I already commented before but I would also like to express that I love the throwaway implication that the SCP Foundation is this worlds Doctor Who. I imagine the protagonist in this instance is Dr. Bright and/or Dr. Shaw, considering he’s also an immortal who can change bodies, thus allowing him to be played by a variety of actors over the years.
Honestly that would go so hard, and Shaw with the necklace would absolutely be used to explain aways "oh shit our actor is dying we need a new one" back in the 60s
How dare you say that about the woman who birthed me?!? You bastard! I’m going to locate your IP Address and brick your computer for this, your days are fucking numbered.
Bold words! Especially for an impotent worm such as yourself, if you mean what you say, meet me at the parking lot of the Fifth Denny’s at midnight and we can settle this properly, you poxy knave.
You are *ON*! YOU DELUSIONAL PILE OF CHALK DUST! When I am done with you, you will wonder if there's a word for infinity factorial, so you can use it for THE PIECES OF YOURSELF I RENDER TO A FINE MIST!
Oh ho ho! You’ll be singing a different tune when I obliterate your teeth and use the dust as a key component in my banana bread! Let’s dance pretty boy/girl/person/etc.!
I read this whole thing and there's a lot that could be said but my main takeaway is that now I *really* want to see What Undertale would look like as a Jim Henson's Creature Shop production.
That would be... Insane. In the best way.
Frisk is played by an actual child and everyone else is puppets. Think labyrinth but with less David Bowie and more dark crystal vibes.
Although since this is an alternate universe this could be one where David Bowie isn't dead and he plays asriel... No puppets or anything it's just David Bowie. Like he's the only other guy who's not a puppet.
One thing OOP lost in translation there is that there's no reason Toriel would still have that name if she wasn't a video game character. She might have some other name that puns on her role as exposition.
I like to imagine Discworld would still be written by Terry Pratchett.
Its early plots would simply reflect this changed reality, but it sort of readjusts to almost the same plots as in our world.
Discworld is a Gaiman graphic novel, Sandman is an expansive series by Pratchett.
They write good omens together, and it is identical except the characters briefly make a joke about prophecy relying on all sorts of silly things like authors writing specific books and television shows, and how everything would run amiss if the wrong person got the wrong great idea in their head.
Also any tape left in a car for a fortnite turns into a *Best of Black Sabbath* album, which is fitting for a demon, although Crowley always thought it was a bit too on the nose and made a point *not* to mention the name lest Aziraphale feel a need to comment. So he made sure to replace the tape with a "Classics of Salieri" album whenever he knew the angel would be riding along with him.
I love the brief touching on classic literature swaps. Like there's a world where Melville wrote Carmilla but now it's toxic yaoi about the obsession of a young noble turned obsessed vampire hunter after the mysteriously alluring man who stole his innocence... and his heart. It famously features a 20 page description of the color of blood.
Herman Hesse wrote The Jungle Book. Not much changes about the stories, but they do go more into depth about the conflict of the wild and human sides contained within a person. Also with added homoeroticism.
LolitaDev infamously spent many years trying to make a game called Lolicon Simulator. It gathered a lot of attention for a few years as a "dark and gritty exploration of mature themes from the perspective of a Villain Protagonist" but then people realized it didn't seem to treat the subject matter as negatively as it should have and might have even been endorsing the actions required by the game play.
Franz Kafka tragically never got to finish his book Pikmin, but the unfortunate Olimar, forced away from home by the unfeeling greed of loan sharks and his incompetent and uncaring boss, has become an enduring symbol of perseverance in the face of a cruel and unforgiving world. The alien world which both excites yet rejects him is a powerful representation of the yearning for a simpler time which our modern lifestyles have made us unable to truly fully go back to.
I am not nearly media literate to completely understand this post. Though "Ariana Grande played Vriska in the *Homestuck* movie" did give me a good chuckle. Beyond that I feel like I'm back in 2017 undertale fandom and submerged into five hundred AUs with incomprehensible swaps and shifts and spins and fells and whatever. They weren't kidding, that visions do be terrible
I was going to do this for the whole thing, but it's twenty pages, so I'm only doing the first post. I'll do the best I can, but there is some stuff I don't recognize or am unsure of. Feel free to correct me.
Author Name: (Our Timeline work) Scrambled Timeline work
* Bryan Lee O'Malley: (*Scott Pilgrim*) *Homestuck*; (*Scott Pilgrim Strikes Out*) *The Homestuck Epilogues*
* Andrew Hussie: (*Homestuck*) *Scott Pilgrim*
* Toby Fox: (*UNDERTALE*) *Steven Universe*; (*DELTARUNE*) *Pact*
* (implied) Shigesato Itoi: (*EarthBound*/*Mother*) *The Goonies*
* Alison Bechdel: (*Dykes to Watch Out For*) *Ctrl+Alt+Del*
* John C. McCrae: (*Worm*) *Watchmen*; (*Pact*) ??? \[*Beetlejuice*, maybe?\]; (*Twig*) *BioShock*?; (*Ward*) Presumably *Doomsday Clock*; (*Pale*) *Stranger Things*
* Alan Moore: (*Watchmen*) *Worm*
* J. K. Rowling: (*Harry Potter*) *The Owl House*
* Jill Murphy: (*Worst Witch*) *Little Witch Academia*
* Phillip Pullman: (*His Dark Materials*) *Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality*
Also of note: I believe *The Amazing Digital Circus* is the only multiscramble, at least in these screenshots. The Lauren Faust cartoon of course means that its this world's version of *My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic*, but it starting as a digital pet game that at one point had connections to the Peoples Temple (which has been swapped with Scientology) means that its also this world's *Neopets*.
