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Facts 😔

#why not both??? #book ratty vibes

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The original Mole Interest

#mole interest #wind in the willows #witw #witw musical #wind in the willows musical

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I had to jump on the bandwagon.

Bonus:

#wind in the willows #witw #wind in the willows musical #witw musical #this barbie is

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I have an unavailable urge to buy a red pinstripe suit and dress like a weasel from the 2017 west end Broadway Wind in the willows.

Honestly, you should follow your dreams!! You can find a weird amount of red suits at secondhand shops. Worst case scenario, you could paint the stripes yourself!

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It doesn’t have to be the first version you were exposed to. Choose the version that made you decide you were not going to be normal about these animals

#wind in the willows #witw #kenneth grahame #witw musical #wind in the willows musical

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Have you ever read "Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Mr. Toad" from "The Merry Spinster"?

OH BOY, HAVE I EVER.

“Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Mr. Toad” sure is! A story!

For the curious, the title is based off of “Some of Us had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby,” by Donald Barthelme. The story itself isn’t based off of it, precisely, but it does give an indication of how dark THIS story gets.

For anyone who hasn’t read it and is curious, it’s kind of an exploration of the idea that Toad ISN’T the problem in Wind in the Willows, his traits and interests and arguably his weakness of will are just being exploited by his friends (Ratty, Mole, Badger, and I think Otter in one instance) to. Um. Repeatedly psychologically torture him.

For what it’s worth, I don’t have an issue with dark retellings of children’s stories. However, this one I find strangely distressing. I think, for me personally, it’s because it feels like it exists for shock value, rather than to say anything about the book. A big clue to that, for me, is that in this story Mole says he has known Toad the longest of any of Toad’s friends. Which, of course, is really easily refuted in pretty much every single adaptation, and the book itself. It seems like the Wind in the Willows aspects were mostly there to be shocking.

Note: This is nothing against Daniel M. Lavery, who seems cool! But yeah, I’m not really a fan of the story.

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The Paul Bransom illustrations are, in fact, the funniest things in the world.

These were the first illustrations (although not present in the first editions, for reasons of “publishers thought the book wouldn’t sell, so they published a very small run of it for as cheaply as possible”), and actually Grahame expressed a preference for the hyper-realistic illustrations over the possibility of anthropomorphized ones. For what it’s worth, he did see Ernest Shepard’s illustrations before his death, and ultimately approved of them—although if I remember correctly, he didn’t actually live long enough to see a Shepard edition go to print. There is record of how he felt about Nancy Bernhardt’s illustrations, or Wyndham Payne’s, as far as I know.

@tiasworld93 oh there exists a wonderful illustration somewhere (which I can’t find for the life of me) of a regular-sized Toad sat forlornly in a human-sized jail and it really just fortifies how ridiculous that is XD  

anyway, brb, gonna go arrest my dog for destruction of property for when he ate my socks

#art #toad #paul bransom

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Just so we’re clear, I support Toad Rights AND Toad Wrongs.

#wind in the willows #witw #twitw #wind in the willows musical #witw musical #the wind in the willows #toad of toad hall

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WELCOME. JOIN US.

My brain is a bit fried today so I don’t have much to add, but welcome and we’re always excited to have new people in the fandom!!

If I would have known there was a The Wind in the Willows Fandom of Tumblr I would have joined so much earlier.

I'm working on two fanfictions right now. Maybe I'll post a little bit of a sneak peak for both so I can see if anyone shows any interest?

Anyways, how do I work Tumblr?

