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antimony-medusa · 5 months ago

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Feeling some kind of way in my emduo feelings about Phil confirming last night that HC phil being c!phil and q!phil is a multiverse situation and not a literal timeline, which means that as it turns out, a constant across all the universes of this character is either the presence or the references to Technoblade.

#PREPARED TO HAVE THIS JOSSED by the lore on friday but I was just eating kraft dinner and going okay so #i can understand this lore #like branching timelines I get it #... wait #:sobbing emoji: MY GUYS #but syndicate #antarctic empire #the techno memorial on hardcore #techno stories and helping chayanne on qsmp #everyone gets to be self indulgent with their lore analysis sometimes and this is mine

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allmyhomieshatelawns · 9 months ago

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Hiiiiii everyone I’ve become obsessed w Trolls, and by extension, several of the AUs here. In particular, @djmurphy ‘s Hypno Pop AU has had me in its clutches. I couldn’t stop myself so I wrote a lil somethin’ in between working on my Feral!Branch AU.

Bit of a warning, it’s def unreliable narrator, and yes, it’s supposed to be kinda creepy. I hope y’all like, please do not copy or post to another site. Lmk what y’all think!

"Hee, hee, hee, hee, heh, heh, eheh…" It wouldn't stop, no matter what I tried, nothing would make it stop. My face hurt, my entire body hurt if I was being honest. It was getting harder to do that. My voice wasn't my own, instead spewing false, toxic positivity that made me want to scream. It was hard to be honest even inside my own head when the compulsions wouldn't leave me alone either.

Keep Smiling. The compulsions hurt, but it hurt worse to try and resist. Like my nerves were being burnt. The compulsions made it easier to go about my day-to-day. I always knew what I was supposed to be doing, and how to be a good troll like everybody else. It was comforting to have a safety net.

Keep Singing. This one was harder to obey, but somehow even more painful to try and ignore. Whether I obeyed or not, it felt like liquid fire in my veins. I watched it happen over and over and over again. Every time I opened my mouth to sing, I saw her push me out of the way instead. It was painful fighting to go grey. My vocal cords always felt shredded, and they had lost a lot of their angelic body, sounding raspy, damaged.

Go To King Peppy. My numb feet carried me to the King's pod that he shared with his youngest daughter. I wasn't supposed to talk about Viva either, which was wrong. Poppy should know about her older sister, even if she never got to meet her. I knew a little about my parents, even if they had been taken before my egg hatched. At least I knew my parents existed. I wonder what my brothers are up to…

Part of me yearned to have them home still, that same part I was scared was getting dependent on the string. I would feel my feet quickening as the power of the string would begin to fade, heading to King Peppy's door, knowing I wouldn't skip. It was horrifying to think part of myself actually liked being like this. I still remembered resisting, or trying to, hating every moment of this prison. I remembered trying to scream, trying to get anyone to help me and I couldn't make myself do anything. Oh after the first close calls King Peppy had made sure to put in the compulsions to 'never alarm anyone'. Now people didn't panic when they saw me, and it was all thanks to King Peppy!

I reached King Peppy's office, knocking politely and entering the room as he bid me. King Peppy helped me when no one else could. He was the only one able to help me get rid of my greyness, the only one willing to do what it took to make me normal. I owed him everything. My smile was blindingly painful.

"Ah, Branch, perfect timing as always." King Peppy smiled broadly, opening his arms for a hug.

I leapt into his arms, the contact feeling like licking flames.

King Peppy held me for a moment, before setting me back down. He reached into his hair, pulling out a nearly-empty lyre, with one glittering pink string on it.

My heartbeat quickened seeing it, eyes tunneling to focus on the horribly beautiful string. It glowed with its own light, drawing me in and re-thickening the haze over everything I saw. I felt my shoulders begin to relax as the haze crept further, like a wild animal with its eyes hooded.

A few plucks of the string, and I felt my mind wash away in a comfortable haze. All of the anxiety and negativity bleeding away to the innermost recesses of myself. It was such a relief to not have to deal with all of those pesky emotions! Now I could just be happy and sing and dance and have fun like everyone else!

