#amnesty spoilers

[quiddling]

you just hear the wind, and you just see the stars above you. they are beautiful... and then they’re gone. (redraw of this one)

#my art #art #digital art #fan art #fanart #drawing #monster of the week #taz #the adventure zone #the zone cast #taz amnesty #amnesty #aubrey little #ned chicane #amnesty spoilers #the adventure zone amnesty #taz amnesty episode 28 #procreate

[the-boy-in-a-motheaten-sweater]

Don't think about how Kirby probably had to edit the finale of Saturday Night Dead by himself. Don't think about how Kirby was never mentioned to have any other friends or even a family, and probably saw Ned as a father figure if not at least a mentor figure. Don't think about how Kirby clearly cared a lot about impressing Ned and didn't want to let him down. Don't think about Kirby not having proper time to grieve Ned because everything was falling apart so it probably didn't even hit him until he was editing that final SND episode that he really wasn't ever going to see Ned again.

#taz amnesty #taz kirby #cryptonomica #ned chicane #the adventure zone #the adventure zone amnesty #amnesty spoilers

[bigboyhammerhead]

~TAZ: Amnesty Spoilers~

[grabbing you by the shoulders and shaking you violently] Even though I would give anything for Ned to have told Aubrey the truth, for him to be alive, I know it would never truly have be Ned doing so. For him to live, Ned would’ve had to tell the truth, and would’ve had to do so for his own benefit. He was already riddled with so much guilt, and by the time Aubrey confronts him in the crypotonomica, he’d already known the truth for months and months, and had to deal with the guilt of it and of shade tree and of Barclay and Agent Stern. He knew that the fate of Aubrey’s mother and her house was on him, even if not entirely. He blamed Boyd for getting him into it, but he blamed himself for giving in, and for going, and for staying as things got less and less along the lines he he normally draws for himself. He saw himself as inherently flawed and inherently unforgivable. He didn’t think he deserved to be redeemed in Aubrey’s eyes, and telling her the whole truth would’ve been to allow him to feel less guilt. It was his form of penance, his way of punishing himself. He loved Aubrey and he loved Duck and he loved Mama—he was a tender, loving soul who desperately wanted someone to see past the mask and look at him for who he truly was—and he would never have put himself before them or Sylvain. We know he would’ve run away if he hadn’t taken the bullet for Dani. But he should’ve been able to see the stars forever. He should’ve been able to see the stars forever.

#ares listens to taz amnesty #taz amnesty #the adventure zone #taz #ned chicane #taz ned #aubrey little #duck newton #he should’ve lived #amnesty spoilers

[sisiren]

I've been working on and off on this for a few months, and relistened to Amnesty. As always, lyrics and quotes underneath the cut!

Song: To Build a Home - The Cinematic Orchestra

There is a house built out of stone

Wooden floors, walls and window sills

Tables and chairs worn by all of the dust

This is a place where I don't feel alone

This is a place where I feel at home

'Cause, I built a home

For you

For me

Until it disappeared

From me

From you

And now, it's time to leave and turn to dust

Out in the garden where we planted the seeds

There is a tree as old as me

Branches were sewn by the color of green

Ground had arose and passed it's knees

By the cracks of the skin I climbed to the top

I climbed the tree to see the world

When the gusts came around to blow me down

I held on as tightly as you held onto me

I held on as tightly as you held onto me

And, I built a home

For you

For me

Until it disappeared

From me

From you

And now, it's time to leave and turn to dust

Quotes (in order of which they appear in the audio):

“Dear Aubrey, I’ve taken your advice and headed out for parts unknown. But I need you to know how sorry I am for the impact I have had in your life.” - Amnesty 28

“I don’t hate you for that.” - Amnesty 27

“I’m asking you three to join the Pine Guard.” - Amnesty 4

“We can help.” - Amnesty 4

“You were selected to keep your people safe.” - Amnesty 19

“You found your way here.” - Amnesty 11

“Keep your world safe. Keep Sylvain safe.” - Amnesty 19

“This is not your world to save.” - Amnesty 20

“It takes one misstep. It takes one moment -” - Amnesty 5

“- You lied, Ned.” - Amnesty 27

“- And you can find yourself using that power in a way you will regret…” - Amnesty 5

