#Kitty jones

[littlelapwing]

What if Jonathan Stroud didn’t hate joy…what then, huh?

[jewishicequeen]

Unpopular opinion, but out of the London trio, Nathaniel is the one most likely to get your pronouns right

Bartimaeus is the queerest of the bunch but he's STRICTLY so because he's not human. He's very obviously seeing spirits as a saparate thing from humans, and authomatically uses it/its for them if he doesn't know them personally, but he's ALSO quick to gender humans, have the straightest shipping mind ever(you are a boy and she is a girl obviously you're gonna go and make a bunch of tiny magicians instead of saving the world if i'm not here to bother you) and ALSO. Just. Awfull with names I mean can you imagine that guy letting your deadname actually die? We have canon evidence that he WON'T

Kitty will be accepting of you but she's constantly calling Bartimaeus a demon even after knowing him. She's the kind of person who supports you idealistically but fails in action. She's very kind, but won't pick up on your discomfort unless you scream it to her face

Nathaniel however? He's gone years with a different name(not the right name for him, but nevertheless), he treats Bart the same in boy or girl guises, AND. AND. Ever since Bart told him not to call him a demon he DOESN'T CALL HIM THAT. He uses the word to refers to other spirits but actively CORRECTS HIMSELF when using it for Bartimaeus.

My point is. John Mandrake may be a fucking asshole and a magician but he would respect your pronouns AND your name.

[lejay-the-impossible]

𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍...

𝑺𝒂𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐 𝒕𝒐 𝑲𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆.

A perfect ending that manages to break me every time. I recently finished my Bartimaeus reread and that day I decided to go somewhere nice and quiet. I went to a park near the sea, found myself a perfect tree to climb on, brought my backpack with disgusting bitter tea and some cookies to make it more bearable and proceeded with reading. I think I was on that tree for about three hours. When the ending finally hit I cried a little bit and felt a small emptiness but also a grand satisfaction.

Now it's time to reread Ring of Solomon to finish off the sequence and leave Bartimaeus on a nice humorous note.

[silverfeatheredserpent]

I've been wanting to draw a reference of this meme for so long

It seems that someone has already drawn something like this in the Trilogy??...

Anyway, it was fun. And I think it would be Kitty who would hit Bartimaeus for making jokes like that 🤣

[ironyscleverer]

sometimes I look back on the Bartimaeus Sequence and marvel at how well developed the system of slavery was, to the point where, in order to uphold the system, the magicians had to base their whole society around dehumanizing themselves and policing each other.

Think about it. Nathaniel was bought as a toddler, and stripped of his name, his family, and every other piece of humanity he could’ve possibly possessed at six years old. He was then handed over to a magician who taught him to depend on slave labor as not only a source of power, but also an integral part of his identity. He was taught to be dependent on slave labor in every way, and yet constantly fear the beings that he enslaved.

He was taught value political power and safety above all else in order to assuage that constant fear, because the oppressor always fears the revenge of the oppressed.

He was taught to use the differences between humans and spirits to justify their enslavement, because there must be a reason they deserve it and you don’t.

He was taught to distrust kindness and altruism, because if a world exists where kindness and altruism have value, then there exists a world where slavery is wrong. Where all the abuse and pain that generations of magicians have put themselves through to uphold the system of slavery was for nothing.

And in this context the metaphor of the true name as a source of both extreme power and vulnerability for spirits and humans alike, to the point where magicians hide/destroy/forget their birth names and by extension their humanity in order to contain that weakness is just so achingly perfect and scrumptious and I just-

Idk. Sometimes I think about that.

Edit: I think I may have unknowingly plagiarized this from @agape-emo-eros so uhhh, just gonna tag them here. Idk it was in my mind palace or smth. Sorry dude.

[narinick]

Bart prompt week, day 3 because I fell asleep yesterday before I remembered to post here 🫠

Hot chocolate

Everybody lives, evvvvvrybody. Faquarl is making chocolate for every one, like the dad he is. He kept the body of Mr. Hopkins, and voila! Life is good. We can at least pretend right?

[winter-wise]

In Ptolemy's Gate when Bartimaeus can barely shapeshift because of how overused his essence is:

[nadiajustbe]

The story is a tragedy because it didn't have to end this way" — Ptolemy

"The story is a tragedy because it was always going to end that way" — Nathaniel

"The story is a tragedy because no one knew it was going to end this way" — Kitty

"The story is a tragedy because no one could stop it from ending this way" — Bartimaeus

[alex-lif]

So another stupid au bc there's too much of Epic: Musical in my tiktok fp

So Greek mythology AU

Nathaniel as Hero

Bartimaeus as some lower god who accidentally picked him as favourite

I have so many thoughts

[composereggwrites]

Unknown Help - Chapter 1

Ao3

Rating: T

Fandom: The Bartimaeus Sequence

Characters: Bartimaeus, Nathaniel Underwood | John Mandrake, Kitty Jones

Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Nathaniel Lives, Bartimaeus Sequence Prompt Week 2025, Snarky Bartimaeus

Summary:

Bartimaeus is well acquainted with the feeling of being summoned. He's even familiar with the feeling of being summoned by this particular magician.

That doesn't make him any happier about it.

"You know," he drawls, taking his common gargoyle form, "I've never heard of the dead being able to summon a spirit before."

Chapters: 1

For the Bartseq prompts week!

[tarragonthedragon]

#bartprompts25 day one : champagne elegance, jealousy, bittersweet, meet cute, kitty jones, jane farrar

they could have sent anyone but her to sneak into this magicians' masquerade, kitty jones thought bitterly. she turned away from the table, and collided with a woman she didn't recognise, sending a champagne flute to the ground in a shatter and sparkle of broken glass. without thinking, kitty reached out to catch the woman she had knocked over.

glittering jet eyes found hers. "i don't believe we've met?"

[littlelapwing]

Kitty Jones.

[jewishicequeen]

Bartprompts 3: Roleswap

Young magician apprentice Clara Bell, a blue-eyed djinn, and a mysterious boy from the resistance…

[lejay-the-impossible]

First encounter with Kitty

[silverfeatheredserpent]

Oh, you shouldn't have fallen asleep, Nathaniel, while these two are visiting...

[jutenium]

References below🔽