#I’ve also gotten back into taz balance

[reddoesntlikeart]

I am addicted to posting on this account at the weirdest times (it is currently 01:02 )

Also I FORGOT TO CHANGE the “science side of tumblr” to “science side of cang qiong” FUCK

Credits to the og posters (I hope they never have to see this): @sassykardashian @sailingonsuccess

#shang qinghua #svsss #svsss fanart #shen qingqiu #scum villian self saving system #these 2 are actually so much fun to draw #back to my regular content #sorry about that totk post I had to get it out of my system #also I’ve sadly stopped hyperfixating on this fandom so it’s been hard to draw them 😔 #currently my hyper focuses have been the new Spider-Man movie #and loz totk #I’ve also gotten back into taz balance #no time for mxtx unfortunately #mxtx svsss #mxtx

[thelowlysatsuma]

alright dipsticks, hear me out

taz balance au where everything is the same except that lucretia and barry have each others’ farspeech frequencies

it all starts about a year after lucretia voidfishes the plane. she’s poking around goldcliff, hoping to find some way to con some rich shit into paying for her gigantic moon base, when she runs — literally runs headfirst — into some bespectacled nerd in denim

barry, for his part, doesn’t know why this complete stranger is offering to buy him lunch as an apology for spilling his Fantasy Starbucks all over his oldass shirt, but he sure as shit isn’t complaining. especially when something, something about this kid feels so... familiar

in a spur of the moment decision, lucretia gives him her farspeech number. barry doesn’t think anything of it at the time

...anything, that is, until he’s rising, spectral and flickering, over his battered corpse, and he begins laughing hysterically, tears glimmering in long-gone eye sockets. he may not have lup back, but he’s got his little sister.

so they start texting. is barry furious at lucretia for what she’s done? sure, a bit. but he understands her logic, and his temper is soothed when she point-blank tells him that she’s going to help him find lup. they may be working against each other as far as the relics are concerned, but if lucretia can locate at least one more shred of her former family, then by god is she going to. barry understands, he thinks, and so they help keep each other a little less lonely over a long ten years

lucretia keeps barry updated on how the other birds are doing, as best she can. they rejoice together as magnus and julia take back raven’s roost, and when glamour springs is shadowed by a mass poisoning barry has to do everything up to physically restraining lucretia from beating the ass of whichever motherfucker did that to taako. wait, he tells her. physical pain is temporary. a lich, on the other hand, is in a prime position to make some douche’s life a living hell. lucretia grins and offers to fund his plots in any way she can.

barry, for his part, keeps lucretia up-to-date on the search for lup. they have matching little cork boards in their respective offices, each filled with maps and theories and half-baked what-ifs. they aren’t any closer to finding out what happened to her, but they will. they have to.

speaking of things happening, barry is the first one to find lucretia after wonderland. he hadn’t been able to reach her for a month, and so when he feels the enormous surge of pure magical despair explode outwards from the felicity wilds, he transports himself there as quickly as he can. he finds his baby sister at the centre of a mile-wide crater, twenty years older and countless sacrifices poorer, and he holds her as gently as he can without physical hands, and makes her promise to never deal with wonderland again. fuck, he’ll get the animus bell for her, he doesn’t care. he just can’t see lucretia in that state ever again. (never again, that’s what they told themselves, in a group huddle late one night the dawn of cycle 66. he’d failed her once. he couldn’t do it again.)

as she builds up the bureau, lucretia starts getting questions about her best friend on the stone. lucas asks her point blank who it is one day early in their acquaintance, and she answers “b- uh, b-j” “that tells me basically nothing. what does that even stand for?” lucas demands. “uh,” lucretia says, “🅱️amazing jrace”

thus begins a fine tradition of bureau employees trying to get any info they can on the mysterious “bj”, including his actual name. so far some of the top answers they’ve gotten from madame director include “bitchin jackass” “burger joint” “beetlejuice” and “banjo jimboree”. once, robbie asks her if he’s her secret lover, and lucretia has to summon a bucket before retching in disgust, which puts paid to that particular theory fairly succinctly

barry, for his part, adores these rumours. he keeps asking if lucretia will lift the lich barrier, just for a day, so he can come and stir up even more shit. lucretia, while admittedly very tempted, denies.

when he finds out that lucretia has been telling bureau employees that the red robes are evil, barry is understandably insulted. the next group of regulators that touch the ground are covered in fantasy cheez whiz for the duration of their mission.

lucretia gets him back by replacing all the denim in the jeans at his base with silly string. barry moves bases, and the prank war escalates

(no one has the courage to tell madame director that her hair has been turned rainbow at the last candlenights party. privately, lucretia thinks she looks bitchin)

every now and again, lucretia will text barry in a panic. these texts tend to look like this:

“barry.” “barold aid me” “barry I fucked shit up real good this time” “barry” “barry” “barry I was at the fantasy Olive Garden and the waiter said ‘enjoy your meal’ and I said ‘you too’ barry kill me n o w “

barry can and will mock lucretia mercilessly for this. he also insists for weekly video updates on fisher and junior.

he also has biweekly fantasy skype sessions with davenport

booyah: I saw a woman so beautiful I started crying???

bear-old: oh mood

booyah: and then I hired her and her son (who’s a little bitch) to work on my secret moon base and I think I’ve made a terrible mistake???????

bear-old: oh my fucking god this is why I don’t trust you to stop the apocalypse

when the thb start working as reclaimers, barry demands weekly updates on them, as well. it goes about as well as you’d expect

booyah: magnus ate the philosopher’s stone

bear-old: he fucking w h a t ?

booyah: he used the glutton’s fork, and he ATE the philosopher’s stone. taako and merle used stone skin and stone shape to get the damn thing out. happy fucking candlenights.

when barry finds out that taako’s DATING the fool who’s been chasing after him wile e coyote style for over a decade, he loses his s h i t. he and lucretia have a girls’ night where they bitch about taako and eat shitty chocolate to cope

bear-old: you HIRED a BABY???

booyah: he’s ten! that’s plenty old. and he’s certainly competent, seeing as he found my organization when even you couldn’t.

bear-old: creesh please. please do not Irreparably Fuck Up A Small Child

booyah: hey, at least I’m not the one who threw him off a moving train!

bear-old: I never threw anyone off a

bear-old: lucretia

bear-old: who

bear-old: who in your employ threw ANGUS MCDONALD, a LITERAL CHILD, off of a MOVING. VEHICLE?

booyah:

booyah: taako

bear-old: fucking fantasy CHRIST

(they have quite a few girls’ nights eating shitty chocolate and razzing on taako, actually)

team sweet flips goes to the director’s office one day to give a status report and find her red-eyed and coughing. she says she has allergies. the cute cat video barry just texted her on her stone, however, begs to differ

lucretia preps the boys for refuge, yes, but her mind is filled with texts and tomes and the letters “l u p” carved into a bureau wall. she passes countless sleepless nights with barry on the line, trying to decipher what it all means

but they emerge from the woven gulch unscathed, and that can only mean one thing: wonderland

she doesn’t tell barry where she’s sending them. she can’t let him interfere out of some misguided attempt to save her from the place. her texts grow few and far between

she doesn’t have to tell barry. he knows

the day they get sent out, as lucretia breaks down in her office, surrounded by a dizzying vastness that could envelop her very being if she would just let it, her stone buzzes.

four words: I’ll keep them safe

and then?

well, then it’s the end of the world

(but when lup emerges from her decade-long cage, phantasmal and resplendent, lucretia and barry share a look)

(and when the hunger is consuming the only home she knows and she’s flying out in one last attempt to face is, barry is on her stone)

(and when the dust settles and they’re finally, finally free, when the world hears a story and a song and former and current bureau employees alike learn just how important the mysterious “bj” really is, when lucretia looks at the wreckage of her life’s work and home and family — when all that happens, barry is the one to beckon to her with open arms.)