“I told him to leave.” - Amnesty 28

“For the rest of your life.” - Amnesty 5

“You might want to do something about that.” - Amnesty 13

“It was home, I - I miss it a lot.” - Amnesty 11

“I feel like I am home when I’m around you.” Amnesty 32

“You belong here.” - Amnesty 5

“It just feels right, y’know?” - Amnesty 11

“And he knows your tea preference at this point.” - Amnesty 10

“You have me in your corner!” - Amnesty 5

“I will see you tomorrow.” - Amnesty 11

“We’re getting stronger, too.” - Amnesty 19

“Now they know what we’re capable of.” - Amnesty 29

“They are tough.” - Amnesty 25

“I will walk away from all of this.” - Amnesty 16

“Duck, it sounds like your confidence is suffering.” - Amnesty 11

“You are a true hero.” - Amnesty 28

“You were never a normal dude.” - Amnesty 28

“I would never betray a friend.” - Amnesty 25

“You knew, Ned. And you didn’t tell me.” - Amnesty 27

“People will start seein' monsters in the faces of their friends.” - Amnesty 25

“Your job is not to befriend your foe.” - Amnesty 16

“I know where I stand.” - Amnesty 16

“Just watch each other’s backs and play it smart. And I guarantee you, we’re gonna take the night.” - Amnesty 4

“Ned can’t be dead, Mama.” - Amnesty 28

“One day, the monsters are gonna win.” - Amnesty 12

“And I am to blame.” - Amnesty 28

“And I just end up hurting people that I love.” Amnesty 16

“I don’t have to fight anymore. I did it. And now I’m gonna grow.” - Amnesty 36

“Aubrey…you are born, and Sylvain is with you.” - Amnesty 35

“You are full of Sylvain’s power.” - Amnesty 9

“This presence feels like it could be - it could be, like, family.” - Amnesty 24

“You can’t be afraid to help, because, yeah, you might hurt.” - Amnesty 35

“Accidents happen, Ned.” - Amnesty 27

“Wrong is always wrong.” - Amnesty 28

“I’m scared of war between our worlds.” - Amnesty 22

“We lost. And we kept losing.” - Amnesty 16

“Peace. I - I’m looking for peace.” - Amnesty 34

“I am not asking you to forgive me - I don’t want you to forgive me.” - Amnesty 28

“And become a better person than I.” - Amnesty 28

“If you tell them that they’re capable of great things, uh, a lot of times they’ll get there.” - Amnesty 33

“I care for you, Aubrey.” - Amnesty 35

“How many other folks have you got on board with this - this hairbrained scheme there?” - Amnesty 31

“I found exactly the right person for this impossible task.” - Amnesty 33

“If you do not come back, I am coming in after you, you hear me?” - Amnesty 30

“Please come home safe.” - Amnesty 35

“I’m with you to the end, Duck Newton!” - Amnesty 35

“And that will free up all the love in that big, remarkable heart of yours for the rest of the world.” - Amnesty 28

“I don’t think about the world, Aubrey, I think about Amnesty Lodge.” - Amnesty 5

“I need to have something to get me through what we’re about to do.” - Amnesty 32

“A friendship you will learn to treasure.” - Amnesty 5

“Do you believe me?” - Amnesty 11

“I want to.” - Amnesty 11

“Do you have any idea what it’s like knowing you have a home out there and knowing that you’ll never be able to return to it?” - Amnesty 11

“It’s like I can almost remember it.” - Amnesty 14

“She is, and always will be, loved.” - Amnesty 11

“We both love you unconditionally.” - Amnesty 11

“It’s not our forest, it’s their forest.” - Amnesty 18

“You are filled with a warrior’s instinct that we share, together.” - Amnesty 11

“I believe in the Cryptonomica.” - Amnesty 19

“Keep Keplar as curious as you can.” - Amnesty 19

“With love, Edmund Kelly Chicane.” - Amnesty 28

“One day, believe it or not, you’re gonna laugh at a joke. You’re gonna go swimmin’ and you’re gonna smile in the sunlight. You’re gonna pet yourself a good dog and it’s gonna make you feel happy.” - Amnesty 34

