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lithiumseven · 4 months

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#taz #taz gn #taz graphic novel #the adventure zone #the adventure zone balance #the adventure zone spoilers #taz spoilers #tis i #incorrect quotes #taako taaco #merle highchurch #magnus burnsides #angus mcdonald #kravitz taz #lucretia #lucretia adventure zone #lucretia taz #taakitz #thb

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anistarrose · 2 months

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gnashing my teeth. the nested time loops in taz balance. the final cycle of the stolen century, they believe the grand relics are their bitter victory — their long overdue key to never letting the loop restart, never forcing them to do this all over again. they believe that with this sacrifice, they finally have the cycles conquered — and then, what do our heroes do, but lose their memories? they have to start from square one. relearn who they are. rebuild their bonds with each other that spent a whole century cultivating.

us, the audience, who are starting the podcast with episode one — we missed that story the first time you lived it. the first time you told it.

so, tell us again.

tell us how you met each other, tell us about your job. tell us the the destruction that no one but you survived, tell us about the way it shaped you. tell us all the hidden depths of the mongoose — tell us about your friends, the two lovers who cheated death together. tell us how you grew closer, throughout all of this.

tell us about the person who saw all of existence, who glimpsed the meaning of it all. tell us about the restless souls, the dissatisfaction — and how you reached out to that person at the center of it. tell us about a kingdom of robots. tell us, maybe don't admit it quite yet, but show us: the three of you growing closer still.

tell us a story about a time loop in a time loop in a time loop. where the apocalypse never ends, but your death never sticks. tell us how it affected you — for your actions to have no consequence, until they did. tell us how you'd do anything to stop the cataclysm, to break the loop, and tell us how for that, you were judged. tell us how you did good recklessly.

and tell us about the twins, tell us about the liches, about what you're willing to sacrifice. tell us how you leapt into danger to save a friend. tell us how you let yourself be saved. tell us everything you've finally had time to (re)-learn: how to care for each other and be cared for. tell us how you learnt to trust. tell us how, finally, you remember the mistakes you made last time.

we, the audience, missed that story the first time you told it. we need you to tell it again — but this time, this one special time, you'll have a shot at a better ending.

so tell us this story about time loops. tell us this story about stories.

#taz #taz balance #taz balance spoilers #ipre #thb #taz meta #yes i'm still emotionally recovering from the “over and over” poem i reblogged the other day #can you tell? can you tell what it made me think of?

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emiko-matsui · 10 months

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Guess who's been pondering a relisten lately...

#the adventure zone #taz #taz balance #taako #magnus burnsides #merle highchurch #taako taaco #thb #griffin mcelroy #justin mcelroy #travis mcelroy #clint mcelroy

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jerreeeeeee · 1 year

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#mine #taz #taz balance #the adventure zone #tazb #magnus #merle #taako #thb

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worldofkaeos · 7 months

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I swear, the first case of every lockwood and co book is just there to mock them (ok except maybe the fourth book)

Screaming staircase: they forget the chains, blame each other, fail miserably to not mess up the circle made from iron fillings, burnt down the client's house, accidentally brought the source along back to portland row, and then get themselves deeep in debt.

And that's the best way to start a series, folks.

Whispering skull: they failed to find out that the place was a execution ground, then dig at the ground and stir up so many spirits that kipps' team had to come and save their arses, only to realise that the source was the stone they toppled over at the start 😅

And yes, I've got to agree with Kipps and Kat on this one.

Hollow boy: they get locked into a room full of ghosts, door bolted shut by iron, by two elderly folks 👵👴. I know they're young, but I'm the same age, can't they say something to those elderly murderers like "you go first, show me around"???

After that they couldn't even climb up to seal the source because George fell off the ladder. And then:

I swear, I have to agree with the skull 💀

The empty grave: First they tumble down a dangerous mausoleum

Then, when they found the coffin they laughed and turned their backs towards the coffin, which led to the revenant clawing after them...

Tell me, could they ever get more stupid?? With Lockwood and Co, obviously yes.

