#cliff mcelroy

[slightlyhowling]

Watch "Adventure Zone Ep. 1 (D&D w/ MBMBaM)" on YouTube

I can't even explain, how happy finding Adventure Zone from the beginning on YT made me, today. If you haven't experienced this, do yourself a favor and hop on. Once they get the roleplaygames really going, it becomes magic. It got me through some really dark times after my burnout. Thank you McElroys.

The early episodes are sound only.

/description: The background of the video is a painting with a golden mask on top representing the game master, and three characters in costume floating on clouds.

[brokehorrorfan]

Picnic at Hanging Rock will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on April 9 via The Criterion Collection. Eric Skillman designed the cover art for the 1975 Australian mystery film.

Peter Weir (The Truman Show, Dead Poets Society) directs from a script by Cliff Green, based on Joan Lindsay's 1967 novel. Anne-Louise Lambert, Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Vivean Gray, and Jacki Weaver star.

Picnic at Hanging Rock has been newly restored in 4K, supervised by Weir and director of photography Russell Boyd, with HDR and 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Interview with director Peter Weir

Making-of featurette with executive producer Patricia Lovell, producers Hal McElroy and Jim McElroy, and cast members

Introduction by film scholar David Thomson, author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film

On-set documentary hosted by executive producer Patricia Lovell and featuring interviews with Peter Weir, actor Rachel Roberts, and author Joan Lindsay

Homesdale - 1971 black comedy directed by Peter Weir

Trailer

Essay by author Megan Abbott and an excerpt from film scholar Marek Haltof’s 1996 book Peter Weir: When Cultures Collide

This sensual and striking chronicle of a disappearance and its aftermath put director Peter Weir on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema. Based on an acclaimed 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock is set at the turn of the twentieth century and concerns a small group of students from an all-female college who vanish, along with a chaperone, while on a St. Valentine’s Day outing. Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society, Weir’s gorgeous, disquieting film is a work of poetic horror whose secrets haunt viewers to this day.

Pre-order Picnic at Hanging Rock.

[mcelquotes]

We were all wrecked on the cliffs of puberty.

Sydnee McElroy

[nagdabbit]

Your life is fascinating and I want to study you. I feel like almost hitting Eric Stonestreet with your car isn't even in your top 5 weird things that have happened to Dag.

it's his fault for not looking both ways when he went to get into his car! this is why i don't parallel park, i took one look at eric stonestreet almost getting pancaked and said nah

but also, you are extremely correct, i have led a weirder life than i would've admitted before therapy told me it was weird 😅😂

blew a wrestler that i WILL NOT NAME in a bathroom in billy goat tavern in chicago AND NO IT WASNT THAT ONE IT WASNT A CHICAGO GUY THERE WAS JUST A SHOW THERE while i was there for my 21st birthday way back when i didn't even know what wrestling was and i have thought about it every single day since i figured out who it was several years ago do not try to guess i will NEVER tell

one time i got caught in a tiny avalanche

i hung out with skrillex at warped tour once before he was skrillex in like 2005(? that's so long ago i don't remember) for like an entire day and he was really nice even tho i was Extremely Underage And Should Not Have Been There. i think that was the year i snuck in like prison escape style instead of just cutting thru a fence like usual

i have been in a car that has gone off a cliff unintentionally

one time i got lost in a canyon for like a week and no one noticed

+ bonus because i think it's funny: ken mcelroy (the guy what got murdered by an entire town of people in skidmore, missouri) cattle rustled from my parents and is the reason they stopped doing farm stuff and had fancy jobs by the time i was born

EDIT: addendum to #3, i cant remember if that was the same year or not but i am in a couple shots of punk rock holocaust

[talesofpassingtime]

She had inspired a poem. She had written off to California to a place where, with life credits alone in this year of 1976 in these United States, you could get a Ph.D. for fifteen hundred dollars. Cliff asked, In what? mucus research?

— Joseph McElroy, Women and Men  

[sylvansleuth]

it's a whole new thing for me🦖

[island-delver-go]

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[thebookishaustin]

August 2019 Wrap Up

Image from my Goodreads page

Whew - August was a whirlwind of new books and lots of Dungeons & Dragons apparently! You can see Dragons of Winter Night by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (review for the first book, Dragons of Autumn Twilight, can be found here), a reread of The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins by the McElroy family and Carey Pietsch (review here) followed by it’s new sequel The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited!, and also Rick And Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons by Patrick Rothfuss and Jim Zub! I love my D&D novelizations. 

