#The Bells of Fraggle Rock

[daystilchristmas]

There's 62 Days Til Christmas!

[bobauthorman]

It's the Winter Solstice...

And that means only one thing...

It's time for Fraggle Rock's Festival of Bells!

[radarsteddybear]

Fraggle Rock songs that should have made it to an album part 5/?

"There's a Promise" | The Fraggles | "The Bells of Fraggle Rock"

[its-to-the-death]

Battle of the Gingers Wave 1 Preliminary Round #9

Whoever gets the most votes moves onto the next wave

[animatronicdoozer]

I feel soooooooo chriiiisssmasssyyy

[mokey-rock]

The Festival Of The Bells is a wondrous time in Fraggle Rock! A time for remembrance, cheer, and good tidings. Most importantly, its home to the Bell Ceremony, where on the eve' of the festival.... all fraggles join to ring their painted bells in unison to please the Great Bell. A symbol of fraggledoms hearts beating as one. Fraggles then exchange bells amongst each other , a symbol of friendship and unity. These bells are often painted with intriquite designs, or as simple as polka-dots!

[prokopetz]

Something I love about The Far Roofs is how much of a swerve its premise is if you're coming to it uninitiated.

Okay, so there's these talking rats with a culture of swashbuckling heroism – basic Redwall/Reepicheep stuff.

Also, there's a magical realm called the Far Roofs which exists above every human community, and that's where the rats go adventuring; a little weird, but you can see the precedents in popular fiction. It's like wainscot fantasy taken to its logical-yet-absurd conclusion.

By default, the game wants you to play as a fictionalised version of your (presumably human!) self and go up onto the Far Roofs to have adventures with the rats. All right, now it's coming together: it's like isekai fantasy meets The Muppet Show, with you as the obligatory human character, right?

Then we get to the nature of those adventures: the rats have this whole culture built around questing against beings they call "the Mysteries" – beasties with names like Harpy and Goblin and Unicorn. So basically it's a bunch of muppety rats on the roofs fighting Dungeons & Dragons monsters, and you go up and help them do it. Great.

And then you get to what the Mysteries are actually like, and... well, I'm going to let the following excerpt carry the weight here. (This particular bit of text also appears in a previously published work by the same author, so I'm not giving anything away that's still under wraps.)

Unicorn, which is named Numinous, dwells three steps away and beyond the world, but most often in the Farthest Roofs, where the Steppes of the Sky come down to touch the Vast and Earthen Court. There it is stepping upwards from the world, as it has always been stepping upwards from the world, caught in a moment of transcendent glory that does not complete. It simply is. Melanthios heard the footsteps of Unicorn. Melanthios heard the ringing of Unicorn’s bells. So Melanthios chased Unicorn off to the Farthest Roofs, and Melanthios did not return. Anton and Karel, who were his sons, were wiser than their father. They heard the bells but they did not follow. Instead, they memorized the scent. They gathered swords, and ropes, and nets, and they went out. They brought food and water and all manner of gear. They clung to the roofs with all four feet wheresoever after Unicorn they went. It proved no good. Anton looked up, and Karel to his brother. The world came down— That’s what Karel said. He had time to look away. He had time to bury his head in his paws. He did not see the fullness of Unicorn’s presence. He only saw Anton his brother become unreal. In the light of the moment of the Unicorn, Anton became as a paper figure in the fire. His reality burned out. His shadow seared into the roofs behind him. Where he’d stood, for just a moment, the Steppes of the Sky came down to touch the Vast and Earthen Court; and Anton was gone away. So Karel ran and Karel ran and Karel ran from the Unicorn; and all his life, he envied but was more fortunate than his brother.

These are gods. You're going up there to kill God.

Like, it's still silly wainscot fantasy with funny talking rats, but there's that tension. It's like if Fraggle Rock occasionally took a hard turn to serious cosmic horror – Lord Dunsany by way of Jim Henson – and that tonal juxtaposition was treated as something unremarkable.

Basically what I'm saying is go back The Far Roofs.

[braimrotting]

is there a list of all the qsmp streamers chats + their manifestations? Like,

(streamer - chat name - chat body)

phil - crows - murder of crows

bad - ghosties - blue ghosts (like the ones w the haunted bell i think?)

slime - goopers? gunkers? - little slimes

foolish - doozers - doozers (fraggle rock)

vegetta - guapisimos - {}

roier - guapitos* - spiders?

cellbit - gatinhos* - voices

tazercraft - chumadores - lab rats

felps - bapo - {}

etoiles - {} - fireflies

(*) i think these names are specifically between cellboiers chats, like how bads chat calls forevers chat kens and vice versa but w barbie. so im not sure if these names count.

if anyone knows any others, ill edit my list to add them! (please do help lmao im rlly curious and i feel like its such a cool little quirk) (also i have like no idea for the french streamers)

[millipedish]

Backstory or Headcanon Thing

In fraggle rock, when adult fraggles want to raise fraggle young, they sing a song that manifests a fraggle egg. This song can be sung by anywhere from one to five fraggles.

