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yardsards · 1 year

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more taz balance thoughts:

you ever think about how in real life, the names "john" and "johann" are just different translations of the exact same name

and how the characters of john and johann are foils, in a way

how both characters had their ideas spread throughout the multiverse, whose ideas were heard by everyone, who showed what power a word or a story or a song could have on the world

how john started off as a motivational speaker, meant to spread hope and satisfaction. how johann's first appearance showed him as unsatisfied and hopeless, meant to be forgotten.

how john ended up spreading hopelessness, how johann ended up becoming a beacon of hope

#eliot posts #taz #the adventure zone #taz balance #taz meta #john taz #john the hunger #johann taz #currently only on pttm on my relisten but thats not gonna stop me from going bonkers over story and song

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twixtedspoon · 8 months

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the final parlay.

#taz balance fanart #taz #taz balance #john hunger #john hunger taz #johnchurch #the adventure zone #the adventure zone balance #john taz

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hollis-solace · 10 months

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just finished my taz balance relisten, sobbed like a fucking baby. onto amnesty to go visit my boyfriend (duck) (i am a lesbian also)

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John from The Adventure Zone in a cartoony style, he is an older man in a black suit and tie with a white shirt and black hair with grey strands, and is holding a white queen chess piece in the center of the image in front of him while looking pensive. He is slightly blurred while the queen piece is in focus. The chess piece has circles down the middle, one for each color from the rainbow. There is a sunset in the background slightly obscured by a black window frame.

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#digital art #john taz #taz balance #the adventure zone #the adventure zone balance #john hunger #tazhunger #tazjohn

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entguarde · 9 months

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this is canon right

[Image ID: a two-panel comic of John Hunger and Merle Highchurch from The Adventure Zone.

John is a slim human man with slicked back hair and a suit. Merle is a fat dwarven man with a long beard, long wavy hair, and a protruding fang.

The first panel depicts John who says “You should be addicted to shutting the fuck up.” It is implied he is saying this to Merle.

The second panel depicts Merle, who is absentmindedly stacking up chess pieces with a lazy smile. He responds with “You want to fuck me so bad it makes you look stupid <3”. End description0

#ent’s art #taz balance #taz balance spoilers #merle highchurch #john hunger #merle taz #john taz #stolen century #johnchurch #johnmerle #tumblr is this anything

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incorrect-zone-quotes · 1 year

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John: [in his many meetings with Merle] It is only out of sheer morbid curiosity that I am allowing this freak show to continue.

#taz #the adventure zone #the zone cast #taz balance #johnchurch #john taz #john hunger #merle highchurch #source: liar lair

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asumiverde · 11 months

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the adventure zone: balance was truly

BALANCED

#TAZ #taz fanart #taz balance #lup taz #taako taz #john taz #angus mcdonald #angus taz #the judge taz #im not tagging the purple worm u should fear her in ur heart #digital doodle #mi doodles

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toastydumpster · 2 years

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Isn't it too late for that?

#I AM STILL MENTALLY ILL ABOUT THESE SENIOR CITIZENS #the adventure zone #johnchurch #merle highchurch #john taz #taz #taz balance #comics #my art

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poppysplace-edits · 1 year

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the stolen century aesthetic: balance arcs 7/8

#use your voice flower hero #flower chatter #taz balance #the adventure zone #the stolen century #ipre #moodboard #the mcelroys #barry bluejeans #lup taz #lup taaco #lucretia taz #davenport taz #john taz #space aesthetic

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kronoose · 3 months

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Thinking about gay old men

#john taz

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very-small-giant · 4 days

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it’s the parley room…the parlor room? the parley parlor.

#the adventure zone #taz #taz balance #taz balance spoilers #merle highchurch #taz merle #john hunger #i rotate their dialogues in my head constantly now #you choose joy in life….

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dumbass-extraordinaire · 2 years

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me when characters experience the devastating consequences of their own actions:

#blorbos #jason todd #tma #dc #w359 #the dresden files #taz #taz amnesty #critical role #caleb widogast #harry dresden #john constantine

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geodebiome · 2 years

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just had the sickest fucking idea of what the hunger looks like and had to visualize it . guys? this might be the dopest shit ive ever drawn.

#john hunger #taz balance #the adventure zone #taz:b #the hunger taz #taz #the adventure zone balance #covering all my bases with the tags lads. the public needs to know abt this #my art #john hunger taz #OLD MAN SWAG #OLD MAN SWAG!#should i show this to felix like i should right

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anistarrose · 10 months

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john: how do you do it, merle? how do you and your crewmates return every time I destroy you?

the ipre:

[Image description: a tweet from wolfpupy reading: "i continue to be alive just to spite the people who hate me. ah i'm so glad to be alive, sure would hate to be my enemy right now". End description.]

#taz #taz balance #taz balance spoilers #john hunger #ipre

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liesmyth · 3 months

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did john decide which of his friends would be the necromancer and which would be the cavs when he brought them back from the dead, or was that random?

