you know what? taz thread

because i. cant do anything without providing a running commentary on twitter. such is the way of the world

heres my first question where is lydia nicholas??

never mind, ok, its FINE, american people, right, whatever

this guy is just leaving to get chips in the middle of the podcast shdjfmfmfmfxjjcdknds ok im intrigued now

"merle's cousin whose name is shit" RIIIGHT

wait its kind of nice to not have to listen to them saying things like "VAAAHHHSE" and "GER-EGE" then hear ben meredith say "if youre listening in the wrong order, fuck you" every two seconds

for legal reasons im kidding! ben if youre out there LET DAVID 7 SMOOCH BATHIN

but i digress. there is now a dwarf (?) cousin (?) the problem is theres so many quips and banters i cant quite follow the plot

wait i think ive genuinely reached full brain capacity for lore. like griffin just said "the town's name is ____" and it slipped in and out of my head like water and i thought "right so the house on hill top road is controlled by the web but also connected to the desolation and-"

i found the transcripts thank GOD

omg conestoga wagon!!!! this really takes me back to 8th grade. why are they censoring themselves sometimes and swearing other times. also griffin's attitude about being a dm and assigning a character the name barry bluejeans is so powerful

ive been thinking all this time of taako as like this elegant self-respecting fandom-beloved character with a name that has an in-world significance. no. he just named his character fucking taco

"a critical 20" THAT IS NOT THE PHRASING I DONT EVEM GO HERE AND I KNKW THATS NOT THE PHRASING??????

sorry everyone i cracked

im kind of crying at the difference between rusty quill "our characters have intensely detailed backstories and everything is described perfectly and they have specific voices that reflect their personalities" gaming... and THIS

im getting so much serotonin from this. the adventure zone is a ladle being dipped into a nice stew pot of serotonin and im just sitting here while they ladle it into my brain

WHAT IS GOING ON IN THIS PODCAAAAASSSTTT

there are now SO many things to think of when i hear the word "magnus" it hurts my mind

hhhnmncnmmgnghgggghhhhyyyhchcjnccncnndndndnsnsnsnsndhfjgngd hi melanie

ok i know oomfs dont even listen to rqg but i cant stop imagining if it was as casual as this like cel and zolf have one of their heartfelt deep conversations and as cel walks out they say something like "ok, baller. that was a bitchin' conversation. cool"

god damn it. im losing it im slipping away into melanie king lockdown hours. i cant fucking focus because earlier today i heard melanie's voice for all of 45 seconds. so now when i try to listen to taz its just my brain screaming "STOP ITS NOT WORTH IT MELANIE ISNT HERE"

melanie king please pleass please be my gf

damn i forgot i wwas supposed to be adding to this now im almost finished with the first questy thing

what the fuck happened in that. theyre on a moon? barry bluejeans?? there was a spider somewhere in there?? i have no idea whats goung on

gonna start tweeting like oblivious guesses about whats gonna happen like "o i sure hope this character doesn't die!! would be really bad if this character turns out to be evil!" in the hopes that i accidentally predict something and get on taz struggle tweets and get clout

i have a crush on killian, let's all hope she is a part of the longer story arc, because if not i'll be devastated

im absolutely losing it

GIANT JELYFISH

JUDE PERRY AHHHHHHHHH GFCYK

trying to focus on taz but jude perry just showed up and her actual statement is in a couple episodes so

thinking abt taz right now absolutely. i am NOT concerned with anything else but taz. i love taako and i love barry bluejeans

ii just think that

MMFMFNNFNDNSNSMS IM MIKE

FUCK ! THIS IS ABOUT TAZ

was zoning completely out because of jude but this caught my attention

the tone of this show is so informal and funny that i find it hard to imagine the shit thats gonna happen to make everyone cry over "taz balance" whatever that even means

then again when griffin described the giant jellyfish thing i did have a moment where i was like. oh. he is a very good dm actually

this is so.

theyre talking about cars i cant focus on this shit

whats going on???/ sapphic rights????? gfs in a tree? how did hurley do that? red robe dude? what???

me rn

ANGUS IS BACK

and theyre all immediately bullying him!!!! hell ya

CLOAK OF THE MANTA RAY???????!!!!!!!

