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relistening to taz balance is just. there's a ghost in your house. there's a ghost following you and you don't know it's following you but you feel their absence all the same. there's a ghost locked in your house but they shine through the cracks in the walls anyways
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she could have just been the journal keeper she could have had a simple straightforward title or role like the other birds but no sheâs lonely too. itâs so important that she is lonely. sheâs been lonely forever. and Iâm fine itâs fine iâm feeling so fucking normal about it
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
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.
i will never ever ever ever ever ever get over the gang's first interactions with lucretia in the first lunar interlude. griffin is playing the Regal and Very Serious and Deadpan Madame Director, and they're all meeting her for the first time. they have absolutely 0 rapport with each other, but she plays along with their jokes, and even makes jokes of her own. other NPCs are actively annoyed by their goofs, but not the Director. shes Regal and Serious and Sarcastic and Familiar.
and griffin probably wasn't planning this far ahead at that point, but knowing what comes next. knowing how it ends... it all just lends itself so perfectly to the fact that these interactions are Lucretia Reuniting With Her Friends. realistically she's a stranger to them, but they get along so well and so immediately, that on re-listens it really does make you think "they are her best friends, there's nothing else it could be. they are long lost friends."
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This time with friends!
[Image ID: A comic with two panels, one with Taako Taaco from TAZ and the second with him alongside Magnus Burnsides and merle Highchurch.
Taako is a slim elf with medium-brown skin, wavy dark brown hair with orange tips, and an antelope-like tail. Heâs wearing a white t-shirt and blue plaid pants as well as a little blue party hat.
Magnus is a tall, fat and muscular human man somewhere in his twenties. Like Taako, he as medium-brown skin but has lighter, reddish brown hair. He has somewhat fresh top surgery scars and a black eye. Heâs wearing red plaid pants.
Merle is a fat, middle aged dwarven man with medium-dark brown skin, wavy gray hair with an equally wavy beard and otterlike features (sharp teeth, whiskers and a long furred tail). He is depicted as a trans man with breasts. He is wearing a teal tank top and lemon-green pants.
In the first panel, Taako stands holding two champagne glasses. He smiles and looks down as he says âHappy new cy-â
In the second panel, he is rudely interrupted by Magnus and Merle, the former holding a little flag and a noisemaker and the latter with a sparkler. Merle winks as he shouts, very colorfully, âHAPPY NEW CYCLE, SLUTS!â
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gosh the first TTAZZ in which Griffin hammers that Barry Bluejeans is dead is such a treat. Like the question was âwill he ever come backâ and he completely circumvents it by saying âheâs dead. His soul has left his body.â Fucking evil mastermind
every time i relisten to the eleventh hour, i'm just like. oh. right. griffin put a pair of sibling NPCs, of which one is a technically-still-alive skeleton in a cave, into this one. yeah, sure. and for some reason taako is ridiculously adamant that this skeleton isn't alive or sentient despite all evidence to the contrary. like. sure. okay. it's a funny scene. it's a genuinely funny scene. it's one of the best dumb jokes in the arc. someone's dead sibling is just casually hanging out as an undead skeleton in a cave. i feel normal.
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
youre really gonna have to bear with me on this one. but if the adventure zone balance was like a serialized tv show that ran for like 11 seasons and so had plenty of time to fuck around and do weird side plots and one off character study episodes i think there would be b plot to some episode or another where kravitz gets assigned to reap a ghost orchestra thats causing phantom of the opera style chaos at an old theater but realizes theyre only haunting the place because they want to play music again but dont have a conductor so he conducts a final performance for them and they are at peace having resolved their unfinished business and he gets to finally be a conductor . i just think that would be cool .
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i will say this until iâm blue in the face but i love the reoccurring motifs in taz balance like. shut the fuck up what do you mean crystal kingdom happened bc a son loved his mom. what do you mean the eleventh hour happened bc a dad loved his daughter. because a mom wanted to be with her babies again. what do you mean that so much of everything was built upon the voidfish wanting to be with its child.
âhere there be gerblinsâ is like what if you couldnât save everyone. âpetals to the metalâ is like what if the love was there and it couldnât save everyone but the love was still there. âcrystal kingdomâ is like what if the love was there and it couldnât save everyone and it actually made things worse but the love was there. âthe eleventh hourâ is like what if love started all of this but you couldnât save everyone (you couldnât save everyone (you couldnât save everyone (you couldnât save everyone (you couldnât save everyone (you could save everyone))))). âstolen centuryâ is like what if you could try again (what if there was love) (what if you could try again).
taakitz is actually extremely funny in the context that both taako and kravitz seemingly gravitated towards each other because they were longing for an anchor, something stable and simple as a break from their chaotic and incredibly high stakes jobs that had taken over their lives, and for this they both chose the weirdest most insane goddamn person theyd ever met. and it worked
the difference i think is that kravitz knows taako is an insane weirdo and is both concerned and intrigued by whatever hes got going on. whereas taako is taako and also grew up with lup so he thinks kravitz is pretty much normal. hes just got a weird job. dont we all.
lups the fucking funniest character bc shes a sort of moral core to the starblaster crew, a huge part of the drive they have to save the worlds they come across and defeat the hunger, incredibly compassionate and emotionally intelligent, and also just fucking LOVES blowing shit up. cannot get enough of it. will see an opportunity to commit nonlethal arson and say "is anyone gonna fuck that up" and not wait for an answer. genuine honest to god pyromaniac. sees a machine gun and her immediate reaction is to start shooting it in the air. her favorite gift shes ever gotten is the opportunity to run around an abandoned building blowing things up with fire magic. its not even really treated as a character flaw its just a fun hobby she has
magnus: dog-coded. needs no explanation
the twins: cat-coded. standoffish until you earn their trust but from then on they'll never leave you alone
merle: also cat-coded. old, scruffy, down an eye, and dangerous to let near your plants is a thing that many animals can be, but cats are truly the poster child
barry: dog-coded. not allowed on the moon
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yâall ever think about âi trust angus mcdonald implicitly.â the fact that taako said it like twenty minutes after saying he trusted ânothing and no one.â im so sick. ive never been sicker.
did lucretia and barry interact after the memory wipe
yes, often, in a more understanding* way
yes, often, in a more antagonistic* way
yes, often, in both ways
yes, rarely, in a more understanding way
yes, rarely, in a more antagonistic way
yes, rarely, in both ways
yes, only before here there be gerblins, in a more understanding way
yes, only before here there be gerblins, in a more antagonistic way
yes, only before here there be gerblins, in both ways
yes, only once or twice, in a more understanding way
yes, only once or twice, in a more antagonistic way
not at all
*"understanding" meaning they know they disagree but also understand the other can't be stopped/thinks they're doing the right thing, whether that manifests as avoiding the topic altogether when they meet, or just weary acceptance and frank conversation; and "antagonistic" meaning at least one of them is actively trying to interfere/stop the other/convince the other to stop, in the interaction itself
i see a lot of different interpretations of barry & lucretia's relationship after the voidfish and i've gone back and forth over what i think so i wanted to see what the general consensus is
my thoughts under the cut
