#The Golem (Bartimaeus)

[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

[narinick]

The Stars Reversed

Kitty’s story is dear to me. She’s belittled, misinformed, abused, threatened, robbed of her rights, used, played and betrayed by almost every adult in her life. And yet she’s resisting like the badass she is. I love her.

The chase in the crypt is my favorite horror scene in the books. Run Kitty, run!

#bartprompts24 #jonathan stroud #fanart #bartimaeus #bartimaeus trilogy #bartseq #tarot #the stars #the golem’s eye

[nathaniel-underwood-is-an-intj]

A very shy Kitty Jones cosplay

This fandom is absolutely starved of content as it is but it's absolutely barren when it comes to cosplay content so shy as I am imma put these here. I figure Tumblr is a safe space for healthy dose of cringe right? 😅

I know these are a little 90s / 2016 grungy for Kitty, but those are the vibes I got from her while reading the books.

Starting from the top are the sort of things I imagined her wearing in the early days of the resistance at about 13/14 - I always got soft punk and very tomboyish vibes from her.

(I always think of Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones when I think of Kitty, and as she gets older Jane Margolis from Breaking Bad in terms of looks)

Going down- at about 15/16 after the resistance is disbanded I imagined her to be more into grunge clothes and a little more feminine.

And at the bottom at 18/19 when Kitty is working in the Pub as quite a bit more feminine and quite early 2000s Camden Market kinda girl. (I know her hair is short by this point in cannon but oh well)

In an ideal world these would be set against the backdrop of Camden or Brixton but alas I had to make do with a garden.

Maybe I'll redo these at a later point with slightly more 2000s girlie vibes but for now please enjoy (⁠ﾉ⁠◕⁠ヮ⁠◕⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠*⁠.⁠✧

Music to match the vibes:

Cherry Bomb by The Runaways for younger Kitty

And LDN by Lily Allen for older Kitty

#Please be nice 😅😅 #this is so not my style whatsoever #i was a 2016 grunge girlie though #i hope i did her justice #my style is way closer to Golem's eye Nathaniel #make of that what you will #I also don't have her eye colour but oh well #bartseq #bartimaeus trilogy #bartimaeus sequence #kitty jones #bartimaeus #Bartimaeus cosplay

[incorrectbartimaeusquotes]

Bartimaeus: Look at you! You've put on some muscle! Nathaniel: [baffled] I did? Bartimaeus: No.

#incorrect quotes #bartimeus trilogy #bartimaeus #bartimaeus sequence #nathaniel #source: dune #the golem's eye

[blackat-t7t]

#i was thinking about how a few years back cop shows were forced to acknowledge the brutality and murders by cops that were in the news #and usually did it by having a special episode where a cop killed a civilial #and it was always either a main character who did it either justifiably or by accident and was wrongly persecuted #or a one-off antagonist used as a foil to the main characters to show how the characters you love are good and not at all complicit #in a broken system because it's really just a few bad apples and most cops are good people who can be trusted #and anyway. it reminded me of this quote #particularly the bit about being watchd over by the benevolent magicians- like how the “good cops” would continue to “watch over” their city #kitty jones #the bartimaeus sequence #bartimaeus sequence #bartimaeus trilogy #the golem's eye #jonathan stroud #propaganda

[yellowraincoat]

Imagine being Nathaniel. Just fuckin’ imagine. You are fourteen years old, the smartest person you know, and simultaneously too stupid to figure out that 1) you are being assigned ENORMOUS responsibilities as a FOURTEEN YEAR OLD because you are disposable to everyone around you, and 2) you are living in a deeply corrupt regime that literally displays prisoners of war in cages on founder’s day

Like I understand that the structures of power benefit you my boy, but the PRISONERS in zoo animal style cages are literally across the street in the town square. Please think critically for just one moment 😭

#the bartimaeus trilogy #jonathan stroud #the golem’s eye spoilers #bartseq #rai’s text posts

[rowenabean]

HOW did you read the Bartimaeus books at 14 though I'm a full adult and I. They're making me insane. Every five minutes I need to do the Book Pace. They're so good. I think I'm dying. I will never recover from this.

GRACIE I don't KNOW I just read the whole of Ptolemy's Gate yesterday and it ended me even though I've read it before - the way Nathaniel's self conception switches from Mandrake back to Nathaniel? Kitty?? Ptolemy in the flashbacks?????

PLEASE tell me when you get to the ending I would like to not spoil things but it is INCREDIBLE

#it's been a while and i remembered one scene crystal clear (my favourite scene) but a lot of things i was remembering just like 2-3 pages #before it happened so i WAS getting the anticipation but not with much advance notice #i skipped golem's eye bc i don't have access to a physical copy #both the other two being second hand finds #MAN I LOVE THESE #had forgotten how much! #bartimaeus trilogy

[the-nameless-wacky-inventor]

the black tumblr.

