#the bartimaeus sequence

[lejay-the-impossible]

The memory of Ptolemy

[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.

[lunyselene-art]

he's so shaped...

[nadiajustbe]

AoS Nathaniel is so funny because he's all "everyone who hurt me will pay a great price, I would never forget this and I would never let it slide, all my enemies will perish for aiming at my loved ones, my revenge would be cruel, soulless, they will found out who they're fighting with, never underestimate me again or my face will be the last thing they see..."

He is twelve years old.

[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!!!!!

[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.]

[pollydemy]

Redraw 2024 (firsr pic) vs 2021 (second pic)

[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]

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.

[ghostietea]

Bartimaeus meets Little My for @veikonvihannekset 's birthday!!!

[callistaxw]

My poor Ptolemy…

[nadiajustbe]

I am almost absolutely sure this wasn't deliberate, but. Bartimaeus telling Nathaniel than he would he dead, and Bartimaeus himself will survive tell everyone about his sacrifice. And he says it in such a joking manner, almost like it wouldn't matter that much for him If that was the case.

Just you wait.

[rosie-tyler]

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