i feel bad that i find fantasy costco scenes so boring because the concept of fantasy costco is great

theyre SO ANNOYING :0

GIANT TARDIGRADES!!!!!!! HELL YEA

there r so many taz animations & i want to watchh them all but i cant because of spoilers

ttazz is such a tonal shift but its kind of nice to find out how much thought goes into this

omg... what if carey and killian r in lov

im very interested to know how taako progressed from "im concerned making this character gay would come across as a disrespectful caricature" to (presumably) "gay" like it doesnt seem disrespectful to me but im just wondering how it happened

kravitz crystal man......?!

oh god . they r gay

crying

PURE OF HEART, DUMB OF ASS LESBIAN

IM THANKS MAGNUS BURNSIDES FOR THE LESBIAN RIGHTS

holy fuck

best thing abt this podcast has been taako roasting the shit out of jenkins for being overly worried about conserving spell slots and then doing the EXACT same thing himself for the rest of the story

mmfmfmfmmmmdnshsgsfsfsggxhdfngngmfmfndmsnanaknfnfngmdndjxjjsnsnfbgngnnhmhhhgnfnd

no seriously i cannot express how much i ffng gnfnndns jjfkfnskslsjfngnnynfnd

i just. this is such GOOD STORYTELLING

im IN CLASS watching taz animatics

oh my god...... i love every taako design so much......taako with fluffy hair.... taako with a dress taako with a cool studded belt taako with a million piercings..... shoveling it all into my little chest of headcanon *

*except green skin taako fuck that

kind of impressive how travis and justin mcelroy managed to build ENTIRE CHARACTERS around the phrases "magnus rushes in" and "taako's good out here"

it's been a few hours and i can already tell the phrase "clinton, you just got clocked by a shovel" will not be leaving my brain anytime soon

ayo where's lup

day one of me saying ayo where's lup i will only stop once lup shows up

FUCK!!!!!!!! i zoned out for a second and when i zoned in they were saying "loop" and i thought they were saying "lup" and gasped audibly

taakooooo taako taakkkkoooo taako

WAIT THATS ME!!!!! thats my fuckign name!!!!!!!!

ive reached a point where i just have to be like.. what do i value more? getting a good grade on my homework thats due tomorrow, or finding out what happens next in this episode of the adventure zone balance eleventh hour arc? and, dear readers, i think you know what my choice is

OHHH THE OLD WOMAN IS ALSO ME HUH

my two main ?theories? /ideas about this podcast rn are 1) the Final Decision is going to be something along the lines of like, relics vs not relics 2) the voidfish has eaten memories of really, really significant things in all of their backstories

ohhh so i guess yeah

ayo where's lup?

okay fuck i get it now

i'm...... i...... what the fuck

travis just took a call in the middle of the podcast i

i can not fucking believe this

there have been many moments in this podcast where justin mcelroy goes quiet for a while, maybe asks griffin a weird question that seems totally irrelevant, & then, several minutes later, taako pulls something so unbelievable that i have to just stop listening for a moment...

but this is the best so far

im shocked. i am flabbergasted

why is justin mcelroys mickey mouse voice so terrifyingly on the nose

seems like theres gonna be a lot of cool music in this arc, thats good

trying to be optimistic

so the new mag episode is called wonderland but thats also the exact part of taz balance im at right now this seems suspicious

day 3 of me saying ayo where's lup until she shows up

okay i cannot express how funny it is to watch merle and magnus just continually let themselves get beat up to protect taako

like hes this wildly powerful high-level wizard who constantly kicks ass in battle BUT magnus recognizes he might have to take double spins on the hell spinner to preserve taako's beauty and thats fair

WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!! MAGNUS

im not looking im not looking

well at least i was right about the music

what if barry bluejeans has been with us all along

like maybe the real barry bluejeans is inside ur heart

OH AHHHHHHHH

I MEAN YEAH. NOW WHERE THE FUCK IS LUP

just realized i never tweeted in here about taako's pottery date with kravitz. i apologize for that. taako's pottery date with kravitz was incredibly important and should not have been overlooked

fngnmfmdms why did taako do like a two minute rant about how he no longer has faith in anyone and then angus mcdonald shows up and hes like "oh ya id trust this small detective with my life" dude your kind and non-bullying heart is showing

oh.

