#the bartimaeus sequence

[lejay-the-impossible]

Happy late birthday to @jonathanstroud. Bartimaeus got here from the Other Place to say hi, Lockwood got you a cup of the finest tea and Scarlett is gonna try not to swear much (she pays extra today)

[silverfeatheredserpent]

I hope the translator will help me tell this incredible love story of the Bartimaeus Trilogy❤

This summer, I accidentally found out that the artist of one of my favorite Trilogy @oneeyedmagi artworks lives with me in the same country. It took me a long time to decide to write to her, and that's what happened.

We started chatting - there were a lot of conversations, jokes and ideas to do something interesting for the fendom of the Bartimaeus Trilogy. She was very supportive of me in cosplay, and I even decided to register on Tumblr to show it.

The drawings and drawings by other authors, as well as your kind words, inspired me so much that I invited her to come to me and do Nathaniel's cosplay.

And it happened.

Jesus, I still don't believe that someone traveled 800 miles for cosplay. We took incredibly cool photos and videos. 800 MILES!!!

Damn, just look at this!

@jonathanstroud - look HOW Much We Love the Bartimaeus Trilogy❤❤❤

[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.

[rosie-tyler]

[the-nameless-wacky-inventor]

thinking about Ms Lutyens like what other people did she work for how many magicians apprentices did she tutor how many of them did she have to watch grow up into terrible people how many of them was she deeply patient and kind with because she knew she was the only person to be kind and patient with in their lives like. how much did she see. how much of the system did she witness she probably knew exactly how bad it was. she was ready to hit a man over Nathaniel how many more times was she in that position.

[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!!!!!

[hapalopus]

This is one of my favorite parts of Ptolemy's Gate. It reminds me of Ursus Wehrli’s "The Art of Clean Up"

[jewishicequeen]

They occupy a similar space in my brain

[ID: the “gotta be one of my favorite genders” meme. It is a picture of a black person in a white tee and blue jeans holding their hands together in front of them and looking to the right, while standing in front of a car. The top text says “ shout out to shapeshifting immortal beings wearing the shape of their long-dead human friend(possibly partner)”. The bottom text says “gotta be one of my favorite genders”. The person is surrounded by PNGs of Venti from Genshin Impact, and Bartimaeus from the Bartimaeus Sequence. End ID.]

[callistaxw]

My poor Ptolemy…

[haematicmagic]

He is 5000 years old. He is a 14 year old boy. He cannot touch silver without physically melting. He eats pigeons that think he is handsome. He measures distances in rat ass lengths. He has three boyfriends. He is deeply traumatised by lions. He can belly dance. He hates the cops. I didn't say his name but he popped into your head, didn't he?

[lejay-the-impossible]

The memory of Ptolemy

[silverfeatheredserpent]

I tried to draw some sketches and make a mini-animation of them together with Bartimaeus and Nathaniel

I've never done this before, but I think it turned out very cute❤️

No, really. It's very funny :D

I will also leave you sketches if you need them :)

[pollydemy]

In another place - the abodes of spirits, jinns, Afrits, Marids and others - all living things are one. They are connected in an endless stream, seemingly seeming chaos, but in fact it is an absolute harmony in which there is no place for selfish, squabbles and discord. In our human world, a lot is built on selfish individualism: people want to be the best, the most important, the most unforgettable - even if they have to shed someone's blood for this, they don't care. That's why our world, according to Bartimaeus opinion, is one big mess. Filled with wars, oppression, pain. But those who are capable of compassion, understanding, who can listen and hear, who have not rejected the spiritual connection and have shown it to the highest extent (like Ptolemy and Kitty) - exist. And they are the main hope that humanity is not completely doomed.

Sorry, I just once again fell in love with Stroud's books. That's how should take deep themes and present them in a bright, understandable fantasy vision! That's wonderful masterpiece!

[rosie-tyler]

Nathaniel when he realised that Bartimaeus had been summoned by someone else:

[the-nameless-wacky-inventor]

okay okay okay- let’s say the bartimaeus sequence was made into four (possibly five if they split the last one like they always do but let’s go with four) pg13 movies, that means you get one f bomb per movie/book

who are you giving it to and when would you use it?

[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.