#accessible taz

[soledadcatalina]

[id: a digital drawing of lucretia from the adventure zone in a black/dark blue/yellow/white colour palette. she is wearing a blue rope that is embellished with the triangular bureau symbol. she stands with a knowing smile, holding her white bulwark staff, set against a black background with a golden halo.]

decided to go for another colour palette free choice with lucretia

#the adventure zone #madame director lucretia #lucretia taz #accessible fanart #image description #casetrippy does art #i relistened to the spa lunar interlude and just. i miss her so fucking much

[yardsards]

you know what would have been really cool in taz ethersea?

if using prestige salts to cast magic had physical magic effects on the body, kinda the same way prolonged exposure to ethersea water itself had caused physical effects on some people's bodies

because like, it's basically the magic equivalent of nuclear waste bonded to sea salts. it would be cool if bringing that kind of pollution into your body had more tangible negative effects

you could identify experienced magic users in this world by how not-quite-human they look

and perhaps most effects would be more long-term, but if you use more than you can handle of it in one day, you'd have some pretty nasty acute effects.

and that would be a fun way to tie the mechanics of spell slots into the worldbuilding (at least, in a way i personally find more interesting than just simply tying it to having to acquire sufficient quantities of this resource). and getting more spell slots as you level up could be like your body building up a bit of a tolerance.

(maybe you would even able to push yourself to cast one last spell in an emergency even after you run out of slots; you can try and cast that extra spell but you'll have to deal with some pretty bad acute effects of prestige overdose: have your hp painfully reduced to almost 0 and maybe have to roll some sort of altered wild magic table to see what else it does to you)

and this is not even getting started on the Implications that would have on devo as a character

#eliot posts #taz #the adventure zone #taz ethersea #devo la main #i brought this up in the discord and they had some REAL GOOD adfitions especially vis a vis devo #but i think this goes on tumblr too #bc i like to keep most of my ideas On Here where it's publicly accessible to more than just a select group of people

[shoolb]

[id: a digitally drawn gif of lup taaco. she glows golden, with fire for hair and flickering out of her hands, wearing a voluminous red robe. her body flickers in and out of existence, showing a stark white skeleton beneath.]

SHE'S BEEN HERE THE WHOLE TIME

#lup taaco #taz balance #the adventure zone #accessible #artist described #wish the quality was better :/

[barry-j-blupjeans]

did tumblr give anyone else frogs today

#idk if they're accessible on mobile but. desktop frogs #not taz #i am speaking

[hookhausenschips]

Hey everyone, I’m finally back. Although I probably won’t be as active on here but I will definitely do my best, I accepted a job offer as Assistant Manager for this job I originally applied as an associate so I’ll try to be on here after work hours or my breaks. Send in your requests or if you just want to chat, feel free!! I missed you all🩶🩶

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[autismjpg]

also L to justin but in MY mind the boys are actually silly friends who enjoy each others company and i think taako WOULD disclose his hot date with death to them even tho merle would try to beat him with his wooden arm over it (lovingly)

#actually i think they’ve leaned more towards them being friends #in the graphic novel #but i fr think they love each other so dearly #IN MY MIND the love they held and formed through the 100 years #is still there when they reunite in the BOB #like even though they can’t access those memories #the love is still there #honestly i think that is a little canon with the way they all interact #it’s not as like?? sweet sappy lovey dovey stuff #but all three of the boys are quite independent don’t rely on others #but as a trio they tend to take each other much more into account #than anyone else #anyways the graphic novel is so real for making them softer #taakos graphic novel characterisation is delightful especially #taz #taz balance

[fuckin-flip-wizard]

While the weary nations weep, awakening me from a dream / I see the moonlight steal across my sheets / My love is lying fast asleep, chasing its beams / He stirs, and then he turns his back to me

(Click for better quality, Un-watercolored under cut)

#this is kinda a little concept that i wanted to use in an animation but i don't have access to my tablet right now lol #maybe someday I'll actually be able to finish an animation lmao #maybe #taz #the adventure zone #the adventure zone balance #taz balance #the adventure zone kravitz #kravitz taz #taz kravitz #kravitz #the oh hellos #eurus the oh hellos #the oh hellos eurus #o sleeper #o sleeper the oh hellos #the oh hellos o sleeper

[far-thee-well]

Image ID: A digital drawing of Sir Fitzroy Maplecourt from the Adventure Zone: Graduation. Fitzroy is drawn in a playing card style mirrored from the shoulders up as the ace of spades. The image is colored using various shades of the asexual pride flag (black, gray, white, and purple). Fitzroy’s mouth is open in a wide laugh. He wears a purple cloak emblazoned with white lightning bolts on either shoulder over a gray laced shirt. He has curly dark purple hair which hangs down to his round rimmed glasses. One of Fitz’s pointed half-elf ears pokes out from his hair, and Snippers the crab hovers over his shoulder.