AHH! AHHHHH! I WILL NO LONGER BE SAYING AYO WHERES LUP EVERY DAY! OH MY GOD! AHHHH IM KISSING THE GROUND AT HER FEET RN

IM SO HAPPY ABOUT THIS FLASHBACK FFJJDKSKSKSNS THE EXPOSITION AND LUP AND THE REPORTERS SCENE FUCK ITS ALL SO GOOD

i know julia got a kick out of this. hey btw i am IN LOVE WITH LUP

lulu? LULU? no. shut up before i cry

i....... i kind of want to like, physically fight griffin mcelroy

ok holy shit

what if i just dont listen to the finale like i already know one thing thats gonna happen and i dont like it. maybe i'll just go back and listen to episode 1 a couple times and then call it quits

cant stress enough how much i DONT want to hear taako saying these things like this is a worst case nightmare scenario for me, a taako stan

alright. i havent said anything on here because i cant even articulate how i feel about whats going on right now. however im going back through my hoard of transcript screenshots in preparation for ep 69 and i was just reminded that angus is canonically a brony

if at the end they make griffin say like "you did it you solved my... the adventure zone balance puzzle (???)" i will fflip a table

i saw julia and kyla liked this and i thought angus fucking died??????????? anyways https://twitter.com/accio_belle/status/1301897247509164032

whats up twitter just finished the adventure zone balance im a whole new person now

still thinking about "you're going to be amazing" sigh lets see if i can move on to amnesty

the fact that travis is playing a sapphic goth punk pyromaniac performing magician with a rabbit named dr. bonkers who discovers she also has Real Magic Powers and and has a canonically sick undercut and, oh yeah, is called the fucking Lady Flame.... wowy

the magnus archives take some fucking notes

haha what if i was a vampire exile from another world and you were a bisexual goth punk fire magician haha just kidding... unless

aubrey's little flame finger habit is so cute...... and also she canonically wears combat boots for the aesthetic even when they become impractical for monster hunting....... travis mcelroy really said here lgbt's this character is for you ???

i wonder if someday i'll be able to hear beacon speak without crying laughing

AUBREY LITTLE JUDE PERRY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

there are plenty of good, well thought out jokes in this podcast. seriously there are any number of things to find funny. so WHY am i once again crying over beacon's voice

WHAT THE FUCK YOUTUBE USER EIFFAL.B???????? WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN BY THIS???? IM FUMING /lh

something cool about amnesty is that even though monster of the week is technically horror, everything about this season seems built to be as inviting and comforting as possible. like the concept of the amnesty lodge is just so pleasant idk

is french onion soup actually plot relevant or did they just spend five minutes talking about french onion soup for no reason

hey what if i just relistened to balnnnnnnccccncnnnsmsmsms snskemdmdndmds no fuck i wont do that i actually will not be doing that but what if i did...... no

i only have one comfort character and its beacon the talking sword

the dramatic cliffhanger outros get me every time like i KNOW its coming and still the pause in the music hits some specific switch in my brain agghcjcnfndnmddm

what do i even focus on here

duck's just lying on the floor of the bathroom way to go king

im still thinking about lup being in the liveshows lol i need to listen to amnesty but what if i just

i mean no offense to duck, but he is probably the blandest looking jetpack skateboarder in all of west virginia. like what if u looked up at the sky expecting someone badass with a cool hairstyle and piercings to go soaring across it and instead its just a man in khakis

i need to know who this was about now does anyone know the original post

that wasnt EXACTLY taz relevant but i think the post was about the mcelroys and i need to know but im probably never finding out oh man

obligatory daily "i want to relisten to taz balance so bad" post

is this a BATTLE REMIX of the minerva blues riff?!!?'!,!,' holy shit

heres my brain right now: aubrey little

actually more like: aubrey little

i

hey wait a minute

can i say something. can i just say something. i saw this tweet WEEKS ago and didn't know what it was about or what season it was from but thought it was a beautiful line & ive kind of been waiting all of taz to see where it turns up https://twitter.com/accio_belle/status/1296866214631768071

HOWEVER hearing it in narration is still uniquely painful. what the fuck griffin mcelroy

i've got an idea! actually, fuck this! it's time for a Monster Factory Interlude

me rn trying to piece together all the information in ep 29 while also being in a zoom meeting

ok so are the light beings from a different place we havent heard about yet? are they from minervas planets? is all of earth connected to sylvain or just kepler? have all of the monsters they fought been controlled by these light beings? whats the significance of ryan gosling??

