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1. On the Level by Tepal_tea

   Fandoms: Gravity Falls  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M, Other
   • Work in Progress

   09 Aug 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Bill Cipher/Ford Pines
   • Fiddleford H. McGucket & Ford Pines
   • One-sided Fiddleford H. McGucket/Ford Pines - Relationship
   • Ford Pines
   • Fiddleford H. McGucket
   • Bill Cipher
   • Very brief appearance of other Pines family members
   • Various OCs for set dressing reasons
   • Daryl Blubs as a fish
   • Pre-Canon
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Young Ford Pines
   • Deep Sea Researcher Ford Pines
   • Eldritch Bill Cipher
   • Monster Bill Cipher
   • Dreams
   • Scopophobia
   • Young Fiddleford H. McGucket
   • mcgucket has a minor role
   • Manipulative Bill Cipher
   • Period Inaccurate Technology
   • Bad Science
   • Technobabble
   • Deep sea creatures
   • Death
   • Alien (1979) References
   • Panic Attacks
   • Paranoid Ford Pines
   • PTSD Ford Pines
   • why is that the tag
   • what happened to person first language
   • Worship
   • Unethical Corporate Practices
   • Capitalism Was the Real Villain All Along
   • you guys dont know this but im returning to my cringe roots right now
   • Human/Monster Romance

   Summary

   Marine biology researcher Stanford Pines takes a job working at the Dexamene Ocean Bed Facility, an underwater research facility operating in the depths of the ocean, alongside his best friend and engineering expert Fiddleford McGucket. Always fascinated with the weird, he could never have predicted what they would find down there. Encoded whalesong, strange dreams, and impossible technology malfunctions are just the start of the mysteries. But how dangerous is Ford's new muse? And how far will Ford go to uncover the truth?

   (AU where Ford is a marine researcher and Bill is the Lovecraftian sea monster he unintentionally stumbles upon)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   16,817

   Chapters:

   8/?

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