nature’s little clown

Mice straight up go on missions and no body talks about it

Idk seems like a lot of people talk about it.

I think rent should be $4 a month

like hey landlord, thanks for letting me stay at your place. go get yourself a snack this month

oh a thousand? you want a thousand? that's too many snacks babygirl

PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997)

He’s a musician

what the fuck did they put in "Meet Me in the Woods" by lord huron that makes it so. it's a perfect song. it's insanity inducing. i'm blorboposting. i'm thinking about my own life. i'm having a crisis. i'm jamming out to a fun song. song that is simultaneously fall days and also late summer nights and also wet spring mornings.

Playing as Karlach is so fun because when you meet Wyll in the grove for the first time, instead of explaining the misunderstanding, you can just be like “ really? You’re gonna kill me in front of all these kids?” and he’ll go “yeah you’re right I probably shouldn’t kill you in front of all these kids, let’s reschedule that, have a nice day.”

I hope I can just never explain myself and he keeps coming up with reasons he can’t kill me today like he’s the Dread Pirate Roberts

I don't know what paddington is doing on that list, but it made me think of the time someone drew a picture of the queen with paddington after she died, and we had scores of people losing their minds at the idea that paddington bear wasn't the same kind of communist as them

I love the sorrow in which you wrote this

The tragedy of growing up british & left wing is realising all your beloved childhood animals in waistcoats were monarchists to the core

I feel like in many ways "How'd he manage to grow up a middle-aged middle-class British man in Peru, anyways?" is the wrong question but it's still the one I am hung up on, years later.

Hold on let’s do this properly:

Paddington - regrettably a monarchist but in that specific immigrant way. The only actual immigrant on the list. May possibly just be a monarchist as part of the processing stage and is also canonically a child.

Winnie the Pooh - is canonically a stuffed animal, I genuinely don’t think he has this level of thought/agency and is not written as such. The real living breathing animals (owl, rabbit) are not just monarchists, but actively and cruelly bourgeois.

The Velveteen Rabbit - doesn’t wear a waistcoat but not a monarchist either.

Angelina Ballerina - a monarchist and a bit of a little bitch tbqh

The Brambly Hedge mice - really unclear. But like worryingly unclear. Clearly some kind of caste system in operation (lords and ladies) but not capitalist or explicitly feudalist either, it seems a thin overlay over their real political intentions: incredibly intense cheesemaking forming the backbone of a post-scarcity economy.

Beatrix Potter / Peter Rabbit - monarchists.

Richard Scarry - actually I can’t make a call on this one

Animals of Farthing Wood - I … don’t know.

Wind in the Willows - Toad’s a fucking Tory, but I feel like the Water Rat is kind of a comrade

Watership Down - unfortunately many of these rabbits are fashy, even the ones you like. Ursula le Guin said it, not me. They wouldn’t walk away from omelas. However, they touch a lot of grass - enough grass to not be interested in the house of Windsor - which is a point in their favour.

Redwall - monarchists, though not for the British monarchy. and also, somehow, Mouse Anglican verging on Mouse Catholic. Worrying, fascinating.

Oakapple Wood - monarchists

Hobbit - not a woodland creature but wears a waistcoat and is sympathetic to Thorin, Aragorn. Provisionally extremely monarchist and the very earliest interpretations of hobbits appeared to think they are somehow bipedal rabbits, which pissed Tolkien off.

Rupert Bear - British bear in clothes attributed partially for the decline in the usage of the name Rupert - but I don’t know a thing about him

The Highway Rat - all Julia Donaldson creatures lick the boot that crushes them, even the highway rat. Possibly not the Gruffalo. The Gruffalo however is the most naked that anyone has ever been, thus not an animal that would wear clothes.

The Narnia creatures - don’t all wear clothes, but THE definitive monarchists

Fantastic Mr Fox - not a monarchist. and in the wes Anderson film is not even British although the farmers and setting are (brilliant artistic choices, especially including an excellent but fucking random possum that calls the entire ecosystem into question: ultimately these are North American animals subverting and undermining the British landowners in a strange political statement whose intentions and direction are unclear.) Not monarchists, but what?

Viruses - possibly monarchists, wear coats, and present in children’s literature as exemplified by the Usborne “See Inside Germs.” Ultimately more data is needed.

Thoughts on Toad and Frog?

They’re American

This post is bigger than me now but:

I feel like this is us OP

I already posted this on twitter but here just have it. my first fancam :-)

what are the odds that the two most well known musical artists in the country would both release highly anticipated albums around april 2024 and i would listen to them both and go “good! but i thought i’d like them more” both times. and for some godforsaken reason post malone is there too

then again i’ve been listening mainly to girl groups from the 60s while reading an oral history about them so my sense of “what music is” is temporarily unreliable

taylor swift: doing the absolute Most to make people believe her music is all raw honesty about her life like a public diary slash confession

beyoncé: redefining and remixing and revitalizing genres, melting old and contemporary styles together into something unheard of

me, not listening:

what are the odds that the two most well known musical artists in the country would both release highly anticipated albums around april 2024 and i would listen to them both and go “good! but i thought i’d like them more” both times. and for some godforsaken reason post malone is there too

then again i’ve been listening mainly to girl groups from the 60s while reading an oral history about them so my sense of “what music is” is temporarily unreliable

Me, explaining the steel foundry fight to my dad: so I have to fight medieval Elon Musk, right? But in order to do that, I first have to take down Ye Olde Tesla.

falling in love with the most obnoxious character like