Livingtree Meta

# Meta

Griffin’s the Dogwoodtree Master (DM). (source)

Travis tweets “What about HORTICULTURAL appropriation?” (source)

The trio is called the Tree Heroes. (source) Later, they’re called the Tree Sticky Boys. (source)

Everyone on the main sub loves Griffin’s degradation mechanic for ferro filing weapons. (source)

The old sub is always posting pictures of maple trees captioned ‘GET SAP’. (source)

Griffin never uploads the theme song. (source)

After Travis’s joke in the first arc about his recommended ads showing bug stuff, TAZCJ spends about 5 hours (a week in jerk time) posting about packages that were meant for Travis but showed up at their homes. (source)

People in the fandom are called ‘Branchlings’. (source)

At time of writing, TAZCJ’s latest trend is making up plot points to Livingtree. (source) Note that this is a convenient excuse to handwave away anything on this list you don’t like as a fake plot point made up by a jerker.

There’s a running joke where people pretend they haven’t heard of Livingtree and that it doesn’t exist. (source)

When an episode comes out, people joke that Mack definitely dies in it. (source)

There was a trend of people pretending Livingtree was their first campaign, and they were confused by all the ‘in-jokes’ (read: Griffin plot points). (source)

# Other media

There’s an official website for sorting people into the four houses of the magical school (fern, lavender, poppy, and maize). (source) If you input the Konami code after getting lavender, an audio clip of Justin saying "Kinda f\*ggy" will play. (source)

There are ads for Livingtree, incl. on Conan O’Brien’s podcast. (source) Ads include Nuts Baloney’s “I let loose a heck of a hoot” line. (source) Malcolm Gladwell’s bread podcast also has an ad for Livingtree. (source)

There was a now-deleted teaser trailer on the McElroy family channel. (source) At timestamp 1:13, there’s a tree that looks like a face. (source)

There’s an official Graduation sourcebook, revealed at DragonCon. In the reveal speech, Travis mentions Isadora’s original catchphrase, “I can’t beleaf this!” (source)

## Controversy

Mixed reception; some people love the world & characters, some people point to the usual McElroy problems. (source)

They never explain if the tree is really big, or if the characters are really small. (source) There’s a lot of debate around this; labels “BT/NP’ and “NT/LP”. (source)

Livingtree is ‘short’ compared to Balance and Amnesty. (source)

Some internet rando finds Allison Acorn sexy. Yikes. (source)

Backlash on the old sub against the Arbiter Maywood ‘get sap’ pin for ‘canonizing’ him as white. (source)

Travis started his own D&D podcast towards the start of the season. (source)

Griffin says in the TTAZZ the Tapper was supposed to be a morally gray force of ‘necessary evil’, not a campaign focus. This is dubious. (source)

The Web stigmatizes fungal networks, which irl are a very important part of the ecosystem. (source)

Valid criticisms of racism w/rt Isadora. (source) Probably her South African accent, which Travis gives up midway through ep 2. Possibly also her birthplace, ‘the wild plains’, last mentioned ep 4. (source)

Justin’s jokes about Mack having a pencil moustache, then later having one testicle (nut joke), could be construed as Hitler-y. (source)

At some point, TAZ goes triweekly. (source)

There’s a 30-minute Raytheon (US weapons/aerospace compan) propaganda ad in Episode 69’s money zone. (source)

At a Livingtree live show, u/looplooploopdidoop catches a glance of Griffin’s script for the season. (source)

Clint says “abugus” to shut down Travis telling him he was playing wrong. (source)

The arcs are called branches, thanks to Clint. The brothers laugh at him, then act like they were on board when the fandom adopts it. (source)

The McElroys face a class action lawsuit for selling coasters with pictures of a t-shirt on it, instead of actual t-shirts. (source)

# Merch

They release an Arbiter Maywood ‘get sap’ pin. (source)

There’s a coaster that has a picture of a t-shirt depicting Quinton Quercus doing a kick flip on his skateboard, captioned with his catchphrase “nuts to you, Magee?” (source) (source) The McElroys face a class action lawsuit for this. (source)

# Inconsistencies

Isadora is sometimes spelled Isadore. Isadora was first, so we’ll go with that.

There’s a “Mack border patrol agent reveal that Griffin plays a little too on the nose,” (source) but Griffin also says “are you naming your goddamn border patrol agent Macklemore?!” (source). If it’s a reveal, we wouldn’t know that info when they tell us the PCs’ names. Maybe it’s an in-fiction reveal to the other PCs?

Livingtree is ‘short’ compared to Amnesty (source), but Amnesty only has 36 episodes (citation needed), and Livingtree has at least 69 (source). Probably the first source, which is parodying softboi McElnoise fans, is unreliable and should be ignored.

The tree is actually a space station colony orbiting a dead Earth (source), but there are multiple trees in the forest according to Maple’s dream drawings. (source) Maybe the first source is unreliable, and the entire Salient Woods is actually a space station.

The PCs watch Sing get sorted into their house in episode 9 (source), but also in episode 12. (source) No bones about it - gonna have to ignore the 2nd source. It’s less credible than the first source, which includes a timestamp and is more upvoted.

# Misc/Mini-arcs

Sewerdeep, a garbage campaign. Travis does a bad ds9 dax impression. (source) They were meant to be rats in a sewer, but Travis decided to play a rat’s intestinal parasite. (source)
After Livingtree, their next main arc is Megalopotropolis. Travis plays a character nicknamed Crucial Synapses, a cyborg decker with an electric gun sword and a super strong robot arm who is also the party face and drives their vehicle. Clint plays Sarah Bellum, a southern belle ingenue technomancer. Justin plays QSR101, a taciturn replicant who was originally designed to work in the food industry. He's on a quest for revenge on the people who doomed him to a life of slinging chicken sandwiches. (source) Travis’s character’s actual name is Deckard Bishop (source); he also goes by Cyborg Decker. (source)

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