#this is about taz

[immatrashpanda]

the difference between you and me is that the tarot cards i assigned these characters to is better than the ones you assigned to them

#moth's mutterings #this is about taz #so many thoguhts all the time #i have absorbed ZERO plot but the vibes #theyre in my brain

[humunanunga]

Enough of the trope where memory loss undoes the damage or the corruption or whatever. More content where removing memories just removes the context.

The tragedy of needing to grieve and not knowing what or who you lost or why. The angst of having trauma and being denied the awareness that it's trauma. The suspense of being different somehow and left to wonder how and when. The tension of knowing that something is off and you can't find where it hurts. The Adventure Zone gets it. Kingdom Hearts gets it.

There is an aching inside you and you don't know how it got there.

#i think about xion or the stolen century and need to lay down. i'm so normal about them. #tropes #narrative tropes #memory loss #tragedy #angst #the adventure zone #taz balance #the stolen century #kingdom hearts #xion #writing #musings #hall of fame

[mangozic]

archivist be upon ye

#relistening to tma again #i think the last time i’ve drawn anything related to it was like may 2020 #god it’s been a while #have been listening to the magnus protocol and my god it’s so good #but heres good old jonathan as a treat #the interest has been in deep slumber for the past 4/5 years only periodically coming back to life #i’m very normal about this podcast actually #on other note i also started a taz balance relisten #what’s up with me and revisiting my middle school fixations lately #anyways #if you’re still reading these tags i’m impressed i could never with my abysmal attention span #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus pod #jonathan sims #the archivist #tma jon #fanart #my art #digital art #illustration #doodle

[lazylittledragon]

mentally i’m still here 🖤🖤

#taz #the adventure zone #taz balance #blupjeans #lup #barry bluejeans #i’ve got brainrot but i physically cannot do another listen #i will never stop thinking about how barry bagged the most beautiful woman in faerun and ripped the world apart to get her back #also i cannot remember lup’s leg tattoos so i left them out

[pureseasalt]

congratulations to the one piece live action team for everything, but especially for perfectly, spectacularly, and unabashedly portraying how head over heels in love the straw hat crew is with monkey d luffy

#one piece live action #one piece #IM LOOKING AT YOU MR TAZ HEART EYES TOWARDS HIS CAPTAIN SKYLAR #AND YOU MACKENYU BREATHLESS AWE STARING MAEDA #AND! ALSO! YOU! EMILY LONG SUFFERING BUT STILL PAINFULLY ENDEARED GLARE RUDD #AND DONT THINK I FORGOT ABOUT U! MR JACOB INCANDESCENTLY JOYOUS GRIN GIBSON

[ghostslazy]

Extremely rough first stab at the Taz Vs. Dracula lineup bc I love them all so so much already and don’t have the time to finish a lineup of characters for fun rn 🥲

Close up sketches, design notes and surprise drac under the break:

Travis’ characters are always the hardest for me to design idk why, but I made him very western inspired with some vampire hunting flair. Lady Agatha Thistle’s breed was one I hadn’t heard of before but I love a good blood hound. I always end up making Travis’s chapters warm toned, they’re all very red/orange coded to me. (Beef would be the exception I think he’s very pink and blue in my mind)

Clint always makes the sweetest roundest characters I love designing his. I wish we had a cannon spelling because there’s so many directions you can go with “Filo” also his characters are usually green or green adjacent to me. I cant wait to see him bust out more booger potions

Justin never misses with a character and I cling onto every single one he makes so quickly and violently it’s getting embarrassing. I like the idea that she would still dress extremely fancy and posh even tho her new body should be in some battle ready armor. Also I made her blue since she is a Frankenstein’s monster and most likely wouldn’t have the blood flow to have a human color. Plus I love the monster high color palettes so I’m referencing a little bit. Justin has very cool coded characters to me, lots of blue and purple and forest greens.

Probably not sticking with this Dracula design but I want him to love a bit more silly and slick, I think having him be lanky and shorter will pair him very well against our rough and rowdy boys

#taz spoilers #this series has me in a chokehold and there’s only one episode out #I didn’t event get to talk about the theme music but holy shit griffin put the entire grussy into it #the adventure zone #taz #taz vs dracula #taz versus dracula #the zone cast #my art #ghost’s sketchbook

[anistarrose]

to me, the most fascinating (and utterly unintentional) feature of TAZ Balance's narrative structure is the way that on the first listen, Tres Horny Boys are the audience surrogates because they, much like us, have no idea what the fuck is going on, but on all subsequent relistens, then Lucretia, and sometimes Barry, and arguably especially Lup in the umbrella become the new audience stand-ins, because just like us, they are, in fact, painfully aware of what the fuck is going on :)

#taz #taz balance #taz balance spoilers #lup taaco #barry bluejeans #lucretia taz #and i really cannot say *especially* lup enough times #like lucretia and barry have their own meta roles in the story within the story #the meta-narrator and the meta-narrator's chosen meta-villain #but lup is the meta-audience #whenever thb wear red or joke about bringing barry back and we as the savvy audience get incredibly sad about it #lup is right there with us #she knows the twists and she knows the backstory and she is an observer who cannot tell anyone or save anyone #until she finally *can* #i love stories about stories and i love lup!

