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[bananavorecorner]

[image description: a screenshot of a thread of tweets by Justin “Hoops” Mcelroy @ JustinMcElroy

1: “Found my 5th Grade journal and friends it is a TRIP”. Attached to the tweet is a picture of a journal with cursive handwriting in it.

It reads “May 7. Today is the National Day of Prayer. I prayed at the flagpole for 30 min.

May 13, 1992. Today is the day my dad will be unfrozen out of a block of ice.”

2: “Because it has caused a great deal of discussion: Dad was frozen in a steel coffin inside a massive block of ice. He was raising money for the Ronald McDonald House, people paid to look at him through a hole. He could pee but not poop.”

3: “A weird guy hypnotized him in a hotel room before he did it so he wouldn’t panic. He was not claustrophobic before, but he was EXTREMELY claustrophobic forever after. HE GAVE HIMSELF CLAUSTROPHOBIA. All of this is true.”

4: “He was in there for three days, by the way. Like Ice Jesus”

/end description]

new mcelroy lore

[lucydillu]

Rainer Michelle, Necromancer and future Lich Queen.

Yet more Taz fanart. They just have so many good characters. It's not my fault.

[ID: A digital drawing of Rainer Michelle from the adventure zone. Rainer is a slender white woman with pointed ears sitting in a brown wooden chair. The skin on her ears and fingertips is tinged slightly purple and she has long, flowing blonde hair. Rainer is wearing a black tunic dress with gold and purple accents. She also wears purple striped tights and an assortment of gold rings, some featuring purple crystals and various small animal bones. Her nails are pointed and painted gold, purple and black. Her hand rests on the armrest of her chair from which a squirrel skeleton can be seen climbing out of a small compartment. The skeleton wears a small pink bow tied to its head. End ID.]

[best-of-inspirobot]

[flying-electrified-direbear]

Higglemas @ hieronymous

[luobingmeis]

taz graduation as quotes from john mulaney’s “kid gorgeous”

sir fitzroy maplecourt: when i walk down the street, i need everybody, all day long, to like me so much. it’s exhausting. my partner said that walking around with me is like walking around with someone who’s running for mayor of nothing.

argo keene: i thought i was going to be murdered my entire childhood. in high school people were like, “what are your top three colleges?” i was like, “top three colleges? i thought i would be dead in a trunk with my hand hanging out of the taillight by now.”

the firbolg: the guy tried to give me a big receipt. he’s like, “take this receipt for the clothing for your taxes.” how do i write that on my taxes?

hieronymous & higglemas wiggenstaff: go ahead and laugh. his name is ridiculous.

grey: ‘cause look at you all, you’re just sitting there in chairs, looking at a guy with absolutely no expertise, who’s going to talk for a while.

chaos: they looked like they should be the conductor on a locomotive powered by confetti. but, instead, they made their living in murder.

jackle: yeah, he was not a “spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down” kind of guy. he was more like, “brush your teeth. now, boom, orange juice. that’s life.”

the commodore: “let’s change the subject! why are we even talking about shebrie… or whatever her name was? i didn’t kill her! whoever did kill her only did it to protect her from this world.”

the garys: [audience laughing]

rainer: was there ever even a ghost, mother, or was the dead victorian girl you saw just me all along?

the thundermen: “what’s a clique?” “it’s when a group of people hang out together.” “oh, you mean like having friends?” “no, because these people make fun of other people.” “oh, you mean like having friends?”

hieronymous wiggenstaff’s school for heroism and villainy: i have friends i went to college with and they’re like, “you should donate and be a good alumnus.” and they wear shirts that say “school” and it’s like, look… if you’re an adult still giving money to your college, college is a $120,000 hooker and you are an idiot who fell in love with her.

bonus:

mission imp hospital: “i have a nuclear bomb and i’m going to blow up the hospital!”

the adventure zone: of all the sentences in that email i would be ashamed to have read out loud in a court of law, i think the top one is “see you at improv practice.”

[glimmerpearl]

Not a day goes by I don’t think about crystal kingdom Kravitz

[ratfuck]

white dude with blue dyed gamer hair says "awesomesauce" in public and is carried off by a flock of harpies to suffer a Promethean fate

[boy-and-girl-crazy123456]

The Death of Travis McElroy

[fitzroycontent]

I made a post earlier about this but in my brain Fitzroy was holding argo’s hand on the balcony to keep him calm

[herbgerblin]

Consider: Twosun elves having drastic reactions to the change in seasons on Faerun

summertime:

[ID: Drawing of Lup and Taako, a female and male elf respectively, at the beach. They both have tan, freckled skin, slight builds, and curly blonde hair. Lup is wearing a red bikini and wielding two pool noodles.  Her hair is in small plaits. Taako is crouched right beside her, carrying a surfboard. He is wearing blue swim trunks and has his hair up in a bun. They are both wearing sunglasses and screaming at the top of their lungs.]

wintertime:

[ID: Two drawings of Taako and Lup huddled in front of a lit fireplace. They are both wearing layered clothes and partially covered by blankets. The first image is a phone POV of someone approaching the twins from behind, their faces obscured. The caption reads “wtf…?” In the second image, both of their faces pop up, eyes glowing read and them snarling angrily. The screen appears to shake. The caption reads. “Waht the fuck???” in all caps. End ID]

[furtherjpg]

“you got pizza in this world?”

