of himself like in the drawing, he’d have to have something integral to his identity erased. Something like “the supernatural” or “weirdness” itself. But A. That would probably break the memory gun or require an hour’s worth of memory canisters. And B. That would so obviously send the poor guy back to when he was a toddler that Fidds would immediately realize he messed up. Why a toddler? Because he hadn’t met the bullies at school yet, and extended family would find him more cute than weird.

But yeah, if Ford started talking like a 3-4 year old who thought he’d been kidnapped, there’d be no way to argue that he’s okay. They’d have to try to sort through his dense paranormal memories in that pile of canisters, trying to undo the damage.

9. If they did mess up Ford’s mind that badly, Fidds would feel terrible about it and try to fix it. I imagine Stanley would be contacted using Ford’s old mail, and knock some sense into the cultists on his way to revive Stanford’s mind. And the erasure wouldn’t stop Bill from being terrible to Ford, so it would once again prove that Fidds was wrong to erase his mind in no uncertain terms.

10. Even at the height of his cult arc, I doubt Fiddleford would be so full of it/stupid that he erased “the paranormal” from Ford’s mind. They knew each other for years, he should know that it’s something Stanford cherishes, and has ever since he was a child. Which ultimately means there’s a nil chance of Ford getting lobotomies via memory gun, even with Blind Eye Fiddleford on the prowl.

So yeah, TDLR I must not be over that ancient AU where Dipper gets his entire mind wiped and the cult just keeps him like a servant. Kidnapped a 12 year old boy. [Ivan wasn’t that evil bro].

#gravity falls #character analysis #ford pines #fiddleford mcgucket #Society of the blind eye #Not shipping #BillFord do NOT interact. Touch grass