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shes so adorable!!! i love how you drew her, especially how you did her hair, great work 😁😁

ok i literally love this so muchhhh tysm for making this!!! its so goodddd

Noelle is sooooo cute in your style!

Ooo very nice

SO CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You're so good with markers!! I especially love the white outlines you add toward the end :)

this looks amazing :O

33:18 I was drawing when as I watched the video and as soon as you said that I looked deadpan at the tv 😭🙏

simple but cute rena artwork

Brilliant video , exactly what I wanted to hear , of course I enjoy the jokes and such but I felt like the fandom's opinion lacked a nuanced take on BillFord , it is such an amazing part of the story that I personally appreciate so much , and I wonder how the show could've been at its end if it was developed more , I am aware though that disney would've not let such content creep into a kids show , which is fair to be honest even if I disagree with their censorship policy . I haven't read the entirety of The Book of Bill ( I live in a puny third world country and such luxury is difficult to access , and I feel weird to ask my relatives who import my medications for a seemingly silly cartoon book) but from the bits and pieces I've seen of it it looks exceedingly fascinating and well-made (pray that I get it one day)

Wow. I had this thought tingling somewhere at the back of my head since I read the third journal for the first time at the age of twelve, the feeling only intensified after the book of Bill was released, but this video has really set things into places for me. Now I finally understand why do Bill and Ford felt so special yet so uncomfortable to me from the very beginning.

You put the “destruction of two dimensional spaces” trigger warning just for Bill.

1:34 I have this photo framed in my bedroom

the gravity falls fandom coming back to life after years literally gives ME life. im so incredibly happy to see so many people's hyperfixation striking up and that to me is just a further proof of how great alex's writing is. a great analysis!!! there's just so much to say about those two. like. really. i could talk about them for hours. this video serves me perfectly since i didn't get the chance to read tbob yet. but i will become so insufferable when i do FUCK

I don’t usually watch essay videos this is probably the first time in years but god did you do a PHENOMENAL job Makes the feeling of reading the book of bill hit harder with heavy melancholy that despite ford no longer thinking much about bill and moving on. Bill continues to never move on he’s struggling with feelings he hates and pretty much gaslights himself into believing he’s okay he ignores Everything he needs to address because he hates how it makes him feel. It’s so melancholy reading the end of the book especially after watching this vid realizing that everyone moved on and bill will continue to be not only a bad person but also someone who has his own pain he won’t address and he will hide. he’s getting left behind stuck in the same place of his ego and and the trauma he refuses to acknowledge Bill has been shown to be a smart guy and I think he very much knows why he feels the way he does whenever his dimension or ford is brought up But he convinces himself that that it’s a weakness that he can never show and that he’s a unbreakable wall when he’s falling apart behind his “I’m a god i don’t need anyone” Facade. He says he obliterated his dimension when he didn’t feeding onto this trauma he has and adding more weight to it by blaming himself when he clearly shows he struggles with that topic. Imagine how depressing it is looking back to see everyone dead without knowing how it even happened I always think about how traumatic that incident was Anyway kudos to you because seriously this vid was top tier I’m a subscriber now! Edit; I just saw a comment about him calling for his mom STOP NOO ITS SO SAD OMG he clearly had some good relationship with his parents and when the first times not in the right mind he calls for her like a child even tho she’s gone STOP THATS ACTUALLY SO SAD LEAVE ME ALONE

33:19 that’s resurfacing trauma😭

AAAA THIS VIDEO IS SO GOOD AND WELL ARTICULATED ive been rotating these two in my mind ever since i got thrown back into gf and you just said everything so dsjhgkjrgv like theyre so messed up but so interesting both on their own and as a pair..,... alex hirsch just cant stop cooking i really really enjoyed ford's sections in particular, what with all the hate towards him that's been very prominent in the fandom recently? like yes, he is certainly flawed, but i feel like some people don't even take the time to understand why he is the way that he is-- which includes both his backstory and ESPECIALLY bill's influence on his life, behavior, and interactions with other people (ie stan and fidds). Take the "trust no one" phrase for example. ive seen people push the blame onto ford, saying it's his fault that this belief led to weirdmageddon, but they fail to mention exactly who caused this belief in the first place ▲▲▲!! i just appreciated seeing that from a fellow ford enjoyer :) your insight on certain aspects of his character like his views on connection/attraction was also so awesome and perfect!!! i have less to say about bill despite him being my favorite character but i will say my 13 year old self would be screaming crying throwing up knowing he has a canon backstory now. god this guy has so many problems and does not want to fix a single one of them-- while i love exploring a bill redemption in fanwork (very self indulgent thing i'll probably never grow out of lol) i agree with you in that he is irredeemable, and any attempt to change that in canon is not a good idea. but yeah this is a great analysis highlighting exactly why their relationship is so compelling but also awful, TYSM for making it!!

