#not Bartimaeus staff

[nadiajustbe]

OKAY, THE CONCEPT OF THE MILES SWAPPING PLACES FOR SOMETHING IS CERTAINLY COOL BUT

But imagine the Miles Siblings, at the moment when Miles 1610's parents are called to the principal's office

However, the parents are busy at work, so instead of the principal, his brother comes.

And the dialogue lasts no more than five minutes, because this brother looks like it's better not to approach him at all. And not to talk to him. Especially if you don't know him, don't know his true character.

Especially if you have some unexplained grievances against Miles.

And so the principal first grumbles about what a good student Miles is, and then finally gets to the "B" in Spanish.

Then 42 leans over to at her eyes, because he's been standing up the whole time.

And he goes on a whole tirade in Spanish about how he is que no sea perfecto, pero lo está intentando y tú absolutamente no lo aprecias.

And when the principal blinks in question, not understanding a word, he replies with a ghostly smile, "You wouldn't even get an F."

Miles comes out of the office with a triumphant grimace and a "Oh, yeah, that's my not-so-like-me brother" face.

[silverfeatheredserpent]

Keep an eye on the boundary of the circle...

[wifegideonnav]

💀 every locked tomb woman owns my heart but especially harrow

🌈 23, lesbian, she

🪐 locked tomb sideblog but i treat it as a main blog. @staff let me switch what my main is

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🫵 actually now that i’m making this post im starting a quest. if you read the bartimaeus trilogy by jonathan stroud come talk to me. blease. literally never encountered another fan so i’ve been sitting on these thoughts for like half my life

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[saint-oleander]

In the end, as it had been in the beginning, Ptolemy wakes up. But that comes later. Before, there are three things: a ring, a staff, a necklace. And a boy, closing his eyes in the Other Place and opening them amongst trees.

For one moment, between the Other Place and Earth, Ptolemy finds himself somewhere else.

Written for the first five prompts of this year's Bartimaeus Prompt Week

[eizneckam]

"Bartimaeus... The thought was very faint.

Yes?

You've been a good servant...

What do you say to something like this? ...wearily, wishing we had some kind of maudlin sound track, I played along. Well, um, you've been just dandy too.

I didn't say you were perfect...

What?

Far from it. Let's face it, you've generally managed to cock things up.

WHAT? The bloody cheek! Insults, at a time like this! With death bearing down, etc. I ask you. I rolled up my metaphorical sleeves. Well, since we're doing some straight talking, let me tell you, buddy—

Which is why I'm dismissing you right now.

Eh? But I hadn't misheard. I knew I hadn't. I could read his mind.

Don't take it the wrong way... His thought was fragmented, fleeting, but his mouth was already mumbling the spell. It's just that... we've got to break the Staff at the right moment here. You're holding it in check. But I can't rely on you for something as important as this. You're bound to mess it up somehow. Best thing is... Best thing is to dismiss you. That'll trigger the Staff automatically. Then I know it'll be done properly. He drifted. He was having trouble keeping awake now—the energy was draining unhindered from his side—but with a final effort of will, he kept speaking the necessary words.

Nathaniel—

Say hello to Kitty for me.

Then Nouda was upon us. Mouths opened, tentacles slashed down. Nathaniel finished the Dismissal. I went. The Staff broke.

A typical master. Right to the end, he didn't give me a chance to get a word in edgeways. Which is a pity, because at that last moment I'd have liked to tell him what I thought of him. Mind you, since in that split second we were, to all intents and purposes, one and the same, I rather think he knew anyway."

—Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud

[jutenium]

I drew this while I was sitting without the Internet for 2 days because of the russian shelling (these days I had to prepare for the last state exam👍anyway, I passed it successfully and now I'm free for a while), because the only available references for drawing were books and a folder with memes

So, bunch of ukr memes but it's a BartSeq👇

(You'll never believe which meme Kitty represents lol)

"I like the way it burns" for Bartimaeus (more in alt)

"It feels like God is punishing us for something" oh yes, Stroud often does that

Some silly sketches: Bartimaeus grimacing copies very important Minister Mandrake™ explanations, but does so in a guise of Kitty, and just Verroq (i love him, and i still can't draw him properly)

"Get out your 5 hryvnias" and "Verroq, you have a boring face, no one will give us money", or The Mercenary needs to be paid for his services, and Lovelace is raising money for a big coup, but if their faces are boring, no one will give them money (alt for more as always)

And finally... This. Just this. I have nothing to say, it's just a fcking legend. A legend that speaks: "It was me who stole the chumadan (mispronounced «suitcase»)" («spyzdyv» (stole) here is an untranslatable swear word that means "to steal").

