Ooouuuu It Looks Decadent

Ooouuuu it looks decadent

“Abbot’s Special Abbey Trifle” from the Redwall cookbook!

I gladly volunteer to be Veil’s mother figure

I think I have this idea of Veil in my head that he’s a sweet hurt little boy, which may be true, but he’s also a bratty mean child. It makes me so sad. And the thing is- children are like that! He’s only like 12 years old and I dearly wish he had a better life. It didn’t get better for him, it just ended. I love him so much.

Ah goddammit, Outcast has been living rent-free in my head for the last two weeks now. I love that book, and I hate that book, and I wish the subject matter had been handled better. And no, I don't care if anyone thinks the "dumb kiddie animal books" are cringe as hell, this is my brain right now. I want to gather that kid up in my arms and protect him because goddammit the people who should have been able to put their issues aside and protected him just failed that kid so damn hard. Nature versus Nurture my ass, gah.

Do not @ me. I am feeling feels right now. Even twelve year-old me thought that whole thing was fucked up.

Great Mouse Detective/Redwall crossover idea in which Redwall takes place in medieval times and Basil mainly knows about them through legends, much like how we view King Arthur today.

He becomes obsessed with the idea that the legends are true and with finding the remains of the abbey

He asks Watson on a vacation with him and off they go to the country to search for the lost abbey of Redwall

Without knowing where to look, they start by asking the locals. They meet a community of shrews living on the bank of a river, and later a tribe of otters who call their leader Skipper. They both have a different story to tell about the legend of the abbey. They’ve definitely heard of it, but no one seems to know exactly where it is, until…

In classic Redwall fashion, they are led on meth hunt through the woods, following a series of riddles leading them to the Abbey. When they finally arrive, nothing is to be found.

They are about to give up, when, in a moment of frustration, Basil kicks at a tree stump. It gives a hollow think. After some careful examination with Basil’s magnifying glass, they find hinges buried beneath a layer of moss, and with that, a door, carefully concealed in the bark.

A long dark tunnel leads them through dirt and grime, deep beneath the earth until round the bend, a warm yellow light can be seen, and voices, full of laughter and welcome.

As it turns out, the moles have been digging out bits of the long buried abbey for years. Slowly rooms have been dug out and given new life. Beams that had long since turned to dust or been eaten by termites have been replaced and reinforced to hold the weight of the earth above. Air vents and chimney shafts went arching off from almost every window, and a series of water pipes were busy being fitted to be pumped in from the nearby river.

Slowly the Abbey was once again becoming a place of refuge for peaceful creatures to live in harmony. Under the care of the moles, there is life in the place once again.

Basil and Watson had come through a not long abandoned tunnel, through to what once was Cavern Hole. There, they are immediately offered hospitality and are fed a meal of the most delicious country fare a mouse could ask for.

Being from the city, Basil and Watson have never associated much with hedgehogs and moles and the like, but they find them to be the very best of company.

Idk about the actual plot, but eventually they have to go home. Basil misses his beloved London and the speed and rigor of city life, while Watson has a practice to attend to, but from then on, whenever a mouse or any other creature comes to them in need, to Redwall they are sent, for the doors will always be open to them

Anyway anyone else have any ideas? I just think the concept of Redwall being a legend past and Basil being obsessed with it is cool

A Photo For Every Book I Read This Year: Doomwyte by Brian Jacques

Hehe

Horty, looking at the map: it really is a featureless, barren wasteland out there, isn’t it

Bragoon: other side Horty, that’s the back

ok so i decided to reread The Bellmaker since i was suuper into redwall a while ago and now idk what it is but i literally cannot stop thinking about how gay Durry and Rufe are