#Taz amnesty #taz #the adventure zone #the adventure zone amnesty #amnesty spoilers #i am so normal about the adventure zone amnesty and the concept of home and family #i promise i am so normal #let me out of my cage #audio edit

[chaos-lioness]

HEY DO YOU THINK SHE’S CALLED MINERVA BECAUSE MINERVA IN MYTHOLOGY WAS BIRTHED FROM SOMEONES SKULL AND SHE COMES OUT OF DUCKS HEAD AND PODCAST COMEDIAN GRIFFIN MCELROY PLANNED THAT FAR AHEAD OR IS THAT JUST A COINCIDENCE

#taz #taz amnesty #the adventure zone #amnesty spoilers #Im being so normal about this right now i promise (feral)

[cyril-depaul]

god i really can’t think too hard about the time scales in the Amberlough Dossier because if i do my brain shuts off and all function is replaced with “eight YEARS they didn’t see each other for EIGHT YEARS motherFUCKER”

#amnesty spoilers #text #it makes me utterly rabid #amberlough #amberlough dossier

[amnestyliketaz]

#dndads #dungeons and daddies #dndads s2 #dndads spoilers #amnesty original

[twomystdunstans]

i killed duck

#lil standalone comic page of one of my favorite angsty bits from Amnesty #I FUCKING. TRIED W TH BACKGROUND OK LEAVE ME ALONE IK ITS SUBPAR #aubrey little #taz amnesty #aubrey taz #taz #the adventure zone #taz amnesty spoilers #taz: amnesty #taz:amn #the adventure zone amnesty #taz aubrey #the lady flame #taz lady flame

[nat-without-a-g]

If I had a nickel for every time a ttrpg comedy podcast I was interested in had a jump to an epilogue that included a PC confirming a relationship that took everyone including the dm by surprise just by calling the other person a pet name… and everyone went along with it and yeah they're together now.

Anyways I would have two nickels. Good job Lincoln Li Wilson and duck newton.

#dndads #dungeons and daddies #dndads season 2 #dndads spoilers #dungeons and daddies season 2 #dndads season 2 finale #I wasn't on tumbler when amnesty was coming out did anyone see duck and Minerva coming #gothcleats

[funkylittlebats]

"Man I wish the McElroy's had continued Commitment or Dust, I would've loved listening to those! I would've listened to them over and over again!" << says guy who has only ever done relistens of Balance, never finished Amnesty, and never even started listening any of the other campaigns.

#taz #the adventure zone #taz balance #taz amnesty #taz commitment #taz dust #taz graduation #taz ethersea #taz steeplechase #i do plan to start listening to steeplechase after my current relisten of balance is over #i would restart amnesty but i tried to recently then say a spoiler for the finale when i was 2/3 through the campaign and i just couldn't #so i won't be listening to amnesty for probably at least 4 years or more #however long it takes me to forget most of the details of the campign + the spoiler i saw #but once i finish steeplechase #WHICH I WILL BC I'M RLY LOOKING FORWARD TO JUSTIN'S GMING I SWEAR I'LL FINISH THIS CAMPIGN I PROMMY #i'll probably move onto tiny heist on dimension 20 #and then either taz grad or ethersea #though i'm sure i'll sqeeze in a relisten to both commitment and dust before that #after grad/ethersea (whichever i choose idk yet) #will be time for a short taz break followed by my 4th or 5th relisten to balance #fuckin love that campaign #saving up for a tattoo of it #haven't decided if i'll do the bureau of balance symbol or fisher yet

[mcelquotes]

You just hear the wind. And you just see the stars above you. They are beautiful. And then, they're gone.

