Thread for Things That Made You Frown Today

[Latrinsorm]

This may have been hurt by the fact that none of the ones I read were following immediately before or after another, so there was virtually no coherent "overarching" storyline . . . there was just ALWAYS an Abbey full of friendly woodland creatures, there was ALWAYS a Salamandastron with badass badger soldiers, and there was always a bunch of rats and ferrets trying to ruin their shit. But since I never picked up on any continuity between the books other than "There once was a mouse named Martin!", I just got bored.

Worse, the author clearly did not have the overarching storyline in mind when writing the first book: no mention of Salamandastron, explicit reference to the Mossflower wildcats attacking the Abbey (which it later turned out was spoiler alert not built until after their overthrow), multiple references to what would become non-canonical animals (horse, pig, dog, arguably beaver).

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Otter javelins... are pointed at both ends.

[Ryvicke]

That's obviously an aubergine pike, friend.

What are these books? Why are the man-otters on land??

[Latrinsorm]

Anthropomorphic crypto-Christian animals. (Their ability to use tools is never adequately explained.)

Rest assured, the man- (AND WOMYN- YOU JERK) otters regularly leverage their aquatic superiority.

That's obviously an aubergine pike, friend.

The author very rarely refers to spears et al as pikes because pikes the fish make many appearances.

I would say more but you have touched my heart in an aubergine fashion, I am going to play nostalgic music and weep quiet happy tears.

[Fallen]

Uhhh...Is google down for anyone else or am I having some sort of aneurysm?

[Androidpk]

Uhhh...Is google down for anyone else or am I having some sort of aneurysm?

It's up for me currently but I've noticed over the past couple of weeks it's been kind of spotty.

[Bobmuhthol]

Google's fine.

[Kastrel]

That's obviously an aubergine pike, friend.

What are these books? Why are the man-otters on land??

Imagine a world full of people . . . middle-ages era, but without all the feudal nightmares. A pretty standard fantasy world, minus most of the paranormal.

Except these people are animals (Anthropomorphic animals, as Latrinstrom pointed out).

Each animal species is horribly, horribly stereotyped, some of which fit into real life stereotypes (moles are illiterate with absurd and hard to understand british accent, spelled out that way). Included in this stereotype is that certain species are "good" (mice, moles, badgers) and some are "evil" (rats, ferrets, etc). The general concept is that the good species will normally live peacefully and in harmony, until some roving band of pirates, marauders, or a local warlord comprised of the evil species will show up and start killing people. If I recall, the otters were normally of the swashbuckling/roguish sort, pretty big as far as animals were concerned.

The bulk of the series is centered around Redwall Abbey, which from my memory is a pretty huge, self-sufficient community that just seems to last forever, with maybe 50ish various animals living there comfortably, while the system is maintained by the pretty relaxed clergy (usually an Abbess or Abbot leading the society as the wise elder figure).

Another major location is a giant mountain/volcano/fortress on a beach which is inhabited by a crazy badass and benevolent warrior tribe of badgers. Usually when shit hits the fan, they come to the rescue. In this world, badgers are huge compared to the other animals, so they can pretty much obliterate anything that comes their way.

Usually the plot revolves around a relatively young animal from the Abbey, often a mouse, who is usually some sort of reluctant hero thrust into events and ends up saving the day. Its not uncommon for there to be multiple running storylines, ala Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones, so there is often something going on with the badgers, and usually someone running around in the wilderness escaping evil rats. One of the mice is a semi-religious hero/legend named Martin, who gets turned into some sort of epic warrior by time, but was pretty much just the same thing in his own book (reluctant mouse who came out on top).

The series is well known for absurdly indepth food descriptions. There is always an entire chapter devoted to a massive feast. Puts G.R.R. Martin to shame in that regard.

[Ryvicke]

Imagine a world full of people . . . middle-ages era, but without all the feudal nightmares. A pretty standard fantasy world, minus most of the paranormal.

Except these people are animals (Anthropomorphic animals, as Latrinstrom pointed out).

