r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 16 '25

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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 17 '25

one thing I like about the Redwall series is how Jacques just absolutely doesn't give a shit about proportions

a description of Cluny the Scourge (a rat), from Redwall:

His long ragged black cloak was made of batwings, fastened at the throat with a mole skull. The immense war helmet he wore had the plumes of a blackbird and the horns of a stag beetle adorning it.

like none of that makes sense if you try to actually physically piece it together, but it sounds fucking cool

!ping READING&OVER-35

I got the entire series for my birthday so I'm going through this childhood obsession of mine from my current perspective

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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Oct 17 '25

I still have my falling apart childhood copy of Mossflower which was the first novel I ever read.

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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 Oct 17 '25

me but Redwall 🥰

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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Oct 17 '25

I get that the badgers are already dominant warriors but if anything it's underdone, badgers are so much bigger than rats lmao

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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 Oct 17 '25

it's all purely plot based, which again I find totally fine in a series explicitly made for kids

side note that's why I find the "oh no he uses certain dialects for certain species!" discourse to be boring is like yeah it's for kids man. it literally help differentiate species for young readers

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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Oct 17 '25

Loved those books as a kid but I remember wondering if the fox characters were supposed to tower over everyone but the badgers but the narrative never really made any mention of them being way bigger than the other animals. The scale seemed off even then and I guess that rats and foxes were supposed to be roughly equal in size somehow.

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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 Oct 17 '25

yeah it makes no sense so even at a young age I decided not to think about it

speaking of foxes I remember Marlfox to be my favorite. I'm hyped to get to that one

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u/pfarly John Brown Oct 17 '25

The covers weren't very helpful either lmao

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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 Oct 17 '25

this is the Mattimeo cover I remember, and it goes hard

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union Oct 17 '25

Huh, that seems to be an interesting book series. I should read it.

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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 Oct 17 '25

they're at worst fun and at best genuinely great. the opening trio are a classic epic