Griffin McElroy

#quote #quotes #griffin mcelroy #taz amnesty spoilers #taz #taz amnesty #ned chicane #the adventure zone #mcelroys

[gxldswxrth]

here’s a cryptid/mystery wallpaper inspired by taz amnesty :)

#taz spoilers #taz amnesty #taz balance #taz #the adventure zone amnesty #the adventure zone #mbmbam funny #mbmbam #mcelroy family clubhouse #mcelroys #griffin mcelroy #ned chicane #duck newton #aubrey little

[mango-sideburns]

Y'all loved the last one so: Amnesty out of context

The local middle aged forest ranger with a mouth belt buckle decided to hitch onto a cop car, on his skateboard which he practiced with a 70 year old magic grocer, in pursuit of a shape shifting monster that took bigfoots memories. They know it's not bigfoot bc the real one is home making pancakes. During this the local con man is sneaking around a virtual hotel using the light from his stock Zune background (in the late 2010s) and gets in a hairy situation bc he dropped his magical nerf blaster knockoff that he got from a skyscraper sized cat who lives in a cave on another planet. The cats name is Heathcliff.

#taz #the adventure zone #taz amnesty #taz amnesty spoilers #im currently finishing this ep while on the road at work and man is it wild #they discovered the monster could shapeshift bc he ate the local undertaker Gregor Mortis

[cataztrophi]

I feel like I always fall into this trap with taz where I underestimate Travis's role playing/character creation skills

Like--and bear with me here--I tend to find his characters a little irritating at first, probably bc he usually plays brash, impulsive characters who charge in or speak their mind without thinking, which I find frustrating when it's so clear the right move is to hang back or be subtle about it

But THEN he has a moment that completely redefines the character for me, where they realize that their actions hurt themselves or others, and it makes you understand why they act the way they do, and then they go in some unexpected direction that shows that they're trying to change and do better and take care of themselves and others!!!

Like Magnus taking rogue lessons bc he realized he was going to get himself killed, and you realize that was kind of what he wanted, but he's learned and changed and found (and rediscovered) people he cares about enough to keep fighting for, and to want to be around for them

Or Aubrey being kind of impulsive, and then she asks Janelle to take her magic away, and you realize that she thinks about things a lot more than you thought, and she's gone through so much loss already, and she's so young and she's trying to help but she's so afraid of hurting her friends, and she learns to have a whole different relationship with magic because of that conversation with Janelle

AND STILL when I started ethersea I thought, well okay, I guess I'm just gonna be a little irritated by Devo bc he can't stop going off on people, but then after the bar fight in the marshlands he realizes that throwing his anger around indiscriminately isn't working, even though it's very clear he has a lot to be angry about and he's also just really young and still trying to figure out how to live in a world outside the church. and I just got to the end of The Menagerie arc and his speech to the auctioneer feels like he's learning to channel his anger towards something, into speaking up for himself and other people who get hurt when those in power are so sure they know what's best, and I'm so excited to see how that plays out over the rest of the season

In conclusion I'm sorry Travis I shouldn't have doubted you, truly out here making some of thee characters of all time

#taz balance #taz balance spoilers #magnus burnsides #taz amnesty #taz amnesty spoilers #aubrey little #taz ethersea #taz ethersea spoilers #devo la main

[triflesandparsnips]

Lot of takes going around the internets about certain "deaths" in the ofmd season finale, so, uh-- guess it's time for me to try and lose some followers on tumblr dot com with

Some Thoughts on Why I Am Not Particularly Bothered or Concerned about Izzy's Apparent "Death"

Laying the groundwork first...

1. Narratively speaking, Izzy's been a dead man walking since the start of the season. Babe shot himself and got a rebirth-- but he still definitely intended to die. Every minute he was still around was borrowed time.

Did he have to die? Maybe not. I know I could've written a version of the show where he didn't. But then that would be my show-- not theirs. I can't know exactly what themes, bugbears, bête noires, catharsis, or artistic Vibes are driving that writers' room, and until the credits run on the finale of the third season, none of the rest of us can either.

