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sliceroftpeirweirisles · 4 months

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Whumpuary 2024 Day 1

1. (Jan 01-02) Captivity / Snow / Secret Revealed

Cycle 61.

Taako could no longer feel anything except the intense, cutting cold entrapping him. He could still walk at least, but he was slowly losing his grip on consciousness. Was he breathing? He couldn’t even tell what was cold seeping through his clothes or an icy breath filling his lungs. The snow was still whipping past him so hard that it threatened to knock him down. Nevertheless, the Starblaster was right in front of him. All he needed to do was get inside.

One foot.

After the other.

When they landed on this planet, they were convinced it was a winter wonderland. Everyone was eager to go out and explore, the twins and Magnus opting for snowball fights and sledding. After a few months of being here, they had all let their guard down. The sun stopped coming out and the sky was constantly filled with clouds and snow.

No one was prepared for the sudden drop in temperature, and they were even less prepared for the blizzard that followed.

Taako had been out on a scouting mission with Magnus, Merle, and Lucretia on the seventh month of this cycle. Lucretia died first, freezing to death surrounded by her friends in a cave. Merle followed after accidentally slipping off a cliff side during a particularly hard flurry. Magnus should have outlived Taako. He should have, but an avalanche took him. Taako watched as his friend shoved him to shelter first before the wave of white obliterated Magnus.

Magnus had The Light.

One last step, and Taako ended up tripping and finally falling into the icy slurry that built up against the ship’s main door. His body made a loud thunk as he hit the door. Taako wasn’t sure how long he’d been sitting there, but the next thing he knew, the ship's door was opened and he was facedown on the floor of the Starblaster.

Lup screamed at the sight of Taako, gaining the attention of the rest of the crew that was left on the ship. There was a mix of relief and agony in her voice. “Taako, babe can you hear me!? Fuck, he’s freezing!!” There wasn’t much heat to be offered in the ship, but it was enough for Taako to finally feel like he could relax. It certainly wasn’t as cold as the blizzard raging outside.

“Get him further inside, we gotta get him away from the door.” Barry shouts as Lup tries to gather her brother in her arms.

“Barry— oh gods,” Lup pulls Taako’s hair away from his face and is met with a grim sight. Taako is frost-bitten all over his face. Skin so cracked and dry that it split open in several places around his mouth and cheeks. He’s no longer a healthy color, and he’s past the point of shivering, collapsed limply in his sister's embrace. “He’s gone unconscious, you have to help me carry him.”

The combined efforts of Barry and Lup managed to get Taako into the ship and on the couch in the main area. The only other person on the ship, Davenport, started gathering as many blankets as he could find to help Taako. Lup works on stripping Taako of all his cold, wet clothes while Barry puts some of the ice that poured briefly into the ship to boil on the stove.

Lup grimaces when she finally can see Taako’s bare skin. There are several bad patches of frostbite on his arms and legs, and most of his skin is red and swollen with cracked skin and open wounds. “I thought he’d died… They all had just disappeared, I just assumed...” Lup mutters to Barry as she heaps Taako’s clothes on the floor.

Barry knows that Taako doesn’t have long before the pain of thawing out starts to intensify. That, in itself, could kill Taako before Lup even has a chance to save him. Davenport knows this as well, but he still chooses to help by tucking in blanket after blanket over Taako.

“I’ll try to find some sort of potion to help with the pain.” Davenport says to Lup. “Barry has some warm water going on the stove to fill the bathtub.” Davenport pats Lup’s knee as she kneels beside the couch. “We’re gonna help him as best we can.”

Lup doesn’t want to believe it’s too late to save her brother, so she nods and tucks the last blanket around her brother’s shoulders. She isn’t even sure piling blankets on him like this is helping, but if it means she can see her brother smile before the year is over, then she’ll do whatever it takes.

#whumpuary2024 #tazwhump #whump #taz balance #the stolen century #taako #lup #barry bluejeans #davenport #the starblaster #whumpuaryno1 #snow #tw frostbite #tw freezing to death #tw hypothermia

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jortsman · 1 year

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Year Eighty Eight: Road Trip

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flamingfoxninja · 2 years

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Chapters: 6/? Fandom: The Adventure Zone (Podcast), The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence The Fourteen Entities have always existed in each and every world ever created. They may have their powers wade and ebb in their struggle for dominance, but they always have influence. They always have dominion over some part of the world, the inhabitants, and the Avatars that they have chosen.

Funny how Seven of those Avatars ended up being on a space crew together.

Sooo I’ve been writing a thing and I guess it was suggested to me to try and promote it here for people to read. So here we go.