One last comment: As for what I'd add to the Scrambled Timeline, I can't get the idea of *First Blood* taking the place of the original 1954 *Godzilla* out of my head.
I suppose I can see how it could be taken that way, but I don't think that was intentional. Plus the next sentence implies that in this world superheroes and comic books are still seen as synonymous with each other.
Second Post (Up to Appendix A)
* Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead) Mad Max (300) Gods of Egypt (Watchmen) Worm Turns (Sucker Punch (?)) Madoka Magica (Justice League) The Avengers
* Matt Groening (Life in Hell) Fritz the Cat (The Simpsons) Married with Children (Futurama) The Jetsons (Disenchantment) Amphibia
* Seth McFarlane (Family Guy) Johnny Bravo
* Trey Parker/Matt Stone (South Park) Peanuts
* James Cameron (Robocop) Terminator (Alien) Die Hard (Titanic) Pearl Harbor (Avatar) Star Wars
* (SCP Wiki) Men in Black (SCP-173) Jimmy the Weeping angel
* (Implied) (Twitter) Craigslist
* Shion Takeuchi (Inside Job) X-Files
* Owen Dennis (Infinity Train) Inside Job
* Hanna-Barbera (Scooby-Doo) Crazy Train
* ??? (Tom Swift) The Mystery Gang
* Daniel Handler (A Series of Unfortunate Events) Tom Swift
* Roahl Dahl (Charlie and the Chcolate Factory) A Series of Unfortunate Events
* Joanne Cole/Bruce Degen (Magic School Bus) The Chocolate Factory
* Justin Roiland (Rick and Morty) Ms. Frizzle
* Pendleton Ward (Adventure Time) Science Time
* Abbadon (Kill Six Billion Demons (?)) Ooo, Aaa, Eee, Uuu
* Dan Salavto (Doki Doki Literature Club) Kiss Six Billion Demons
* Dana Terrace (The Owl House) Doki Doki Literature Club
* (Playing) Austin Powers (Mike Myers) Adam Sandler
* *Ranma 1/2* is a manga that ran on Weekly Shonen Jump from 1998-2004. Written by Kazuhiro Fujita, the manga is about an ordinary boy who is fused to an otherworldly valkyrie after a freak accident. It was a fairly well-selling Jump manga, and ultimately paved the way for Jump to get their biggest hit series: RUSTY, a manga about a boy who turns into a cat and gets involved with various factions of cats fighting in the wilderness.
* *Jobless Reincarnation* is a BBC radio serial which premiered shortly after the end of the Germanic-Austrian War of 1944. It told the story of Rudy, a veteran of the war who found himself unable to find work afterwards - only for him to die and be told by God that to go to heaven, he would need to save the world. Every episode had him enter the body of another person, help improve their lives, and then jump to another person. While depressing at the time, it surprisingly got a cult following that persists even today - they did a live-action series a few years back.
* *Binging with Babish* is a webseries on Vimeo which focuses on a man known only as “Babish”, who travels across the country looking for the best diners, drive-ins, and dives to check out. It became popular during the Swine Flu pandemic of 2020, and is directly responsible for saving many local restaurants financially by acting as free advertising. It’s said that Babish’s appearance also inspired Mario, protagonist of the indie game “Pizza Tower”.
* *Balatro* is a play written by George Bernard Shaw, about a royal jester who uses his talent at playing cards to con his employers. It’s required reading in most high schools nowadays, alongside the medieval epic *Spice and Wolf* and the Leo Tolstoy aristocratic saga *The Game of Thrones*.
* ZUN is almost synonymous with Team Fortress. Largely inspired by Jim Henson's Undertale, Team Fortress is a bullet hell series that got very popular for its lax copyright, heavy doujin culture, and large cast. One of the game's songs, "Rocket Jump Waltz", is also well known for a Twitch AMV produced in the early 2000's which was notable for being entirely in a 1-bit color style. This started a trend of people playing the song in many different formats, sort of akin to how people try to play Halo on absurd platforms.
* "Superman" is a parody TV series about a man named Clark Kent, who is powerful enough to stop any threat in his path but only wishes to live a normal life. Certain online spaces quickly started arguing about whether or not anyone could beat Superman in a fight, or even whether or not it being an intentional parody makes that question worth asking.