Returning to digital art after a long hiatus to present my boy and ace king SIR Fitzroy Maplecourt

#fitzroy maplecourt #taz #taz graduation #taz fanart #my art #ace pride #happy pride #i love this accidentally magical boy with my whole heart #i fully intended to do this traditionally #but then I opened my laptop to look for reference #And 5 hours later here we are #accessible art #griffin mcelroy

[gothgaymoth]

in the year of our lord 2022 i am posting TAZ: Amnesty Indrid Cold content and i am unashamed [image description start] A drawing of Indrid Cold from The Adventure Zone Amnesty. He has brown skin with white freckles. His hair is short and white with bangs. He is wearing large, red glasses with opaque round lenses. He also is wearing a white tank top with an orange quartz-like necklace hanging low, down the middle of his chest, and pink gym shorts. He has his right arm behind his head, and his left arm touching his left knee, which is bent upwards. His other leg is relaxed. Indrid is on an abstract background of blue-tinted white with pink blobs that somewhat resemble flower petals. [image description end]

#i speak #ask to tag #photos #TAZ #taz: amnesty #the adventure zone #taz amnesty #taz:a #taz art #image id #accessible fanart #my art #also by the way this indrid was inspired by Mika Murha's work on Reddit! #go check them out they have commissions open right now!! #/u/mikamurha #the adventure zone amnesty #would prefer if you didn't tag as kin but at the same time. go you!

[homo-beehive]

we’re doing something that we’re proud of!!

our school’s theater, which is the heart and soul of our school, has three entrances: one from the outside (level, but locked and barricaded), one from a loft (stairs, no elevator), and one from the ground floor (weird raised platform with no ramps). this means no wheelchair accessible entrances as of now. we are in a theater class, and as we occasionally use a wheelchair due to chronic pain, this is an issue. our school has a high disabled population, which makes it even stranger to us that this hasn’t been solved.

therefore, we have crafted a petition to advocate for the restoration and/or addition of wheelchair-accessible entrances to the theater.

and we have 24 signatures already!!

#🎙️ taz posts #chronic pain #chronic fatigue #spoonie #wheelchair user #ambulatory wheelchair user #wheelchair accessibility #accessibility #disability #disability advocacy #physical disability #disabled #actually disabled

[mcelroyfamilystaff]

It's MaxFunDrive! If you're already a MaxFun Member, all of this year's Bonus Content should be in your feed already - this year's TAZ BoCo is a one shot of Plato's Rave, with all three boys GMing while Clint is the only PC, and it is ART. The MBMBaM BoCo is a recording of the boys trying to figure out how to run that game, and it's so, so fun - honestly you could listen to either one first and I think it would work well, but imo listening to them plot how they think things will go first is a very fun way to go about it.

Sawbones has another Kid's Q&A this year, with Charlie guest-hosting along Syd and answering questions from young listeners, Shmanners has an episode and video all about emojis, and Wonderful! has a one-off return to Rose Buddies! If you're not a member yet and you wanna listen to all this great stuff, head on over to MaximumFun.org/Join and sign up at $5 or more a month! You'll get access to not just this year's Bonus Content, but all of the Bonus Content from every show, from every year we've done the Drive. There's a TAZ episode DM'ed by Matt Mercer, the Charlieverse episodes, the Prankee Doodle Dandy episode of MBMBaM, truly an abundance of s-tier goofs await!

Also we have so much other stuff planned for the Drive! We're gonna be streaming more or less daily on YouTube, starting with Griffin doing a Fuser DJ stream today at 10am ET, and then Justin and Sydnee streaming watching a buckwild Netflix movie, I Believe in Santa, around 1pm ET.

On top of all of that, we've set our own bonus goals for the Drive, starting with this: At 3,000 new & upgrading members, Fungalore will hear your wishes LIVE. What does that mean? That's such a good question. Only one way to find out! If you wanna see the rest of our goals, you can check 'em out here. If you want to stay up to date on everything we have going on this week, turn on notifications for our Instagram story, that's where we'll be posting all the time-sensitive stuff.