It was Kitty who stole the staff.

[whumpster-fire]

Silly Bartseq Thoughts of the Day:

1: I want a "everybody lives including Jessica Whitwell" AU. Not because she's a decent person (she's not) but because I want Nat and Bartimaeus and Kitty to get to watch Shubit completely lose his temper with her. I want to see the silly little bear man be like: "You live in the shittiest discount bargain bin magical empire in the history of Western Civilization, and yet in the span of five years while working for you, I have been dismissed while you attend some dumb speech or play, and suddenly summoned to find myself face to face with a goddamn Greater Spirit, twice. How the hell do you even keep finding these entities, and if this is happening that often why do you not have a high-level marid on retainer? For that matter given that it is literally your job as security minister to prevent shit like this how the hell have you found yourself in this exact situation twice?" And I want her to be able to do absolutely nothing about this.

2: Okay imagine if Nathaniel, instead of trying to pull the "ha ha, you thought I was summoning a demon into myself but I was actually summoning Ascobol and Co!" trick on Makepeace and Hopkins, just decided to take the biggest gamble of his life and go "Yes, I have chosen a demon. I was thinking perhaps Bartimaeus of Uruk!" and just summons Bartimaeus into himself, betting his life on Bartimaeus going: "Hell no, I'm not spending the rest of my existence wearing your ugly face!" and letting him live.

And Faquarl just went along with it because yeah he'd decided to finish Bartimaeus off earlier but what he really wanted was to be proven right, and to get to gloat to him about how he told him what a great idea inhabiting a human body was and for Bartimaeus to just admit he was right.

So after Nouda and Co. take over their summoner's minds Nat and Bart have to do some panicked acting trying to pretend Bartimaeus just destroyed his mind except really they're fighting for control and flopping all over the place, and Bartimaeus keeps seizing the opportunity to make Nathaniel smack himself upside the head.

And then Bartimaeus supposedly "masters" controlling Nathaniel's body enough to walk around and leave the room, and tells Faquarl: "Hey, I'll meet up with you for the whole taking over the world thing later, but I've been around London a lot recently and I've got a long list of monuments I'd like to deface with obscene graffiti before you fine entities get round to pulverizing them. Mind if I go for a stroll?"

Faquarl, who knows Bartimaeus, completely 100% buys it, and Nathaniel and Bartimaeus immediately make a beeline for the vault and get the staff and amulet without anyone thinking about it because Nouda's too egotistical to even consider needing to augment his own power with whatever entities got trapped in a staff.

3: Actually the funniest thing would be to combine these so Nathaniel shows up again with the staff and starts blasting just as Whitwell is attempting to make a break for it, and after everyone has escaped Jessica's asking him how the hell he's able to stay in control and Bartimaeus just interrupts and goes "Oh he's not, the cool moves were all me, he's just a backseat driver." and then Nathaniel interrupts him again and they start openly bickering, so both Whitwell and Shubit are forced to confront the fact that their asses just got saved by these two complete idiots again. Jane Farrar should also be in the room for this so Bartimaeus can go "Oh hey it's me, you know, the frog you wanted to finish off?"

I want those two scumbags to know that their way of doing things lost, and trust and kindness won.

[praeyrp]

Power Positions;

There are various different Power Positions on site, the, unofficial canons of the site. There is no rule on how many of them you can play, but we do require all members who take a power position to ensure they are active with these characters, seeking out the characters of the group, are active with any events, and basically just helping to guide stories in and around their group and beyond.

If you are interested in any of these roles do not hesitate to reach out, ask any questions y ou want and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.

