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I'm back!!! And I missed drawing Bluey stuff so here's the Reaper Squad to match Tres Horny Boys :]
+ a little bonus Taakitz
#taz#the adventure zone#the adventure zone balance#taz balance#the reaper squad#reaper squad#bluey#blupjeans#barry bluejeans taz#barry j bluejeans#barry taz#taz barry#taz barry bluejeans#barry bluejeans#lup the adventure zone#the adventure zone lup#lup taz#taz lup#lup#lup taaco#lup bluejeans#lup loop#the adventure zone kravitz#kravitz taz#taz kravitz#kravitz#taakitz#taako#taako taaco#taako taz
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People who actually make Barry J Bluejeans look like Tom Arnold are powerful and I love you. Like yall looked at that dude and were like “yeah okay hes just a dude and thats okay.” Like, Arent we all just a dude? I can tell when a fan is into older characters or is just older in general. Make him scrunkly i love it when hes just a plumby dude.
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I think the thing about Barry Bluejeans that has captured my hyperfixation for years now is that he's like if a genre-agnostic comedy relief character was also a fantasy villain who was a scifi-horror protagonist who was an epic space opera love interest. there's just so many facets of him to observe when I rotate him in my brain.
#the comedy relief is genre-agnostic bc a seemingly totally normal dude named barry j. bluejeans is funny in any setting#while the remaining three don't feel like they're supposed to be in the same story at all#but they *work* and that's why i've been obsessed since like 2019#taz#taz balance#taz balance spoilers#barry bluejeans
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Me, every single time I relisten to balance: I'm ready this time, I'm prepared, I won't freak out I promise.
Griffin: a pair of pants - sturdy, denim, and blue.
Me:
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22. 💍good morning will you marry me
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Lup was standing at the stove, her head up in a bun, when Barry entered the kitchen. There was a few thick slabs of bacon sizzling in the skillet below her and when Barry closed the door behind him, she looked over. The heat of the oven warmed the room and a few goosebumps rose on Barry's arm at the temperature difference from the rest of the ship.
"Morning," Lup said. "Coffee?"
She slid a mug across the kitchen island before he could even answer. Barry picked it up with both hands and took a sip, making a pleased sound at the taste. Lup grinned at him and turned back to the stove, flipping over a few of the pieces. He sat down, the coffee sending a pool of warmth through him. Lup leaned back against the island, surveying the bacon. There was a plate of already cooked pieces next to the stove.
"Taako's coming back today," Lup said. "Hopefully."
"Hopefully," Barry said, setting the mug down.
This cycle had been a rough one. The first two weeks had killed off Lucretia and Merle. Davenport, who had been with them at the time, stayed down planet side to track the light. Last week, he had located it but needed assistance retrieving it. Magnus had volunteered right away and Taako had gone with him, just in case.
It was never a fun time when Lup and Taako had to be separated, though it was a bit better when it wasn't a life or death situation. Lup had spent the last few days alternating between staring down from the edge of the ship or doing literally anything to avoid thinking about it. Barry had joined her in cleaning the bathroom, the kitchen, their room, the living room, and the bathroom again when he accidently spilled shampoo everywhere (the last one Barry did by himself, out of embarrassment, but it made Lup laugh so it wasn't too bad). They organized Lucretia's journals, made of meaningless poems to feed to Fisher, and baked at least a dozen different things, each one getting worse than the last.
And they had, y'know, talked to each other. A lot. It was nice to have the ship to themselves for the first time since they had gotten together (had it been fifteen years already?), but the undercurrent of tension persisted even when alone. Barry was slightly afraid that if they relaxed too much, something bad would happen and since Lup was giving off the same vibe, they didn't really bring it up. It was met with a strong sense of understanding on both ends, even if buried by all the fear.
"We should do something fun when they get back," Lup said. Barry had moved one of the island stools over to her and she rested her head against his shoulder when he sat down.
"I'm having fun right now," Barry said and Lup scoffed into his shoulder but didn't object. He ran a hand through her hair. "What're you thinking?"
"I'm thinking that I wish the Hunger hadn't eaten our only monopoly set."
"I think it was for the better," Barry said and he could practically feel the eye roll. She lifted her head back up, staring at him with a scrutinizing look on her face. Even after fifteen years, Barry still flushed a little. He smiled, moving his hands up to Lup's shoulders. "Anything else your thinkin' of, hon?"
