So I took part online in the #Cipherhunt started by Alex Hirsch via twitter last month. Gravity Falls puzzles ate my soul, not that I had one to lose haha. But y’kno. There’s always sleep to lose.
I’m hoping to someday get back into attending gaming/media conventions, and plan to do a grown-up version of Dipper Pines. I love the fanart out there of him sporting wicked arm sleeve tatts, but tired of seeing the old cipher wheel figuring front and center.
So I decided to whip up a draft for a tatt design that featured iconography for space, time, and matter, instead! Compass rose, lunar phases, and old alchemical icons for wind, water, earth and air. A nice bit of latin up top (ad astra inclinant, sed non obligant - needs work I hate handwriting but hey, it’s a start) as a nod to grunkle Ford, and WHAT for the compass points as a nod to grunkle Stan. The only iconography featured here from the original cipher zodiac is the large inverted pine tree and the tiny shooting star at the center of the compass.
The censored portion around the wrist is to be Dipper’s real name, suitably encoded into artful ciphers so as to look awesome and spoil nothing.
I also drew this asshole, and thus lost all permissions to use highlighters and gelpens.
I stole them back anyway because I wanted a new avatar for the Cipherhunt’s chatgroup. Everybody loves Bipper the best anyway. Just like I like causing eye trauma by using unfiltered cyan and magenta for gratuitous rim lighting.
