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first 5 faceless emojis are how your summers gonna go
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the thing about the throwaway lines in ptolemy's gate about bartimaeus taking a lioness's form because manes block peripheral vision and then the brief reveal a few hundred pages later that he was a lion when ptolemy was attacked and killed is that it's obviously devastating but for me it's more about what it reveals about so much of bartimaeus' narration. he doesn't linger on this connection explicitly. the implication is that so so many of the quick comments he makes have extremely similar stories behind them he's not even revealing in the footnotes, not necessarily bc he doesn't remember but because he finds them painful, or embarrassing, or unimportant. fucked up about a character so very old who is mostly willing to explicitly reference his history only for a quick joke or brag, nothing too real
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@katkastrofa, this lives rent free in my mind already, no need to make it use the utilities too 😭
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Nathaniel, the sad little artist, reminiscing about in his childhood happy place, the backgarden surrounded by a high brick wall.
Okay, it was long and painstaking, but it was worth it I think I need to pick up a pencil brush more often
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I was watching philip glass’ opera Akhenaton and there’s this line from one of the ancient burial poems that I really love. Other than being just a really beautiful sentiment, it also reminded me of the Bartimaeus sequence, esp the Bart/Ptolemy relationship. It’s this:
“call upon my name unto eternity, and it shall never fail.”
anyway, totally normal about this!
finally had time to sit down and draw something a bit more elaborate
I finished the trilogy last month and am blown away by how much those silly books can still tug at my heartstrings. I think I've felt things even more deeply than when I read them as a child.
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We've been talking about Bart's soft recollection of Eridu in RoS (which, yes, is beautiful and hurt me), but god, the prologue of GE is doing things to my brain (and yes, I'm restarting it, I have free will and I'm delaying the inevitable heartbreak).
There is plenty of comedy, and Queezle is there to distract and delight us, but there's also Bart failing at boosting an imp's (Nubbin) morale who was summoned for his first battle (and probably last). There's Bart's pattern recognition and almost resignation. He tells us he's been summoned to Prague for centuries (at least 3), and now he's watching it crumble as he's done for millennia:
Thus, after several hundred years and a dozen masters, my ties to Prague were broken. But as my grateful essence fled in all directions, and I looked down upon the burning city and the marching troops, on the wailing children and the whooping imps, on the death throes of one empire and the bloody baptism of the next, I must say I didn't feel particularly triumphant. I had a feeling it was all going to get a whole lot worse.
It's also where we first meet Honorius, so menacing and skillful here, and later see what it actually means to be a magician's favourite.
All this is especially interesting after reading RoS (truly, reading AoS, then RoS, and then finishing the trilogy is proving to be a great idea) and drawing the parallels between the empires portrayed in each book and the people at the top. If on the one hand, Solomon was the lesser evil, quite incompetent without the Ring that he did not create, but strong in his resolve to provide and aid; on the other, Gladstone is a menace and built this insane weapon and uses it for bloodshed in the name of glory.
But that's just the thing—Solomon inherited this power and chose differently. From how he tells us the story of finding the Ring, it's clear that it had been used for terrorising people (Uraziel even seems fond of Solomon if anything). The Ring was buried with its user presumably to spare everyone else from its reach.
Gladstone is buried with the sources of his power—the Staff and Honorius trapped in his bones. And how incredible is it that to activate it Nathaniel has Bartimaeus in his bones (and overall body, of course) and wields the Staff. But also that by 'inheriting' this artefact he mirrors Solomon's choice to protect and correct his former behaviour as yet another empire dies.
Now, I don't mean to romanticise either Solomon or Nathaniel, hence the 'lesser evil'. But I found it really interesting that neither of them created a weapon but end up using them 'for good'. And it's also interesting how Nathaniel mirrors both him and Gladstone in his last choices, though in different ways. (There's also Khaba and Ammet, of course, but I've seen plenty of amazing takes on that already. I could also talk at length about Kitty and Asmira, really.)
I rambled a bit, it's still something I'm working through, but I'm always open to conversation. I'll now be diving back in and hurting myself further, thanks.
Illustration for the "Mutually" fanfiction chapter :3
I just finished my reread of The Ring of Solomon and I can't with Bartimaeus collecting another human but pretending he doesn't care, when at the end he keeps asking Asmira questions about what she'll be doing. And when she calls him out on him absolutely enjoying bragging about his exploits, etc., and then inviting him to visit her in Sheba? Stop it. Has anyone written a fic about Bartimaeus actually doing that and finding Asmira again? Because the fandom deserves this level of wholesomeness once in a blue moon.
My one complaint is that we got too little Faquarl antagonising him, even though I understand why, narratively, he was left out from that point onwards.
Anyway, I'll miss this energetic Bart when I get to Golem's Eye again.
@tolleollesonne don't just hide this in the comments!
*bangs pots and pans*
Oi, Bartseq fandom, new Bart and Asmira bestie fic just dropped!

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Going through my (many, many) notes for The Ring of Solomon, one of my fave easter eggs has to be when Bart watches afrit Zahzeel changing into a column of smoke with a lot of flair and drama, and thinks to himself he'll copy this one day—and then he does! It's exactly how we first meet him in Amulet of Samarkand.
I just finished my reread of The Ring of Solomon and I can't with Bartimaeus collecting another human but pretending he doesn't care, when at the end he keeps asking Asmira questions about what she'll be doing. And when she calls him out on him absolutely enjoying bragging about his exploits, etc., and then inviting him to visit her in Sheba? Stop it. Has anyone written a fic about Bartimaeus actually doing that and finding Asmira again? Because the fandom deserves this level of wholesomeness once in a blue moon.
My one complaint is that we got too little Faquarl antagonising him, even though I understand why, narratively, he was left out from that point onwards.
Anyway, I'll miss this energetic Bart when I get to Golem's Eye again.
How have I ever let this little nugget slip my mind?
Faquarl to Bartimaeus in RoS, ch. 19: "You'll be the death of me, Bartimaeus, you really will!"
Jonathan Stroud, you evil, evil man.
Do we think half of Bartimaeus's shock at Nathaniel's order to retrieve the Amulet was him remembering Asmira asking about the Ring all those centuries earlier? Or was it him thinking that Faquarl might perhaps maybe be right and he always gets into sticky situations because he's soft-headed for a human with a steely eye and he'd rather put that soft head through multiple walls before admitting to anything of the sort?
It's hilarious to me how he essentially reacts the same both times.
(Also no one tell him Asmira thought he was an afrit or a marid.)

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A game of chess between the two:
I've always thought that in The Ring of Solomon the spirits act a bit more human than in the main series. Could just be my perception, of course. But then there's mentions of spirits having supper right in the first few chapters, and in chapter 7 (footnote 4) Bart tells us of leaving his tongue bound to a post mid square and stretching his essence to a nearby inn for a drink of barley wine, and I just have questions.
(But of course he would be the type to drink wine of all things, why am I not surprised in the slightest?)