the shit they talk about their own early episodes because they know how god awful they were
the fact all three of them (+ Clint) have matching tattoos
LoZ tattoos for that matter, where each brother has a different part of the tri force filled in, and clint has all 3 filled
griffy got that tattoo on his wrist specifically bc he didnt want a job that would be dicks about tattoos
the way justin will just go “ok that’s fine” if one of the other two is like ‘i dont wanna talk abt this’ even if its a goof
the fact trav and justin inexplicably have the same birthday 3 years apart
and then when griffin was like “i know how u feel [about a jumbotron description] every november 8th i just sit in bed and wail”
travis watched pirates of the carribean like, 9 times in theatres when it first came out – several of which as dates
griffin tried to have a dog in his “pet-free” apartment in college and it only lasted like, four days before they got found out
travis’ entire character development in taz results from his fear of losing his wife because he loves her so so much
the way that, at every ridiculous stunt and every heartwrenching moment the boys pull in TAZ, griffin goes “oh my GOD”/ “oh god….”/ “oh no..”
likewise the cackling that clint/travis/justin do at those same moments
“"A family highpoint for me was the time my dad beat us at Clue in one round,“ recalls Clint’s second son Travis. “It was at that moment that I realized that my father is the most clever man on the planet. Notice that I didn’t say the smartest man. We’re talking about a man who, until he woke up on the basement floor several hours later, didn’t see anything wrong with dumping excess kitty litter and bleach down a sink at the same time in a poorly ventilated room””
The talk I gave tonight was primarily about how babies, as well as young children, experience hyperconsciousness, something that is often considered one of the main reasons why children at these stages are ‘difficult’ to handle.
Kids man, they encompass some of the most phenomenal thought processes and it is all driven by the fact that this whole world is completely new to them. If you want to see abstract ideas constructed in a matter of seconds, talk to a child. Their grasp is unbelievable.
Even if you feel that children whine, cry, and scream too much… in considering how they’re in a world they had no prior concept of, and are subject to an uncontrollable amount of stimuli every waking moment…. I still believe they’re handling it all fairly well.
This conference made me realize how much of a passion I have for destigmatizing childhood behaviors. There’s a sort of ‘Ahh..’ moment that people come to when they see that children actually have reasons for everything they do, that they shouldn’t be viewed as underdeveloped ‘functioning’ adults but should instead be recognized as humans in a separate yet equally important stage of life.
I’ve also been doing some work in researching and writing about children as an oppressed class, I’m finding ways to incorporate my previous sentiments into that.
Matt Mercer as DM: “You bisect the enemy, spilling it’s entrails across the floor. You bathe in its blood as you hear the pieces of its body hit the floor with a wet squelch behind you *makes squelching noise*”
Griffin McElroy as DM: “And then you just cut the dang thing in half. Are you happy? You literally cannot ‘non-lethally’ cut something in half. It’s super dead now”
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