#bartseq

[alex-lif]

So i needed to wave something to Bartseq fandom bc im end reading trilogy and so

After all Bartimaeus' "oh now my Ptolemy's form in size with Nathaniel, he was handsome though", "Nefertiti was stunned" and "if u want to know, kitty's blouse suited her very well." kind of comments im pretty sure in some of modern au he would LOVE photography. And painting art. And all this aesthetic desks on pinterest

[jewishicequeen]

Bart: Well one of us is gonna have to change and it’s not gonna be me

Day 4, guess the prompt:)

[oneeyedmagi]

Echoes of the Other Place

[nadiajustbe]

Bartimaeus fandom is so cool because over the years there's like. ten active cockroaches on Faquarl's kitchen being active and yet the SHEER amount of content and events and yearly prompt weeks and fix exchanges and there was even a zine and. you can just see how people are absolutely crazy about this series and this is so damn precious.

[narinick]

Bart prompt week 2025, day 2

English breakfast

Hi, it’s baby Nat.

[tarragonthedragon]

Greetings, fellow Bartimates!

It is once again almost that time of the year: time for the annual Bartimaeus Sequence Prompt Week!

This year, it will run from Monday 7th April to Sunday 13th April with further reminders closer to the date. As for the prompts, we've partnered with Kitty's old workplace - "The Frog Inn" - and whipped up not one, but two prompt menus for you to pick and choose from!

Every menu offers a choice of 5 different daily prompts for you to play around with (counting the drink itself as well). You are free to interpret them as you wish, combine different prompts or stick to just one per day, and hop between lists depending on what gets your creative juices flowing.

The medium of choice is up to you: fanart, fanfic, cosplay, aesthetic boards, music, paper crafts, everything is welcome - go frogwild, remember to tag your delicious creations with #bartprompts25!

MORNING MENU:

Americano - 07.04 slice of life, bittersweet, AU: meet-cute, Kitty

English Breakfast - 08.04 hurt/comfort, canon-compliant, library, Nathaniel

Hot chocolate - 09.04 cuddling, warm & cozy, AU: everyone lives, Mr Button

Frappé - 10.04 casual, banter, pre-canon, Rebecca Piper

Smoothie - 11.04 domestic fluff, costume ball, AU: animals, Asmira

Fruit juice - 12.04 comedy, action/adventure, AU: sci-fi, Queezle

Soda pop - 13.04 fluff, friendship, AU: fix-it, the resistance

EVENING MENU:

Champagne - 07.04 elegance, jealousy, AU: high fantasy, Jane Farrar

Wine - 08.04 drama, character study, AU: royalty, Solomon

Gin and tonic - 09.04 blood & injury, favourite spirit, AU: roleswap, Faquarl

Vodka martini - 10.04 crack, post-canon, mythical creatures, Bartimaeus

Jägerbomb - 11.04 London, fire, fight/violence, Jabor

Suffering bastard - 12.04 hurt/no comfort, horror, sickness, Honorius

Blood and sand - 13.04 character death, grief/mourning, bad ending, Ptolemy

[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.

[lunyselene-art]

I wanted to make his earrings really pop but I don't think they're saturated enough haha. anyway here's bartimaeus in AoS.... i love him

[impassiverevelation]

It’s a little interesting that Bartimaeus likes to remember Ptolemy before he changed. Because, yes, he was healthier and had his youth, but that was also the Ptolemy that hadn’t made the gesture of going to the Other Place; the Ptolemy that Bartimaeus doubted.

[asexualreptile]

Day 3

From the evening menu: Faquarl- AU: roleswap- favourite spirit (not you Faquarl, sorry babe)

Remember that scene in AoS where Bart is stuck at the Tower of London and Faquarl gets him out on order of Lovelace? Yeah, that one. Except that now it's Faquarl stuck in the bowl and Bart getting him out with the ring-thingy. No way Bart will ever let him live that one down lol

Faquarl being stuck and still absolutely towering over Bart amused me.

References: Glowing coconut octopus for Faquarl

Spur winged lapwing for Bart

[mesmeropants]

The final moments

With Nouda bearing down on him, the glass palace crumbling, and the smell of detonations still fresh in the air, did Nathaniel think of the Underwoods? Did he remember his childhood burning away while another demon lunged for him? Did he think of Ms. Underwood dying for the petulance of a boy she loved?

Did he make his sacrifice and see the death he had avoided before?

Only years ago, and yet a lifetime apart.

For all the traumas and internal tortures that Nathanial wrestled with, the death of the Underwoods was rarely mentioned past the first book; it always felt like it was a wound so deep and internalized into ‘Nathanial,’ that Mandrake dared not even think about it even when he troubled himself about Kitty’s assumed death. I like to think that in those final moments he thought of Ms Underwood, and the boy that could have met his end were it not for Bartimaeus.

[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!

[jewishicequeen]

Post PG AU where they’re stuck together after the fight.

I call it “the Greedling Situation” because that’s basically how I picture them.

The gist is that a moment before Nathaniel finished the release, Bartimaeus released the staff, triggering the explosion. Then when it tore through Nathaniel’s body he repieced it together, shaping the hurt tissues with his essence, effectively saving Nathaniel’s life but also sticking them together more severely.

Because Bartimaeus isn’t fully protected inside Nat’s body but is forming some of it outwards, silver and iron do have an effect. They also use a cane because I’m NOT making a post-PG AU where Nathaniel just walks it off, sue me. CHRONIC PAIN FOR THESE BITCHESSSSSS

Another important note is that Bartimaeus isn’t truely bound to Nathaniel here- he can change shape or leave at any time. Doing so would very much kill Nat though

Some doodles of it too. Bart has gotten control over makeup and accessorising because Nat wouldn’t budge on the clothes.

It’s all very much still up in the air and I’m still thinking. Might use it as a baseline for the bartprompts week works.

[oneeyedmagi]

Bartimaeus fandom hello?? Are you guys still even alive

I'm planning to post a few of my old art here (but idk actually)

[nadiajustbe]

Five-year old Nathaniel, looking out the window of his attic — standing on a stool, because otherwise he is too small to reach the view — marvelling at the distant silhouette of the Crystal Palace.

Johnatan Stroud what have you done.

[narinick]

Bart prompt Week 2025, day 5

Smoothie

Just Asmira! I guess you could call it domestic fluff because Bart‘s a fluffy bundle of joy. Or domestic assassination attempts, whatever.