(they’ve been beside the other for a hundred and ten years, after all. that’s not gonna fucking change now.)

anyways yeah folks barry and lucretia texting au play with me in this space

@littlemisscritical @thatcoldfeeling and you know what? @herbgerblin what the hell

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[kindofwriter]

Now that I’ve finally heard all the content I think I can say for certain I didn’t like the campaign ending (ep. 218).

[If you don’t want to read any criticism of RQG don’t read on. Also out of context spoilers for TAZ Balance and Skyjacks mentioned]

I loved the description of the location, it was beautiful and I could picture it perfectly, and I think Ben as Zolf was particularly great, but overall I didn’t like it as an ending. To me it just felt really pre-fixed. Like you could’ve swapped out Cel for Sasha, Zolf for Grizzop, Azu for Bertie and the ending would’ve still been the same. Like they could’ve never found Mr Ceiling, like Zolf could have stuck with the party, like they could have avoided going to Ancient Rome, like Wilde could’ve died and they could’ve just walked to the Garden of Yerlick and we still would’ve gotten the same ending.

One of the things I love most about listening to ttrpg content is how changeable the story is. Think about ‘arms outstretched’ in Balance, or ‘she is your Margaret’ in Skyjacks. There should be next to no foreshadowing, because no one knows exactly where the story’s going, but instead players build off little things people mention to turn those things into foreshadowing. It’s so satisfying to listen to!

But this ending felt like something Alex wrote down six years ago when he first started planning this campaign and didn’t do much to alter since. Which is fair, and his prerogative, but in my opinion doesn’t make for the most satisfying ending. I would’ve liked to have seen more of the things they’d encountered pay off.

(Imagine if Zolf hadn’t come back and Hamid had died post-Paris. There would’ve been no one left to remember Kew Gardens. No one to draw a parallel with Mr Ceiling. That would’ve been worse)

I’m not too dissatisfied with the disappearance of magic (though I do think that could’ve been avoided with a different ending). Magic clearly did cause a lot of problems in their world, and it’s fair that they face some consequence from severing the tether between universes. I think it would’ve been cooler if Zolf had managed to hold on to his ~mystery Hope Magic~ and maybe start up a new school based around that, but that’s just personal opinion.

Controversially, I quite liked the epilogues. I enjoy “talking episodes”, and they were equal parts soft and angsty, which I like. I don’t like the time-skips: it’s five years you never get to hear any canon content from, but you’re still told what the character was canonically doing. But I 100% get it from a creator perspective - they want to cover as much of these characters lives as possible. We’ve just been listening to this show, most of us not for six years. They’ve been living these characters lives for most of that time. That’s a big deal, and I’m happy for them to wrap it up however they please! But I would’ve loved a typical snapshots-of-a-happy-ending ending.

None of this really takes away my love of the show as a whole. It had to end somehow, there was no way it could’ve pleased everyone. This ending just wasn’t really the one for me. Ah, well. We can’t all be Stellar Firma!

[I’m happy to discuss why people did/didn’t like the ending, but before you dive right in a tldr: this is my opinion. I’m not trying to be objectively correct. The ending was perfectly fine, it just didn’t quite do it for me narratively]

#rqg #rqg spoilers #author's note

[utilitycaster]

Still thinking about the "the first campaign is better" tendencies across different shows, and I think that while it is true for all three the reasons may be different.

TAZ Amnesty is pretty easy: it's not D&D. I'm not wild about PbtA but I think it was an incredibly good fit for the McElroys and the setting, I think it was a beautifully realized setting, and I think it had some of their strongest production.

I think most of the complaints were pretty baseless (people claiming it was not fantasy because the magic happened in West Virginia instead of Faerun, for example), and it was skillfully GM-ed; it managed to be both pretty heavily on rails and not feel like it. Funnily enough, a system called "Monster of the Week" is in fact really well-suited to running a game that takes a Monster-of-the-week structure, perhaps more so than D&D.

So in short this is a matter of "it's better, but if you automatically stop listening when the game system isn't D&D (this is meant to sound judgemental. As a D&D fan I judge people doing this) or if contemporary fantasy isn't your thing (this is not judgemental, we all have genre preferences) then it might not work for you."

For NADDPod I feel like I've gotten the sense Eldermourne is less popular, but I'm not as confident as I am regarding the other two shows. I do think it is much more serious in tone which I like but is understandably less appealing to the audience, particularly since NADDPod I also think that while the Hexbloods arc was fantastic (and that Caldwell should get paternity leave!) it did mean there was a loss of momentum early on - though using it to worldbuild was smart.

Critical Role is to me the most difficult to pin down, because it did lose people who had been watching from C1 both early on and around the hiatus, but it gained so many new people as well (vs. TAZ which I think has never regained the full audience of Balance, or NADDPod which I think has had more modest growth).

With that said as someone who started with Campaign 2 and went back it does feel there's a certain level of romanticizing of Campaign 1 that is just...inaccessible and a little alienating, I guess, to anyone who wasn't there. And there are absolutely valid reasons to prefer Campaign 1 - it's a more straightforward story, it tends to hit a lot of the classic hallmarks of D&D like the Feywild and dragons and vampires (NADDPod's Bahumia Campaign shares this quality), there is at times more room to breathe - but I think a lot of it is really just romanticizing and nostalgia for their own sakes.*

Exandria Unlimited actually put this into perspective - one of the most common things i heard after the first episode is "feels like a home game!" Which I find somewhat absurd; it's slated to be a very awkward length for a home campaign (too long for most modules, shorter than most complete campaigns), and only Undeadwood stands out as being more heavily produced actual play on the channel - there have been callbacks, cut scenes, winks to the audience, and deliberate time skips.

I think that's the thing behind romanticizing Campaign 1. A lot of people like to talk about actual play as if it's a peek into someone's living room home game and they are a fly on the wall. This is amplified by Critical Role being live (or live-to-tape, currently) vs. edited and its history as coming from a home game. Here's the thing: it - and any actual play - is not a home game. Once the players know the audience exist, they respond to that. But the audience love that mythology. (I actually found some of the pre-stream mythology made C1 feel less accessible, which was no one's fault because it couldn't have been predicted, but it meant that I often felt I was being told, not shown.)