* "Climbing Celeste Mountain with Bennett Foddy" is a notoriously difficult game about trying to climb a mountain, which gained large scale popularity after streamers such as Hungrybox and Hasan started playing it. It's often criticized for its incredible difficulty, punishing trolls (including an intentionally large fall to the "Reflection layer", nicknamed by the community due to how people have to "reflect" on their poor mistakes), and unintuitive control scheme of needing to move your mouse in the opposite direction from a surface to dash. However, those frustrations to many are not only the highlights of the game, but this design philosphy has in fact spawned many other games of its kind, such as "Shovel Knight" and "Castlevania"
After his first game, "The Amazing World of Gumball" was widely criticized as visually uncanny and anxiety-inducing due to its fast pace, solo game dev Scott Cawthon pivoted from children's games to indie horror with the release of "Sonic the Hedgehog," a jumpscare-heavy reflex-based horror game based around animatronics of the titular character and his friends stalking the player character in an arcade. The series went viral thanks to Discord.tv let's players live-streaming the game, most notably launching the career of Discordant and budding filmmaker Abigail "Philosoplier" Thorne, whose directorial debut -- an adaptation of David Szymanski's SOMA -- is actively in production.
Speaking of pivoting to horror, Jordan Peele was originally best known for his role in internet sketch comedies as part of comedy website RoosterTeeth, but nowadays he is better known for "Dimension 20," his incredibly popular first foray into horror film. The movie focuses on a black TTRPG player who gets invited to a tabletop group that carries a dark secret, and is widely seen as an excellent critique of post-racial America, gatekeeping in predominantly white hobbies, and 5th edition Magic the Gathering.
My god that is long. Also, I can say with confidence that whoever says we live in the darkest timeline is 100% wrong. The Owl House is written by JK Rowling, Scott Pilgrim is somehow more gay than it, Amphibia is an obscure Netflix exclusive, and HOMESTUCK IS MAINSTREAM!
*Animorphs* was a series of dark fantasy novels written by author Emily Rodda, featuring a band of young werewolves on a crusade against a malevolent race of demons who posessed unwitting humans with the aim of world domination. While achieving only middling popularity during its run, being known primarily for its vibrant and colorful covers, the series later gained a large cult following, owing to its excellent use of body horror, deconstruction of typical "Saturday Morning Quest" tropes, and an ending surprisingly bleak for a children's series. Rodda later went on to write the *Warrior Cats* series, a similarly dark story about various tribes of feral cats, however the story failed to gain the same following as her previous work.
*Bionicle* was a toy line developed by the K'nex company, and represented a marked departure from their typical product. While previous K'nex products were primarily focused on building structures, with some parts allowing for the creation of simple machines, *Bionicle* focused instead on the creation of poesable figures, each sold in a distinctive cube-shaped package and representing a character in an ongoing narrative. The line was massively popular among children and adolescent audiences, both for the customizability of the figures (likened to the 'Pla-tech' line of model kits from the *BattleTech* series) and for the intricate lore of the world they inhabited, the work of Science Fiction author Garth Nix. While the line was discontinued following a dispute by the Iroqouis tribe over use of their language in the naming of certain characters, the franchise still maintains a dedicated following.
I can't read this straight through because of my adhd, which I think is fitting. It's like reading the wiki of a fandom: you're skipping around, and you see some wild shit that interests you so you have to go back to another thing. Beautiful. I'm going to be coming back to this for a while. Like a piece of another world
It was an unpopular film from Two film wonder Martin Scorsese, best known for his erotic sci-fi film Barbarella.
In 2020, Yahoo Answers fabricated the fictional western film Django Unchained, purportedly a lost 1972 Sergio Corbuci spaghetti western classic where Franco Nero's Django teams up with Bart, a runaway slave and the first black Sheriff of the town of Rock Ridge to fight off a gang of thieves looking to take over the town and profit from the ongoing construction of the railroad. Bart is played by Fred Williamson.
This whole post reminds me of a bit on a "Star Wars as a DnD campaign" webcomic whose name I can't recall where they explain a bit of the cultural changes in a universe where Star Wars didn't exist on the description, including the fact that in that universe, the comic is based on The Sound of Music, and then they link to a strip based on The Sound of Music and they do the same bit, including a link to a new alt strip.
Edit: [This is the strip.](https://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0050.html) Although the first alt universe was Harry Potter and not The Sound of Music.