#I’m very funny #bartimaeus #the bartimaeus trilogy #the bartimaeus sequence #bartseq #the golem’s eye

[whumpster-fire]

Routine Surveillance, Nothing Risky (Ch 1)

After rereading Golem's Eye I really, really wanted a "Queezle Lives" fic but I couldn't find one, so I've taken it upon myself to write it. I wanted to crosspost the full chapter on here but the Tumblr post editor won't copy/paste my footnote formatting in here properly and I don't want to go through the whole thing and redo it all, so please go to AO3 for the full chapter (T rating, no archive warnings apply, canon-typical violence)

AO3 Link

Summary: Queezle survives and escapes the golem by a clever but somewhat reckless plan. This is her account of her involvement in the Golem Affair and associated incidents, with additional commentary from Bartimaeus.

Chapter 1

Queezle

It was a dark and stormy night. The rain fell in torrents – except at numerous, frequent intervals, when it was scattered into blinding sheets by a violent gust of wind as it swept up the narrow, winding London streets (for it is in London that our scene lies)…

Sorry. Couldn’t resist.[1]

[1] Bartimaeus, if you are reading this, I told you the editor wouldn’t take that out. Pay up. Also,after seeing your account of the incident where you devoted over a page and a half to describing the weather, you have no room to talk.

But it is the truth. It was indeed night – a little while after midnight, in fact – it was dark, it was very, very stormy, and it was in London. For all I knew from what I’d seen, every night in London was like this, which might have explained why my friend Bartimaeus seemed to dislike the city so much. That and all the magicians of course. Two of every djinni’s least favorite things, present in abundance.

I think it might be my fault. Not the magicians, but the rain. The first night of our assignment, I remarked that surveillance duty couldn’t be that bad. Especially not compared to a war, because Bartimaeus mentioned that he’d only agreed to it because it was better than being summoned to fight in America [2] , and some of our other colleagues, including Zeno, said they’d rather have that task. I was a little surprised Bartimaeus was nearly ambivalent about the prospect considering how the last war we were in went [3], but he has been in far more of them than me. To tell the truth I was quite curious to see London at last. It was the new magical capitol of Europe, and the heart of the empire that succeeded Prague. In hindsight, it’s no wonder London’s magicians set out to conquer far-flung locations: it gave them a reason to leave this one.

[2] If only marginally, in his words.

[3] Not to spoil anything if your history class is about to cover the rise of the British Empire, but we lost.

But our charge offered little prospects for sightseeing, and the city’s residents, human or spirit, weren’t much in evidence. Every night it poured freezing, oppressive rain without stopping, driving anyone who hadn’t been ordered to patrol the streets on pain of… well, pain (i.e. me, Bartimaeus, Zeno et al) indoors. Night 2, I pinched an umbrella from a stand by the door at the government building we were summoned in. Unfortunately, the constant wind rendered it useless, and battered the thing so badly it soon looked like the wings of an imp that’s been run over by a lorry. More unfortunately, it turned out to belong to my master’s superior, Julius Tallow. I don’t see why he was so angry: he’d ordered his own servant, Nemaides, to commandeer a new one from a shop so he himself remained dry, but nevertheless I learned the names of quite a few new punishment spells the next morning.

(see the AO3 link above for the full chapter)

#bartimaeus sequence #bartimaeus trilogy #bartseq #queezle (bartimaeus) #bartimaeus of uruk #The Golem (Bartimaeus) #my writing #fanfic

[charlzy]

Bartimaeus Book One (Amulet of Samarkand):

Link

Bartimaeus Book Two (The Golem's Eye):

Link

Bartimaeus Book Three (Ptolemy's Gate):

Link / Google Docs

Bartimaeus Book Four (Ring of Solomon):

Link

#bartimaeus #bartimaeus sequence #bartimaeus trilogy #amulet of samarkand #the golems eye #ptolemys gate #ring of solomon #kitty jones #john mandrake #nathanael #book recommendations

[lejay-the-impossible]

Some Ptolemy (and bird! Bart) designs. I think the urge to reread The Bartimaeus Trilogy is getting onto me...

I was too lazy to do research so I have no idea if this lapwing is accurate or not

I'm trying to feed you, Bartimaeus fandom, please don't die yet, I still want you to like the art I will do after my reread

#bartimaeus #the bartimaeus sequence #the bartimaeus trilogy #ptolemy #bart #bart & ptolemy #the amulet of samarkand #the eye of golem #the ptolemy's gate #bartimaus trilogy #bartimaeus fanart #fanart #character design

[yangzhouman]

oh my god i was approaching the end of BARTIMAEUS: THE AMULET OF SAMARKAND and thinking "no there's only a few pages left surely it can't be closed up satisfactorily now??" but i should have believed. that was an incredibly suitable ending*

my closing thoughts:

i like very much that nathaniel started to understand life beyond his currently parasitic one, and how enviable and meaningful it was, and then regressed when he got access back into the luxurious life of magicians. that was good! he's twelve years old! to come straight after a bunch of magicians got eaten for being captivated by shiny chandeliers was so perfect. nathaniel don't you see the foreshadowing??? don't you???????

i like that bartimaeus keeps walking back from his empathy for nathaniel. for all that he claims to not understand humans, he really does! but it does him no good so he keeps discarding it

nathaniel being marched straight into a cage at the end of the story is so perfect. bartimaeus seeing it, recognising it, deigning to help nathaniel and having it thrown in his face is SO perfect

i like that the story ended with bartimaeus essentially saying "that was a wild week for me i'm sure i'll hear from him again but i am going to bed". when huge societal drama happens and the outsider perspective is totally unconcerned >>>>

bartimaeus' endless footnotes did grow on me. and i loved the imagery in the last showdown between simon lovelace and our dynamic duo. in fact the back third of the book was just so vivid and thematically dense that i want to read it another six times to enjoy it all again

all in all. wow!

