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[tree_and_leaf]

Someone asked about shipping Captain Flint and Timothy in the Facebook Arthur Ransome group. It went about as well as you would have expected...

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[white_hart]

(Also, for some reason the nickname "Squashy Hat" gave me the impression that Timothy basically looked like Snufkin, rather than being a normal man in a soft felt hat, which probably contributed to not really thinking of him as a sexual or indeed entirely human being.)

[tree_and_leaf]

imothy basically looked like Snufkin, rather than being a normal man in a soft felt hat, which probably contributed to not really thinking of him as a sexual or indeed entirely human being

I am now really tempted to propose that as my inviolable head-canon and see if anyone takes it seriously :)

[wychwood]

For most of the book he's "??? armadillo" so I think confusion around species is fair!

[caulkhead]

My first reaction was indeed 'But he's an armadillo!'

[lilliburlero]

Literally lol-ing at this I definitely had a very similar impression of his physical appearance as a child, though I don't think even that stopped me having the sort of cosy, but somehow excited, meanwhile knowing this was somehow unmentionable feelings about the friendship that were what passed for shipping when I was 8 or so.