#Petals To The Metal

[adventuresloane]

What if I did TAZ fanart for the first time in like 4 years but in my current style...haha just kidding...unless???

Anyway hiiiii Sloane love u miss u 🖤

[ID copied from alt: A drawing of Sloane from The Adventure Zone: Balance, shown from the waist up. She is a slender, brown-skinned half-elf with scars across her nose and lips and long, wavy, blue-black hair that blows in the wind. She is dressed in all black, including a yellow jacket with a feathered ruff and fingerless gloves. In her hands is a black motorcycle helmet with a birdlike beak, which she seems to have just removed. She stands in shadow near a wall and glances behind her, alert, as though having heard something. The sun sets behind a skyscraper in the pink-orange sky behind her. A few pink petals blow around her. End ID.]

[hermajestythetrashqueen]

Some costume designs for each arc.

[ethersierra]

featuring this post by my good friend devo, and based on this drawing by @hee-blee-art

[musicalthought]

[cowardishh]

IM RELISTENING TO TAZ AGAIN AND THERES A PART IN PETALS TO THE METAL WHEN TAAKO GETS THE EXTRA SPELL SLOTS FROM THE UMBRELLA I JUST KNOW LUP WAS SO FUCKING EXCITED TO CAST FIREBALL FOR HER BROTHER. "the sun comes out of your umbrella" YEAH IT SURE DOES MAN. THINKING ABOUT LUP TAZ MAKES ME SO INSANE

[imasyd]

Petals to the Metal graphic novel panel redraw because blue Taako isn't real and can't hurt me (but the outfits are cute)

[mcelquotes]

A bolt of light erupts from the Umbra Staff, and underneath of Merle appears... a Phantom Steed.

[...]

His name is Garyl.

Justin McElroy

[zagreuses-art]

Some watercolor marker TAZ bookmarks I made a long while ago. I realized I never posted them on here.

[ID: first image, six bookmarks featuring illustrations of the six TAZ balance arcs: here there be gerblins, murder on the Rockport limited, petals to the metal, crystal kingdom, eleventh hour, and the suffering game. The following images are closeups of the bookmarks. Second image, horizontal, showing taako from the back, jumping away from the back of the train and holding a box containing a glowing gold monocle. Third image, a shadowy hand reaching for the Phoenix gauntlet , which is wreathed in flames. Fourth image, Sloane as the raven shrouded in a column of vines and a storm, wearing the Gaia sash, looking up at her is Hurley in her Ram outfit surrounded by pink flowers . The fifth image, a robot is hanging suspended in a pink crystal, it has the transmutation stone in its hands, behind it is a portal to the astral plane full of ghostly silhouettes and glowing orbs. The sixth image shows Roswell the elemental (a suit of armour filled with mud with a red bird on their shoulder) underneath an arch that says refuge, above the arch the shoulders and arms of June are visible, holding the glowing and floating temporal chalice. The seventh image shows the black and white big top tent of the game, a crisscrossed colorful background, the arms of Edward and Lydia crossing over each other to cup around the Animus Bell, behind their hands is a red robe with glowing eyes. End ID]

[lovebugjunie]

TAZ MENTION!?

[careydraws]

I was looking through my alt romance covers for past TAZGNs and trying to figure out why I hadn't lost my mind and made one for Petals... the answer is because I was busy making the back cover for the actual book itself.

It would still be nice to go back and make an alt cover for this book for sweet flips and one for hurley & sloane too! Maybe once things calm down after Book 5 is out.

(...In 9 days, which is both thrilling AND terrifying)

[lithiumseven]

“You don’t know how to be afraid” I’m SOBBING

[emiko-matsui]

Floor 20 joke my beloved

[just-anotherrandomartist]

and lastly a hurley and sloane one because i love them. click for better quality

[ethersierra]

All the drawings I did leading up to sapphic week in one spot :]

[asofteradventurezone]

And I will respect you all at once. At my house.

