#grad relisten

[necco-wafer-man]

Holy shit guys so many times the Firbolg looks directly at Fitzroy and is just like, you are the closest bond I have, I trust you implicitly even when I cant trust my own mind

And Fitzroy who is by this point deep into his paranoia and makes an art of keeping people at arms length in the first place offers Master Firbolg this unwavering trust despite the fact that mere minutes before he didn't know if the feeling was at all mutual

Sorry they got me feeling insane

#the adventure zone #taz graduation #master firbolg #fitzroy maplecourt #fitz!! 💕 #grad relisten

[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

[deactivated20230702]

"TAZ Balance was so much better than what they're doing now—" boooooo. tomato tomato tomato i'm throwing tomatoes

#shut up shut up shut up literally shut up #go relisten to the one bit of the thung you like and let the rest of us enjoy what they're doing now #god forbid people grow and change and don't spit out exact carbon copies of the one thing you like #fuck off #i didn't really like Amnesty all that much and you don't see me making it my entire personality #shut up!!! #taz #the adventure zone #taz balance #the adventure zone balance #taz amnesty #the adventure zone amnesty #taz grad #taz graduation #the adventure zone graduation #taz ethersea #the adventure zone ethersea #taz steeplechase #the adventure zone steeplechase #the mcelroys #justin mcelroy #travis mcelroy #griffin mcelroy #clint mcelroy

[duck-newton]

fitzroy “yeah, just had a weird premonition of the future. you proposed to me and that was weird. I didn’t mean to bring that up. anyway can I meet your dad. no not like that I need him for my army” maplecourt

#there is actually nothing going on up there #kat relistens to grad #taz graduation

[kaleidemaran]

they’re failing all their courses

#started uni for the first time so. good time as any for a grad relisten #maplekeene #taz grad #taz graduation #the adventure zone #argo keene #sir fitzroy maplecourt #my art

[idkanameatall]

Hhhhhhh brainrot hitting so hard. I low-key wanna revive all my Taz grad wipes again from the dead

#the duck quacks #unfortunately i didnt have a lot of writing from my taz era bc i was very insecure about my writing at the time but GODS i have pilesofideas #...post canon (or just mid canon #thundermen roadtrip au. where would they get a car? idk. can one of them even legally drive? probably not #hmm also had a sickfic with fitzroy going on where his magic just made things so much worse #also haf a 5 + 1 fic or Fitzroy bonding with snippers bht i only figured out 1 out of 5 and the + 1 oops #i also havr been wanting to write something with the whole old changeling Fitzroy theory going around. idk what but i rll wanna for funsies #i also had written a little bit about the tribunal going wrong i think? irk where i was going with that but it would fun to expand on that #also like always wanted to write a classic Fitzroy tapping mote and more into chaos and shit goes erongTM fic #lots of these are fitzroy centered whoops fjjfjf. hes very blorbo #also just relistening to just the curse and tribunal eps makes me want yo write even more #i wanna give the thundermen a small break after Out of Order to judt talk to eachother. i wanna write an argo POV of him worryinh abott #Fitzroy during that episode. I WANNA WTITE SM WUGHHHHHDHSBFNDBSSBZNNNFJJF #also wanna write fitzroy complaining about having to share rooms at the start of grad only to realize that when hr gets his own room its #suddenly harder to sleep anf he kinda misses the others #BC THATS ONE OF MY FAVORITR TROPES FRFR. almost all of these are just tropes i like and i wanna do with the Thundermen/do my own twist on #soooo msny ideas i can barely sit still and decide what to write kdkfkfkf

[jvdas-iscariot]

physically im here but mentally im still in the era when maplekeene was popular

#guy who just relistened to grad in 5 days voice i miss them

[imaginariumgeographica]

Am very close to relistening to taz....

#i saw an amnesty art and went 👀👀👀 #im reading the balance gn's right now to stave off a full balance relisten which is only sort of working. also i never actually finished #grad even tho i really enjoyed it. i think it ran into my nonfiction podcast lockdown

[vivitalks]

yeah i could branch out and listen to other dnd podcasts but then when would i have time to relisten to every taz campaign in order for the 364937th time

#taz #the adventure zone #hyperbole for effect #im waiting to start my taz grad relisten actually im giving myself a pause #amnesty just hit so much harder this time than the first time that i have needed some Time #to Process #and i feel like i just experienced ballad of bigfoot in an all new way now that i understood the two crucial references #number one flagpole sitta harvey danger #and number two. of course. how i FUCKING beat shaq. #stuff