– FS staff

(Sarah, Pandora & Yukie)

Witch Covens;

Lucidum Coven

Leader -- Vincent Hawkins (pb - Yukie)

Adviser -- open

Tenebrae Coven

Leader -- Bastian Vega (pb - Pandora)

Adviser -- Zhu Mei (spellbinder) (pb - Sarah)

Vampire Nest;

Valdit Nest

Leader -- Thaddeus Skjeggestad (pb - Yukie)

Adviser -- open

Packs;

Furore Pack

Alpha -- Adrian Lazzari (pb - Sarah)

Beta -- Jake Lupe (pb - Pandora)

Omega -- open

Sivi Pack

Alpha -- Malachi Marshal (pb - Pandora)

Beta -- Elijah Mitchell (pb - Sarah)

Omega -- Lucas Hadeon (pb - Vejde)

Cautela Pard

Alpha -- Talia Rosario (pb - Sarah)

Beta -- Grace Thompson (pb - Yukie)

Omega -- open

Caedis Pack (hybrid)

Alpha -- Demetrio Dimas (pb - Pandora)

Beta -- Maeve Stavros (pb - Sarah)

Omega -- open

Fae Courts;

Dawn Court

Peace Council -- open

War Council -- Nicoleta Cosovei - (pb - Pandora)

Social Council -- open

Dusk Court

Peace Council -- open

War Council -- open

Social Council -- open

Above and Below Realms;

Heaven - Guardians;

Patience: the Guide -- open

Chastity: the Guardian Angel -- open

Temperance: the Judge -- open

Kindness: the Hunter -- open

Charity: the Mediator -- open

Diligence: the Commander -- Anyanka Farah (pb - Sarah)

Patience: the Watcher -- open

Hell - Guardians

Gluttony: the Feeder -- open

Pride: the Preceptor -- open

Envy: the Corrupter -- Matthias Irbson (pb - Sarah)

Lust: the Faithless -- open

Greed: the Banker -- Bartimaeus Mcleod (pb - Yukie)

Wrath: aka Legionnaire -- open

Sloth: aka Caretaker -- open

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Asbury Revival Eyewitness: ‘The Lord was Present, Imparting Peace…’

In February 2023, a few students at Asbury College were so hungry for more of God that they lingered in worship for hours after their chapel service had concluded.

Leaders of the university discerned that this was not just an ordinary extended worship time. What started with around twenty students turned into over one hundred students by the end of the day and then over fifteen thousand visitors in one week. For more than two weeks there was round- the-clock worship, prayer, and pursuit of God.

There has arguably been an asinine amount of criticism sur- rounding the events that took place at Asbury. Every move of God has a certain amount of disapproval, but from my standpoint this particular outpouring had far less of the typical controversial manifestations and issues than past revivals or outpourings and still managed to have the same amount of criticism.

About three days into this outpouring, a few friends and I hopped in a car and took the trip up to Asbury. Let me start with a disclaimer that we were only there for a short period of time, although I have friends who are on staff or spent significantly more time there than I did. My friends and I were uncertain of what to expect because at the time there was not much information being shared about the specifics of what was happening inside the chapel. The building was almost to capacity, but it was before Asbury became a trending topic across social media platforms so it was easily possible to grab a seat in the early evening. Our hearts were hungry to see what God was doing in this precious moment. When we walked in the room, the first thing I noticed was the fact that there were at least forty young people on the stage appearing to be leading the room. There did not seem to be one ���main” worship leader or speaker. As the evening continued on with the sweet Presence of Jesus tangible, I was shocked as I noticed what I could only consider a miracle. For hours upon hours, these young people stayed on the platform, engaged in worship, not checking their phones—that is a miracle if I have ever seen one!

As the evening turned into night, the majority of the people left as these hungry college students stayed. The older leaders went back to their homes, but these young people continued to press into worship throughout the night. Their sheer hunger for Jesus reminded me of Joshua, who would stay inside the tent, obsessed with the Presence of God, long after Moses returned to the camp (Exodus 33:11). Just like Bartimaeus, I saw a group of young people with a cry in their heart that said, “If Jesus is moving, then I will not let Him pass me by!” In response, I believe, Jesus stopped. His Presence came in waves day in and day out in the Asbury Chapel.

The night that our group was leaving Asbury, church vans from all over the country were showing up to little Wilmore, Kentucky, to get a taste of what God was doing there. The very night that we left, the leadership decided to open one of the other campus chapels to facilitate the masses that were gathering. There were so many people trying to get into the chapel that speakers were set up outside for those in line to listen in. At one point people were waiting up to eight hours hoping to get a seat inside. The hunger of those few Gen Z college students initiated a move of God that went on to touch the nations. Within one week, Asbury went viral.