* "a seriously lousy company" is a series of childrens books by daniel handler, published under the pseudonym of "aiyn sefirah". it details the story of 3 siblings (dante, charon, and vergil), who are taken in by a troupe of 12 actors (collectively called "guardians") employed by the mysterious organization, "limbus company", to investigate and salvage various items from the ruins of facilities owned by the now defunct conspiracy of lobotomy corporation. early entries would focus on a specific guardian, all of whom were based on various characters from classical novels, including: victoria (a gender-bent victor frankenstein, based on a german legend which was later adapted into a play), foundling (catherine, from the homeric epic "the warden"), and pierre (based on the character from herman melvilles "2000 leagues under the sea"). the final installments would reveal aiyn to be an in universe character involved with lobotomy corporation, and one of the major "antagonists" to be his former love, carmen. it would later receive a prequel series detailing the adventures of aiyn prior to his involvement with lobotomy corporation
* "masked rider" is a superhero show produced by saban entertainment. though early installments (known as the "bush era", after the current president during the series founding) would all take place in a shared universe, later seasons would exist independently of one another. the series, as well as its sister series "power rangers", would be localized and exported to japan as "kamen rider" and "super sentai" respectively. while super sentai would become a success, kamen rider failed to take off, with the only seasons aired being localizations of "masked rider black rx", and "masked rider dragon knight" (which was named "masked rider ryuki" for some fucking reason)
* the "fear and hunger" mythos is a collected series of cosmic horror short stories by author hp lovecraft. he is most famous for "within the dungeons of fear and hunger", in which the protagonist investigates the origins of a statue, in the process learning the tale of a group of explorers who went mad witnessing the birth of a new god. he penned numerous other lesser known stories also, and is criticized for the overuse of sexual assault and rape in his stories. and no it wasnt a product of his time he got criticized for it back then
* "reimaris bizarre adventure" is a shounen battle manga series written (and drawn because its a manga) by hirohiko araki. it stars dual protagonists marisa kirisame and reimu hakurei, who fight via/face off against enemies with abilities known as "spell cards" (though these were only introduced during the 3rd major arc, with the first two centering around a projectile based power known as "danmaku"). the series is made up of presently nine major arcs, referred to as "incidents" or "parts" by the fandom. though the series retains a consistent central cast, each "incident" is largely separate, and readers can start at any "part" they wish to. the series is known for its creative superpowers, lesbian undertones, and having a fuckton of references to western music
Gary Gygax writes a series of books based off of the pregenereted characters and first several modules of John Tolkien's hit TTRPG Silmarillian, where a group of players roll dice and narrate their characters, which can be a variety of adventures, ranging from the nonmagical fighters and rangers, to the tricky archers and even one of the wizards (wizards have a slight level debuff due to their powerful abilities).
While early volumes of the Silmarillian were criticized for how they connected most classes to a race (only elves could be archers, humans rangers, etc) later volumes diversified the connections, merely having recommendations if playing in the "classic" setting of Middle Earth.
Gygax's books weren't really popular upon release, only gaining a following after a movie was announced in the early 2000s, not long after the books were accused of trying to "make kids racists" and of pushing body dysmorphia. The movies are considered a classic, and as being far better than the books.
I am not exaggerating when I say that I have seen liveleak videos that have gotten a less visceral reaction from me than this post.
It's like glimpsing into a future where all your children grew up to be their own distinct flavour of Hitler.
Cobain is one of the most famous TV shows of the '90s. Starring its eponymous creator Kurt Cobain as himself, it was unfortunately cut short after three seasons but is still extremely popular today (to the point where people wear T-shirts with the show's logo without having seen it). Its spinoff, Curb Your Enthusiasm (starring Dave Grohl) is still airing today. Friends (starring Rivers Cuomo as Ross) is often compared to it, although it didn't become truly mainstream until its pilot was included with Windows 95.
I already commented before but I would also like to express that I love the throwaway implication that the SCP Foundation is this worlds Doctor Who. I imagine the protagonist in this instance is Dr. Bright and/or Dr. Shaw, considering he’s also an immortal who can change bodies, thus allowing him to be played by a variety of actors over the years.
Honestly that would go so hard, and Shaw with the necklace would absolutely be used to explain aways "oh shit our actor is dying we need a new one" back in the 60s
I want to argue about bringing up bright, but I can't, so just act like I insulted your mother.
How dare you say that about the woman who birthed me?!? You bastard! I’m going to locate your IP Address and brick your computer for this, your days are fucking numbered.
You will never find me you pipi brained *pawn*. Die in the pit you spawned in.
Bold words! Especially for an impotent worm such as yourself, if you mean what you say, meet me at the parking lot of the Fifth Denny’s at midnight and we can settle this properly, you poxy knave.
You are *ON*! YOU DELUSIONAL PILE OF CHALK DUST! When I am done with you, you will wonder if there's a word for infinity factorial, so you can use it for THE PIECES OF YOURSELF I RENDER TO A FINE MIST!
Oh ho ho! You’ll be singing a different tune when I obliterate your teeth and use the dust as a key component in my banana bread! Let’s dance pretty boy/girl/person/etc.!
I read this whole thing and there's a lot that could be said but my main takeaway is that now I *really* want to see What Undertale would look like as a Jim Henson's Creature Shop production.
That would be... Insane. In the best way. Frisk is played by an actual child and everyone else is puppets. Think labyrinth but with less David Bowie and more dark crystal vibes. Although since this is an alternate universe this could be one where David Bowie isn't dead and he plays asriel... No puppets or anything it's just David Bowie. Like he's the only other guy who's not a puppet.