I do wonder if that's also a factor for NADDPod or TAZ. It's strange because there's often these two paradoxical expectations in actual play fandoms: for authentic appeal, it must feel like a home game, but the audience also often feels entitled to certain plot points or choices, which requires the players react to and cater to an audience, which a home game would not do.

And so with the second season, when an audience has been established, that fiction of a home game they've been given a secret front row seat to is harder for that same audience to maintain (and it is the audience, not the creators, who made up this fiction in the first place), and they start to leave. And with those strange observations of EXU, and expectations for CR Campaign 3, and some of the attitudes I see towards TAZ: Ethersea, I think it may be something of a periodic cycle.

*I also think some people define a good campaign solely by "a specific thing I wanted came true, regardless of the narrative that came prior" and those people can do this for their own media consumption but, much like nostalgia, it fails to translate to anyone who wasn't already there with you.

#long post #on actual play #lmk if you need the works tagged I didn't because this feels too much about fandom to put in the main tag #be glad i edited out so many jokes about the g&s initial CR set #and also references to the heisenberg uncertainty principle and shroedinger's audience

[luobingmeis]

Thoughts on taz grad?

i love taz grad so much!!!! i really do like travis’s DMing style and tbh i’m a sucker for any type of college setting

i do feel really bad that i keep falling behind but it’s not in a “i can’t stay hooked on the story” way but more so in a “it’s hard for me to focus on podcasts + i’m really busy” way, but i always love binging grad :’) like one of my favorite memories from this summer was just driving around for a couple hours listening to the episode with the pegasus rescue + the chaos dreams............ iconic

i think my favorite part abt listening to graduation in relatively real-time is that i can theorize as the story progresses and actually see what is and is not true (rip my poisoned crepes theory but schordingers gary still has legs)

i will say, a lot of moments in taz grad have gotten me just as hyped as moments in balance had me, and i find the story very easy to come back into, so it makes binging real easy bc i don’t feel too lost

i’m hoping to binge the two latest episodes this weekend!! hopefully as a little christmas gift to myself

also fitzroy maplecourt means the world to me

also hot take but the taz grad soundtrack might be tied with balance for my favorite music score, and the lucretia themes and the mariah themes are top tier

honestly i’m thinking abt rebinging grad like idk if from the Beginning just bc i think i’ve listened to the first episode no joke like 10+ times but just bc :’)) i miss the story.......... but also i’m planning on relistening to balance too and idk if i can do them together akjdsjkdkjsd

#answered #tbh im really nostalgic abt graduation just bc i do miss when i had the mental energy to listen the moments the episodes came out #like between school + the fact that honestly my attention span is very limited #and it's hard for me to just sit and listen #like i used to be able to just sit and listen but now i basically have to be driving #so it's hard for me to keep up to date #but i really do love grad it makes me happy and i love the thundermen :') #i just feel guilty for basically taking mini-breaks but like #a bitch is busy!! and has bad attention span #but maybe saturday i'll catch back up...... #Anonymous

[ma-lark-ey]

Hi!! I've seen other people make posts about why they love TAZ,,and I figured I should add my two cents. I also just wanted to share this experience somewhere. (Spoilers for Balance and Amnesty!!)

For a bit of background; in December/early January, I got dropped by some of my closest friends. I'd already been doing bad mentally for the last few months, and that sent me into a complete spiral.

I was quarantined, couldn't see my friends, couldn't leave the house, couldn't make any attempt at things that used to make me happy. I was (quite frankly) at my lowest point. I'd heard rumors of the Adventure Zone for years, and even seen content of it on my socials.

In mid May, I said fuck it and listened to episode one. MBMBAM (as good as it is) wasn't my cup of tea in podcasts, I needed something with plot. I knew the McElroys were a genre of entertainment I could get behind, but I needed plot to get invested.

TAZ Episode 3 was when I really became hooked. Magnus latched onto my heart, and Griffin's voice brought me a comfort I'd long forgotten.

Its important to note at this point in my life, I hadn't picked up a pencil to write or draw in almost six months.

I was honestly inspired to watch after a cosplayer I really admire began to cosplay Lup! I loved the personality I saw in her videos and photos of Lup, and I wanted to know more about her.

I listened to Here There Be Gerblins, and it made me smile. I listened to RockPort Limited, and I remember cleaning up my dresser and folding clothes when I found out Jenkins was the killer. I listened to Petals to the Metal, and I remember standing in my living room laughing during the whole Trent scene. I listened to Crystal Kingdom, I remembered standing in my yard in shock when Mangus sliced Merle's arm. I listened to Eleventh Hour, I remembered sitting in my chair and crying during the flashback and throwing my stuffed animal in rage at the Taako flashbacks. I remembered listening the Lunar Interlude where Lup carved her name in the wall and screaming joy at the introduction of the character who inspired to check this amazing show out. I remember playing Minecraft while listening to the Stolen Century (I was building a Ravenloft in my world!)

My favorite memory from listening to it though, was the scene Lup finally entered. I'd been listening to this podcast nonstop since I started. I remember listening to that scene and just *crying,* i remember clutching at my heart when her death was described because I'd fallen absolutely in love with her during Stolen Century.

I remember listening to Magnus' death scene while sitting at my kitchen table. My mom asked me why I was crying. "MAGNUS GOT HIS DOG!" Was all I could compute, she had no idea what I meant.

After i finished Balance, I started drawing again. It was simple, at first. Just a headshot of Lup with my favorite quote from her. But it was a start! I picked up my materials for the first time in months.

Then I started Amnesty. In minutes I was absolutely smitten. It was like Aubrey personally grabbed my hand and told me I was gonna be better soon. I latched onto Aubrey just like I did Magnus (Travis has always been my personal favorite brother.) I remember feeling guilty for skipping the last half of Commitment, but given my religion trauma that I was still processing at the time, I knew I needed to just role right along into Amnesty for my own sake.

My fondest memory of Amnesty was sitting in the car during a road trip and scribbling down things on my sketchbook.

Another prominent one was when Ned revealed to Aubrey he was the burglar. I fell to my knees when he said the sentence, and no I'm not being dramatic. I was cleaning up my room, and i collapsed onto the floor and laid in a fetal during the whole scene, ugly crying. I love all of the Amnesty characters, its my personal favorite campaign, and Ned and Aubrey meant everything to me. That scene *destroyed* me. I also remembered crying on my road trip when Ned was killed. I'd never felt so much emotion from a piece of media before.

After that I actually digested all of Balance. And the one character who's stuck out to me is Taako. And I know he's a cliche character to latch onto. But, its not his personality or his appearance or whatever that makes me love him. It was his back story. When I found Balance, I was working throufh the betrayal and loss of my fourth set of friends. I'm the kind of person who takes in people I know are toxic in hopes of helping them. And Taako was the perfect mix of myself, and the people I found myself befriending.

His history with Sazed hit close to home, in the betrayal aspect. And his betrayal by Lucretia. I understood his heart felt in those moments, and I latched onto him. I thought, "You understand how I feel right now." And I've *never* drawn so much in my life.

