#thanks to tazscripts for transcribing all the episodes!!!!!

[ope-scuseme]

A very under-appreciated moment (TAZ: Balance spoilers)

So you know, on the moon base, after The 11th Hour, when Magnus goes to visit the voidfish and this goof happens...

(quote taken from tazscripts, episode 50 transcript)

Travis: Is there any kind of like stairs, or any kind of like...?

Griffin: There's a ladder leading up to the top of the tank.

Travis: Okay, I climb the ladder, do I need to do like an acrobatics, athletics check?

Griffin: No. The tank has a...

[dice noise]

Travis: I rolled a 19.

Griffin: [exasperated] Oh shit yeah, you climb it super cool and good, you do it one-handed. No legs, one hand. Totally sick.

Just, like... just imagine this animated, ok—

We’re in the middle of this very important scene, Magnus trying to communicate with the voidfish about his past, and the music is building and Magnus goes to climb up the tank and then we just. get 30 whole seconds of painfully awkward silence broken by nothing but this loud THONK...THONK...THONK... as Magnus fuckin one-arm launches himself up this ladder, and then we’re on top of the tank, looking out across the chamber towards the main doorway, and for a moment there’s nothing... everything is still... but then we hear, echoing through the room, a distant thonk....thonk.... that grows louder and louder with each second and then we hear one final THONK. and heavy breathing and then Magnus pulls himself up over the edge of the tank, his face dripping with sweat, and he stands up in front of us, wheezing from fuckin... showing off for... the voidfish?? and he bends over to catch his breath, hands on his knees, head down, hacking out a few strained, phlegmy coughs, and then he straightens up and takes a second to stretch out his... ladder-climbin arm, maybe roll his shoulder around a few times, crack his neck, take one more deep, still sorta wheezy breath, exhale and just kinda... stand there for a moment, hands on his hips, as he looks back down the ladder with this smug little grin on his face... and then he turns back to the top of the tank, brows furrowed slightly, face serious, and the dramatic music starts again as if nothing just happened.

#hello? netflix? #please animate my boys #taz #the adventure zone #taz balance #taz balance spoilers #taz balance headcanon #the zone cast #taz magnus #magnus burnsides #this show is such a blessing what even the hell #thanks to tazscripts for transcribing all the episodes!!!!!

[tazscripts]

Library of transcripts is updated!

Hi everyone! I hope y’all are as excited about Ethersea as we are! Just completed some housekeeping and we’re happy to announce that our catalogue of read-only transcripts has now been updated to include the rest of Amnesty, almost all of Graduation (the last few episodes will be up soon!), and most of Ethersea so far!

Now that the McElroys have announced that TAZ will be going weekly (!!!) we can use all the help we can get with transcribing! Head over to the ~Master Tracking Document~ for links to all the editable documents and to see which episodes need work. Dive right in! Don’t wait for permission! You can consult our Resources and Formatting Guide for transcription software and guidelines for how to format and style our transcripts.

You’re also invited to The Transcription Zone, our Discord server, for real-time coordination of Team TAZscript efforts, or just to chat with friends. Type @mods there if you need to get in touch with us!

As always, thank you for all your contributions great and small, and for being the best community!

#taz #taz amnesty #taz graduation #taz grad #taz ethersea #theadventurezone #the adventure zone #the adventure zone ethersea #taz scripts #taz transcribed #taz transcripts #the mcelroys #ethersea #wrong thursday #right thursday

[terezis]

i dunno when you'll see this, but i just finished transcribing and formatting the latest ep of taz graduation over at tazscripts (gotta find it through the Master Tracking Doc, tho). so, if the McElroy's official transcript isn't up by the time you see this, and any of your followers are waiting on one to listen... yeah! i worked for 7 hours on that bad boy! though, it's also only my 2nd transcription ever, so i hope i didn't goof up too badly on anything

ooh! i have yet to listen to the episode, but i will pass this along. y’all should check out tazscripts if you haven’t already! i am on their blog literally all the time for my various nefarious purposes. they are literally a godsend.

thank you for your hard work, anon!!! :>

#also tbh? much more convenient than the official transcripts LOL #just easier to ctrl+f for stuff #Anonymous

[softshelltaakos]

alright, folks! if you know me you know that i 1) received the taz graphic novel for the holidays and 2) have hated the taz graphic novel since before it came out, and that 3) actually reading it in no way improved my opinion.

