#lunar interlude IV

[18catsreading]

Merle: rolls an 18 on a trick shot with his gashapon token

Griffin: uh with an 18 it still doesn't go in. This would require it to be basically the greatest shot of all time.

Clint: oh, come on!

Griffin: It clinks off the glass of the machine and hits Leon in the face. And he like recoils and he's like "oh, God, just pick it up, please, and put it in the machine, please. I am dying. I'm in hell. I'm in hell and you're Satan.

Clint: ok. so I pick it up and I walk over to the slot and I'm a bit chagrined

Griffin: yea

Clint: though I'm not really sure what a chagrin is

Griffin: okay

Clint (as Merle): and I put it in the slot and I turn the crank but I turn it in the wrong direction.

Griffin: it just doesn't do it like that. It does turn like that. It won't turn like that.

Clint: well it should

Griffin: it doesn't. it turns in one direction.

Clint: which direction does it turn in?

Griffin: I think clockwise but do it just -

Clint: you think? You think clockwise?

Travis: it's not real dad he's making it up

Clint: ohh

Griffin: it turns clockwise and I know it

Clint: okay

Justin giggles in the background

Clint: so I start to turn I clockwise

Griffin: and it goes, the coin falls in, and it does the thing

#griffin mcelroy #the adventure zone #balance #ep 50 Lunar Interlude IV: the Calm Before the Storm #clint mcelroy #travis mcelroy #justin mcelroy #clint trolling griffin #its griffin that's in hell with this gashapon machine

[thefictionshelf]

literally so sick and twisted that things have to end....

#y'all ive been dragging out taz:balance so long that they started ANOTHER taz campaign #when i started balance they were like. maybe 2/3 of the way through graduation #they've started steeple chase................ #i literally can't bring myself to start the stolen century #i just keep listening to the last fifteen minutes of the final lunar interlude part 2 #I DONT WANT IT TO BE OVER

[coffeeastronaut]

been relistening to TAZ balance btw. been mostly keeping the insanity this is causing to my friends dms and gcs but i do just really need to make publicly clear that i adore angus mcdonald so very very much.

#i just finished the final lunar interlude XoX just have the stolen century and the finale left and thats It. augh augh augh. ive been really #blasting through them so i think ill finish tmmw or friday maybe #mi

[melonkittii]

hello. im ready to make a thread of my initial thoughts

spoilers under the cut for the eleventh hour gn (obviously) (also its a pretty long post lol)

the opening sequence caught me fully off guard and i like it so much. pair it with the dramatic irony of them yelling at barry towards the end. juicy stuff. love it so much

my favourite running joke with lucretia is her introcard always having some veiled reference to The Events. one of her proficiencies being 'remembering the dead' certainly holds true

lucretia ^v^ face is real. look at her.

i noticed the running background joke of affirmative mugs that aren't actually all that affirmative. it was very funny. World's Sheriff

the ren and taako scene. i feel no need to elaborate

speaking of that though, the opening to magic lessons starts a running motif of taako being actively bad at fire evocation, despite telling everyone that he remembers being very good at it. i wonder if he had someone close who would do that for him instead

i like that taako actively cares abt the others' wellbeing, up to and including waiting for them to join conversations, etc. its noticeable that he pauses and waits for everyone to respond before he continues. he cares ok

ren <3<3<3<3<3<3<3

the lucretia monologue from merle's lunar interlude is, in my opinion, as an expert on Lucretia Moments (tm), one of the most fucked up things she ever says. and seeing it in the comic definitely made me feel a type of way. i love you lucretia. i want to shake you around so bad

correct me if im wrong but lucretia and merle laughing is the first time lucy's ever gotten silly in the comic right? they tend to cut her jokes in favour of playing her more seriously but it was so sweet and refreshing to see her being so comfortable. makes me so excited for the stolen century comic

extremely mad that the "shoulda leaned away" "I LEANED AWAY" joke was lost. but not as devastated as losing the skeleton DnD debate. they cut all of the best travis moments from the arc

changing their death count from like, 8? to well over a hundred was an interesting choice. i think it works well to convey the narrative stakes a little better since they cut the old-june interludes.

i dont know if this was intentional but starting the last loop on chapter 111, which is the exact amount of years that the stolen century and lonely decade span, made me insane. this may be just an innocuous choice though. who knows

losing redmond and luca makes sense definitely and i love more ren screentime but man the running bit of griffin attempting to foreshadow lup over and over again and noone ever getting it is so dear to me. edward and lydia are definitely a better set for that though. rip skeleton man

istus <3<3<3<3<3<3<3 i cried a little over her in my twitter live tweet. kissing the pages

[static noises] in taako's chalice sequence was fully expected and yet i still got blindsided by it somehow. i had to put the book down for a little while. it was the only panel that made me do that

cried a little at glamour springs too. he looks so sad :,(

the crying at taako's sequence certainly didnt prepare me for the emotional state i went into ravens roost in. magnus burnsides i am holding you. i am holding you. i am h

little june looks like istus and i think that is so incredibly good.