In just three days I made two whole pages of sketches, in just the last three weeks I've done ten pages of my brand new sketchvook (averaging it to 4-5 full drawings a page). I hadn't picked up a pen in months, and now I couldn't Put one down.

There was one night a couple days ago where I just sat in bed, grinning and crying while I looked at all the art I had accomplished, the countless pieces of writing I'd presented to my friends proudly. I rejoined roleplay groups, which I had also dropped after my mental health dropped. I came out to my IRLs as nonbinary!

The characters the McElroys created have given me this... This inspiration I've never felt before. I've hyperfixated on things before (like Undertale! That was my biggest.) But, no piece of media has ever made me feel like a character reached out of my screen and grabbed onto me.

I remember Istus telling the Gang the iconic line of "You're going to be amazing" and to me, it felt like Taako and Magnus just reached out of my phone and gave me a bear hug. Hell, just a few days I translated that feeling into a sketch.

I just bought the graphic novels, and have orders merchandize. I've *never* gotten into something, and had merchandize for it three weeks later. I've never loved something so much I sent my friends literally novellas of just me recounting my favorite scenes to them.

The Adventure Zone has literally brought the most joy into my life I could ever ask for out of media, its helped me in so many ways.

These stupid little DnD campaigns mean the absolute world to me, and I could never be happier that I found them when I did.

So, if you've read this far, there's one last thing I wanna say; even if you feel like you're at literal rock bottom, like you could end it all tomorrow and no one would care. That not even your greatest passionate with bring you joy, youll find something or someone that will pull you out of that point so fast it makes your head spin. In the emphamis words of "Zeke Owens" (Griffin) "One day, youre gonna laugh at a joke. You'll go swimming, and you'll smile in the sunlight. You're gonna pet yourself a good dog and its gonna feel amazing."

#the adventure zone balance #the adventure zone graduation #the adventure zone #the adventure zone amnesty #taz balance #taz grad #taz graduation #I doubt anyone's actually gonna read this long ass post #but I hope it helps someone

[zsweber-studios]

Merle Didn’t Have to Die

At least, not in the first Parlay he entered into with John

Now, to be clear, I love The Adventure Zone. I’ve probably relistened to TAZ: Balance over a dozen times, TAZ: Amnesty several times too, and am currently going crazy over TAZ: Graduation. However, I’m able to recognize that the series does have its inconsistencies and problems here and there. And one of the problems that has stuck with me over the years is Merle’s first death to John Hungryman, voice of The Hunger.

Specifically, that Merle didn’t need to do it at all.

From a writing perspective, I totally get that this is what needed to happen. I mean, it makes sense, right? You need to give the characters a tangible enemy that they can face off against, something or someone to build a rapport with, and also a way to get information on the enemy you are facing--though, Merle doesn’t really capitalize on that very much, but it’s Merle, so that’s not too surprising. So, from a writing perspective, having Merle’s first parlay be directed at The Hunger makes a lot of sense.

But from a story perspective? It’s a really, really dumb idea.

Let’s break it down, shall we? The reason Merle is even doing this parlay in the first place is that he needs to make peace with an enemy of his using parlay in order for the First Monastery on Tesseralia to give the Seven Birds the Light of Creation. That means that Merle has to commune with someone that he has a negative relationship with, but who won’t definitely kill him, so that he can make peace, get back to Tesseralia safe and sound, and get the Light of Creation. If he does this, then Tesseralia will survive the attack from The Hunger.

Taking all of that into consideration, Merle’s suggestion to talk to Greg Fucking Gremaldis, or some other mortal, normal person he had a negative relationship with was a good idea. It wasn’t likely they’d kill him, and the beef between them was a lot smaller, a lot easier to settle over one conversation. Had Merle been allowed to go with one of these options, Merle would’ve handled the parlay with no problem, and the Seven Birds would’ve gotten the Light of Creation that cycle, and Tesseralia would’ve survived The Hunger.

On top of that, at no point is it suggested that the Seven Birds believe that Merle using parlay at this moment is a one-time thing. It’s never stated by Abbess Orianna that Merle can only do it once, he isn’t taken to some super special ritual chamber that would suggest he can only do it in a certain location, and when he comes back from dying, the crew of the Starblaster don’t worry that they totally wasted their only chance. It seems pretty clear that they have an understanding that Merle has this skill for life now, and can use it whenever he wants.

With all that taken into consideration, why would you waste your one chance at getting the Light of Creation and saving another world by sending your already-irreverent and conflict-provoking cleric to accidentally harass the otherworldly and incomprehensible force that has been ceaselessly stalking and killing you for near half a century now?

#taz #the adventure zone #taz balance #merle highchurch #taz the hunger #taz john

[skygemspeaks]

Hey, I know I've already liked some of your posts, but I'm super stoked to hear that you've gotten into TAZ! Are there any jokes that particularly stood out to you? And are you planning to listen to Amnesty and Graduation after Balance?

Honestly, while I found the whole balance arc pretty funny, I can’t really remember many of the jokes off the top of my head (most of my free brain power is going towards loving the twins, especially Lup).

that being said though, one joke that still has me wheezing is when Lup was passionately monologuing, and she says, “I believe that, one of these times, we’re gonna get it right. And we’re gonna find a way to defeat The Hunger and… save everybody inside of it. I have to believe that, to keep doing what we do. Because I have to believe [choking up] that I’m gonna get…those fifteen dollars back from Greg fucking Grimaldis!” 

oh and also, i love any time the tres horny boys refer to barry as “barold”

Edit: oof, I forgot to answer your last question. Anyways, yeah I’m definitely planning on listening to the rest! I’ve been taking a short break to recover from how emotionally exhausting story and song was, but i’m excited to move onto commitment!!

#doomfisthero asks #the adventure zone #taz lup #taz balance #spy reports

[ruffboijuliaburnsides]

Fic writer meme! I was tagged by @mihrsuri

(I’ve been writing fic for absolutely ages but I’m only doing my AO3 fics here)

AO3 name: ruffboi

Fandoms: Currently Writing In: The Witcher. 

Others on my account that I’ve written for in the past... The Adventure Zone, MCU, Rent, Hamilton, Sports Night, Doctor Who, Marvel 616, Homestuck, Next Avengers, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Newsflesh, Firefly, World of Warcraft

Number of fics: 29

Fic I spent the most time on: Before now I would’ve had to think about it, but 100% it’s And Yet, Here We Are. I have spent so long on it the past few weeks. Holy shit.

Fic I spent the least time on: It’s hard to be sure because it’s been like 8 years since I wrote it, but I’m pretty sure Hardened Criminals (Firefly ficlet) is probably the one I just pounded out in like 10 minutes tops.

Longest fic: And Yet, Here We Are, with 14,107 words. I don’t usually do longfic, AND YET, HERE WE ARE!

Shortest fic: Hardened Criminals, 205 words. It was just a little advent ficlet iirc.

Most hits: How Darcy Lewis Kissed All The Avengers, with 3,197, which was me just being silly and cracky back in like 2012 (I hope AYHWA passes it one day...)

