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Bill Cipher gets forced to live with the pines for redemption fic as per the usual, except now he also has extra things wrong with him and theres something wrong with his hat but don't worry about that. everythings fine. everything's normal.
also he keeps losing time. hm. not great
(will probably edit later sorry lolzzz)
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11 May 2026
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[currently finished Chapter 2 - awaiting new chapters patiently]
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Bill attempts to claw his way back into reality through the old Ford connection and residual portal weirdness. Reality forces him into a powerless human body instead. Ford discovers him during a lab anomaly, confirms with horror that it’s really Bill, and decides to keep him confined in the lab because he’s too dangerous to release, too important to ignore, and too bound up with Ford personally to hand off to anyone else.
or human bill in ford's lab
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24 Apr 2026
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[currently finished Chapter 7 - awaiting new chapters patiently (if continued) ]
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After years of running, surviving on scraps, and being hunted by his past, Stanley accidentally summons an otherworldly, triangular entity that calls himself Steve, the Fortune Demon. With promises of power and wealth, Steve offers Stanley a chance to change his life forever. But at what cost?
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- Part 1 of Gravity Falls AU
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30 Mar 2026
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there's so little PyramidStan on ao3, we need more PyramidStan
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Bill Cipher strikes a deal with the Axolotl. If he is able to show genuine love for another being in seven weeks, he will be free from the Theraprism. But the salamander played him: he wakes up on a beach as a powerless being. But this isn't an ordinary beach and he will soon have to deal with two of his worst enemies... Who are just a pair of twelve year old kids.
AU where Bill Cipher is sent to Glass Shard Beach and ends up attached to the young Stan and Ford Pines
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21 Mar 2026
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Regrets, Faded Memories, and the Dangers of Impulsive Wishes by Bookwormgal for sacklunch
Fandoms: Gravity Falls
07 Nov 2025
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The moment that Bill Cipher got his hands on a Time Wish, that should have been the moment that he won. His failure with Weirdmageddon wiped away and his victory retroactively established.
Except that when he had the power to have anything that he desired, an older mistake took priority: Euclydia restored as if it was never destroyed and Bill Cipher back home just as he always wanted.
After everything that had happened, Ford would not allow Bill to simply run off to a happy ending. When the Axolotl requested that Ford attempt to convince Bill to return to Theraprism for his own good, it was a perfect opportunity to hunt Bill down to destroy him once and for all. It was everything that Bill deserved.
Except when Ford arrived in Euclydia (with some minor changes to help him blend in), things were not quite as simple as he'd imagined. And the Bill that he found there was very different from the former ruler of the Nightmare Realm and monster that he'd sworn to kill.
(Based on sacklunch's "Time Wish AU/Do-Over AU")
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18 Mar 2026
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Gonna read this later, we love our toxic old man yaoi in any form, 2D or 3D
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Y'all know the classic Bill gets turned human for redemption purposes fics, well this is my take!
The Axolotl realises it's love alone is not enough to fix Bill, it needs help, from the one person Bill ever truly loved back, Ford Pines. So it traps the triangle in a human body and makes a promise with the pines family that they'd give him a chance, shipping him off to Gravity Falls!
Can Ford and Bill fix their relationship, can it fix the demon?
Watch as Bill is forced to bond with a human family somehow as weird and broken as him! All while trying to prove to Ford he's worth the man's time! All while while learning what it means to be "human"!
[Tags will be updated as I work on the story, if there is a tag you think applies just let me know!]Series
- Part 2 of Love never ends at betrayal
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10 Mar 2026
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Are we our intentions? Our thoughts? Our deeds?
Or are we our memories?
When an amnesiac man arrives at the Mystery Shack’s doorstep, the only thing familiar to him is a name: Bill. Stanford takes the strange young man, whom they have dubbed ‘William’, in under the assumption he is another one of Cipher’s victims, tortured, discarded, and left a shell of his former self. However, this ‘former self’ may be more complicated than any of the Pines anticipated…
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- Part 1 of Outside Stars
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He cannot recall the lead-up to it. The moments before are lost to him, a tangle of half-formed thoughts and sensations that refuse to settle into coherence. He can barely remember what happened at all. What remains in his hazy memories is static—hot and sticky, clinging to his skin, suffocating him as he cleaves his realm from its people.
The ascension comes like a torrent, white-hot and unforgiving, filling every vein, every nerve, every inch of him with an agonising surge of power. His body, his mind—they’re stretched thin, too fragile to contain it all. His thoughts explode, tearing through time, through space, through the past, the present, and the future. It is too much. Far too much. It rips him apart. And it kills him.
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Bill Cipher dies the day he destroys his home. It changes nothing. It changes everything.