[yardsards]

the fact that lup was a long lost twin who was effectively retconned into existence pretty late into the series. and how on paper that sounds like it should be a shitty soap opera level plot twist... but somehow it's not. instead, lup's existence slots into place perfectly, like she was always meant to be there. it's just. of course, how could you forget lup?

#eliot posts #taz #taz balance #the adventure zone #lup #i am eternally going wild about lup's existence #shes even transgender...

[scoupsahoy]

thinking about how tres horny boys, at the beginning of the crystal kingdom when asked to pick colors for their null suits, all picked shades of red. burgundy, burnt umber, cinnamon

merle (well, clint) asked for burnt umber to be funny without even realizing what color it was

it's hardly a joke, it's hardly touched on, though i'm sure it's more obvious in the graphic novel. but to me it was more shocking than their jokes about living for hundreds of years, of always having their memories, of never forgetting barry bluejeans

they were red because they were always going to be red. because they were red for a hundred years.

#taz balance #the adventure zone #taz balance spoilers #the adventure zone balance #im rambling but i couldnt stop thinking about this today #and like i know all of it was unplanned and no one knew but like. this is such an insane accident

[reddoesntlikeart]

I am addicted to posting on this account at the weirdest times (it is currently 01:02 )

Also I FORGOT TO CHANGE the “science side of tumblr” to “science side of cang qiong” FUCK

Credits to the og posters (I hope they never have to see this): @sassykardashian @sailingonsuccess

#shang qinghua #svsss #svsss fanart #shen qingqiu #scum villian self saving system #these 2 are actually so much fun to draw #back to my regular content #sorry about that totk post I had to get it out of my system #also I’ve sadly stopped hyperfixating on this fandom so it’s been hard to draw them 😔 #currently my hyper focuses have been the new Spider-Man movie #and loz totk #I’ve also gotten back into taz balance #no time for mxtx unfortunately #mxtx svsss #mxtx

[manzanamarim]

POV: you attempt to arrest the strawhat pirates during snack time 🤨 rude

#marim's art #one piece #fanart #opal #one piece live action #I’m looking forward to it! it looks so charming and fun #also the cast and crew seem very passionate about op it’s cute #monkey d luffy #Nami #usopp #sanji #roronoa zoro #iñaki godoy #emily rudd #mackenyu #jacob romero gibson #taz skylar #also have you listened to the Nami theme song they released??? I am: in tears

[vivitalks]

ned chicane is sooo character. he's a skilled burglar but he's broke, he's a sensationalist and a cryptozoologist, he's a pathological liar who's just as persuasive when he's telling the truth as not, he refuses to harm a fellow human being, he runs a terrible and weirdly popular late-night TV show, he constantly tries to protect a town that does not return the favor, he is canonically in possession of george clooney's oscar, he's a self-declared coward who will always put himself in harm's way if it means protecting his friends, he has multiple fake IDs and passports and no one knows his legal name, he's the smartest dumbass you've ever met, he takes a bullet for dani as penance because hurting aubrey was his greatest regret even before they knew each other and he can't hurt her again, he can't let anyone get hurt again, he will not let someone else die because of him. he will not.

#i am putting him in a blender and drinking him like a smoothie #that death scene. jesus almighty #taz #taz amnesty #the adventure zone #the adventure zone amnesty #stuff #ned chicane #ned and aubrey is like. Such a tragic fucking relationship to me #ned duck and aubrey honestly feels like a daughter/uncle/granddad situation to me #and like. just. if i think about it for too long i go crazy

[sunshine-zenith]

Every time I reread the TAZ:TEH graphic novel adaptation, I fall a little bit more in love with Julia’s design. The fact that she’s just a tiny bit, just a smidge, taller than Magnus? Brilliant, wonderful, clears my skin, waters my crops, 10/10 please gimme more

#taz #the adventure zone #taz balance #taz gn #magnus burnsides #magnulia #I think I’ve made this post before but who cares it gets truer every time I reread the gn adaptation #Julia waxmen burnsides #normally I don’t really care about height differences in ships but like !!! HEIGHT DIFFERENCE!!! #spoilers #broke 100 #broke 500

[himbionn]

Hot Topic Disaster (and potential creator) Lup 🔥

Thanks to everyone for participating in my poll and I hope you enjoy my take on her! ❤️

And Taako absolutely helps her with changing her hair every other week.

