it's podcast time all the time

loooooootta mcelroy stuff but i swear there’s some other podcasts to spice it up

[ghsot]

everyones got that fic they chip away at like michaelangelo sculpting david. and brother? its penis month

[ghsot]

asked my friends if they knew what i was referencing and they said no. we all know that post where someone divided how long it took michelangelo to sculpt david by it's size and went "yuuuuup. whole month spent on penis" right. sure, my search history is full variations upon "michelangelo penis month tumblr" to no avail, but we all know it. right.

[itriedonce]

Hi, that was a MBMBAM bit. But i see you and i hear you and i dont know if someone already said something

[ghsot]

oh my god youre right.

[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.

[its-your-mind]

Griffin: ah yes I will introduce a fbi agent who’s looking for bigfoot who will slowly over the course of the campaign grow to care for the people of amnesty lodge and I will also of course give him a gay little romantic subplot WITH mr bigfoot himself. So excited to sprinkle that in through the plot.

The PCs, a former weed-smoking-field-hockey-playing-in-abandoned-mall teen, a bi stage magician with little-to-no respect for authority, and a literal ex-con: it’s a fuckin COP stay FAR AWAY from this NARC he must not be TRUSTED

[mismess]

I listened to some unknown amount of amnesty episodes some unknown amount of years ago and then completely forgot everything that happened in it, but I didn't forget my love for Duck

anyway I restarted the podcast so I finally finished some sketches I started 2 and half years ago lol

[mooselybased]

I saw seven birds, and then I made seven miis, babeyyy

[alaspoorestyorick]

Thinking about how, in The Suffering Game, Taako sacrifices his "beauty" (whatever that means to him personally) and has his appearance permanently changed and how, on top of this being about his vanity, his appearance is unknowingly one of the only remnants/remainders of his sister he has? Like, they're identical twins, and the concept that his appearance is one of the only remnants of Lup left in the world after she was removed from everyone's memory is so interesting and sad to me. The idea that Taako unknowingly gave away one of his last links to Lup that he didn't even know he had, and feeling some sort of deep loss about it that he literally, physically cannot describe or think too hard about...and sure, he can magic his appearance back to an extent, but he has fundamentally lost such a big part of not only himself, but of the most important person in his life, and he doesn't even know.

[glitchedmagic]

im relistening to taz balance and this might be old news but i haven't seen this brought up before

in the cave where they find the umbrastaff, clint is trying out character voices and does one as he says he's going to check out the staff, to which justin replies (as taako) "no, that won't do"

and then when lup is freed at the very end of the campaign, griffin narrates her thinking "no, that won't do" wrt merle getting the umbrastaff

i have no idea if this was intentional on griffin's part, but in either case, its such a wild bit of narrative through-line. each twin using the exact same phrase ("no, that won't do") at almost the same time about the same character

[voltaical-art]

Re-listening to Amnesty, and I really wanted to make a comic of one of my favorite parts. I haven’t done a full comic in a while, so this was fun! 

[dramatic-audio]

[ID: a comic of a scene from TAZ Amnesty.

The comic opens on an aerial view of Mama, Aubrey, Barclay, and Ned standing by the stone archway in the woods. Ned’s continental has crashed into one of the pillars of the archway and the engine is smoking. Mama says, “I don’t know if we can trust you, Ned-Fuckin-Chicane.” She points at Ned and continues, “But I need you to trust me when I say that there’d be dire consequences if anyone else in Kepler found out about this gate in the woods, do you understand me?”

We cut to a foot, wearing hiking boots, stepping out from the archway. Then we cut to see the semi-circle of people standing around the archway looking baffled.

We see Duck, who removes his hat and holds it over his chest. He has an amicable expression and says, “Uh, I’m District Ranger Duck Newton- it’s a nickname- and, uh, ma’am, I’m gonna need you to extinguish that flame, please.” Aubrey responds, “Oh, yeah. Pchoo!!” Duck says, “Thank you very much.”

Mama squeezes her eyes shut and rubs her forehead. She says, “Duck. Newton. What the hell have you done?” Duck gives her a quizzical look and says, “…I have absolutely no idea.”