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29 Jan 2026
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[currently partway through Chapter 21: Nrhh Nv - Miss Me]
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24 Jan 2026
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With a huff, he stood up and reached the door. When Stan opened it he didn't expect no one to be there. He also didn't expect there to be a pale yellow envelope on his doormat—a yellow envelope, confirming what Stan had dreaded and longed for most.
His brother was not dead.or
When Ford Pines and Bill Cipher return from their shared therapy, the Great Axolotl decides it would be a great idea to put them with Ford’s old family. The Pines are NOT thrilled.
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- Part 3 of Couple’s Counselling AU (Gravity Falls)
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20 Jan 2026
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[currently finished Chapter 24: All Love Starts As A Scheme (skipped, just don't really like smut that much) - awaiting new chapters patiently]
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[PODFIC] So Nice, So Smart by ohLIERbabe by S0wat_Silver
Fandoms: Inanimate Insanity (Web Series)
23 May 2025
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This is a podfic of ohLIERbabe's fic: so nice, so smart. the original summary is as follows:
Test Tube has worked things out with Cabby, and the two of them are on good terms now, so...why does being around her suddenly feel so weird?
(Featuring cool Cabby trivia, Test Tube not understanding her own feelings, canon-typical goofy minced oaths, and the author desperately trying to square the circle of Fantube family.)
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Bill Cipher begs the Axolotl for a second chance on the verge of death. The Axolotl agrees, like the bleeding-heart idiot that it is. All Bill has to do is pass a little trial. How hard can that be for a dream demon of unfathomable cosmic power?
He wakes up in 1979. And he is not a dream demon of unfathomable cosmic power.
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09 Jan 2026
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[currently finished Chapter 33: Freebird - awaiting new chapters patiently]
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Over 50 years in the future, (or quadrillion for a Euclidean) Bill Cipher has graduated therapy and reconnected with the Pines family in time for Mabel's grandkids to go to their first summer in Gravity Falls. Still grieving not being able to reconnect with Ford, and haunted by memories that don't belong to him, Bill follows Orson and Orion Pines into the past during an accident with a Time-Tape.
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05 Jan 2026
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really interesting Billford dynamic, also we love Orson and Orion <3
[currently finished chapter 22 - awaiting new chapters patiently]
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With Wierdmaggedon and Bill Cipher in the rear view mirror, the Pines Family have moved on with their lives. That is, until they get a knock on their door.
Bill Cipher has been undergoing extensive therapy in the Theraprism, working through trauma and opening up about his past. The demon has made remarkable progress however the Theraprism wants to run an experiment.
They wish to answer the big question, was Bill Cipher cursed from birth, or did fate shape him into the melodramatic we all know and hate.
To answer this question the Theraprism has removed all of his memories from before the destruction of Euclidia, and has stored them into their new Silver Mirror Program.
Bill will be sent down to Earth to live with the Pines family during the experiment due to his past relations with them as wells as to monitor his interactions with the family.
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Bill’s memory has been wiped and he has been sent to live with the Pines to see what really caused him to become the villain.
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02 Jan 2026
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Really hope this fic isn't abandoned but it probably is
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"We at the Theraprism are happy to tell you that your spouse is safe and healthy.”
“I don’t have a spouse.” Said Ford.
“Yes, you do.” The entity pulled out a holographic binder. “Here, I have the paperwork."
Ford, suddenly assaulted by ghosts of lost, alcohol-soaked, hazy, whisp-like memories circling in the periphery of his mind, went deathly pale and had to take a step back to lean his weight against the cash-counter.
“I- That- That cannot have been legally binding!"
Or: Stanley Pines isn't the only one in the Pines family to get blackout drunk and married on a whim.
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Bill pops up on earth as a human and shows up at the Pines' place. That was an awesome summary.
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02 Jan 2026
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Very good billford, very good author :]
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Two summers ago, the Pines family met perils and terrors beyond anything they could have imagined. Through near death experiences, painful losses, and days of just plain weirdness, their bond had become something unbreakable. Healed, a little, even. The Stans had sailed many a sea, the twins now lived in the shack happily, and Soos and Melody had joined onto their little family. Things were certainly looking up.
... That was, until a familiar set of golden eyes appeared under their floorboards, stranger and more pathetic than ever. Something was different.
The nightmare had come back to haunt them. And the worst part? The nightmare had a bad therapist.
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- Part 1 of Rehab Bill In The Adventures Of "Oh God Why Is Being Human Like This" (And Other Better Moments)
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01 Nov 2025
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pathetic wet cat Bill :3
[currently finished Chapter 6: UNHINGED - awaiting final patiently]
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Silver Spoon and Paintbrush have wildly different tastes in coffee. Fluffy ship fic. Rated teen for casual cursing and a passing mention to making out.
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07 Jul 2025
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Yippeee Silverbrush fluff :3 (does oat milk actually taste good? :/ ? )