John Fraggle and Cantus Fraggle were hatched to the same family. They did not live in Fraggle Rock, but another community. Their parents were always angry and took it out on their sons, and they developed different coping mechanisms. Cantus was a rebel who caused chaos in his community. John was a yes-man who was then referred to as Wembling John. 

When Cantus opened up a portal to the strange country known as Outer Space, he ventured out. Ever worried over his brother, Wemblin John followed him. In that world, they met silly creatures, had many encounters that changed them. 

Cantus fell in with a gang of hippies. He talked to people who, like him, had been hurt by the Way Things Are. They had come together because they wanted to live in a kinder way. He was given a weird, carved pipe by one of his silly creature friends. It had a weird design, with two reeds and two bells, and it wouldn’t make any sound at all. He also was very high when he received it, and he totally forgot who gifted it to him. But Cantus cherished it nonetheless.

Wembling John discovered a silly creature nest(or a nest for human beings, as they preferred to call themselves) known as the Car Dealership. He learned about Money, and that convincing people to part with it was the greatest virtue of all. And he had a skill for it. He was given the nickname Convincing John and it stuck. The Boss Human Being took a liking to him, and brought him to a place dear to him, a place called Church. John was especially enraptured by the music he heard there, and started turning Human Being music into sales pitches. He never really understood the appeal of this money that the human beings desired so much- to him convincing was its own reward!

Cantus found Convincing John at the car dealership. His friends had told him that money was the root of all evil, so he convinced him to leave outer space with him. They came home, one wiser, and one more cunning. 

They split up again. Cantus met many outcast creatures and formed a found musical family with them. Over time, the magic of his world would seep into his outer space pipe. Not only would it make noise now, but it would make a unique sound every time a fraggle blew into it. 

John went on offering his convincing services to anyone who requested them. Three fraggle girls noticed how suggestable he was, and they resolved to travel around with him to protect him. Cantus kept moving around, and John settled on the outskirts of Fraggle Rock.

[chickensarentcheap]

Esme was definitely into watching things like Fraggle Rock, Full House, Magic School Bus, Ninja Turtles, My Little Pony.

She'd get a blue raspberry slurpee and reeses' peanut butter cups

She wanted to own a book store :)

She loves peonies and Australian wild flowers. Especially canberra bells and chorizema

Bears, giraffe, elephants, goats, tigers

Definitely the Bachelor and Bachelorette stuff

Knowing Esme, her first DVD she owned was Titanic

Becoming a mom :)

She loves reaction videos

The smell of gasoline

@tragiclyhip

[goblin-iz-whack]

Tell me more about the lady rockies! Do you have names for them? Are they related to each other or the other rockies?

OMG YES THIS IS THE EXACT ASK I WANTED

From left to right: Rochlynn, Rockenzie, and Roxandra

So, the three of them are triplets, but they're not blood related to the other Rockies.

They're a few years younger than the other Rockies, they arrived to Apollo Victoria scared and Nameless. The Rockies took them in because they view every boxcar as family, and the girls gave themselves names that went with theirs! Momma and Belle adopted the triplets and boom, new Rockies!!

Rochlynn is just a bubbly gal, she does stunts that always get her injured. Think Red from Fraggle Rock, that's basically her.

Rockenzie is "the pretty one" (nevermind that they all look extremely similar), she mostly has vanity muscle and dreams of winning pageants. Unfortunately only coaches and select engines really have pageants, but she's running petitions to get freight pageants.

Roxandra is the baby of the group, not just because she's the youngest. She's the most niave, and sweet, which is fine and all but the world of trainfolk is very cruel, so her family worries for her.

[franciya]

The Bells of Fraggle Rock (1984)

[darkangel0410]

WRITING QUESTIONS TAG GAME

what is your absolute all-time favorite idea you’ve ever had? I pretty much love all my ideas, tbh, but probably the godlings verse and necromancer au

what is your favorite part of being a writer? which parts could you take or leave? One of my favorites is worldbuilding, hands down - making up new ways to have werewolves or soulmates or magic or vampires, how would they work? How would their world work??? I love answering that. I also love taking my faves and putting them in different places and saying, 'ok now how are you different? who are you now? are you still you??'

Least favorite is editing which is a crime against me personally, no matter how necessary it is

what is your greatest motivation to write/create? I have mostly two motivations which is 1. whatever I want to read isn't there so I have to write it myself, and 2. I want to know what happens when I put Brendan Brisson in the middle of an urban fantasy verse and make him a witch - what happens when I put Trevor Zegras and Alex Turcotte in Fall Out Boy and make Jamie Drysdale Mikeyway? What happens? I want to find out so I write

wait, actually there's a third reason: spite - that speaks for itself I'm sure lmao

what is your favorite story you’ve written to completion? link it if you’d like and can! every fic I finish is my favorite on some level, and there's definitely some recency bias at work, but probably trouble at my door (necromancer au)

what is your favorite out-of-the-box quote? of my fics? hmmmm well, I do have one that I wrote recently that I'm really happy with,, because it's amusing to me and pretty much sums up Trevor in this verse, it's from my cali ot3 FOB au WIP, so I guess have a sneak peek:

Alex's voice is low and mean; it would have sent anyone who knew him running, except Trevor who didn't have the self-preservation instincts nature gave a lemming.

which of your characters would you say has the most controversial mindset? why do you say so and how do you personally feel about their ideals? Probably any of the werewolves from my bleed out for you verse because they're basically horror movie werewolves who consider people animals, and they're a blast to write but you know, I'm pretty glad I don't live there lol

if you, when you first started writing, met you now, what would younger you think? I started telling stories when I was like six, so I imagine past-me would have a lot to say about everything, lmaooo, and also want to know why I was writing that fraggle rock/he-man crossover I used to act out with my toys???

