It has just occurred to me that of all the characters in Winnie the Pooh, the only ones that lack both fingerless stuffing hands and faint seam lines (the indications that someone is a stuffed animal) are Rabbit and Owl. Which carries the possible implication that Rabbit and Owl are just a normal rabbit and owl living with a bunch of sentient stuffed animals.
And somehow this makes Rabbit’s constant consternation with all of his neighbors even funnier to me.
Theyre also the only ones with bushy eyebrows and chest and chin floof, and I dont know if thats relevant but it FEELS relevant!
Also someone mentioned Gopher too and OF COURSE, there is absolutely no argument that this whistling little man isn’t just an average (talking) gopher.
The more I examine this the more it feels just so OBVIOUS
You are exactly right! Most of the characters in the stories are based on the real Christopher Robin Milne’s stuffed toys except for Rabbit and Owl who were added for the books and Gopher who is exclusive to the Disney adaptations.
Here are the real Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, Kanga, and Eeyore. They currently live at the New York Public Library.
It’s fairly clear in the book illustrations too:
‘Owl,’ said Rabbit shortly, ‘you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done in this Forest – and when I say thinking I mean thinking – you and I must do it.’
Milne, A. A.; E. H. Shepard. The House at Pooh Corner (pp. 78-79). Egmont UK Ltd. Kindle Edition.
This post has been getting a surge of attention and let me tell you that 1) I am really pleased at how kind most of the people who KNEW all this have been in explaining it, and 2) I feel a lot better seeing just how many other people didn’t have any more clue of this than I did XD It’s kinda nice being part of a post thats spreading some fun knowledge in a nice way!
Also thank you to the gracious @roofermadness in the tags for complimenting my astuteness on figuring this out from the animation character designs, you are so nice to say so and I appreciate you 🥰
just saw a post written by a very kind and tolerant person politely explaining in detail why it is rude to listen to music/watch stuff on your phone in public without earbuds. I’m glad people patient enough to do that exist, since the only explanation I could possibly offer is “because you aren’t the protagonist of this grocery store”
This pisses me off on so many levels because it proves that white people A) Don’t see black people as anything other than mules for their emotional labor and B) Walking moral compasses.
How fucking dare she ask a black woman to write black pain —with BLACK CHILDREN nonetheless— to teach a bunch of white men a lesson? The people that watch Abbott Elementary are not the same people who see school shootings as just an unfortunate byproduct of the 2nd Amendment. Black people are allowed to exist in bright spaces without there being the threat of death or violence.
MEANWHILE most of these mass shootings aren’t even happening in lower funded black schools.
Can you imagine if black people hit up the writers at Parks and Rec and were like “You should write an episode about a bunch of people ODing on meth to teach law makers a lesson about drug addiction in small towns.”
.tatecakes: customer asked for brown bread and i didn’t hear them so i said ‘you’re having sourdough’ but forgot to ask it like a question and she just said 'ok.’
brooklynbradshaw21: one time i answered the phone by saying “january, february, march… i’m so sorry, i don’t know why i did that, how can i help you” and they hung up.
cailynvol6: one time the phone was ringing but for some reason i hit the intercom button and said “hello?” across the entire store.
eatasslol0: one time i greeted a customer by saying “hello google.” it was a bad day.
shaynahicks21: one time a lady told me her last name was “romaine” like the lettuce, so i typed in “lettuce” as her last name… she came back in and laughed at me.
icewater_stan: it’s ok i charged someone $100 for a scoop of ice cream once and all he said was “that’s a bit expensive.”
