I'm starting to get the vibe and this was fun! 30A was probably my favorite clue. (One note, on 5D: I think it's actually AMIS who wrote the book, so you may need an alternate clue, of which there are plenty… 466 appearances in the NYT crossword.)
"_____ now, ye Tarnished, ye dead who yet live. The call of long-lost grace speaks to us all!" I've been playing Elden Ring | Get up, old timeyly
19A
A potential answer to "Who's there?" that could be reassuring or entirely unhelpful
23A
Vegetables that don't drip despite the name
24A
Like Taylor's version compared to the original recording
25A
Painful spots, bodilyly
26A
A common reaction to a dad joke
27A
Church bench that seems intentionally uncomfortable
29A
Initialism for a type of 4G that used to pop up on my phone that I never understood
30A
"We live in a ________ era" - me, after everyone lost their noses to the nose-stealing monsters from beneath the sea
35A
What characters like Jason Todd as The Red Hood, Rorschach, Punisher and Venom might commit
36A
People going down the family tree
Down
1D
A pair of Mallow's weapons from SMRPG | What the toy monkey claps together (you know the one in many cartoon brains)
2D
How you might describe my wall compared to yours after I use wall putty to hang up pictures of colored camo print cars with big flames on them
3D
What's atop the candy mountain?
4D
Abbr. that goes between two forward slashes to get you the worst takes on earth
5D
A defunct department store chain from America that closed down in 2002 (In its Wikipedia page, there's a little card that gives essential information and that has "Fate: Chapter 7 bankruptcy" which I thought was pretty funny)
6D
Storing my pickles was quite shocking
7D
A VIP in Hollywood
8D
Alter, slangily
9D
An abbr. month of Leos and Virgos
10D
I'll go to Greenland from India, and you go in this opposite direction
14D
Do you think this cookie will sponsor a crossword puzzle/event someday?
17D
"That sounds kinda sus" sayer
18D
The heart of things
20D
Like my head after I get a compliment
21D
Fleshy nom item
22D
Hemingway (real-life), Denouement (A Series of Unfortunate Events), and Worthing (from an Oscar Wilde play I can't remember the title of)
28D
"I ____ you, I'm pretty good at this" - me, moments before losing 3 consecutive games against my friend who's now a 1700 on chess.com
30D
Heli or lily ender
31D
Type of finger salute
32D
Initialism for a game that essentially invented the deckbuilder rogue-like genre | Short holy people
33D
The sloth from Ice Age, also the Cookie Monster's given name (as revealed in a 2017 interview)