Look, even Lockwood predicted and warned George about the trap, and he still managed to set it off!! 🤦‍♀️

I'M WHEEZING 😂🤣 I swear, I could laugh at their idiotic tendencies all day. Somehow though, the show definitely made them seem so much more idiotic, I didn't even know that was possible 😂

#lockwood and co being idiots #lockwood and co #tss #tws #thb #teg #anthony lockwood #lucy carlyle #george cubbins #quill kipps #kat godwin #holly munro

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womaninwinter · 8 months

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Moments I’m normal about 🙃🙃🙃

#lockwood and co #Locklyle #THB

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nillial · 1 month

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i think taako magnus and merle all have a really lame podcast with like 2 listeners (angus and carey but she puts it on mute) . taako does not participate he just plays mober games on his stone and occasionally chews into the microphone

#hush lillian #taz #thb #lup also listens but its cause she has 2 like passively cause she lives in an umbrella #also angus comments big paragraphs on every episode about how interesting the discussion was and how cool it is they have a podcast #and taako reports every comment for harrassment

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holisticdirkmuppet · 8 months

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SHUT UP THIS IS ALL I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE !!!!!!

#posner finds happiness!#as a lesbian... he is my beloved #my rotten soldier... my sweet cheese... my good time boy #samuel barnett #dirk gently #david posner #dghda #the history boys #thb #dirk gently's holistic detective agency #my stuff #adam penford

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ihavetoomanythoughts3 · 6 months

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So I just finished The Hollow Boy and OH MY STROUD THAT BOOK. THAT ENDING.

In other news, I just got off the floor after having a weird fit where I couldn’t stop laughing for more than a minute.

#lockwood and co #the hollow boy #thb #jonathan stroud #anthony lockwood #lucy carlyle #george karim #george cubbins #holly munro #cameron chapman #ruby stokes #ali hadji heshmati #locklyle #fuck netflix #save lockwood and co #evie thoughts

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zone-of-truth · 1 year

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[ID: Three colorless digital doodles of The Adventure Zone. The first is of Merle in a Sailor Moon costume posing as Sailor Moon. He is wearing a school girl uniform and a wig with two long pigtails. He has a cat smirk and his bears is decorated with flora. The second is Merle lifting up a small plotted plant. He is facing left and admiring it. Half of his hair is tied up in a knot, and the other half falls just below his waist. The last image is a doodle of Taako, Magnus, and Merle. Above them is a thought bubble that says, “These people are so weird. Thank god I’m the only normal person here.” Each of them are depicted to be thinking this, and they each have indifferent expressions.

Taako is on the far left. He is depicted as a fat elf with locks and a wizard hat. Magnus is in the middle. He is depicted as a wide human with curly hair tied up in a bun, thick sideburns, and a thick beard. Merle is on the far right. He is short and only the top half of his head can be seen. /ID]

*RIPS SHIRT OFF TO REVEAL TATTOO THAT READS MERLE.* I AM THE NUMBER ONE MERLE FAN!!!

#taz balance #merle highchurch #thb

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itripandfallalot · 6 months

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I'm sure I'll post more TSS, but for now, have some Shel thoughts on TWS (featuring the British editions, because why deal with the silly American ones, when you can have 3 versions of the books - digital, US paperbacks and English paperbacks? Stroud, you're welcome ◡̈ )

(Clearly, I had trouble prioritizing what passages to pick, and the last one is prime example of how not to highlight, since I underlined the entire page.)

I love these scenes though, because as I've mentioned before, we know that Lockwood and Lucy liked each other very early on, but I think this is one of the first instances we see Lockwood wrestling with his feelings and backing down from them as a result. @dangerously-human posted a brilliant analysis on Lucy's denial of her feelings for Lockwood, and here we see Lockwood grappling with the same denial and ultimately forcing himself to refocus on the mission, as a result. (Side note: When Lucy tells Lockwood they're so similar in the beginning of TEG, it's like yeah, you two are both idiots.)

I get it—Lockwood has lost everyone he's loved, so any feeling close to that, he's going to push back on, because to love someone might mean he'll lose that someone. Isn't that what life has taught him (and yet!! the wonderful miracle of Lockwood is that he just keeps on loving... kind of like my dear ol' boy Harry Potter)?

He legit knows Lucy is watching here, and he's totally showing off for her. When has he ever demonstrated a move like this to George? No, Lockwood is totally flirting with Lucy during this scene.

But then, Fittes comes up. We get a reminder that this isn't any world, despite how immune our heroes seem to be to its horrors sometimes. Lockwood recognizes that ultimately every agent is just a kid risking their life. This is important, because while Lockwood is certainly starting to blur the lines with Lucy, at the end of the photos I've taken, he pulls back. Why? The mission.

