Hello y'all!! Over the past 2-3 weeks, I've been working on transcribing TBOB for my friend. This here above is the link to the FULL transcription of the book, including the translations of all known codes.
The layout of this document was heavily inspired by @fordanoia who is the creator of Journal 3 Transcribed!
Also, comments are on in case of anything I missed or mistyped, etc. Don't be afraid to leave a comment or suggestion!
Anyone is free to use or reference this document as they so please. I hope it's useful to someone!! Much love, enjoy <3
when the objectively bad person has traumatic and honestly reasonable reasons for why theyre like that but it doesnt excuse their actions and only serves to make them more tragic as a character
Reading the Book of Bill be like
BILL CIPHER GOES TO ZAXBYS AFTER BREAKUP?? (real not fake!!!)
"You have 72 hours."
Left alone in the consequences of his obsession, he let desperation get hold of his intellect and come up with a plan. For the world. For himself.
Gravity Falls lore is actually so crazy because we can assume that around when Stan was trying to chew his way out of the trunk of a car, Ford was in the midst of the most gut-wrenching, one-sided, cringe-fail situationship known to man.
something something your ex/enemy/situashionship knowing the dead language of your people
post-therapy billford shenanigans, the idea manifested itself in my brain and i drew it out in 20 minutes
I'm only asking this because you said you want to draw some Billford and now I'm thinking about it. It seems to me that Bill would bring Ford extremely upsetting presents (like a cat) and Ford (like a cat owner) would be disgusting/horrified, but charmed despite himself. Am I correct? Also, would the same thing happen in reverse
Yeah that's basically where they're at in canon lol. Buuut my goal's to write them struggling & clawing past their toxic history to reach a place where they work.
And when they work, I think usually Bill gives Ford gifts that should horrify him, but that he only finds charming, because these two freaks are on the same wavelength. And same goes in reverse.
(there's another five pages under the cut)
In billford as "toxic exes who get under each other's skin because they know each other so well," having them constantly bickering and getting on each other's nerves works just fine. But when they're actually a couple, I like to see them like each other. Enjoy each other's company and do things for each other that they appreciate.
Even if it's batshit by outsiders' standards, it needs to work for them. Bill knows when Ford would love to be cursed and Ford sees weird gross body parts and knows "Bill would want this."
I want to KISS the person who made this display, that is AMAZING
bro fumbled so hard he died
the code is: even his lies are lies
Bill talking about Ford and then having to talk about his parents, who he killed, is really insaneee