YELLED OUT LOUD WHEN THE RED RBE APPEARED. OBVIOUSLY. IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SCENE

i already mentioned the dramatic irony but what i love the mot abt this sequence is how like, stressed out barry looks. like he has no grip on this conversation whatsoever. it conveys his desperation really well considering how imposing he's (tried to) be in all other scenes

taako saying lup's name out loud after barry says it is profound to me because one thing that's always fucked me up in the podcast is that before he remembers he never once says it. its always "L-U-P". barry is the only one who remembers how to say her name. so seeing taako say it now was like. gut punch. ow

ignore the rest of this thread because taakitz date is real so who cares about anything else /j. i missed my man so bad. so happy to see him around

i KNEW the drawing would be the ending stinger and it STILL got me. FUCK the suffering game comic will be so good

#melonkittii #taz gn #taz gn spoilers #long post. im just compiling stuff from my twitter thread #people have probably said all this already but fuck man #loved this book. so excited to reread it

[itsahotminuteinbetween]

Audio that I think would be cool animated but I won't animate cuz I don't know how to and don't have the tools:

Exactly the nature of this post. I have ideas but can't put them into format and I hate that I'm limited by my own capabilities. I can't even draw half the time, so I'm doing this because I have no motivation right now.

Yes half of this is from steven universe and almost all of it for TSAMS.

2:55 and 4:09, I don't remember what for, but I'm assuming for cannon sun and moon?

2. Can't find the audio for it, unfortunately. It's the season one ending of Teen Titans 2003, where they defeat Slade, the part where Robin says: "And I know how much you hate to lose." I think that would be interesting between tsams Eclipse and Lunar, with Eclipse lashing out and Lunar standing up for himself.

3. I can't find the original audio for the Marcy 'death' scene. Yes, it's a little overused nowadays, but it'd work for Lunar and Monty, I think.

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEKRN73Hm6Q Guys, tell me this wouldn't fit with tsams Sun and Moon. Again, a bit cliche, but still. Sun as Pearl, twin BloodMoons momentarily appearing on either side of him, a cannon in his hands, the og Moon on the ground, until he stops himself, remembering that this Moon isn't his Moon, not really.

5. You're not Welcome by Naethan Apollo. Tsams Sun going a bit crazy in that one thing where he 'kill' Eclipse and goes after 'Solar Flare'.

6. "I can't Decide" by Scissor Sisters, Tsams Eclipse and Lunar.

7. Stevonnie Fusion scene with the original (?) Eclipse combination of Sun and Moon.

8. "Just Take My Wallet" by Jack Stauber, tsams Sun and past Moon.

9. Interlude IV (Showtime) with Tsams Sun, yelling at that Moon illusion in his head from that on episode. It doesn't really fit, but it's a thing.

10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po6JPEdv-Ac Ya'll could probably find some use for this.

11. This.

That is all, I'm going back to my lil hole to worry over what I just posted and hope that no one sees this cuz it's embarrassing.

#sorry to bother #don't mind me #i'm deleting this later no one can see this #god I wish I could animate but alas #animatic ideas

[aandriskobold]

constantly running out of storage on my phone, and the sensible thing to do would be to undownload all of lunar interlude IV, stolen century and story and song, my comfort TAZ episodes. however in a galaxy brained move i have instead simply added all of suffering game and half of penumbra season 4

#i NEED them. for comfort. #according to x #taz balance #tpp #'x why do you find it comforting when all the characters nearly die' i'm a morbid bitch. next

[andthen-light]

fuck ing while im here i also realized the other day tht balance is like. sooooooo fuck ing hard to break down structurally like id love to do a simple 3 act structure on this bad boy but…..there r so many extra fucking parts. the interludes. moonlighting itself is a 3 part interlude and its literally so crucial like you cant skip it. you’d think itd be 7 acts but like what about story and song dude thats 8. and you cant just combine the two coz??? the end of ep 66 and the start of 67 are at roughly the same time buuuuut they have two very different tones (sc feels more hopeful while s&s pt 1 reminds us exactly where we are and slots right back into the tension of ep 59)

ANYWAYS after thinking abt it ive narrowed it down to the actual beginning (gerblins) + moonlighting + 5 acts w/ lunar interludes between them + reunion tour + the true beginning (stolen century) + the finale (story & song). the graph on this has got to be fucking wild hold on but like jesus christ dude like thats so much story. 69+ hrs of conned tent

#its so good tho i love it. break from the fuckin g format baby get silly with it #talking

