#Hlao-roo

[nonbinary-weirdo]

In the book, I did not fully appreciate the growth of Pipkin/Hlao-roo

He GREW as a character. Up to where Bigwig isnt at the iron road archway, as planned for the escaped females, Hazel Rah says he'll go to Efrafa himself and rather than let his fear make him hide behind him, Pipkin replies "I'll come with you, Hazel Rah".

Pipkin. You grew a pair in odds that were almost against your band of rabbits and their leader

Bravo, Pipkin. (The smaller rabbit on the left of Fiver)

Context:

Chapter 37: The Thunder Builds Up

“We’ll have to give it up for tonight, Silver,” said Hazel. “We must get them back over the river now, before it’s completely dark.” “Hazel-rah,” said Pipkin, as he slipped by, “it—it is going to be all right, isn’t it? Bigwig will come tomorrow, won’t he?” “Of course he will,” said Hazel, “and we’ll all be here to help him. And I’ll tell you something else, Hlao-roo. If he doesn’t come tomorrow, I’m going into Efrafa myself.” “I’ll come with you, Hazel-rah,” said Pipkin.

[fantasywatershipdown]

Pipkin/Hlao!! Hlao-roo. I love him so much. Dewdrop-themed, because of his Lapine name (means "a concave in grass where moisture might collect"). Hence the 💧 between his ears, and his blue-white patches.

[singingshutin]

meet my new son!!!!

this is Pipkin and I love him with my whole being

[xandar]

i know im not brave.

i’m hlao-roo, bizly, or chuck. minor, fey/they/she, & white dm if u want a rb deleted 👍

pfp: revivificating

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[bunimalsfiberdolls]

the sweetest boy who ever existed and his resin doppelganger

[naneki-maid]

“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”

Watership Down, by Richard Adams

[seafleece]

the field, hazel

it’s covered in blood

[rabbithearteddoll]

No matter what name the other rabbits call Pipkin it's still cute.

[celestial-vapidity]

I was bored, so I translated a passage from Watership Down into Lapine/Naylte. I used the site Bits’n’Bob-stones (http://bitsnbobstones.watershipdown.org/lapine/overview.html). 

Lapine/ Naylte: Hraeth u hraeth layth lay mi elil El—ahrairah, a blaeth ai hlal i, ai layth zyhl i. An ethile ai drao hlal i, skuf-naylte, uthow-naylte, hray-naylte, rah asith u hraray paf. Lay kasrahalt a vatal ol kasrah a mi naylte layth nahl-nyt lay zorn.

English: All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.

[tikkunhayam]

NO PIPKIN????? WHAT KIND OF BULLSHIT IS THIS 

[dirt-grub]

i have not seen the ‘78 watership down animated movie but oh boy have i seen screenshots lol.... and i saw some of the netflix one but from what i saw it was bad i didnt finish it but like they skipped all the best parts and changed characters around and made the characters rly one dimensional and there was all this forced conflict between the main characters even tho they were supposed to be a warren together and the animation was soooo rushed oh my god i remember in one scene it was raining and the rain and it was just an overlay on the top layer and clearly didnt like effect any of the environment at all and would start going back up for a few frames every time they cut away.... it was just like. there wasnt much heart in it id love to see a traditionally animated series thats just as long as the book (which isnt crazy long) and properly fits the tone and suspense of the book with the kind of mystical feel it has (ALSO WHERE IS KEEHAR I WANT KEEHAR!) 

[chemicallywrit]

Hey I read watership down when I was 6 because that was the age my dad read it and I didn’t really understand it because I didn’t know what things like construction were but I still have nightmares about being skinned and also became convinced that I could see the future so here I am asking you about watership down.