For a generation that has been deemed as lost, there was an undeniable fervency to pursue Jesus. Multiple times throughout the outpouring, space was made for testimonies to be shared from the front. There were countless stories of young people who were convicted of their sin and gave their lives to Jesus; others who, once exposed to the Presence of God in that measure, chose to rededicate their lives to Him and fully surrender their lives. I can’t remember how many testimonies I heard of anxiety, depression, and even suicidal thoughts leaving. The fruit from the continual worship time was being seen.

This should not be shocking to us. The Presence of God transforms lives. Holy Spirit takes the broken, the sinful, the addicted, the jaded, and He forgives, heals, sanctifies, and revives. That is revival—hearts being revived to Jesus Christ. Much of the dis- agreement surrounding Asbury had to do with how much the Gospel was being preached (or the lack of it), if repentance was occurring, and essentially the glaring question, “If all they are doing is worshiping, is that enough to call it an outpouring?” I would first comment that the Gospel was being preached, people were repenting, and much more was happening every day in addition to hours upon hours of Christ-centric worship; however, in spite of that, are we going to argue with a generation of young people that their way of pursuing Christ in humble adoration is inadequate? I, for one, do not want to minimize God’s ability to transform a life in one instant in His Presence, just as He did Bartimaeus, just as He did me, just as He has done an innumerable number of times.

After things calmed down from the Asbury Outpouring, I reached out to Greg Haseloff, the university pastor and associate dean of spiritual life at Asbury College to gather more information from behind the scenes of what occurred at Asbury. Greg happened to be the pastor of the Wesley Foundation at Texas Tech University, which I attended while I was in university an unmentioned number of years ago. These are my questions and his responses with regard to Asbury and Gen Z.

1. Can you give us a short reflection on what occurred the first day that the Asbury Outpouring started?

On Wednesday, February 8, we were focusing on the third or fourth chapel in a series titled: “Love in Action.” The series was moving through Romans 12–14, and seeking to unfold an orthopraxis of “loving your neighbor as you love yourself.” Our Gospel choir was leading us in worship, and Zach was preaching on Romans 12:9— essentially laying out how we fall short of loving one another if it is not the love of God moving through us.

As chapel closed that morning, no students responded to an altar call. About thirty students remained after the vast majority went to class following chapel. The students lingered and continued to sing for another 20 to 30 minutes—sweetly being with Jesus and responding to the Holy Spirit. During that time about a dozen of them came to the altar and prayed. For those who were in the room, there began to be a sense that the Spirit of God was moving in a special way, that many would describe as the manifest presence of God—often described as “the cloud of God falling on us.” One student shared a testimony of hope. The Gospel choir responded to the movement of the Spirit and kept leading the praise. When classes dismissed before noon, a few more students trickled back into the room. After lunch another handful of students filtered in. Between 1 and 2 pm more students migrated back in to Hughes Auditorium, hearing from friends a description that Jesus was present, worship was continuing, and they were encountering the love of God in a special way—sweet, filled with peace, and authentic. By late in the afternoon and early evening, much of campus was aware that “chapel had continued.” This didn’t mean that all students came back to the auditorium. Some had responsibilities, others knew that for one reason or another they weren’t being drawn there. However, the movement of worship, the peace of Jesus’ presence, and the clear sense of the love of God being poured out confirmed that worship would continue.

2. What made you and the other leaders decide to let the students continue to stay in the chapel that day?

Our students experience Hughes Auditorium as a place of worship, not limited to morning chapels on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. When students are seeking God—whether singing in praise, or prayerfully at the altar—our chapel team, spiritual life team, faculty, and other leaders make room for how God is at work, for our students’ genuine seeking after the presence of God. While some students certainly had classes to attend, leaders would typically not interrupt the continuation of worship expressions. In the ethos of our community on campus, we seem to have an implicit trust between students and faculty/staff who discern and respect how God is at work. All those involved in the spiritual leadership of chapel were unified. The calling was to steward the presence of God and follow what the Spirit of God was orchestrating.

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3. What are some of the attributes that you would consider unique to the Asbury outpouring?

The first and maybe most obvious would be the uniqueness of this move of God among college students. This outpouring of His Spirit has been upon Generation Z, which in American culture has been viewed as a generation of declining faith—the least amount of belief of any generation.

Second, the vibrancy of the worship. The joy that filled the worship and the peace that filled the room during more gentle times were both so authentic and rich that one can only imagine that joy and peace were “displacing depression and anxiety.” Joy and peace were being elevated in our worship, juxtaposed to the polarization being elevated in society. Jesus was moving toward our brokenness and fractures in the midst of a world that perpetuates the fractures. The Lord was present, imparting peace to a generation, and a world, that has struggled to know peace.

