“Stanley! He’s doing that again” “Bad Compy! You should bring all money to me… er, I mean you shouldn’t steal anything!” “I swear, I’ll take him back to the farm one day”
“If caffeine and nightmares had a baby” –Stan Pines
From the “Gravity Falls” season two episode “Sock Opera”.
Ingredients: Red Kool-Aid + sugar + water Pitt Cola minus the peach pit (Real life: peach sodas from Crush, Nehi, or Fresca) Red or Pink Smile Dip (Real life: Fun Dip, which is the same as Pixy Stix) A couple of 5-Hour Energy shots (…or just one. I don’t want you to die)
Directions: Stir together with a few ice cubes and tiny plastic dinos. Serve in the pitcher of a blender (do not blend!).
In season one we saw green Mabel Juice. Simply use green Kool-Aid and green Fun Dip in the recipe above. Instead of ice cubes and dinos, drop in a troll doll and some optional dice. Serve with a bendy straw.
Come on Gravity Falls Fandom, we all know who’s responsible for how expensive the special edition journal is….
Serious talk, since Ive heard quite a few complaints about the pricing…
The price makes sense, for the features included: Black light ink, real parchment paper, roughened edges, leather texture cover, metal pieces on the cover, a monocle/magnifying glass, removable photos and notes, tassel bookmark, and each including a note hand-signed by Alex (he tweeted that he is signing each note himself, so his signature is not just printed there)…
$150 sounds about right, for all of that. They aren’t cutting corners here, they’re aiming to make this Special Edition as accurate to the show as possible. Only way it could get better is with a real leather cover, but that would put the price even higher… But the bottom line, is that some of these features are pricy, and the cost reflects that. When Alex originally guessed $50, I thought that sounded a bit too low, and was afraid that the ‘Special Edition’ would literally be the exact same Journal as before, just with Black light text, and otherwise with no additional features. So, tbh, I’m thrilled that they’re going all out here, and making this thing right.
(Im not saying we cant joke that Stan is behind the price tho, lol. We all know Stan would price this thing at like $300+ tho probably, to get a real profit from it.)
One of my favorite memories this summer was at the end of week seven – my campers were looking through Journal 3 and I was teaching them how to solve simple substitution ciphers through frequency analysis (we didn’t see that it had a key until we’d already cracked it, but the kids agreed that they’d learned more and had a lot of fun doing it by hand).
I had them select a large sample of Bill’s symbol cipher, copy each distinct symbol into a notebook, and then solve it through process of elimination. It was a little tedious, but they were determined kids and wanted to impress me. The moment everything started to fall into place, they were beside themselves with excitement. The one we happened to pick was the section where Bill talks about “removing [his] exoskeleton to feed” and they kids flinched and started screaming in horror at the imagery and implications of that.
I… may have also screamed. But since it was marine science camp that week, it was also a great opportunity to talk about starfish digestion, and how they turn their stomachs inside out to envelop and liquefy food.
Bill Cipher: echinoderm? He does have radial symmetry, an exoskeleton, and the ability to regenerate body parts…
I love this idea so much… How to use Journal 3 as educational material. XD (Teach kids how to make their own invisible ink too lol… maybe not used IN the Journal tho)
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