• 28 Day Challenge: The Adventure Zone, Day 6: Favorite One-Shot Episode

    One-shots are fucking hard. I have a difficult enough time as it is trying to keep my stories from becoming epics, and I don’t even have the backlog of continuity that the McElroys have to balance in the meantime. Not only that, but now that the Balance arc is completed, the suspense is definitely more…

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  • 28 Day Challenge: The Adventure Zone, Day 5: Least Favorite Episode

    I really don’t like talking negatively about The Adventure Zone, but seeing as this challenge is all about making sure I am critical of even my favorite things, well … I have to admit even when the show falls short. Granted, this is going to be a fairly quick entry because I don’t really have…

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  • 28 Day Challenge: The Adventure Zone, Day 4: Favorite Episode

    Alright, I know I said that “The Eleventh Hour” is my favorite arc, and I stand by that firmly. It’s the most narratively satisfying, and I love the relationships the Tres Horny Boys develop with the various NPCs so much more than in a lot of the other arcs*. While the finale of that arc is definitely…

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  • 28 Day Challenge: The Adventure Zone, Day 3: Least Favorite Arc

    In my last blog, I frequently referred to Sophie’s Choice, and I’m going to invoke it here because dammit, I love all of the arcs. Each has its own shortcomings, of course, except for “The Eleventh Hour,” which is perfect and nothing you can say will change my mind. 

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  • 28 Day Challenge: The Adventure Zone, Day 2: Favorite Arc

    Just as a warning, I will be super spoilery throughout this challenge, so if you wanna listen to The Adventure Zone before you read this, feel free. And honestly, I encourage you to do that, anyway! But this paragraph is basically my blanket statement of WARNING: THERE BE SPOILERS AHEAD. Anyway, there’s so much I appreciate about all of…

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  • 28 Day Challenge: The Adventure Zone, Day 1: How I Was Introduced to The Adventure Zone

    Well, this is super easy!  A friend of mine was on Facebook was talking about the podcast very vaguely, and I wondered what all the hype was about. She sent me a link, and I browsed the internet for further information, even daring to lurk on Reddit.

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  • 22

    I’ve been back in Nashville for three weeks now, and I can’t say that I’m not happy with my decision to return. I’m close to my family, and I’ve been able to reconnect with people I haven’t seen – or even talked to, really – in years. My new job is going well so far,…

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  • 28 day challenge

    28 day challenge

    ZOMG. Okay, so I might be a little excited about my next challenge because I absolutely love what I’ll be covering. Although I’ve listened to podcasts for years, I was never really a regular audience member, eagerly awaiting each episode, but after bingeing the first arc of The Adventure Zone, I was hooooooooked.  The podcast started as kind of a…

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  • 21

    Earlier this week, I loaded my life into a rental truck and drove back to a place I once dreamed of escaping. Whether or not I stay in the town I loathed for so many years is undetermined, but for now, I will call Nashville, TN, home again, something I never thought I’d say, even…

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  • on rotation

    You know, I’m eventually going to do these with themes, as a nod to my old college days*, but today is not that day. I’m kind of all over the place, both emotionally and physically, so naturally, I’ve been bouncing from playlist to playlist and probably annoying the hell out of my landlord who lives…

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