let’s review.

disclaimer: i love the mcelroys. i truly do. taz has gotten me through some very difficult stuff and i have a tattoo. all this to say i’m not doing this because i hate them or because i like hating things — on the contrary, i’m doing this because i care a lot about the podcast and analyzing things is what i do for fun and also because, like, it has issues that i want to talk about!

there are spoilers for the graphic novel and the whole of the podcast under the cut.

this is part 1, in which i’m talking about the actual storytelling and writing; for character design thoughts, you’re gonna have to stay tuned because i’ve been working on this for three and a half hours and i have shit to do. so!

let’s start off with the things i actually liked. there are a few!

the main characters get little intro cards, which i think are pretty cute. this isn’t all of them, but here’s a sampling (forgive my messy collaging):

[ID: four panels.

the first introduces magnus burnsides, a barrel-chested white guy with auburn hair and a fluffy beard and sideburns. he’s saying “trust me, if the law hassles us, i’m the guy you want at the front of the wagon. but look, if you want to drive so bad, i might let you spell me the next time the dwarf has to stop for a pee break.” there is a scroll with his name listed, as well as his race (human), class (fighter), and proficiencies: battle, carpentry, and “everything else... apparently”

the second introduces taako, a skinny mint-colored elf wizard. he’s blonde with pronounced lower lashes and a big pointy nose. he’s saying “hell, no! i’ve got stuff to do. i’ve read the books. adventurers are supposed to, like, forage for food and shit. bor-r-r-ring! no, thank you. not for taako.” the proficiencies on his title card are spell-casting, transmutation, and gastronomy

the third introduces merle highchurch, a brown dwarf with white hair pulled back into a bun and a big poofy beard. he’s saying “i’m studying my cantrips!” and his title card proficiencies are “healing... supposedly,” “religion stuff,” and bleeding

the fourth panel introduces griffin mcelroy, a white human man with brown hair and glasses wearing a collared shirt. he’s saying “guys! it’s me: griffin! your dm!” his title card shows his race as “actual human” and his class as “dungeon master,” while his proficiencies are podcasting, karaoke, and “weaving a rich tapestry of drama.”]

then there are a few cute references to other mcelroy stuff:

[ID: two side-by-side images. the first is a photo of justin mcelroy wearing a bib with “shrimpin’ ain’t easy” written on it in crayon. the second is a close-up of a similar bib on a goblin -- though the text is distorted, it’s the same phrase.]

[ID: magnus thoughtfully says “unless...” and the other boys echo him in traditional mcelroy fashion.]

barry also wears underwear that read “meloincloths” around the waistband, which i didn’t take a picture of because it was small and also i didn’t really want to take a picture of barry bluejeans’s underoos. but that’s cute!

as it mentions in magnus’s titlecard, there’s a running joke about him being proficient in everything. that gets some play in the podcast but it comes up a lot more here and i think it works pretty well and establishes early on that magnus is cocky and headstrong and all that. it’s actually introduced in the very first panel of the comic, where he mentions his vehicle proficiency, and then it comes up several more times.

there are some moments that shift out-of-character dialogue to in-character dialogue, and i think it works sometimes. notably, it occasionally happens with griffin’s dialogue, which i think is a good way to include his voice without constantly breaking the fourth wall. it’s done some, obviously, but it’s not to the point that it’s intrusive.

[ID: a panel featuring taako approaching the other boys, who are playing cards while they wait for him to scout the next room out. magnus asks, “would you say it is spooky... or beautiful?” and merle cuts in “or spookily beautiful?” followed by magnus finishing up with “or beautifully spooky?”

taako responds “if you were a gerblin you would actually find it a pretty chill den to, like, hang out in.”]

i also like the introduction of the voidfish static. i think it’s appropriately dramatic and does a pretty good job of emulating how it’s presented in the podcast.