3:52 yes! SAME!!!! I installed that game the moment it came out and watched Alex and Dana’s video. I had not played in years but Im in such a Gravity falls fixation I need it to replay the games 😂 And I love this series so much I often watch reactions and watch the shows from beginning to en every year or so. I’m so glad more people are getting into still. And the fandom is huge again

16:47 fun fact they also mention a drug in the book near the henchmen party at least in the (yellow version ( the barnanobel exclusive)

Unrelated but I do wanna talk about fidlfired for a minute and say that I don’t really think he’s much of a victim as the book or everyone else is making him out to be well yes The things that happened to him in gravity Falls were awful but he still chose to willingly go along with it he still chose to not see his family for years he still chose to go on this dangerous expedition with Ford so ya but that’s just my opinion tho but what do you think

billford video essay...I love youtube so much thank u for making this

ahskshaaj this is so cute. i love how fords book on being interaction has "show moths" for both romantic and platonic interactions, but for enemies it says "burn with fire" XD

Cool!

This is such a great video essay. While I’m more into Fiddauthor both as a relationship and as a tragic Yaoi fanfiction dynamic, Billford is fascinating in its portrayal of a toxic abusive relationship.

Nice animations!

I was gonna ask my school to add the book of bill-NOW I KNOW WHY ITS FOR OLDER READERS 🫡(also I read som bill lore and it said he tends to get drunk a lot-)

OMG. Thank you SO MUCH for this video! I have the same story of meeting and discovery Gravity Falls, same thoughts about Ford and Bill, and of course I have a special place for Ford in my heart too ❤️ I just don't have people to discuss it! So all this video was like a good talk with a friend about mutual hyperfixation. Thank you, I really needed that!

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Plansexual might be hinting at the fact that Ford is actually pansexual, which to be honest explains to me how he managed to get into a relationship with an extradimentional polygon.

They're amazing!

The book on how to socialize is so real He is the most autistic to ever autistic

I love these sm!!!!

OK BUT NOBODY MENTIONS THE SALEM WITCH ERA STORY IN THE BOOK. Isn't IRONIC that BILL of all people saw a battered woman and gave her the power (magic) to not only escape but get revenge on her abusive husband?!?! HE HELPS MULTIPLE ABUSED HOUSEWIVES ESCAPE WITHOUT ANYTHING IN RETURN OTHER THAN THEY HAVE FUN AND CAUSE CHAOS. NO LOYALTY TO BILL NO SELLING THEIR SOULS HE DOES IT ANONYMOUSLY TOO. LIKE I SEE NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THAT FORESHADOWING AND CHARACTER DEGRADATION. LIKE BILL YOU HAD IT IN YOU THE WHOLE TIME, EMPATHY. Bill's character is SOOO interesting. He believes so badly that he's inherently evil because of what he did to his dimension but he had moments of empathy and sympathy. Bill degrades so much he becomes his own self fulfilling prophecy. Maybe if Bill ruminated on those feelings of empathy he could've realized that he didn't need to stay "bad". He's so headstrong and refuses to be vulnerable but if he were more vulnerable he could've realized he was wrong and maybe would've changed along the way. Bill has the ability to do so much good like what we saw with the witch scene but because of his ego and trauma he goes out of his way to do evil things because he believes he's already beyond saving or redemption. As he is now, Bill is an incredibly written cautionary tale about what happens when you don't seek help for mental illness, when you don't break the chain and it sends shivers down my spine because ANYONE can become a Bill. We could all one day be experiencing something life changing and terrible and it just pushes us over the edge and we degrade as a coping mechanism. It's horrifying and it makes me hope that Bill gets a happier ending in the future even though he's so terrible. If he were just 100% cold and manipulative I wouldn't care that he's locked up in space therapy forever but it's small stories like the Salem woman that makes me wonder if there's Bills out there in the infinite multiverse that managed to break the chain and be happy without having to cause chaos. Someone who moved forward from the trauma.

ford taking out the book to determine how to interact with beings is so me i love this

Thank you for this great analysis!! You broke down the amazingly written relationship between Ford and Bill so perfectly. Your thoughts about bill really reflect my own. He’s a terrible person and he doesn’t deserve redemption. He’s too far gone and too deep in his denial, sadism, hedonism, and selfishness to be anything more than what he is, a monster. But despite it all Bill is a fascinating character. He’s not just a villain, he feels like a real person. Even beyond the original show, you can still imagine scenarios he would be in because he’s so layered and understandable. And the book of bill only takes his initial portrayal and enriches it. He’s tragic, he’s horrific and he’s laughable. I can’t help but to love and hate him all at once.

Bill and Ford's relationship is basically Angel and Valentino from "Hazbin Hotel" done WELL.

i love billford fiddlestan nobody can change me

This is the coolest video I’ve seen in my life, OH MY GOD!!!!! My first language isn’t English but ur video was so well done n explained that made me understand everything!! You deserve soooo muuuchhh more attention! I’m sending this to my friends bc I’m a billford obsessed type of girl ,,, and they need to understand my lil toxic old men yaoi lore too🫡 Their parallels, weakness, flaws, the idea of them making each other feel important hits SO HARD ON ME,, like I only wake up and sleep thinking about them 😭😭😭 You have no idea of how much I admire your content!!! 🩷🩷🩷 keep going!!!!

The “show moth’s” in the book absolutely SENT ME 😂

Hell yeah an analysis of this aspect of the relationship, and a good one at that!

Yada had he **** the triangle He did w h a t ?

When I heard of David Lynch inspiring Alex Hirsch’s Bill I always think of this scene!

You did such a good job making Bill look like a little guy ❤ I love the performance we got from Hirsch but I'll always wonder what Lynch Bill would have been like