*my favourite kind of ending for an entry in a series is one that doesn't demand you read the next one straight away. this sounds strange, but i like it when the book respects that you gotta chew it over! you read something; let that sit with you for a while. that said, i will be getting THE GOLEM'S EYE as soon as my library has it back in stock

#🐸 #bartimaeus

[hapalopus]

In Ptolemy's Gate, Bartimaeus mentions that Nathan's propaganda pamphlets include woodcut illustrations. In Golem's Eye, the court transcriptionists use computers. In Ptolemy's Gate, neon lights are mentioned as "a new invention from Japan." In Golem's Eye, the Czech cars are described as "old-fashioned" with "high, narrow bonnets." In Golem's Eye, Nathan travels by jet plane.

I am fascinated by the mishmash of technology in the Bartimaeus Trilogy.

#the bartimaeus sequence #the bartimaeus trilogy

[incorrectbartimaeusquotes]

Jakob: You work for the government? Kitty: I'm wanted by the government, does that count?

#jakob hyrnek #kitty jones #bartimaeus trilogy #the golem's eye #bartimaeus sequence #source: legends of tomorrow

[pompomoo]

This is a scene from Bartimaeus Golem’s Eye Chapter 22 & 27. I got a request, so I painted it. They are both cute and my favorite scene. I wanted to paint this scene (especially the first one, Bartimaeus wearing the aviator's hat) at least once, but I never had the chance. I think I was given a good opportunity.

#bartimaeus #fanart

[qqueenofhades]

Oh darling fandom grandma, do you have any current recs for some good fiction books? Something kind of like Tamora Pierce's tortall books? (sorry if you haven't read those books, was the only series that I could think of to reference)

Perhaps surprisingly, I have never actually read any Tamora Pierce books, but I am going to categorize this request, hopefully not inaccurately, as "imaginative, diverse, feminist/female-centered fantasy." In which case, you are in luck, because that is also My Jam, and I have the following enthusiastic recs, many of which are doorstopper-size and should keep you busy for a while:

The Daevabad Trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty (City of Brass, Kingdom of Copper, Empire of Gold). Set in both 18th-century Egypt and the magical djinn kingdom of Daevabad; complex and morally grey female main characters; lots of garbage men; all characters are people of color; political intrigue, magic, sass, adventure out the wazoo, and Muntadhir al-Qahtani my most beloved, I NEED MORE PEOPLE TO READ THESE BOOKS

The Rook and Rose trilogy by M.A. Carrick (only the first two books are out: The Mask of Mirrors and The Liar's Knot). A lush Venetian-inspired fantasy setting, a con-artist female main character, family intrigue, political manipulation, complicated plots, exploration of colonization and cultural appropriation; MORE PEOPLE LIKEWISE NEED TO JOIN ME IN SHIPPING REN/VARGO/GREY;

The Bone Season series by Samantha Shannon (The Bone Season, The Mime Order, The Song Rising, The Mask Falling): set in an alternate-history future England with sci-fi, telekinetics, fallen angels, a ruined Oxford, underground resistance groups in London, a badass female main character; generally one of the most imaginative spec-fic series I have ever read;

The Priory of the Orange Tree, also by Samantha Shannon; I recommended this book in a separate post recently because I love it. Tons of historically-inspired settings, lots of female, queer, POC characters; ASOIAF-style political intrigue and dragons without the Male Author grossness;

The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud (The Amulet of Samarkand, The Golem's Eye, Ptolemy's Gate, plus prequel The Ring of Solomon). This series was formative for me as a teenager, all right. F O R M A T I V E. If you have not read it you need to do so right away, and I don't care how old you are. Stroud absolutely rips the British Empire to pieces, dismantles the Special White Boy fantasy trope, explores slavery and imperialism and cultural genocide, and is also both incredibly funny and incredibly heartbreaking in the course of three YA books.

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri; lush female-led epic fantasy set in a fantasy world based on ancient India; supposed to be the first one of a series so there are more to come;

Uprooted and Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik; retellings of fairytales with a cast of diverse female characters, especially Spinning Silver which is a reimagining of Rumpelstiltskin in an Imperial Russian-inspired world with a Jewish main character;

The Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger (Soulless, Changeless, Blameless, Heartless, Timeless); set in steampunk Victorian London with vampires and werewolves; badass female main character; Absolutely Everyone Is Queer; like Jane Austen crossed with P.G. Wodehouse;

Anyway, there are possibly more that I could think of, but these are what came to mind after an initial perusal of my own bookshelves, and should be enough to get you started. Happy reading. :)

#rhymeswithtessa #ask #book recs #bookblr