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This guy looked at me once and my soul was his.

Silas Birchtree! I lost my mind when I read about the cult of Ciphertology on the website. Silas was the closest thing we got to canon human Bill Cipher and I have barely found any fanart of him. So I'm here to deliver lmao.

Here's the fucked up version.

Fun fact: birch is one of my favorite trees. I grew up playing amongst birches. I love how they have "eyes" on their bark. It made me feel safer as a kid because my tree friends were watching me. No wonder I'm so fucked in the head lmao.

Happy fall equinox!

Bonus: gorgeous Japanese anemone flower!

I have an AI bro in my class 😭

He just sent us simplified Chat GPT version of our textbook and I want to die. I checked it and of course that there’s blatant errors. But he claims that it’s better to study from it than from the original textbook because it’s shorter 😭

And other students told me to stop talking about AI because it’s going to be the future and they already use it to write all of their essays.

I hate this reality.

Look at his tiny teeth aaaaaa!

Taiwan Salamander (Hynobius formosanus), family Hynobiidae, Otaru, Taiwan

ENDANGERED.

Photograph by Adrian Ng

So I've seen a lot of discussion among Gravity falls fans about Bill being possibly adopted, since he is yellow and his parents were blue and red. I think that this idea is kind of silly and I'll give you four reasons why it might be like that! Three of them are pure biology and fourth one is a little fucked up.

SPOILERS FOR THE BOOK OF BILL!

Reason 1: Yellow is a recessive trait.

We (unfortunately) don't know much about Bill's species, but since he has a mom and a dad, this means that they reproduce sexually. They receive one half of their genes (or their equivalents) from mom and the other from the dad. This is where recessive traits come into play: these are the traits that you won't exhibit, unless you have both copies, one from mom and one from dad. The opposite of them, the dominant traits, will show on you even if you have just one copy. In humans, O blood type is recessive, while A and B are dominant. So if you have gene A from one parent and gene O from another, you will be A blood type, since O shows only if you have two O genes.

In Bill's case, colors blue and red are dominant and yellow is recessive. So let's say that his mom was blue and had By genetics. His dad was red and he had Ry genetics. In gametes, these genes divide so his mom could pass on either her dominant blue gene, or recessive yellow and his dad could also pass his dominant red gene or yellow. So their child could have been:

BR = purple? (this is the equivalent of AB blood type)

By = blue

Ry = red or

yy = yellow - that's Bill :)

Reason 2: Sexual dimorphism

You probably know what is sexual dimorphism: that's just a sciency way to say that males and females look different. The traits that differ can be subtle, like size, or very apparent like beautiful tails of male peacocks.

In Euclidians, there could be association of sex and color. Males could be red, females could be blue, but maybe there were more options.

If this were true, then Bill is not male or female, he could be intersex, OR he could be male and one of his parents is intersex.

Reason 3: It's a part of his mutation

Bill was born with a very rare mutation that allowed him to look up. This basically means that he had to be inverted which makes me wonder how tf did he even survive. When kids are born with such serious mutations, they usually don't suffer from just one condition. In his case, his weird color could have been a result of that mutation interfering with his ability to produce pigments correctly.

Reason 4: THIS ONE IS FUCKED UP

Bill changes color depending on his emotional state. When he's angry he turns red for example. If he can do that, then it's fair to say that the rest of his species probably could too. Now, we don't know really if his parents were truly red and blue, we just know that that's how Bill draws them.

So... they may have been yellow, just like him, but changed their colors due to overwhelming emotions. Like when they were DYING. If this was the case, then Bill is actually drawing the faces of his parents in their last moments. That's the last thing that he's seen when he destroyed his dimension. That's the thing that bothers him the most. It would make sense.

So anyways, I hope you liked my analysis of this! If you have any more ideas, share them and thank you for reading :)

Damn, this post reminded me of my first digital comic. It was shit, but the main villain had the ability to control weather and she would drop thunder to silence people like this:

I was an idiot 6 years ago when I made this and i barely knew how to use digital media, but nostalgia has me in death grip. Thank you for reminding me of my old shit, kind stranger

it sucks so bad that 'lightning magic' in every media is just some pathetic little strands of electricity. i wanna see some LIGHTNING. show me a magic setting where lightning magic lights up a room like the sun, and the bolt is only visible as an afterimage burned into your vision. I wanna see someone cast lightning and have the thunder rattling the room and shaking everyone to their core. i want lightning magic to be a split second blast of so much power it leaves everyone's senses reeling. c'mon guys don't you know what real lightning looks like? we can be doing so much better than this.

Maybe I should stop telling people that I'm a biologist. I had a guy try to explain to me how Black and White people are actually different species because Black people can't donate bone marrow to White people and vice versa.

And I was like ???

Buddy, not every person can donate their bone marrow to you, you need an extremely close match, which usually means someone from your family. Like, of course that an Italian won't be a bone marrow donor to someone from DR Congo like what???

I tried explaining him that and he told me that all biologists are stupid because they just follow what Darwin said and support woke ideology. At that point I gave up.

I need to tell you about the time I had a “snail patient”. Her name was Poly (I know snails are hermaphrodites, but they are femininum in my language, so I used she/her). I found her on a sidewalk and she was badly injured, someone stepped on her and she was missing half of her face. I don’t know why, but I decided to take her home. To be honest, I didn’t have high hopes, but she actually recovered. I had to assist her with feeding, I offered her calcium, she was in a small very simple enclosure so that she wouldn’t get hurt by accident AND SHE RECOVERED!