[ID: a panel featuring killian, an orc woman with a crossbow. the lighting is dark gray-blue-green and she’s shouting something unintelligible marked by a cluster of consonants and a shaky, brush-strokey speech bubble distinct from the other speech bubbles stylistically.]

the scene where taako grabs the umbra staff is also appropriately dramatic, as is merle trying to talk down gundren/bogard from the gauntlet’s thrall, but those are full page images and very large, so i’m not including them.

then there’s this panel of lucretia, which slays me:

[ID: a closeup of madame director lucretia, a black woman dressed in blue with white hair, though her eyes are out of frame. she’s holding a white oak staff in her hands. she’s stopped mid-sentence and there’s a little jaggedy line near her head indicating surprise.]

this is lucretia turning around and seeing the boys for the first time since she dropped them off at their respective “homes.” she’s caught off-guard and i think this is a beautiful way of noting that without giving too much away, and this is a good moment of foreshadowing that she knows much, much more about them than she’s letting on. she catches herself quickly and gets back into the swing of things, but i think this is a very lucretia panel, and it’s probably my favorite panel in the book.

now it’s time for the negative.

first off, a nitpick: there are moments where the characterization feels very off -- at one point magnus is said to have been the kid who “always reminded the teacher that they had forgotten to hand out homework,” which... does not really match what we know of young magnus. at all. travis describes him as “a good but kind of rebellious kid, like he was probably kind of a little bit of a turd [...] who was kinda sarcastic” (ep. 60, the stolen century part one) which feels super incongruent with the homework thing.

my issues with characterization come into focus most strongly with taako. while a lot of moments get his voice down pretty well, there’s a major issue in his presentation, which is that from the very beginning, he’s bragging about his tv show.

[ID: several panels in which merle and taako are talking. the first is a wide shot with taako’s voiceover saying: “--and then the lights come up, and there i am, standing under a magnificent banner that reads:”

the second is taako posing under a spotlight, speaking in large, fanciful script: “sizzle it up with taako”

panel three is merle asking disinterestedly “so it’s a show... about cooking?” and taako replying emphatically “it’s about life!”

in panel four he adds “...told through the perspective of fine dining.”

another panel collaged in features a cookbook with taako’s face on it labeled “perfection: cook the taako way” and taako excitedly saying “i know that smell!! that’s my recipe for haunch a la taako!! it was in my very first cookbook!]

now, we all know that by the end of the show “taako -- you know, from tv?” has become a catchphrase of his, and i understand the desire to retcon that kind of thing into his personality from the start. it seems like a natural way to add character early on when in the podcast, the boys are still pretty underdeveloped at this point.

here’s the issue. neither tv nor the title “sizzle it up” are mentioned at any point during here there be gerblins. in the eleventh hour (e48, part 8 of that arc) we’re told that we’re six years out from the mass poisoning in glamour springs. while the maxfun donor bonus episodes, like the liveshows, play it a little bit fast and loose with canon, and this episode was the 2015 bonus episode (e48 didn’t come out until september 2016,) that’s the only real explicit sizzle it up development we have until the eleventh hour. i’ve transcribed some of the bonus episode below, as transcripts for it are not available via @.tazscripts.

justin: taako-- i’m sitting in a corner by myself with my hat sorta pulled down low so people don’t recognize me. and i’m just trying to eat my meal but i keep changing the items that i’m trying to eat into different substances, so every few minutes you hear from my corner of the tavern:

taako: damn it!

clint: i hate asparagus!

griffin: i turned this sandwich into wood!

[...]

justin: mainly, i’m just trying to be nondescript. 

[...]

justin: the whole time i’m talking to [the tavern owner] i’m like, keeping my face down so he doesn’t recognize me.

griffin: why would anyone recognize you?

clint: why?

justin: well, taako, uh, used to host a cooking show. it was a very, very, very popular cooking show. uh, and--

griffin: what was it called?

justin: what?

griffin: the show.

justin: sizzle it up with taako.

this episode is when the boys take the job with gundren off of craig’s list, so the time gap between this and episode 1 is negligible at best. there is a moment where the other boys recognize taako and he doesn’t lie about his identity, but:

taako: (begrudgingly) yeah, i’m taako, i’m disgraced, you might have heard about the [poisoning] thing.

so... he’s clearly not putting himself on display the way he does later in the podcast. in episode 40 (lunar interlude III: rest and relaxation) which came out in may of 2016, we get the first reference to the poisoning itself:

taako: one time i transmogrified something that, uh… i transmogrified it into something you really shouldn’t eat, ever? for life, to live, i mean? And, uh, a lot of people ate that. and that went... so sideways. um... i-- i just decided i would never again cook for people i cared about, because i couldn’t risk, um, y’know, something happening to them. until i get this under control, i guess.

so we know that even at that point this is still something that troubles taako greatly. one might even say... he’s traumatized! and doesn’t talk about it! he does not go into detail about sizzle it up with anyone over the entire course of the podcast except for june while she is literally possessed by the chalice and forcing him to relive it. So. kind of a weird character take.

to skip ahead a little bit, most of the moonbase stuff is fine, but there’s one omission that feels very weird to me.