I smiled, my face comfortably numb from the fresh effects of the string. "Thank you, King Peppy! I feel much better now!" I chirped, hardly able to see him at all through the haze.

"I'm so glad to hear that, Branch! Now, I've still got some work to finish up, why don't you run along and find someone to play with until you're called for dinner?" King Peppy chuckled as he suggested it, placing the sacred string back in its spot, safely in his hair.

The village was still bustling even at this hour, people skipping about and holding hands and singing and dancing. It was amazing.

My whole body felt like it was floating, like I was only connected to it by a tiny string. I waved and smiled at everyone who greeted me, even if I couldn't tell who had spoken to me. It unnerved me not being able to see more than a couple of troll-lengths away at best. No shadows to see a hand reaching down for–

"Hey, Branch! There you are! I was just looking for you!" Princess Poppy's cheerful voice broke in before a compulsion could correct my thought.

My head whipped around to her voice, my smile still painful, but a little more genuine. Princess Poppy was a sweet girl, even if she was annoying. She was perfect and would make an excellent queen one day.

"Princess! What can I do for you today?" I asked, kneeling down in front of her. She wasn't that much shorter than me, but I would take any excuse to get off of them. I had to stay fresh for more dancing, after all!

She beamed at me, somehow making it look effortless and completely sincere.

"One of the performers for my party tonight had to backout last minute. Would you be able to fill in? I don't need a full set or anything, just a couple of songs." Her voice was pleading, eyes big and pouty. She should know by now I can't say no to her.

"Of course, what's the theme for the party?" My grinning kept up, my lips not allowed to turn down in her presence.

"Thank you so much Branch you have no idea how much this means to me!" Poppy rushed out in one breath, leaping at me and hugging me tightly. I responded automatically, not having to think about hugging back. That was the nice thing about being a puppet in your own body at least.

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warning-heckboop · 1 year ago

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Choosing to believe that the reason it was only the brothers and their grandmother at the time of Brozone's breakup was because their parent(s) were captured and eaten at one of the last Trollstice's before the escape while protecting the rest of them, and Branch, being only 1-2 years old, was the only one young enough to not remember the traumatic event that ultimately put strain on the brothers because they all felt somewhat guilty yet also resentful towards the others for what happened 💕

#he's canonically around 23 in the first movie i guess and that took place exactly 20 years after the escape #meanwhile the next youngest Floyd looked like a teen at least while branch was still a baby in the last concert flashback #so i get the feeling the other four would have still been pretty young #but at the same time old enough to feel like they could have done something to protect their parent #I've been thinking about the timeline a lot okay #trolls #trolls band together #trolls brozone #brozone

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noirandchocolate · 2 months ago

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Everybody's excited for the Tears of the Kingdom Masterworks book to drop tomorrow and that's cool and all but meanwhile I'm just wanting to see that sweet sweet shipping notification for my Great Deku Tree lego sets on Sunday.

#kidk says stuff #legend of zelda #'sets' bc i ordered one for my bro as well #i can't build it right away because of reasons but i want it to get heeeeere #i also want to know what the masterworks book says but. i'm kinda wanting to wait to get TOO excited until it maybe comes out in english #it'll be interesting to see what lore gets rearranged to make totk fit the timeline and with the botw lore presented in creating a champion #personally i...uh...well i kinda prefer the botw lore. like a lot. but i'm still interested to see how they'll TRY #and whether it's laughable or makes any sense #((i like totk but kinda...not as a sequel to botw. i kiiiiiinda wish it was its own thing. different link and zelda.))#((far enough away in any direction in the wacky branching timeline that 'hey all the sheikah stuff is now missing and it's all zonai now))#((might've. made any sense.))

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hoofpeet · 2 years ago

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Hehe

-In which Emmet manages to get to Hisui and back, bringing Ingo home but accidentally leaving Sugar behind </3

-Sugar slowly realizes that her trainer abandoned her and starts hating humans, eventually dying and becoming a Hisuian Zoroark.

