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people like to make taako and lup have sun and moon motifs but they come from a planet with two suns and no moon. twins suns. someone do something with this im so sleep deprived
ough I wrote tags but I'm not done — they're sun elves according to Taako's original character sheet! Which has plenty of non-canon pre-rolled stuff, but the other stuff that got ignored wasn't this symbolically juicy! They're twin sun elves from a planet with twin suns! Are twins auspicious in sun elf culture on their planet? If they are supposed to be a fortunate omen, then how do Lup and Taako feel about that belief compared to the hardship of their upbringing? Do they reject that symbolism sullenly? Or do they decide to make themselves a fucking prosperous life through hard work and scrappiness instead of fate, until yeah, they are a fucking blessing and a gift for other people to bear witness to! The worldbuilding and characterization go crazy!
And oh, on Faerun. On Faerun there's only one sun. On Faerun there very quickly becomes No Lup. Taako is alone and there's only one sun in the sky, and the sun looks lonely and Taako doesn't feel whole, and he doesn't know how to explain why! And meanwhile there is a moon symbolism character, there's Lucretia right there, and ohhhhh she still remembers the twin suns of her home planet, still remembers Taako and Lup, but she can only recreate that home by mirroring it with twin moons! Taako and Lup and Lucretia are from a planet with two suns and one moon and that's what they respectively represent in those exact numbers! THANK YOU OP you are the most correct person ever and the underratedness of the twin sun symbolism has always made me lose it.
the original description of the ScuttleBuddy™️ from episode 8 is that it "will talk to you, but won't have anything interesting to say beyond it's primary functions". so then when merle first deploys it and it immediately buzzes "I love you" to him, that means that expressing affection *is* one of ScuttleBuddy™️'s primary functions. in case you didn't know.
relistening to Taz and I'm really enjoying listening to each arc and relating it to the relevant bird.
like yeah here there be gerblins is about lup it's about you should have thought about that before throwing my dog in the fire, it's about falling in love with Barry Bluejeans, it's about trying to save so many people but failing, it's desperate odds and flying away from a disaster you couldn't avert, it's about being bitten in the back by an earlier decision to trust someone.
murder on the Rockport Limited is about Dav. It's about seeing the truth behind the illusion. it's about a town of people all with the same face. it's about losing the driver and trying to save the vehicle without him. it's about the youngest member of the crew holding a book that catches the truth and stops it reaching its destination. it's about beheading and loss of identity. It's about remembering to get your roommate pringles
petals to the metal is about Merle. It's about don't be chopping on these sweet sweet babies. it's about reaching out to someone you love who has been consumed by a power they can't fully control. it's about dying in the hope they can be saved. it's about racing as fast as you can, with all that you have, in the hope that something can be saved in the end.
crystal kingdom is about taako. it's about loving someone you've lost so much you'd turn the world to crystal to try and save them. it's about Kravitz. its about learning more from thousands of realities to make new and wonderful things. its about walking through your legacy. its about the best sandwich and taako's good out here. its about seven birds being seen, its about the thousands of lives that Boyland touched
the eleventh hour is about Magnus. It's about rustic hospitality. it's about recklessly breaking reality trying to protect people you love. it's about fate and choices you make in life. it is being a small town hero. it is making promises and keeping them. it's about the downfall of a corrupt leader and the people he took down on his way. it's about fallen temples and burnt out buildings. it's about embracing the inevitable and holding the hand of the clock that strikes your doom as the weapon that will save you
the suffering game is about Barry. It's about looping through endless pain again and again in the hopes of reaching a dream. it's about liches and death and love. it's about losing your body and being saved from permanent death by the power of your friends' love. it's about working out how things are working and then pulling them apart to understand them. it's about choosing to lose everything in the hopes that it might let you save something. arms outstretched. trust Barry, love Barry
the stolen century is about Lucretia. it's one hundred years of journals. It's learning world after world and watching them die. It's working to protect those you love by saving the light. It's about running away again and again, and loving only in goodbyes. it's about being alone and dying again and again. It's about bonds growing stronger even as something comes relentlessly to consume them
story and song is about the starblaster flying into, not away from the storm. it's about hear that babe, we're legends. it's about bringing together all the arcs and all the relics into one hope to undo mistakes. it's about the magic in a bardsong. it's about the light of creation being used as a barrier against darkness.
broke: stolen century/story & song
woke: 11th hour
bespoke: murder on the rockport limited

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a wiki screenshot showing the Adventure Zone episode "Moonlighting: Chapter Two" was released February 26th, 2015.
a tumblr textpost reading: "ppl who celebrate fictional character birthdays are annoying pass it on" with a reblog edited to read: "fuck this post and happy birthday lucretia adventurezones".
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barry bluejeans lich voice: actually the color red has more positive connotations than negative ones, it's called color theory and
lucretia, a skilled painter who knows what actual real color theory is: i put up lich wards just to make you shut up about this how are you still manifesting in my office
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a wiki screenshot showing the Adventure Zone episode "Moonlighting: Chapter Two" was released February 26th, 2015.