He's a kid with a horrible past. In TEG, he mentions that it seemed random—his parents, Jessica— but it wasn't. Up until now, it almost borders on revenge. Obsession. He doesn't have hobbies. He refuses to dwell on the past. He spins and thinks and strategizes about the next case, and then the one after that. He has no sympathy for ghosts. He wants to end them—all that matters is the mission, for the pain it's caused him, for some of the emptiness it's left him.

But then there's Lucy. He gets sidetracked. We even have George noting here that he's surprised that Lockwood has already told Lucy this much. And yet, he still holds back. We don't know who beat him at the Fittes tournament, and he doesn't tell Lucy until TEG.

He's completely in denial here, and even though we see him open up slowly, he still always orients back to the goal at hand, as he continues to struggle with his feelings for Lucy. And so consistently, he refocuses and pushes them aside.

Until we see that he can't after Lucy leaves—how wrecked he was without her. And it isn't really until this point that he truly, really starts to open himself up to her—not his past, not his thoughts as a leader, but himself and how he feels about her.

He takes her to his families graves in TEG, and if that's not a sign of vulnerability, trust, and faith, then I don't what is.

But what I find the most interesting? We don't get that Flo backstory from Lockwood until much later, after the graveyard. Huh. And it comes after Lockwood realizes that his parents didn't die in a random car crash—almost like his life wasn't random at all.

I actually think it's kind of huge that Lockwood saves this last piece of information for last. Because it's a funny story that's meant to cheer Lucy up. Defeating Marissa is important, but it's no longer about the mission at this point. Not really, not anymore. He's found peace with that. It's about Lucy, and I think, in this moment, he fully and 100% accepts his feelings towards her.

Yes, you can argue it happened when he tried to give her the necklace the first time, and it was Kipps who interrupted them, and blah blah blah. But Lockwood could have found a way to give Lucy the necklace again before the attack on PR. But he didn't.

And isn't it interesting that the undying devotion necklace is something still tied to his family? But the Flo story and how she beat Lockwood? Nah, that's all Lockwood, and it's something of him—without the weighty ties to his family, still somehow so wrapped up in the Problem—that he shares with Lucy. And it's this innocent moment, this moment of joy, that's so inherently pure and lovely, and largely unrelated to the bigger threat, that sigh, my heart. This to me, this is the moment. And all these other moments, I've highlighted above set us up for this.

#lockwood and co #lockwood & co #l&co book spoilers #anthony lockwood #locklyle #lucy carlyle #tws #teg #thb

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lithiumseven · 1 month

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anistarrose · 5 months

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every time that I think about Tres Horny Boys, I'm so normal about them until suddenly I'm not anymore. it's just like:

"hehehe those are my protagonists alright! my favorite rude boys who get into Situations!"

until suddenly instead, it's:

"they were family for a hundred years, they were family for longer than one of them even should've been able to live in the first place, they were family who survived unimaginable horrors together, and then they forgot all of it. and then they found each other again. and became coworkers again, and even friends again. and then they remembered that they'd done it all before. that their lives up until this point have been made up of all different kinds of cycles, but that the three of them would find each other in every universe, in every lifetime. and that there's no one they'd rather have by their side, throwing themselves into portals to save each other, and cracking dick jokes, and failing skill checks to get into completely avoidable trouble and shenanigans." Tres Horny Boys mean the fucking world to me.

#taz #taz balance #taz balance spoilers #thb #magnus burnsides #taako taaco #merle highchurch

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booksarepureimagination · 6 months

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My wish for Season 3? Pete giving Ed relationship advice after he and Stede inevitably have a fight, and Ed is sleeping on the couch because let's face it, romantically speaking, Pete is the most stable of them all.

#I just wanna see happily married Pete try to fix the disaster that is Ed #I think Pete's relationship advice would be solid.#blackbeard #stede bonnet #our flag means death #ofmd #black pete #lucius spriggs #thb

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penultimatestalematewithdeath · 1 year

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Reading THB and Skully says “What about that stupid necklace you always wear?” After which we learn:

a) Lucy Still Has the necklace Lockwood gave her from the Fittes party

b) She always wears it even to cases oh my god

#lockwood and co #the hollow boy #thb #chapter 3 #pg. 36 my edition #locklyle

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jerreeeeeee · 1 year

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tres horny boys sound like a troupe of comedic side characters that the real heroes occasionally interact with but they are. the protagonists

#thb

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