#blanky talks

[babyblankyerror]

I feel like I should update my profile but that requires motivation and finishing art instead of sketching messily and throwing it to the wind of tumblrs

[blanky-anon]

*gives you 2763 blankets*

*They begin suffocating under all the blankets*

...T-Too much...!

[scales-and-feathers]

Snippets from "Chronicles of Amber" TV series

Corwin's on the ride to Amber with Random

"After all..." I let the words trail off on purpose, for I had nothing to follow them with, though I felt I should.

"You've been offered an alternative?" She stood up suddenly, seizing her whistle. "Bleys! Of course!"

"Sit down," I said, "and don't he ridiculous. Would I place myself in your hands this calmly, this readily, just to be dog meat because you happen to think of Bleys?"

Corwin getting attuned to the Jewel of Judgement

[scales-and-feathers]

I freaking love the "goodbye and hello." endings to both Merlin and Corwin cycles. They're so beautifully melancholy and so hopeful, "hello" easing the pain of parting and promising the hope of a future reunion

/Bentacourt's Oberon cycle peeking out from around the corner/ not that reunion

I do love those prequels but you know in a way that someone loves a well-meaning and kinda harmless absolute infinite dumbass: they're trying their best but oh god they're so damn stupid

[scales-and-feathers]

In Turkish, verbs are Ultimate Daddies of sentences, they contain like 80% of the meaning of the whole thing and that's a wild trip and hard to conjugate and absolutely amazing. I love Turkish.

[scales-and-feathers]

My increasingly busy and..urban life has had me withdrawn from my kin self... I mean thinking of flying when I swing my arms while walking or when the wind from the subway train approaching blows me in the face is nice but flying ain't really my thing, ponds, ponds are nice, lakes, aquatic plants and smol worms and fish and frogs....... I miss ponds

[scales-and-feathers]

Remember when Corwin told his sister "leave me here, I'm just the Joker anyway"

Or when Merlin existing gave him hope to go on

Or when he sang impulsively after seeing a shadow of his Avalon

Yeah

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I love how in "Guns of Avalon" Corwin's like "I fear Benedict. (...) Because you see him in a tiny kingdom, commanding a small militia, with a well-pruned orchard in his back yard, do not be deceived. All that there is of military science thunders in his head." and it's kind of... I understand where he's coming from, but frankly? Benedict, to me, seems the least threatening Amberite. Yes you read that right. I'm coming from a detached point of view, not that of someone who has been siblings with Benedict for a hecking long time (and family can be simultaneously more and less insightful in judging someone's character), but anyway, here's just a list of small Benedict things that are absolutely precious

• he was a supportive and healthy dad figure to Martin with no ulterior motive whatsoever

• he taught Corwin (and probably other Amberites too) how to fence

• he g a r d e n s

• he set up a Japanese garden in Amber

• he just naturally ends up ruling and nurturing the Shadows he comes to

• "I wish that some time, long ago, something had not been said that was said, or something done that was not done. Something, had we known, which might have let him grow differently, something which would have seen him become another man than the bitter, bent thing I saw up there. It is best now if he is dead. But it is a waste of something that might have been."

• I don't know if I'm just making it up but ever since I first read the Amber books,, I just couldn't shake the feeling that he and Llewella are connected in some way and very probably friends. When Corwin describes Amberites when they're gathered as a group, in Sign of the Unicorn, in Courts of Chaos, which I'm assuming he does by way of looking around and telling of them in order that he sees them in, he, both times, mentions and describes Benedict and Llewella together, one after the other. In Sign of the Unicorn, it's Benedict's arrival that brings Llewella to start socializing, and he's the one she greets first. Later, in the post-Brand stabbening hubub discussions, she's at his side again. In Courts of Chaos, when Unicorn arrives — same thing. She trusted Benedict enough to let him take Martin to Avalon. They're both detached from Amber as much as they can afford to be, their rooms both are rooms most detached from the culture of Amber... I don't know but I've always sensed something here. I hope someone, anyone lets me know what they think on this matter. Maybe it's just wishful thinking on my part — both of them are characters I most relate to and probably my favorite characters in the Ambervers (although I love all of them, with Oberon being uhhh probably the exception, controversial feelings, he's complicated. But not the Oberon from Bentacourt prequels. My fucking god this idiot has given me so many laughs that my lifespan was extended by like a century)