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Listen, Rayman is Scrimblo Bimblo. I mean this literally.

The original quote was.

"Smash Fans when Sakurai reveals Popular McJRPGGuy and not Scrimblo Bimblo, the Lovable Scrunko from the great platformer they played as kids 26 years ago."

I'd thought for a long time that this described Rayman unusually well, being such an odd creature of an unnamed species; in other words, a scrunko.

It may be just a coincidence, but I realised that the original quote was posted in 2021, and at that point in time, Rayman 1 was released 26 years ago.

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Did someone make a Rayman discord server called "Honk Snoo in the hammock"? becuase I scrolled past that for some ungodly reason and I want to join.

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"I'm still rather taken aback that the only pure horror fanfiction that's being made right now is TarotOnFire's Rayman Livid Eclipse, and Clairiphi Rayman Nightmarish."

Rayfan's Piranha could be added to that list, I think. Rayfan disappears for years and then comes back with some chapters, but it is still being worked on.

Trauma is something Rayfan gets shockingly, scarily and miserably right and I also want this to be your warning, (particularly for any minors that may have dropped by.) there's a lot of very miserable content.

I'll be taking a look at those fics if you don't mind.

Hmmm 🤔

There is something that the Rayman fandom doesn't seem to have a lot of, and that is fan music.

If I were to make an album of fan songs, would you guys be interested?

I've already dipped my toe in the water with a track called Heart of the World on my bandlab, and I'm very tempted to make more like it.

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Honestly I do think they were supposed to be anthropmorphic atoms.

I thought of maybe calling them something differently-spelled like atooms but I don't think it quite has the same ring to it as electoons.

Fun fact:

I call Rayman's species Atom People!

It goes along with the atomic theme the rest of their world seems to have with the Great Protoon and the Electoons, it would just make sense imo.

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His feet don't touch the ground when he sits in a chair xD

We stan our short king

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He's the piece of programming code that nobody understands what it's for but without it the program mysteriously breaks.

hes ur “emotional support blorbo”??? girl he cant even emotionally support Himself

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the whump fan’s dilemma

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~Doo do dooo dodododo do do~

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To this day, I'm still not exactly sure how the time I spent as a troper has impacted my life, but I'm glad that the site exists.

thinking again about TvTropes and how it’s genuinely such an amazing resource for learning the mechanics of storytelling, honestly more so than a lot of formally taught literature classes

reasons for this:

basically TvTropes breaks down stories mechanically, using a perspective that’s not…ABOUT mechanics. Another way I like to put it, is that it’s an inductive, instead of deductive, approach to analyzing storytelling.

like in a literature or writing class you’re learning the elements that are part of the basic functioning of a story, so, character, plot, setting, et cetera. You’re learning the things that make a story a story, and why. Like, you learn what setting is, what defines it, and work from there to what makes it effective, and the range of ways it can be effective.

here’s the thing, though: everyone has some intuitive understanding of how stories work. if we didn’t, we couldn’t…understand stories.

TvTropes’s approach is bottom-up instead of top-down: instead of trying to exhaustively explore the broad, general elements of story, it identifies very small, specific elements, and explores the absolute shit out of how they fit, what they do, where they go, how they work.

Every TvTropes article is basically, “Here is a piece of a story that is part of many different stories. You have probably seen it before, but if not, here is a list of stories that use it, where it is, and what it’s doing in those stories. Here are some things it does. Here is why it is functionally different than other, similar story pieces. Here is some background on its origins and how audiences respond to it.”

all of this is BRILLIANT for a lot of reasons. one of the major ones is that the site has long lists of media that utilizes any given trope, ranging from classic literature to cartoons to video games to advertisements. the Iliad and Adventure Time ARE different things, but they are MADE OF the same stuff. And being able to study dozens of examples of a trope in action teaches you to see the common thread in what the trope does and why its specific characteristics let it do that

I love TvTropes because a great, renowned work of literature and a shitty, derivative YA novel will appear on the same list, because they’re Made Of The Same Stuff. And breaking down that mental barrier between them is good on its own for developing a mechanical understanding of storytelling.

But also? I think one of the biggest blessings of TvTropes’s commitment to cataloguing examples of tropes regardless of their “merit” or literary value or whatever…is that we get to see the full range of effectiveness or ineffectiveness of storytelling tools. Like, this is how you see what makes one book good and another book crappy. Tropes are Tools, and when you observe how a master craftsman uses a tool vs. a novice, you can break down not only what the tool is most effective for but how it is best used.

In fact? There are trope pages devoted to what happens when storytelling tools just unilaterally fail. e.g. Narm is when creators intend something to be frightening, but audiences find it hilarious instead.

On that note, TvTropes is also great in that its analysis of stories is very grounded in authors, audiences, and culture; it’s not solely focused on in-story elements. A lot of the trope pages are categories for audience responses to tropes, or for real-world occurrences that affected the storytelling, or just the human failings that creep into storytelling and affect it, like Early Installment Weirdness. There are categories for censorship-driven storytelling decisions. There are “lineages” of tropes that show how storytelling has changed over time, and how audience responses change as culture changes. Tropes like Draco in Leather Pants or Narm are catalogued because the audience reaction to a story is as much a part of that story—the story of that story?—as the “canon.”

like, storytelling is inextricable from context. it’s inextricable from how big the writers’ budget was, and how accepting of homophobia the audience was, and what was acceptable to be shown on film at the time. Tropes beget other tropes, one trope is exchanged for another, they are all linked. A Dead Horse Trope becomes an Undead Horse Trope, and sometimes it was a Dead Unicorn Trope all along. What was this work responding to? And all works are responding to something, whether they know it or not

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Three moods

"What if I'm wrong about canon? What if these characters are out-of-character or I'm wrong about this story element?"

"Screw canon this is my fanon, I do what I want."

"What if I'm doing a poor job of getting across my preferred fanon to my readers? What if I'm doing a poor job at getting across the personality that I've chosen to portray or this story element that I'm trying to write?"

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Something that's been dinging around my head, is a story idea where the world is infected by "corruption" that slowly distorts the world and turns people aggressive.

It's due to a dream I had that involved such a corruption, it was later I had the idea to use it for Rayman fanfiction.

I was thinking, what if the Heart of The World did get appropriated by black lums, causing the light of Rayman's world to slowly turn black?

It's a story I wish to try to write, and fingers crossed, this might actually turn into a proper fanfiction, with a plot.

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Headcanon time.

You know, the Rayman world is made out of lums (Rayman 2 and Rayman 3) .

Wouldn't this mean contagious disease would necessarily be caused either by pathogenic lums or by some kind of toxic magic? Or by energy vampirism, becuase that's a thing in my headcanon.

I doubt bacteria and viruses exist proper in the Rayman world; lums are the most basic form of life.

If we're talking about Rayman 1, then electoons and antitoons are the most basic form of life. Antitoons could function as infective agents on the electoon-based creatures (and hypothetically, vice versa)

Rayman Origins seems a bit more uncertain on this matter.

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I'm meaning to try this theme later

◍ oxygen theme.

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some things aren't even headcanons they're just divine visions and u have no choice but to accept them

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Developing intense fannishness for a character is such a pain sometimes.

I can feel shame overtaking me as they're all I can draw or write about, my ability to draw other things deteriorates, the profitability of my work suffers greatly. One day I think maybe I could make it as a professional visual artist, and then for the next entire year I can only draw Blorbo from My Shows.

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Nine hours of work later, it's done!

Illustrated that scene from The Great Return where Rayman is peacefully jamming out on his new guitar and watching the moon.