Tagging: @007waffles007 @adamsgirl42 @coricomile @candy-belle @cokehead-zeroed @frostbeees @hard4softthings and anyone else who wants to do it!!

[fraggled]

Top 5 Fraggle Rock episodes?

I’m just gonna keep this list for the original series run, though I am open for doing one for Back to the Rock. This was really hard to narrow down, there are a lot of good episodes in the original series.

1.) Beast of Blue Rock

2.) We Love You Wembley

3.) Change of Address

4.) Beginnings

5.) The Bells of Fraggle Rock

[fallen-child-escapism]

Woober Rock:Chapter 5

The time had come for the five fraggle friends to meet up at Gobo and Wembley's den. Red arrived first. Mokey would be in the grand kitchen finishing up lunch. That left Boober. "Where is he?", Red asked. "Maybe hes takin' a nap", Gobo offered. Wembley shook his head,"Boober hates naps Gobo" Gobo shrugged," Since you know him so well hiw bout you go get him" Wembley made a small sound of confusion before he realized his brother was being serious. Maybe, he thought, maybe this would be a good time to tell Boober what he saw. It shouldnt be a secret, right? This is what Wembley thought as he walked to Boober's den. He probably should know but what if when he finds out and he worries?Wembley would hate to have Boober worry. But if he already knows hes already worrying! He just needs to make sure Boober knows that Wembley thinks hes beautiful no matter what.

As wembley juggled these ideas in his head, he came to the entrance to Boober's Den. He knocked," Hey uh Boober? Gobo and Red are waiting on you! Um, but, Before we go back over there I really need to talk to you!" Boober yanked the curtain open, paws shaking,"Come inside "

Wembley and Boober sat on the couch together. Boober held his tail in his lap. "So...Um, Last night, or uh- This morning, I woke up before you", Wembley spoke softly, as softly as he could. "...okay", He could tell Boober was anxious of every word that came out of his mouth. He just needed to try and not scare him off," And Boober I want you to know that I respect your boundaries and I understand if this makes you really upset. And I want you to know you are the absolute most handsome fraggle in the whole rock", Wembley couldnt tell what emotion Boober was feeling. It made him nervous. "I saw your face, before you woke up. Just a little bit of it and I didnt stare! I just saw it cus your hair was out of the way"

Boober was quiet. He had so many thoughts. His face? Thats what this is about? It was so sweet of wembley to tell him. Honestly if he wanted anyone to know about his eyes, Wembley would be the fraggle. And here he was comvinced Wembley was going to cut him off because he found out about his crush.

"Its okay ", He finally said and Wembley let out a sigh of relief. "I... I don't like showing people a lot cus I used to get teased. But I'm not super upset you saw it", Boober's shaky paws reached for his hat and he laid it in his lap. Then he parted his hair and for the first time in years, he looked someone in the eye. "I dont mind as much because its you, Wembley"

Wembley's heart was going to jump out of his little fraggle body. Boobers face, His eyes, Everything about him in that moment made Wembley feel on cloud nine. He was gorgeous. His eyes were two different colors, one brown and one baby blue. They looked cloudy. And the rest of his face was just...wow. He had sadly deep bags under his eyes, but his face was soft and kind. "Boober..."

"Hey Wembley! Boober! The lunch bell has already rang what is taking so long!", Wembley and Boober both scrambled to get themselves together and Wembley watched as Boober pushed his bangs back into his face and pulled his hat back on. Then he turned to Wembley. Wembleys face flushed. He gave Boober's paw a gentle squeeze and rushed to the curtain, " Sorry guys we got busy!" "Oh yeah? Doing what?", Gobo raised an eyebrow. "Nothing! Lets go! Im starving!", Wembley Lead the way to the Great Hall.

[myshredda]

do you celebrate any holidays during this time of year? If so, how do you imagine the clump celebrating that holiday?

I personally celebrate christmas in the way every ex-evangelical raised person does where you just kind of feel weird around the holidays but you do the christmas tree/decorations thing and exchange gifts but it all feels very empty so i’m not too attached to it. I have nostalgia for the music and how it used to feel to be a kid on christmas but aside from that i’m eh about it

I think the clump would most likely either do christmas the british people way with boxing day and the whole deal or just some generic winter holiday gift giving allegory for christmas the way kid shows like to do for some reason (like festival of the Bells on fraggle rock)

joke answer is they celebrate Festivus like on Seinfeld because Duck acts like George’s dad