Poor Barry...

Cora's all TAZ sideblog. Preaching the Barry Bluejeans gospel. Blupjeans is the best ship, you can’t change my mind. Check "Fic List" for up to date collection of my TAZ writing. Message box open - please sent prompts! Or just come talk to me about Barry and Lup.

[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.

[cryptidslair]

the audacity of griffin saying "oh why does everyone care so much about barry bluejeans, he barely had any screen time" and "barry's dead and never coming back" when he had that whole lich!barry freaking out about the umbrastaff scene literally IN THE PREVIOUS EPISODE.......... oh griffin mcleroy when I catch you.

[liches-get-stitches-1]

Voidfish Duet

Cross stitch pattern and embroidery notes | $10

Handmade | $35 (base price)

Commission and pricing details

[keplercryptids]

[image description: a photograph of a cross stitch piece. “Story and Song” is stitched in capital letters that are colored in a gradient from green to blue to purple. To the left of those words are two jelly fish, one large and one small. The large one is dark blue with purple tendrils and the small one is bluish green with green tendrils. They both have stars inside their bells, and their tendrils become wavy lines that turn into a line of sheet music underneath “Story and Song.”]

[artofkace]

Magic twin doodles !

[keplercryptids]

[image description: two monochromatic drawings of Taako and Lup, identical twin elves distinguished by Taako’s oversized pointy hat. The first is from the shoulders up. Lup is looking over her shoulder with a big grin, and Taako is smirking and looking straight ahead. In the second drawing, they’re sitting on the ground. Lup is leaning back against Taako, laughing with her eyes closed. The handle of an umbrella is hooked around her wrist. Taako is laughing and looking at Lup out of the corners of his eyes.]

[mcelquotes]

Griffin: But, yeah, RIP Barry Bluejeans.

Clint: But that doesn’t answer the question. Would we ever bring him back?

Griffin: He’s dead as fuck. Like, I don’t know how many times I have to say it.

Travis: He’s super dead.

Griffin: Barry Bluejeans… soul has left his body. He is no longer… he is gone. He’s gonzo. He’s dead.

[very-small-giant]

oh my god it’s taako!! from tv!!!

[anistarrose]

Forgot about the part in The Suffering Game where Justin describes Taako thinking of Magnus and Merle as "these clowns that have fixed onto him, barnacle-like, as he tries to save the earth." It's just something about the way Taako, for all the "good out here," half-seriously thinks of himself as the planet-saving hero, and Magnus and Merle as his sidekicks. The way he tries to fully pin the blame for the three of them being joined at the hip onto anyone but Taako himself. I love the way that Taako makes quips to completely brush off how much the other boys mean to him bleeds into Justin talking about their dynamic too. I love them so much.

[sewercreatures-deactivated20201]

Quick Lup from did last night

[keplercryptids]

[image description: a drawing of Lup from her knees up against a white background. She’s a thin elf with brown skin, freckles, and waist-length, wavy dark brown hair that’s dyed red at the ends. She’s wearing a slightly cropped black T-shirt over a long-sleeved fishnet top and black pants. She has one hand in her pocket and is smiling and waving. There’s a large yellow hexagon directly behind her.]

[exceed-boundaries-deactivated20]

guess who

[keplercryptids]

[image description: an abstract drawing of Garyl from the neck up, a horse with a rainbow mane and two horns on its forehead. Aside from the horns, mane, two shaded ears and a nostril, the rest of Garyl’s form is white negative space. “Garyl” is written in capitalized bubble letters near the bottom of the image.]

[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.

[gingershambles]

In the past, on many occasions out of the corner of your eye, in the plane of a nearby window perhaps, or an especially shiny plate, you catch a glims of it. It feels like joy and the comfort of home and recognition and before it can sour, never lasting long enough for the taste of grief and loss to reach you, recognition hits and your reflection grins back at you, the joy must be pride, and the comfort is mearly confidence. and the recognition is you killing it once again in the outfit department.

You've spent hours since the suffering game staring at your reflection, tweeking the illusion you wear every waking moment, but despite knowing all the features that make taako taako, you don't get that feeling you called pride anymore when you catch your reflection.

Your confidence in your appearance is still intact but maybe it's the knowledge that it's an illusion that robs you of that moment of joy, replacing it with somthing that almost sticks around long enough in your static filled brain to be loneliness.

It seems the sacrifice you thought would cost you nothing has cost you something.

You just can't remember what it is.

[untitled55181]

Barry BlueJORTS

Ah yes, it’s you: the one who wanted Barry Juicyjeans. Well, good news: I am once again here to indulge your whims.