Lup sighed, smiling too, and pressed a little kiss to his forehead.
"D'you wanna get married?" she asked.
Barry blinked, his eyebrows raising. Lup was still smiling, but there was a little bit of nervousness underneath it.
"For fun or for serious?" he asked.
"Can't it be a lil' of both?" she said. "I don't know, it's just like- I like you. And I know for sure you still like me-"
"Of course I do."
"So it's like, why not?" Lup said. "I think we need something to celebrate."
"I..." Barry nodded slowly. "Yeah, I'd be down for that. D'you want like, a big thing, or? 'Cus, uh, no offense, but I know exactly five other people who I could invite and I'm ninety percent sure that those are the same other five people you have in mind."
"We can do a big one when this is over," Lup said. She caught his hands in hers, squeezing. "But it'd be nice to have it be official. I think Magnus thinks we're already married."
"We kinda are?" Barry said. "In like, a commitment way. But I- yeah, Lup, I'd love to get married to you."
"As opposed to getting married to Merle," Lup said wisely. "Good choice."
"Your bacon is burning," Barry said and Lup jumped back, pulling away from his arms. She swore, lifting the entire skillet off the stove. Barry laughed and she just grinned at him.
He was gonna marry this woman. Gods, he couldn't fucking wait.
#blupjeans#barry bluejeans#lup#asks#anon#mine#ise cube writing#this is the last one :O!! thank u to everyone who sent one in!#also anon i did completely forget that emoji was a prompt and I was like???#is anon trying to propose???#not that the prompt makes it look like ur trying to propose any less#but i appreciate ur interest thank u /j /lh#also u didnt add a ship so I just did blups!
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@destiny-unchained || lup helps her hubby
“Yeah, some water would be great, honey,” he said softly. His hand turned over and gave hers a quick squeeze in return.
#I do that || ic#the forgotten sister || lup#the lich sorcerer || barry j bluejeans#abraca fuck you || balance verse#a love that lasts for eternity || lup x barry - destiny-unchained
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early taz balance is so fucking funny. he sounds like Kelsey Grammer and he looks like Common he's one hell of a goblin
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reasons barry j bluejeans is The Guy Of All Time: brings his wife hot cocoa while she plans a casino heist
#eliot posts#taz#the adventure zone#taz balance#barry bluejeans#lup taaco#blupjeans#(currently listening to the live shows and am on the nashville one)#this is also the reason why you should vote for them in the poll i reblogged earlier btw
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Obsessed with Barry J Bluejeans saying "Takko I can't remember her face" while looking her identical twin right in the eye
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Oh Barry J Bluejeans, we’re really in it now
#ent’s art#the adventure zone#taz balance#taz balance spoilers#the adventure zone balance#barry bluejeans#taz barry bluejeans#OUT OF THE DEPTHS OF THE BLINK SHARK FANCLUB
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I wanna do something bigger with this concept eventually but I was relistening to The Planet's Suite and thought the 7 songs might fit the 7 Birds, so I did just a little sketch while I was playing it just for fun :]
#taz#the adventure zone#the adventure zone balance#taz balance#the seven birds#the 7 birds#taako#taako taaco#taaco twins#taz jocasta#jocasta taz#jocasta nightstrider#lup the adventure zone#lup adventurezone#the adventure zone lup#lup taz#taz lup#lup taaco#lup#barry j bluejeans#barry bluejeans#Magnus Burnsides#merle hightower highchurch#merle highchurch#lucretia adventurezone#lucretia taz#taz lucretia#davenport adventurezone#taz davenport#davenport taz
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"you feel a dull weight in your chest. its the weight of a love that defined and redeemed you, but youve forgotten who that weight belongs to." fellas imma be real i wouldn't be able to make it as a lich i would crumple to dust every time i had to remind myself of this shit, barry j bluejeans is stronger than any US marine for loving lup as hard as he does even when he cant find her for TEN YEARS
#taz#reunion tour#i know i said suffering game ks the best arc#but really its reunion tour#the adventure zone#taz balance#barry bluejeans#by me
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okay I already added this to the poll itself, but I truly cannot stress enough how much Lup and Barry's love story was another one of the ghosts haunting the narrative — up until the Stolen Century, up until Episode 60, up until the episode whose anniversary was today. tumblr's favorite holiday, 4/13!
