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Free Market Mambo posted:When I was a young mambo i was reading in bed with a bunch of books left out on the floor. My sister sleepwalked into my room, sat on the foot of my bed and pissed herself despite my yells of horror. 
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Nettle Soup posted:Never did entirely work out Damsons. small sour plums, op 
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:small sour plums, op Fun fact, you can make infused gin with these. Probably what those cellar hogs were up to in between the nut brown ale and greengage fizz
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May 16, 2023 15:12
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Sloes are even better for gin - damsons aren’t quite as violently bitter and make good jam. Just while we’re Jacquing off
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May 16, 2023 15:17
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gonna bake some scones this week
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CountryMatters posted:with the first five words of this I initially thought you were going to write out the mole accent also lol
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May 17, 2023 16:19
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I tried but I never got into Redwall.
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May 17, 2023 19:36
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Sloth Life posted:I tried but I never got into Redwall. You should try a villainous stratagem. Like a ladder or grapnels to scale the walls. Trust me
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May 17, 2023 20:04
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skasion posted:You should try a villainous stratagem. Like a ladder or grapnels to scale the walls. Trust me I'd suggest sapping the walls by digging but then I remembered about the moles. I imagine a blind tunnel fight with the moles to be the stuff of nightmares. Weird accents and violent ends.
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May 17, 2023 20:27
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Just walk around the outside of the walls a few times, I'm pretty sure there's a big switch or button in the undergrowth which'll throw open the gates to a secret tunnel once you push it.
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May 17, 2023 21:09
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See, this is why the bad guys never get in. The easiest way in is actually to walk up up, knock on the door, and then say you were just passing through and heard wonderful things about their scones.
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May 17, 2023 22:52
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FoolyCharged posted:See, this is why the bad guys never get in. The easiest way in is actually to walk up up, knock on the door, and then say you were just passing through and heard wonderful things about their scones. This only works if you're a goodbeast, if you try this as a vermin they probably throw rocks at you and call you incomprehensible racial slurs
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May 18, 2023 22:27
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They do try the “just show up and ask to be let in” plan, pretty early on. It works! Unfortunately they ran out of good plan there
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May 18, 2023 22:31
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I had the original book on cassette tape and would listen to it a whole bunch. It was actually narrated by Brian Jacques and had a whole cast of people voicing different characters. I had never heard an audiobook that did that before. I remember getting really bored by almost all the rest except for Mattimeo and I think Marlfox, though Marlfox was carried by his cool mask. Something about those early books hit way harder than anything after, and I'm glad I either avoided or completely blanked on the weird deterministic nonsense. I liked listening to and reading about little mice fighting a cool evil pirate rat with a sick bell tower death scene.
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May 18, 2023 23:02
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I enjoyed maybe two or three books from this series. Then the next one I read was one of my first literary critical moments as a 12 year old or whatever I was when I read these. I thought "This is the exact same story as all the others I've read. Nothing has changed enough to make this worth my time" then I presumably spent that time much better on something much more important as a kid like riding bike or whatever.
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May 25, 2023 19:58
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the story of a brave team of rabbit rangers is cut short when they all die from contracting myxomatosis. the end, no moral
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May 30, 2023 21:07
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That reminds me, the Long Patrol would have absolutely eaten poo poo if they'd had to deal with Watership Down, and I don't just mean their having to come to terms with the fact that rabbits and hares are coprophagic. Try wot wot wot wotting in-between giant-meals-and-righteously-justified-mass-murder at disease, snares, predation, fierce intraspecific hostility, and poison gas you smug pricks.
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May 31, 2023 16:55
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Badgers are like so cool. Remember, throwing your sword can save your skin.
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Jun 1, 2023 01:58
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redwall ftw
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redwall used to have a website with recipes from the books and also when you first went to the url, a voice would say "I'm Brian Jacques saying, 'Welcome, to Redwall Abbey, on the Internet.'"
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Jun 4, 2023 14:27
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I went to a thing as a kid with Jacques there and I would say he read the first chapter of Redwall for a bunch of kids but actually he had it memorized and just told it as a story.
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Jun 4, 2023 23:18
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So his name is pronounced like 'jacks' buy I always said it jah-keez
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Jun 4, 2023 23:29
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According to the audiobook it's pronounced Jakes.
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aniviron posted:I went to a thing as a kid with Jacques there and I would say he read the first chapter of Redwall for a bunch of kids but actually he had it memorized and just told it as a story. That kicks thunderous amounts of rear end
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verbal enema posted:That kicks thunderous amounts of rear end
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i dont remember which book it was but i cried when the otter pirate died. i dont think i could get through that scene again without tears
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Aug 10, 2023 17:07
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Pretty sure that's near the end of The Bellmaker.
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Yeah jeez spoilers.
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:According to the audiobook it's pronounced Jakes. He himself pronounced it Jakes when I saw him do a reading
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the only thing i remember from voraciously reading these as a kid is learning the word "vixen" and being pretty into that.
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MNIMWA posted:redwall used to have a website with recipes from the books and also when you first went to the url, a voice would say "I'm Brian Jacques saying, 'Welcome, to Redwall Abbey, on the Internet.'" lol one of my first memories of using the Internet was searching for redwall on the library computer and then printing some recipes from that website. I think my friends and I tried to make a few and failed horribly. What book had some kind of ninja assassin weasel? There was some description of him knifing a guard so that the blade punctured the lung and the guard couldn't cry out, and I thought that was the most metal special ops thing at the time
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