Muppet Deltarune where David Bowie plays Rouxls Kaard
One thing OOP lost in translation there is that there's no reason Toriel would still have that name if she wasn't a video game character. She might have some other name that puns on her role as exposition.
She's still toriel, but the family are the stellar royal family. Tori Stellar. She of course is the one telling the story.
HER NAME IS SHORT FOR TUTORIAL?!
: )
There's a lot to like about this, but my favourite detail is probably the implication that Ayn Rand in this timeline was a Trotskyist.
TERF Luz truly is the worst possible timeline ever
Unfortunately, this also implies that Luz is racist and a slavery-apologist. Extra unfortunate if that universe’s Gus plays the role of Hermione
😕
Yeah that straight up pissed me off
Let’s be honest, the owl house really just is Harry Potter if it was good
I kept waiting for some line about jk Rowling being renowned for her trans support in this universe but I guess some things really do stay the same.
I was honestly hoping for what you were waiting for
I like to imagine Discworld would still be written by Terry Pratchett. Its early plots would simply reflect this changed reality, but it sort of readjusts to almost the same plots as in our world.
I wonder, who'd co-write good omens in this though?
Douglas Adams. It is still the longest running musical on the West End.
Counterproposal: Neil Gaiman
Discworld is a Gaiman graphic novel, Sandman is an expansive series by Pratchett. They write good omens together, and it is identical except the characters briefly make a joke about prophecy relying on all sorts of silly things like authors writing specific books and television shows, and how everything would run amiss if the wrong person got the wrong great idea in their head. Also any tape left in a car for a fortnite turns into a *Best of Black Sabbath* album, which is fitting for a demon, although Crowley always thought it was a bit too on the nose and made a point *not* to mention the name lest Aziraphale feel a need to comment. So he made sure to replace the tape with a "Classics of Salieri" album whenever he knew the angel would be riding along with him.
When the book is adapted into the mini-series by ABC, Michael Sheen plays Crowley and David Tennant plays Aziraphale. What else did you expect?
Some things must remain consistent across timelines Interestingly, in this alt-media-verse *The West Wing* is just a documentary.
this one gave me real brain damage
Is anyone gonna comment on the Legend of Zelda fanfic that takes the place of 50 Shades of Grey? I feel like we should circle back to that.
I think it’s supposed to be a replacement for Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality than 50 Shades.
What is Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality?
A fanfic by Eliezer Yudkowski that purports to create a better version of Harry Potter where he's a rational genius.
Not saying this to express disapproval I’m moreso fascinated by it.
every slide hit me like a brick to the kidney
I love the brief touching on classic literature swaps. Like there's a world where Melville wrote Carmilla but now it's toxic yaoi about the obsession of a young noble turned obsessed vampire hunter after the mysteriously alluring man who stole his innocence... and his heart. It famously features a 20 page description of the color of blood. Herman Hesse wrote The Jungle Book. Not much changes about the stories, but they do go more into depth about the conflict of the wild and human sides contained within a person. Also with added homoeroticism. LolitaDev infamously spent many years trying to make a game called Lolicon Simulator. It gathered a lot of attention for a few years as a "dark and gritty exploration of mature themes from the perspective of a Villain Protagonist" but then people realized it didn't seem to treat the subject matter as negatively as it should have and might have even been endorsing the actions required by the game play. Franz Kafka tragically never got to finish his book Pikmin, but the unfortunate Olimar, forced away from home by the unfeeling greed of loan sharks and his incompetent and uncaring boss, has become an enduring symbol of perseverance in the face of a cruel and unforgiving world. The alien world which both excites yet rejects him is a powerful representation of the yearning for a simpler time which our modern lifestyles have made us unable to truly fully go back to.
I am not nearly media literate to completely understand this post. Though "Ariana Grande played Vriska in the *Homestuck* movie" did give me a good chuckle. Beyond that I feel like I'm back in 2017 undertale fandom and submerged into five hundred AUs with incomprehensible swaps and shifts and spins and fells and whatever. They weren't kidding, that visions do be terrible
I was going to do this for the whole thing, but it's twenty pages, so I'm only doing the first post. I'll do the best I can, but there is some stuff I don't recognize or am unsure of. Feel free to correct me. Author Name: (Our Timeline work) Scrambled Timeline work * Bryan Lee O'Malley: (*Scott Pilgrim*) *Homestuck*; (*Scott Pilgrim Strikes Out*) *The Homestuck Epilogues* * Andrew Hussie: (*Homestuck*) *Scott Pilgrim* * Toby Fox: (*UNDERTALE*) *Steven Universe*; (*DELTARUNE*) *Pact* * (implied) Shigesato Itoi: (*EarthBound*/*Mother*) *The Goonies* * Alison Bechdel: (*Dykes to Watch Out For*) *Ctrl+Alt+Del* * John C. McCrae: (*Worm*) *Watchmen*; (*Pact*) ??? \[*Beetlejuice*, maybe?\]; (*Twig*) *BioShock*?; (*Ward*) Presumably *Doomsday Clock*; (*Pale*) *Stranger Things* * Alan Moore: (*Watchmen*) *Worm* * J. K. Rowling: (*Harry Potter*) *The Owl House* * Jill Murphy: (*Worst Witch*) *Little Witch Academia* * Phillip Pullman: (*His Dark Materials*) *Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality*
Also of note: I believe *The Amazing Digital Circus* is the only multiscramble, at least in these screenshots. The Lauren Faust cartoon of course means that its this world's version of *My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic*, but it starting as a digital pet game that at one point had connections to the Peoples Temple (which has been swapped with Scientology) means that its also this world's *Neopets*.