Other than these, my favorites for the month were The Rise of Kyoshi by F.C. Yee and Michael Dante DiMartino, Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller, and Dark Age by Pierce Brown. I enjoyed The Rise of Kyoshi because I am a long time Avatar: The Last Airbender fan and this expanded upon that universe in such a unique way.  Blackfish City was such an interesting book full of sociopolitical issues and strong family dynamics with a healthy dose of science fiction! It took me awhile, but finishing Dark Age felt like a major accomplishment. I love this series so much and I wasn’t let down by the newest installment. 

I’d love to hear what you are reading so don’t hesitate to comment or send me a private message. You can also add me on Goodreads here! I’m looking forward to September and here are a few books I’m ready to start reading soon: 

Ziggy, Stardust and Me by James Brandon (Published: August 2019)

Exile from Eden: Or, After the Hole by Andrew Smith (Release date: September 24, 2019)

Five Dark Fates by Kendare Blake (Release: September 3, 2019)

[panmangalover14]

I just finished listening to the Ethersea finale and all I have to say is GRIFFIN WHAT THE FUCK!

[dawns-beauty]

i’m a year older and still like indulging in this i guess

[salad-dodger]

[gallusrostromegalus]

More Secret TPOFATGIF Lore, Cryptids and Monsters Edition:

Long Post, the rest of it is Under The Cut:

Tristan isn't totally insane- the bites of a domestic dog, many types of Lycanthrope and Vampire, Selkie and Cupacabra are nearly identical without taking a cast and even then DNA Swab testing is often needed to diagnose what bit someone if they didn't get a good look at it.

While the majority of Lycanthropes* are humans with cyclic hybridism, Selkies are a rare instance of human-to-animal Zoonotic Curse transfer, where Cyclic Anthrothropy was transmitted to a population of harbor seals in the Outer Heberdies off Scotland around 1682. HOW the curse was transferred remains a mystery shrouded in some very unfortunate legends about "Seal Wives".

*Lycanthropy, of course, only refers to the most common from of Cyclic Hybridism, Canine Lunar Cyclic Hybridism or CLCH, also known as "Wolfman Disease". All known types of Cyclic Hybridism are not diseases, but variations of a blood-bourne curse that originated in Neolithic times, probably during Humanity's first attempts at controlling Magic. There are currently 486 documented types of Cyclic Hybridism, encompassing a total of 406 types of animals and 122 Cyclic schedules.

By Contrast, "Vampirism" refers to an entire group of Sanguivorious Human disorders with a wide variety of causes including, but not limited to: Viruses, Bacteria, hereditary curses, blood-bourne curses, prions, memetic fanaticism and even psychosomatic vampirism.

Vampires thus vary wildly in sensitivity to things like sunlight, running water, garlic, compulsive counting behaviors and being set on fire. Most types of Vampirism are contagious, particularly the infamous Sunnydale Syndrome which reached epidemic proportions from 1997-2001, but some are entirely idiosyncratic conditions or only hereditary.

The persistent rumor that bats carry vampirism is entirely inaccurate and the result of an early conflation of rabies with Vampiric disorders.

Chupacabra are a tragically endangered Keystone species and one of the few extant non-australian Marsupials. Their unsettling appearence and fondness for hunting livestock has made public outrach efforts difficult to say the least, but Chupacabra play a key role in preventing the spread of diseases in ungulates and the over-grazing of their native desert steppe.

Chupacabra originally evolved to hunt camelids and it's extreme speed and fearlessness when it came to hunting large prey on steep cliffs made it an important predator of wild Llama and Vicuna prior to the introduction of sheep and goats. Compared to an adult Llama, a goat is easy pickings, and it's hardly a suprise Chupacabra would start hunting this much slower, less aggressive prey, even at the risk of death by human shepherds.

Like thier closest living relatives, the Virginia Possum, the Chupacabra is relatively immune to rabies, has a total of 50 teeth and 13 nipples!

After decades of elusive behavior and difficulty in getting adequate samples, in 1996, Scientists were finally able to confirm that Mothmen have a complex, multi-generational migratory cycle, and that their primary egg-laying grounds are in the central valley of Nihofornia. Fresno Nightcrawlers are in fact, laval Mothmen. The discovery led to massive public adoration of the former omen of doom and improved conservation efforts, and now Mothmen numbers have rebounded and they occupy nearly all of their native range.

McElroy Monument near Huntington, West Virginia is home to an unusual Albino Mothman, lovingly named Indrid Cold. Misunderstanding the origins of his name and thinking Indrid to be chilly, visitors have tried gifting him sweaters in the past, which the Park Service now has to actively prevent, as Indrid has definitely eaten far too many of them.

Conservation efforts for Bigfoots, Yasha Ape and Sasquatch are also widely supported, with massive national parks devoted to thier preservation, but poaching for the illegal Big Toe Market (some people believe that the toes are a potent aphrodisiac) has seriously hindered efforts to build stable breeding troops of these species of Mega Ape.