[strawbnetwork]

lunar interlude IV 1:24:12 outselling every other lunar interlude

#god fuxking bless top ten tazb moments #strawb.lb

[sarcasticvoodoochild]

no thoughts just him

#angus mcdonald #taz balance #agnes mcdonald #i misspelled it on purpose #he has a special place in my heart #taz tag #stan taz #god i love taz #the adventure zone #boy detective #worlds greatest detective #angus my boy #my beautiful son #my beloved #taz angus #murder on the rockport limited #lunar interlude II #taz crystal kingdom #lunar interlude III #lunar interlude IV #taz reunion tour #taz story and song #taz graphic novel #taz gn #taz graphic novel angus

[ceaselessbasher]

I’d like to thank Griffin Andrew McElroy for not editing out Travis’s very grown up business call and his family’s teasing during the Lunar Interlude IV

#clint's golf commentary killed me #and the whole thing reminded me of when i make fun of my brother's phone voice #(It goes like ten octaves deeper) #taz #taz balance #griffin mcelroy #travis mcelroy #lunar interlude #lunar interlude iv #calm before the storm #the adventure zone

[enjoymorestuff]

Interesting fact about The Adventure Zone: The episode where Taako broke my heart by telling Kravitz that he was mostly an adventurer because he was afraid no one else would have him? Is the same episode where Taako cons Garfield the Deals Warlock out of the Flaming Raging Poisoning Sword of Doom.

Good ep for Taako, I guess is what I’m saying.

#the adventure zone #Episode 50 #Lunar Interlude IV

[halpdevon]

dear world, 

i’m trying to find out what it means to be me

i feel like i’ve barely begun

this scene planted a particularly deep root within me, so i couldnt stop myself from bringing it to life

#devon draws #taz balance #the adventure zone #magnus burnsides #voidfish #lunar interlude iv #calm before the storm

[katerina-saburova]

fjaklfjdkalfj taako buying the useless trading item and immediately convincing the shop he bought it from to trade it back for something way way more expensive is fucking iconic

#uso's taz reactions #lunar interlude iv #fjdkalsjfdajfkldsajfkdas

[asimovsideburns]

I’m relistening to Balance and the fact that Taako just fucking IMMEDIATELY narcs on Lup during his date with Kravitz is too good.

Taako: “Hey, Kravtiz, my sister umbrella just tried to kill you”

Kravitz: “Weird. Could you please hand me, somebody who hunts down liches and necromancers, the umbrella containing the lich form of your necromancer sister?”

Taako: “Yeah, sure, here you go”

Lup: “TAAKO, YOU FUCKING SNITCH”

Kravitz: “No, this umbrella with the lich inside definitely isn’t the source of the lich I was sensing, maybe get it checked for curses?”

Lup: “Taako, your boyfriend is an idiot. He can stay.”

#the adventure zone #lunar interlude iv #taako #kravitz #lup #taakitz #taz relisten #yes lup already knows that kravitz is gonna be taako's boyfriend #she knows her brother and his type

[kravitaz-of-the-situation]

Woooooooooooooooooooooosh

Comic practise with one of my fav scenes! I wanted to make an animatic but I ein’t too good with those, I’m not the greatest with comics either but I sure felt like trying. I learnt a lot, and hope others enjoy the visual adventure that is my struggle fused with the adventure zone.

Also yes I know that the square buildings turn into domes on the way because I frogot that there were a bunch of domes on the moon like a doofus. I would edit it- but uhm. This took like a week (it took way longer than a week because I procrastinated a bunch but you don’t know that so I can say it was a week (wait)) and I’m kinda tired. Maybe later.

Hope y’all have a fun time

#Also MinaTulin is my main blog if the watermark confuses anyone #Taz #the adventures of me #Taakitz #Taako #Kravitz #Lunar interlude iv #Long post #L o n g p o s t #11 f r e a k i n g p a g e s #y'all #My stuff

[taz-quotes]

Justin: Leon sees Taako walk dutifully across the room, and walk up to the machine and drop a coin in and turn it, and he hears it, ‘cause Taako’s back is to him.

Griffin: He falls to his knees and thanks a god, the name of which you’ve never heard before, and he is weeping and shuddering-

Justin: And just then, Taako’s coin flies across the room and smacks Leon in the face, ‘cause it had been a clone. I cast Mislead out in the hallway. 

[Everyone is laughing]

Justin: Taako’s just screaming with laughter. It’s the funniest thing that’s ever happened in Taako’s entire life. It’s literally the best.

Taako: I don’t even want anything! You can keep the- literally! Keep the coin! Nothing you can give me would be better that your expression right now!

Griffin: Uh, the coin bounced off his face and rolled off his desk, landing fairly close to you again. And he is just- he’s in shock, I think? He’s stopped crying, he doesn’t seem sad or disturbed, you see- he seems... like he’s broken? Yeah, he’s no longer functioning. You have thoroughly broken this man.

Taako: I win!

#taz #taz balance #the adventure zone #lunar interlude iv #the calm before the storm #taako #leon the artificer #fantasy gachapon #mislead #iconic #legendary #a very good bit