[ID: three panels. the left is a shot of the elevator hallway leading to the voidfish’s chambers. thb follow killian towards the elevators; johann is walking away from them. he’s a black human man with natural hair dressed in a silly bard outfit with a violin strapped to his back. he’s carrying a ton of scrolls.]

these three panels are the only time we see johann in the book. in the podcast it’s johann that escorts them to the voidfish’s chambers and inoculates them. it makes sense that this has been changed to lucretia in the gn; it gives her a much stronger entrance and cuts down on scene changes. but it also cuts out a lot of establishing things about johann that are all extremely important and set up not only his character arc but several core plot points.

it’s during that scene that we hear that johann’s greatest fear is being forgotten, and that that’s exactly what will happen to him and all of the other bureau employees when they die. it’s during that scene that we learn the basic mechanics of the voidfish and the mission of the bureau. it makes sense that some of that is going to be handled at the beginning of the next book (presumably) and i’m glad that lucretia is introduced here, but the gn adjusts it so that killian takes the boys into the elevator. that’s johann in the podcast, and it easily could have been johann here. it would’ve been a good chance to establish at least johann’s fears, which would be a weird and creepy setup for the voidfish mechanics when they do get revealed.

it’s just odd to me that johann, who is the reason for the song half of story and song, gets the short shrift here.

i’m gonna wrap up with one last thing. i wanna talk about arms outstretched.

griffin: and you’re both getting pulled into the rift now, and-- but with a 20, taako, you fight against the pull and both of you are flying backwards towards the center of the room, back towards the catwalk. and merle, you’re standing in front of the two liches, one in the form of magnus and one not. lydia just is there in her spectral form. and you’re standing next to a taako who’s gone completely catatonic.

[...]

griffin: okay, then, m—magnus and taako, you two are flying back towards the center of the room. the pull of this rift is still trying to suck you in. and out of nowhere, just merle turns around—turns his back to the two liches—and just outstretches his arms and as he does, you see, like, spectral versions of his soul-wood arm sort of reach out and grab you and he’s also pulling you back in too, now. and he rips both of you towards himself.

i don’t think it’s a stretch to say that this is one of the most emotionally charged moments in the show, and it’s that because it’s a moment where we see, crystal-clear, real character development and growth.

magnus, who rushes in, who has never wanted anything as much as he wants to be reunited with julia, actively resists the pull of death to help his friends.

taako, who’s good out here, who is so selfish that an entire town died because of his ego, risks his life to help his friends.

merle, who can barely feel his holy connection, who barely ever even heals, breaks planar bounds to help his friends.

we’ve been with these characters for 56 episodes. we’ve seen their worst regrets, we know their tragic backstories, we understand why they’ve been the jackasses they’ve been, and now we see them moving past that to work as a unit. one might even say as a family!

arms outstretched is a moment that has been earned over the course of those 56 episodes.

enter the graphic novel.

[ID: a full page. flames are everywhere and panels are intentionally chaotic. dialogue reads:

merle: maybe now would be good?

magnus: i’m a hero, not an idiot.

taako: actually, you’re both idiots!

he outstretches his arm from his position safe in a well.

taako: come on!

merle and magnus reach for taako’s hands. there is a closeup on their arms: merle and magnus each hold one of taako’s with one hand. then there’s a panel showing an explosion.]

this is obviously intended as a way to foreshadow arms outstretched. and typically i’m not against foreshadowing! i think one of the benefits of the graphic novel is that it’s an opportunity to insert foreshadowing in cool ways that were not necessarily possible given the in-progress nature of the podcast -- like i said earlier, that lucretia panel is a really great example of it. you can’t foreshadow arms outstretched in episode one because you have no idea it’s going to happen.