Her shell grew back and her face did too. But there was something about her that made me question everything I knew about invertebrates.

She knew who I was.

Even when she recovered, she wouldn't want to eat new foods unless I fed her. I had to rub tomato slices between my fingers, so that they had my smell or else she wouldn't eat them. She would be terrified if anything touched her face and immediately hide in her shell, but I could boop her and she would ask for more.

She didn't live long after that, only 3 years, but it changed my life and the way I saw small animals like snails. Maybe Poly was an outlier, a little genius snail, but still, she was a snail and she knew clearly that I meant her no harm. She realized that I saved her. She was the best pet snail ever and I miss her every day.

So yeah, I don’t think we should just write invertebrates off. There is something going on in those weird tiny brains that we yet have to understand.

Extremely good paragraph from an article exploring the concept of sentience in invertebrates

This is beyond true! I’ve had pet snails and I could listen to them eating all day long. They make such soothing and cute munch munch noises

Stanford Pines is one of the rare examples of a true monsterfucker in media and I will die defending his questionable decision to have an affair/situationship with an eldritch triangle.

Monsterfuckers deserve more media representation lmao

Giving Bill a human design is a coward’s move. You have to accept the truth given to you.

Draw your ship art with the triangle.

Bill Cipher showing us how he's very mature about his breakup and isn't bothered at all!

I can't believe I made this, but at the same time, it's been ages since I laughed so much about a scene from the book. Bill is so pathetic, I adore him! And that entire passage seemed to be straight out of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" which is a book I devoured in high school.

I can't draw people in Gravity Falls style for the life of me, so I'm sorry that you have to be exposed to my shitty art style!

Some morning glories for all of the flower lovers who follow me:

A lot of people claim snakes don't like being pet and will only, at best, learn to tolerate it. Not sure where they got that idea. Scoria will actually ask for pets!

She will pet herself with her chin to ask me to pet her, and either relax or continue to help me pet her when I do. (This is after I had been petting her, she's asking for more pets.) Once she's had enough pets, she'll often pet me! ...or wander off to explore, haha.

I suppose in her world I'm doing something nice for her that feels good, and she wants to do the same for me. < 3

If I were to guess about this behavior, since mentioning it to other hognose caretakers and it seems to be unique to Scoria, it's probably learned behavior branching off of a natural behavior. Snakes can learn by watching and mimicking behavior. I see her sister learn from her, and she probably learned to pet herself and me by mirroring me petting her. I also think it is similar to a natural behavior- when hoggies greet each other they twitch and then rub their bodies so over the other. My guess is they are rubbing the oil on their bellies on the other snake, and I am rubbing the oil from my fingers on her so we both get each other's scent.

That's just an educated guess partially based on a study where snakes could identify themselves by belly oil scent, and watching snakes greet each other. But it would be interesting to hear if anyone else has experienced something similar.

So, if I'm correct... My baby girl has accepted me as an honorary snake family member. Aww <3 It's family love!

I drew this at 3AM, please ignore the Slavic parentheses.

i mean would you just look at them.

I still can't believe that this is canon. Stanford Pines really took a trigonometry book and said: "Hear me out!"

Poor Fiddleford :(

More women in a STEM field leads people to label it as a 'soft science,' according to new research

When women make up more than 25% of graduate students in a discipline, men—and to a lesser extent women—become less interested in pursuing that discipline, and salaries tend to go down.

One factor that influences the use of the labels “soft science” or “hard science” is gender bias, according to recent research my colleagues and I conducted.

Women’s participation varies across STEM disciplines. While women have nearly reached gender parity in biomedical sciences, they still make up only about 18% of students receiving undergraduate degrees in computer science, for instance.

In a series of experiments, we varied the information study participants read about women’s representation in fields like chemistry, sociology and biomedical sciences. We then asked them to categorize these fields as either a “soft science” or a “hard science.”

Across studies, participants were consistently more likely to describe a discipline as a “soft science” when they’d been led to believe that proportionally more women worked in the field. Moreover, the “soft science” label led people to devalue these fields—describing them as less rigorous, less trustworthy and less deserving of federal research funding.

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This is literally how I make all my art

i love listening to MUSIC!!!!!! and imagining things happening

You are so real for this. I immediately fell in love with Midsommar movie because it was the only modern horror movie that I could SEE the characters. Every other is dark dark grey dark dark. WHY??????

I know its been said over and over again but damn do I miss the way we used to light movies. Watching Inferno and the constant blue and red lighting is gorgeous. Idc if the source of light doesn't make sense. If I cant see whats happening the whole film isn't gonna make sense. I've never been pulled out of a movie due to "unrealistic lighting" but I have been pulled out for shit being too dark.

I found out about baby Bill Cipher! Are you telling me that this maniacal, reality-bending eldritch chaos god used to look like this at some point?!

LOOK AT HIM!

He looks like a wet breadcrumb. I want to squeeze him so hard that his eye pops out. I want to dip him in soy sauce and eat him. I want to use him like a stress ball and then throw him in the fireplace. I feel like he would squeak if I poked him.

I NEED HIM!

Funny thing is, I can't buy "The book of Bill" in my shitty third world country because the shipping will cost over 500$, but now I'm invested.

Furthermore whoever removed the audio jack from phones should be grilled in front of congress. The fact that I need a dongle to listen to music on a modern telephone while 20 years ago I could have simply plugged a universally standardized cord into the audio jack everyone knew how to use is an anti-human move that should be punished.

KITTIES

this changed my life