Most kudos: Sturdy, Denim, and Blue, with 515. my TAZ Balance cracky little AU where Barry is secretly a tiefling and his bluejeans are enchanted to disguise him as a human. And he doesn’t tell the Starblaster crew for like over 50 years. XD

Most comment threads: And Yet, Here We Are, with 74, which is nearly twice my second-highest. Y’all literally are the best and it is so encouraging and that’s how I’m still managing to work on it even with a 2-weeks-and-counting sinus headache. <3

Most bookmarks:  Sturdy, Denim, and Blue, with 94. AYHWA is closing on it fast, though.

Total word count:  79578 words

Favourite fic I wrote: And Yet, Here We Are, unsurprisingly at this point. Seriously, I’m really happy with this one and it’s satisfying to work on, and... honestly, the fact that I’ve gotten so many comments and so much feedback on it is DEFINITELY PART OF THAT. Toss a comment to your writers, oh fandom of plenty...

Fic you want to rewrite/expand on: Hmmm, that’s hard. I think probably if I could ever get back there, I’d love to expand and rewrite Autumn Days That Make You Feel Sad, because it was one of my best fics for a long time. Got nominated for an award back in the days that some big fandoms (and Doctor Who specifically) would have like. Fanfic awards and shit. I’m still pretty proud of it, though.

Share a bit of a WIP or a story idea you’re planning on: Hmmmmmm, ok so this one is gonna not be live for a WHILE bc of AYHWA and also because I’m planning to actually FINISH IT before I post it, bc I’ve got an outline and everything (gasp!), but here, have a chunk of the first chapter that I have written:

It was better than being alone, with the gaping ache in his chest as he tried to find his way to something that would fill the empty loneliness, that he'd felt every time he was without Geralt. But he’s done. He’s washed his hands of Geralt of fucking Rivia, and he’s glad of it.

Except that he’s not. Not really. Jaskier is in the next town down a random road, out of the town Roach had been stabled in at the bottom of the mountain, and his chest aches and aches and aches, the way it did before he met Geralt, the way it did every time they were apart. When he met Geralt it was a revelation how well he could fill that emptiness, and he stayed with the man for twenty years. Twenty. Years. Despite the harsh words. Despite the way he sometimes heard Jaskier and looked as if he’d just eaten a lemon. Despite the fact that Jaskier knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the witcher tolerated Jaskier because of someone he'd already fucking lost.. And then after Jaskier finally lost his patience with it and told Geralt as much, he had the audacity to try to claim that he’d let Jaskier stay for his own sake.

Which, frankly, was bullshit, and Jaskier knows it.

tagging (if you want to only): Don’t feel obligated buuuuuut @storyinmypocket​ @jackironsides @sith-shenanigans @wingedquill

#meme #my writing #ayhwa #viper jaskier au #voiceless jaskier au

[magicofthepen]

In the midst of my “sudden resurgence of feelings about TAZ Balance” mood is the resurgence of the personal and highly specific mood of “like nine months ago I thought about how the two characters I’ve become very very deeply attached to in recent years are Lucretia and Romana, realized the frankly astonishing amount of similarities between them, and needed to mentally lie down for a bit.” 

So this is a callout post for me for having a wildly specific Favorite Character Type, and also a hugely self-indulgent discussion of common threads that apparently exist between these pieces of media? (full spoilers for TAZ Balance and the Gallifrey audios)

Because Lucretia and Romana have so much in common it is unnerving:

College grad ish age nerd who is chosen for a special mission (Starblaster / Key to Time)

Things don’t go as planned, ends up traveling between different worlds way longer than she originally thought

Comes into her own while spending many years traveling between worlds — less likely to stand on the sidelines, becomes a capable adventurer in her own right (Stolen Century / travels with the Doctor)

Has a traumatic solitary experience that changes her (Cycle 65 / Etra Prime) 

Bond with animal....esque? pet...ish? companion from her traveling days (Fisher / K9)

In her later years (post-aforementioned traumatic experience), tries to Do Things Alone, pushes away everyone around her, etc. etc. ...but eventually realizes that friends and trusting other people is good, actually.

Also in her later years becomes a leader figure (Madam Director / Madam President). An ethically questionable leader figure. Definitely trying to do good but also...Bad Decisions.

Simultaneous distinguished/disaster energy (has the Gravitas, but also is a mess) 

And if we look at the parallels from a slightly different angle (because I can’t ignore the obvious Stolen Century / Gallifrey Series 4 “worldhopping after escaping the devastation of your planet” comparison):

is one of a handful of people to escape the devastation of her home world

with the other survivors, ends up traveling from one universe to the next to the next, searching for a way to deal with what destroyed her home 

the survivors bond while on this journey together 

on the final world they end up on, there’s a way to achieve their current goal (stop the Hunger from finding them / get back to the Axis) but the price is the devastation of that world (Grand Relics / unleashing what’s trapped in the time ship prison) 

her friends support the plan but she realizes she can’t stand by and let another world be destroyed 

she unilaterally decides to inflict a great personal loss on her friends to save the world (memory erasure / closing the portal and trapping them)

her decision damages at least one close relationship and causes the breakup of the group

(the bottom line of this particular comparison is that they are both “when it comes down to it, will absolutely choose the world over the people they care about” characters)

But like. TAZ Balance and the Gallifrey audios are so so different, I would never instinctively think to compare them! TAZ Balance is a comedy podcast full of silly shenanigans that became also a more serious emotional story, the Gallifrey audios are more Dramatic stories full of characters that are so serious about everything (including bureaucratic minutiae) that it becomes funny, Balance has a happy ending, Gallifrey has the Time War etc. etc. They are just simply the two pieces of media that I’ve gotten most attached to in the past ~3 years! What! 

(Anyways, if you’ve read this far, for some reason?? Thanks for indulging me in this post of ??? why I am I Like This, why are these characters Like This.) 

#this post is weirdly niche oops #but i've decided these particular ramblings should exist somewhere other than 1. my notes app and 2. a text convo #so this post is pretty much for my own reference #my character type was once described to me as 'girls who are in charge and lonely and also vaguely gay' #which. yeah. #but this is kind of absurdly specific and i feel like it says something about me but i don't know what. #...i probably don't want to know what. #ramblings #taz #taz balance #gallifrey audios #doctor who #romana #lucretia

[theadventurebang]

The Adventure Bang 2019 FAQ and Schedule

Welcome to The Adventure Bang! We’re back again for 2019, and hopefully we’ll see a bigger turnout and better managed event. Below, you will find all the information you need on the event, what it is, and how you can get involved. The ask box is open if you have any further questions.

Once again, special thanks to @defenestratin, @rabdoidal, and @meglm for the art used in the banner!

What’s a Big Bang? A bang is an event in which artists and writers collaborate with each other to create works over a scheduled amount of time (usually a few months at least). This bang also allows musicians, animators, or any other sort of fine artist!

What’s this Bang about? The Adventure Bang (TAB, for short), is open to characters and events from all arcs! From Balance to Amnesty, anything inside of the universe of the TAZ podcast is welcome. As well as being open to all characters, you are also able to create works for any form of AU you can think of, so the possibilities are endless.

