[anistarrose]

okay so I know we only have two data points (Magnus and Barry), but what if all the human last names on the IPRE homeworld were actually a little silly. like in d&d lore it's usually gnomes that are supposed to be the silly ones, but what if humans got to be the silly ones on the two-sunned planet. as a treat. what if it was actually pretty common for human last names in general, not just Bluejeans or Burnsides, to take the form of "[silly adjective or verb] + [silly plural noun]" in a sort of portmanteau, that also has a ring to it as a conjoined phrase

are you still with me? do you follow? okay, good. I would now like to pitch to you that Lucretia's last name, canonically, could very plausibly be Adventurezones

[careydraws]

just two days left to snag the eBooks for TAZGN1 through TAZGN6 for just $2.99 each!!

theadventurezonecomic.com or wherever you get your ebooks, only through July 28th!

@mcelroyfamilystaff

[anistarrose]

whenever i hear a violin i think of lup. i expect this will continue for the rest of my life

[xquisitedeadguy]

[coffeecollections]

I had a dream that woke me up laughing like "oh man, I should remember that line so I can use it" and I typed it down in my notes app

[gingersnooze]

Every good disgraced chef needs a good poster they can tear down when they walk past

Reference below the cut lol

[mellowmaidenhairs]

taz balance episode 66 comic

[love-goblinn]

balance spread yaaaaaaay

[misterbluejeans]

people like to make taako and lup have sun and moon motifs but they come from a planet with two suns and no moon. twins suns. someone do something with this im so sleep deprived

[anistarrose]

ough I wrote tags but I'm not done — they're sun elves according to Taako's original character sheet! Which has plenty of non-canon pre-rolled stuff, but the other stuff that got ignored wasn't this symbolically juicy! They're twin sun elves from a planet with twin suns! Are twins auspicious in sun elf culture on their planet? If they are supposed to be a fortunate omen, then how do Lup and Taako feel about that belief compared to the hardship of their upbringing? Do they reject that symbolism sullenly? Or do they decide to make themselves a fucking prosperous life through hard work and scrappiness instead of fate, until yeah, they are a fucking blessing and a gift for other people to bear witness to! The worldbuilding and characterization go crazy!

And oh, on Faerun. On Faerun there's only one sun. On Faerun there very quickly becomes No Lup. Taako is alone and there's only one sun in the sky, and the sun looks lonely and Taako doesn't feel whole, and he doesn't know how to explain why! And meanwhile there is a moon symbolism character, there's Lucretia right there, and ohhhhh she still remembers the twin suns of her home planet, still remembers Taako and Lup, but she can only recreate that home by mirroring it with twin moons! Taako and Lup and Lucretia are from a planet with two suns and one moon and that's what they respectively represent in those exact numbers! THANK YOU OP you are the most correct person ever and the underratedness of the twin sun symbolism has always made me lose it.

[felicitywilds]

the original description of the ScuttleBuddy™️ from episode 8 is that it "will talk to you, but won't have anything interesting to say beyond it's primary functions". so then when merle first deploys it and it immediately buzzes "I love you" to him, that means that expressing affection *is* one of ScuttleBuddy™️'s primary functions. in case you didn't know.

[fioblah]

u know him from tv

tip jar

[vilonnie]

[ID: A digital drawing of Taako from The Adventure Zone Balance. He is a thin elf with medium brown skin, short, curly dark brown hair, and brown eyes. He wears gold piercings and a hoop earring, a green wizard's hat, a scarf and cape, and a blue vest. He smiles, raising his left hand with sparkles glittering around his finger tips. End ID]

[mcelroyfamilystaff]

The Adventure Zone: Story and Song, the final volume of our graphic novel series, comes out this July and we're stoked to share some preorder news with you! Submit your receipt and 23rd Street Books will send you a postcard pack and a sticker featuring exclusive artwork of all our favorite places in the series, created by the one and only @careydraws! You can submit your receipt at bit.ly/TAZGNGift

[careydraws]

YAYYYY I'm so excited that we get to reveal the postcards and sticker preorder gifts for TAZGN7: Story and Song!! We'll have closer looks at the artwork up later this week, so stay tuned!

I was delighted that the whole team was 100% on board for maximum heartache for 2/3 postcards and they were also very correct that let's have a fun one was a very necessary counterweight.

Stolen Century is really Lucretia's book in a lot of ways! Which is great because I love her, but also she really goes through it. Sorry, Lucretia! Hang in there!! tiny tiny sneak peek at her postcard:

[ryu1964-deactivated20200806]

MBMaBM Fan: Have you watched MBMBM?

Me: Nah bro I’m not Gay

MBMaBM Fan: What?

Me: You talking about Man Booty Man Butt ass Butt Man?

[anistarrose]

Boy I do love watching the eclipse, I sure hope no cacophonous sound knocks my friends unconscious and no eyes of a terrible extradimensional force show up in the Ethereal Plane to start a ticking countdown to the world's doom!

[anistarrose]

THE HUNGER

[anistarrose]

awww my lesbian coworkers are getting married 💚💙

[careydraws]

14 weeks left until TAZGN7…! here's a fun batch of Miller-themed secrets & background bits you might have missed in TAZGN1, 2, and 3!

you can preorder book 7 at theadventurezonecomic.com! it'll be out on July 14th! that's terrifyingly soon!! here's an extra special sneak peek at a heavily spoiler-ed bit from tazgn7 ;)

@mcelroyfamilystaff

[gingersnooze]

First name Kravitz last name AdventureZone, alternate version below

[gingersnooze]

This is my short hair kravitz propaganda btw long haired kravitz is my buddy but I was granted a psychic vision of short haired kravitz and I wanted to give his face a skeletal silhouette and I also really like trench coats that’s my only other reasoning for his design

[gingersnooze]

Woke up in the middle of the night like I was granted a vision of miss istus so I had to sketch something up