#badgers of redwall

[oldfashionedbooklove]

Unpopular Redwall opinions (according to the Goodreads reviews I’ve seen):

- I love that there’s poems and songs thrown in willy-nilly. I think they almost always suit the occasion and I always enjoy reading them. Some are awfully pretty.

- I love the dialects. Can’t talk me out of it. The moles wouldn’t be moles without it.

- I love the hares. I don’t care if they’re similar and always hungry and talkative and sometimes downright stupid and silly. I love them all. And they’re usually pretty amazing.

- Love how similar the books are. Really has a comfort food feel to it. Though as someone has mentioned, they aren’t as similar as people complain.

I may add more as I think of them…

*edited 14.08.23

[madbrake]

Commission of Lord Brocktree from the Redwall series (with a custom weapon) for a client on Instagram. This was so much fun. :)

[rabosa-al-forn]

This drawing comes from an interaction on Twitter.

This is from the first scene of the book Mattimeo, from the Redwall series (I've deleted some parts of the text. It was too much for the composition).

Anyway! It's been fun to draw!

[victusinveritas]

Lily Seika Jones aka Rivulet Paper (American, b. 1989, San Antonio, TX, USA, based Seattle, WA, USA) - Badger & Book, Paintings: Watercolor

[evancelt]

"Redwall Feast"

Abbot Dycus leads the weary warrior mouse and his badger companion down to the Cavern Hole, where luck has it the springtide feast is currently being prepared.

Raising his mug of dandelion ale, Samhern Mouse calls out, "Three cheers for the returning heroes!"

[girderednerve]

redwall revival is in the air & i just want to say those books are weird. like i enjoyed them too but they're weird. why is the rat named cluny. what's up with that, brian. why did you name your first scary villain creature for a monastic reform movement from the middle ages. did you have some kind of bone to pick with bernard of clairvaux? i'm sure he'd find a bone to pick with you, he was that type. but for real what was with the religious politics in those books. was it just english nationalism? is that the secret sauce???

[thesablequear]

Beginning my little personal sketch project

[the-jolly-ghost]

MORE color theory work for an old class

[stearleart]

Lord Brocktree

Digital illustration of Brian Jacque's Lord Brocktree

[vampire-bat-stims]

Day 4 of my Vampire-Bat-Stims 1 Year Anniversary Event: A Book or Book Series You Enjoy.

Redwall! It's so much fun. I would have included food stims but none of them would capture the wonderful vibe of the food in the books.

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[oldfashionedbooklove]

Why do I get a huge burst of dopamine just heading the opening bars of the theme song for Nelvana’s Redwall TV show???

[tinygiantplasticmonsters]

Some Oathsworn miniatures guys from their Burrows and Badgers redwall inspired line, painted up by me. A mouse and a mole knight, and a landsknecht shrew, here ready to battle.

[coldmouse]

What about Outcast of Redwall?

Here it is. However, we simply call this book "Outcast".

[montytherabbit]

Belated Holiday doodle

[zeron1nezero]

I’ve been reading through Redwall books again and the Badger Lords always go so hard imo. Cregga Rose Eyes is one of THE characters of all time and I will not hear any slander towards my berserker queen.

[strangelittlestories]

There was a great palaver in the town of Leamington Spa when it was discovered that the mysterious Mr Meles would take over the empty Familiaris estate.

Mr Meles was a figure of great speculation amongst society. Only three things were known about him (four if you count ‘being an enigma’ as a known quantity and do not mind the sophists getting angry with you): 

Firstly, he was in the possession of an income of over £10,000 a year. Secondly, he was a bachelor and extraordinarily eligible. Thirdly, he had a very handsome badger stripe.

(By which I mean, of course, that he was a badger and that the stripe on his forehead was very fine.)

The Sheppertons - a local family of weasels - discussed Mr Meles’ arrival over breakfast.

“If you ask me, the arrival of such a *character* is sure to bring nothing but acrimony.” Said Mrs Muriel Shepperton, as she truly ravaged a plate of kippers between her fangs. “You mark my words, children, only two kinds of people attempt to cultivate an air of mystery: those with terrible secrets the likes of which would shake polite company to the very core and leave us questioning the very values that shaped us, or worse, the terminally dull.”

“Oh, I do so hope Mr Meles won’t be dull.” Said Mr Edward Shepperton, who was already somewhat in love with the idea of Mr Meles and increasingly determined that one of his daughters should marry him. “Let him have something dreadful to hide instead. It will certainly enliven the season to have everything I’ve ever known thrown into question!”

“I’ve heard,” said Miss Angelica Shepperton, who could chase down a rumour with only a whiff of its scent across two miles of uncertain terrain, “That Mr Meles has only recently come to live above ground at all, and that he has been a member of the Excavationists who believe we should all go back to living in holes underground.”

“Oh my!” Replied Mr Shepperton in some alarm. “I heard they had a plan to collapse the entirety of Buckingham Palace into a sinkhole!”

“Well I, for one, simply cannot believe that a dangerous radical of that sort could ever come to live in our town.” Replied Miss Vermillion Shepperton. “Indeed, until proven otherwise, I shall choose to believe Mr Meles to be a true gentleman of utmost honour. I refuse to countenance that he could be a member of that … sett.”

But despite her clever pun, Miss Vermillion would soon find out just how wrong she was about the safety and genteel nature of Leamington Spa…

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