This was inspired by some wonderful TMA/TAZ artwork created by @disturbedgerblin a while back of the Starblaster Crew being Avatars and I’m working my way through them

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taz-balance-zine · 3 months

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WHOA

Magnus RUSHES IN….

to fill out our interest check!

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found-family-tournament · 8 months

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Found Family Tournament Round 2 Part 10 Group 50

Propaganda and further images under the cut

Seven Birds: Taako, Magnus, Merle, Lup, Lucretia, Davenport, Barry Ghost Crew: Kanan Jarrus, Hera Syndulla, Sabine Wren, Garazeb Orrelios, Ezra Bridger, Chopper

Seven Birds:

they literally spent a hundred years becoming a family and lucretia tried her best to protect the but they could only save the world after all of them had been reunited and they LOVE each other they deserve to win this whole thing

Ghost Crew:

SPACE FAMILY :D

ur honour they mean everything to me,,,,

BESTEST SPACE FAMILY THEY'RE ALL SO INCREDIBLY SUPPORTIVE OF EACH OTHER AND LOVE EACH OTHER SO MUCH AND AAAAAAAHHH ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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gejnialnie · 1 year

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these pages made me so emotional like u have no idea

#taz gn #taz gn spoilers #taz graphic novel #taz #istus #long post #LOOK AT THE BOYS ON STARBLASTER #AND ISTUS!!! AAAAA #way to use ''you're going to be amazing'' line!!

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anistarrose · 10 months

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thinking again about “I would feel guilty being a citizen in a world that I poisoned.” thinking about how barry may have had a lot of reasons for hiding alone in a cave, with at least some of them understandable given the circumstances, and the fact that Lucretia was searching for him...

but in the end, the way that he never let himself experience the world, or form new and meaningful bonds, until the relics were gone? that feels so much like his way to keep the guilt from overwhelming him. lup felt so guilty that she got herself killed and disappeared into the world while trying to fix what she’d done, and barry felt so guilty that he never let himself meaningfully venture into the world at all. absolutely fucking devastating.

#taz #taz balance #taz balance spoilers #barry bluejeans #lup taaco #i've effectively said this before in another post but #pre-starblaster barry hid from the world because he was afraid of it #post-starblaster barry hid from the world and was afraid *for* it. because of what he'd done to it #and i am perpetually in pain about it!#taz meta

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sirislayer · 1 year

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"It had only been a few days since they defeated the Hunger. Pure luck caused Lup and Barry to finally be alone with each other. They were rumaging through the damages the hunger had caused, when they stumbled across what must have been a concert practise room.

Barry and Lup, independent of each other, approached their instruments. Lup, gently holding a violin. Barry, sitting in front of a mostly unscathed concert piano.

Lup pushed her back against Barry's as she sat down. He made space for her on the small stool cushion.

"Well? Do you remember how to play?", she asked.

Barry smiled. "How could I ever forget?"

Both of them did not have their actual bodys. The warmth of an embrace was impossible to feel in the stage both were in.

They started playing the duet, first a little unsteady, slightly asynchron, slowly merging into the song they had both worked on for so long, all those years back.

As they found their rythm, after all those years, both of them felt the warm embrace of each other for the first time. Not in a traditional hug. Not as a kiss. But by the lullaby which carried the love and longing they had felt for another all this time."

Happy Candlenights!

@noodyl-blasstal

(Also if you want a print file version of the illustration you can DM me)

thank you @thecandlenightszone for hosting the event!

#taz balance #barry bluejeans #blupjeans #taz #the zone cast #tazbalance #candlenights #thezonecast #lup #sorry i meant to do one of the scenarios you specifically mentioned in your gift wish but i could not quite piece together the bits #so instead its a very classic blupjeans but i hope you still like it #i was meaning to do some -there was only one bed- for the two of them pre getting together on the starblaster #which honestly would havebeen so cute but i ran out of time #anyways happy candlenights! your blog has so much supreme taz content #i tried to implement the blupjeans wedding dress you posted #PLEASE ZOOM IN i tried to do some brush work there and i hope it gets seen

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papergardener · 2 years

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IPRE Crew after the Relics be like

#TAZ #The Adventure Zone #Starblaster #Stolen Century #TAZ Balance #Spongebob meme #Taako #magnus burnsides #merle highchurch #lup #I thought of this during work and had to make

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umbraastaff · 10 months

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barry bluejeans...

#the adventure zone #taz balance #barry bluejeans #starblaster #animal crossing #acnh #mine #this room is so fucking cluttered and hard to get around. as it should be.#it's not really meant to be any specific starblaster room so much as just. like a shared workspace kinda area w/ everyones shit #theres a disproportionate amount of davenport things here actually #maybe if i get enough Stuff tho it would b fun to make specific char themed areas...#anyway i still need better wallpaper for here. celeste gimme space wallpaper blease

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marypsue · 8 months

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Hey genuine question for other people who listened to TAZ: Balance, did you think that the Stolen Century all happened consecutively or concurrently?