-Emmet assumes that she died in Hisui (which she did, technically) and has a reasonable grieving period, until she reappears as a ghost type. At which point Emmet is absolutely horrified to realize that Sugar's been in horrible pain for the last 100 something years, thinking that he left her to freeze to death in Hisui.

-'Spice' is just Sugar's jokersona </3

#hoof draws #replacement ingo au #<-another funny little au branch i thought of uhm. i'll get back to the normal timeline now but i had one last concept to get out #.i don't know what the trope is called but i love stories where pessimist-leaning kinda bitter guy teams up w/ optimist silly guy #and pessimist guy slowly rubs off on optimist guy via dragging them thru trauma and wearing them down over time #until there's the pivotal confrontation and suddenly seeing how absolutely beaten down and angry they look #.compared to how they looked at the start (full of life)#and pessimist guy suddenly realizing that they absolutely ruined this person's life in their carelessness #<-not that emmet is really at fault for anything but like god. that moment of realizing he accidentally fucked up sugar's life

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tmntkiseki · 5 months ago

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If TMNT 2003 ever gets the Saturday Morning Adventures treatment, I sure hope Emilio Lopez and Khary Randolph are brought on to do the artwork. They are KILLING IT between all the previews for the upcoming 2003 oneshot and yesterday's Father's Day illustration.

#star's turtle talk #teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt #tmnt 2003 #tmnt 2k3 #Saturday Morning Adventures: 2003 edition would be an absolute godsend #2003 only got one proper comic adaption and it was abruptly cancelled after seven issues due to the company going bankrupt #If it were to get a new comic adaption I wonder how they would go about the story #Would they continue from where the upcoming oneshot left off?#Or would they do something like SMA where they set the story after Ninja Tribunal but before Fast Forward/Back to the Sewer/Turtles Forever #Or maybe Fast Forward/Back to the Sewer/Turtles Forever is just treated as noncanon and the comic it becomes its own branching 2003 timelin #WHO KNOWS?!

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kalloway · 11 months ago

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goin back to 2018/19 because I want to rewrite/finish my own fic, smh

it's been kinda nice rewatching the videos I used to, tho... kinda comfy feeling, despite what the games are all about hahaha

#delete later #wip #mortal kombat #myart #i have seen her new design in MK1 (havent *watched* anything from it tho) and it's really good!#I like seeing them branch out in terms of like cultural influence and styles/aesthetics #the amount the games have visually improved since MK9 (which I greatly dislike lol) is INSANE - every game gets me like #“oh wow this looks so good... no way they can do better for the next one” - and then they knock it out of the park YET AGAIN #but I still have a soft spot for MKX Tanya to a degree... partly because of the fic I was writing tho lmao #it's still gonna end up being set in the same timeline it originally was which might be a lil awkward but like...#guess that just happens when u reboot something right? hahaha #im just sorta bummed the guy whose Story mode vids I watched for MK9 MKX and MK11 isn't doing them anymore #so I'll have to find someone else's MK1 story mode vid to watch... RIP

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razzle-zazzle · 9 months ago

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Fighting the first movie tooth and nail trying to figure out how it all goes down.

I am not winning 😞

#between au #dreamworks trolls #main issue is that poppy and branch DON'T KNOW EACH OTHER prior to poppy arriving at bergentown #so the true colors scene DOESN'T WORK the way it does in canon #but i need branch to sing again dammit‚ his whole arc in this movie is taking his ''i am a BERGEN i am NOT A TROLL'' mentality #and shaking it vigorously until he comes to understand that he's both and neither and that's okay #like i know what i want for AFTER the events of the movie (pop village and bergentown as allies‚ trollstice & chef dead & gone)#but i need to know how to GET THERE IN THE CONFINES OF THE MOVIE (chef finds trolls‚ trollstice almost happens #poppy negotiates peace between their kingdoms like the girlboss she is)#just branch BEING THERE in the scene where chef shoves creek into gristle's mouth could change everything so so much #bc would creek still be yoinked and shoved into gristle's mouth??? would he still get the chance to show his true colors?????#AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #possible idea is to retcon the timeline so that gristle senior is still there in the movie‚ but slowly dying from illness while his son #is acting king and falling apart under the pressure #but then i still need to figure out how the fuck poppy's role fits into that #there's just. gdmt branch why must you make everything so much more complicated #branch and his complexity addiction smh

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firebird-nonnette · 1 year ago

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I never post, but just finished Loki s2e4 and.... what the hell?

