Durry: You People Always Drag Me Into Your Crazy Schemes!Mariel: Well This Time We Can Make Do Without

Durry: You people always drag me into your crazy schemes! Mariel: Well this time we can make do without you. Durry: What's wrong with me all of a sudden?! Mariel: Well alright, come along if you want to. Durry: No, I don't want to. I just wanted you to ask me.

one of the coolest aspects in Redwall that didn't get expanded upon (mainly because it wasn't relevant) is knowing this may not be an alternative world, but may be our world millenia in the future because of a vague mention of humans, not only in book one, but in book like 16 or 17 (Whichever one High Rhulain is), long after the Early Installment Weirdness wore off.

The bad guy literally says that his ancestors (wildcats) freed his wife's ancestors (domestic cats) from being domestic by some entity that had domesticated them.

Love the idea that wildcats were the first beings to gain sentience, take over the world and enslave other beings, and then like 60000 years later, the other species had grown to also be sentient with humanlike intelligence.

thoughts about Redwall (the first book) part 2

Matthias calls Warbeak a hussy which lmao I guess that has less of a (!) connotation over there than it does over here.

like how in the US we use fanny but ya'll don't

apparently the general concensus is that it's the best book in the series.

I do wish some of the ideas and viciousness had carried over and agree there's a lot of pointless subplots in later books but I don't know if I agree with that.

the parodies to old-school christianity was definitely something that we did better without although the idea of a fake animal religion would be an amazing point (and is apparently slightly touched upon in Taggerung, which I remember being top 5)

dang now I have written about 3 chapters of a fanfiction

Every viewpoint in Lord Brocktree had a point to culminate at Salamandastron at the end.

no villain has ever been as competent as Cluny

why did we never see Noonvale again

it's so funny how Cluny killed one of his subordinates with his poisoned tail in seconds yet he whipped an old man with it and it took him about 30 minutes to die

but I guess that was because he needed the time to tell the 13 year old protagonist to defend the abbey and marry the other 13 year old.

bc apparently Matthias and Cornflower are supposed to be around 13 like lmao WHAT c'mon I didn't think that even as a child reading these they could be 20 at least. that's still young.

"Putting this delight in the pleasures of food on the page was Jacques’ goal, as both a fantasy and corrective."

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I think about the food in the Redwall books way too often.

Image from Youtube If you were the kind of young reader that I was, you devoured the Redwall books by Brian “allowed to smoke indoors” Jacqu

Togie and his new friends take a rest

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I haven't finished my previous BJD project but I've started another one >w<

This will be a Redwall-inspired stylized mouse) One day) Maybe) For now this needs a lot of editing. Knees and hips don't work the way I intended them to.