#Lup #taz #taz balance #the adventure zone #lup taaco #taako taaco #lup fanart #anyways magnus next #whom unlike lup and like taako #i will need to research his items and shit #cause the main 3 are who i really want to nail #and my partner is expecting magnus #but then its merle #im not totally happy with the second pic but she needed her brother #and taako looks like link lowkey in thay #we dont talk about it

[terezis]

ok here's the hot goss from the nycc taz gn panel

i don't actually know whether or not it was recorded/ if they're going to put it online so here is my summary. also if i miss anything and u were there pls feel free to chime in. spoilers obviously!!!

got eight new preview pages (four two-page spreads), not the pages on the macmillan website!!!

ok i will tell u about those pages but the main thing discussed at the panel was how they went about adapting this arc into gn form. the actual time spent in wonderland has been trimmed a lot bc they had to think about what was actually important to the narrative as they are building to story and song.

basically in planning out the suffering game they also really had to decide what the rest of the series would look like, bc whatever they include now is seeding the stuff that's going to happen later.

cam is not in this book. it was implied there's less wheel spins. rowan/ash/sterling get much less screen time

almost half of this book is lunar interlude stuff (pre and post suffering game, INCLUDING REUNION TOUR!!! no word on where it ends but they made it clear that a LOT of thought went into what to include and where to end it, and what that would mean for the next book)

ok so about those preview pages

first one was post-taakitz date with kravitz sensing a lich and the umbra staff shooting at him <3 <3 <3

i thought they were going to show us the preview pages that were on macmillan so when i saw kravitz i was so shook

second spread was magnus visiting the voidfish, which now happens right before they leave for wonderland; the whole beginning of tsg from magnus trying to talk to pringles to him kidnapping those guards to the chimera fight was cut LOL bc it never really got… addressed again in the podcast

angus comes to get him for the mission but magnus has been going Through It (outright stated, they were like. he found out he's a red robe. he would probably not be handling it well. he has eyebags now. LOL) and snaps at angus when angus presses him on what's wrong.

more angus content, he will be investigating what's going on at the bureau more (his scene w magnus ties into this)

same for lucretia! more content/ stuff for her to do

third spread was merle w his kids getting saved by the red robe, is at a carnival instead of a random street this time LOL

last one was the boys arriving just outside of wonderland

wonderland looks fuckign cool

what else… oh confirmed like eighty panels of bare ass naked magnus after he gets his body back. so i think we really are getting the full reunion tour this book???

ALSO NAKED BARRY COVERED IN SLIME. WHEN HE GETS OUT OF THE POD. CONFIRMED. CANON. LOL

omg ALSO!!! ben (editor) said he campaigned REALLY HARD to have the umbra staff break during the suffering game, freeing lup early, bc he really wanted more time with her, but griffin campaigned really hard NOT to do this, and in doing so his arguments solved a lot of other problems they had been having at the time LOL

travis is the fans' champion when the others get too edit-happy. he's the one who has a good idea of what moments are important to the readers so he's like hey… too far. don't cut that. and then they don't

justin leaves great notes and when they couldn't figure stuff out ben would often say "no it's fine justin will solve this." and he ALWAYS DID

this was news to justin

??? i think that's all the main points honestly i'm v picky about adaptations but overall i feel like these are good changes that make sense when translating the podcast to gn

that said i do hope taako still gets a washing machine dropped on him <3 do this for me carey <3

#taz #taz balance #taz gn #taz gn spoilers #the suffering game #sorry it's long it was just SO juicy #didn't even mention them talkign about all the like technical art stuff carey also talked about color/panel composition to convey #info and mood

[orykorioart]

From Aug 2022

Sliding in right before pride month ends with some old Blup sketches that I really liked.

[ID: 3 sketch illustrations featuring Barry and Lup.

The first sketch is Barry and Lup, with the trans flag wrapped around them. Barry is leaning in to press a kiss onto Lup's cheek.

The second sketch is Barry and Lup doing a fist bump, smiling.

The last sketch is a full body of Barry and Lup, out on a walk. They are holding hands and smiling at each other. Barry is holding a coffee cup in his other hand, while Lup is holding an ice cream cone. Lup's skirt has the trans flag colors.

End ID]

Also I’m open for sketch suggestions yall I’d be happy to draw Taz fanarts.

#taz #the adventure zone #blupjeans #barry bluejeans #lup #lup taz #lup taaco #tazb #taz balance #lol this turns out the file name for this was gender mood 1 bc i was feeling extremely bad about gender bs #that day and needed to draw my blorbs being happy and trans #gender mood 2 was rai*eon specifically for transmasc rai that i will hopefully remember to post at some point. #lol anw. what i wanted to say is i love and cherish blups. they make me so happy #also i hope i did okay with the id #if anyone wants to add to it to make it more clear id be happy to edit the post w full credit to you