but here’s the thing. you also can’t foreshadow arms outstretched in episode one because it hasn’t been earned. these characters are not those characters yet. they don’t know each other. taako actively shuts down the title of “friend” earlier in the book. they’re not even coworkers yet. and you could make an argument that in the face of death, taako would try to save them, but... would he? really? he’s a pragmatist, and that’s putting it nicely. during the stolen century the only person he tries to get to safety at the risk of his own neck is lup, and, uh... neither of these guys are lup. hell, he doesn’t even know about lup right now, and we see in the podcast that not remembering her leaves him colder and more self-centered. he knows people are dust, but he doesn’t know there are people that aren’t. i truly don’t buy it.

the nature of adaptation is that things are going to change, and that’s fine; but this is such a major shift that it left me really jarred and unhappy with the writing. in the podcast itself, we get this:

killian: c’mon c’mon c’mon c’mon!

clint: decision made.

justin: yeah, i follow her.

travis: i follow her.

clint: me too.

griffin: the three of you dive into the well.

it makes sense that the gn adjusts this slightly so that magnus and merle try to pull some heroics and save everyone; i don’t have a problem with that. that’s a good adaptation of character that hadn’t exactly been seen yet, but comes to be a core enough part of the characters that it makes sense to insert it earlier. but even then, they could’ve gotten to the well without taako’s help. it’s just such a weird rewrite, and i really think it weakens the impact of arms outstretched itself.

i’ve been meaning to get my thoughts on this out for nearly a month at this point so if you’ve stuck with me this whole time, wow! thanks! i appreciate it! i’m not a professional, and obviously the mcelroys signed off on this, so i don’t really have space to say “oh, taako would never do this” or “oh, magnus was never like that” on a canonical level -- i know travis says something along those lines in one of the ttazzes. but as i said at the very beginning: this story means so, so much to me, and it’s really deeply frustrating to see an adaptation that handles things so... weirdly.

#prim.txt #tazposting #tazmeta #NEW TAG BABEY

[keplercryptids]

I love what you're doing with transcribing all the MBMBaM episodes! I'll absolutely help when I can! I was just wondering if you knew if there was anything similar for TAZ or if that's something I should start myself? I really appreciate everything you do here, and I hope you have a fantastic day!

@tazscripts and the volunteers there have already done a kick-ass job of transcribing all the episodes of TAZ! as well as new ones as they come out. All the Balance arc transcripts can be found on the TAZ Wiki.

and thank you so much!

#x me a q #jp-blindperson

[simplyirenic]

Hey Ireny, Ive seen you've been blooging about The Adventure Zone quite a bit, and that actually makes me want to check it out! It looks interesting. But, I wanted to ask, since it is a podcast - do you know if there are transcripts or subtitles or something? I'm hard of hearing, so listening would be difficult for me :/ Thank you and have a nice day!

Hi there, friend! Yes, there are transcripts available for many episodes--you can check them out at @tazscripts! It is a primarly fan-driven project at the moment, so unfortunately not all the episodes have been transcribed, but as far as I know the entire first arc (”Here There Be Gerblins”) is complete, and there are a lot of people working on the rest! I hope you get a chance to check it out! :)

#asks #anonymous #Anonymous

[tazscripts]

Hi everyone!

Episodes 15 & 16 are now made into a document and ready to go. I believe one volunteer’s made huge progress with transcribing these episodes already, so that basically leaves formatting.

Blank documents for upcoming episodes 17-24 are linked in the Master Tracking Document, so i encourage you all to check that out when the new episodes drop. I’ll do what I can with posting about a new episode here for everyone.

Now to continue with our regularly scheduled reminders: You can consult the Resources & Formatting Guide for links to transcribing software and a guide to how we style the documents.

You’re also invited to The Transcription Zone, our Discord server, for real-time coordination of team TAZscript efforts. Type @mods there if you need to get in touch (I’d argue this is the fastest way to get in touch with mods).

Just want to read the transcripts? Find read-only versions on our Transcripts page.

Thank you all again for everything you do!

#taz grad #taz graduation #taz #the adventure zone #taz:g #tazscripts

[tazscripts]

Hello! Many apologies for the lack of activity (I’m sure you all know how wild the past 2 months have been...)

