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I have been locked out of this godforsaken website for three months. Please help???What is booping and what did I miss????

[ID: A gif of two cartoon cats booping each other with exaggeratedly large paws several times, before one cat raises up their paw as it grows even larger and then slams it down on the other one. Both are smiling the whole time. End ID.]

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Was gonna add colour but I ran out of steam lol. Happy boopril fool's

#we’re booping now #i guess? #boop

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aaaaaaaaaAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

#screaming into the void

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Does anyone know of/have the link for an active TAZ Discord Server?

I’m looking for more people to talk with about the silly podcast men and I can’t find anything 😭

Feel free to message me!

#the adventure zone #taz #taz balance #taz graduation #taz amnesty #taz ethersea #griffin mcelroy #justin mcelroy #travis mcelroy #clint mcelroy #taz taako #taz magnus #taz merle #taz spoilers

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#help my taz balance hyperfixation is back

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i present to you: crossover of the century. (id in alt)

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the thing they dont tell you about listening to the adventure zone for the first time is that you'll miss them for the rest of your life. taako magnus and merle will be held in your heart wherever you go. when you binge it and get caught up to the eleventh hour in 2016 and you're a sophomore in high school shoving your sweatshirt sleeve in your mouth to stop yourself from laughing you have no idea that you'll be coming up on christmas 2022 and it's been six years and a goblin that looks like common and sounds like kelsey grammer will still make you laugh. you hear "are you naming your god damn wizard taako?" and that's it for you. you're in for life.

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ALWAYS rotating TAZ: Balance around in my brain like microwave but ESPECIALLY with the announcement of The Suffering Game graphic novel

The dope thing they can do (and are doing) with the graphic novel series is sprinkle in moments of foreshadowing and hints to the reader about what REALLY might be going on here, which is so cool and I’m a huge fan of it, especially when you’re telling a story in this form.

But what is REALLY FUCKING TASTY about Balance as a story is that none of the motherfuckers telling it had any clue what they were doing when they started

Gerblins is dick jokes and not knowing how dice work and making fun of each other for voices. LICHRALLY the scene where Taako grabs the Umbrastaff is immediately proceeded by Clint trying different voices for Merle while Justin begs him to stop, as Taako. Merle gets launched across the room cuz he failed his save, and now Taako has an umbrella. The scene moves on.

Griffin brought them up to the BOB, introduced them to the Director, and gave them memories of a war fought over nameless, lost, powerful but mysterious artifacts. The memory that Taako takes from it is the idea of soured cream (ya know, for his taco quest).

And then they’re off, on different adventures, making friends, saving lives, making more dick jokes, and Griffin is in the background, slowly building in the meta-plot, as all DMs do.

But this meta-plot was HUGE. It was ALL-CONSUMING. It completely changes everything we know about this world and these characters. It takes the moments of dick jokes, and arguments about character voices, and flirting with death, and adds a layer of tragedy and complexity that just wasn’t present the first time they told that story.

AND THAT’S WHY THIS STORY KICKS ASS. The vibe of the story changed as Tres Horny Boys grew closer and closer to remembering the lives they had lost, as Griffin upped the stakes, as people started dying. They still don’t know shit for most of The Suffering Game, but you absolutely could not have predicted the tone of that arc after just listening to Gerblins. It sounds like a completely different story. And so when the other shoe drops, when shit breaks bad, when it’s the end of the world… again, and they have to reclaim their Stolen Century…

It makes sense. The tone has shifted enough to accommodate that kind of change. The characters have grown (back) into themselves enough to make this work.

Because TAZ: Balance is a tragedy. But the tragedy happened before the podcast even started, and had been erased. So of course it started off with goofs and dildo jokes. Of course the three of them started being standoff-ish with each other and making light of every situation that should have had a lot more weight. They didn’t know what they had lost, and we, the audience, didn’t either. So it was easy to laugh and joke… until slowly, it wasn’t so much anymore.

Plenty of people have praised Griffin’s storytelling abilities, but I think the thing that was most impressive to me was how he took the disparate threads laid out behind the Boys on their adventures, and followed them backwards, into the story they had lost, and forwards, into the ending they earned. I fucking love that he settled on Istus as the deity to interact with them, because I don’t think there’s a better representation of the story Griffin was weaving behind the scenes of the arcs.

Story and Song wasn’t really an arc driven by dice rolls and role playing - but it wasn’t railroading either. Griffin took every story they had told, every happy ending they had fought for, and twined them around and through each other. The world was saved not because of a lucky nat 20 roll, but because every person they had helped through the story came out in force to fight beside them to save their world.

And so in the end, the Stolen Century was a tragedy. But The Adventure Zone: Balance was a story of hope, of family, of the power that just a few loveable doofuses can have when they move through the world, making friends and saving lives. So when the world was ending and they needed help, there were dozens of people waiting to hear the Story and the Song that would give them the push they needed to fight, and the hope they needed to win.

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Ladies, I am holding out my hand. Do you trust me?