“oooh yeah there’s fantasy pizza. with

fantasy pepperoni”

[hxdden-magic]

Magnus’ writing is…notoriously hard to read. Everyone he’s ever met has told him that. Even Julia barely had a grasp on it before she…

That’s why it strikes him as odd when this elf and dwarf he barely knows can read his writing on the tavern bill so easily. (You get used to someone’s writing, no matter how shitty, when you’ve lived with them for a hundred years, but of course Magnus doesn’t know this. How would he know what it’s like to live a hundred years?) Even weirder though is that when he thinks about how odd it is, something pushes the feeling down and settles in his chest. Familiarity. It’s not weird that they can read his writing, he thinks just for a second, why wouldn’t they be able to? Then he gets a headache and forgets the thought.

When they get to the Bureau, the first time Madame Director comes to him complaining she can’t read his writing on a report, he thinks that this is normal too. But, an old kind of normal. Something that should’ve been replaced by now. Like she’s…faking. (She is.) The next time he’s scolded for that, he blurts out “Come on, Lucy, we both know you can read my chicken scratch.” He laughs, but The Director goes pale, turns on her heel and leaves the room.

“That was weird.” He thinks, as his head starts to buzz. Why did he say Lucy? He’s never known a Lucy. Has he?

(He has.)

[anistarrose]

pov: you are a secret society member attending a meeting in a panic room that can only be entered and exited by hell portal. the only person who knows how this hell portal works has not attended a single secret society meeting in the past fifty years. you see absolutely nothing wrong with this.

[matt-istrying]

Argo had some great moments last episode, i’m so emotional over that blue boy.

…

[Image description : Drawing of a figure in blue tones with a bright pink background, the drawing is of a blue skinned and blue haired water genasi man, with long hair and a handlebar mustache, he’s wearing a blue vest with a dark shirt and pants, he has a sabre at his side that he’s holding on with his left hand, showing off a tattoo he has on the inside of his forearm of two circles entertwined with flourishes around them. he’s looking off to the side of to the side.]

[luobingmeis]

taz balance: no one knows the apocalypse is happening until it’s almost over

taz amnesty: the apocalypse is stopped with literal seconds to spare

taz graduation: the apocalypse is planned in advance on the fantasy google calendar

[halcyonhowl-deactivated20230130]

practicing some taakitz design ideas and they ended up making eyes at each other so here we are

[image ID: A sketch of Taako and Kravitz from the Adventure Zone. Kravitz is a black half elf with his long dreads down wearing a shirt with tie and vest. He is smiling and looking affectionately over to Taako. Taako is a tan elf with short light hair who is smiling furtively and looking over at Kravitz. He has many earrings and necklaces. End ID]

[terezis]

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Clint [as Argo]: Is there any way to be able to tell if somebody is… touched by a demon?

Travis [as the Jackal]: What, you mean just some kind of magic spell that makes people tell the truth no matter what? What is this - augh, yh - that’s bullshit!

Argo: No, that’s - that’s, that’s crazy. There’s no such thing.

Jackal: There’s no such thing! How would you magic someone into telling the truth! That’s ridiculous!

Argo: Yeah, what - in some kind of zone or something… but no, that’s impossible!

Jackal: No! All we have is our instincts and our insight, boy.

oh how the turns have tabled…….

[cry-in-the-shower]

[comradelup]

i WAS going to just type “what’s people’s obsession with putting taako in a dress and lup in a suit” and click post but now i wanna point out how homophobic and transphobic those images are

yes, taako wore a skirt in canon. once. over the rest of canon he was gender conforming. there certainly wasn’t any canon content of him in full faces of makeup or with glossy rapunzel hair. now, there isn’t anything wrong with gender conformity or nonconformity, but when people constantly want to see the most prominent gay man character in a dress/a skirt/makeup all the time, it plays into the flamboyant gay man stereotype. combine this with people making fan content of him constantly being sexual or prioritizing his image over his personality, fanon taako becomes the opposite of canon taako “i’m multidimensional” “i’m not a piece of meat” adventurezone and honestly this is partly why we got homophobic caricature!taako in the comics

as for lup in a suit, it’s just plain transphobic. i understand people wanting to have a gender nonconforming female character, but there are plenty of other women in taz to project that onto. imagining a trans woman as hypermasculine and not at all feminine is a transphobic stereotype, especially when lup canonically contradicts that (also headcanoning her as a lesbian goes against the canon lgbt relationship she’s in and yes blupjeans is lgbt because lup is canonically lgbt. and don’t start calling me lesbophobic because i am a lesbian)

so to end this, seeing taako portrayed as a “omg yaoi baby” stereotype and lup portrayed as a “super tough and strong pls step on me” stereotype by a majority of the fandom (despite canon directly contradicting that!) upsets me. especially since most of the people doing this aren’t gay men or trans women

[comradelup]

hey reblog this actually

[neurodivergent-loverboy]

Yeah, as a gender nonconforming person, it’s really weird to see… what people think gender noncomforming means. I love the concept of GNC Taako, but I don’t love how so many people equate “GNC man” to simply “conforming to feminine gender expression”. Gender nonconformity isn’t just looking like the ‘opposite’ gender. In many ways for many people, gender nonconformity is its own thing entirely. So yeah, it’s very unnerving to me to see depictions of Taako with extremely feminine clothes, makeup, hair, and often even body shape, especially when it’s cis gender conforming people doing it.

[flying-electrified-direbear]

may I add on people’s obsession with drawing lup taller than barry “mountain of a man” bluejeans? because that feels pretty fuckin transphobic too