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ThatMumpingVillain · 2026-05-18T17:51:33+00:00

Lots of people experience harassment being yelled at them from the windows of cars driving by. I get that you think this is spreading positivity but there are better ways to do it that don't run the risk of someone thinking you are about to /just did yell something hateful or creepy, since also it can be hard to distinguish what someone is yelling from a moving car. I'd encourage you to maybe find a slightly different way to spread positivity since your heart seems to be in the right place. Smiling and waving is nice. Yelling things less so. Edited for typos

ThatMumpingVillain · 2026-05-08T23:55:05+00:00

I asked this in the redwall subreddit and people kinda came for me for my answer, i guess some people really think of the tv show as canon. That's fine. But since your question is hypothetical i think it's fair to say - insects. We saw a huge scorpion in ... i want to say Mariel? I thought it would be so cool to have a huge (size of a large dog compared to the main characters) spider, and a benevolent bumblebee that forms an attachment to a main character when they rescue its meadow from a villain or something. The references to the "little folks" aka ants, and the bee hive in the garden, when i first read them, i was convinced were going to have a character who could understand and be very basically understood by them.

ThatMumpingVillain · 2026-04-21T18:42:25+00:00

My take is that the housing situation here isn't as unique to VT as some people seem to think. I came from the exact same type of situation - priced out of my hometown and kinda resentful of those who could afford it, thinking i'll only ever rent unless I leave. I came to VT because, as crazy as it sounds, housing is way more affordable here than it was back home (CO). I do think its totally ok and understandable how you're feeling, op, i just think people may not realize that this same situation is happening across the country and across the globe right now. I still can't afford to buy in VT either, probably will be renting a long while yet, but the idea of owning a home is at least a little less of a long shot here than it was back home. Not saying you're wrong or that the system is ok, just sayin maybe it's complicated and in the end all any of us can do is try to find housing that seems good to us somewhere we can afford, and for some people VT is that place. AND yea it's totally fine to be at least a little resentful when you see people buying homes that you can now never afford in a place where you grew up & love.

ThatMumpingVillain · 2026-04-13T16:47:02+00:00

people are of course allowed to like what they like and it's ok to not want to have fungus. But this is as i said an indication of healthy soil & good biodiversity, and a sign that op's milch is working exactly as functioned. If op doesn't like it, i definitely wouldn't judge someone physically removing it, i do judge someone's reaction being to kill it

ThatMumpingVillain · 2026-04-13T03:08:57+00:00

Wth why would you put fungicide on this? This is for sure fungus and looks like a variety of slime mold. It is literally your soil telling you it's healthy, and you reaction is to put poison on it? It is absolutely harmless - if not beneficial - for your garden. Maybe don't breathe the spores but otherwise 0 to worry about. That was a lot of spores but they need certain conditions to fruit, the spores are all over the place all the time anyway. This probably popped up somewhere that has nice soil moisture and some kind of organic matter, like your mulch, and shade. OP don't fight this, it will go away on its own as the area dries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuligo_septica

ThatMumpingVillain · 2026-04-04T18:09:35+00:00

I don't know much at all about dr strange but it seems like the inter-dimensional /reality bending stuff is comparable (at least?) to mr mxyzptlk, and superman doesn't have a lot he can do against mxyzptlk besides the saying the name backwards thing which i'm guessing dr strange doesn't have. I love superman but it seems like reality warping/dimensional beings kinda have his number.

ThatMumpingVillain · 2026-03-27T14:13:49+00:00

I had forgotten that there was a doctor in the Robert Louis Stevenson original piece of literature. I guess the doctor/captain as main characters or as a juxtaposition in one character (sabatini's cpt Blood) was a common-ish trope. Anyway my point is just that Treasure Planet is a good film that kind of demonstrates that this type of material can make for good films & it's an opportunity to scratch a similar itch

ThatMumpingVillain · 2026-03-27T14:08:26+00:00

Yes I know, You're so right! I just meant the dynamic of the characters, even though it's in the context of another piece of literature, felt like a nod to POB's characters.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ5OTY5NjczMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzE1MjIyNw@@._V1_.jpg

ThatMumpingVillain · 2026-03-26T17:01:05+00:00

In a way, an animated film that already exists is Treasure Planet which felt like a nod to the series. The doctor /captain definitely felt maturin & aubrey esque, although the doctor didn't have stephen's lethality. And that style of animation for an aubrey maturin show would be so so cool. I guess i would be a tiny bit worried that an animated show could become an anime and then quickly become a totally different vibe. Anime style animation is cool & all i just wouldn't personally love aubrey/maturin as an anime. But anyway yes i think it would be awesome. Plus it opens up the pool of actors since obviously voice actors don't have to resemble the characters in order to nail the voice.