I need you to open Google Maps. Locate your nearest mall. Get in your car. Drive to Yankee Candle.

Past the seasonal pumpkin display, near the back of the store, you will find a trash pile Man Candle section. You will see candles called MMM, Bacon!. Riding Mower. Man Town. (I’m not kidding. Man Town.) Stay strong. Not in this section, but likely very near this section, you will find a candle called Mountain Lodge.

Hold this jar in your hands like a talisman. Close your eyes and picture a man.

I want to be clear: I’m not talking about a Hugh Dancy. Or an Andrew Garfield, a Ben Whishaw, even a Tom Hiddleston. This exercise requires someone in the Chris Evans weight class. The Richard Armitage department. Someone with smile lines around his eyes who could chop the cedar for your bower with his own hands, strangle an alpha wolf, carry you home when you sprain your ankle in the woods, bench press your entire body. Picture this man in your mountain home with a full beard, a slightly grimy white henley, a fond half smile he reserves only for you. Now open the lid and smell Mountain Lodge.

Steady yourself on the man candle display. Give yourself a second. No, you’re not wrong. Yes, the Yankee Candle Company has just eliminated the need for men. This medium tumbler Mountain Lodge candle jar is now your boyfriend. The Yankee Candle Company has effectively replaced the need for contact with the male half of our species with a compact and clean-burning candle in a jar.

“Do you like this one?” the cashier asked, ringing me up. “Every man should be required by law to smell like what this candle smells like,” I replied intensely. “That’ll be $12.01,” she said.

MOUNTAIN LODGE

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God is not a dirty word

Because when he tells me he loves me

That feels like god

And when my lips part to utter the reverent and holy name of our creator

I am not taking it in vain

I am uttering a prayer

“Goddamn it, I adore you.”

-H.M

#WROTE THIS POEM ABOUT MY BOYFRIEND #I DO IN FACT ADORE HIM #poetry #original poem #I’m in love and I don’t care who knows it

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I will say of all the fandoms I’ve been a part of TMA fans seem to be fairly chill

Like comparatively

I just think it’s really fun how everyone has their own interpretations of the characters and how they look and for the most part there’s not a lot of discourse around it.

I love seeing art of all the characters as different ethnicities and heights and sizes. It’s just really beautiful you know?

I mean in all fandoms there’s gonna be some tension somewhere, but I’ve yet to see anything in my short time in the fandom that would scare me away.

#the magnus archives #tma #tma 2 !!! #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #tma jon #tma martin #basira hussain #tma basira #sasha james #sasha tma #timothy stoker #tma tim #daisy tonner #tma daisy #melanie king #tma melanie

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Me: *goes out in public wearing a wrinkled button up and greasy hair* This is so Jonathan Sims of me

#tma #tma 2 !!! #the magnus institute #jonathan sims

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Made myself a funky little playlist of songs I think TMA characters would listen to

And I just gotta say

RIP Tim you would have loved Bo Burnham’s Netflix special “Inside”

#tma #the magnus institute #the magnus archives #tim stoker #AM I WRONG?? #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jonmartin #sasha james #not!sasha #the distortion #the eye #please let tma 2 be good #tma 2 !!! #tma shitpost

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I refuse to let a scandal ruin my favorite comfort media I refuse to let a scandal ruin my favorite comfort media I refuse to let a scandal ruin my favorite-

#wake up babe #new affirmation just dropped #tma #please let tma 2 be good #I’ll cry #the magnus archives #the magnus pod #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #tim stoker #sasha james #tim and sasha #the distortion

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“But that's just it. Love isn't one thing.

Thats something hard I had to learn.

Love is a friend holding the door for you, or the guy taking you on your first date walking on the side of the street closest to the cars.

Love is a teacher printing out copies of assignments you've missed and stapling them together for you. Love is the applause at the end of a show you've worked your ass off to perform, and feeling the lights on your skin as people whoop and cheer.

Love is looking back at pictures of younger me, and knowing that she needs the biggest hug. It is wishing that I could step back five years and scoop her up into my arms, never letting anything bad touch her ever again.”

-A quote from a book I’ll never write and a letter I’ll never send

#poetry #love #my writing #a book i'll never write #a letter I’ll never send #a poem to my parents #writer

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So I’ve officially finished TMA season 1

Honestly forgot how emotionally attached I am to Sasha so I am g r i e v i n g

#tma #tma 2 !!! #is it too much to hope that jonny brings her back??? #:’) #the magnus institute #the magnus archives #sasha james #she’s unforgettable

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Whatever you do don’t think about Tim after the season 1 finale.

Don’t think about him getting out of quarantine and immediately running to find Sasha.

Don’t imagine him scooping her into a hug and worriedly checking her over to make sure she’s okay.

Don’t think about him being overwhelmingly relieved that she’s safe and happy that she’s alive.

He doesn’t know what he’d do without her.

#i’m so sorry #I started thinking about it #and now you have to #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus institute #season 1 #tim stoker #sasha james #not sasha #tim and sasha #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #she’s unforgettable

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My eyes have been blessed

the same