#singing to her branch

[condorphoto]

Lesser Goldfinch Spinus psaltria

[endothermic-rain]

So I made more.

[ryssbelle]

N2 Floyd in the first movie

Sad little man got himself captured :(

He also gets punched in the face, but that's neither here nor there lmao

Also sorry for not posting for a fat minute I've been busy XD

Bonus: What John and Branch be doing

RIP in pieces John Dory, you were a brave troll and will be missed

I've got some more doodles of them going through it in the first movie, maybe we will see them soon teehee .

[missescalientee]

In n2 explorer au john dory is going to be so happy when he not only finds out that jade is alive but branch and floyd are also alive

Lots of hugs and long talks ensue!

JD is ECSTATIC

I have two diff versions of Jade and JDs reunion

This one that’s httyd inspired and also a fun bit XD

And then this one almost made me cry cuz I’m very emotional about this song cuz to me ITS THEIR SONG FOREVER AND ALWAYS

I’m so insane about them

[lyraofthestarsss]

Imagine gray Branch and Poppy were actually friends before the first movie and he would like send her tape recordings of him singing quietly in his bunker (like singing for her birthday) because yes he’s “the grumpy troll who doesn’t sing” to everyone else but Poppy is the only one he trusts to hear him sing

[viperhearted]

you can say a lot of things about rp but where else will i be able to live out my stonefaced slavic siblings with an abundance of the cain instinct who would kill for eachother at the drop of a hat dreams

[delicioustarong]

I have so many thoughts about Branch right now.

One particular thought of mine is this scenario, where Gray! Branch meets his future self, who is happy and colorful. I keep asking myself, "How will he react?" "What will happen?" and "How can I turn this both sad and funny?" (LMAO)

This is one of my favorite daydreams to imagine because I can't really write it out. I'm not a writer (I suck at expressing myself through words). I might draw a comic. Maybe? Idk. But anyway, I keep thinking about the fact that Branch was clearly born to be in the spotlight. Bro can adapt to new music fast, is great at singing (his voice is literally being compared to an angel), and the fact he's in two bands is just 🤯.

So whenever I imagine my daydream, I always have this specific dialogue in mind that just makes me go feral.

"How can you be so happy?! After everything we've been through! How can you smile and laugh like we aren't the reason why grandma isn't here?"

"Because grandma would want us to be happy. Grandma would want us to move on and forgive ourselves!.....I never realized that until someone showed me that I can be happy, I just needed help finding it."

[mariocki]

RIP Michael Gambon (19.10.1940 - 28.9.2023)

"Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it?"

"Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me."

[razzle-zazzle]

Hi, not sure if you answered this already but for your between au when branch gets adopted by gristle do you have any plans to continue with it? You kinda skipped the part during the first movie and I’d really like to know what happens when jd goes to get Bruce and clay. The fight scene would be so much more brutal than in canon. Either branch talking about how much worse he had it than his brothers or him not caring at all about their fighting. Oh and clay being out “serioused” by branch! I just really like ur au and your writing. I understand if you’re occupied with other stuff but do you atleast have so hc to give?

Oh don't worry, I do! My next Trolls piece should hopefully be for the Between AU! I usually do write stuff out of order, though, so I'll get to the first and second movies too, don't worry!

And that argument in the third movie... it'll definitely be a bit different, though not exactly in the ways you're guessing... actually, here, have a little snippet from when I wrote out a rough draft for the scene several weeks ago:

"I'm not calming down until John apologizes!" Clay declared, Bruce echoing the sentiment. "Well," John Dory started, voice beginning to rise, "sorry I tried to make Brozone the best it could be! Sorry I took care of you all when our parents got eaten!" He didn't sound very sorry. "A real apology!" Bruce shot back. "For the way you treated us! For the way you're treating us now!" "Ohhhh, so I shouldda just left y'all to your own devices, then, is that it?" John Dory's voice had dropped, but the bitter intensity remained. "Should've just left Floyd to die in that diamond, because TROLL FORBID I EVER DO ANYTHING TO MESS WITH YOUR PERFECT LIVES!" His hands waved about wildly as he spoke, rage etched in every feature. "That's not what we're saying and you know it!" Bruce riposted, "You just can't admit to your faults at all, can you? Because oh, noooo, perfect John Dory never makes any mistakes—" "I'M TRYING, DAMMIT!" John Dory roared. Clay interjected. "Well you're doing it wrong! Bossing us around and ruining things just like you always do!" "ENOUGH!" Branch yelled, in the same voice he used to be heard in a room full of Bergens, the same voice he used to project himself further and larger and safer. "You're all ruining this! None of you are listening and you're all going in circles!"

