Yes hello, I am an actual adult who still gets excited about the birthdays of fictional characters. :’) (If this looks rushed it’s because it is. I drew most of this today because I’m bad at planning, haha!)
P.S. Don’t engage in underage drinking, kids! Also, wear your seat belts!
Happy Anniversary, Gravity Falls!
“Tourist Trapped” premiered five years ago today (June 15, 2012) on Disney Channel.
Where’s the fun in that? XD There are also plenty of resources on Tumblr and within the fandom, as well as on Google if you’re getting frustrated with cracking the codes and ciphers. This is also a good resource.
(Since I’m sure some people genuinely struggle with this and want to know how the ciphers actually work instead of just using an auto-decoder, I took the time to explain them)
How they work depends on the cryptogram being used.
Ceasar shifts all the letters of
the alphabet over a few spaces. It can change, but Gravity Falls generally does a 3 letter shift. So like, A would turn into C, B
into D, etc.
Atbash flips the alphabet backwards. So A turns into Z, B turns into Y, etc.
A1Z26 turns the letters into numbers. A is 1, B is 2, etc.
Vigenere is more complicated. It uses the same concept as the Casesar cipher, but uses a codeword to determine the shift. If you were going to code GRAVITYFALLS using the codeword PINES, for example…
P I N E S P I N E S P I (Codeword)
15 8 13 4 18 15 8 13 4 18 15 8 (How far to shift [A=0])
G R A V I T Y F A L L S
V Z N Z A I G S E D A A
So coding GRAVITYFALLS with the keyword PINES would create VZNZAIGSEDAA. To decode, you usually need to know the codeword, this code is extremely difficult to decode without it, but there are online programs that can try to decode it. This one is the best Ive found so far.
These are just the three used in the show (not counting the symbols, but that is usually just a substitution cipher, where they substitute letters for symbols instead, so no actual decoding, just figuring out what symbols are what letters).
Some codes in the show use more than one of these, though. So keep in mind they can be used together.
Dipper couldn’t be with Mabel in tlm cause he would’ve went tf off when those unicorns said she wasn’t a good person, fuckin decked them .3 seconds after they made her cry, and then reassured her that it’s okay to make mistakes and not be perfect it doesn’t make her any less of a good person and the episode would’ve only been like 8 minutes long
can you imagine ford as a college lecturer or, god forbid, a professor. sweet jesus itd be a disaster (also wouldve made college infinitely more exciting for me tbh)
“will the course be hard”
“no fucking idea”
“do you have a syllabus for us dr. pines”
“um…” *rifles through some desk drawers, sweeps some books and papers off his desk, digs around, comes up with a crooked frown* “no. no i dont. apparently.”
“what textbook are we using”
“textbooks are filled with pretention and oft-misconstrued words! no, my dear students, we will go outside and experience the course material firsthand! it is, after all, the best way to learn!”
“is there a chance we could die in this course dr. pines”
“no! well… maybe. watch your step out here, i believe there’s some patches of quicksand which sucks you through a wormhole into another dimension”
“is there any way i can get my money back for this class”
*nervously side eyes a picture frame of his brother on a file cabinet* “ah… no, sorry, no refunds…” *awkwardly clears throat and pretends stan didnt fucking blow all the money on stan o’ war upgrades and a trip to vegas already*
ford often leaps onto his or a student’s desk and loudly pontificates on some unrelated literature and rants about how holden caulfield is a spoiled brat and that mary shelley invented science fiction and how hp lovecraft is an antisemite and sometimes his students will livestream his shouting rants, or theyll tweet like “my prof is going tf off about classic lit–this is an advanced bio class btw” and others will avidly take notes and others will just like, pull their hoods up and take a nap
“hey dr. pines you sound kinda like the guy from the farmers insurance commercials”
“the what now”
“does dr. pines even have office hours”
“yeah but hes usually on the roof trying to jack somebodys wifi signal or harness lightning because he told us the campus is ‘foolish not to take advantage of the opportunity to obtain clean energy’ or whatever, i dont know, hes nuts”
“hey dr pines why were you getting arrested on the news last week”
“oh that was my brother. we’re identical twins, hes always been a bit of a law breaker”
“how did he embezzle money from a library”
“i dont know and i dont want to know, quite frankly”
Coming soon, release date is the the 18th of June.
What is this? Something new?
deep woods is back boyyy
So like, more gravity falls?
yeah basically
its fanmade, but still
also im running it
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