[ceilingfan5]

again

in the last, last hours of @tazsapphicweek, i'm musing on how many times i've relistened to taz balance, and how every single time, it's that first note of the song that plays in petals to the metal that gets me. i've loved seeing all your pieces!! i was really hoping to contribute more to the event, but it ended up being poor timing for me (school just started back up, and i've been dealing with a wild new crop of students) so maybe some late entries will happen, maybe not. but you can enjoy this strange one.

The thing about a time loop is-

The thing about a time loop is that it-

The thing about a time loop is that it repeats. 

The thing about a time loop is that it repeats, and it repeats, and it repeats. 

The thing about a time loop is that it goes on, and on, and on, and just when you think you’ve done it this time, the hand of god presses play again, and there you are. 

The thing about a time loop is that it repeats. 

The thing about a time loop is that, even if you do it right, you still lose her. You try, you rage, you use everything you can, and some things you probably shouldn’t have, and you know what? You lose her anyway.

The thing about a time loop is that it always ends the same way.

The thing about a time loop is that it always ends.

The thing about a time loop is that it never ends. 

The thing about a time loop, you see, is that you did everything you could. Maybe if you had known more, maybe if you had tried more, maybe if you could have just-

The thing about a time loop is that it doesn’t fucking matter. 

The thing about a time loop is that it does matter, but you don’t know what bit, and until you know what bit does matter, you’re stuck. If there is an end at all. Could there be an end? Seems unlikely. 

The thing, the thing, the thing, the thing, the thing about a time loop, is that the hand of god presses play again, and there you are. The music plays again. The light goes out of her eyes again. You make the sacrifice again. It’s the nature of the thing. Nature. Isn’t that funny? 

The thing about a time loop, if you really think about it, is the chance to analyze every single breath, every action, big or small, every choice, every consequence, and still come up empty.

The thing about a time loop is that it gives you a chance to appreciate the smallest details. She really did choose the Raven, didn’t she? She really did race the world with you? She really did smile at you, so tired, so relieved, when you held her, past the finish line? She really did accept your dumb idea?

The thing about a time loop is that it leads to a lot of stupid, stupid ideas. Every time, you notice just how stupid they are. Every time, they seem to get stupider. 

The thing about a time loop is that it’s a lot like a race. Lot of races, you go round and round and round–but there’s a finish line. You have a finish line. It’s real. You know it’s real. There’s an end. You know there’s an end. Every single time, there’s an end. 

The thing about a time loop is that there’s a beginning again, after the end. 

The thing about a time loop is that maybe, just maybe, there’s more. Maybe there’s more to this stupid story, maybe there’s another, better chance, maybe there’s a lesson learned and a possibility granted and a life saved and a hunger sated, maybe there’s an ending where the world starts anew. Maybe you can have something together, not what you wanted, never what you expected, but maybe it’s better? Maybe you become something greater, maybe you live a second life, maybe you transform, transform, transform? 

The thing about a time loop is the end, and the beginning, wilt, genesis and bloom, and maybe it repeats, but there’s hope there, there’s something. The story can never be over if you’re recreating it every day. Maybe there’s something you missed. Maybe the goal isn’t a shedding of the shackles. Maybe what you want is the joy round every corner, the finish line, and the racing again tomorrow. Maybe she’ll be there again when you wake up. Maybe it’s all worth it, when you pay it forward. Maybe time is a circle anyway, and there’s nothing wrong with a loop. 

The thing about a time loop is that you always know what to expect, but if you pay attention, it feels just as powerful every time. More, now, now that you know. Now that you understand. 

The thing about a time loop is, you never expected how comforting those familiar beats could be. 

The thing about a time loop…

The thing…

The thing is? Today is just as good a tomorrow as yesterday ever could be. 

The thing about a time loop is that it repeats. And someday, it won’t. But you aren’t hoping for that anymore. You’re living your life, loving your lover, blooming and growing and repeating, repeating, repeating, and maybe there could be more to your story, maybe not, but as long as it echoes, you’re there. 

The thing about a time loop is that it’s just as easy to press play again as it is to go home.