As for Vaycay Island and Hole-n-Fun, I have a few plans for how they'll go >:] Vaycay Island will probably be a lot tamer, with the most stress coming from Bruce being nervous about Groth & Bernice' presence (they got paid leave and so they immediately went on vacation) and Branch's familiarity with them, but otherwise the scene goes pretty similarly to in canon. Hole-n-Fun, though... oh boy.

AND I HAVE A JOKE I PROBABLY WON'T GET TO USE WHERE IN RESPONSE TO CLAY CLAIMING RESPONSIBILITY OF THE FINANCES BRANCH GOES "But logistics are MY thing!" AND IT'S NOT THE SAME AS BRANCH "OUT-SERIOUSING" CLAY BUT IT'S CLOSE ENOUGH ASDFDGYTDRFSDHFGFDZDFSDGFHGF

and then there's a lot more you can find in the AU tag! I even discuss my plans for the first movie (it was. a struggle to figure out)

[tigresslanzhu]

No Matter What The Month…

Buster: All those April showers did bring May flowers! Now to look forward to what May flowers bring.

Gunter: Travelers from England!

Amelia: Unbearable summer weather.

Artica: Falling petals from the wisteria tree out on my front lawn when you shake the branches!

Buster: SERIOUSLY, ARTICA?!?

Meena: [shrugs] She isn’t wrong.

Amelia is owned by @phoenix-the-mistfit-fire-bird

[amethyst-halo]

Besides viva and poppy is kismet apart of the bar

They see branch and is like “ WE NEED A FALSETTO

Then later on “WE NEED A SOPRANO

AKJSHJKHDF yaknow i havent thought abt kismet in there! maybe they'll be the musicians playing in the town that branch and poppy start dancing to and thjey're like "oh shit :O"

[solsikke-multifandom]

HIS TWIRLS, BRO! HIS TWIRLS! THAT SQUARE OLD MAN HAS NO RIGHT TO BE SO SILLY (HE DOES)

My Lil bro singing in the background, hehe. He loves Branch and I love John Dory, what a coincidence, huh?

[fishermcn]

Never has a man been less certain of the quality of his craft than in this instance.

"Surely... nah, no, couldn't be." He hesitates, fingers tap-tapping one of the almost too warm perfume bottles hung along his belt. "Flames, they are. Plenty hot. Miranda powder's fine ground."

Great. Good. Nothing is wrong with the perfumes he's only spent the better part of fifteen winters crafting and perfecting. Everything is fine, of course, and uncorking one and nearly singeing his eyebrows off with a burst of sparks to prove it has nothing to do with what he's seen.

Certainly not.

[etherealvoidechoes]

Can either of you learn how to let go?

Sad-ish future scene of that VoidWalker AU.

[xthestormcrow]

tag dump v1 hozier lyrics

[feralplantwife]

Hot take of the day I guess but Sabrina Carpenter is literally 26 years old. She's not a child star anymore. If she wants to have racy album covers and write songs about having sex with men she doesn't really like or respect, then that's her prerogative and people should shut the fuck up about it.

Nobody whines and cries and kicks up this much fuss when men show women in "compromising" positions or write songs about having sex with women they don't care about. They don't say anything at all. It's just another Thursday.

"It's not progressive"

"it's setting women back"

By doing what? Showing a woman in a sexual context? You can't have feminism or support the feminist movement without including female sexuality in that context. Picking and choosing which parts of feminism you're willing to stand up for and support is not feminism. It's moral policing, and there is absolutely no room for that behavior if you're actually fighting for equity.

Sabrina Carpenter is a woman who has sex with men, and she sings about it and makes album covers about it, and if you have a problem with that, I think you need to sit about and seriously consider why that is.

I see people arguing that it's subversive, and frankly I don't care whether it is or not. That's not the point. It shouldn't matter if it's subversive or not. I also see people saying that Sabrina Carpenter is the most heterosexual thing they've ever seen so they don't care, and again, yes you should! The branches of misogyny and homophobia grow from the exact same fucking roots. Feminist issues and queer issues can't be excluded from each other if they're to be fully understood.

Wishing all women and fems a very Horny On Main Is Fine And Good Even, and I for one look forward to dragging my aroace nonbinary brain through Sabrina's entire discography.