#Reynard the fox

[enchantedbook]

'Reynard the Fox' by Josef Wolf

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[eagle-longing-for-rostau]

Reynard the Fox 1846, Granger

[glavilio]

[ultimateanthropoll]

Massacre Round 21: They robbed me of all my belongings

Crazy Redd (fox; Animal Crossing) vs. Capper (cat; My Little Pony the Movie) vs. Garfield the Deals Warlock (cat; The Adventure Zone: Balance) vs. Reynard the Fox (fox; Reynard the Fox)

Submitters say:

"i just know his cock is massive and swinging in the breeze behind that apron." (Redd)

"he's got fancy gay cat swag" (Capper)

"I mean he's not technically a cat but whatever, cat enough" (Garfield)

"like the og nick wilde" (Reynard)

[isitfurbait]

Reynard the Fox

I wonder if Reynard was a kind of influence albeit subtly to the Robin Hood adaptation. Overall, though, I like to think about him as a historical folklore character rather than a public domain character used for Disney adaptations. He's kinda a center of cultural zeitgeist that features an anthropomorphic animal from its outset. He's a traditional folklore anthropomorphic fox from conception, and already that makes this an interesting character in that regard. I fully accept this as furrybait.

[gennsoup]

"When has the bear or the wolf ever performed such noble service? They know well enough how to disguise and shield themselves, to steal and to rob, and to eat fat morsels and fill their bellies. They think it just and lawful that petty thieves who steal hens and chickens should be hanged, whereas they, who steal cows, oxen, and horses, go free as lords."

James Simpson (trans.), Reynard the Fox

[silverspadesss]

there is definitely not enough time left in the season to explore this properly but if the fox is reynard and pib in another life was tybert, they actually have a really long and bitter history together.

according to the reynard stories (and a couple of aesop’s fables) they once were hunting partners and quite probably partners in their trickery too, possibly going into stories like pinnochio’s together. and then they were caught by a huntsman and while they ran from his hounds the fox told the cat the multitude of tricks he had to get them out of this. the cat, apparently out of fear, ran away and hid, the one trick he could think of, and left the fox to die. the fox very narrowly escaped and, feeling betrayed by his former friend, hated the cat ever since.

i just. the potential for a glimpse of this relationship turned sour is so interesting. especially if pib ends up returning to the trickster realm to get his answers about the giants. we’ve seen in the afterlife scene their tense relationship with the fox’s jabs at cat and his immediate aggression when the cat starts to show a potential deviation from his trickster ways. it’s funny to see that through the lens of them being bitter after the divorce.

it also fits with the whole dilemma of tricksters not supposed to care or trust anyone, since it ended so badly. plus it would work thematically with pib being scared and leaving tomas to his fate in exactly the same way as he abandoned his former friend.

i’m just so excited to reunite with the tricksters now we know there’s something going on there. i can’t wait for what they’ll say to pib and pib’s potential big ‘i quit’ now he’s leaning more towards the life of a character than just an archetype. now he has something to fight for.

[doubtspirit]

Fox, dressed as teacher, holding paddle, instructs hybrid animals.

[bizarre-blorbo-bracket]

Round 1 poll 23: Judas Iscariot from the Bible vs Reynard the Fox from mideaval European Folklore

Propaganda under the cut:

Judas Iscariot

so i've always been sort of fascinated with the judas kiss as a thing in the bible. i was just always like dang it's wild that that exists. i would attempt to draw/paint/sketch it constantly in high school and i didn't really know why. the way i learned the name of the garden of gethsemane properly was one time i was feeling extremely faint as one does and as i was gripping my head on the floor of the bathroom, face a few inches from the tile, i just heard gethsemane, gethsemane, gethsemane repeating in my head over and over again. and i was like what the fuck is gethsemane and i looked it up and i was like OH. so fast forward a little little bit and i watch the last days of judas iscariot at a formative teenage year of my life and i am WOWED. i watch that last scene with jesus and judas MANY MANY TIMES. i'm OBSESSED i want to carve it out and eat it. after watching the play in full i show it to my actually catholic friend. she enjoys it. something about judas in that play clicks for me, and suddenly there's this whole context for my relationship with judas that makes a lot of sense to me, a traumatized former catholic. i become a HOUND for all media with judas in it. i am like a connoisseur and archive. i am just obsessed with it. i listen to clown bible in full. it makes me cry every time i listen to it. JUDAS by the reverent marigold WRECKS me because it's explicitly about judas as a scapegoat as an allegory for the trans experience with religion and it is a BANGER. like it's so good. i buy a copy of the script of the last days, of corpus christi by terrence mcnally, of judas by jeff loveness. i listen to several versions of jesus christ superstar in full and i am WOWED i did not expect it to be that good. someone on tiktok says that trans men's vocal chords thicken like cis men's on testosterone but don't lengthen, and that these shorter vocal chords make it easier for us to sing in a strong, natural falsetto. and i think about how jcs is full of really high tenors and briefly i start drawing red lines all over my life like, BOY HAS VISION OF GETHSEMANE AND IS TRANS BECAUSE THE UNIVERSE WANTS HIM TO PLAY A PRINCIPLE ROLE IN JCS??? and it's a brief lapse in sanity that i don't take seriously but one of my favorite jcs jesuses also had a weirdly prophetic vision of himself playing the part in jcs (i'm obsessed with him), and i'm like okay. i don't know what to do with all that information. anyway. i haven't played anyone in jcs and likely never will but i am still very attached to judas as like a mythological figure and symbol. i wrote an essay about him for an essay class that ended up being 19 pages unspaced. prof was warned beforehand that it was going to be long and she was very nice and encouraging about it um so thank god for that. yeah i have the absolute weirdest relationship with judas. and it has only been magnified with each new media and seeing people's various takes on judas as either redemptive/antihero/tragic figure/scapegoat/etc etc etc. currently obsessed with the parallels between him and jesus and him and mary magdalene in jcs. jcs ended up kind of extending the obsession to the three of them. i have a bust of jesus looking so so forlorn in my room. impulse buy. anyway. love him deeply obsessed with him turned me insane i think

Reynard the Fox

I feel like a mega weirdo for finding this medieval archetypal creature so endearing, especially considering the atrocities he commits in the stories he’s a part of. There’s just something so fun about a really old story about a bunch of morally grey animals engaging in shenanigans meant to satirize and mirror our society.

[dwellordream]

he's such an obscure character that i doubt it, but is your oc reynard the fox inspired by reynard slinker (the fox) from spider-man??? if not then wow lol what a coincidence since afaik reynard is a super uncommon name

Nope he’s named after Reynard the Fox, a trickster character from medieval folklore, who the Spiderman character is likely named after as well. My Reynard is a mercenary who used to work for a company called the Menagerie, where most of the soldiers take on animal nicknames.

[eagle-longing-for-rostau]

[glavilio]

potential "slonked" (of shit, silly style) origin in William Caxon's 1481 hystorye of Reinhard the foxe, done into English out of Dutch

[paleotool]

From Reynard the Fox (Goethe’s “Reineke Fuchs")

Wilhelm von Kaulbach 1845.

[smashpages]

Out this week: Reynard’s Tale (First Second, $22.99):

Mighty Jack creator Ben Hatke writes and draws a more adult-oriented graphic novel as he presents stories inspired by the medieval folklore tradition of trickster tales, starring Reynard the Fox and featuring murderers, kings, ex-lovers, mermaids and even Death herself

See what else is arriving in comic shops this week.