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New Year Update

My first post of the year! TLDR: Updated socials, continued Megaman manga, started the OG Japanese version of Kirby Mania Manga, no new Astro Boy/ Atom the Beginning material, and may finally start writing because I'm a Rayman simp.

I updated my master post and added a Linktree for all of my social media accounts, including my BlueSky account. I haven't really used it yet, besides posting an introduction post.

Ongoing Projects

The Megaman Mega/Gigamix mangas are still in progress. I finished Gigamix Vol.1 a while ago and plan to eventually focus on Megamix Vol.2 in the future.

A new project I'm working on is the Kirby of the Stars: The Tale of Dedede in Pupupu Village. It's the original Japanese version of Kirby Manga Mania, which is just a greatest hits version collection of Hikawa Hirokazu (Did you know he also did the 90's Japanese Sonic the Hedgehog manga? Everything leads back to Sonic, Kirby or Astro Boy.) best/favorite stories and supposedly new stories (I only have the first 4 (Or 5?) volumes so I'm not sure If I can confirm that or not.) officially translated and published by VIZ media.

This means, however, that some stories may never get translated. And yes, you can read the official raw Japanese scans on the Corocoro website, but only certain chapters are viewable for a limited time before being locked. So after some searching and planning, I bought the complete 25 vols of The Tale of Dedede in Pupupu Village a few months ago. The glue binding is brittle so I can easily (yet carefully) rip out the pages and scan them easily. I should be done with vol.1 this month.

Other than this, I have no other Kirby-related projects.

Save for keeping tabs on some Moderno Tezuka coloring books,I have no Astro Boy/Atom the Beginning/Tezuka projects in the works. I'm currently looking for this Ehoba Doujinshi so If you know where I can grab it please contact me!

Writing

Got into Captain Laserhawk and of course, started simping over Rayman/Ramon and to a lesser extent Bullfrog. Sadly there is not a lot of printed media for me to post, as It's a fairly new IP (Only a year or so old), and I might get hit with a takedown notice if I post the manga/comic/artbook. So I can at least try to write about them. I'm still in the Kirby fandom so maybe I'll do some pieces on them too.

Ect.

Royal.V dropped a new song for the Rayman 2 fan remake so maybe I'll set up my YouTube channel and post the lost songs I discovered a while back? I also have some old PC games I want to archive, but I need to buy an external disk drive and honestly, this is pretty low on my to-buy and to-do list so it'll happen when it happens.

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Self Destruct (Redraw)

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Laserhawk Rayman redesign I did That the people of twitter enjoyed Very much 💥

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👀 (sound on)

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@chibifox2002 you're putting ideas in his head!!!

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i miss vhs tapes and cds i miss feeding my computers and tvs yummy treats. now theyre eating nothing. theyre being born without mouths

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Presenting, "Boop," the 9th painting in my Close Encounters Collection!

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The 24 Character Strengths are awesome references when writing characters!!

I've found this website to be extremely helpful and cool while fleshing out my characters' personalities and motivations.

Even if I only have basic personality traits for a character, exploring strengths that I feel fits them and reading their descriptions is fantastic for inspiration!! It really helps narrow down the basic ideals I imagine a character would believe in, and then I can get more specific from there. It's a great guide to springboard off of!

Each strength is sorted into one of six virtues. Starting with a broad virtue, for example "justice," and honing that down into the strengths of "fairness," "leadership," or "teamwork" makes writing them really fun!

Here's an example of the "fairness" strength description! Lots of detail and tangible qualities describing it!

Of course there are infinite ways to interpret a character strength, just like in real life. And people aren't always black and white and follow a strength 100% of the time. But it's been extremely helpful to see specific traits being described in so much detail, and imagining different scenarios that a character would react in. It's like I can understand them a bit more and think a little like them, especially if their trait isn't one of my personal strengths. :3

But I also recommend taking the actual personality test for yourself! I took it years ago and it was really cool to put a name to some of my strengths and see how detailed this descriptions were. And when my friends and I shared our results, I felt like we understood each other just a little more. :)

Just thought I'd share this reference that's been helping me lately :D

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Some kind of Ramon fancy villan AU, idk man💀

Someone has to stop me

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the show will go

oh look a comic

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Hi! This is your drug TW!

Okay, so, I've deduced what Rayman is snorting in this scene:

It's benzos. he's snorting straight xanax.

How do I know it's benzodiazepines? Here we go:

The blue color

Originally, I choked the blue color up to being a stylistic choice. I didn't think the blue color mattered, and that he was in fact snorting cocaine. However, the blue color does matter—cocaine is white, and benzodiazepines (in the hard pill form you can crush up and snort) are colored, usually blue.

The red eyes

For a while, I was like "Is this a Breaking Bad reference? Is he snorting biker meth?", but I did more research, methamphetamine doesn't make your eyes red. So we look at the (common) drugs that abuse causes red eyes: Marijuana, Cocaine, Crack, Benzodiazepines, Depressants, and Inhalants. And when we look at which one of those is famously blue, we get benzos!

The symptoms

Some symptoms of benzodiapines are: shaking (like the twitching seen after he snorts it, which can also be choked up to the act of snorting itself), confusion and thinking problems (he's having trouble calming down, has racing thoughts, etc.), aggression (most commonly when used with alcohol), and nystagmus (repetitive, uncontrolled movement of the eyes)

(Check the beginning of Episode 5 at these points for twitching and nystagmus)

Why he's taking them.

Cocaine gets you excited, but benzodiapines are calming. Rayman is stressed and scared, taking cocaine would only make that worse for him. He's taking something meant to calm him and relieve stress.

What about the alcohol?

Rayman has mixed benzodiapines with alcohol, very clearly. This comes with it's own host of issues: impaired judgement, unusual behavior, and increased risk of violence. All of these can potentially be seen during episodes 3 and 5, and 6.

Other evidence:

Benzodiapine abuse can leave to nausea and appetite loss. When Rayman throws up later in the episode, we can see that he's not eaten anything that day, and the only thing in his stomach was the juice Bullfrog gave him:

He likely didn't have an appetite, either because of stress or because of the drugs he was taking.

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my bad i think might be back on the rayman grind yall idk

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Ramon Chevalier (This was my possible* audhd brain not letting me rest) Originally this was gonna be a shitpost but like I was way too into it and now I'm like goddammit.

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Ramon~😡🫵🏼 When interdimensional alien scum strikes back...

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Ramon~😡🫵🏼 It's payback time!

"Nobody makes a f***ing move!"