Specifically the tags, there are tags I wanted to add that hinted at what kind of fanfiction (#Mole x Rat #The wild wooders #Chief Weasel #Chief x Lesser etc.) but it isn't letting me

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Hey OP not to

the most bizarre adaptation of the wind in the willows i have ever seen 

#hey op not to be overdramatic but i owe you my life #i have been looking for info on this show for MONTHS #ohhhhhhhh my gosh #also this looks terrible lol #i need six seasons of it #toadlly awesome #remember when guillermo del toro said he dropped out of a Disney remake because they wanted Toad to say ‘radical dude things’? #exact same energy #i’m so glad to have seen this #oh my gosh

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one thing i love about being an artist is making stuff like this 

#badger #toad #art #a place to come back queue

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Inktober day twenty-three: Leak

This is the last time Ratty is letting Toad into his boat

#ratty #mole #toad #art #a place to come back queue

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The amazon page for the official cast recording soundtrack has a little video of the CD being recorded in studio, and I'm not sure I've seen it anywhere else so I thought I'd share! :D

[Sorry about the glitch at the beginning; the original video seems to have the same issue no matter what I try :( ]

#a place to come back queue

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The Wind in the Willows (1995) [requested by @the-blue-fairie]

#ratty #mole #pan #a place to come back queue

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ORVILLE PECK’S BRONCO LYRIC STARTERS

FEEL FREE TO CHANGE PRONOUNS/NAMES/PHRASING AS YOU SEE FIT

Daytona Sand

“Buddy, we got major blues”

“I hope you brought your walkin’ shoes ’cause it’s quite a ways from what I understand”

“I think I could’ve been your man”

“Long hairs, slow eyes, I like your style”

“I haven’t seen my band in a while, at least nothin’ seems to last that long”

“It’s not that I don’t care, It’s just hard to make a plan”

“I’m not mad, for what it’s worth”

“You always take the dare, that’s what I learned”

“But they say some stones are better left unturned”

“I’ve been around long enough to know you can’t trust a man”

The Curse of the Blackened Eye

“I’ve been hiding out, running from the curse of the blackened eye”

“Darlin’ I can feel it comin’ everytime”

“I sat around last year wishing so many times that I would die”

“It ain’t the letting go it’s more about the things that you take with”

“Have a heart too long, it’s bound to break”

“Boy, just sing the song for heaven’s sake”

Outta Time

“Baby, I’m outta time”

“I met a man in Denver”

“Some things ain’t what they seem”

“Drag me into the party, guess I got nowhere to go”

“Got a man to my left and one on my right and they tell me ‘bout what they know”

Lafayette

“I knew that I’d lose you the moment we met”

“I love when it rains but I hate getting wet”

“Never thought it’d be me that you’d haunt”

“You said, “Words didn’t matter, it’s what’s in your head””

“If you don’t ask then you’re bound not to get still know what you said wasn’t wrong”

“I can’t turn a corner or walk down the street without seeing your face come along”

“You know I recall somebody saying, "Therе ain’t no cowboys left” but they ain’t met mе and they ain’t met you”

“I hear it takes years for the heart to reset”

“One of these days, I’ll be done with regret didn’t think it would take me this long”

C’mon Baby, Cry

“I can see the sadness in your eyes, You’ve been tryna hide what you left behind”

“They say it’s darkest before the dawn but you’ve been smiling for so long”

“I don’t want you to be afraid, Let me see you cry”

“I got an hour or so take my hand and let it go call me up anytime”

“I can tell you’re a sad boy just like me”

“Baby, don’t deny what your poor heart needs”

“Just bat your eyes, baby, let me feel the pain”

“Take my hand, don’t let it go, just cry”

“C'mon, baby, cry”

Iris Rose

“I would’ve wanted you to watch me play but I hear the songs there are better”

“I wish you’d stayed, maybe I’d be the same”

“You tell me not to cry so I just sigh”

“I think about you nearly еvery day, dream a lot and it starts to sting”

“Sing it loud so you don’t have to shout”

Kalahari Down

“I was born in the badlands, honey; strange place for a boy to drown”

“Spent my days on a mountain, baby”

“You’ve been gone away, I’ve been riding around, running out the days, writing out a song on my daddy’s guitar”

“Did you find your way? Skip another town?”

“I’m always down for hanging around”

“Better off alone if you ask me”

“What do I know? Buncha sorrow, Promises of a desperado”

“Maybe some day I’ll get to see all the places like Torino’s, never been”

“Tell my mother I’m nearly done”

Bronco

“Pack your bags, baby. Polish up, ride out.”

