Happy Holidays! It Was My Birthday A Couple Of Weeks Ago (during Christmas Week!), And My Family And

Happy Holidays! It was my birthday a couple of weeks ago (during Christmas week!), and my family and I cooked a feast in celebration. I had been wanting to do this for a while, and it turned out perfectly. I want to share it with you!

We made Stones Inna Swamp, which is a vegetable (of course) soup with oat dumplings. Yum! For the beverage, my grandpa and I cooked up a modified version of Mossflower Mulled Cider. He also fried some root vegetables for the side. The other side was Nunnymolers, which are pastries with jam, berries, and honey. They're why I'm kneading a giant chunk of butter in the last photo... it was a strange experience. Everything was so good to eat, though!

For dessert, I picked out this wonderful specimen of a cake. It isn't homemade, but it has all the Abbey staples. The cake itself was very dewy, and the fruit and cream really brought it all together.

Here is the meal feast all put together:

The table looks so pretty! The finished version of the soup was delicious and the Nunnymolers were just decadent. Do you see those light up pine trees in the middle? They were a gift from my mom. And the first photo, you can see my pewter pitcher and goblets, full of cider! They were a gift to use in the feast, and I love them every time I have used them since.

Speaking of gifts, I received the Redwall tapestry!

My mom put it up for the meal and it is absolutely GORGEOUS. I swear, I was fawning over it for ten minutes after I opened it up.

Anyway, thanks so much for being here. I had such a wonderful birthday and I feel so much love <3.

Ahhh this is me thank you so much 😭😭

I'm still working on setting up my profile but hi everyone! Arflow will be ready to meet you soon ☺️

Someone made an Arflow stuffed animal

So I’m gonna do my fanfics for this year in categories. Kinda like how artists do with their art?

Anyways it’s been, uh, not the best year for me but I had fun writing :3

Most emotional while writing:

(In Different Soil - Redwall)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30385746

(Like Buds in the sun - Redwall)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29776401

Completed works:

(Gilded Amethyst - Spyro)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17675324

(We Play Our Parts - Balto)

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1637029

(This Place We Call Home - YouTubers)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/14943815

Weirdly popular:

(You can’t just pick up a friend at the corner store, can you? - Little Nightmares 2)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/32201935

(Family Trip - Carmen Sandiego)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29183403

GABOOOOLLLLLGHGGGHHHHAAAAAHHHHH

My primary form of reading is via audiobook, so I'm well aquianted with their wonderful content. After not listening to them for a while, it fills me with joy to hear Jacques' voice once again.

if you listen to the Redwall audiobooks you’ll get to enjoy gems like this one

nanowrimo.org

NaNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo

"...I’m not standing on line at a bookstore, waiting for you to sign my copy of your book. Come on, all it takes is you, and determination, self belief, and of course, the flame, which came from that first tiny spark.

Your pal,

Brian Jacques"

So if you don’t know, there’s this thing called NaNoWriMo, or national novel writing month. It’s a program that anyone can join where people try and write 50,000 words in a month, 1667 words per day. This can get quite exhausting so the website has a bunch of motivational resources, such as pep talks writen by a bunch of famous authors.

I was scrolling through these pep talks and I found one by Brian Jacques, written in 2008. Now the whole thing was really beautiful, it was about 5 paragraphs, but the last one...

“ You know, you’ll disappoint me, if in a few years time, I’m not standing in line at a bookstore, waiting for you to sign my copy of your book. Come on, all it take is you, and determination, self belief, and of course, the flame, which came from that first tiny spark.”

And now I’m depressed because what’s the point if he’s never going to come to my non existent book signing???

Ok Redwall fandom, I need to scream into the void for a bit here; there were some posts in the tag awhile back theorizing some elements of Slagar’s past, and thinking about that got me thinking about the Kingdom of Malkariss and, more specifically, the Wearet.

Guys, we need to talk about the Wearet.

Possible spoilers for Mattimeo and Loamhedge, for those not familiar with all the books. I’m gonna put the rest under a cut because this got to be quite long, though a lot of it is just me divulging some personal theories I’ve developed.

Keep reading