2. Izzy spent the season being in a liminal state-- and there's nothing in the story saying that he can't continue doing that. Izzy spent the season having one foot in one space, one hoof in the other, and himself halfway through the door, a chimera of mirrored things right up to his "death": pirate and ship, hard and soft, old ways and new, etc etc. But "the gravy basket" is a weird little liminal space between life and death, a place that both Ed and Buttons have found (and returned from) before. We don't know where Izzy "is" right now-- he could be there.

(tbh, I wonder how much poor feeling we'd be having about all this if we'd gotten a final tag of a blue-washed Izzy staring down at a bowl of soup while helplessly saying "but this isn't gravy, what the fu--")

3. I think there is an unfortunate belief that "it's not real unless you see the body" is a universal -- or perhaps inarguable -- "fact" of storytelling. But it's not. It's just a bit of narrative shorthand that got popular, and now we're too ready to fall into the trap of believing the inverse is true too-- that if there is a body, then there must therefore have been a "real" death.

This season has spent quite a lot of narrative time and effort telling us that its story is using a different model, with different shorthands; specifically, that magic is real, that there is at least some kind of existence after death, and that the dead can be resurrected.

And that brings me to the meat of why I'm not particularly bothered or concerned about what, at this stage of the story, could still very well be just a minor setback--

4. This whole show, and particularly this season, is a fairy tale. It's a story that works with fairy tale logic and tropes, and it's in conversation with other fairy tales too, ones that the OFMD audience is likely to know well enough to spot their narrative beats in action. So "Pinocchio" gets mentioned a lot? Cool-- the audience applies what is commonly known of that story to this one ("a real boy", the mirror-opposite being a puppet with no nose, etc), and finds some Cool Shit. Then they're primed to keep looking for fairy tales, even unnamed ones, in case there's another little nugget of reward-dopamine for finding a connection.

So the fact that we saw a mermaid? Suddenly, I personally am noticing "Little Mermaid" motifs all over the place. That Ed was in a "sleep like death" -- after fucking around with a spinning wheel -- until his prince came to wake him? Well fuck, man, that's Blackbeard playing "Sleeping Beauty" for us all.

And bringing it all back to a "dead" Izzy Hands... when I add up a "dead" body surrounded by a bunch of laborers mourning the person who nominally kept their living space nice AND who was wanted dead by an authority figure for the crime of being the "better" version of what that figure wanted to be...

...well fuck, idk about the rest of you, but to me that all adds up to Izzy's story being Snow fucking White. Waiting for someone to come pull the bullet poisoned apple from his body so he can live again.

5. This is a second season. Of three. And Izzy Hands is the writer's favorite chewtoy, so there is lots of time, space, and incentive to bring him back. If there's a third season, we have a pile of ways he could be brought back over the course of hours of literal viewing time and possibly months of in-narrative time. That's ages.

And the solutions don't have to be difficult! For instance, we still have canonical hallucinations from Stede-- that's one route. Or fuck it, we could have Izzy's (very solid-looking) ghost be the embodiment of their being haunted by the Sea, that would work too.

And even barring all that-- his grave is right there with our heroes. The ship is out there hunting down his murderer. Even if you're happy he's dead... bad news, friend. He's all over the third season landscape. (uh oh, it's GNU Izzy Hands)

But those are just a few options that leave his body rotting but his character still alive. I happen to think we could all dream a little bigger, darlings. For instance:

A. You cannot tell me that these writers, on this show, with these actors, would not absolutely go all in on a zombie-esque hand thrusting out of the dirt mere hours after burial. Look me in the eyes and tell me Con O'Neill wouldn't pull off an entire digging-out scene only to end with himself panting beside the hole, looking around, hearing Ed and Stede being weird in their haunted hut, and wearily say, "Are you fucking kidding me."

