VINES TRIED TO EAT MY DICK (The MacElroys Play D&D)

I think Angus would be a Ravenclaw, or maybe a hufflepuff? I'm not familiar with the sorting hat chats method of sorting.

 

I linked it in the post where I asked the question, if you want to look- basically, they figure people have a "primary" house for their moral center- why they do things- and a "secondary" for the how. Primary is hard because we haven't really seen much in the way of moral dilemmas for Angus, which is fair enough, in RP it should usually be the PCs whose motivations and priorities are under the magnifying glass. Definitely Ravenclaw secondary, though. The kid hoards skills and information like a friggin' chipmunk.

Lucas Miller, though, def Slytherclaw. And I think Hurley was a Slytherpuff? (Sloane's probably unsortable, we saw her in her right mind for all of half a minute.)

 

Expanding a bit on Hurley- she seemed mildly embarrassed, but not guilty, about having let Sloane draw her into the illegal racing in the first place. I got the impression she thought she should feel guilty and was trying to perform guilt, which is said to be a fairly common reaction of Slytherins in environments that don't necessarily value that approach. But in fact prioritizing someone she loves over abstract concepts like "duty" or "law" or "doing the job you were sent to do" is what feels like the Right Thing To Do for her, so sorry not sorry, Captain Captain Bain. ;)

 

Please visualize, if you will, Angus as an Animal Crossing-type chipmunk, wearing coke-bottle glasses and a battered secondhand wizard hat and holding a magnifying glass, determined to crack the case!!

 

I want you to know that that particular word-picture just made my entire week.

 

Recently relistened to one of the Fantasy Gachapon scenes. Leon gives me autismfeels and I hate the way they keep fucking with him for shiggles. The "pure" fanon!Taako bothers me ever more.

 

Why would anyone want Taako to be pure?? That'd take away all the fun parts! He's been a petty, mean, morally gray, thieving rat bastard since episode 1 and that's what makes him interesting. (pounds table) LET TAAKO BE TERRIBLE. LET TAAKO BE TERRIBLE
We already have Magnus, anyway. He's a sweet, NPC-befriending, animal-loving saint next to his stupid jerk friends.

 

*drags hands down face*

someone teach these children it's okay to like a character that's flawed, jfc

 

but mostly just somebody please help Leon

 

Taako is like 95% flaws held together with duct tape and a wizard hat. That's why he's my favorite.

 

A touch, he does confess.

 

...cannot parse?

 

Sorry! It's a line from Hamlet that Taako (mis)quotes in the MaxFunCon East live show, in response to

Spoiler

Magnus's constructive criticism of him.

He's admitting fault in the most pretentious way possible.

Which is why Taako is my favourite character and Justin is my favourite McElroy brother.

 

I miss kink memes. I wish we could have a TAZ one. One that's a Taazed-discourse-free zone.

 

Ok I am not caught up yet and therefore skipped most of the thread because I don't want to have to resist the constant temptation to look at spoilers but

this podcast is amazing and hilarious and I love it so much, these dorks are so great

Also I actually really like that they're kind of playing fast and loose with the rules and setting and stuff! It makes it feel a lot more silly and fun and character driven and I love it

and dammit I'm gonna have to donate just so I can see the goddamn backstory episode because I want to know everything about these friggin dorks.

My one criticism is that I get kind of... annoyed? at the fact that Justin gets to do the ridiculous (and fun) voice of Taako but he gets kinda mad at any of the voices that the other two do? I'm still only at Episode 20 and I hope that gets fixed soon (they did sort of "decide" on voices for Magnus and Merle, but they don't stick to them very well and I think that's partially because Justin kept shooting down all of their other voices... idk) because I just. I love the silly voices. And it helps me differentiate because their normal voices all sorta sound similar.

BUT OVERALL I LOVE THIS SILLY FAMILY AND I'M GONNA KEEP ON LISTENING AND CATCHING UP

 

Spoiler: the suffering game ep 3

Yep, count me down as genuinely concerned about Taako! I knew the bad luck was going to kick his ass in a major way but I didn't expect there to be no healing. Maybe they're going to pay off Kravitz hinting that "there are ways of dealing with that" at the end of the date? Maybe they're going to permakill Taako? I don't even know, but *flail*

Also, Merle mentioned having a wife for (I think?) the first time. Baby steps towards telling Magnus and Taako about his kids?

 

People on the TAZ subreddit are theorizing that it may actually be impossible to die in Wonderland unless Team Rocket (or whoever's really in charge) allows it.

 

Interesting! I can definitely see that being the case. But man, things might get real fucky between now and the end of the arc....

 

man, i've only seen "fucky" to mean "talked about in a sexy way," but given how many people drew blood-from-the-mouth taako that's probably ALSO true

 

Yo..... do you have links to some good spitting-blood Taako? because that is Relevant to My Interests...