Last but not least, thank you. Truly, from the bottom of all of our hearts. Whether you can afford to join or not, y'all's support is the reason we all get to do this for a living, and it genuinely is a joy to get to spend our days making these goofy things in hopes of bringing a little levity to someone's day. Means the absolute fuckin' world to us. We hope you have an absolute blast during this Drive, you deserve it.

#mcelroys #mbmbam #my brother my brother and me #the adventure zone #taz #justin mcelroy #travis mcelroy #griffin mcelroy #tumblr 'sclusies #maxfundrive

[taakosleftshoe]

The Adventure Zone Wiki Migration

Hello TAZ community!

As you may know just from trying to navigate the website, Fandom.com is not all that user-friendly. Half your screen gets taken up by a video you never asked to play, and ads are constantly popping in at the sides. Overall, I'm not a fan of the platform because of their business model, but the wiki is a very useful resource, and I know many TAZ fans share these feelings.

That is why I have begun migrating The Adventure Zone Wiki to miraheze, an entirely non-profit wiki-hosting site which runs on MediaWiki, the same platform Wikipedia uses.

The new wiki can be found at adventurezonewiki.miraheze.org

While all of the content has been moved over, it still has some formatting errors from the platform switch. If you have a moment to help out as you see these errors, it would be greatly appreciated!

If you love TAZ and being able to access episode information, character details, and everything else, the wiki is a great resource for that! But it needs contributions! Wikis are user-run, and every edit counts.

The old Fandom wiki is still up, and will continue to be up, but as one of the people who have been consistently updating the wiki for information recently, I'm not going back there. All of my edits will be done at adventurezonewiki.miraheze.org, and the most updated information will be there.

Even if you do not intend to edit the wiki, any amount of sharing helps, as the migration will only be successful if people know about it! So spread the word!

#also my asks and dms should be open if you have any questions or concerns #sierra speaks #taz wiki #the adventure zone #the adventure zone wiki #the adventure zone steeplechase #the adventure zone ethersea #the adventure zone balance #the adventure zone graduation #the adventure zone amnesty #taz #the zone cast #thezonecast #mcelroys #mcelroy family

[utilitycaster]

@rowzeoli replied to your post “Do you think part of the D20 journalistic bias...”:

I rarely go on tumblr so sorry if you see me spamming your posts tonight, but I really enjoy your perspective and thoughts! I think I'm the journalist you're referencing in regards to the Fantasy High Junior Year article and unfortunately 1) journalists only get access to interview subjects at very specific junctions (usually press day before the series goes out or halfway through) 2) most publications are honestly Going Through It and cutting freelance rates and just not paying to cover AP

​So I'll be totally honest - I post on Tumblr because I assume it is far more unlikely to be seen and so I can vent freely (hence the fairly harsh tone of the criticism in the original post), but I guess this is a chance to clarify. I don't expect anything to change, nor do I expect you to respond; indeed, I wouldn't blame you if you block me after this. But if readership is down (and who knows? maybe it's not and I'm the outlier), this may be illuminating.

The issue with your specific article - which I brought up relatively tangential to the larger point of "at this point I think Polygon's AP/TTRPG coverage is a waste of time to read" isn't really that it's only an early look at the series; and because Fantasy High Junior Year is at this time ongoing, it's honestly entirely valid that there hasn't been a follow-up. It's, well, the "surface-level and factually wrong" issue.

Dimension 20 was by no means the pioneer of remote recording as you claim in your article; that had long been the default of smaller recorded AP shows well before pandemic lockdown for the simple reason that if you're not a media company the overhead is very low - no need to have a dedicated space or even cameras beyond decent laptops. Burrow's End's puppetry? Critical Role's Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Crystal Palace did shadow puppets in 2019. They had diagetic audio on the main campaign as early as 2016. I don't even like Kollok, but that's had complex set design since 2019. Meanwhile premise of the article is yet another rehash of Polygon's "Dimension 20 is CHANGING THE GAME" constant drumbeat, while your actual pull quotes from Brennan Lee Mulligan are him musing that this is simply an entry in an ancient tradition of storytelling and isn't, in fact, terribly novel. The interview fails utterly to back up your point and indeed contradicts it; I get that the timeline was probably tight but this is outright incorrect in multiple places and your argument isn't just unsupported; it's outright dismissed by the very person you claim is proving it. If the premise came before the interview, it needed to be reworked afterwards, and if it came after the interview…I'm not sure what to say, really.