I can't stress enough how their relationship was never evoked directly, but influenced everything — how it was told of only through "you found her?!" and "Lup, they don't trust me" and "trust Barry, love Barry." how some of the first lore we properly get about liches like the "Red Robe" is how liches shouldn't be able to hold themselves together as long as he has, and how Griffin slowly builds up to the reveal, little by little, that the secret was love the whole time. how Griffin announces through a villain that "suffering's much more effective than love," and then uses none other than Barry J. Bluejeans, the Lover, to pulverize that whole concept and reduce it to dust, until it could not be more thoroughly rebuked.
and I can't stress enough that it's also the anniversary of Lup being confirmed as trans, and how phenomenal it is that she gets to be trans and queer, and have an epic timeloop slowburn romance, and be a mysterious tragic presence haunting the narrative, and still get a happy ending with her husband and their family, with everthing she wanted, once everything is said and done.
from the bottom of my heart, happy anniversary to Lup Trans Day, to "nerd alert," and to learning the mongoose language. now go help then defeat Shrek and Fiona, please please please. we need your help. they deserve so much more.
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the adventure zone is wild because in the beginning Griffin named Barry Blue jeans Barry Blue Jeans because he *refused* to call him Scarzard Hallwinter or whatever his name was in the book and his family ran with it as joke and Barold J. Bluejeans ended up being a life changing character for an immaculate story that stomps your heart out. Every goof ties into the story and it usually ends up making you cry your eyes out.
And relisting to it so wild because you realize how much has changed, how much as been around from the beginning, and it makes you wonder how much griffin actually had planned. he really pays attention to things his brother and dad dont even think about. im pretty sure he made up the Red Robe storyline halfway through but because he put so many detials into is seems like it was forshadowed from the start..
God I should relisten to TAZ again.
#the adventure zone#taz balance#barry bluejeans#the mcelroy's#lup taako#taako#merle highchurch#magnus burnsides
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Obvious Plant - Day 4
Day 4 of @taznovembercelebration I drew the "plant" prompt, and drew a second ("bakery AU") to contextualise it
Read below or on Ao3, and find yesterday's here.
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"Have you worked out how to ask out the hot florist yet?" Lup says, ducking into the kitchen.
"Taako doesn't know to whom you're referring." Taako replies tartly. How dare she level any accusations against him, in all his innocence, when she's mooning over the guy who runs the denim emporium. He has never once stared longingly at Kravitz, never even dreamed about giving him free cookies just to see him make his pleased face and praise Taako for his ingenuity.
"Oh, so Taako isn't at all interested to know that Barry gave cha’girl Kravitz's number because of the WhatsApp chat I’m setting up for people who run the businesses at the IPRE mall?" Lup peers round the kitchen door to gauge Taako's reaction.
So maybe that piques Taako's interest a little, because he truly wants to know but he's not rewarding her with the knowledge. Taako keeps his face impassive. "Obviously it's interesting, for business reasons."
"Oh for business reasons, is it? Do you have some business thoughts you'd like to share with him?"
"I do actually. Good ones. Great ones."
Lup looks at him intently. He keeps his mouth shut. She raises her eyebrows, gives him the look.
"I'm more interested in your sudden decision to spend more time talking to the dinguses we work near. You really want Grant to be able to message you after hours as well as stopping in to complain about people not wanting to spend $20 on his magic juice?" Taako's on the offensive now. He's got suspicions is the thing, big, likely accurate suspicions.
"I think it's important, you know, as a member of the sales community."
"As a member of the 'wants to fuck the denim man’ club." Taako mutters it, but she still hears. She always hears, he swears she can read his mind sometimes. It's not fair that she got extra twin powers.
"It's not about Barry."
"Oh, so you know exactly who I'm talking about?"
"There's only one shop which just sells denim, Taako, it was pure deduction."
Taako takes his turn to wait, silence works better on Lup than it does on him. She panics and fills it, he’s pretty much immune to the compulsion.
"No one else has anything denim. Who else would I assume it was?"
Taako side eyes her and keeps his mouth firmly shut.
"I asked for his number and then I panicked, alright? Is that what you want to hear?"
"You did what?" It’s impressive, actually, he’d assumed it was going to take years for her to finally pluck up the courage to start the steps of asking Barry out.