Third, a unique attribute was the “lack of production,” which was expressed as simplicity in the leading of worship. This included no words on the screens and no high-tech production of what was unfolding on stage. This attribute means very little in the history of awakenings and revivals, yet it is worth reflection in this cultural moment of the last fifty years. As production can garner too much attention in the church—and as cell phones sky- rocket our distraction thousands of times per day, 24/7—suddenly an old auditorium with stained-glass windows filled with desperate, hungry college students thirsting for righteousness captured our attention. Jesus actually captured our attention, and it seems this particular attribute eliminated peripherals that have often distracted us—in order that Jesus could more completely and fully receive our attention!

Fourth, worshipers coming for consecration. Encounters at the altar were marked by people’s desire for their lives to be fully consecrated. Being delivered from pornography addiction, alcohol, drugs, or other addictions came because people where thirsting for complete purity. The words over the altar are Holi- ness unto the Lord—and this was the hunger within the people at the outpouring. They came to have their lives consecrated and completely surrendered to the Spirit of God filling them with holy love.

A fifth attribute of this outpouring might relate to diversity—generational diversity, ethnic diversity, and international diversity. Attendees were of all ages. In the first week the worshipers created prayer huddles for the younger generation to pray over the older generation and for the older generation to pray blessing over the younger generation. The people gathered for worship were of many races, and the outpouring included many international attendees from every continent in the world. Flags from multiple continents were visible over and over again—in particular at two of the venues.

Last, the timing of the outpouring in the midst of a country experiencing deep polarization and a world that is roughly one year beyond the Covid-19 pandemic is interesting. The emotional healing, reconciliation, hope, and joy many received certainly qualifies as a unique attribute during the cultural climate of 2023.

4. In your opinion what made the Asbury outpouring go viral?

While none of us can answer this question with certainty, a couple of key factors might be at work. Followers of Jesus do trust He is Lord over all—for “from Him are all things, and to Him are all things”—so He can receive the glory from a viral movement. The world is looking for hope and desperate for an authentic move of God, which seems to play a role in how many had their attention captured by this work of God. Lastly, the simplicity that was visible appeared to validate the genuineness of God’s presence. For example, the worship was joy-filled and low-tech. The singing was so rich, boisterous, filled with celebration, and exalting of Jesus’ name. Often people would say, “I couldn’t leave because of the presence of Jesus and the singing.” The music had very little production and no lyrics were being projected. The bands were not leading times of worship that were highly produced. The absence of streaming worship and the simplicity of what was captured apparently played an intriguing role in the viral movement.

5. In your personal opinion, would you rather this time be called a revival, outpouring, or does it even matter?

There is a recognition of what unfolds in John 9 when the disciples asked, “Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus responded that “This happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.” Whatever the events of February might be called, we know that the works of God were displayed.

I have a preference of this particular move of God being called an outpouring. As we listened to how people were encountering this move of the Holy Spirit and how people experienced attributes of this awakening, we sensed it was an outpouring of God’s love, peace, and presence. The word revival is a word that is on equal footing with renewal and awakening—though the most accurate use of any of these words may await more time to discern the fruits of the movement. Revivals can be planned or spontaneous, and can take on a wide variety of expressions depending on the particular stream of Christian tradition. In order to move beyond some of these realities, we’ve most often described this special time an outpouring.

6. Why do you think God picked Asbury, or would you explain it in a different way?

The timing and place of God choosing to encamp and tabernacle comes with significant mystery. We do know that college students have been crying out for God to bring revival, renewal, and awakening on the college campus and to their generation. College students hungering and thirsting for righteousness, who were lingering and waiting for God, were the forerunners of this movement. We might ask the question with less emphasis on “where” and more emphasis on “who.” Who was it that was desperate for God to move and most desiring of His presence?