Rant in the tags...

#loki spoilers #spoilers #like i can guess that this is leading up to some kind of TVA timeline branch #where they can get another shot at this #but everything was so choppy and scenes lacked progress or cosnequence #they were only exclamated by intense and disappointing gore or hopelessness #a real tough watch and tougher on suspending disbelief #and im nitpicking but it was only a 'magic dampener' that was keeping magic from being real in the TVA?#seems a little eh... like are infinity stones powerful now?#i had loved the idea of the TVA being a place without magic simply bc it was mysteriously separate from the rest of reality #anyways i just had to rant #old-man-yells-at-cloud style #im hoping that wasnt the end of Timely #i knew something bad was gonna happen to him when he had his cocoa #they only make characters do something that cute if theyre gonna suffer #im banking on next weeks ep being about going back on the TVAs timeline #the TVA used to be timeless but now that timeslipping is possible in the TVA i imagine that meand the TVA is now a part of 'time'#just kinda disappointed in the writing for this episode #but most marvel shows tend to have a episode 3-5 dip in quality for some reason #oh well

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philtatosbuck · 11 months ago

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was wyatt being a boy stupid? yes was it an interesting dynamic for wyatt and chris anyway? absolutely would i have liked for the eldest to be a girl named melinda? you betcha

#or like #melinda being the one to come back with chris #instead of bianca #give us both baby siblings trying to desperately save their older brother #OR. melinda comes from the future to save baby chris #i really just wanted melinda actually #charmed 1998 #piper halliwell #wyatt halliwell #chris halliwell #melinda halliwell #my favorite branch of the family fr #i think about wyatt and chris and melinda so much #or alternate timeline melinda -- only child from a bad future that no longer exists in which phoebe died #meeting with chris and wyatt #or getting sent to the present timeline and being raised as the oldest now #bro SOMETHING. i was DEPRIVED

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nailtagyuri · 1 year ago

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when i was 12 this was the coolest most mindblowing shit ever i was genuinely so obsessed with it I'd read it very day like the bible. I would die for a version of this with the post 3D world content over my country

#i hve vs super mario bros on my switch bc i wanted to chronologically play through the storied hero timeline and i couldnt find a rom #I think it has the same appeal as spid.erverse kinda except instead of multiple different people filling the same role as sp.iderman its #the same guy it's still mario but the changes come from things going differently at certain points in his life do you GET ME!!#LIKE!!!!!!!! MOST OF IT'S DETERMINED BY WHAT HAPPENS IN YOSHIS ISLAND AND THERES ALTERNATIVE PATHS IF HE WINS OR FAILS!!! GAME OVERS HAVE #CONSEQUENCES THAT BRANCH INTO THEIR OWN TIMELINES MARIO CAN END UP WITH DIFFERENT PARENTS ITS SO COOLLLLLL #and i love how each of the major branches has their own theme like “action hero” is the one with all the gameplay-focused #mainline titles “storied hero” is the one with all the M&L rpgs and more plot-heavier stuff and “blue collar hero” is this third one #with all the donkey kong titles and wackier/arcade titles WHERE i might add his design had a blue shirt and red overalls #and the tl builds off of those games into nsmb so i like to hc that he kept his early 80s design well into the later games <-autistic sorry #AND how thetimelines represent how their different backstories have influenced their personalities and thought processes a little like #what happened to mario in the blue collar branch like he either becomes EVILL!!!! and kidnaps donkey kong leading to dkjr or #divorces peach and has a self isolation arc after nsmb2 whats going on w him...#and i LOVE how all of them have a sort of common event where bowser invades the mushroom kingdom and in each timeline its #represented by a different variation of the original super mario bros game with action hero's event being represented by smb itself #which is fitting since thats the branch where mario and luigi ended up with their intended parents and everything went as planned #and i think a general theme here is that the more things go against intention the sillier it gets dont even get me STARTED on the time #travel shenanigans in bottom right which lead into the handheld remakes i love this so much its unreal #i do wish paper mario wasnt explained away as a dream but like thats its whole other world and art style and itd be difficult #to fit it into one of the major branches so i get why it was done. i probably wouldve just given it its own isolated bubble in the corner #at that rate i probably wouldve added so much more shit to the main tl im talking game&watch games i look at this and i see a pitch #for a full feature length autism production you understand

