#IM SO SORRY FOR GOING OFF ON A TANGENT I JUST REALLY ENJOY THE INTRICACIES OF THESE LITTLE LOSERS

[fireworksanon]

Okay okay

But like this has also been going around my head like:

There is absolutely no chance every borrower eats crackers and just bread so an idea sparked in me:

Borrower cousine!

Like borrowers having specific recipes with ingredients humans don't usually try to eat. Like: flipping dandelion jelly! Or grasshopper soup or something or drying out grass and making tea from it (I used to eat grass as a kid lol)

Thanka to my extensive 2021 cottagecore 9hase I can confirm this would 100% be it.

In my mind borrowers arent just 'humans but little', they have their own culture and customs and foods and delicasies. Of course there's a difference between borrowers in smaller vs larger groups, but the premise is the same.

Did you know that you can make paint out of flower petals? Because imagine traveling through the woods with your friends, a white rock catching your eye. Overturning the stone, theres a teeny tiny piece of tree bark (The thin, paper-like part iykwim) and there's a little painting on it, depicting what seems to be a story

Imagine the culture and myths surriunding humans, shit would be absolutely insane! It's either they're 'if you're seen, you're dead. they are animals, they kill like animals.' or they're 'if you're seen, you're dead. humans are too intelligent to be empathetic, they will not listen to your pleading.' and it creates an absolutely horrifying picture of humans either being driven by the animalistic need to kill, or being basically god level smart HDOSKSK

Ough and the FOODDD

Dandelion jam is brilliant btw!! Ough putting it on little itty bitty breads that they baked.. EHEUZBAKAJ

They'd find ways to scavenge and recycle as much material as they can, using leftover dandelion stems to make whats basically cellery, putting it in little stews (generally with I'd like to think meat from rodents or other small things?)

If they manage to get a strawberry, it's a wonderful day. Depending on the size of the borrower colony they'd be able to get ALOT out of it, making jams and jellies and outright munching on it. And bigger fruit like lemons or oranges? They'd get as much juice as they could into containers, and use the dried out flesh as decoration or spices!:D They use the peels for a multitude of things ofc (including spices and maybe even insulation?)

Imagine them hunting beetles and using the non-edible parts as armor

..I really rambled here I apologize BDKSK