7. Would you say that this move was predominantly student-led?

Yes. Students were clearly at the forefront. They were the intercessors, the lead worshipers, the men and women hungry for purity, seeking to be filled with holy love, and the ones saying yes to being sent as carriers of the good news of Jesus. Would they say they were the only ones? I don’t think so. Every generation of Jesus’ followers is acutely aware of two realities—they are connected to believers who have gone before them and invested in them, and they are called to disciple and love those who are coming after them. The movement began with the Spirit of God being poured out on college students hungering and thirsting for righteousness; among college students who had interceded for the Spirit of God to bring awakening, renewal, and revival on university campuses; and among college students acutely aware of their own brokenness and need to receive salvation, purity of heart, healing from anxiety and depression, deliverance from addictions, secure identity in Christ, and a confident calling to be ambassadors of good news. In these realities of being predominately student-led, the students at the front of the movement were grateful and connected to the transgenerational beauty of the body of Christ.

8. Why/how was the decision made to let the students continue to lead?

Regarding worship teams, students leading is very natural and congruous with our university rhythms. They are often our worship leaders. When it came to other elements of worship like Scripture and prayer, their leadership was central and in the flow of what God was doing in this movement. We sensed less of a decision, per se, but rather we were on a quest of stewarding the presence of God that included discerning what God was doing. We had complete unity in naming that the movement began with college students, was in very significant ways for college students, and that the leadership of college students would be instrumental in the spread of this movement unfolding with Gen Z on campuses across the country and the world.

9. What were some of the pros/cons to allowing students to lead in something like this?

All of the pros are expressions of new wineskins. The church’s prayer for a movement of God among young people is absolutely dependent upon young people leading the movement. Students will affirm how powerful the sharing of testimonies was during the outpouring. Every time testimonies were shared, we quoted Revelation 12:11: “They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony.” So we could also understand this verse as a declaration that we can triumph over the enemy’s attack on the students’ generation by the word of their testimonies. Students experienced the work of Jesus in their life overcoming their fears; overcoming identity crises; overcoming anxiety, depression, pornography. Their leadership and their voice was more than a positive—their voice was essential. Students are more than the church of tomorrow—they are the church of today!

10. Would you give any advice to other leaders who want to empower the younger generation?

First, get out of the way. Second, after embracing the first priority of getting out of the way, discover your purpose as a leader with and beside college students. College students who are courageously seeking to follow Jesus are also longing to follow Jesus with humility. Humility keeps them interdependent upon the transgenerational gifts in the body of Christ. Older followers of Jesus grow hopeless and grumpy when they lose touch with the presence of God in younger generations. College students grow misdirected and entitled without healthy relationships with older generations of believers. The outpouring included sweet and powerful times of Generation Z praying for their elders and the older generations praying blessing upon blessing over Generation Z.

Our Response

This leaves me with an excitement that just maybe we will see the fulfillment of the prophecies over this generation. That this Bartimaeus generation will rise up and be leaders in this next move of God on the earth. If He is truly calling them the Bartimaeus generation, what if Asbury is a prototype of what God wants to do in the earth? Perhaps the biggest questions are not “what if,” but if so, then how should we respond?

Through key prophetic insight and biblical teaching, I share practical tools and strategies that can help you respond in my new book, The Bartimaeus Generation.

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[whumpster-fire]

-Nat telling the Scrying Glass Imp to zoom in closer to Mr. Underwood

-Kitty and Jakob trying to play some Cricket in the park

-Bartimaeus deciding to give Scholto Pinn a completely made up message from Simon Lovelace instead of putting any effort into thinking of a better cover story

-Bartimaeus reassuring his sentry squad and mentally bragging to himself about how strong the walls of Prague are while watching Gladstone charge up his staff in the distance

-The Resistance watching some djinni wandering around the market with an extra shiny object around its neck

-Nat attempting to buy an evening paper (he should have asked someone more qualified, like a granny)

-Ascobol and Co. chasing some spindly commoner down some stairs into a hotel kitchen

-14 year old Nathaniel going shopping for suits (implied)

-14 year old Nathaniel setting up a pentacle thinking about how impressed Bartimaeus is going to be with how much his fashion sense has matured over the years (implied)

-Quentin Makepeace proudly announcing that he's decided to summon Nouda "The Terrible" into himself because he is "Very Strong Willed"

-Some random raven trying to eat some bread in the Tower Of London grounds and glancing suspiciously at the new flock members, one of which it's pretty sure had a blue beak just a minute ago

-Verroq, mentally, going "It's just one pestilence, how bad can it possibly be?" (probably)

-Julius Tallow imagining the looks on all his colleagues faces when they see what he's about to summon (implied)

-Baztuk and Xerxes having an intellectually rigorous debate over architecture and the preferred habitats of deathwatch beetles

-Bartimaeus, circa 1914-1918, thinking operating a motor vehicle can't possibly be that hard if a human can do it (implied)

I love Bartimaeus trilogy and it's just a bunch of still shots of various scenes and the caption "pictures taken 30 seconds before disaster"

Highlights include:

-Nat at top of stairway looking down at his master and Lovelace

-Nat getting his hot dog

-Kitty and Co opening the coffin

-Nat and Jane flirting

-Bart and Ptolemy in spice market ;)

-Nat and Bart shooting magic at Nouda. ;)

And more!