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rexscanonwife · 2 years ago

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Also work has been playing a lot of 2000s pop punk rock over the speakers and I can't stop thinking about dramatic edgy emo Crosshair 😂😂

Like when Brea breaks up with him he goes to the shooting range by himself and is just blasting "WHERE ARE YOUUU AND I'M SO SORRY"

#jane journals #self insert talk #🎯 baby shot me down 🎯#ahfjgmgkg listen you're all gonna get the Details soon #some stuff happened between these two lemme tell ya #but im also sorta working out what i really WANT from them #and you know me nothing can just be simple #i gotta have a 'prime' timeline and other branches off of that timeline of 'what ifs'#if i drew like a tree of timelines ITD PROBABLY CONFUSE MORE THAN HELP TBH 😂😂😂

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spagheddiesquash · 1 day ago

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well i could move to europe. we have the means to and ive always wondered what it would be like to actually LIVE there. but i have a life here and i had PLANS here. really big ones. and none of my friends have a europe to be able to just pack up and move to. sure i bet its leagues nicer than this shithole but those friends are family to me. and if i go with my blood family and cant take my friend family with me then i dont really see a point to it all. and so we press on anyway. as one does. as humanity always has. for the rest of life and time.

#in laymans terms: fuck it we ball #yknow the thing about time is it just keeps going forever. and i find that interesting given im writing a comic about time #ive found every realization about time ive thought of to be interesting #sometimes you have those moments where you can almost feel the timeline split in two #and the thing is THOSE outcomes will branch out into OTHER outcomes #like a piece of broccoli. or better yet a tree i suppose.#and after that what then? even more outcomes forever #i know everyone else is probably in the middle of their own moments of Profound Thought #so im sorry for clogging up your dashes with even more of that. hahaha #but in times like this what the hell else are you supposed to do with your feelings. yknow?#look man im gonna try to look on the bright side and hang in there. i should get one of those posters with the cat on it #and i encourage you guys to do that as well #godspeed my friends

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waywardsalt · 2 months ago

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likely going to delete this later but i am like. is the three-branching og loz timeline confusing? or do people just say that bc they hate it

#bc like. maybe this is me having only played a handful and then watching some (older) vids but like #its always made sense to me? and im not asking the games to line up perfectly in game with ther predecessors in a sense #i think it makes sense in like. pointing out what games exist when and in what state of this world #and just works for me as suggesting an order of events #and i think its fascinating how it cements branching timelines i think thats cool and i think its interesting #and it adds more freedom/meaning to the branches imo theres more room for different outcomes #i dont mind the og official timeline like i get that they prolly just tossed that shit out there but like #idk i personally like it and never figured out why people act like its the most confusing lore sequence of events every conceived

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xavieremix · 3 months ago

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#i should make a vent tag #or just like. a tag for when i need to get stuff out of my brain because i dont have anybody i can just tell stuff #like i DO but brain goes “oh but what if it comes back to bite me in the ass”#considering the last person i had that i DID tell stuff to without worry. well. uh.#anyway #i wish there were a way to float questions that didn't have Shrimplications before asking #or could avoid situations where there's only one real response that the person can give without feeling like a jerk #i cant exactly ask “hey am i actually in this friend group or are yall humoring me”#like realistically i know of course i am. with the context it'd be weird if i wasn't.#but -thor voice- is it though?#and then even IF i talked to somebody about it it's the catch-22 #if they go “yes you're part of the group you're our friend” then clearly they're just lying to make me feel better #and if they go “no lol” then. well.#the timeline really branched when i decided to read books during recess in first grade instead of learning to socialize huh.

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