clint mcelroy plays the goofy father who is kinda dull and let’s his sons pick on him but once in a while in the adventure zone he’ll say some wise, chill father shit that rocks you to your core and you know, in your heart, he is more powerful than any of us will ever understand.
I’m still hung up on this during the huge epic final battle
Travis confirmed that Aubrey is Puerto Rican at Dragon Con pass it on
I didn’t think I’d known this before??? Ignore me if you did???
one of my favourite taz moments is in crystal kingdom and i apologise if im not remembering correctly but the gist of it is that they summon garyl and they want him to jump over the crystal golem and they state that even though garyl is magical he still has the physical capabilities of a normal horse, then travis asks how big the crystal golem is and it’s like some eight feet tall or something and justin just goes in his garyl voice yeah yeah nah nah nah
the graphic novel designs will be what they will be but my heart will break if we don’t get fanon Kravitz in all his glory
Fanon Kravitz has a shockingly consistent design too. I’ve seen characters in visual mediums that looked way more different from fan to fan than kravitz
Everyone heard “world’s most beautiful man” and my god did they not disappoint
remember in taz when griffin was like “ok fine what’s ur space suit colors” and travis, justin, and clint all chose different shades of red……..the meta
Ways Taako has definitely cashed in on being a savior of all existence
– Sells the rights to his life story to multiple parties (you think he’d go exclusive? Psshh that’s how you limit your earning potential baby)
– There are a couple (movie? theater?) adaptations of the adventure starring Taako, but the agreement stipulates that the actor playing him must be less attractive than real Taako, and everyone else in the cast must be slightly less attractive than that actor
– Memoirs. Many of them. One for his childhood. One for the Stolen Century. One for the decade in Faerun. One just for Sizzle It Up with Taako. One for his life since. All dictated to several ghostwriters. All heavily embellished and often directly conflicting with historians’ accounts of the Story and Song (Lucretia is constantly getting letters from people asking whose record is more accurate, hers or Taako’s, and she wonders if this a form of revenge)
– Taako’s Book Club. It’s like Oprah’s Book Club. But they’re all Taako’s books.
– Taako and Garyl action doll playset, for the kiddies. Outfits sold separately
– People started wearing red robe-inspired fashion anyway, so Taako had an “official” clothing line created. People overheating wearing jackets on top of robes. EVERYONE is wearing red for years
– EXTREMELY litigious about protecting his intellectual property. You know that post about Taako suing babies that have been named after him? Someone find it for me and I will link to it
– Gets pulled over for speeding in his carriage all the time but no cop has the guts to ticket him (unless Kravitz or Ren is riding with, because they will insist that Taako be ticketed)
– It’s just a small facet of his whole food-and-lifestyle brand empire, but you know he has a meal prep subscription box, this is a McElroy property after all
Other things Taako has done with his success many have not heard about:
– The OG crew haven’t paid for a meal while out with Taako in years
– Scholarships for Taako’s school are basically handed out like candy
– Angus has a trust fund he doesn’t know about until he turns 18
– Magnus and Merle are so bad at promoting their own businesses that Taako has all but founded a marketing agency just to do most of the work for them (he gets a percentage, of course)
– On a whim, ordered Ren to purchase every orphanage in Neverwinter and “spruce ‘em up a little.” (Turns out several orphanages cost a lot to maintain. Invented and sold a dessert potion “Oops! All Keylime” to make up his losses)
Lucretia had definitely had taako’s elderflower macarons before the candlenights episode like they’re one of his signature recipes and she had loved them for 100 years
BUT she also knew that they were his own, secret recipe that no-one else knew so she was like ‘hmm ok if i eat one i have to be sure to react like i’ve never had one of my favourite macarons before, if he thinks i’ve had them before he’ll get suspicious, ok Lucretia just… act… natural’
& long story short that’s why ‘hot diggity shit that is a baller cookie’
Lucretia, mentally: nailed it
Taako: haha the whole recipe is in my book!!
Lucretia: …
Lucretia: this pretense has been wholly unnecessary
*later*
Lucretia: *leafing through a newly purchased copy of taako’s cookbook trying to commit to memory which of his recipes she can and cannot admit familiarity with* okay okay okay this is fine okay
*still later*
Lucretia, sweating: *pointing at recipe for a dish taako made almost every week on the starblaster* hey taako… this looks… good… could you make it??
Taako, drinking a milkshake, only half listening: do i look like i work for free
Magnus: why don’t you just make it yourself there’s instructions right there
Pass Through Fire 