[nadiajustbe]

Hey, this is not a Bartimaeus staff (again), but I have one little announcement for you, so

Now I have a main account on which everything, expect Bartseq will be published (there is this blog for Bartimaeus)

So if you're interested in my rambling about other fandoms, or other books, or the Spiderverse in particular, you're welcome!

[chronomally]

[fauna-a]

VII Forms

I can’t believe it.

It was a sound (a voice?) he knew well: it brought with it annoyance, but relief, too; irritation, and yet fondness.

Nathaniel, are you there?

Nathaniel! That was his name! Together with it, came an avalanche of memories: the spirits, magic, Kitty, the Staff, his decision to… and then…

Am I dead?

Absolutely you aren’t. Look!

He didn’t have eyes anymore, but when he took the decision to look, he saw; and he saw the freest and most beautiful chaos he had ever seen flowing around him, essences mingling in vortexes around him and he was mingling with them, or at least some part of him, and he felt thousands of presences, and one in particular, so familiar, and he grabbed on to it with his mind or his soul or whatever, because…

Calm down, Nat. You’re hurting me.

What’s happened?

Well. You dismissed me. Except that you must have stumbled on some syllables because… I’ve pulled you away with me. At least, your… essence, your soul, I don’t know.

Maybe it came from that, the feeling of lightness, and yet terror, of a freedom so pure it scared him to death. Sort of, of course.

Around him, the matter went together in spiral forms, then it seemed to blow up; Nathaniel withdrew, or at least he felt like that.

Oh, sorry. Your trauma.

So, this… all this… is you? And the other spirits?

You are, too. In the Other Place there aren’t precise identities. It’s complicated, but you’re gonna get the hang of it.

The matter twirled again, gushing flashes of colour, and Nathaniel tried to wrap his head around it all. Even if…

Wait a moment. Are… are you happy that I am here?

Oh well. You know how it is, I’m not totally ungrateful. You were saving my life, which was just due, with all the times I did that for you, but, you know, I don’t like owing to a dead, and…

You’re actually happy!

There was an explosion of colour, and Nathaniel realized it was himself creating it.

Good job. He felt Bartimaeus watching him, analysing him. It’s strange. Kitty and Ptolemy had a body which they had to come back to, so a bond with Earth… You are a lot more like us, now, since your body is, very probably, pulverized.

Thank you.

I’m just exposing facts, Nat.

And now?

Ah, I have no idea. Try and take a form, like us.

In the middle of the vortex, appeared the familiar Egyptian boy, radiant, with his usual cheerful grin.

Nathaniel hesitated.

Just do it. Don’t think too much.

A pale boy, few years younger that Ptolemy, took a hesitant step in the Other Place. In his eyes shone a light that wasn’t only human anymore.

NdA: That was clearly a What If where Nathaniel is not dead, but his soul "follows" Bartimaeus in the Other Place and he becomes... something else, not human and not spirit. Can he be summoned? Has he the same powers as spirits? I haven't a clue :) I wrote this in like twenty minutes.

[whumpster-fire]

#!!!!!#the entirety of the actual grave robbing gives me the chills#the tension builds so well and even knowing that it'll go wrong doesn't prepare you at all#kitty's growing disgust at the greed of the other members is such a cool move#because you don't expect Stroud to draw that parallel to the magicians#kitty tripping into that hidden corner with the skeletons#that one resistance member getting dragged into the stone coffin#honorius' insanity#members running and abandoning their friends in a heartbeat#if it was just a chase it wouldn't really stand out as we've all seen that kind of thing x times#it's the resistance falling apart when a big threat is applied that makes this such a good scene#to me at least#just... Stroud had something to /say/ here#also for your consideration: the scene at the Café the next day is sooo good#and: how it fundamentally changes how Kitty acts from then on#too often in fiction we see characters put through insane situations and just brushing it off!#but Kitty not only completely rethinks her way of acting but also gains a much more jaded and nuanced understanding of the politics of#-rebellion and the state etc#the bartimaeus sequence#bartimaeus sequence