B. Don't like zombies? Want to stay closer to the Snow White vibe AND introduce a love interest for him? One hyphenated word: body-snatcher. Gotta dig those bodies up fresh for the Definitely Historically Accurate anatomists of the time! But oh, says this New Guy, this corpse is-- wow, it's weird that they buried him with a rose and really amazing makeup and a truly extraordinary number of whittled whales, plus what's with that horsey leg grave marker, this guy must've been fucking fascinating, man, I wish I could've met him-- --at which point Izzy's hand shoots out and chokes the guy half to death and the lads come tumbling out of the house and ta da, mission accomplished, Izzy resurrected in 5 minutes or less with his horsey leg conveniently beside him and an entire season for himself and everyone else to Deal With It, amazing, fantastic, no notes from me.

C. Come to think of it, there is genuinely a non-zero chance that the crew just. Fucked up the burial. I mean... even though I was just arguing why we shouldn't see it as Law, we didn't actually see the body. We saw a grave. What did they bury him in? Was it a box? Was it some canvas? Did they definitely pick up the right one when it was time to bury him? Or did they maybe carefully make him an ahistorical safety coffin just in case a cat demon came to bother him and his corpse wanted to make a fuss about it, y'know, very common, could happen to anyone, and Frenchie just so happens to have Blackbeard's old collar bell right here--

6. Here's the bottom line, imo: The only thing that would keep Izzy really actually dead and completely removed from the story is a lack of narrative time and space-- and we have plenty of both. Stories are like Lego. If you've got enough time and you're willing to play with pieces from a whole lotta different sets, it's not hard to put the same elements together in different ways to get new, exciting configurations. It's why I'm actually rubbish at predicting exact details of stuff-- there are a lot of ways something could go, there are infinite doors out of problems the narrative seems to throw at us, and no two people will come up with the same thing because we're all different.

That, to me, is one of the big ways I personally enjoy and engage with stories. And it's why I genuinely can't be fussed about Izzy's death, not when we're only two-thirds through the story as a whole; observing someone setup and then try and execute a complicated narrative trick is my jam.

But my way of engaging with all this is by no means the best or only way. How we all interact with art, and what speaks to us, is extremely personal. If how this season and Izzy's death went just didn't work for you, that's okay. I'm sorry it wasn't the story you wanted it to be. That blows.

I just know I can't say yet that it didn't work for me. I won't know until I can take in the entire picture, just as I can't judge a finished Lego set by the one piece I step on midway through construction. I can see different ways Izzy's death/rebirth could absolutely work, but will the writer manage it? I dunno.

But I'm willing to wait and see if the stupid puppet can pull it off.

#will it be the content or the length that causes the unfollows? #WHO CAN SAY #but every day is Unfollowing Amnesty Day #farewell and be free #our flag means death #our flag means death s2 spoilers #our flag means death seasons 3 rampant speculation #izzy hands #engaging with stories #and curating your own experience #(but for real - I had to stop myself at just the few possibilities I gave for a resurrection) #(real talk if you ask me for more I can just-- come up with more) #(it's my party trick) #(for very certain kinds of very nerdy parties)

[chaos-lioness]

I’ve heard people think the Hunger and the Quell are similar antagonists, but upon listening I don’t think so... however I do think it’s interesting to compare them! They have kind of similar forms but even the aesthetic is different between them. And the Hunger is like. One dude who sucks so bad he becomes a larger entity and unbalances the entire multiverse, whereas the Quell is a force of nature necessary for balance who is personified basically for the sake of human comprehension and who does what they do not because of self-centered nihilism but out of grief for their lost partner, who by the way has to be there in order for them to do their job ~without~ causing an apocalypse... Also the “main” antagonist in Amnesty is technically also the people in the light world, who do have a more similar motivation/morality to the Hunger in my opinion. But even still they’re acting from a place of protectiveness over each other that, while it is selfish, isn’t unfounded... the Hunger destroyed universes out of his own spite. Honestly I think both sets of antagonists were pretty compelling and the diversity in all of their motivations is impressive. It’s hard to write one compelling villain motivation and Griffin McElroy is at 3 that I’ve seen so far.

#taz #the adventure zone #amnesty spoilers