someone please explain im so confused cant believe duck was right abt the aliens thoigh

i hope TO GOD that leonie has muted this thread

every single time i hear the cool guitar music cliffhanger endings i feel this sequence of faces

idk how to explain the emotion of being extremely shocked and surprised in the most fun way possible and also like "ah fuck i could have seen this coming huh? you sneaky bastards"

well. they seem to be continuing in the time-honored taz tradition of revealing information throughout the finale that expands your perception of the fictional universe and makes you realize it is, and always has been, much bigger than you originally believed

what does this mean what does this mean what does this mean

WAIT. is this anything

i NEED to know if new duckberg is actually related to amnesty in any way but im just going to choose to believe that it is

NO FUCKING WAY

i love aubrey little... ..so much .. h

the concept that an ethereal, godlike planet-deity loved one girl so much that she went into hiding out of shame after hurting her.. and the one thing that could bring her back was aubrey's forgiveness...? that is good shit

loml

ok everything is coming up sexy rn so what did those fuckers mean when they ratio'd me with "and then"

i just gasped so loudly i hate it here i hjs@smsmssmsna i am so FUCKING mad are you KIDDING me thESE GDODAMN CENSOREDS HAD ME THINKING AUBREY WAS GOING TO FUCKING DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YOUVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW!!!!! I THOUGHT AUBREY WAS GOING TO FUCKING D WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU GUYS ARE SO G D OMINOUS FOR NO REASON AT ALL!!!!!!!!

alright i think ive calmed down enough to keep listening here we go home of sexuals! sapphics stay winning!!

but why is this the second time twitter has convinced me something awful is going to happen in the taz finale that doesn't actually happen...? i spent like 10 episodes of balance thinking angus dies and 10 episodes of amnesty thinking aubrey dies

ok wait so whats with the four armed light beings and the light dimension

FUCKING SHIT !!!! THE INTRO TO 36!+!! OH GOD! THE SOUND EFDECTS THE FLAHSBACKS OH MY CHRIST

NO BC I THOUGHT THE LAST EPISODE WOULD JUST BE WRAP UP AND STUFF- bold of me to assume griffin fucking mcelroy would leave any threads untied or conclude the story in anything other than the most badass and epic way possible. goddamn

alright here we go. duck newton time. hell yeah. i idolize him. i pretend i do not know that his real name is the worst name ever

the SEAMLESS storytelling handover between travis and griffin here is kind of *chef's kiss*

BEACON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

please please please aubrey little fanart i want a drawing of aubrey with her 80% shampoo backpack how do i find that

nvm i found fanart there were no shampoo bottles but im satisfied

I Will Force everyone to look at Her

oh ned :')

wow the sunrise theme really is the no dogs on the moon of amnesty thats what i think

yep! https://twitter.com/czernydora/status/1304640923427508224

ok so im going to listen to the amnesty prequel and then the q&a and then maybe another liveshow and then graduation? but the thing is idk what order to listen to the liveshows in because i want to save the actual balance ones for last maybe

griffin mcelroy as griffin mcelroy. this cannot be real

i - i m- what the FUCK

relatable clint mcelroy moments

this liveshow is SURREAL. travis just cleverly worked a message about gun control into his bigfoot rpg, promptly spilled his drink on himself, and then all three brothers started panicking and begging for help from their stage manager, who stood on the side and laughed at them

and now.. eleven year old griffin mcelroy is drinking gasoline....?

the amnesty ttazz remix goes very hard

WAIT R THEY GOING BACK TO DND

wait im actually so excited for graduation now

so no transcripts?

oh my god justin wyd

no, okay, i know he just didn't think of a name. my personal theory is that justin did not think of names in advance for any of the three main arcs but for balance and amnesty he was able to improvise "taco" and "duck" and for graduation he just fucking blanked

i want to learn the little flute segment in sunrise. i think that would be good

sorry there was an elf character for all of 69 episodes and THIS WAS NEVER ADDRESSED BEFORE????

what if i relistened to b- [i am forcibly tackled to the ground by all of the tma, rqg, and kfam episodes waiting in my play queue]

I want To Collect Every Tiny Crumb of Foreshadowing that i will now be capable of understanding and Feel Emotions About It

heres my current state