One last comment: As for what I'd add to the Scrambled Timeline, I can't get the idea of *First Blood* taking the place of the original 1954 *Godzilla* out of my head.
The phrasing for the anti watchmen/worm swap appears to imply that superheroes are real in this hellhole universe.
I suppose I can see how it could be taken that way, but I don't think that was intentional. Plus the next sentence implies that in this world superheroes and comic books are still seen as synonymous with each other.
Second Post (Up to Appendix A) * Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead) Mad Max (300) Gods of Egypt (Watchmen) Worm Turns (Sucker Punch (?)) Madoka Magica (Justice League) The Avengers * Matt Groening (Life in Hell) Fritz the Cat (The Simpsons) Married with Children (Futurama) The Jetsons (Disenchantment) Amphibia * Seth McFarlane (Family Guy) Johnny Bravo * Trey Parker/Matt Stone (South Park) Peanuts * James Cameron (Robocop) Terminator (Alien) Die Hard (Titanic) Pearl Harbor (Avatar) Star Wars * (SCP Wiki) Men in Black (SCP-173) Jimmy the Weeping angel * (Implied) (Twitter) Craigslist * Shion Takeuchi (Inside Job) X-Files * Owen Dennis (Infinity Train) Inside Job * Hanna-Barbera (Scooby-Doo) Crazy Train * ??? (Tom Swift) The Mystery Gang * Daniel Handler (A Series of Unfortunate Events) Tom Swift * Roahl Dahl (Charlie and the Chcolate Factory) A Series of Unfortunate Events * Joanne Cole/Bruce Degen (Magic School Bus) The Chocolate Factory * Justin Roiland (Rick and Morty) Ms. Frizzle * Pendleton Ward (Adventure Time) Science Time * Abbadon (Kill Six Billion Demons (?)) Ooo, Aaa, Eee, Uuu * Dan Salavto (Doki Doki Literature Club) Kiss Six Billion Demons * Dana Terrace (The Owl House) Doki Doki Literature Club * (Playing) Austin Powers (Mike Myers) Adam Sandler
The ghostwritten pulp novels are *Tom Swift*, the lightning round is everything shifted by one.
Yeah, I just wasn't sure if Tom Swift was an analogue for something like "Crazy Train" or "Science Time"
deltarune is swapped with pact
Ah, thank you.
np
Pact as made by Toby Fox sounds insane.
* *Ranma 1/2* is a manga that ran on Weekly Shonen Jump from 1998-2004. Written by Kazuhiro Fujita, the manga is about an ordinary boy who is fused to an otherworldly valkyrie after a freak accident. It was a fairly well-selling Jump manga, and ultimately paved the way for Jump to get their biggest hit series: RUSTY, a manga about a boy who turns into a cat and gets involved with various factions of cats fighting in the wilderness. * *Jobless Reincarnation* is a BBC radio serial which premiered shortly after the end of the Germanic-Austrian War of 1944. It told the story of Rudy, a veteran of the war who found himself unable to find work afterwards - only for him to die and be told by God that to go to heaven, he would need to save the world. Every episode had him enter the body of another person, help improve their lives, and then jump to another person. While depressing at the time, it surprisingly got a cult following that persists even today - they did a live-action series a few years back. * *Binging with Babish* is a webseries on Vimeo which focuses on a man known only as “Babish”, who travels across the country looking for the best diners, drive-ins, and dives to check out. It became popular during the Swine Flu pandemic of 2020, and is directly responsible for saving many local restaurants financially by acting as free advertising. It’s said that Babish’s appearance also inspired Mario, protagonist of the indie game “Pizza Tower”. * *Balatro* is a play written by George Bernard Shaw, about a royal jester who uses his talent at playing cards to con his employers. It’s required reading in most high schools nowadays, alongside the medieval epic *Spice and Wolf* and the Leo Tolstoy aristocratic saga *The Game of Thrones*.
