I learned to stop cringing and love the triange

During-betrayal whump with harrowing depictions of realistic abuse ❤️

Post-betrayal whump that's a straight-up psychological horror ❤️

Post-series fluff with personal growth and begrudging rekindling ❤️

Teresa: "Mabel offered to help me out during Bill and Stanford's therapy session...maybe she went too far, but it seems like progress...I'll look into it later."

Lap Dog

fellas is it gay to do whatever the fuck this is

where did the interpretation of bill cipher as a sex pest come from?

to be clear, I have nothing against bill being super sexual and in fact enjoy it quite a bit, but it's a read on him that I've never personally understood the origin of. I'm not trying to argue it, I legitimately want to understand it because it's an incredibly popular characterization

(2nd one is from the reddit AMA)

And while this could all very well be another form of mockery and deprecation toward the hypothetical reader of TBOB and people interacting with him on reddit, it's also interesting to note that, if taken in earnest, he has many firm boundaries himself. It hints that the sex pest fratboy persona is nothing more than a ruse, a bit, a mask that he adopts to rile people up, but it's not his default inclination.

I agree with one of the previous rebloggers about it being a power thing. (He's Bill. Obviously it's a power thing XD) But the second someone turns it around and puts him in a position of vulnerability, the mask breaks down.

For example, I don't think bill is being earnest. The questions being asked/the readers actions are clearly non-sexual to me, and I think bill also knows that the reader/questioner never meant to sexually imply anything. But he is performatively claiming that these comments were sexual in order to embarrass and degrade the reader/questioner.

And I think bill really enjoys embarrassing and humiliating people. That could be sexual on its own, but we can go even deeper, no pun intended.

We know bill has a tendency to project onto others, and he does that by dragging unsuspecting people down to his level. He's trying to convince others that they are pervs. Because the more he accuses others, the more he normalises that for himself.