#barney drew

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Add this to the list of things I blew past as a kid that are much scarier now.

[teabooksandsweets]

I love Barney Drew

That adorable little nerdy artist child.

[laughytaffythegrape]

super fabulous YA lit meme

4/7 friendships: Will Stanton, Bran Davies, Simon, Jane, and Barney Drew + Merriman Lyon (The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper)

“When the Dark, comes rising, six shall turn it back; Three from the circle, three from the track, Wood, bronze, iron; water, fire, stone; Five will return, and one go alone.”

[tdir-headcanons]

Headcanon #6

Barney Drew knows some FANTASTIC swears. (The child does spend all his free time with fishermen, after all)

He once called the Black Rider “an ugly fucking barnacle”.

Bran approved. 

[lastoftheoldones]

Merriman Lyon...Merry Lyon...Merlion...Merlin.

Susan Cooper, Over Sea, Under Stone

[lastoftheoldones]

Barney never knew afterwards what put the words into his head; he spoke before he thought, almost as if someone else were speaking through him. He heard himself saying clearly, 'In the name of King Arthur, and of the old world before the dark came.'

--Susan Cooper, Over Sea, Under Stone

[lastoftheoldones]

Barney: Why do they call you "sir"?

Mr. Hastings: Who is there that you would call "sir"?

Barney: Well, nobody really. Only the masters at school.

Mr. Hastings: Perhaps I am one of their masters.

[lastoftheoldones]

Great Uncle Merry: I haven't been in the sea since I came down here this year, I think you should all take me down for a bathe.

Barney: For a bathe?

Great Uncle Merry: That's right. D'you think I'm too old to swim, is that it?

Barney: Er--no, no, not at all, Gumerry. I just never thought of you in the water, that's all.