There is an expiriemental program in Mt. Yasha National Park to assign 24/7 live-in human guards to the small troop there. So far the program has been sucessful as both sepcies protection and youth rehabilitation, as the Yasha Apes are particularly enamored of thier former-streetfighter-turned-mobile-zookeeper, Baki Hanma.

The Baja Basilisk, or "Loot Lizard" is no relative of the European Basilisk, but the confusion is understandable. More Accurately called the Behir, the Baja Basilisk is a massive reptile resembling an elongagted water monitor with up to 12 legs (they grow more as they age- one particularly ancient specimen was documented with a total of 16 legs) that is big enough to swallow a human whole. And swallow they do! The Loot Lizard earned it's nickname from its voracious appetite, indiscriminate palette and inability to chew, leading to Behir eating any vaugely animal-shaped object around them and horking up the indegestible pieces later.

Ambitious Adventurers have intermittently had sucess taming wild Behir- they make excellent mounts in enclosed spaces and any suspicious locked chest or ichor-covered idol can be tossed down the gullet of a tame Behir to be cleaned by it's powerful stomach, or digested if it happens to be a mimic, and the resalable parts regurgitated later.

Unfortunately, the popularity of Dungeon-crawling adventuring in the late middle ages, and the lack of knowledge about the Behir's long reproductive cycle (a Behir doesn't reach sexual maturity until age 60-80 at the earliest and may only produce two or three clutches of one or two eggs in it's life) lead to extensive poaching of Behir and the devastation of thier populations, and now they are only rarely found in a tiny sliver of thier previous rang, in the Baja Peninsula.

Tristan was very enamored of Behir in his youth and always wanted a pet one, much like how I wanted a Pet Tiger when I was six. His mom did make him a body-pillow size Behir Plushie and "Beans" still lives on his bed at home.

[amnesiaguy]

i think i enjoy cliff steele so much because he really feels like a justin mcelroy character

[talesofpassingtime]

And it came back to her, as the curious passage from last night began to replay, and she thought she needed an enema or a joint, she had a little hash in the fridge—a break-through hash-enema she realized she had already discussed with Maureen—it came back to her that Cliff had answered, “You can say that again, Grace,” while Maureen Baby’s Breath, thinking of God knows what—maybe what she called the “proof of reincarnation” in her own Grace Kimball—maybe currents of carrot juice freed of pulp, messengering with overwhelming news a city of mucus hawked up from the collective throat brain, for Maureen was a scientist, a new woman-kind of scientist sweetly smiling—and now to her leader saying, “Right on,” though she had not attended the audience fuck at the New Jersey college.

— Joseph McElroy, Women and Men  

[adz]

had a dream justin and sydnee mcelroy made a monster factory episode for minecraft (griffin was not involved) and to prepare for it they moved into/ran a convenience store. the first 10 minutes was just him talking about how the store was doing and then the episode started and he didn’t even make a character, he went right into this labyrinthine system of cart tracks he’d created spanning a massive underground base with track switchers somehow controlled by these gangs of contained creatures that would aggro onto you as your cart went by. i remember there were Angry Sheep and Wet Rats and the wet rats would chant “wet rats, wet rats, we’re greasy and we’re fat” in like high pitched rodent voices and they would all try to attack you as you went by and then an iron golem would swipe them all off a cliff and they would scream like the elves in elf bowling. completely insane dream

[chunkysoup22]

Ok I gotta go to bed I work in 5 hours but I just CANT rest knowing I haven’t annoyed and enraged the few followers I have left who hate mcyt

It’s definitely not that deep at all but. I love making it that deep. Something so violent and cruel about the way tommy was killed. To quote Griffin McElroy:

“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, clumsy.”

Wilbur had a beautiful and poetic and.. to some, a satisfying death. A madman destroying everything he’d built and then dying to the hands of his own father in the wreckage of it all. Tubbo, killed on the stage he helped build, during his speech, by people he thought he could trust, for reasons he didn’t deserve. Abruptly and unfairly.

Tommy, beaten to death in a dirty prison cell during a n argument that got out of hand. Unintentionally. Unremarkably. Clumsily. No strategic moves, no political battles. No enchanted weapons or armies. Two people hurting each other with nothing but their own bodies, because that’s all they can do. Violence is the only language they can understand.

Beaten and killed, left to lay and rot on the floor of that cell, no way for anyone to retrieve his body. No way for anyone to really... do anything about it. Because in a way Tommy really has been cursed from the beginning. Technoblade was right, Tommy really was Theseus. He would continue to give his all to everyone around him and fight for them. Sure, he didn’t fall from a cliff, but he still died with backs turned against him. Alone. His last thoughts not about himself, but worrying about his friends.

He never really did get to be happy.

Ok that’s enough sorry he’s just my favorite character... god bless and good night