This isn't your article, and I'm putting it here to illustrate that this has been a pattern for Polygon's AP coverage specifically. This article about Worlds Beyond Number is perhaps my favorite example of "this is not serious journalism:" Rusty Quill Gaming, The Adventure Zone, Friends at the Table, and NADDPod are all theater of the mind long-running podcasts (RQG's campaign lasted a whopping 7 years of real time) and that's just off the top of my head; the idea of a long-running edited audio podcast being novel is laughable. RQG and TAZ both started at level 1; I'm not personally familiar with Friends at the Table. I don't actually think starting at level 1 vs. 2 is terribly important in storytelling in the first place other than that a few D&D classes pick their subclass at L2 and that choice can be narratively relevant, which it was in TAZ; however, some classes pick a subclass at L3 so you can still achieve this with a level 2 start (as Critical Role's second campaign does). Both Emily Axford of NADDPod and Griffin McElroy of TAZ have long been composing their own music and RQG is heavily sound designed. These are not obscure pulls, either; these are some of the more well-known names in the space.

At this point, Polygon AP/TTRPG articles - by multiple different writers - simply feel like madlibs: "(actual play show) is groundbreaking in its (thing that other shows have been doing for 5+ years); I especially liked (visual effect) and (incorrect understanding of TTRPG mechanics)."

The people I allude to in the post you responded to as having egregiously uncharitable and sanctimonious takes on Daggerheart (within, again, hours of its publication) are a frequent Polygon contributor and a Rascal editor and they further my mistrust of those publications: There is this constant insistence that everything they like be "groundbreaking" and "innovating" and they will claim this even when it's demonstrably not the case, as the above examples note. As Mulligan says in your article "it’s important to keep new artists with new experiences and backgrounds flowing in," and yet by focusing intensely on high production values (difficult for smaller indie upstarts to have) and by incorrectly claiming that a well-established media company within the space like D20 invented a number of things it flat out did not, this journalism is actively, if unintentionally, working against that goal. As I put it elsewhere, Polygon's bizarre pedestaling of Dimension 20 and simultaneous putdowns of Critical Role (which turn into wild contortions when D20 mainstays like Mulligan or Aabria Iyengar collaborate with CR; for that matter others besides me have observed that Polygon acts like Spenser Starke is two different people, the genius who created Alice is Missing and the knuckle-dragging moron who put out Candela Obscura and Daggerheart) coupled with the obsession with production values over story has the whiff of claiming they're the champion of the little guy for sticking it to the 700 lb gorilla in the space and then focusing on 500 lb gorillas while making it impossible for smaller monkeys to compete because most brand new shows without the name recognition of someone like Mulligan involved can't exactly hire Rick Perry to do their models or Taylor Moore to do sound design.

I suppose a good way to put this, since I've run into this in many spaces, not just AP/TTRPG or even journalism, is that bias on its own in a subjective medium isn't inherently bad; but if something is so nakedly biased against something I love, I will, naturally, turn to it with a far more critical eye, and if its arguments are not ironclad I'm going to start noticing every structural issue in every argument and every tiny mistake. Sure, as a fan of Critical Role, and as someone who feels that Kollok was nigh-unwatchable and that Burrow's End was promising in parts but deeply flawed, I disagreed with Polygon's nonstop mud-slinging towards the former and glowing, verging on fawning reviews of the latter two. But that's not entirely damning on its own; I do get that not everyone will like Critical Role and that some people will love Kollok or Burrow's End for valid reasons. What's damning is the journalism itself is riddled with factual errors and the analysis is so weak that to call the arguments a flimsy house of cards would be generous. The opposite is also true; if Polygon's lead editor were out here repeatedly misspelling the name of one of the main characters in Worlds Beyond Number (note: this has since been corrected) but the articles had compelling arguments, even ones I disagreed with, I'd be far more forgiving, but as is? It's offering me absolutely nothing: it's poorly researched, it's poorly structured, it's poorly written, it's poorly copy-edited, and it shits on things I like seemingly just for clicks. I'm done giving clicks.