How do I participate? Sign ups are open! Here's a link.. If you want to get more involved, feel free to hop into our Discord server whenever you want! While Tumblr is our primary hub, we’re also welcoming participants from Twitter and Instagram.

Find more information under the cut!

What do I have to create? Your creations do have some minimums that you must meet to be a part of the event, all of which are listed below. Writers must have a minimum of 3,000 words, but can go as high as they’d like. To keep things fair, artists will have a minimum dependent on how much their partner is expected to write. If you plan to create something that isn’t listed, your specific minimums will be given to you along with your confirmation, or they can be discussed.

{ Writers }

Minimum of 3,000 words.

Has to be able to be understood as a standalone fic. Though sequels, prequels, and anything in between can be created for your fic, what you make for the Bang must be comprehensible without having to have read any extra parts.

Posted to whatever site(s) you prefer. We will have an AO3 collection.

G-Teen rating for anyone under 18. (for sexual content, specifically. Violence is allowed)

Be able to provide a summary of your work when claims open, as well as a small excerpt of what you’ve written so far.

{ Artists }

For partners with 3,000+ words: at least one finished artwork.

For partners with 10,000+ words: at least two finished artworks.

For partners with 18,000+ words: at least three finished artworks.

Claim up to 3 writers to pair with

Digitally made, or a fairly high quality scan/photo or a traditional work.

Posted to whatever site(s) you prefer. 

May be paintings, lineart, comics, large/multiple small pixel art(s), animations of at least 30 seconds, etc.

{ Others }

Music; 1 or more playlist with at least 10 tracks || 1 or more remix of at least 1 minute || 1 or more original composition of at least 1 minute.

Cosplay; 1 or more cosplays with at least 4 photos/gifs, per pairing.

Gifset; 2 or more sets with at least 6 gifs, per pairing.

Photoset; 2 or more sets with at least 9 photos, per pairing.

Video edit; 1 or more videos of at least 1 minute, per pairing.

FAQ

How will claims work? When you sign up, you will have the option to state what kind of works you would like to be partnered with if you are a writer. Plain art will always be a default, but if you say that you would be fine with partnering with musicians or anything else, they will also be able to claim your work when it comes time for claims, and they will be partnered with you along with your artist. Claims will start out with writers, who will submit summaries of their work, and from there the artists will get to see the summaries and give which they would most like to claim- after artist claims are over, all others will be able to see what’s available for their specific type and choose from those.

Can I sign up for more than one thing? Yes! Just keep in mind that you will have to work with multiple people, and create multiple works. Don’t sign up for more than what you can handle!

Can I write more than one story? You can! However, you will end up submitting two works for claims, and have separate partners for both, unless this is worked out prior to sign up. Again, don’t sign up for more than you can handle.

What if I already have a partner? You can still sign up! You will just state your partners name when you sign up, and they will do the same for you. You can still apply for extra partners if you’d like.

When does my work have to be finished? Posting is currently scheduled for around October 5-12th 2019, but it is subject to change. Your work won’t have to be finished until posting.

Can I drop out if needed? Yes, you can drop out of the event anytime. Just make sure to let us know before you do. We promise not to make you feel bad for it! If you aren’t sure if you’ll need to drop out, try to give it a few days before making a final decision if you can. There’s no coming back after you drop out.

Can my fic be a story I’ve already started? As long as none of the fic has been posted anywhere, it can be.

If you have any more questions, feel free to send them to the ask box or on our Discord!

The schedule as it currently stands is below.

100% of the schedule is subject to change depending on the situation- this is just the basic outline that we’ve planned. You will be notified of any changes.

February 2nd: Sign ups open

April 6th: Writer sign ups close

May 4th: Artist sign ups close

May 5th - 11th: Writer check in and summary submissions

May 18th: Writer summaries available for everyone to view

May 19th - 25th: Claims begin (artists claiming anon summaries)

June 1st: Partner information is sent out

June 8th - 12th: Check in to make sure everyone has gotten in touch with their partner

September 7th - 14th: Final check in. Everyone given posting information

October 5th - 12th: Posting 

#the adventure zone #taz #taz balance #taz amnesty #tazbang2019 #big bang #sign up #mcelroys #taako #magnus burnsides #taz merle #duck newton #ned chicane #aubrey #fandom #taz commitment #taz dust #taakitz

[keplercryptids]

Hey there, thought i'd send in an ask game ask from that identity ask game post you reblogged maybe a while back, hopefully balance out your inbox a bit? 1,15, 21?

thank you :)

i answered 15 already but!

1. if someone wanted to really understand you, what would they read, watch, and listen to?

read: conflict is not abuse by sarah schulman as far as activism/ personal philosophy goes, or the sea, the sea by iris murdoch as far as how much i like loneliness by the ocean~

watch: probably buffy the vampire slayer. it's very much of its time but it's a show I've been watching since 1998 and it's gotten me through really rough times.

listen: i know this means music but i don't really listen to music. so listen to just mercy by Bryan stevenson on audio book and also listen to your dentist when they tell you to floss or listen to the suffering game arc of taz balance.

21. do you love easily?

i think i want to love easily? but in reality im pretty guarded.

#ask game #x me a q #sympatheticobjects

[ghosty-schnibibit]

very late (both in terms of date and time) ttazz liveblog before graduation comes out later today! 

the main reasons i put off listening to the ttazz for as long as i did:

was in the middle of a balance relisten, specifically in the middle of eleventh hour, and didn't want to break my flow there (iirc i was right before That Episode and i didn’t want the mood whiplash of going from ttazz to the emotional gut punch of the chalice)

still getting over amnesty in general because d a m n, this was my first season with taz from beginning to end that hit me hard, i needed some decompression time

i'm always a little terrified to listen to ttazz eps because i've been here for a long ass time and have seen interactions between fans and creaters go bad fast and am always quietly worried for our good good brothers even though most of the fandom is relatively chill

but graduation begins today so! i felt like i needed to get it over and done with. going into this with my only spoiler being that sternclay is canon, let's do this!