If you reblog beach blupjeans, you will have a shorter winter (it’s proven science)

[keplercryptids]

[image description: a line drawing in blue ink of Barry and Lup on the beach. Barry is standing, facing away from the viewer with his hands on his hips. He’s a chubby man with short hair and glasses. He’s wearing a short-sleeve shirt with the sleeves rolled up, cut-off denim shorts and flipflops. Lup is on one knee behind Barry, her hands pressed together against her lips. She’s a skinny elf with freckles and long straight hair pulled into a ponytail. She’s wearing sunglasses atop her head and a bikini.]

[tubapun]

Which of the THB is the sluttiest

Magnus Burnsides

Taako

Merle Highchurch

Voting ended onMay 12

There is a correct answer and I WILL judge those who get it wrong

[solantro]

it looks like part of a bigger drawing but rest assured im not good enough to do that,

[keplercryptids]

[image description: a drawing of Lup, lying on her stomach on a blanket at the beach. She’s a thin, dark-complexioned elf with voluminous textured turquoise hair pulled into a low ponytail. She’s wearing a red robe and she’s smiling happily at something out of frame. There’s a wine bottle near her on the blanket.]

[soapsoupy]

Taz balance fans I beg you to find my poll

Did the BOB employees keep their bracers after story and song, or did they get them off somehow???

Bracers forever

They got em gone

I’m bald

Voting ended onMay 6

I’ve been wondering this forever.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

:-)

[anistarrose]

[ID: an ask reading: “could you draw the voidfish?” followed by traditional art of Fisher and Junior from The Adventure Zone, who are a big and small jellyfish with sparkling galaxy patterns inside. Junior is holding up a carved wooden duck. End ID.]

[slightly-awkward-sunshine]

Maggie Boy

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[keplercryptids]

[image description: a drawing of Magnus from the neck up. He has brown skin, short dark brown hair and a short beard. He has freckles and lots of battle scars on his face and neck. He’s turned to one side with a small smile on his face.]

[duskodair]

relistening to Taz and I'm really enjoying listening to each arc and relating it to the relevant bird.

like yeah here there be gerblins is about lup it's about you should have thought about that before throwing my dog in the fire, it's about falling in love with Barry Bluejeans, it's about trying to save so many people but failing, it's desperate odds and flying away from a disaster you couldn't avert, it's about being bitten in the back by an earlier decision to trust someone.

murder on the Rockport Limited is about Dav. It's about seeing the truth behind the illusion. it's about a town of people all with the same face. it's about losing the driver and trying to save the vehicle without him. it's about the youngest member of the crew holding a book that catches the truth and stops it reaching its destination. it's about beheading and loss of identity. It's about remembering to get your roommate pringles

petals to the metal is about Merle. It's about don't be chopping on these sweet sweet babies. it's about reaching out to someone you love who has been consumed by a power they can't fully control. it's about dying in the hope they can be saved. it's about racing as fast as you can, with all that you have, in the hope that something can be saved in the end.

crystal kingdom is about taako. it's about loving someone you've lost so much you'd turn the world to crystal to try and save them. it's about Kravitz. its about learning more from thousands of realities to make new and wonderful things. its about walking through your legacy. its about the best sandwich and taako's good out here. its about seven birds being seen, its about the thousands of lives that Boyland touched

the eleventh hour is about Magnus. It's about rustic hospitality. it's about recklessly breaking reality trying to protect people you love. it's about fate and choices you make in life. it is being a small town hero. it is making promises and keeping them. it's about the downfall of a corrupt leader and the people he took down on his way. it's about fallen temples and burnt out buildings. it's about embracing the inevitable and holding the hand of the clock that strikes your doom as the weapon that will save you

the suffering game is about Barry. It's about looping through endless pain again and again in the hopes of reaching a dream. it's about liches and death and love. it's about losing your body and being saved from permanent death by the power of your friends' love. it's about working out how things are working and then pulling them apart to understand them. it's about choosing to lose everything in the hopes that it might let you save something. arms outstretched. trust Barry, love Barry

the stolen century is about Lucretia. it's one hundred years of journals. It's learning world after world and watching them die. It's working to protect those you love by saving the light. It's about running away again and again, and loving only in goodbyes. it's about being alone and dying again and again. It's about bonds growing stronger even as something comes relentlessly to consume them

story and song is about the starblaster flying into, not away from the storm. it's about hear that babe, we're legends. it's about bringing together all the arcs and all the relics into one hope to undo mistakes. it's about the magic in a bardsong. it's about the light of creation being used as a barrier against darkness.