Episodes 6, and 8-10 are now posted and ready for transcribing. Here are the links:

6: bit.ly/3bqqZ0T

8: bit.ly/3dwQ77Q

9: bit.ly/3blRhkS

As always, you can dive right into contributing by clicking on any of these links. There’s also our Master Tracking document where you can see where else help is needed. Empty documents for upcoming Episodes 11-14 are available on the Master Tracking document. You can consult the Resources & Formatting Guide for links to transcribing software and a guide to how we style the documents.

You’re also invited to The Transcription Zone, our Discord server, for real-time coordination of team TAZscript efforts. Type @mods there if you need to get in touch

Just want to read the transcripts? Find read-only versions on our Transcripts page. [READ-ONLY LIBRARY TO BE UPDATED SOON]

Thank you everyone for all your help and patience!

#taz grad #taz graduation #taz #taz transcribed #taz transcript

[tazscripts]

hi! i know it's been a bit since the mod announcement regarding the official transcripts, but i was wondering whether y'all wanted to carry out the idea of copying the official transcript for episodes and adapting/editing them for accessibility, or if there was another plan? i'd just like to help out however i can, and if formatting existing text is the way to go, then i'm up for that! thank you for everything you do, by the way!!

Volunteers can work on TAZscript documents however they like– if you want to transcribe, great; if you want to put the official transcriptions’ text into our format, also great. We appreciate any and all help. Thanks!

#terrcn #tazscripts #thezonecast #taz #The Adventure Zone #thank you!

[tazscripts]

Hello TAZscripters! Episode 95, Amnesty Part Fifteen, went up a day late, and by the time we had a chance to put a link up, it would have been late in the day on Friday... not really Tumblr prime time. So I intended to put up the link to the transcript doc today to rally our volunteers.

But our MVP volunteer transcribers have already finished episode 95! Thank you! YOU ARE AMAZING. You can read Amnesty Part Fifteen here! This is the read-only link.

And as a reminder, here’s our list of all Adventure Zone transcripts to date, including live shows and The The Adventure Zone Zone episodes! These are the read-only versions, so you can safely view these transcripts and never worry you’ll accidentally make an edit. If you aren’t transcribing, these are the transcript links you need. If you are transcribing, formatting, or proofreading, check the Tracking Document for links to editable documents.

Thanks again to our incredible volunteers for the speedy work! See you next episode!

#adventure zone #The Adventure Zone #thezonecast #taz amnesty #taz #theadventurezone

[tazscripts]

Upcoming TAZ weekly schedule

You've probably heard by now that TAZ will temporarily air weekly starting from January of 2018, and continuing for several weeks or months afterward while the shorter experimental arcs are running, until the next "season" begins and a biweekly schedule resumes. 

This means the pace of content to transcribe will also speed up. Volunteers who transcribe and format: what kind of support will help with the increased pace of TAZ episodes? I'm currently working on finding two more mods to help out, but once we're all set there, what can mods do to help make the process of transcribing and formatting easier? Please email [email protected] with your suggestions/requests/info!

And if you’d like to help transcribe, jump in! We have made the process as open as possible. Use the Tracking Document to see where help is needed and get links to the transcript documents. And check the Resources & Formatting Guide for links to transcription software, tips, guidelines, and formatting details. Thank you to all our volunteers!

~ Cesare

#theadventurezone #The Adventure Zone #thezonecast #taz

[tazscripts]

Hello everyone! Here’s the transcript document for the latest Adventure Zone-- and thank you very much to the volunteers who’ve already started us off with the first couple of pages!

If you’d like to help out, we have a Master Tracking Document to show where help is needed and record progress, and a TAZscripts Resources & Formatting Guide with links to helpful transcribing software and notes on how to format the documents.

One more note. We had at least one transcript document suspended by Google, and several instances of documents being deleted or altered. So our current plan is to export finalized versions of the Balance arc transcripts and add them to The Adventure Zone wikia to have a backup, and hopefully make the transcripts more accessible to mobile users. I’m going back through older transcripts to prepare them for this, and I’ve found some documents that were marked as 100% finished may still be incomplete. I may re-label them on the tracking list if they need work. So please continue to keep an eye on the Tracking Document. I’ll note it there if any more of the older documents need help.

As always, thank you so much to all the incredible volunteers who continue to make this project happen, episode after episode!

