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Laios and Senshi, protectors of the sapphic girls
#dunmeshi#dungeon meshi#farcille#delicious in dungeon#senshi#laios#laios touden#marcille#farin#fanart#meme
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ALWAYS rotating TAZ: Balance around in my brain like microwave but ESPECIALLY with the announcement of The Suffering Game graphic novel
The dope thing they can do (and are doing) with the graphic novel series is sprinkle in moments of foreshadowing and hints to the reader about what REALLY might be going on here, which is so cool and I’m a huge fan of it, especially when you’re telling a story in this form.
But what is REALLY FUCKING TASTY about Balance as a story is that none of the motherfuckers telling it had any clue what they were doing when they started
Gerblins is dick jokes and not knowing how dice work and making fun of each other for voices. LICHRALLY the scene where Taako grabs the Umbrastaff is immediately proceeded by Clint trying different voices for Merle while Justin begs him to stop, as Taako. Merle gets launched across the room cuz he failed his save, and now Taako has an umbrella. The scene moves on.
Griffin brought them up to the BOB, introduced them to the Director, and gave them memories of a war fought over nameless, lost, powerful but mysterious artifacts. The memory that Taako takes from it is the idea of soured cream (ya know, for his taco quest).
And then they’re off, on different adventures, making friends, saving lives, making more dick jokes, and Griffin is in the background, slowly building in the meta-plot, as all DMs do.
But this meta-plot was HUGE. It was ALL-CONSUMING. It completely changes everything we know about this world and these characters. It takes the moments of dick jokes, and arguments about character voices, and flirting with death, and adds a layer of tragedy and complexity that just wasn’t present the first time they told that story.
AND THAT’S WHY THIS STORY KICKS ASS. The vibe of the story changed as Tres Horny Boys grew closer and closer to remembering the lives they had lost, as Griffin upped the stakes, as people started dying. They still don’t know shit for most of The Suffering Game, but you absolutely could not have predicted the tone of that arc after just listening to Gerblins. It sounds like a completely different story. And so when the other shoe drops, when shit breaks bad, when it’s the end of the world… again, and they have to reclaim their Stolen Century…
It makes sense. The tone has shifted enough to accommodate that kind of change. The characters have grown (back) into themselves enough to make this work.
Because TAZ: Balance is a tragedy. But the tragedy happened before the podcast even started, and had been erased. So of course it started off with goofs and dildo jokes. Of course the three of them started being standoff-ish with each other and making light of every situation that should have had a lot more weight. They didn’t know what they had lost, and we, the audience, didn’t either. So it was easy to laugh and joke… until slowly, it wasn’t so much anymore.
Plenty of people have praised Griffin’s storytelling abilities, but I think the thing that was most impressive to me was how he took the disparate threads laid out behind the Boys on their adventures, and followed them backwards, into the story they had lost, and forwards, into the ending they earned. I fucking love that he settled on Istus as the deity to interact with them, because I don’t think there’s a better representation of the story Griffin was weaving behind the scenes of the arcs.
Story and Song wasn’t really an arc driven by dice rolls and role playing - but it wasn’t railroading either. Griffin took every story they had told, every happy ending they had fought for, and twined them around and through each other. The world was saved not because of a lucky nat 20 roll, but because every person they had helped through the story came out in force to fight beside them to save their world.
And so in the end, the Stolen Century was a tragedy. But The Adventure Zone: Balance was a story of hope, of family, of the power that just a few loveable doofuses can have when they move through the world, making friends and saving lives. So when the world was ending and they needed help, there were dozens of people waiting to hear the Story and the Song that would give them the push they needed to fight, and the hope they needed to win.
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Taako! (From TV)
Every once in a while I’m in a TAZ phase again….
#taz balance#the adventure zone#the zone cast#taako#taz taako#taako taaco#taako the wizard#taz#taako from tv#taz fanart#fan art#fanart#digital art
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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.
#memory loss#angst#the adventure zone#taz balance#the stolen century#kingdom hearts#narrative tropes#writing
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I know this is a niche one but I can’t get it out of my head.
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they thought it was a stray, but it's their neighbor's cat who wandered over and hung around bc al would keep feeding it.... they dont get to keep the kitty :(
#fma#fmab#fullmetal alchemist brotherhood#fullmetal alchemist#edward elric#alphonse elric#trisha elric#fanart
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one of my favorite things about FMA's worldbuilding is that you get to gradually realize how edward elric is the only person who dresses like that
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you cant fucking hurt me bitch im protected by the migratory bird act
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skybound tf is fun
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Studio Ghibi kids when they encounter a magical guide or animal: wow, amazing! I’m going to follow it and trust it.
Mahito with the heron:
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Hello everyone!! I can finally release my piece for the DSMP Comics Zine! This was a total blast to work on, and if you didn’t see it earlier, here is a link to go download the entire zine for absolutely FREE! It will explain a little bit more about who people are, and why they have new powers! The zine is so very cool, and follows a linear story. Everyone’s work is amazing.
#dsmp#dream smp#tommyinnit#ctommy#c!tommy#cjack#jack manifold#c!sam#awesamdude#csam#dsmp fanart#dsmp art#c!jack#dream smp fanart#dream smp art
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busted
I am here to post you yet another segment of my superhero au >:DDD
And also to recommend some fic I've been reading as of lately:
A Hero Scorned (is a hero lost) by Lotsalizards
Sometimes you should've just stayed home by Nissified
TommyInnit's Infamous Taxi Service by Roohoo
All on Ao3 and all worth the read <3333
Also why didn't I draw Wilbur's costume with a jabot, that's like the most theather kid drama liking hamilton stan thing he could wear.
#technoblade fanart#wilbur soot#wilbur soot fanart#technoblade#philza#philza fanart#sbi#sbi fanart#villain sbi au#villain sbi#mcyt#fan art#mcyt fanart#superhero au#villain au#sleepy bois inc#sleepy bois fanart
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