All of this but also: what really ties it together is the way the switch to Nat and Bartimaeus's POV immediately after grounds it and cements that yes, this all really happened. The sequence is such a nightmare that it's hard to believe it really all just... ended like this. and there's some small bit of uncertainty on Kitty's part over whether anyone else made it out or not, and then we switch to Nathaniel's POV, and (a) hear about the bodies being recovered from the other side, and immediately confirm that this was all real, and it really did end that badly. (b) see the magician's reactions, and how they treat this as an inconvenience and an annoyance, but ultimately nothing more, which further hammers in the futility of the Resistance's actions and that their deaths accomplished nothing. (c) get reminded how powerful and dangerous the staff really is, which confirms how badly they were fucked over and lied to before the meeting with Hopkins even happens. And (d) almost immediately see Honorius from Bartimaeus's POV, which both reinforces how scary and disturbing he is and shows him as another victim of the magicians.

That entire sequence happened, and then three chapters later we're left feeling sorry for the laughing skeleton after he's hunted down like an animal by a bunch of guys who don't even want to do it.

Stroud makes the multiple POVs do so much work throughout the series but damn it is really on display here.

I feel like we should take a moment to remember how well written and terrifying the sequence where Honorius kills off all of the resistance except Kitty and Nick one by one is. Bonus for feeling both foreshadowed (very heavily foreshadowed, no one expects the grave robbing to go well) and also shocking in the way of most YA dystopian novels don't have the nerve to brutally kill off the only visible resistance to your universe's fascist government by way of laughing skeleton especially when one of your protagonists is part of it and the book's climax is still a ways off.

I would say that Stroud should write more horror but *gestures at Lockwood & Co*

[elkshed]

What I wanted when I followed the “bartimaeus trilogy” tag on Tumblr: regular updates on the funny, cool posts this smart, passionate, and creative fandom puts out. maybe some funny bartimaeus quotes, maybe some cool aesthetics, hopefully lots of gorgeous fanart

What I got when I followed the “bartimaeus trilogy” tag on Tumblr: ENDLESS “get to know me” tags by utter randos that take like an entire minute to scroll past, listing that persons age, star sign, place of birth, first pet, location of where they lost their virginity, favourite la croix flavour, personal saddest moment when they re-watched “the titanic”, and one FLEETING mention of The Bartimaeus Trilogy listed under “books you liked as a kid” and them captioning it “oh yeh I forgot all about these books lol they’re good tho”.

[whumpster-fire]

Not sure which Faquarl headcanon is better:

A: Faquarl is a terrible cook, he just likes pretending to be one because it gives him an excuse to have knives on him at all times. If not for Bartimaeus and Nathaniel's interference at the conference he would have just happily directed all the human cooks working under him to send out plate after plate of the worst fucking hors d'oeuvres ever. Just giving stupid instructions to the staff and threatening them with a cleaver if they dare to question him. Simon Lovelace thinks it's hilarious to force the entire government to stand there complimenting the goddawful prawn canapes that his servant dumped a whole container of salt in or whatever and pretending they're edible as their last meal before he murders them all.

B: Faquarl is actually an amazing cook despite the fact that spirits can't really eat human food. He was terrible when he started doing it but after 4000 years of impersonating a chef he's become genuinely skilled and can cook good food solely based on smell and occasionally tasting something and then discretely spitting it out in the sink when no one's looking and/or eating a bite or two even though it's bad for him. The way ingredients swirl around and combine and produce vapor laced with complex and ever-changing and ephemeral combinations of smells reminds him a bit of the Other Place. In fact, Faquarl was possibly the only spirit who could have masterminded the rebellion plan, because anyone else would have gotten tired of being stuck in a human body way sooner but Faquarl was enjoying being able to fully experience the art he'd spent millennia refining too much to think about the downsides.

He would never admit this to anyone, least of all Bartimaeus, because he's talked about his hatred of earth and humanity and been openly contemptuous of Bartimaeus's "softness" for so long that his ego prevents him from admitting to the perceived hypocrisy of having one thing on earth that he likes and enjoys, even if only as a coping mechanism. So he says he only hangs around kitchens for the sharp objects.