End ID]

[anistarrose]

Johann: Whenever the Voidfish blocks information that it’s consumed, that's what—that's what causes those lights inside of it. It's like a little alarm, if you will, showing the people out there trying to think of the things that the Voidfish blocked. So that's all… that's, like, [Boyland's] 400 kids, and wives and husbands and stuff. That's, uh… God, that's rough. Taako: Yeah, but they don't know, right? I mean, they— it's not— it's only rough from sort of, like, a, um… ethical perspective. Magnus: Yeah. Taako: 'Cause practically speaking— Merle: They've already forgotten him. [...] Johann: Really if you think about it, his family has it easy, 'cause the rest of us have to go one knowing what a great dude we lost. [sobbing] Merle: Yeah, yeah. Taako: As I've always said in every situation, I'm the one hurt most by this.

all of this conversation is directly front of lucretia

[rumtumteddy]

So I made a bingo sheet for the 2026 MBMBAM Naming of the Year. Join me if you like!

Any year name predictions are just me predicting they’ll suggest them, not actually go with them as a final name. My personal favourite is 20 Stevie Nicks: Never Break the Chain

[corridor-bard-art]

What do you think? I'm thinking of making posters of this and selling them in multiple designs once I figure out the details.

[ottophobia]

LUCRETIA 🔮

[lithiumseven]

Ok but Taako who is old both because he’s an elf and because he didn’t age at all for a full century, who over that 100 years has been just about as involved in the world as you can get learning and researching, but on a different world every single year where everything he learns becomes entirely useless for anyone but his family after it’s context is obliterated by the Hunger

Vs Kravitz who is old by virtue of being dead and has spent countless years in one world but entirely removed from it, only sporadically even taking physical form until he meets Taako

These two start a household that knows jack shit about this world! Pop culture? Forget it. The biggest sports team in Neverwinter? They’ve never even heard of that sport much less the team. Taako speaks Mongoose but he doesn’t know how to find Killian’s pulse. Kravitz lived through the Fantasy Roaring Twenties but he doesn’t even know because he interacted with exclusively necromancers the whole time. Carey mentions a famous ancestor of Lord Artemis Sterling, someone everyone learns about in fantasy kindergarten like George Washington or Elizabeth the First, and Kravitz asks if that is her new coworker. Professional space ship scientist Taako Taaco tries to help Angus with his physics homework and realizes he has no idea what the gravitational constant of this planet even is

And then there’s the rare one-offs that are even more surprising than the gaps in their knowledge. Mookie can’t remember the ending of a fairytale and Taako supplies the answer without even thinking because there’s a very similar story on Tesseralia. Kravitz’s team wins the Bureau of Benevolence trivia night because the last question is about the composer who wrote the first piece Kravitz ever learned to play.

They go through their world both oblivious and dialed in, completely lost and altogether too aware. But they go through it together, and of that they are absolutely certain

[undergroundwubwubmaster]

Duck Newton and Minerva from TAZ:Amnesty!

[voidfishing]

sparkle on :^)

[anistarrose]

while digging up old taz fanart i often see people say Lup would have short hair (or shorter hair than Taako) because long hair is a fire hazard, and i want to examine this solely from a character study perspective out of sheer curiosity/desire to engage with the characters, rather than a "telling you how you should/shouldn't draw a character" perspective, but... basically, short hair for Lup doesn't really ring true as a Necessity for me. in particular, because lots of people draw Taako with long hair when he's both a chef (baking with long hair sucks if you don't secure it first) and a wizard who casts plenty of fire/explosive/otherwise messy spells of his own during the campaign — and that's while Taako infamously doesn't have spell sculpting like Lup does, therefore having way less control over the crossfire than Lup would! so if Taako could get away with long hair, then Lup definitely could too if she wanted to; if a braid keeps things practical and safe for Taako, then it would be more than enough to do the same for Lup. so really, there's not a practical reason for Lup to have shorter and/or more tightly secured hair than Taako does — and could there be a personality reason, sensory reason, or a fashion taste reason? of course, though your headcanon mileage might vary — personally, I've just always liked the idea of Lup being Extra enough, and rightfully confident enough, to grow out long hair as a flex as a fire-magic user, as proof of just how good her spell-shaping is, of how much control she has. when Lup's whole Thing is having so much control of all her very dangerous magical power, it's just very fun potential characterization I think we might all be sleeping on. hell, what if Taako's insistence he has spell shaping during the campaign is also a reason for him to grow out his hair, in confused imitation of Lup? what Situations does that get Taako into because he doesn't have spell shaping, and his hair gets in the way for him? I'm just meandering but there's so much variety in the stuff you can explore here

[sabertoothwalrus]

real ones remember 💪