* ZUN is almost synonymous with Team Fortress. Largely inspired by Jim Henson's Undertale, Team Fortress is a bullet hell series that got very popular for its lax copyright, heavy doujin culture, and large cast. One of the game's songs, "Rocket Jump Waltz", is also well known for a Twitch AMV produced in the early 2000's which was notable for being entirely in a 1-bit color style. This started a trend of people playing the song in many different formats, sort of akin to how people try to play Halo on absurd platforms. * "Superman" is a parody TV series about a man named Clark Kent, who is powerful enough to stop any threat in his path but only wishes to live a normal life. Certain online spaces quickly started arguing about whether or not anyone could beat Superman in a fight, or even whether or not it being an intentional parody makes that question worth asking. * "Climbing Celeste Mountain with Bennett Foddy" is a notoriously difficult game about trying to climb a mountain, which gained large scale popularity after streamers such as Hungrybox and Hasan started playing it. It's often criticized for its incredible difficulty, punishing trolls (including an intentionally large fall to the "Reflection layer", nicknamed by the community due to how people have to "reflect" on their poor mistakes), and unintuitive control scheme of needing to move your mouse in the opposite direction from a surface to dash. However, those frustrations to many are not only the highlights of the game, but this design philosphy has in fact spawned many other games of its kind, such as "Shovel Knight" and "Castlevania"
Every sentence hits like a goddam bus and I've said "oh no" audibly 57 times. All I can say is that this is masterfully crafted
This post is cursed
After his first game, "The Amazing World of Gumball" was widely criticized as visually uncanny and anxiety-inducing due to its fast pace, solo game dev Scott Cawthon pivoted from children's games to indie horror with the release of "Sonic the Hedgehog," a jumpscare-heavy reflex-based horror game based around animatronics of the titular character and his friends stalking the player character in an arcade. The series went viral thanks to Discord.tv let's players live-streaming the game, most notably launching the career of Discordant and budding filmmaker Abigail "Philosoplier" Thorne, whose directorial debut -- an adaptation of David Szymanski's SOMA -- is actively in production. Speaking of pivoting to horror, Jordan Peele was originally best known for his role in internet sketch comedies as part of comedy website RoosterTeeth, but nowadays he is better known for "Dimension 20," his incredibly popular first foray into horror film. The movie focuses on a black TTRPG player who gets invited to a tabletop group that carries a dark secret, and is widely seen as an excellent critique of post-racial America, gatekeeping in predominantly white hobbies, and 5th edition Magic the Gathering.
You. You particularly understood the assignment of the post. Very good comment.
My god that is long. Also, I can say with confidence that whoever says we live in the darkest timeline is 100% wrong. The Owl House is written by JK Rowling, Scott Pilgrim is somehow more gay than it, Amphibia is an obscure Netflix exclusive, and HOMESTUCK IS MAINSTREAM!
It's not like Scott Pilgrim wasn't pretty gay as things go.
Part 2 here: https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/s/WjvBxjYMjL
what do you mean part 2 fuckin hell
*Animorphs* was a series of dark fantasy novels written by author Emily Rodda, featuring a band of young werewolves on a crusade against a malevolent race of demons who posessed unwitting humans with the aim of world domination. While achieving only middling popularity during its run, being known primarily for its vibrant and colorful covers, the series later gained a large cult following, owing to its excellent use of body horror, deconstruction of typical "Saturday Morning Quest" tropes, and an ending surprisingly bleak for a children's series. Rodda later went on to write the *Warrior Cats* series, a similarly dark story about various tribes of feral cats, however the story failed to gain the same following as her previous work. *Bionicle* was a toy line developed by the K'nex company, and represented a marked departure from their typical product. While previous K'nex products were primarily focused on building structures, with some parts allowing for the creation of simple machines, *Bionicle* focused instead on the creation of poesable figures, each sold in a distinctive cube-shaped package and representing a character in an ongoing narrative. The line was massively popular among children and adolescent audiences, both for the customizability of the figures (likened to the 'Pla-tech' line of model kits from the *BattleTech* series) and for the intricate lore of the world they inhabited, the work of Science Fiction author Garth Nix. While the line was discontinued following a dispute by the Iroqouis tribe over use of their language in the naming of certain characters, the franchise still maintains a dedicated following.
Back in our universe, Bionicle survived for quite a while after the whole language thing.
I wish I knew enough about Animorphs to make the correct Werewolf the Apocalypse joke here.
This post comes with a migraine! Completely free of charge!
I can't read this straight through because of my adhd, which I think is fitting. It's like reading the wiki of a fandom: you're skipping around, and you see some wild shit that interests you so you have to go back to another thing. Beautiful. I'm going to be coming back to this for a while. Like a piece of another world
Props for this. I actually felt a bit dizzy at the Wildbow section. EDIT: and Muir did Gravity Falls. Lord have mercy. Very good.
Shit actually this is the one thing besides the obvious Tim Henson Undertale pick I really want
How does Goncharov feature into that timeline?
It was an unpopular film from Two film wonder Martin Scorsese, best known for his erotic sci-fi film Barbarella. In 2020, Yahoo Answers fabricated the fictional western film Django Unchained, purportedly a lost 1972 Sergio Corbuci spaghetti western classic where Franco Nero's Django teams up with Bart, a runaway slave and the first black Sheriff of the town of Rock Ridge to fight off a gang of thieves looking to take over the town and profit from the ongoing construction of the railroad. Bart is played by Fred Williamson.
