#nathaniel bartimaeus trilogy

[jutenium]

References below🔽

[idioticpopcorn]

Down boy!!

this is really lazy since i did it with pen and shit coloured pencils in like 5 mins but i thought it was funny

It's Nat and Kitty from the Bartseq btw

[bblueraven-and-fandoms14]

Re-reading Bartimeus Triology and actually dying inside. Guys I'm on chapter 5 of AoS and I'm going to kill everybody in the room and then myself because Nathaniel did not DESERVE THIS. OUGH. OH. UNDERWOOD WHEN I CATCH YOU!!!!!

[lejay-the-impossible]

The memory of Ptolemy

[winter-wise]

Nathaniel aged 12:

[silverfeatheredserpent]

Bartimaeus & Nathaniel

I wanted to draw this picture on a tablet, but then I wanted to transfer it to canvas with paints. Now, from the outside, it seems to me a little religious, but in fact it's not at all.

I really like the image of Bartimaeus in the days when he lived under King Solomon and Ptolemy - despite all the evil that the magicians did to him, he still remained himself.

He also saved Nathaniel's soul.

After all, we all understand that if it hadn't been for Bartimaeus, Nathaniel would have died long ago and the callous and cold John Mandrake existed instead. I won't say that I'm 100% satisfied with the result, but I got creative pleasure painting these feathers, shadows on clothes, splashes of rain and emotions on their faces. Aloof, incredibly strong mentally, but at heart a very lonely Nathaniel, whose only friends were silent books - the last time he cried was when Mrs. Underwood died, the only person he loved.

And he was left alone.

Among the greedy, corrupt, vile wizards, there is only a boy who has been attacked by everything at once. This song symbolizes the British government in my head - "a flock of crazed birds." Vultures who pretend to be colleagues, but in fact are just waiting for you to make a mistake.

Bartimaeus, on the other hand, is calm. He understands all this. He's seen too much over thousands of years, so I think his help for Nathaniel wasn't entirely imposed by his endless Imprisonment. After all, despite everything that followed, he never revealed John Mandrake's true name to anyone and did no harm.

I'm sure such an inventive genie could have found a loophole.

But he didn't.

He stayed with him until the end. This peace with a hint of truth is what I wanted to show. The way the genie covers the real Nathaniel with his wings from the dank downpour on his soul, from the real demons longing for his death, and calms him down.

Bartimaeus was the last person Nathaniel showed his tears to. Nathaniel was still himself only because of Bartimaeus.

And while darkness, bad weather and demons are raging outside, there is silence, tranquility and a starry sky under the powerful wings.

[narinick]

Bart prompt week 2025, day 2

English breakfast

Hi, it’s baby Nat.

[alienscribed]

is there still a bartimaeus fandom? i hope there is ✨

(johnny-boy is obviously bartimaeus' spin of making up a silly nickname for john mandrake 😉)

[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.

[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!

[nadiajustbe]

And the life itself can't dull it.

Hey Bartimaeus fandom how are we doing?

(fandom piece based on the Bartimaeus sequence by @jonathanstroud)

[jutenium]

"You're our hero", that's what Mr. Devereaux said

Oh, little naive Natty boy... Haha and little naive Mr. Devereaux too. They have this common foolish...ness. Devereaux is a bad role model for kids. Especially for this one.

[gwinver-art]

Just finished rereading the first Bartimaeus book and yeah, yeah, I can see why I loved these books so much as a child :>

I feel like these illustrations aren't 100% faithful to the source material but maybe they're how Bart wished things happened, you know??

[bblueraven-and-fandoms14]

I'm on PG for my re-read of the Bartimaeus trilogy and I'm going to end it all!!!! I'm ending it all ARAGAHHAHSJSJD IM ENDING IT ALL. AND THE WORLD ALONG WITH ME. I GOT TO THE MS. LUTYENS SCENE. AND I CRIED. AGAIN. This is the third time I read that scene I KNOW what's coming but I can't I can't I can't I can't. I could talk for HOURS about that scene I could talk for HOURS. There is so so SO much about Nathaniel's character in that singular scene. Stroud put so much in there. I could write an entire essay on Nathaniel Underwood with that single scene alone. It makes me so fucking SAD. FUCK. FUCK. IM SO SAD FOR HIM 😭😞😞😞😞😞 IM SO SAD FOR HIM. HE WAS JUST A KID 💔💔💔💔💔 HE'S STILL JUST A *KID* IM WLKWJWJD. I always, always physically cry with this scene it always gets me always always ALWAYS. This scene makes me fall apart and cry more then the death scene like I really can't. I'm. God. God. I'm so distraught.

[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.

[winter-wise]

Nat, Kitty and Bartimaeus if Nat hadn't died: