thebibliosphere:

aristoteliancomplacency:

aristoteliancomplacency:

Currently I am experience a sudden strength of regret for ever getting rid of my collection of Redwall books. Nostalgiaaaaaaa.

I also regret throwing out the book in which I had carefully copied out all the poems/riddles from every Redwall book at the time (and all the poems/riddles from the Hobbit, and LotR, and The Dark is Rising… Apparently that’s just a thing I did as a kid? And then I learned them all by heart. I don’t remember them all by now, but I can still sing the Fall of Gil-galad, and I remember memorising it on a ferry to France when I was 10. I was wearing red denim dungarees at the time, and it was a rather windy voyage. I have no idea why I remember any of this, but it probably explains why I remember that particular song so well).

Reeeedwaaaaalllllll <3333333

All my copies are back home in the UK, it’s on my list of things to ship over here.

I was literally just about to message you asking if you still had your copies XP

aristoteliancomplacency:

Currently I am experience a sudden strength of regret for ever getting rid of my collection of Redwall books. Nostalgiaaaaaaa.

I also regret throwing out the book in which I had carefully copied out all the poems/riddles from every Redwall book at the time (and all the poems/riddles from the Hobbit, and LotR, and The Dark is Rising… Apparently that’s just a thing I did as a kid? And then I learned them all by heart. I don’t remember them all by now, but I can still sing the Fall of Gil-galad, and I remember memorising it on a ferry to France when I was 10. I was wearing red denim dungarees at the time, and it was a rather windy voyage. I have no idea why I remember any of this, but it probably explains why I remember that particular song so well).

Currently I am experience a sudden strength of regret for ever getting rid of my collection of Redwall books. Nostalgiaaaaaaa.

beholdthemem:

One thing I really appreciate about the Redwall books is that while the Abbey characters try to take a nonviolent approach to life on principle, the second someone starts hurting innocents, they lose that privilege. None of that ‘If we harm our enemies, are we really any better than they are?’ stuff that you traditionally see pushed in this genre- you are provided one chance to stop causing harm and leave Mossflower in peace, and if you don’t take it, then you will be buried there. Like, the Abbeybeasts are never HAPPY to be engaging in violence, but by God will they do so if necessary.

All these sweet little woodland animals grimly heating up oil to pour over the army trying to burn down their building while simultaneously preparing extra beds for the invaders’ galley slaves because 'Once all this nastiness is over I’m sure those poor things would like a nice place to rest while we see about dinner’. Every time! They sigh, because they were really, really hoping to avoid this, but nobody ever takes the Quit While You’re Ahead option.

They take the same approach to violence as the Thistlesprings in Fantasy High. “Now bud, listen, you remember what we’ve always taught you: you’ve always gotta be kind… you’ve always gotta try your best… but there is no sense in being a fucking pushover.”

“We might be small, and we’re real nice- we try to be kind to everybody! But if you come to the Abbey tree, you’d better be ready to never fucking leave!”

beholdthemem:

I remember as a kid, Gingivere having genuine concern and affection towards Verdauga- which did actually seem to be somewhat returned? In our first introduction to him, he reprimands Tsarmina for snapping at her brother, before gently-but-firmly reprimanding Gingivere for not fighting his own battles- was my first exposure to the idea that someone could be both a loving parent, yet a bad person.

I was so used to the bad guys I found in fiction being like. Either Ozai level abusive parents, to sort of cement that ‘They’re so callous that they don’t treat their own children any better than the other people they hurt!’- or bad guys that SEEMED really awful until we saw that they loved their kids to indicate 'See, they aren’t so bad, there’s some good in them after all!’

And then there was Verdauga.

Verdauga was not a good guy. Before we actually meet him, we see what his rule over the country has done to the people there. Poverty abounds. There’s little to no food for the citizens living near Kotir, and we know that’s not because there was never any to begin with- no matter how many mouths you have to feed, whatever you can harvest is to go to the castle. Anybody who objects is either killed or imprisoned. When we meet Ben and Goody, they’re trying to decide whether or not to risk freezing to death trying to escape- what ends up being the deciding factor is that their young children will have to start working in the fields at Kotir if they don’t. That’s how life IS under the wildcats.

And then we meet Verdauga- old, ill, nearing the end of his life but no less violent for it- and watch how he interacts with his children. He doesn’t insult them. He doesn’t demean them. He treats them… with a certain amount of respect. He’s in charge, but doesn’t rub that in their faces unnecessarily, only exerting authority to make a point. He’s not overtly sentimental, but we can see that to a certain extent he cares about them.

That was a new concept, and I still remember being fascinated by the implications.

wizard0rb:

deanwinchesterapologist:

a scientist will see a mouse and say put that beast in a situation

children’s book authors do this also

Once a Redwall fan, always a Redwall fan

paperbeast:

Once a Redwall fan, always a Redwall fan

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milknhoneyvalley:

normal-horoscopes:

normal-horoscopes:

normal-horoscopes:

I love the Redwall series. It’s just: “And then Colonel Wollywosh, the fastest rabbit in all the land, committed a real ass war crime.”

“Oi no sah, I dunno if oi’ll do ‘at!” ahouted Snotfuck the rat as he tackled Pogwap the stoat, gouging out both of his eyes with his thumbs and biting off his ears and throwing his corpse into a lake

And then all the animals sat down for a picnic of the most delicious food you’ve ever heard described in a book.

normal-horoscopes:

normal-horoscopes:

normal-horoscopes:

I love the Redwall series. It’s just: “And then Colonel Wollywosh, the fastest rabbit in all the land, committed a real ass war crime.”

“Oi no sah, I dunno if oi’ll do ‘at!” ahouted Snotfuck the rat as he tackled Pogwap the stoat, gouging out both of his eyes with his thumbs and biting off his ears and throwing his corpse into a lake

And then all the animals sat down for a picnic of the most delicious food you’ve ever heard described in a book.

normal-horoscopes:

normal-horoscopes:

normal-horoscopes:

I love the Redwall series. It’s just: “And then Colonel Wollywosh, the fastest rabbit in all the land, committed a real ass war crime.”

“Oi no sah, I dunno if oi’ll do ‘at!” ahouted Snotfuck the rat as he tackled Pogwap the stoat, gouging out both of his eyes with his thumbs and biting off his ears and throwing his corpse into a lake

And then all the animals sat down for a picnic of the most delicious food you’ve ever heard described in a book.

normal-horoscopes:

normal-horoscopes:

normal-horoscopes:

I love the Redwall series. It’s just: “And then Colonel Wollywosh, the fastest rabbit in all the land, committed a real ass war crime.”

“Oi no sah, I dunno if oi’ll do ‘at!” ahouted Snotfuck the rat as he tackled Pogwap the stoat, gouging out both of his eyes with his thumbs and biting off his ears and throwing his corpse into a lake

And then all the animals sat down for a picnic of the most delicious food you’ve ever heard described in a book.

mice-rats-daily:

Today’s mouse is Gonff the Mousethief from Redwall!

normal-horoscopes:

normal-horoscopes:

normal-horoscopes:

I love the Redwall series. It’s just: “And then Colonel Wollywosh, the fastest rabbit in all the land, committed a real ass war crime.”

“Oi no sah, I dunno if oi’ll do ‘at!” ahouted Snotfuck the rat as he tackled Pogwap the stoat, gouging out both of his eyes with his thumbs and biting off his ears and throwing his corpse into a lake

And then all the animals sat down for a picnic of the most delicious food you’ve ever heard described in a book.

give it up for Marto

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