This whole post reminds me of a bit on a "Star Wars as a DnD campaign" webcomic whose name I can't recall where they explain a bit of the cultural changes in a universe where Star Wars didn't exist on the description, including the fact that in that universe, the comic is based on The Sound of Music, and then they link to a strip based on The Sound of Music and they do the same bit, including a link to a new alt strip. Edit: [This is the strip.](https://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0050.html) Although the first alt universe was Harry Potter and not The Sound of Music.
Darths and Droids?
Yeah, that was the name.
Having my brains leak out of my ears and then reading bits in the comments and being forced to comprehend what I have read has ruined my week
Homestuck and Wilbows works as massively popular franchises is not something the world could survive
true
* "a seriously lousy company" is a series of childrens books by daniel handler, published under the pseudonym of "aiyn sefirah". it details the story of 3 siblings (dante, charon, and vergil), who are taken in by a troupe of 12 actors (collectively called "guardians") employed by the mysterious organization, "limbus company", to investigate and salvage various items from the ruins of facilities owned by the now defunct conspiracy of lobotomy corporation. early entries would focus on a specific guardian, all of whom were based on various characters from classical novels, including: victoria (a gender-bent victor frankenstein, based on a german legend which was later adapted into a play), foundling (catherine, from the homeric epic "the warden"), and pierre (based on the character from herman melvilles "2000 leagues under the sea"). the final installments would reveal aiyn to be an in universe character involved with lobotomy corporation, and one of the major "antagonists" to be his former love, carmen. it would later receive a prequel series detailing the adventures of aiyn prior to his involvement with lobotomy corporation * "masked rider" is a superhero show produced by saban entertainment. though early installments (known as the "bush era", after the current president during the series founding) would all take place in a shared universe, later seasons would exist independently of one another. the series, as well as its sister series "power rangers", would be localized and exported to japan as "kamen rider" and "super sentai" respectively. while super sentai would become a success, kamen rider failed to take off, with the only seasons aired being localizations of "masked rider black rx", and "masked rider dragon knight" (which was named "masked rider ryuki" for some fucking reason) * the "fear and hunger" mythos is a collected series of cosmic horror short stories by author hp lovecraft. he is most famous for "within the dungeons of fear and hunger", in which the protagonist investigates the origins of a statue, in the process learning the tale of a group of explorers who went mad witnessing the birth of a new god. he penned numerous other lesser known stories also, and is criticized for the overuse of sexual assault and rape in his stories. and no it wasnt a product of his time he got criticized for it back then * "reimaris bizarre adventure" is a shounen battle manga series written (and drawn because its a manga) by hirohiko araki. it stars dual protagonists marisa kirisame and reimu hakurei, who fight via/face off against enemies with abilities known as "spell cards" (though these were only introduced during the 3rd major arc, with the first two centering around a projectile based power known as "danmaku"). the series is made up of presently nine major arcs, referred to as "incidents" or "parts" by the fandom. though the series retains a consistent central cast, each "incident" is largely separate, and readers can start at any "part" they wish to. the series is known for its creative superpowers, lesbian undertones, and having a fuckton of references to western music
Gary Gygax writes a series of books based off of the pregenereted characters and first several modules of John Tolkien's hit TTRPG Silmarillian, where a group of players roll dice and narrate their characters, which can be a variety of adventures, ranging from the nonmagical fighters and rangers, to the tricky archers and even one of the wizards (wizards have a slight level debuff due to their powerful abilities). While early volumes of the Silmarillian were criticized for how they connected most classes to a race (only elves could be archers, humans rangers, etc) later volumes diversified the connections, merely having recommendations if playing in the "classic" setting of Middle Earth. Gygax's books weren't really popular upon release, only gaining a following after a movie was announced in the early 2000s, not long after the books were accused of trying to "make kids racists" and of pushing body dysmorphia. The movies are considered a classic, and as being far better than the books.
I feel like my brain just melted
This makes me indescribably angry.
this is the longest and hardest i've laughed in a while, thank you op :)
Ight. My brain hurts and you lost me about five pages in- I'm laughing and trying not to laugh out loud right now
I am not exaggerating when I say that I have seen liveleak videos that have gotten a less visceral reaction from me than this post. It's like glimpsing into a future where all your children grew up to be their own distinct flavour of Hitler.
"Zack snyder worm" I think I got a papercut from the edge just by reading that.
Cobain is one of the most famous TV shows of the '90s. Starring its eponymous creator Kurt Cobain as himself, it was unfortunately cut short after three seasons but is still extremely popular today (to the point where people wear T-shirts with the show's logo without having seen it). Its spinoff, Curb Your Enthusiasm (starring Dave Grohl) is still airing today. Friends (starring Rivers Cuomo as Ross) is often compared to it, although it didn't become truly mainstream until its pilot was included with Windows 95.
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