#Bartimaeus

[jonathanstroud]

LIVE EVENT NEWS! I’m beyond thrilled to be returning to the mighty @thewritingcommunitychatshow on Friday 10th May at 8pm UK time! And I’ll be bringing with me some of my Lockwood notebooks, where I developed the ideas, plots and characters for the series! Join us to take a look at where it all began, and to chat about #lockwoodandco, #ScarlettandBrowne, #Bartimaeus and much more!

To become part of the live event, follow this link: https://youtube.com/live/7IO0JTDa5J4

Hope to see you there! ⚔️

#lockwoodandco #scarlettandbrowne #bartimaeus #jonathan stroud #Instagram

[nathaniel-underwood-is-an-intj]

Some thoughts about John Mandrake's 'introduction'

This is by far my favourite character introduction in the whole series specifically because it's written that way - as an introduction

John mandrake is introduced as a suave young magician/ politician who is popular with commoners and feared by his colleagues. He's built up in the introduction to be cool, detached and incredibly powerful; someone who is level headed and self assured.

He's immediately an interesting character.

But it's only by the association of the name that we know this is in fact Nathaniel - his manner and personality are so different to the boy we've read about so far:

Nathaniel the terrified 12 year old boy who summoned a Djinni in his bedroom for poorly thought out and hot-headed revenge.

Nathaniel the awkward goth 14 year old desperately trying to fit in with his colleagues and make a name for himself. All while slowly losing his morality out of fear of survival, and who's fear of losing control is manifesting in a unhealthy relationship with cleanliness.

It's only when Bartimaeus' explanation of how their relationship entirely broke down we see it happen in subtle changes and understand how he became John - through the extreme stress of running two departments, the constant war; through having to abandon his moral compass to keep his head above water.

But at first he's almost presented as someone else, another character that needs to have his rituals and habits explained to the reader because it might as well be someone completely different.

#Idk just rambling #i feel silly for saying random stuff like this but if I don't get it out I'll go nuts #bartseq #bartimaeus sequence #bartimaeus trilogy #nathaniel underwood #bartimaeus #liveblogging

[zisurru]

every time i open my copy of amulet of samarkand i am forced to remember that uh

as a child i loved this book so much i started EATING THE PAGES

#i guess this was how i expressed myself before i was old enough for fandom #bartimaeus

[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)

#bartimaeus #the bartimaeus trilogy #bartimaeus sequence #bartseq

[pompomoo]

Ptolemy&Nat＋Bart Ptolemy and Nat give me the impression of the sun and the moon, warm and cold colors. The colors of their skin and costumes also contrast with each other. They are polar opposites. But they are both stubborn and make the same choice in the end. They seem to be opposites, but they are surprisingly similar. I like this contrast between them.

#fanart #bartimaeus #nathaniel #ptolemy

[porksoda-07]

Grilled fish

#fanart #bartnat #bartimaeus

[agape-emo-eros]

Something about magicians in Bartimaeus Sequence erasing their own names for self protection is so Tasty. In order to perpetuate that violence, to treat demons (and commoners) as less than human, they must first symbolically make themselves unperson. So many cultures practiced damnatio memoriae as one of the worst punishments and they did it to themselves. If you are alive as long as your name is spoken they are dead long before they die.

#bartimaeus #bartimaeus trilogy #bartimaeus sequence

[best-childhood-book]

#best childhood book #poll #preliminary round #song of the lioness #last survivors #bartimaeus #shadow children #septimus heap #princess academy #tiffany aching #when you reach me #swiss family robinson

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Bartimaeus: yeah I can't stand humans or being summoned ideally I'd just be floating in the undifferentiated ether. The fact I immediately show sympathy and interest in humans who aren't magicians and clearly love conversation and talking, two things that cannot happen in an undifferentiated ether, are irrelevant.

#bartimaeus #bartmaeus trilogy #my bartimaeus analysis framework is that he's the most average demon of all time EXCEPT he actually likes people and that's the difference

[lejay-the-impossible]

The Amulet of Samarkand: Chapter One animatic

Here's a project I've been working on for a year and a half. It took me a lot longer than I expected and the process of actually animating anything was just 40% of the time I spent on this.

Really hope you like it! Comments and reshares are appreciated!

#bartimaeus #the bartimaeus sequence #the bartimaeus trilogy #nathaniel underwood #Nathaniel #jonathan stroud #animatic #the amulet of samarkand #the eye of golem #the ptolemy's gate #bartimaeus animatic

[gwinverarrouz]

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??

#so he can look all cool and mighty and everything #instead of bickering with a twelve-year-old and falling head first into a tree or something #no human face because when i looked for refs i saw a cute gargoyle with a long neck and a weird dragon face and it stuck with me XD #i don't have time for inktober this year but at least i got to do a bit of watercolours yay #oh you can't. really see the details much hm. Ah Well #it was drawn on A4 paper and it looks tiny now #mydrawings #Fanart #Bartimaeus #Nathaniel #Bartimaeus trilogy #Jonathan Stroud

[baellielurk]

as a child i really thought this was just clever worldbuilding 💀

#this whole footnote sends me btw #they were set out on display with clear labels in many languages so that foreign tourists could come and see their lost valuables #with minimum inconvenience #💀 the phrasing jdjdjdkd #bartimaeus

[you-are-the-law]

Bartimaeus in the main text:

Bartimaeus in the footnotes:

#bartimaeus

[oneeyedmagi]

five thousand years of slavery, oppression and suffering

#bartimaeus #the bartimaeus trilogy #bartimaeus sequence #bartseq #bartimaeus trilogy #he's been through unimaginable pain #i will cry for five thousand years #i just wanna hug him

[pompomoo]

BartNatKitty. A parody of a picture of a man trying to decide which girl to choose, hehe (Farrar might have been more appropriate for Bart's position). ↓This post has led to a parody of this painting that has gone viral. The original source seems to be C.D.Gibson. https://x.com/DilettanteGenet/status/1753000432254013486?s=20

#bartnat #fanart #bartimaeus #natkitty

[teartra]

When I told my friend “good luck” when they’re starting a book, I don’t mean “good luck with your reading! I hope you’ll like it 🥰♥️🌈” what I mean is “Oh boy, you’re in for a ride… you’ll need that luck🫣”

#i’m talking about the poppy war lol #the poppy war #the shadowhunters chronicles #the last hours #the wicked powers #they both die at the end #she who became the sun #these violent delights #babel #bartimaeus #foul lady fortune #bookstagram #bookblr #memes