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Also some Merles!! I’d love to work up some full turns for the tAZ boys some day 🥲

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see ya later, world terminator

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Responses to the most frequent comments on my Dungeon Meshi/TAZ crossover doodle

Laios and fair food

2. Taako cooking for real

3. Encounters with plants

(hello, in the manga, the pollen comes out the mouths)

bonus

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the adventure zone: balance fanart in 2025 that's right

based on this post

click for quality good lord

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hello johnchurch nation

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I would appreciate Merle's gifts. D8 He tried!

this reminds me

a really long time ago on the discord, i was talking with someone about how likely it was that lucretia kept merle’s gift as a keepsake of their adventures, because of all the group, she’d appreciate it the most

but then there was the likelihood of merle reacting to his own gift in her office, so…

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Anyway

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you know how little kids like to interview people?

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it’s the parley room…the parlor room? the parley parlor.

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guess who just finished their taz balance relisten

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you know how little kids like to interview people?

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guess who just finished their taz balance relisten

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[i.d. Davenport and Merle sitting on the floor with steaming mugs in their hands that are a matching yellow. Merle is a heavy, bearded dwarf sitting comfortably with his legs crossed. he’s wearing a red shirt, blue pants with a patch on the knee that has a yellow flower, and brown socks. his hair is in a very messy top bun and his eyes are closed behind round glasses as he seems to be talking happily about something. Davenport is a slim gnome with large sideburns and a mustache. he is curled up with his knees to his chest and his hands clutched around the mug he holds under his chin. he has on a red shirt with a brown sweater over it, red pants, and blue socks. a striped blanket hangs like a cape around his shoulders. he stares intently at merle. end i.d.]

kings… why is your tea hot enough to be steaming like that…. oh the heat reminds you of twosun planet? oh? youre homesick and making social bonds to heal and cope? okay manlets we stan carry on.

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1-9-19 || Old Pan, I don’t think Pan really cares. Doesn’t really give a shit whether or not I’m his buddy or not. It’s all about how it makes me feel.

Please don’t tag as kin/me/id/etc.

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“You HAVE got faith! It’s… it’s faith in YOU” - Merle, Lunar Interlude III - Rest & Relaxation

My piece for the @adventuringfanbook! What a fun project this was to work on and to follow as it came together. You can download the full PDF in all its glory at https://adventuringfanbook.tumblr.com/pdf

More ramblings about making the picture below the cut: 

This is one of my all time favourite moments in TAZ (though let’s be honest, there’s a lot of em), coz I love Lucretia with 100% of my heart and Merle has this uncanny ability to speak kind, wise words when people need to hear them most… post-Balance Arc, the scene just punches my feelings. 

Painted in watercolour and pencil, I tried to give the impression of a quiet evening in an onsen, since I was trying very hard to finish this piece before I flew away to a holiday in Japan. Which meant it also fell at the same time as my TAZ Animated BG and my wrist injury *facepalm*. It was a busy month! (Hey kids, learn from my mistakes and don’t take on 3 side projects in addition to your full time drawing job just for funzzies…! Pace yo’self) 

Anywho, I’m happy with how it turned out given the parameters, and man oh man would I like to do a full colour version some time, and draw more of my fav TAZ moments. Only time will tell!  

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merle is good for a lot of choice grunkle stan lines

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will you sit with me? just for a moment?