Wow Fiver i’m so honored to meet you, thank you for the ask~

I read Watership Down in fifth grade and what I loved about it was the mythology and language, because like most nerdy fifth graders I was obsessed with mythology and code languages. I was just starting to get into Redwall at the time too, so did I start to write some anthropomorphic animal adventures? of COURSE I did, but there was something complex I couldn’t quite nail, because I didn’t quite understand it--

I read Watership Down in high school when I was in AP Government, when I was old enough to get salty about my teacher spouting political opinions to her students like she was talking to her friends in the group chat, and this time the line that stuck out to me was in a footnote: “In the Sandleford warren at this time, the Owsla was rather military in character (though, as will be seen later, not as military as some).”

And while that selfsame teacher was trying to get us to debate complex issues like the needs of the few over the rights of many without simplifying issues down to useless platitudes, I realized that if leaders aren’t willing to adapt and change, then they will eventually be killed. I was voted president of the honors society next year, even though I was an unpopular nerd that everyone thought was Mormon, and I had to assess leadership and politics in a way I never had before, despite my gov teacher’s best efforts--

I read Watership Down during a summer internship in Georgia, where the nearest person I knew was three states away and the only friendship I experienced was from a tiny church group that practiced prophecy and faith healing, and had my parents warning me about signs that you’ve joined a cult, and I was lonesome as Fiver under the willow tree in the rain, and Fiver told me that “a thing can be true and still be desperate folly.” And I held my new friends at a distance and watched them as they poured forth sermons without substance, and I longed for home, I longed to go uphill to someplace high and away--

I read Watership Down in grad school after the church I loved began to tear itself to pieces, an absolute joke of pride and misogyny and selfishness, when the pastor who hadn’t even been very present in the church to begin with started traveling to his other ministry more and more, and the guest speakers started teaching numerology from the pulpit, and I told my brother, sitting next to me, I can’t go to the potluck. I can’t stand it. I can’t pretend that everything is fine anymore. And I left my church. Zorn, zorn, all zorn.

But my friends stayed with me. The Bible study I’d been co-leading drifted into an inter-church outreach, and some other members left the church too, but we stayed together, and no one stopped us because no one cared much about the millennials and zoomers anyway. And I felt like Bigwig, blunt and bothered and never one to hold my tongue, being told by someone much wiser that they were glad to have me along--

I read Watership Down after I left my first job after graduation. I still didn’t know anyone after being out of state for eight years. I hated that job, but the limbo afterward, in which I was unsure, once again, if I could pay my rent, if I could afford my student loans, if my credit card was going to penalize me again, if I was going to be overdrawn again, if there was anything I was going to be able to eat besides raman...My heart was in the frost. But I wasn’t quite alone. Not far now, Hlao-roo, not far now.

My copy got stolen out of my car, along with my scientific calculator, which I was actually more upset about. Those things are expensive. When I was free from the frost again, I bought another copy.

I’m going to read Watership Down again. I read it whenever I need something familiar and comforting and encouraging.

Watership Down is a story about nature and rabbits. Watership Down is a story about leadership and politics. But ultimately, Watership Down is the story of a group of people who decide that what they’ve been promised by their god and their hero is true, that there is a place for them in this world, and that place is worth fighting for, even if all you can do is tell stories to keep people calm, even if all you can do is dig a little deeper and settle in, even if all you can do is run.

All the world will be your enemy, and when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, Digger, Listener, Runner. Be cunning and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.

[isanimalcrossingswitchoutyet]

I wasn't sure if I should pick a name similar to my other game towns ir not, but recently I've been reading Watership Down, and now I'm thinking of Hlao-roo or Hyzenthlay or Homba

I like Hyzenthlay! It’s somehow structurally appealing.

[xandar]

oh shit cool name. hlao-roo hlao-roo hlao-roo 🎺 is it new?

not rly :3 it’s from a watership down character named pipkin, but his lapine name is hlao-roo

[snuggleupagus]

Trying to decide if I want a new url for my vulture blog or if I want to use a url I have like asmodeuspoisonteeth or gaboolthewild or something redwall related or finally put a use to captain-bigwig or hlao-roo

[naneki-maid]

My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Watership Down, by Richard Adams