#merle highchurch

[very-small-giant]

it’s the parley room…the parlor room? the parley parlor.

#the adventure zone #taz #taz balance #taz balance spoilers #merle highchurch #taz merle #john hunger #i rotate their dialogues in my head constantly now #you choose joy in life….

[taz-balance-zine]

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[anistarrose]

Forgot about the part in The Suffering Game where Justin describes Taako thinking of Magnus and Merle as "these clowns that have fixed onto him, barnacle-like, as he tries to save the earth." It's just something about the way Taako, for all the "good out here," half-seriously thinks of himself as the planet-saving hero, and Magnus and Merle as his sidekicks. The way he tries to fully pin the blame for the three of them being joined at the hip onto anyone but Taako himself. I love the way that Taako makes quip to completely brush off how much the other boys mean to him bleeds into Justin talking about their dynamic too. I love them so much.

#taz #taz balance #thb #taako taaco #merle highchurch #magnus burnsides

[cookie-nom-nom]

I can keep going

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[lithiumseven]

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[lucretiaadventurezone]

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happy rise and grind reclaimers wednesday monday

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its literally friday ?

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HAPPY RISE AND GRIND RECLAIMERS WEDNESDAY MONDAY FRIDAY

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#the additions are KILLING ME #laugh rule #tumblr days of the week #scheduled

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give me that username lup. stop impersonating me

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no

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CALLOUT FOR GARFIELD THE DEALS WARLOCK

so im not trying to start anything, but it has to be said. garfield has been collecting blood from various people and using it for nefarious purposes, as well as just kind of being a dick.

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Life is meaningless and nothing matters. Everything sucks and we should all just give in. Submit to the Hunger.

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this is exactly what ligma was saying a few years ago

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What is Ligma? Some minor god you think will save you when your plane is consumed?

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LIGMA BALLS OHHHHHHHH

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ohmygod you killed him

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A picture of the moon I took with my new camera! If you look really closely, you can see the B.O.B. on the left side.

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You can't do that here

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hey guys! it's me, merle hightower highchurch. just wanted to come on here and say that i'm a total loser and lup is the coolest bitch alive

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STOP

#this is elder abuse

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#my coworkers are driving me CRAZY rn #what do you mean it was 'just a little bit' of necromancy #WE ARE LITERALLY REAPERS LIKE HELLO #and now rq will be pissed at me. great #vent #do not rb

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i fucked up i fucked up i fucked up i fu

#ohhhhh my god accidentally posted on the wrong blog #i didn't realize until BOTH of my coworkers had seen it fuck me #i am dating one of their brothers as well so #dreading our next work meeting and my date plans tonight

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i need to pick up taako by the scruff of his neck and shake him around

#this is my magnum opus #i spent hours on it and reached the image limit on desktop #long post #unreality #a sydney original #fake tumblr post #davenport #taz balance #the adventure zone #taako #lup #kravitz #barry bluejeans #merle highchurch #magnus burnsides #angus mcdonald

[tazanimated]

TAZ Animated is now LIVE!

This was a multi-animator project that spanned nearly 6 years from 2017 to 2023 with over 150 participants! The video covers an edited version of episode 4 of The Adventure Zone: Balance running about 34 minutes long.

Link to participant credits

#the adventure zone #the adventure zone balance #taz #taz balance #taako #magnus burnsides #merle highchurch #mcelroys #Youtube

[its-your-mind]

ALWAYS rotating TAZ: Balance around in my brain like microwave but ESPECIALLY with the announcement of The Suffering Game graphic novel

The dope thing they can do (and are doing) with the graphic novel series is sprinkle in moments of foreshadowing and hints to the reader about what REALLY might be going on here, which is so cool and I’m a huge fan of it, especially when you’re telling a story in this form.

But what is REALLY FUCKING TASTY about Balance as a story is that none of the motherfuckers telling it had any clue what they were doing when they started

Gerblins is dick jokes and not knowing how dice work and making fun of each other for voices. LICHRALLY the scene where Taako grabs the Umbrastaff is immediately proceeded by Clint trying different voices for Merle while Justin begs him to stop, as Taako. Merle gets launched across the room cuz he failed his save, and now Taako has an umbrella. The scene moves on.

Griffin brought them up to the BOB, introduced them to the Director, and gave them memories of a war fought over nameless, lost, powerful but mysterious artifacts. The memory that Taako takes from it is the idea of soured cream (ya know, for his taco quest).

And then they’re off, on different adventures, making friends, saving lives, making more dick jokes, and Griffin is in the background, slowly building in the meta-plot, as all DMs do.

But this meta-plot was HUGE. It was ALL-CONSUMING. It completely changes everything we know about this world and these characters. It takes the moments of dick jokes, and arguments about character voices, and flirting with death, and adds a layer of tragedy and complexity that just wasn’t present the first time they told that story.

