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I'm SO excited that we can finally announce the preorder bonus for TAZGN6: submit your preorder receipt at bit.ly/4aOA5U2 and First Second will send you an acrylic keychain! ✨

This was SO much fun to design and I can't wait for them to go out-- I want one!!

If you have any questions, please direct them to First Second on twitter or insta- I'm not involved with fulfilling or running the preorder gift campaign! Thanks for understanding!

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He frowns and says, “Huh. I feel sad.”

…and he kills you.

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hey the adventure zone is a really good podcast, idk if anyone following me is aware of that

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Every time I listen to Griffin and Rachel McElroy recording Wonderful my standards for love get a little bit higher

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the thing they dont tell you about listening to the adventure zone for the first time is that you'll miss them for the rest of your life. taako magnus and merle will be held in your heart wherever you go. when you binge it and get caught up to the eleventh hour in 2016 and you're a sophomore in high school shoving your sweatshirt sleeve in your mouth to stop yourself from laughing you have no idea that you'll be coming up on christmas 2022 and it's been six years and a goblin that looks like common and sounds like kelsey grammer will still make you laugh. you hear "are you naming your god damn wizard taako?" and that's it for you. you're in for life.

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Imagine being a guy with a silly name like Barry Bluejeans, and needing to impart a dire and ominous warning to your friends who don't remember you, so for a variety of reasons, you conceal your identity as Barry Bluejeans and don the appearance of an absolutely terrifying hooded figure. And yet, your friends are still incapable of taking your cryptic monologues seriously without making a dick joke or something, every goddamn time. How would you even manage to stay in character.

#so true #he had 100 years of living with the twins to learn how to Commit To The Bit otherwise he for sure would have cracked

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Garfield the deals warlock: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “voidfish ichor” 😳💊 you’ll be knowing what they don’t want you to know 💯👨‍💻

Tres horny boys: yeah whatever. i don’t feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude we gotta stop the hunger from eating the universe

The red robe hovering ominously in the corner: Lucretia is lying to you

#might have reblogged this already but also I Love It

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"there's something about the dying that feels familiar" fucking unbelievably metal thing to be told. you die and you could swear you've been here before. the last thing you feel before your breath leaves your body is intense deja vu. you've never died before but somehow you know how this goes. you have an uncanny feeling being dead is a temporary gig for you, but you have no idea what gives you that impression. and then you're alive again. and you remember dying. and all you remember is that there was something about it that felt familiar.

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You remember L̶̢͇̩̤̳̩͖̲͚͚̳͚͕͉̗͋̓ͅư̵͓͖̥̥̦͇͍̬̪̑́͐̏̂̐̎̾̐́̑̋̽̇͆̃̾̈́͌̈́̀̉͛͑̓̌͐́̊͂͒̈́̈́͘̚͠p̸̥̳͈͚̊̈́̋̀̄͐̓͆̇͑̿͊͌̍̕̕͝͠͝͠͝, of course. How could you forget L̶̢͇̩̤̳̩͖̲͚͚̳͚͕͉̗͋̓ͅư̵͓͖̥̥̦͇͍̬̪̑́͐̏̂̐̎̾̐́̑̋̽̇͆̃̾̈́͌̈́̀̉͛͑̓̌͐́̊͂͒̈́̈́͘̚͠p̸̥̳͈͚̊̈́̋̀̄͐̓͆̇͑̿͊͌̍̕̕͝͠͝͠͝?

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#never got around to listening to steeplechase but holy hell am i gonna listen to it now

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[holds them gently] i offer.. blupjeans....

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Taako from tv???

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art trade w @unhooking-the-stars! she did the sketch, I did the colors. I love these twins!!! I’m already awaiting the next ep w baited breath!

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wait what's today?? it's lup day?

It’s 4/13, one year ago today the first episode of Stolen Century was dropped, where Griffin confirmed Lup as Taako’s identical trans twin sister.Also I think some people under house arrest celebrate something today IDK it doesn’t sound as cool.-Mod Jean

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#ok so A. ive been here and B. i literally started my amnesty revisit like 12 hrs ago so this is thematically appropriate

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after Story and Song, the non-Magnus members of the IPRE plus Carey and Killian start packing bags for their big group adventure of Killing Governor Kalen As Dead As Possible, and some of the people who aren't as desensitized as Merle and Taako are to Angus being at murder scenes express some apprehension about the eleven year old coming along for this one. Merle and Taako instead claim they don't want Angus to come because they think he'll snitch (Taako is exaggerating slightly to get a rise out of Angus, but no one can quite tell if Merle means it).

Angus assures them that of course he agrees this is a morally justified murder, and therefore not one to snitch about, but he really wants to come because even in all his years as a homicide detective, he almost never gets to watch murders be committed with his own two eyes! just think of the learning opportunity, sirs! it's not every day I get such an ethically defensible chance to study murdering techniques so up close and personal!

eventually Lucretia sits him down. she gently points out that due to the number of people involved, and those people's particular skillsets, Kalen is going to be murdered in a fashion that not one single person on Faerun has ever been murdered in before or ever will be murdered in again.

and sure enough, when Kalen is stabbed with eighteen knives, immolated in fire, shot full of enough crossbow bolts that they look like turkey feathers, suffocated in an impenetrable magical bubble, impaled by the divine spear of Della Reese, bitten in half by Dupree the Tyrannosaurus Rex, and run over by a literal spaceship all before being resurrected as a zombie to do it all over again... Angus has to agree. she had a point.

however, he does sit his assorted parents down afterwards, and gently asks if they've ever heard of an "alibi" or "reasonable doubt" in their lives. why were you so concerned about me snitching, sir? how was bringing the planar system's only spaceship not snitching on yourself?!

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Best part about my taz revisits is that I have all the storyline episodes in one playlist on my Spotify so I get to listen to Magnus die and then fucking two minutes later get smacked over the back of the head with the amnesty soundtrack

#the fucking whiplash yall #i mean like amnestys soundtrack FUCKS #and magnus. my blorbo. getting everything he deserved 🥺 #taz balance #magnus burnsides #the adventure zone #taz amnesty #also yes i skip commitment get off my ass #i like commitment dont get me wrong but all the potential just never realized itself #with more time it could have been SO GOOD #but it just. wasn't wholly satisfying where they left it