History TearJerker / GravityFallsJournal3

* In Blendin's secret message, even though Dipper and Mabel managed to get his job back, Time Baby and the entire Time Police [[YankTheDogsChain kept on teasing him for losing Globnar to two kids]]. It got so bad, that Blendin [[DealWithTheDevil made a deal with Bill Cipher]] to take care of Time Baby. This deal led to [[DemonicPossession Bill possessing Blendin]], and jumpstarting Weirdmageddon. After Time Baby was vaporized by Bill, the Time Police deemed [[MisplacedRetribution Blendin a criminal]]. Because of this, Blendin had to travel to different time periods to hide from the Time Police. After he got [[TrappedInThePast stuck in the 1800s]], Blendin used this opportunity to [[WriteBackToTheFuture write a cryptogram based message for Dipper and Mabel]]. Sadly, it was implied that the twins [[AllForNothing never decoded the message]]. After all that, it's hard not to feel sorry for what Blendin went through.

* Bill reveals in one note that had he won the events of "Sock Opera", he would have disposed of Dipper's body by leaping off the water tower and staging his ''suicide'', trapping the real Dipper in the mindscape forever. The worst part is that the end of this message implies that Mabel would have either killed herself shortly afterward in response or Bill would have sought to use her as his next "puppet".

* In Blendin's secret message, even though Dipper and Mabel managed to get his job back, Time Baby and the entire Time Police [[YankTheDogsChain kept on teasing him for losing Globnar to two kids]]. It got so bad, that Blendin [[DealWithTheDevil made a deal with Bill Cipher]] to take care of Time Baby. This deal led to [[DemonicPossession Bill possessing Blendin]], and jumpstarting Weirdmagedon. After Time Baby was vaporized by Bill, the Time Police deemed [[MisplacedRetribution Blendin a criminal]]. Because of this, Blendin had to travel to different time periods to hide from the Time Police. After he got [[TrappedInThePast stuck in the 1800s]], Blendin used this opportunity to [[WriteBackToTheFuture write a cryptogram based message for Dipper and Mabel]]. Sadly, it was implied that the twins [[AllForNothing never decoded the message]]. After all that, it's hard not to feel sorry for what Blendin went through.

* Seeing how Ford trusted and bonded with Bill is saddening enough, knowing what happens. But it's a bigger punch in the gut when the ciphers are translated: Bill is essentially bragging about his plans and how he's using Ford to build his Portal, ''and Ford doesn't even know it.''

* Ford actually treated the shapeshifter relatively well, like a pet even, only for it to grow obsessed with Journal 3 to the point of capturing and impersonating Fiddleford in an attempt to get it, with Ford feeling regretful about having to freeze them.

* Ford ruined Fiddleford's life by inviting him to help with the portal. As we saw in the show, Fiddleford was married and had a young son, thus he was more practical about what Ford should do with his Gravity Falls research. Ford gets a JerkassRealization when he sees a long-bearded Fiddleford who has been through the wringer -- more so when the twins give him the details off-screen-- and convinces him to patent his inventions.
** Worse still, it’s implied that Fiddleford suffered from anxiety problems even before the portal, especially when he was attacked by the Shapeshifter and the Gremloblin. Adding to everything in the main show, the poor man has had a serious TraumaCongaLine. At least things got better in the end.
* Along with the aforementioned entry about Lake Gravity Falls, there’s multiple references to Stan, most of whom are crossed out. Ford really did miss his brother, but he couldn’t bring himself to admit it…
* Seeing how Ford trusted and bonded with Bill is saddening enough, knowing what happens. But it’s a bigger punch in the gut when the ciphers are translated: Bill is essentially bragging about his plans and how he’s using Ford to build his Portal-''and Ford doesn’t even know it.''
* Ford’s description of the ObsessivelyNormal society he grew up in is pretty sad, especially an incident where he was bullied for bringing a shrunken head to show-and-tell.

* In Blendin's secret message, even though Dipper and Mabel managed to get his job back, Time Baby and the entire Time Police [[YankTheDogsChain kept on teasing him for losing to two kids]]. It got so bad, that Blendin [[DealWithTheDevil made a deal with Bill Cipher]] to take care of Time Baby. This deal led to [[DemonicPossession Bill possessing Blendin]], and jumpstarting Weirdmagedon. After Time Baby was vaporized by Bill, the Time Police deemed [[MisplacedRetribution Blendin a criminal]]. Because of this, Blendin had to travel to different time periods to hide from the Time Police. After he got [[TrappedInThePast stuck in the 1800s]], Blendin used this opportunity to [[WriteBackToTheFuture write a cryptogram based message for Dipper and Mabel]]. Sadly, it was implied that the twins [[AllForNothing never decoded the message]]. After all that, it's hard not to feel sorry for what Blendin went through.

* The right page of the Island Head Beast is entirely of Ford reflecting on how spending time at Lake Gravity Falls reminds him of his childhood at Glass Shard Beach. A little under the text is a cryptogram from Ford, and a sketch of a boat that was scribbled out. The decoded cryptogram is of Ford reminiscing of when he and Stan hunted for the Jersey Devil as kids...

* The fact that Ford never mentions anything about what happened to Stan after he left with Journal 1 in the "Better World" dimension, only caring that he did what he asked him to do. Some fan theories assume the worst, believing Stan ''committed suicide'' after hiding the book or had it buried with him when he died- because, well, who'd bother robbing a penniless grifter's grave?

* The fact that Ford never mentions anything about what happened to Stan after he left with Journal 1 in the "Better World" dimension, only caring that he did what he asked him to do. Some fan theories assume the worst, believing Stan ''committed suicide'' after hiding the book or had it buried with him when he died- because, well, who'd bother robbing a penniless grifter's grave?

* The fact that Ford never mentions anything about what happened to Stan after he left with Journal 1 in the "Better World" dimension. Even though he changes his mind after Weirdmageddon, it's sad to see that at that point, his ideal life still didn't involve Stan at all.

* The fact that Ford never mentions anything about what happened to Stan after he left with Journal 1 in the "Better World".

* In the limited edition of Journal 3, using a blacklight on one of the pages shows a drawing of Stanford's science fair project, under it are the words: '''''WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN'''''.

* Bill reveals in one note that had he won the events of "Sock Opera", he would have disposed of Dipper's body by leaping off the water tower and staging his ''suicide'', trapping the real Dipper in the mindscape forever. The worst part is that the end of this message implies that Mabel would have either killed herself shortly afterward in response or Bill would have sought to use her as his next "puppet".

* According to one of the cryptograms, at one point as a child Ford held hands with a girl he liked named Cathy, who screamed (due to his polydactyly). As he makes an off-hand (and crossed-out) reference to the girl later, this incident clearly troubles him well into adulthood.

* According to one of the cryptograms, at one point as a child Ford held hands with a girl he liked named Cathy, who screamed (due to his polydactyly). As he makes an off-hand reference to the girl later, this incident clearly troubles him well into adulthood.