"I was being brave!" She says, defensively.
"Until you panicked and made up a fake reason and he thought it was true and now you have to get everyone else's numbers and actually engage with them?"
Lup thunks her head against the door frame. "He looked confused about why I was asking."
"I'm confused about why you were asking!"
"Shut up. You like him too."
"Taako does not want to fuck Barold J. Bluejeans of the Bluejeans Emporium!" How dare she? Taako wants to fuck plant goth Kravitz... McKravitz(??? Note to self, find out surname), thank you very much.
"I didn't say you did, just that you like him. He said you'd gone round a few times."
Traitor. How dare he mention anything about Taako to anyone? Clearly Barry couldn't be trusted. Taako needed to re-evaluate their friendship general acquaintance-ship.
"He's nice, isn't he?" Lup retreats from the safety of the kitchen, eyes shining with the joy of torturing Taako with her inability to be normal about this man. Or, you know, love and affection or whatever. She plonks herself down on the sofa next to Taako, jostling him in the process, definitely and absolutely on purpose. "Just, he's really kind. I like kind. But he's funny too, and so smart, and, well, you've seen his ass in those jeans."
Taako shoves her sideways. "No!! Gross. Illegal. You are, henceforth, forbidden from mentioning Bluejeans Butt ever ever again."
"You know I'm right though." Lup cackles from her prone position. She doesn’t even seem the teensiest bit sorry.
Taako grimaces in reply, he’s not sure she notices, but it helps cleanse him.
“So you have a choice, brother mine - wanna join the group chat?”
“Absolutely not. I don’t want to engage with anyone en masse, especially not the dinguses we surrounded ourselves with when we got the bakery. It should have come with a warning.”
“You don’t want to join even though Barry messaged Kravitz to check, and Kravitz said I could add him to the group, and that means you’ll be able to show off in the group chat until he messages you privately?”
The wheels in Taako’s brain turned quickly. “Fine… but I’m doing it for business purposes. For the good of the bakery! It’s a brave sacrifice.”
“Uh huh.” Lup wriggles and grabs her phone from her pocket. A few taps later and his is buzzing away on the bedside table.
Lup de Lup: Cake Hard with a Vengeance
Welcome Takko, everyone.
Barold of the Bluejeans Variety
Hail and well met!
What a complete nerd. (How dare he use their secret greeting without Taako’s permission.)
Magnuscles: Chairs and Dog Training
Hey Taako! So good to see you here!
Taako still wasn’t entirely sure how the puppy, gym, and woodworking combination business functioned and made money, but Magnus always seemed busy. Maybe he trained the dogs to be still enough for people to bench them?
Kravitz: Raven’s Plants
Welcome, Taako
Lup snorts and taps at her phone again.
Lup de Lup: Cake Hard with a Vengeance
Oh good, you’re online Krav! Taako’s actually got some business propositions to discuss with you.
“I have some fucking what now?” Taako’s going to murder her right to death.
Lup smiles, too wide and painfully innocent, “that’s what you said, Taako, remember? You’re joining for business purposes, you have some ideas that you wanted to share with him.”
Taako’s phone buzzes again.
Kravitz
Hi Taako,
I thought it was sensible to message you individually about the business propositions.
What are you thinking?
Kravitz.
Taako was screwed, royally boned, in fact.
“He messaged me.”
“Good. That’s what I thought he’d do. He’s very efficient.” Lup says, cheerfully, happily, as if it isn’t a problem, as if she hasn’t just shoved him off a cliff without a parachute or a dinghy or whatever sounds worse and like more of a betrayal of her beloved brother.
“He messaged me about my business proposition.”
“You said you had a business idea, a good one, a great one!” Lup sounds too sweet for her to be anything but fucking with him right now. “Wait! You… you weren’t lying were you Taako? I’m shocked, shocked and astounded! I thought you were going to revolutionise the field of cake plants.”
“We are, actually.” Taako stands up and stomps out of the room. They will, too. Just as soon as he figures out how.
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“Did you reply to Kravitz yet?” Lup flops down on his bed next to him.
“You didn’t knock.”
“You never do.”
“It’s different.”
“How exactly is it different?”
“I’m having feelings.”
“And I don’t have feelings?”
“It’s different.”
“Because you are a uniquely tortured creation?”
