Writer's Block: Honey Bear

[billroper]

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I'm told that I'm Rabbit. I never read the books when I was younger, so my primary exposure is through my older daughter.

She, on the other hand, seems to be convinced that she's Tigger.

Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Tigger gets to break the rules.

B

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

I've been told that I'm Kanga. I don't think you dither enough to be Rabbit.

[daisy-knotwise.livejournal.com]

But he ALWAYS has a plan.

GHR

[scarfman]

Remember that there's a big difference between Milne Rabbit and Disney Rabbit. Disney Rabbit is a flibbertigibbet. Milne's Rabbit is Clever, nowithstanding that the bear with only fluff and an instinctive grasp of the Tao is better at solving their problems.

(When I was a kid I only realized that Rabbit and Owl were the two with Brain. It wasn't till I rediscovered Pooh as an adolescent that I realized the difference between them: Rabbit's clever and Owl knows things. One critic I read noted that they were the only characters Milne invented, as opposed to adapting from Christopher's toys; then quoted passages from Milne's autobiography to suggest that Milne's mother had a neverending string of relatives and Milne's father sounded like he knew everything but didn't really.)

In theatrical releases Disney Rabbit is a babbling worrier, and only comes off as at all a thinker in bits adapted from Milne in which Rabbit was a thinker. I'm not familiar with the current body of tv that Disney Rabbit appears in, so I don't know which way that trends, but when someone calls Bill Rabbit they're probably thinking of Milne Rabbit.

[stevieannie.livejournal.com]

This meme amuses me - I've long held that the Pooh characters encompass all of mankind in a twisted Joseph Campbell-esque fashion.

I'm a Piglet. Spelled as he spells it - piglit :-)

Tim's such an Owl that it's almost painful...

[rdmaughan.livejournal.com]

I'm usually regarded as Rabbit. Rabbit is the sarcastic one.