did i ever tell you guys about the time i was listening to taz on an airplane and i was laughing so goddamn hard that the woman next to me asked very politely “excuse me, but may i ask what you’re listening to that’s so funny?” and i had to say out loud to another human being “well ma’am have you heard of dungeons and dragons.”
The Adventure Zone is a transformative podcast with heavy overlying themes of community, familial love, and the power one has to uplift others. Why shouldn’t this message be available to all?
Recently, the fandom has had an incredible surge of support for image descriptions, and on my taz-centric blog, @class-tomorrow , I have been doing what I can to translate The Adventure Zone fan art into something more easily shared.
In the podcast itself, themes of violence, death, loss of family, and other potentially triggering or upsetting topics are sprinkled throughout, and while this may mean that some should avoid the podcast altogether, for others it means that they need to be prepared, episode by episode.
So how can you help?
I’ve broken The Adventure Zone down into six main categories, and 20 sub-categories. I do not want this to be a potentially triggering endeavor, so if you have already listened to an arc and know that it will be safe and healthy for you to do so, I urge you to apply to help! This would include listening to the episodes within this sub-category and taking note of any potentially triggering or upsetting events, themes, terms, or implied topics within that episode. Choosing a category can be as broad or direct as you need, anything from one episode to a full arc, if you feel up to it!
But what if you haven’t listened, or you know that TAZ contains potentially upsetting themes? You can still help! Send an ask – anonymous or otherwise, or a message to this blog with a trigger you’d like us to look out for, or a specific warning for an episode that you’d like to pass along to other listeners, and we’ll make an effort to catch those as they come.
This post will be split into several more short and specific posts for accessibility reasons, as I know a block of text is essentially poison to the overwhelmed brain. (Don’t believe me? I’ve been anxious-stimming during my whole proofread!)
Thank you for your help, even if that just means promoting the blog. I am sincerely grateful, and excited to make a difference.
the first time the crinkle tinkles start and we get the first part of crystal kingdom
bad luck
the urgency in the narrators voice at the beginning of ep. 64 when they say “We’re almost caught up now. Do you understand yet?”
IT THRIVES
“she thinks of her friends and she prays for sunrise”
“don’t let them erase me. don’t let them make the world forget.”
line in the ground
the “this is it” monologue, underscored with farewell by reeder
“hear that, babe? we’re legends.”
“see, there’s magic in a bard’s song. they call it inspiration.”
“… who?”
• …Sturdy…Demin…Blue
“Merle, I… I tell the trees when to shed their leaves, and I make every piece of fruit taste the way that it tastes, and I taught every blade of grass in the ground where to grow. Did you really think I had forgotten about you?”
Pride and glory are the true enemies of strength, Magnus.
When Magnus FINALLY learns to ask for help
“When someone leaves your life, those exits are not made equal. Some are beautiful and poetic and satisfying. Others are abrupt and unfair. But most are just unremarkable, unintentional, and clumsy.”
Those are the arms that have held my wife.
“How would you like to live forever?” “I’d hate it. Shut the fuck up.”
Magnus begs to be killed so he won’t forget Julia
Griffin going “And taako, you unlock your seatbelt” when he’s about to throw himself off the race cars
“Honestly, I think it’s a conscious choice. I think you choose joy.”
“I can’t feel anything. I’m not hungry, my heart doesn’t beat— do you understand?”
“Oh, I know what he’s gonna do! Magnus, Edward is going to make a check to see if he can rip one of your fucking arms off.”
okay everyone always has it so that lup and barry are the ones who make kravitz open up and get ridiculous during missions but what if it was actually the other way around
lup and barry are pretty serious about the job when they first take it. they knew what a huge thing becoming liches were and that by every right they should be locked up in ghost jail forever. their research into necromancy has shown them the absolute horrors it can do and how it can corrupt, and they want to prove that giving them this extra chance wasn’t a mistake, they aren’t going to make light of the horrors they’re dealing with here
and then on their first mission kravitz breaks out the cockney accent, calls the necromancer a ‘fucking creep like seriously’ and wages the necromancer’s assistant’s soul on a game of backgammon and loses because he doesn’t actually know how to play that
You know not everything has to be a joke. Sometimes you can just be honest about your feelings and that’s how I see myself, you know? I may not be the most threatening silhouette, but I like to think myself as somebody who can stand up for himself. You know it doesn’t have to be goofgoofdildo, I’m out travelling around with the Boner Squad and I never get to say what I’m feeling. I have emotions. It’s not all abracafuckyou and whathaveyou, I have a beatingheart! I’m multidimensional!! I’m a fullyrealizedcreation! Fuck!
Pass Through Fire 