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"Yes, yes, now shut your trap, this is DEFINITELY faquarl!" I say, to every single chef character I see

This one is my favorite

@drakedadragon wait i LOVE it you’re so right

since summoning takes a toll and stronger magicians have more innate energy/willpower, it makes sense for weaker ones to use more tech so they don’t waste energy with a bunch of imps. Plus underwood’s are all busy doing child abuse

Diving deeper, I don’t recall Kitty ever mentioning computers either, but with all the government censorship (libraries closed etc) they probably wouldn’t want them readily available. HOWEVER we’ve also seen that some commoners with money and status (Amanda Cathcart) get more equal treatment.

All this to say that in Magical London, more tech products are only being used by middle-class workaday magicians and upper-class commoners.

My own read was of computers but no internet, as in basic elaborators to streamline typing up documents and other office work, and we see Underwood with one because, as a lesser magician with lower rank in the ministry, he has (zero or very few) personal assistants to take on some of the bureaucracy that requires dealing with technology.

Also, Bartimaeus says (AoS, ch 25 — I think, I don't have my copy with me; it's when he and Faquarl hide under the car after escaping the Tower of London) that technology carries distinctly human "feel" that's bothersome to spirits. Therefore I usually assumed that it would also make summonings and other magical activities more draining/difficult, and that magicians avoided it when possible.

we saw you from across the Prague town square and really hate your vibe.

Remembered the fashion talk with @lady-charlemagne-the-third and gave Nathaniel a sense of style (and slightly loose fitted trousers..).

I redrew some of my old school parody BartNat and Ptol/Nat comics from around 2021. At the same time, I made English translations for them. They include a BartNat kiss scene↓

Some of them are the kind of stories I probably wouldn’t draw nowadays, so they feel a bit nostalgic. There are about 30 more in the same setting, but they were published in a doujinshi.

Thank you for looking! And here’s the school parody novel↓ it’s all in Japanese, so if you're interested, feel free to try translating it!

Also, separately, I recently uploaded a collection of newer BartNat works on pixiv.