#click for taz

[thornsword]

they bring terrible four-armed woman person to our home and hang her in sky like star to boil seas

[anistarrose]

so when we look at the titles of the seven birds, Lucretia's and especially Davenport's stand out — The Lonely Journal Keeper, and The Wordless One. they're less applicable to the Stolen Century than the titles of the other birds — Lucretia was always the journal keeper, of course, but back then, she was surrounded by family. you could possibly still characterize her as lonely in the last few years of the century, when her family rejected her plan (and that does provide some delicious angst), but that still doesn't explain Davenport. he wasn't "wordless" until the very end.

and the reason this jumps out at me is because for everyone else, almost the opposite is true: their titles fit their Stolen Century incarnations better than they fit our heroes post-Voidfishing. Taako does not have any idea that he's a twin. Barry is left alone with no one to love but memories of his absent family, and sometimes, he doesn't even have that. Magnus fails to protect Raven's Roost, and grapples with the guilt. Merle can't even make peace within his marriage, much less with an aspect of an eldritch force like John.

so this all feels like an odd discrepancy... until you realize that the Seven Birds prophecy came from Maureen. who knew Lucretia, and most likely Davenport too, in person after the Voidfishing — but never met any of the others, and only perceived them through the Cosmoscope in her dying moments. she described the five birds she didn't know as she saw them at their best, but the birds that she did know as she saw them last. it makes me wonder what she might've called the others, if she'd met them, too.

[starkrossedkris]

NYAAA!!! ^_^ *blasts u with magic missile*

i usually shade but i would literally eat shit before shading this.

Scene taako. this stemmed from a conversation i had with a friend where we absolutely agreed that taako would be a scene king in highschool.

also gen question, what would be the best way to describe this in alt? There's just. a lot going on.

[lucretiaadventurezone]

oh no

[monogramsalarm]

who else thinks about glamour springs forever and ever

[ID: A digital drawing of Taako with his hands clasped over his mouth in shock. He's in a chef's hat and apron, and there's two spotlights shining down at him. The background is red and has repeating exclamation points. END ID]

[do-you-know-this-adhd-character]

Do you know this (canon) ADHD character?

Proof: Mentioned in episode 18.

[basilcheerwine]

Also put in the tags if one of these led you to the others!

[vulcanette]

Taz Skylar for ZERO.NINE Magazine

[streetcornertwoam]

OH my god...

I just actually had to go back relisten to the last several minutes of the latest ep ‘cause...I can’t believe I didn’t get the hints...

the fucking robes... ‘servant of the seven’ ‘one of seven in battle’...even BUMBERSHOOTS! 

goddammit Justin McElroy I’m so furious but I’m cackling

[thornsword]

It's HER auroch

[starryiedd]

number of times I've listened to TAZ ethersea: 3 in probably 2.5 years?

when I realized Kodira was a TITLE/name Oxana adopted: like 3 days ago

[immatrashpanda]

i am going to start killing

[duck-newton]

I love you taako with a big nose I love you fat taako i love you taako with big teeth i love you masculine taako I love you taako with actual elf features i love you taako that’s a little goofy looking I love you taako that’s anything other than a thin white ultra-femme with a button nose 🫶🫶🫶

[stamplerfag]

i love blurring lines between being character and being obsessed w them

[asexual-juliet]

duck newton is seventeen in oversized flannel and scuffed-up doc martens and a name that doesn’t quite fit right.

[shepavellan-blogs]

I miss when TAZ was TAZ