AND THAT’S WHY THIS STORY KICKS ASS. The vibe of the story changed as Tres Horny Boys grew closer and closer to remembering the lives they had lost, as Griffin upped the stakes, as people started dying. They still don’t know shit for most of The Suffering Game, but you absolutely could not have predicted the tone of that arc after just listening to Gerblins. It sounds like a completely different story. And so when the other shoe drops, when shit breaks bad, when it’s the end of the world… again, and they have to reclaim their Stolen Century…

It makes sense. The tone has shifted enough to accommodate that kind of change. The characters have grown (back) into themselves enough to make this work.

Because TAZ: Balance is a tragedy. But the tragedy happened before the podcast even started, and had been erased. So of course it started off with goofs and dildo jokes. Of course the three of them started being standoff-ish with each other and making light of every situation that should have had a lot more weight. They didn’t know what they had lost, and we, the audience, didn’t either. So it was easy to laugh and joke… until slowly, it wasn’t so much anymore.

Plenty of people have praised Griffin’s storytelling abilities, but I think the thing that was most impressive to me was how he took the disparate threads laid out behind the Boys on their adventures, and followed them backwards, into the story they had lost, and forwards, into the ending they earned. I fucking love that he settled on Istus as the deity to interact with them, because I don’t think there’s a better representation of the story Griffin was weaving behind the scenes of the arcs.

Story and Song wasn’t really an arc driven by dice rolls and role playing - but it wasn’t railroading either. Griffin took every story they had told, every happy ending they had fought for, and twined them around and through each other. The world was saved not because of a lucky nat 20 roll, but because every person they had helped through the story came out in force to fight beside them to save their world.

And so in the end, the Stolen Century was a tragedy. But The Adventure Zone: Balance was a story of hope, of family, of the power that just a few loveable doofuses can have when they move through the world, making friends and saving lives. So when the world was ending and they needed help, there were dozens of people waiting to hear the Story and the Song that would give them the push they needed to fight, and the hope they needed to win.

#taz #taz balance #taz balance spoilers #taako adventurezone #merle highchurch #magnus burnsides #McElroys #griffin mcelroy #the adventure zone

[entguarde]

Something about the inherent anger in optimism.

[Id: A fully rendered digital drawing of Merle Highchurch from The Adventure Zone.

He is a fat, Black dwarf man with long, wavy gray hair and a full beard. He has a nicked ear and a small scar on his shoulder as well as otter-like whiskers and a protruding fang.

He is sitting in an office chair, his elbows resting on a table. He is glaring at an off-screen character (John), pointing down at the table as if to emphasize a point. A text queue underneath him says: “- You can apologize to me and tell me you were wrong”. End description.]

#ent’s art #taz balance #taz balance spoilers #stolen century #the adventure zone #the adventure zone balance #merle highchurch #taz merle

[karekareo]

[video with music] another animation from a few years back ft. the TAZ Balance trio! (bgm: Wonderland - Round Three by Griffin McElroy)

#taz #taz balance #the adventure zone #animation #taako #magnus burnsides #merle highchurch #2d animation

[sketch-cat]

Relistening to the adventure zone again… early tres horny boys is something that can be so personal

#the adventure zone #taz balance #taako #magnus burnsides #merle highchurch

[vivitalks]

gnashing my teeth at this entire scene

#no it's not my first time listening to it yes it still hits me right in the solar plexus every fucking time #the adventure zone #the adventure zone balance #taz #taz balance #stuff #grghnbkfjgh #merle highchurch

[anistarrose]

manic pixie dream aromantic old man

#merle highchurch

[ask-taz]

The Adventure Zone: The Suffering Games will release July 16th, 2024

#taz #taz balance #the adventure zone #taz graphic novel #mcelroys #taako #taz gn #merle highchurch #magnus burnsides #taz suffering games

[lithiumseven]

The Adventure Zone is so funny with regard to the boys’ interactions with Clint because sometimes they’re like “what do you think Daddy?” or “whoa Daddy that was so cool!” and other times it’s “I’ve told you this so many times old man you have a microphone, if you yell again I’m evicting you”

#taz #the Adventure Zone #clint mcelroy #justin mcelroy #travis mcelroy #griffin mcelroy #the mcelroys #the mcelroy brothers #the mcelroy family #taz podcast #taz balance #taako taaco #merle highchurch #magnus burnsides #tis i #mbmbam

[duck-newton]

when merle highchurch said “at the end of the day all you’ve got is the joy you gave other people” and when ned chicane said “I want you to focus all your hatred on me to free up all the love in that big, remarkable heart of yours for the rest of the world” and when emerich dreadway said “let’s keep at it, being kind to one another.”

#clint’s characters are just really hitting tonight #I’ve shortened some of these quotes but shhhh #merle highchurch #ned chicane #emerich dreadway #taz #kat.txt