Each animal species is horribly, horribly stereotyped, some of which fit into real life stereotypes (moles are illiterate with absurd and hard to understand british accent, spelled out that way). Included in this stereotype is that certain species are "good" (mice, moles, badgers) and some are "evil" (rats, ferrets, etc). The general concept is that the good species will normally live peacefully and in harmony, until some roving band of pirates, marauders, or a local warlord comprised of the evil species will show up and start killing people. If I recall, the otters were normally of the swashbuckling/roguish sort, pretty big as far as animals were concerned.

The bulk of the series is centered around Redwall Abbey, which from my memory is a pretty huge, self-sufficient community that just seems to last forever, with maybe 50ish various animals living there comfortably, while the system is maintained by the pretty relaxed clergy (usually an Abbess or Abbot leading the society as the wise elder figure).

Another major location is a giant mountain/volcano/fortress on a beach which is inhabited by a crazy badass and benevolent warrior tribe of badgers. Usually when shit hits the fan, they come to the rescue. In this world, badgers are huge compared to the other animals, so they can pretty much obliterate anything that comes their way.

Usually the plot revolves around a relatively young animal from the Abbey, often a mouse, who is usually some sort of reluctant hero thrust into events and ends up saving the day. Its not uncommon for there to be multiple running storylines, ala Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones, so there is often something going on with the badgers, and usually someone running around in the wilderness escaping evil rats. One of the mice is a semi-religious hero/legend named Martin, who gets turned into some sort of epic warrior by time, but was pretty much just the same thing in his own book (reluctant mouse who came out on top).

The series is well known for absurdly indepth food descriptions. There is always an entire chapter devoted to a massive feast. Puts G.R.R. Martin to shame in that regard.

Nice! Thanks for that.

[Suppressed Poet]

Paid my overdue tax bill today from a few years back that was audited. Kind of smile and relief to get it out of the way, but damn it wasn't cheap. Divorce sucks and makes filing taxes really complicated and not well defined in community property states.

I hope that money is well spent, but I know it won't be.

The lady I worked with was surprisingly very polite, courteous, prompt, and professional. Even still, fuck those bastards in the IRS. I was reminded today of why I am more Republican alligned than Democrat.

[Suppressed Poet]

Imagine a world full of people . . . middle-ages era, but without all the feudal nightmares. A pretty standard fantasy world, minus most of the paranormal.

Except these people are animals (Anthropomorphic animals, as Latrinstrom pointed out).

Each animal species is horribly, horribly stereotyped, some of which fit into real life stereotypes (moles are illiterate with absurd and hard to understand british accent, spelled out that way). Included in this stereotype is that certain species are "good" (mice, moles, badgers) and some are "evil" (rats, ferrets, etc). The general concept is that the good species will normally live peacefully and in harmony, until some roving band of pirates, marauders, or a local warlord comprised of the evil species will show up and start killing people. If I recall, the otters were normally of the swashbuckling/roguish sort, pretty big as far as animals were concerned.

The bulk of the series is centered around Redwall Abbey, which from my memory is a pretty huge, self-sufficient community that just seems to last forever, with maybe 50ish various animals living there comfortably, while the system is maintained by the pretty relaxed clergy (usually an Abbess or Abbot leading the society as the wise elder figure).

Another major location is a giant mountain/volcano/fortress on a beach which is inhabited by a crazy badass and benevolent warrior tribe of badgers. Usually when shit hits the fan, they come to the rescue. In this world, badgers are huge compared to the other animals, so they can pretty much obliterate anything that comes their way.

Usually the plot revolves around a relatively young animal from the Abbey, often a mouse, who is usually some sort of reluctant hero thrust into events and ends up saving the day. Its not uncommon for there to be multiple running storylines, ala Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones, so there is often something going on with the badgers, and usually someone running around in the wilderness escaping evil rats. One of the mice is a semi-religious hero/legend named Martin, who gets turned into some sort of epic warrior by time, but was pretty much just the same thing in his own book (reluctant mouse who came out on top).

The series is well known for absurdly indepth food descriptions. There is always an entire chapter devoted to a massive feast. Puts G.R.R. Martin to shame in that regard.

I do love novels that include anthropomorphism as well as any chance to use that word.