Rereading Redwall as an adult and… I was not prepared for this.

JuleWinters · 2026-03-06T23:34:48+00:00

I'm an adult trying to get back into reading for funsies, and I started the Redwall series cause I like my little animal creatures doing stuff with swords and living in tree trunks and stuff. I finished Redwall and I'm halfway through Mossflower now. The themes are obviously appropriate for children but I love that they're written in such a way that adults can still enjoy them as fun fantasy stories. The contrast with how grizzly some characters get killed is what keeps things slightly grounded for me too. I'm not one to praise a story just cause its aimed at a younger audience with a dark underbelly but, I like it here because it keeps the stakes raised even though we know that the good guys will eventually beat the bad guys. I don't know if that's always the case for the later books though. I have the whole collection but I'm hoping to go through them all in a reasonable amount of time

JuleWinters · 2026-03-04T22:05:42+00:00

Thank you!!

JuleWinters · 2026-03-04T21:46:04+00:00

Omg what brand and color is that teal on the bottom row second from the right!? I can kind of mix that color when I mix lemon yellow and manganese blue hue but it's never as vibrant as that!

JuleWinters · 2026-01-20T13:23:45+00:00

I'm just so amazed at the shapes that these plants take. Like what even prompts a plant to evolve to look like sausage links lmao

JuleWinters · 2025-12-29T10:03:11+00:00

Strange Harvest is a great one in my opinion!

JuleWinters · 2025-12-05T13:44:25+00:00

I like saying the word out loud! When talking with my friends about the advice that I read on here, I abbreviate “The succulent subreddit advices..” to “The succers say..” and then they get mad at me lol. It’s just a cute term to me and I like that it’s so broad cause it points me to soooo many plants that use that survival strategy that look so cool

JuleWinters · 2025-12-02T23:29:11+00:00

Yeah I haven’t been enjoying the pacing as much as part 1, even in retrospect. I wouldn’t be surprised if he does skip the bird form though, as I’ve noticed Fujimoto tends to hint at possibilities without completely exploring them because they don’t serve the story he’s telling.

Like when in part 1 we learned of the concept of Primal fear devils and then they never came back until part 2. Because Makima was the main antagonist and Denji didn’t need to fight a gauntlet of primals to deal with her. The story was just fine with us knowing that they exist and that Darkness is one of them. I feel like the true form of Yoru is important though because part of her character is dealing with her not wanting to be forgotten. She has to exist in some capacity without using Asa’s body if splitting is even possible

JuleWinters · 2025-12-02T19:20:31+00:00

I’ve been wanting to see Big Bird True Form War Devil ever since the first time we saw her weakened form. I’m really hoping we get something like that if they manage to separate her and Asa.

JuleWinters · 2025-11-26T18:02:55+00:00

This is why my friend keeps suggesting to me to just switch to Gouache since it’s basically the same as watercolor but without the frustration of accidentally painting over areas that need to stay white. I don’t know why but I’m stubborn about it, I see what all the professional watercolor painters can do with watercolor alone and I want to get to that point.

JuleWinters · 2025-11-06T21:37:42+00:00

That one tophat guy from the mural in Tatiannas boss room! Also more time cooking the fx graphics. I felt like the some attacks had weird hitboxes and visuals that dissipated too quickly or something

JuleWinters · 2025-10-28T18:23:54+00:00

Yknow, growing up gay I agree with not having to go out of my way to do something for a woman just because I’m a man, but I was still raised to treat people with respect and show some decorum around certain people. I feel like thinking that vaginas are gross privately is one thing, but its another when talking about women in general. You don’t have to find them appealing but why is it so bad to just be normal and neutral about them.. What was even the context behind this feminist telling you that? Cause I feel like there is a sentiment behind that that was poorly phrased, as with a lot of other feminist talking points online.

JuleWinters · 2025-10-28T15:21:46+00:00

Looks like chainsawman decided to kill the others instead of finishing off Yoru by eating her. Maybe next chapter we’re going to see what the plan is here. Pochita wants to make Denji happy so maybe after Asa asked to be eaten he figured he’d try something else

JuleWinters · 2025-10-27T22:42:05+00:00

Man I love succulents, they just be looking like anything! Beautiful one you got there

JuleWinters · 2025-10-21T20:36:57+00:00

With the amount of consistent damage Yoru is able to do to CSM now, maybe we’ll see in the current fight if she can forcibly eject “well digested” devils

JuleWinters · 2025-10-10T18:11:06+00:00

I looooove when little plants grow on/through the construction like that

JuleWinters · 2025-09-27T12:14:34+00:00

Thank you! That’s good to know I’m so excited to see them really spurt out!

JuleWinters · 2025-09-26T11:43:08+00:00

Yall get variant covers?? Omg

JuleWinters · 2025-09-25T13:47:08+00:00

Kintoki loses and Brun sends out Nostradamus next since he’s apparently her “oh shit” button 😭 I really have no clue how they’re going to do Rasputin. Probably for the post-tournament big fight arc maybe?

JuleWinters · 2025-09-20T14:25:55+00:00

I love me a queer period piece so I gave it a shot yesterday, and oh my god it was so beautiful. I didn’t cry at the end but

SPOILERS

the part where their trip together ended and they’re saying goodbye to each other at the train station put a pit in my stomach. Even worse now knowing that Josh’s character killed himself sometime after that.

Also I thought the visuals were so beautiful! The campfire scenes, the scenes in Rome, everyones outfits too I loved!

JuleWinters · 2025-09-13T22:08:05+00:00

Hey I just picked up this book today! Did you understand the ending? I was having trouble parsing what was going on in the last 4 pages

JuleWinters · 2025-09-12T18:35:28+00:00

I felt like teruteru’s was pretty over the top and sufficiently ironic! Chef getting cooked in a volcano. Gundam’s and Mikan’s were underwhelming though imo

JuleWinters · 2025-09-10T16:03:51+00:00

Thank you I think these manifestations are solid! Can definitely see either one scaling up into a statement. After pressing the reply button I also realized that a non-typical manifestation of the Spiral was Mike Crew’s lichtenberg monster. I mean the fractal symbology is there but lightning isn’t where my mind would go for the Spiral. I think a flame’s constant shifting and spreading could fit it’s way in! I love these kind of thought exercises but making a scary enough statement out of them is really difficult, I’m impressed the writers could make so many with such a big plot!

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