#because initially i thought consecutively but after some thought i think it was concurrent #they did a year on one plane. they got zapped back to the starblaster. they went to the next plane. they did the same year again.#which is why there's that flash of them all on the deck in all their positions from all the different years #every time it resets: because for that instant #they are in all of those places At The Same Time #that's also why they 'come back to life' at the end of the year if they make it out on the Starblaster:#because the year hasn't technically happened yet #and they were still alive when they left their original plane at the beginning of the year #they're just resetting back to the start #but I just ran into a post that was like 'lucretia's going to update a 110+-year-old WIP' and realised my understanding may not be universa #the adventure zone

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henriediosa · 1 year

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I realised that I haven't drawn the Starblaster crew in a while, so I did! My art style has changed since then, so I got to update their designs a bit in the process, though not much has changed. Maybe that says more about me than about them.

ID in the alt text and under the cut.

Image description: A pencil sketch of eight headshots of the seven members of the crew of the Starblaster from The Adventure Zone: Balance. Above them is handwritten text that reads "I love you all so much". From left to right, top to bottom:

(1) Magnus Burnsides, a freckled human man with thick, wavy hair that goes down to his sideburns and beard. He has a scar cutting through his left eyebrow and another little nick on his nose. He has a determined expression.

(2) Merle Highchurch, an elderly dwarf man with a beard trimmed with flowers. He has a chill expression.

(3) Taako, a fat elf man with long pointy ears and long fluffy hair. He has multiple piercings on his ears. He has a smug expression.

(4) Davenport, a balding gnome man with an impressive handlebar moustache and a hoop earring in one ear. He has a slightly embarrassed smile.

(5) Barry Bluejeans, a human man with large square-framed glasses and chin-length straight hair. He has a hesitant smile.

(6) Lup, a fat elf woman who resembles Taako, but her hair is shaved at the sides in an undercut. She has a confident expression.

(7) Two drawings of Lucretia, a human woman with large round glasses. On the left, she is younger and wearing a hijab that pins under her chin. She is smiling shyly. On the right, she is older and wearing a turban-style hijab. She has a gentle but regretful expression.

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#the adventure zone #the adventure zone balance #the zone cast #taz balance #magnus burnsides #taako #merle highchurch #davenport #taz davenport #barry bluejeans #lup #lup tacco #taz lup #lucretia #taz lucretia #seven birds #starblaster #illustration

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crisis-arts · 8 months

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I haven’t drawn my WOY oc Starblast in awhile, so here’s a little doodle :v

#my art #art #digital art #procreate #procreate art #wander over yonder #woy #woy oc #starblast #oc #artists on tumblr

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holdmecloser-gandydancer · 11 months

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@blupjeansweek May 29th: AU

[remember when I said I'd write the arcade date from Starblaster Lanes?]

“How have I never realized that this place was so close to my job?” Lup asks, following Barry through the front door of the arcade. A rush of air conditioning tumbles over them. It’s dark inside the arcade, the windows treated with a deep tint. The flooring isn’t the garish nightmare carpet Lup was expecting to see in an arcade, rather some dark tiles with faint specks of holographic glitter adorning it. A synthy 80s pop playlist plays quietly, under the sound effects from countless arcade cabinets.

Barry hands the guy by the door some cash and gets a nod in return. “It’s one of those things that either you know someone who goes here all the time and they drag you here, or you just never find out about it. It’s not the flashiest building, you know?”

And it’s true. The facade of the building is a dilapidated looking brick. No large sign like its neighboring businesses, just a peeling decal on the front that lists the hours and the price for an all-day entrance.

“How’d you find this place, then?” Lup’s astounded at the sheer variety of cabinets. Lots she’s heard of, countless others she never could have even dreamed up.

Barry moves through the arcade with a confident kind of comfort; he’s in his element and it’s clear to see. “I moved here when I was first starting grad school and I didn’t really have a ton in common with my classmates. They were nice enough in lecture and everything, I just never got around to really getting to know them. So, I took a lot of walks and stumbled into this place by accident, But it was like my paradise, you know?”

Lup stops in front of a game that features what looks like Godzilla, King-Kong, and a werewolf. She nods to Barry. They pick the Godzilla and werewolf, respectively. “I get that. Embarrassing as it is, that’s why Taako and I dig the bowling alley so much. We got into so much shit in middle school that our aunt just started dropping us there with some cash on days she was at work early. And now we work there. And it’s lame, probably, but it was a nice place to lay down some kind of roots.” She grimaces as her character bites into a piece of building that was concealing a toaster and falls down, defeated.