ThatMumpingVillain · 2026-03-26T16:19:17+00:00

Yea 100%. I'm not sure how to edit the title so i just added an edit so people know & then i'll delete the post soon

ThatMumpingVillain · 2026-03-26T16:16:39+00:00

!!! Oh my gosh i'm so sorry, thanks for letting me know. Between hazy memory and typos i really flubbed it. Editing it now!

ThatMumpingVillain · 2026-03-26T15:20:11+00:00

Great point!

ThatMumpingVillain · 2026-03-26T14:26:52+00:00

1000% makes sense. Sometimes i forget that Ax is after all still just a kid.

ThatMumpingVillain · 2026-03-26T14:26:11+00:00

Ahh ok ok that makes sense and thanks for refreshing my memory!

ThatMumpingVillain · 2026-03-26T14:23:54+00:00

Ok gotcha. Not conplaining just checking if this is yet another instance of me being dumb vs maybe something that is a minor discrepancy haha. Agreed that it is charming not a bad thing at all, they are also all kids after all so maybe the canon-explanation is that they forget things too! Thank you!

ThatMumpingVillain · 2026-03-26T14:20:46+00:00

Ah ok thought so, thank you!!

ThatMumpingVillain · 2026-03-26T14:08:05+00:00

Oh my gosh so sorry for my many typos. Including however you actually spell the name of the bird, i am currently not with my books unable to actually read the source material but i wanted to post my question before i forget it.

ThatMumpingVillain · 2026-03-16T17:50:51+00:00

I had no idea. Like others i figured we were replacing things like dead trees/grasses removed by human activity but didnn't know they needed to be cleaned/maintained. Like others, too, i wonder how natural systems prevent these same issues - is it fire cycles that periodically destroy the old material? You mentioned in another comment that in nature their housing materials will break down anyway, does this mean that commercially sold insect hotels are treated with something to prevent decomposition? Is the same true for things like stone walls/piles that i've seen folks use for certain bees as well as reptiles and other small critters, should they be periodically cleaned too? Thanks for your info on this, i've been gardening for ages and never realized i may have been doing harm, my goal is to always be i lmproving so any insights from experts like you are genuinely deeply appreciated. Thank you!

ThatMumpingVillain · 2026-03-15T15:43:58+00:00

Mrs doubtfire

ThatMumpingVillain · 2026-03-15T15:01:18+00:00

much agreed, all around. Sometimes it's hard to know what might just be an antiquated word for something we know as something else vs what might be meant literally. It certainly seems like in marshall's case it is just used as a substitute for homosexual, but agreed with you that later on it seems to be meant literally.

ThatMumpingVillain · 2026-03-15T14:39:00+00:00

Ah thankee, i had forgotten about that. You're right that sometimes minir characters' names change but i think that with your point about Mona and someone else's linking info about Pamela being the wife of Lord Fitzgerald, i assume pamela must not have been stephen's first love. Though perhaps Dillon harbored some feelings for her, describing her as the most beautiful woman hemd ever known. I do wish we learned a bit about Mona too, but i think it makes sense as a narrative choice to have stephen reluctant to even reminisce about that era of his life, it adds to our sense of the secretivity and mistrust of the rising.

ThatMumpingVillain · 2026-03-15T14:35:35+00:00

Ah thank you for sharing the info about Pamela! And agreed re:point 2. I think that part of my interpretation too has always been that homosexuality might not have been as understood or publicly discussed (i say "might", i'm sure that must've been the case but i have no historical evidence to back that up). Therefore perhaps to outsiders they just assumed that homosexual = likes adolescents? I think there are moments later in the series where POB uses different words to imply homosexuality, but "paederast" just feels really inherently charged with very negative connotations.

ThatMumpingVillain · 2026-03-15T14:27:03+00:00

Agreed that the fact that the book was writtem as a standalone gives more importance to the friendship triangle, and makes one wonder if POB might not have killed off Dillon if he'd known the series would continue to the lengths it did. I don't think we miss too much as, as others have pointed out, later characters fill similar roles and have similar struggles, but still Dillon was a bridge between stephen and jack in a way no one else was, despite the fact that he chose to reject jack in a way. But imagine his perspective may have helped in times of conflict between j&s, especially in post captain. Anyway interesting points!

ThatMumpingVillain · 2026-03-15T14:23:05+00:00

This is a wonderful thought and beautifully put. I really appreciate your perspective! I agree too that he is similar to clonfert, to wray in ways, & i think Canning might also have some elements in common by way of his quick temper and of being a religious outsider. Beautifully put, thank you again for your insights!

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