#dibbuns

ok ok. Was talking to my boys about solar panels and how corporate greed holds us back from having sustainable energy. Also about how there’s this one rich man that could feed the whole world but hasn’t because he’s greedy. And they were all “oh that’s so evil, like a real bad guy.”

And then we’re reading The Last Battle.

And we get to Shift the Ape, the evil monkey who says he speaks for Aslan and enslaves the good creatures.

And my 5 year old goes “WAIT. HES LIKE- HES LIKE THAT REALLY EVIL GUY. THE ONE WHOS GOT THE FOOD MONEY.”

tl;dr: my dibbuns just compared Elon Musk to this fucker and they’re RIGHT.

I tend to read when I have access to the internet close at hand, because if there’s an object, idea, food, or word that I don’t recognize or can’t recall seeing, I usually look it up. In the first chapter of Pearls of Lutra, Arven is described as wearing a “clean linen smock”... and for the life of me I wasn’t sure what that looked like.

It’s... basically a huge shirt. Like, a nightie. Sometimes it even has big pockets in the front, similar to a kitchen apron.

And looking at the pictures of smocks got me thinking... hand-me-down clothing has to be a thing at Redwall. I mean, living in a self-sustaining Abbey pretty much means you recycle as many items as you can, right? Think of all the things you could do with an old BADGER TUNIC. One square of that could be a flippin’ Dibbun’s future beloved blankee. Not to mention other exciting uses, such as:

dishrags

towels (Actual joke from Redwall: How many towels does it take to dry a Dibbun? All of them! Plus three tunics, a tablecloth, part of the bedspread and at least half a dozen sheets. Good luck if the liddle tyke somehow gets outside again before bedtime.)

second-hand clothes for adolescent Redwallers (“Now I know this hand-me-down cloak is a little long for you, son, but your grandmother will take it in for you and I’m told Martin II himself once wore it!”)

pillowcases

haversacks

tablecloths (do u even feast bro)

scrap fabric for the sewing classes at Abbeyschool

scrap fabric for the Redwallers who quilt (“Goodness me, Eliza! Where did you get that absolutely marvelous burgundy square? I’ve been trying to find something in that color for ages!”)

bandages for the infirmary

ADORABLE PAW-CRAFTED PLUSHIES AND DOLLS

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PLUSHIE

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- “MISS SHINEY IM LIVING IN HISTORY.” (We were watching Pope Leo address The Vatican.)

- “…………”

“What do you have dibbun?”

“…..I’m gonna eat it.”

(“It” was hail. I did not let him eat it. Yes crunchy, no healthy.)

and my favorite: