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   Wasting Away Again in the Goldilocks Zone by ckret2

   Fandoms: Gravity Falls, The Book of Bill - Fandom  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Other
   • Work in Progress

   05 Jun 2026

   Tags

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   • Bill Cipher & Everyone
   • Bill Cipher & The Pines Family
   • Bill Cipher & Mabel Pines
   • Bill Cipher/Ford Pines
   • Bill Cipher
   • Mabel Pines
   • Ford Pines
   • The Pines Family (Gravity Falls)
   • Gravity Falls Ensemble
   • every major character in the show gets plot arcs; I only tagged the most important characters
   • Temporarily Human Bill Cipher
   • it's temporary if he has anything to say about it
   • Bill Cipher Redemption
   • Episodic Structure
   • Cosmic Horror
   • Second Chances
   • Species Dysphoria
   • Body Dysphoria
   • Bill Cipher is Trying (but very slowly and reluctantly)
   • The Power of Mabel (Gravity Falls)
   • so canon compliant with TBOB i suspect Bill's been whispering my secrets to Alex
   • Illustrations
   • Angst and Humor
   • show-canon-typical comedy; TBOB-canon-typical horror & drama
   • eventual billford but it's not the main focus
   • & such a slowburn it'll literally take 100 chapters just to stop hating each other
   • Every other week updates god & bill willing

   Summary

   Bill jailbreaks the afterlife via reincarnation. With half his powers missing. And is immediately captured.

   But neither side knows whether killing his new body will unleash a feeble human ghost or a powerful energy being and no one's risking it. No prob! Bill's sure he can befriend or escape his captors before they find a god-killing weapon; but THEY'LL never befriend HIM—

   —enter Mabel Pines.

   Listen, y'all know what to expect from a human Bill redemption fic. But this is the only one that's about: the dysphoria of being a triangle in an alien body; gifted kid burnout; befriending the ENTIRE town (we're talking Robbie, Mrs. Gleeful, Tyler, EVERYONE); and... Bill getting cursed to forget how doorknobs work. (Plus illustrations!!)
   

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   English

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   Chapters:

   40/?

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   Bookmarked by ziro_entity

   20 Apr 2026

   Bookmarker's Notes

   oh my god. oh my god. oh my god. how did a single mortal being condense all the love and appreciation i have for this show into words without ever even looking me in the eye? this is some kind of soul plagiarism. it has to be illegal somewhere. call me schroedinger's fangirl cuz i'm dead and alive