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slamming on the walls of my cage lucretia is The Director because she directs the story she tells them abt the red robes. like its a play anfd shes directing it. she has distanced herself so much from them all that she doesnt even play an active role in the story she creates and yet it relies on her for its creation. like girl
i know it would never happen (mostly because he probably wouldn't want to) but ohhh what i would give to have a short dimension 20 season run by griffin mcelroy... griffin mcelroy with dropout tv budget... maybe dming for other career dms... the adventure zone was such a pivotal show in the dnd 5e actual play content community its lowkey the grandfather... HOWEVER i know this would never happen because the mcelroys do not like to work

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This moment is lowkey so heartbreaking from a meta perspective. Like Johann’s WHOLE thing is not wanting to be forgotten, and here, in basically his last scene before he dies, his CREATOR can’t remember what his voice sounds like.
not enough hurt/comfort fanworks about kravitz and lup bonding over the trauma of being trapped in dark places and terribly alone and cut off from the bonds with the forces that sustain their undeath
kravitz thinks he's gone through nothing like lup's experience (even though learning what happened to her makes his own chest hurt in a way that's far more personal than he expected) because he's certainly never been trapped for so long, he has no right to be traumatized, but on the other hand, as soon as lup learns what happened to kravitz when the hunger attacked, she decides the two of them are bonded for life (she does not say this explicitly to kravitz so he just notices her getting almost as cuddly with him as she does with taako and he doesn't complain but he's just like ???)
the problem with taz balance is you first listen to it as a naive high schooler like "oh, funny dnd popdcast made by those mcelroy guys i see in tumblr memes all the time! and they apparently have gay characters too! let me check this out! haha his name is taco that's so random XD" and nobody could have warned you that a decade later you'll still periodically think about lucretia and her martyr complex and be stricken with the urge to start gnawing your own limbs off
also i highly recommend relistening to the podcast of your autism when you are also properly medicated for your adhd bcoz now you can focus on it for Reals and it makes the autism factor shoot into the freaking stratosphere
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does anyone remember when that one person made like. books out of the tazscripts for balance like straight up printed the shit out and went to bookbinding town. that was so cool
I'm struggling to find the time to relisten to Ethersea, but I urgently need to do so, because someone needs to write the essay about Ethersea being Griffin's thematic self-response to the plot and framing of Balance. someone needs to write the essay about the most criminally underdiscussed cross-campaign parallels in the entire Adventure Zone expanded universe — but my brain has fighting the whole concept of "focusing on podcasts" lately, and it's absolutely killing me.
...but that said. now that you've got me talking. the thesis of this essay would be: Ethersea, quite familiarly, is a story about travel between successive parallel worlds, following their inevitable destruction. it's a story about the survivors of one world starting a war in the next, introducing new magic that should not have been granted, and terribly fracturing that world, and life as the world's inhabitants knew it. it's about the long, drastic struggle waged by one of those godlike dimension-travelers, who could not tolerate the actions of the other travelers, and who fought a morally dubious fight in their own right, to stop the cycle from repeating.
however. unlike Balance, Ethersea is told from the perspective of the people whose world was embroiled in that war. the ordinary people, from a world destroyed by the actions of the visitors — the people who lost the only home they ever had. in Balance, it's a bit of a plot twist, but the story was secretly always from the point of view of the people who did the destroying, however accidentally — but in Ethersea, that entire frame of reference, the narrative focus itself, is flipped upon its head. the destroyers, and their guilt, are no longer central — because Ethersea is a story about the citizens of the world that was poisoned. it's a story about Amber, who remembers the surface, about Devo, who doesn't, and about Zoox, who was born from this terrible tragedy that took so much from everyone else's lives. and from this perspective shift, familiar roles are filled by much different characters — Benevolence and Koda, the warmonger and objector, are far less sympathetic, than, say, Lup and Lucretia.
that said, the circumstance of being flung into a new word for reasons beyond your control, reasons that almost resemble fate — having been so key to Balance — is still a circumstance given sympathy, primarily via Amber's ending. but the demigod position that Amber takes on is subverted heavily — it is presumed that Amber will be a destroyer like the Vestiges, and she has to actively choose not to be. in the instant she traverses the portal, she is elevated from near the bottom of the power dynamic, up to the absolute top of it, and burdened with immense responsibility to not let the cycle repeat. Amber suddenly evokes previous TAZ protagonists, whom she had previously been so different from, by landing in a position not unlike the IPRE on Faerun — and Amber's perspective shift, arriving only at the end of Ethersea, reveals in hindsight that a prior perspective shift had to happen for Ethersea to even be told, moving the spotlight to the people most affected by the destruction of their home.
it's almost as if Balance had been told from the perspective of three ordinary Faerunians, whose lives had been devastated, then reshaped, by the Relic Wars and their subsequent redaction. which, likely, wouldn't have worked for Balance, at least not without major plot structure changes — but was necessary to become the absolute foundation of Ethersea. if anything, when viewed through this lens, the two campaigns mutually enrich each other — the perspective of Balance offering a framework through which to examine the Vestiges, and the perspective of Ethersea calling retroactive attention to the ordinary people of Faerun. once you see it, you can't unsee (or, should I say, un-SEA) that Balance and Ethersea are truly just two sides of the same coin.
...okay. so it looks like I wrote that essay after all, just purely from memory. if I forgot a couple things about Ethersea or didn't explain things as clearly as I could have then, please be nice to me