OH SHIT! new ttazz music! :D

kill me with emotions more like

or clint could be pollution a la g’omens

YES PLEASE I HAD TO GOOGLE HIM

... is there some reverb on justin's audio? he's echoing

i literally only saw ferris buller for the first time a year ago and i cannot remember wayne newton being in it

whomst???

yes please i am so curious

aww, that's fun

... so the ending was likely originally going to be duck taking over as mothman??? i'm so mad

YES PLEASE EXPLAIN GRIFFIN I WAS SO CONFUSED ABOUT THIS

g i v e  m e  t h e  l o r e  g r i f f i n

oh my god that is so good, holy shit

oh right, the npc who was a ghost that i couldn't stop picturing as owl from winnie the pooh because of his voice lmao

oh dang griffin and trav's audios are echoing too, this is super distracting

i would agree with that honestly, i feel like it was more like a tv season-esque build than an epic

... mood, and also why i think it hit everyone so hard that ned died

same, i love bad liar duck so much

the audience struggled with it too for a bit there lol

it has been so fuckin long since i listened to the first few eps of amnesty, i legit do not remember what aubrey's original voice sounded like

"how did we come to ned chicane?" damn trav

i always made a connection between suffering game and the shifter arc in my head but i didn't want to compare the two seasons unjustly, i feel better now that griffin's made it more implicit

who is clinking a spoon against a porcelain cup

"i'm checking slack, fuck you guys" pfff

that is literally how you brought barry back griffin

i need someone to write an au where aubrey touched thacker and got quelled earlier in the timeline, holy shit

dang, i could have guessed it was planned... i guess a lot of this arc's foreshadowing came in the form of "the boys all picked red null suits" moments where random things all added up

... wait, didn't duck kill the tree abomination? i need to relisten to amnesty so bad, i honestly cannot remember, i think that arc’s finale came out while i was in the middle of finals

ilu griffin

we could have had a "you earned love, but you didn't earn LOVE" moment??? g r i f f i n

YES, give me those great parallels trav

i have literally never seen a national lampoon movie guys

i thought it was!!! dang :(

honestly i wish pigeon had gotten more screen time between the arcs, she was really a wasted character imho

i love danbry so much :')

i'm only familiar with brian blessed as hamlet sr.'s ghost lmao

YEEEAH, STERNCLAY! :D

...

i maintain that she fell off a pudding fruit tree lol

oh fuck i am somehow even more happy thacker did that knowing that now holy shit

nice, time for some graduation hype!

tiny heist? i don't remember hearing anything about this :0

i am so fucking excited to see these maps trav, holy shit

i! cannot! wait! for! travis! dming!

oh my god i do the same thing with all my ocs, i have an entire publisher doc with all their info written out too

i'm so damn exited! holy shit!!!

nice one griff lmao

alrighty, that's the end of amnesty! i can't wait to see what trav has in store for us, and i'll still be here livebloging along with it for the foreseeable future ^u^

p.s.: thank you guys so much for all the love on my recent post!!! i didn't expect so many people to enjoy me venting my emotionsTM over suffering game lol

#taz #taz amnesty #the adventure zone #ghosty liveblogs taz #veeery late lmao

[drownedkiwi]

Author fic meme

I was tagged by both @fandomsnstuff and @desiree-harding-fic,,, i love yall sm 

your name: Jordyn!

fandoms you write for: I think ive written equally for both Assassins Creed and TAZ: balance, but i’ve defintely been looking into doing some Dragon Age fics recently, as well as some stardew valley.

where you post: All of my fics go on AO3, but my older ( AC ) stuff is also up on my fanfiction.com account which i no longer use. im pretty sure theres some warrior cats stuff on there too..oof. 

most popular one shot: back to wonderland, which was SO much fun to write!! im not used to one shots so it was a fun challenge.

most popular multi chapter story: Of Arcane energy and missing hearts, which got a lot more popular than i expected! it was one of the first TAZ fics i put out there and the reception of it was so heartwarming, ilysm

favorite story you’ve written: Two week affair, which was my literal baby. it took me nearly three years to finish ( mostly because i took a yearlong gap inbetween after i fell out of the fandom and fic writing all together ) but its one of the biggest pieces ive ever done at 71k words, and i poured a whole lot of love into it. also one of the first ever pieces of fic i ever did! im proud yall. can u tell skdhjskahd

story you were nervous to post: i actually ended up orphaning this piece, starblaster academy, because i wasnt happy with my characterization. it was the first TAZ piece i ever wrote, and i was super nervous about putting it out into such a talented community. 

how do you choose titles: I try to go for puns as often as i can, but mostly i just try to stick with what the story is about and mash it into as few words as possible.

do you outline: only when i know im going to have a beta! otherwise we just kalvinball that shit bro haha we wildin’

how many of your stories are complete? five! i dont finish a lot of pieces, and most sit in my google drive gathering dust :(

how many of your stories are in progress? three at the moment i think?

coming soon: hopefuly a very stupid food truck story me and desiree came up with like, 42 months ago, that ive gotten back onto recently.

do you accept prompts? i would love to! 

upcoming story you’re most excited to write? bro i really wanna write stardew...i really do.....but tacos gotta come first

tagging: @cha-boy-taako​ and @uppercase-disgrace ilyall!!! have fun!!

#fic meme #fwiends #fiw #fwineds #please i love two week affair so much #i lvo be #my bayba #also ily for tagging me #babyies!!

[forreasonswretchedandivine]

Tagged by: @kimchi-fried-ice (feel free to say hi whenever! I LOVE your blog, and you seem very nice I’d love to be friends!:))

Nickname: it’s practically my actual name, but it’s tidge. When I was little my basketball coach would always say my name as tish lol. Then my family started calling me that because they thought it was hilarious, and my mom said it in front of my theatre friends and they started doing it too. It’s honestly grown on me, and I let just about everyone call me tidge BC it usually leads to me telling them where it came from. Also I think it’s cute:):)

Height: 5’5?? 5’6? People always say I should know this but I just never do🤷🏾‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️.(side note: if you’re taller than me and also a girl who likes girls HMU😚)

Hogwarts house: I’m like the only one of every person I know who’s consumed 4 Harry Potter things( read first book, watched first 3 movies) but I took a quiz and got slytherin? Sounds about right from what I know lol. I’m nice, but I’ve got major RBF and I’m ALWAYS down for a little drama

Last thing I googled: “where to catch dreepy in Pokémon sword” that elusive motherfucker has a 2% chance of spawning in the wild area and I almost exploded after 2 hours of running in and out of like 3 different tall grass areas. Didn’t find one BUT I found it’s evolved form, which was fine because looking any longer may have killed me

Song stuck in my head: From Eden by Hozier and high five by Sigrid. They are both bangers in their own respect, and the are playing ln my head at the same time right now. It’s kinda nice!

Following:253! Though a few of those are inactive now, I’ve had this account since middle school

Followers: 27 total but 10 are inactive, and I’m pretty sure one is just a spam account that was VERY convincing

Amount of sleep I get: I try for 7-8 and get it most of the time, but some nights I get hit with that good self hate™️™️ and stay up later because why not? Or I’ll be up till 3 in fugue state trying to finish homework/ projects that I procrastinated on lol. I take lots of naps too BC they are soooo great

Lucky number:13! I have no basis behind this, other than because I want it to be, and because people say it’s bad luck. So far it’s been pretty great to me!!

Dream job: 😬😬😬 welll over the past 2 years, especially since I transferred colleges and had a bit of an unexpected major chance( technical theatre> studio art) My career path has been pretty unclear and I’m still not really sure what I wanna do. I’d love to get back into something theatre related because I’m pretty good at it, but lately the art I’ve been doing makes me very happy and gives me a personal sense of accomplishment that theatre never gave me. I’m hoping to find some sort of intersection between the two, so I can be able to make something for either a play or musical, then when I’m done just go chill somewhere for a little while and take a nap. Or like make some cool painting or drawing, make some money from it, then take a few weeks off of doing sutff, repeat. So I guess the short answer is: make art that I enjoy, get paid, not work every day:)

Wearing: what am I wearing?My, my, how sexual!! Just kidding;);). Black boots, high waisted skinny jeans, an button up shirt with a stranger things demegoron pattern, tan cardigan, and a little trans pride pendant I made to remind myself I am valid, and to signal other trans people!