[divinefeline28]

yknow honestly i think i got gaslit into thinking the end of amnesty is worse than it is

#swift meows #maybe deeply controversial and completely subjective but i might even go so far as to say i like it more than the end of grad. might #i have had a very good time relistening and am slipping back to 2019. its fine nature is healing #maybe its just that it was a much better time for me so i have better memories attached or #maybe its just the tail end of travis being tolerable but w/e

[necco-wafer-man]

When one of the gang refers to The Firbolg with they or it pronouns my gender starts rattling like a dog in a kennel who just heard your keys in the lock

#the adventure zone #taz graduation #master firbolg #grad relisten

[andthen-light]

listening to dust s2 2day and <333333. epic

#really need to do an amnesty relisten after this. missing her #eventually i will finish ethersea and grad. eventually

[onyourstageleft]

a love letter to my favorite YA lit:

I'm relistening to the Beka Cooper audio books again (a yearly tradition at this point) and every time I hear the opening line of Mastiff, "We buried Holborn today," it takes me back to opening the e-book on my Nook the day it was released in my freshman year of high school and reading that line while sitting on the bleachers waiting for PE to start. I remember flipping back to the previous page to make sure this was the first chapter, thinking I'd never even heard of Holborn. I opened the Bloodhound e-book to compare the dates of her entries and realized the time skip was nearly two years, and got so excited to see what happened to Beka while we weren't with her. We walked the track that overcast day of PE in 2011 and I barely looked up from my Nook, so engrossed was I in Beka's story

that was the first Tamora Pierce book release I waited on; I found her books in probably 2009 and had read most of them by the summer of 2011. I pre-ordered Mastiff so it would be on my Nook as soon as it came out, but I was a freshman in high school and wasn't supposed to stay up till midnight, so I had to wait until the day to read it. it was nearly 13 years (and half my life ago) but here I am, still re-reading and re-listening to the Tamora Pierce books that got me through being a teenager. I remember sitting in my high school's library rereading their copy of Wild Magic over my lunch break to pass the time; drunk crying on the floor of my friend's dorm at a character's death in Terrier my freshman year of college (even though I'd read it 3 or 4 times at that point I always forgot); waiting in the lobby of the technology building of my college campus for my class to start with Spy's Guide on my lap after its release; sitting in my advisor's office in grad school flipping through Mastiff and Page and Lioness Rampant for quotes to include in my thesis; rereading Briar's book at the height of the pandemic. I have a tattoo of Lighting on my arm and a (very rough and needs to be redone) tattoo of Pounce/Faithful on my calf and I genuinely don't think a day has gone by in over a decade where I haven't thought about Tamora Pierce books

the world of Tortall (and Emelan, to a lesser extent) has shaped me, and although this is an attempt to pin it down, I will never be able to explain how much these books mean to me. I know that I may love other series and worlds (I'm currently reading some Terry Pratchett, for example), but they will never make an impact on me in the same way that Tortall and all its various characters has, and that's fine by me

and yet, through all of it, I will never, ever be ready for The Thing We Don't Talk About in Mastiff, not now at a dozen rereads and not in another 13 years

#writing #literature #young adult literature #tamora pierce #tortall #emelan #beka cooper #The Thing kills me every time

[duck-newton]

Fitzroy when Chaos approaches him and tells him to tap into his chaotic side: “sorry dude, I’m not interested in hurting people, I’m a good guy. find a new puppet bc I am OUT”

Fitzroy, not even ten minutes later: rips off a dude’s hand without hesitation, threatens to do the same to any of the centaurs if they cross him, intimidates the now-handless dude into confessing his entire plot to the centaur camp by waving his severed hand in front of him

#kat relistens to grad #he says ‘you’re gonna have to be louder than that hon’ and I black out #taz graduation #the adventure zone #taz grad #sir fitzroy maplecourt #I feel like I’m the only one who cares abt grad anymore !!!! where r my fellow grad stans pls

[gnarlystarships]

i was being a little wishy washy about doing a taz grad relisten but i ordered 3 mystery pins from mcelroy merch and i got them today and two of them are taz grad pins…..this is a sign

#thundermen i am coming home #taz #taz graduation #ograt

[idkanameatall]

IM FULLY CUAGHT UP WITH TAZ ETHERSEA LESGOOO

#the duck quacks #ethersea liveposting #now i have nothing to listen tooooo #except maybe dungeons and daddies that's been on my watch later list or to lime a grad or amnesty relisten