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Thoughts on "Are the Redwall Animals Monarchist"

I could see them being like, pro-monarchy but wanting to not have an actual monarch. Like identifying stuff as "the Queen's royal navy" or "the crown jewels" or celebrating "the kings birthday". But without having an actual person in that role. .

Maybe they're holding the spot for King Arthur to return? IDK

They're just singing "God save the King" very earnestly but aren't thinking about Charles at all

Reference here: https://www.tumblr.com/elodieunderglass/787508796589228032/i-think-the-thing-that-does-come-through-is-that

It would definitely be on-brand for the “abbey” concept to not align with a monarch’s desires (hence the irl dissolution of the monasteries) but be pro-monarchy where it suits them and Special Little Free Thinkers when it doesn’t.

I think their stance would be WHATEVER IS EASIEST FOR AUTHOR and their author was powerfully, admirably lazy.

Ultimately: while it’s fun to make jokes about, and have fun with, the Redwall texts are too insubstantial and weak to be politically serious about (and it’s unfair to them to expect more.) they’re good at exactly what they say on the tin: zippy little adventures for babies, with uneven politics and a very poorly articulated morality. very typical of that kind of author popular at that kind of time (yes, even the ones we still like.) whatever questions you ask are going to be answered: ultimately Brian Jacques was a nice-mannered pleasant old reactionary working in a time when an old white man sitting on his ass in England generating infinite samey mousey stories could literally pay the mortgage.

Even just by joking about it, we are putting infinite more thought and brainpower, and burning more calories, than Brian Jacques ever did when he sat down at his Mouse OC Generation Machine. Man was NOT operating at high gear, and why would he. He was not required to have a single complex thought in his pretty little baldy head in order to pay his bills, so he did NOT waste his TIME. Slap some meadowcream on it and send it off in an envelope, it’ll do well enough. His audience was KIDS who wanted NEW BOOK. Even by considering a single religious or political implication we are being more intellectual than he could bear.

So we should ONLY care about it for as long as it is FUN and we are having fun, because there are no answers, and the question I posed (“are Redwall animals monarchists?”) is a very low-value question and ONLY worth answering if it’s FUNNY.

In which case: they DO very intentionally uphold the Squirrelkingdom AND restore Gael Squirrelking to power after he is deposed in a coup. and their national security is dependent on the feudal militaristic nation of Salamandastron.

So whatever that is - upholding monarchy in other states because it secures their national borders and keeps their own hands clean, and their own political situation a pretense of ethical democracy? It’s certainly SOMETHING. And the author who penned it fully believing it to be politically neutral.

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jar jar twinks

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Askbox is closed for new requests, I'm recording these old ones on the to-write document

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Envisioning a very twee cutesy village witch type of character who cooks magical baked goods or some shit and a fucked up swamp woman witch with hands stained in mud and gore making out sloppy style.

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nuke deniers? that's baby shit compared to the guy who believes nukes are real but cant explode because god would prevent them from going off if used

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starts talking about my emotional state with 2 degrees of abstraction instead of 7 and the sniper across the street who i pay to keep me in line fires a warning shot thru my little hoop earring

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Wax-tailed planthopper, Pterodictya reticularis, Fulgoridae

Found in Central and South America, this planthopper excretes waxy filaments from glands on the abdomen that help with camouflage and predator evasion.

Photo 1 by Geoff Gallice, 2-4 by gerryvantonder, and 5-6 by dawicho

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my contribution to make a terrible comic day

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i do love that you can name pets pretty much anything. with children you have to be reasonable but with pets you can just do anything. you can name your tortoise panopticon

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Happy pride month to my dad. When I came out as bi to him, this man googled what it ment, look at me and said "ohh. Yeah. You get that from me. You'd have far more siblings of I only shaged women." And went right back to his work emails.

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Performing a "psychic abortion" with my powers.

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what's Kutch? is it a lesbian thing like knight-butch

THAT'S KUTCH THE REGION IN INDIA

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Reblog to hug prev

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The real problem facing video games today is that you can make a pitch to a publisher saying "Give me 200 million US dollars and I will buy the rights to Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and turn Raiden and Sam into girls" and they laugh you out of the room instead of considering what a watershed moment it could be for violent yuri