“It’s not lame! It’s nice, feeling comfortable somewhere.” Not too long after the demise of Lup’s giant lizard, Barry’s werewolf falls victim to a similar fate. They both share a laugh about this and meander to other cabinets, idly playing a few, laughing when they lose.

Lup eyes the massive mural in the back depicting all manner of pop culture icons, and she and Barry take time pointing out the best ones. Lup’s especially fond of what seems to be Dot Warner, though she appears bereft of her brothers.

At long last, they approach the Space Invaders cabinet. Being his home turf, Lup lets Barry take the first crack at the machine. He racks up quite the respectable score; nothing that takes down his personal best, but something to knock poor old Bob outta seventh spot.

Lup claps and rubs her hands together like a villainous cartoon spider. "Alrighty, that was a pretty good showing but there's a new sheriff in town." She sidles up to the machine and meditatively hits the new game button.

She dies fairly quickly.

"Yeah, see that's what we in the biz call a trial run," Lup says casually, stretching her arms and rolling her shoulders. Barry laughs good naturedly. She bounces on her toes a few times before readying herself in front of the machine again.

She does markedly better this time, the trial run seeming to have worked magic. When she exhausts each of her lives, she's delighted to realize she's managed to snag a spot on the board. Near the bottom, but there nonetheless.

"Just going easy on me, huh?" Barry asks, a grin pulling at the corner of his mouth.

"Exactly right. Couldn't unleash my full force right here. Then you might get turned to goo and I can't in good conscience subject the employees here to goo cleaning," Lup says seriously.

"You're just so kind and thoughtful."

"I am. I'm like the Princess Diana of this arcade."

Barry looks at her, bewildered. "I certainly hope you're not," he sputters.

Lup grins. "Yeah, I guess that wouldn't bode well for either of us, huh?"

"It wouldn't!" Barry nods toward the tiny snack counter in the back corner, boasting two empty stools and delicious 80s prices. "How about I buy you a soda while we figure out how to muscle our way into the line for the N64 over there?"

"Think you could throw in one of those dubious hot dogs on the rollers?"

"You drive a hard bargain, but I think we can make that work."

Lup grabs his hand as they slowly make their way to the counter.

#blupjeans #blupjeans week 2023 #barry bluejeans #lup #reese writes #starblaster lanes #hali enjoy all the easter eggs skfbskskd #[easter eggs i say as this arcade is fully ripped from arkadia]

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bringbackwendellvaughn · 13 days

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#Quasar #Great Powers of the Universe #Watcher #Mark Gruenwald #John Heebink #Starblast

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found-family-tournament · 1 year

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Found Family Tournament Round 1 Part 17 Group 84

Propaganda and further pictures under the cut

Seven Birds: Taako, Magnus, Merle, Lup, Lucretia, Davenport, Barry

Boys from the Dwarf: Arnold Rimmer, David Lister, Kryten and The Cat

Submissions are still open!

Seven Birds:

they literally spent a hundred years becoming a family and lucretia tried her best to protect the but they could only save the world after all of them had been reunited and they LOVE each other they deserve to win this whole thing

Boys from the Dwarf:

Listen. These guys actually canonically have nobody else, the entire rest of the crew of this spaceship died in a nuclear incident which TECHNICALLY was Rimmer's fault. Forced family. Lister is the last human alive, Rimmer is technically a ghost kept alive by technology, Kryten is a robot and Cat is a cat. They live on this massive spaceship yet still choose to spend all their time together, it has been like 30 years at this point. I cannot stress to you how they had the option to leave and go elsewhere in this ship the size of a city at any given time yet chose to stick together after 30 years. Every opportunity any of them has had to get off this godforsaken ship, they have turned down. They would do anything for eachother but also would leave eachother on a random planet without hesitation (and actually have done). They are best buddies, they even have a handsign/handshake.

They’re an unlikely crew but ultimately they’re all each other has. Dave wakes up from stasis as the last human alive and to keep him sane the ship’s computer brought his dead bunk mate back as a hologram. They don’t usually get along but after being all each other has they ultimately need each other and do care about each other. They’re just hard assess about it. Also on board is a humanoid being called The Cat, who is from a species that evolved from a cat that was smuggled on board the ship before the accident that killed the crew. He’s usually self-centred but even after finding his own species again he ultimately decides his home is with the boys from the dwarf. And then there’s Kryten, a service mechanoid with an over-active guilt chip that they rescued from a crashed ship along the way. They’re dysfunctional and complete opposites to each other in many ways, but they are always together in every parallel universe they come across. And even when they do separate to try to do their own thing, ultimately they always come back to each other. They’ll act like they all dislike each other at times, but ultimately if trouble threatens one of them then the rest will band together. Also their dynamic together is just extremely funny.

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