~ Cesare

#The Adventure Zone #theadventurezone #thezonecast #taz #taz transcript #tazscripts #Commitment #Long Reads

[tazscripts]

last call for new mods

Hi! This week I’m going to email “mod applications” to everyone who’s expressed interest in co-modding TAZscripts. So if you have an interest in helping out, or-- this is important-- if you applied to mod by messaging TAZscripts on Tumblr-- please email tazscripts (at) gmail instead. Tumblr’s messaging isn’t reliable. I’ve already had people say that they messaged, but it never reached the Tumblr inbox. So please, let’s take all this to email.

I know it’s kind of odd to ask people to apply so that they can volunteer to do a bunch of work for free. But I'm going to choose two new mods, so I want to ask people about their interests and skills so that I can find two people with complementary strengths. So for example I don’t need every potential mod to have wiki experience, but one of the two new mods will hopefully have some wiki experience. I don’t need everyone to be familiar with online accessibility best practices, but I hope one person will be interested in it. And so on.

Thanks for bearing with me. I hope to get new mods up to speed in time to help out with the weekly episodes in 2018. And as always, thank you to the volunteers who transcribe, edit, and format TAZscripts!

~ Cesare

#tazscripts #The Adventure Zone #thezonecast #Adventure Zone

[tazscripts]

This is all I can see on the document right now…

Yes? This episode just came out a few hours ago and this is a volunteer effort. The document will be empty until volunteers jump in there and transcribe it. But this is a good opportunity to remind people... 

Recently, as the Balance arc has drawn to a close, we’ve had a lot of volunteers working very effectively together to transcribe episodes with amazing speed. People were excited about the finale, and eager to make the last episodes accessible to more people as soon as possible. Volunteers worked together to break up the episodes and tackle different parts to transcribe everything as quickly as possible.

Please don’t take that effort for granted! It takes a lot of time and work to create these transcripts. Most of us transcribing are slowing down the sound in order to hear and type at the same time, and end up relistening to the audio to make sure everything is captured. A single person can easily spend hours and hours transcribing a 50-minute episode. Cooperation makes it go faster, but several people coordinating with each other also takes work.

So I just want to recognize again that the TAZscripts project owes so much to many many people freely giving incredible amounts of time to do this work. While I’ve been writing this answer, someone(s) did a page of transcribing on TTAZZ: Balance Finale Edition. And they’re still at it. Thank you to them, and to all our volunteers!

~ Cesare

#taz transcript #tracking progress #submission

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Do you have a like a link to a master post or doc of all the transcribed episodes?

When visiting the TAZscripts blog, you can click “Scripts” to see the list of all transcribed episodes. We also have a Master Tracking Document for use by our volunteers to keep track of progress on transcripts.

Right now, everything is complete except The The Adventure Zone Zone episodes and the Hogsbottom Three episodes. I’ll be creating documents for the Hogsbottom Three episodes and opening them up for transcribing soon. 

All Adventure Zone episodes for the main plotline have been transcribed, thanks to our helpful volunteers.

~ Cesare

#cosmic-smoged #taz #The Adventure Zone #theadventurezone #replies

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hello yes it looks like someone accidently dropped their suffering game theories in the episode 34 crystal kingdom script im not sure if theyd like the chance to come collect it before it is deleted to fix the script?

Thanks for letting us know! I just looked over the script and I don’t see the theories, it looks like they’ve already been cleaned up.

Whoever wrote them, you can look in the document history to retrieve them if you still want them. But… do we need to say this? guess so… transcripts are only for transcribing the audio of Adventure Zone episodes. If you’re looking for a place to share theories, then according to Travis there’s a thriving TAZ subReddit, and on Facebook there’s an Adventure Zone group. If anyone knows of other TAZ communities, feel free to chime in.

Thank you to all our contributors! I just want to give a quick shout-out to synthpop-ghost, who jumped right on episode 58, olivemeister for letting us know about an incorrect link in the tracking doc, and @alula​ for a ton of recent contributions.

I know synthpop-ghost wasn’t the only one to hustle on the episode 58 transcript, and there is always work happening on various episodes. So thank you to all contributors and transcribers. TAZscripts has received a lot of friendly notes from TAZ fans who are hearing-impaired or ESL or just can’t always follow the sometimes chaotic audio of the episodes. Thanks to your work, the show is more accessible to a wider range of people. So: thank you!

#graywingeddreams #tazscripts #thank you! #formatting #editing