Favorite song: (TAZ balance spoilers) idk if this counts but any version of lucetia’s theme from taz, written by one GRIFFIN TEAR MY HEART OUT ANDREW MCELROY. It’s just so beautiful, and it always makes me feel such strong emotions because every time it plays on the podcast there’s like a major plot development or moment of growth for lucetia, and I JUST. I literally ascend when it plays during the finale when she’s about to stop the hunger, just ugh so good

Instruments: I played the baritone for like a year in middle school. To summarize how that went: I was not very good:/:/

Random fact: I’m always telling myself that this probably isn’t something I should be so casual and open about, but then I tell people anyways. When I was 3-4, my sister was getting on my nerves and we were both on the kitchen counter for some reason. So to get her to stop, I took a knife and cut almost completely through her finger. Needless to say that got me in a bit of trouble with my dad, and to this day most of my family gets on edge when they see me with a knife. Which I find funny because In my teen years and now, I’ve gotten really into buying knifes and swords like some sort of blade gremlin. All of that probably made me sound very unstable, but I promise I’m not, just like sharp things. Im like 30% unhinged at all times AT MOST.

Aesthetics:????? I’m really into symmetry and matching colors of that counts as an aesthetic. My room is probably the best example, because everything in it is organized in a weird messy kinda way. I know where it is but it’s not where you’d think(ex: The sword I have hung next to my window) again I am very much a gremlin girl, and while I keep a lot of weird stuff, Im also very organized and creative so I end up using some broken things to make something new(ex: the bow and arrow I made out of a walking stick, some rubber bands and a 5 mechanical pencils). This description is probably also a good example of my aesthetic, which is to say messy, and slightly incoherent, but prepared and practical. In terms of clothing, it’s a sliding scale between “ For all intents and purposes I was not planning on leaving my room or being perceived physically by others today, but a friend wanted to hang out, and I love my friends so here I am looking like this” And “ I am an ethereal being of pure beauty and elegance, but watered down a bit so I’m still very well dressed, but minus the elegance, and plus a lil slut and probably some black boots”. It should also be stated that my gayness is part of both of these in varying degrees of intensity

I tag: @rosebudyke @negative-ghostriderr @sunshine-nb @severedned @seraphlesbian (y’all don’t have to if you don’t want to tho,but if you want message me! You all also seem very nice☺️)

[sanvitheartificer]

Fic author meme!

Tagged by: @charmandhex and @everqueen12; thanks dears!

Your name: Sanvi! 

Fandoms you write for: Mostly the Adventure Zone, a bit for a few others. I get inspired for different fandoms all the time, but being in a fic writer discord has helped me hang on to inspiration long enough to actually do something about it. 

Where you post: Mostly ao3 @ https://archiveofourown.org/users/sanvitheartificer! I used to post on fanfiction.net, but that was Long Ago and probably embarrassing. Tbh even my ao3 is embarrassing, so.. yes. Also I guess tumblr, occasionally? I feel weird posting on tumblr bc i don’t do oneshots often and other stuff is unwieldy to post on tumblr.

Most popular oneshot: I guess it depends on how you count one-shots? “fourteen-thirteen”, which is a Umbrella Academy fic, is unlikely to ever be finished and it’s technically one chapter, but also the story is bigger than one chapter even if it’s not a story I’m going to tell. “endings alone”, also for UA, is in second place, and that’s for sure a one-shot! I got those published right when UA was booming so that’s why, I think. 

Most popular multi-chapter story: deffo ‘how seven idiots stole the light of creation’! A silly TAZ fic set in an ostensibly modren age which is basically just an excuse for me to write mysteries and falling in found family love. It is pretty big in scale!

Favorite story you’ve written: See, I’m torn between seven idiots and Pokemon Balance: Bronze. Bronze is one that is soothing for me, that it even exists, and I’ve done some very cool art for it, and I love my worldbuilding for it. and I’ve been retroactively Nervous about ‘seven idiots’ for months now, for a variety of reasons! but like, i cannot tell you how many nights I’ve spent grinning my face off working on seven idiots and figuring out the plot twists, and it’s the farthest I’ve ever gotten into a story that big. It’s a really cool story and I can’t wait to finish it. 

Story you were nervous to post: Hmm, I think I was nervous to post ‘endings alone’, which involves several different neo-pronouns? but i was also filled with a huge ‘fuck-you-die-mad-about-it’ energy, too. usually i’m Really Hyped when i’m posting things, tbh, overwhelming any nerves. 

Do you outline: Yep! It’s often the first thing I sit down and bang out. I’ve recently started doing a thing where i outline just before i write something, like, outline a scene and then later go back and tie the scenes together, and that’s been working really well! But I think with longer WIPs, that fits into the skeleton that I create with Big Outlines. 

How many of your stories are complete: Um. do u mean ‘abandoned’  ...the real answer is, a solid six, with a few edge cases of ‘i guess you could probably count that as complete’? A lot of those are... hoooo boy. old writing. and none of them are more than one chapter. 

How many of your stories are in progress: Also a complicated answer, as it turns out! On AO3, I definitely plan to finish ‘seven idiots’ and ‘pokemon balance: bronze’, eventually, and I hope to finish the ‘forgiveness in seven parts’ series eventually, which is really just seven different parts of one story.  ‘The Woods’ is ancient and basically drawing mostly from the first season of Young Justice, which is to say it has an audience of Me Only, but I’m still a slut for codependency and poly and my caricatures of those characters and all the reasons I started writing it, so it may possibly get picked back up!  Hoooowever, the only thing I am actively in the process of writing for right now is an unpublished TAZ fic... Coming soon: About Lup and Davenport bonding and Merle and Lucretia bonding during the Stolen Century; working title, ‘father-daughter day!’ It’s very cute, and should clock in about 10k. Progress is slow but steady. 

A oneshot prompt from Charm! 

Evil Overlord Lucretia AU!

Finishing 'seven idiots’ and ‘bronze’ and maybe even ‘forgiveness in seven parts’!

Some other stuff on the backburner: i’d love to do more brainstorming for pen pals au, which was a back-and-forth tumblr thing that i contributed to a bit yyyyesterday I think. Really want to write some fic for The Strange Case of the Starship Iris, the Bromeliad Trilogy by Terry Prachett, possibly Girl In Space, and Fate and the Fablemaidens, though I don’t have any well-formed ideas for them. 

Do you accept prompts: Mmmmm I’m gonna say no not really. it’s hard enough to get myself to write the stuff I wanna write. I... yeah, prompts are not a way my brain can work. 

Upcoming story you’re most excited to write: I’m really fucking excited about all my projects but I am dying to get into Evil Overlord Lucretia; it’s just a super cool story and it has a bomb playlist already and I love it a lot. 

Tagging: @cakeandpi, @simplyaskeleton, @shadow-and-purgatory, if you wanna! <3

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