Hedgehog Facts

[nemomen]

Fact: MST3K’s Baby Hedgezilla episode was the best.

[nemomen]

Fact: Hedgehogs can spot when things are photoshopped by the pixels.

[nemomen]

Her Recursive Highness.
Princess-ception.
The progress of infinite regress.

[nemomen]

Fun fact, hedgehogs celebrate the day after Thanksgiving as Bleak Friday and spend the day creating dark and despondent art to evoke either a macabre or melancholic sentiment.

[nemomen]

Fact: hedgehogs have a rather frustrating way of searching for books.

[dave_b]

Planet of the porcupines.

[nemomen]

Fact: Sometimes hedgehog art historians get a little too obsessive with ukiyo-e

Ukiyo-e hedgie selfie.

Utagawa Kunisada’s “Hedgehog Nose Boop” (1852).

[nemomen]

We made a trailer for the book, since video’s a thing the kids are into these days.

[smulder]

I finally watched Interstellar.

There’s a scene that’s exactly like this, but without the hedgehog.

[anon35121463]

Good trailer, would watch the movie but maybe needs more “Bwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaammmmm”?

[nemomen]

A painful fact.

[nemomen]

We also should have added some explosions, a few lens flares, and a car crash to give a better sense of the reading experience.

[anon26304152]

Had the thought of using Sabotage by the Beastie Boys ever been brought up in pre production?

[nemomen]

I actually had Intergalactic by the Beastie Boys in my head with the Hedgezilla and Mechahedgezilla ukiyo-e prints worked in, but I needed to use something that was public domain since I really don’t want to deal with rights management or have a video taken down over infringement.

[anon35121463]

If I had a copy of After Effects and something to run it on, I’d totally remix it for you.
So I had to do it in my head and it’s 100% awesome.

[Mangochin]

Baby hedghogs are called hoglets. Just learned that today.

Wildlife rescue centres 'inundated with baby hedgehogs' due to mild weather

[Wanderfound]

@Mangochin

Baby hedghogs are called hoglets.

Baby echidnas are called puggles.

Echidna Puggle at Taronga Zoo

[Mangochin]

That thing is just the right combination of adorable and gross to get an immediate “awww sooo cute” from me

[nemomen]

It funny, my sense of cuteness/grossness has been so warped over time that I just though it was an adorable hairless blob of wonder and potential grossness didn’t even come to mind.

Side note. Ecnidha-wise, the niffler in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them is basically a magical echidna. Echidnas even have a pouch like the niffler’s one it stowed gold/sparkly things in. (Ecnidhas stow eggs in their pouch for extra weirdness).

I asked J. K. Rowling to put a hedgehog inspired creature into one of the future films, though I doubt she saw it.

Princess Pricklepants (PPricklepants)

[Wanderfound]

The milk bubbles are the key, I think.