“Because you opened the door and kicked me through it and then laughed at me about it while I tried to claw my way back out of the pit but you didn’t offer me a ladder.”
“I think you might have mixed your metaphors there.”
“Nope, it’s a pit with a door. A fancy pit, for fancy boys.”
“Well I don’t have a ladder to throw down.”
“Hmm.” Taako takes out his phone. “I guess in that case.” He taps at the screen. “I’d better pull you down with me.” Taako hits send.
Taako: Cake Hard with a Vengeance
Thanks everyone. Glad Lup set this group up so I could talk business with Kravitz and she could proposition Barold too.
Taako: Cake Hard with a Vengeance
About business, obviously.
“Taako!” Lup stares at her phone, mouth hanging open in shock.
“Welcome to the pit!”
Lup’s phone buzzes in her hand. “He messaged me. About my proposition. He’s excited about working together.”
“Great. Now you can just tell him what your idea is.”
“I… I don’t… I didn’t.”
“Once again, welcome to the pit!”
“Fuck.” Lup pauses. “I like that he messaged me.”
“I like that plant goth messaged me.”
They lie side by side, sigh in tandem, and stare up at the constellation of elderly glow in the dark stars plastered on Taako’s ceiling.
“Plant brownies?”
“Illegal.”
“Not that kind of plants!”
There’s another pause.
“Is jookies anything?”
Taako wants to scoff, he does, but... “Fuck. I think it actually is.”
“HA! Suck it!” Lup leaps off the bed and performs a triumphant victory lap. “I’m out of the pit, bye loser!” She flips him a final finger before diving out of the door.
It’s fine. Taako can think of something. Cakes and plants, flowers, cakes. Flower cakes… cake flowers…
Taako
You bet your sweet butt Taako has a business proposal for you.
Kravitz
My sweet butt? Been paying it a lot of attention have you?
Shit. He wasn’t supposed to ask questions, he was just supposed to tell Taako what a genius he was.
Taako
Stay on topic Kraveroo, cha’boy’s about to make us millionaires. Hear me out: cake bouquets.
Kravitz
I think they’re a thing already?
Taako
Nuh uh.
Kravitz
I mean, yuh huh.
Kravitz, rude bitch that he is, sends a link to a Google result page. Maybe they are a thing, maybe Taako should have checked.
Taako
I don’t see any copyright. Or any sign that you already offer the service.
Taako
Or is this your way of saying you don’t want to work with Taako?
Kravitz
No
Kravitz
Not no to working together, no to saying I don’t want to work with you, because I want to work with you, I’d love to.
Kravitz
Cake bouquets, sounds great! Good! Original, even!
Kravitz
Why don’t we meet up to discuss the plans?
Kravitz
Over dinner?
Kravitz
Unless you have plans for dinner?
Taako
Are we going on a date, Kravitz?
Kravitz
We can be? If you’d like to be?
Kravitz
Or it can be a business date
Kravitz
Business meeting
Kravitz
An appropriate thing for colleagues to do.
Kravitz
Colleagues who don’t want to date.
Taako
You don’t want to date Taako?
Kravitz
Now I didn’t say that, did I?
Kravitz
Unless you don’t want to date.
Kravitz
In which case, no
Taako rolls onto his stomach and kicks his feet up. This idiot gets so flustered every time they talk, it’s hard not to mess with him, but he’s going to try.
Taako
Taako certainly didn’t say that - dinner sounds great.
Taako
But more importantly, I’ve had another great idea:
Taako
You could sell pots for plants.
Kravitz
Incredible! Another great idea.
Taako
Have you considered that on Valentines day people might like to buy roses?
Kravitz
Revolutionary! Do you have any other great ideas?
Taako
You’ll have to find out at dinner, stud.
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❝Whoa, hey, you okay there?❞ Lup for Barry
Lightheaded/Fainting Starters || Accepting!
Barry pressed a hand to his head, his eyes closing for just a moment. When they opened again he was looking at the concerned face of his wife.
"Sorry, just feeling a little dizzy," he said, frowning a bit. Carefully he moved over to a chair before plopping down in it. Best to get off his feet lest he hit the ground.
#i do that || ic#the lich sorcerer || barry j bluejeans#the forgotten sister || lup#abraca fuck you || balance verse#asked and answered || asks
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