#taz answers

[quiddling]

magnus burnsides perhaps..?

I love this dude! I don’t really know him but I love all of Travis’ characters (:

[reineydraws]

opened my sketchbook to do some thinking but the brain rot is so strong, it just turned into 2.5 pages of opla zosan 🤦🏻‍♀️

[anistarrose]

thoughts on taako and/or magnus babysitting merle's kids and the ensuing chaos that may result (passes you the mic)

oh, what a delight... for starters, I think that Mavis thinks the coolest person from the Story is Lucretia, and Mookie thinks the coolest person from the Story is Merle, obviously, but like, really closely followed by Lup. the second this becomes apparent to Taako and/or Magnus, they immediately dive into Win the Hero Worship of These Small Children mode. they're on that Cool Uncle Grind.

Taako tries to instill a love of cooking in these children, because Jeffandrew knows their father won't (Merle is actually a good enough cook to like, meet the most basic of dietary needs, but Taako's standards are orders of magnitude higher than that), but the furthest Taako gets with the kids is getting Mookie to watch hot dogs blowing up in the fantasy microwave.

Magnus takes them on a field trip to dog school. Taako takes them on a field trip to Taako's Amazing School of Magic, 'cause you've gotta start making an impression early or else they'll go to the competition, like Angus. Taako and Magnus both have big dreams of their respective field trips being interrupted by dastardly evildoers and powerful enemies, allowing them opportunities to save the day and prove to the children how badass they are — but were this a fic, there would be a running gag about Lup having brought Merle along for a Reaper mission where they keep almost crossing paths with their family, and thwarting necromancer's schemes just slightly out of view of Magnus and Taako before a real threat can present itself.

but don't worry, Merle is also constantly bemoaning that he can never succeed at anything cool or even uncharacteristically competent when any of his kids (whether big kids or little kids) are around to see him. they still love him though (even if the way Mavis finally opens up to Magnus and Taako is by discovering a shared love of roasting their father)

[ghostslazy]

maya i am going to EAT your ART!!!!!!!! AAA!!!! also i gotta ask… thoughts on miss fangbattle? 🎤

Well that’s crazy because I ate yours first!!!

Also this is a Carey fan account, she is silly and delightful and I miss her every day! I do not draw her enough and so this one is for her (but mostly you)

Thank you Ent!!! 💕💕💕

[seefasters]

taz steeplechase ep 32 doodles

[herbgerblin]

I would like to see…. Heart shaped glasses Lup…

Id: The first image is a digital drawing of Lup, an elven woman with tan skin, curly blonde hair, and a slight build. She is wearing a strapless red dress with gloved sleeves that end in pink puffs, which reveal her shoulders. She is also wearing pink, heart-shaped sunglasses. She smiles with her arms raised and fire emitting from her hands. The unlying caption on the image says, "You set my heart ablaze! Happy Valentine's day." The overlaying caption reads, "Where are my--my fifteen dollars." The second image is the same but without captions. End id.

[10sim]

your taz balance are is SO good, i love your designs for taako/lup/barry!!! if you feel like it, could we see your kravitz?

this the most convenient ask EVER because i jst did this silly warmup. kravitz as thanatos (hades) cuz the connections were built.. and theyre my two boyfriends

enjoy ( i hope)

[tinseltastic]

Some sleepy kitten blupjeans

[asliceofzosan]

that picture of taz on a motorcycle had me feeling things so heres a wip i started again

please send zoro thoughts and prayers

[ppeuppeuppeu]

look at these two choosing humor over intelligence for the question LOL

jacob: i feel like i have all the qualities needed to run a ship, so probably would go with humor

mackenyu: humor as well. i dont need intelligence

😂😂😂

[green-green-grass]

just finished rereading @lexicals's amazing taakitz fic An Echo, An Answer and i am once again obsessed with their ghost!Kravitz

[quiddling]

Minerva and duck.... what are your opinions...

i love them both dearly!!!! i was NOT expecting it when i listened to amnesty the first time and initially didnt like it very much ): but it has grown on me! I LOVE BIG WOMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[boydykedevo]

just curious if there's a consensus here so:

Specifically THEME music, this isn't about the rest of the soundtrack (or the rest of the campaign for that matter). I’m excluding Balance both so as not to bias the results, and cuz the theme’s not original music.

Linky links under the cut in case anyone needs a refresher (listen to all of them before voting if you can!) Also feel free to listen to them all and vote even if ur not in the fandom! ^^

Commitment

Amnesty

Dust

Graduation

Ethersea

Steeplechase

[anistarrose]

Hi! Question for you! You've convinced me to try starting TAZ, but there's just... so much of it.... would you recommend starting all the way from the beginning, or is it possible to pick and choose the best arcs? If so, where would you recommend beginning? Thank you!

Assuming you're interested in the arc that I post the most about, which is Balance (the one with Taako, Magnus, and Merle, my beloveds), then I would just start at the beginning of that arc! (Which is also the beginning of the podcast as a whole.)

The early episodes of Balance aren't as good as the rest in terms of, like, pure objective quality, but they're still hilarious from the very beginning, and also very worth it IMO for how they set up the plot and characters — even if clumsily at first, because the McElroys didn't initially realize how far they wanted to take this series. If you see me going insane about Characters and Themes, and that's what draws you in to TAZ, you will almost certainly find the length of Balance worth to be it lol; just know that it's a comedy show overall where the life-changing emotionally-devastating parts are more of a slow burn.

But also, if you want to start somewhere with slightly better production quality, you can still start with one of the other campaigns, since they're more or less unrelated stories! Balance is of course your standard D&D fantasy adventure, which eventually turns into something grander in scale and blurs the lines with other genres. Amnesty is a modern-setting Monster of the Week campaign, in a mysterious small town in the radio quiet zone of West Virginia — darker in tone than most arcs in some ways, but a blast if you're into that. Graduation is a fantasy school story that I think is among the more underrated arcs, because it has a different DM (Travis instead of Griffin); I think it has very fun worldbuilding about "heroism," "villainy," and "sidekick" as college majors and professions, and my second-favorite player character dynamic after Balance.

Rounding out the arcs I've listened to in full, Ethersea and Steeplechase are both bangers in my opinion, but not ones I'd recommend as an introduction, for various reasons (Steeplechase actually has a running gag that spoils the ending of Balance lmao). Then there's finally Dust, which is more like a two-part miniseries than a full campaign, but it could be good as a bite-sized introduction — it's a fantasy Western murder mystery!

Anyways, enjoy your TAZ journey!

[orykorioart]

👁️👁️

!!!?!?!?!!!!!!!! . oksamber you say

Aww YEAH Oksamber WIP I do say 👀

[a-side-character]

This is about the tag you're scrolling, I promise

so I had the idea to make a post that read something like,

"Imperial Radch makes me want tea the way Gilmore Girls makes me want coffee."

Niche, right?

Then I had the idea to incorporate Justin McElroy's quote "I would bury a bowie knife in any of your chests to eat French Onion soup this exact second."

So I am now VERY interested in the overlap between these three things. I thought it might be too niche, but this is the too niche website.

To clarify, you're familiar with it even if you've only seen a few eps of GG, only listened to a bit of Taz Balance, only read a bit of Ancillary Justice, etc. Even count a fandom by proxy if you happen to know a lot about one of them without directly engaging with it (enough to know what the post is referring to).

Awaiting these results with baited breath.