I am deeply sympathetic to the pressures facing digital journalism and media and the arts in general; as someone who is fortunate enough not to personally face those pressures and has the income to be a patron, I would love to help in my small way (and I do, at least, financially support a number of the AP shows I love). But the quality of some of this journalism is truly so bad that I can't bring myself to support the institutions putting it out; it's "dead dove do not eat" until such time as someone whose analysis and opinions I do trust cites them (or, perhaps, until there is a sea change of lead editorship). I know that this won't help the crunch, and may make it worse, but I just can't because the quality is so poor. I don't have a good solution to how to write about something that takes a lot of time to watch and process and about which the articles pay very little in return, but the current strategy of bouncing between uninformed provocateur and utter sycophant depending on the show and creators; of drooling over such surface features as shiny production and falsely claiming everything is "groundbreaking" while getting the most basic facts wrong has driven me away.

#rowzeoli #i'm leaving this rebloggable but other people...try to be respectful i will turn off reblogs if need be. #long post

[shoolb]

[id: two digital drawings of a younger taako and lup from the adventure zone. they are children around the age of twelve human years. they are functionally identical; their curly hair, lidded eyes and skin are varying shades of dark brown. in the first image, lup is balanced on taako’s shoulders, her hands on her hips, while she grins down at taako looking up at her. in the second image, the two are now wrapped in a large trench coat, with taako’s head poking out of the stomach. both of their gazes have snapped forward, their expressions switched. they are about to cause mischief.]

the first con

#taz #the adventure zone #lup #taako #accessible fanart

[liesmyth]

Your last rb on the John Gaius post how much John is the OPPOSITE of what that reblogger implied. Because like - we rag on him for not using his magical girl powers for C--'s "Good Wizardry", but it's specifically because he *doesn't* want to rely on a new untested "technology". He tries to incorporate it into the old project, make it better, make people trust it and give him money. Slow down the people who are trying to actually do the "promising new technology" bit without proof of concept.

It's "We all came up with trials to figure out what I could do, what I couldn’t do" vs

"...they were taking one discovery and acting like it changed the whole ballgame when really we now needed ten years of funding to discover whether it was any use, i.e., academia functioning as normal."

And I think that's neat, actually.

[post for context]

Ok actually #discourse aside, I think a lot about how John WAS a scientist, and that was the approach he used in his cryo project, and that was ALSO the approach he used when he started displaying magic powers. He tried to do experiments. He tried to make up scientific terms. He tried to write papers.

And nobody would listen and then he had to cosplay a wizard on youtube.

I think about that SO MUCH. Like... I think John never had a high opinion of the "cultists." He's obviously annoyed that one of the first guys who gave them attention was a flat earther. He only started calling himself a necromancer so that people would listen. It was a last resort and personally, I think he wasn't keen on it.

Like... I think John, an educated scientist who has successfully pioneered a potentially revolutionary new technology (the cryo project, not the magic!) AND is also an indigenous man of colour, might have felt some kinda way about putting on a cape and eyeliner and recruiting a gullible cult of followers because he wasn't being taken seriously in ~intellectual circles. I know we make jokes aboout God being a twitch streamer - Taz put that in for a reason! I think it's funny, I think the cult aesthetic is fun, I think the pre-Res gang HAD fun with it, eventually. But I also think that there's a lot to unpack about John going from the lead research on a project that had serious corporate and government backing ("We cannot keep diverting three percent of the country’s electricity to your vats") to putting on a cape for the memes.

Also! You're absolutely right that the FTL fleet IS "the special technology that shows no promise." John, Mercy AND Augustine all it as hooky because it's SO new that it can scale up to what they need, if it even works as advertised. I'm very curious if / how / on which scale it was tested, and I think Augustine was right to suspect that the FTL propulsion was just an initial kick and the fleet was gonna generation-ship it and never come back.

Also speaking of people wanting an "immediate fix" - John also explicitly brings up that some of the cryo project backers nagged at him because they though an imperfect technology was good enough but the team thought the chance of damage was too high, and worked to reduce it.

Like, the whole point of the cryo project is that it worked, but it wasn't an easy fix, it required literally global cooperation, and there was no priority access for first-class passengers.

I am once again pointing a huge neon sign in John's direction that says HE ATE THE SUN!! That's plenty enough! We don't have to directly contradict canon to sue him for ethics breaches.

#chaos-has-theories #there's the 'john as elizabeth holmes' person. there's the 'they clearly STOLE those corpses' person. #there's the 'he disliked the FTL project because he was too selfish and wanted HIS name on the world saving project' discourse #have we read different books... #personally i think mindwiping his friends was the most evil villain moment <3 #that actually happened and it was NASTY #ask #ejg #tlt thoughts #ntn #elle tlt posting #tlt

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