“You gotta bolt when you see the gates are down”

“I’m just my daddy’s child running something on the wire”

“Forget about the score, yeah, who cares anymore?”

“Bad news buddy, every dog does get its day”

“Passing up a fight, you’re gonna lose in the end”

“You’ve gotta live with what you said”

“Come on in hot, babe”

“Nothing holds me back at all, nothing left to fear”

Trample Out the Days

“Mulholland’s gold and you’re awake, babe”

“You drive real fast and I can tell that it’s just not your lucky day”

“Boulevard boy, give me nothing, you’re the one I chose”

“Take me out to the race, toast our mistakes”

“Take a seat while I trample out the days”

“Your eyes grow cold into the night, babe. You start to fade”

“You had your reasons, but I’m telling you that seasons always change”

Blush

“Can’t picture your face, but I know it was pretty”

“Yeah, you drew me that night. I saw love in your eyes but I didn’t know how to begin”

“Baby, some of us we ain’t meant to win”

“Come and find me waiting on the street where we met”

“Still there’s something 'bout men that I don’t understand, They’re always leaving wherever they’ve been”

“I don’t know much about love still I give it a try now and then”

“It’s okay, I don’t want any pity”

“But spare me a thought if you got any heart, I know you had one deep inside”

“I don’t miss you that much but, baby, watching you blush-“

Hexie Mountains

“Young man, fill yourself with dread”

“Come home To begin another end”

“It don’t feel right to see you, friend”

“Wouldn’t it be nice if I could sleep in my own bed?”

“I can’t find the words, so I guess it’s time to move on once again”

“Wouldn’t it be nice if I could let the dеad stay dead?”

“Take me far enough to say we’re gone”

“I’m not saying I’m not scared”

“Wouldn’t it be nice if I could hold it off again?”

“Wouldn’t it be swell if I could get things off my chest?”

“Maybe you’d learn to live with what’s inside your head”

Let Me Drown

“Been finding it hard to be kind”

“Let me drown”

“Don’t wanna wash you away”

“I swear there’s good things that are coming your way and I can’t be the one left here dragging you down”

“Baby, I can be the one you drown tonight”

“Never knew where was home, I slept a lifetime alone”

“Yeah, we had it one time but it’s gone now, it’s gone”

“I know with pleasure comes pain, I figured we were the same but as I get older I get more afraid”

“This town just ain’t big enough for the both of us now”

Any Turn

“Can’t write. Same songs, new night”

“I’m crying all night ‘bout a guy with another guy waiting for me 'round the back”

“Dreaming 'bout the time-but you can’t now-never mind”

“Something 'bout a horse and a man and a Cadillac”

“Set 'еm up in the motel room”

“Baby, it’s all come and go, I feel down tonight”

“Sit alone and be so ill, set it all on someone else’s bill”

City of Gold

“I used to find hope in the wreckage”

“Send word to my last known existence, lost at last in the wind”

“It’s all come-ups and clover until it’s all over you know all good things come to an end”

“I’m too easy on giving out chances, too long alone on the range”

“You might think that I’m strange but I come with a pain of a man scorned again and again”

“I'vе been thinking lately about the way you’d speak to me”

“I think it’s time I disappear, I’m feeling old”

“Just sit with me morning and nighttime have me on your front porch”

“I’ll be still, I’ll be quiet, I never knew why it was so hard for me to be who you want”

“All that I want is a kind heart to haunt, My shrink says it ain’t too much to ask”

All I Can Say

“Lay in bed, sleep the day away, Think of all the things we used to see; all those pictures of you and me”

“I know that this time tomorrow I gotta go and I- I know that love don’t live here anymore”

“For now, all I can say- all I can say is goodbye”

“Sit in bars, sit on sidewalks, sit down and just cry where you’re standing”

“I sit alone anyway, every night in your arms”

“Go ahead, be beside yourself, drive 'til we got nothing left”

#wait hold on #this is great #feel free to send

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Andrea Rivola’s illustrations for Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows.

#everyone look at them right now immediately #ratty #mole #toad #art #a place to come back queue

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So I uh. Posted this on the wrong blog.