I wish we knew for sure! John's friends ending up 50/50 adepts vs. non-necromancers is obviously one of TM's premises and was done for doylistic reasons first and foremost, but I don't think we have enough elements to conclusively interpret it as intentional in-universe.

Putting aside any kind of authorial intentions, this is what we know:

» The rate of necromancers as part of the population hovers around 30%. John's core group being 50% adepts is way off from that, and could point to manipulation, but also we're working with a very small sample size. Think about how it's very possible to get head five times in a row when flipping coins; probabilities are much less accurate on a smaller scale. I don't believe it's out of the realm of possibilities that a group of 10 people had exactly 5 necromancers in it.

» Harrow's birth. The Reverend Parents made sure she would be a necromancer by manipulating the embryo with thanergy. It's clearly not a known practice among the Houses at large, and John calls it "a sort of Resurrection" — implying that he could be able to do the same with thalergy. However, this doesn't confirm that he actually DID.

In the same conversation, John says, "This was all different before we discovered the scientific principles," which I think is also worth noting. The fact that he understands NOW how you could get an embryo to grow into a necromancer doesn't mean that he had that knowledge at the time of the Resurrection. It also doesn't mean that the same identical process would apply to making formerly-dead-people into necromancers as they got brought back to life.

It could very well be that necromancy was a generalised side-effect of the Resurrection that affected some people more than others; or it could be that John DID do something different when bringing back some people that conferred them necromantic aptitude. Even if it's the latter, I don't think we can take for granted that 1) it was intentional and 2) he fully knew what the side effects would be.

» Ulysses and Titania. Counterpoint! It's also worth noting that John's "test cases" turned out to be one (1) adept and one (1) non-adept. Like I said above, this could still be a random bi-product of the Resurrection... but given Ulysses and Titania's whole everything, their dichotomy reeks of control group. They are a big point in favour of the "John did it on purpose" column.

Still: I still don't think we can tell for sure that John knew from the moment of Resurrection that he was giving some people death powers, and how that'd turn out in the long run. Like I said above, he could have done something different when resurrecting Ulysses vs. Titania, but it doesn't mean that he knew what would happen.

(Obviously, this argument only makes sense if we assume that Ulysses and Titania were among the very first batch of resurrected. I personally think they were, but obviously it's not confirmed)

» The inner circle. From NtN

I could only trust the inner circle. My scientists, my engineer, my detective, my lawyer, my artist, my nun, my hedge fund manager. My diehards. The ones keeping the lights on.

Putting aside the fact that Lyctors exist the way they are because Tamsyn needed them to exist, and looking at the Canaan House necro/cav pairings from John's point of view: why not give ALL his friends magical powers? That's something I struggle to wrap my head around, for about half a dozen different reasons.

Mind, I don't think John picking and choosing who gets to be a necromancer is that far-fetched, but from a #character point I find it less likely than the alternative (he didn't do it on purpose but turned it to his own advantage). IF it turns out to be canon, I'd be really curious about what the watsonian reasoning for it, beyond "this needed to happen."

Most meta posts I've seen that take for granted John picked and chose his future necromancers ascribe him a level of foresight, knowledge, and long-term planning that I simply don't think he'd have had at the time (not to mention the mental lucidity). To quote HtN John again, "[he] had never been God" before. I truly think he was winging it at least 60% of the time.

#Anonymous #ask #tldr: I think it's possible this is the angle Taz is going with but I don't think it's a given with the elements we have so far #I think if it turns out to HAVE been intentional on John's part #it's gonna be one of these plot points that exists because the book needed them to exist and everything else took shape around it #like how everyone on the Ninth stopped making babies after Harrow was born although there was a whole generation of childbearing age #tlt thoughts #tlt theories #ejg #elle tlt posting #tlt

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entguarde · 3 months

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john hunger in stigmata

WHAT’S THE COLOR OF THE NEXT CAR? (it’s red, you bastard!) YEAH, RED, YOU BASTARD!

[ID: A lineless digital drawing of John Hunger in a monochrome palette of grays and reds.

He is a lanky, well-kept man with pale skin. He has slicked back dark hair and dark eyes with red irises. He’s wearing a dark suit.

John is shown as if he were stuck inside a box; sitting hunched over with his knees to his chest. One hand is over his face and another is digging into his own hair. He is glaring at the viewer, his eyes wide and wild. In the background there are numerous eyes, all staring at him. End description]

#ent’s art #taz balance #the adventure zone #the adventure zone balance #taz balance spoilers #taz john #john hunger #taz #eyestrain #scopophobia #bright colors #eye strain #eye contact

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incorrect-zone-quotes · 1 year

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John: You have no weapons, no defenses, no plan. Merle: Yeah, and doesn’t that just scare you to death?

#taz #the zone cast #the adventure zone #taz balance #john taz #john hunger #merle highchurch #source: doctor who

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