#Bartimaeus Trilogy spoilers

[fantasmalresplendent]

I doubt Aabria has read the Bartimaeus Trilogy but Suvi is starting to give me big Nathaniel energy. Something something the Empire corrupts all who participate in the system of power structures... Something something becoming that which you thought you were destroying... Something something magic as a tool to be used not a force of nature to be collaborated with... Something something authority disguising insecurity... That's a tasty wizard right there...

#suvirin kedberiket #suvi #wwwo #wwwo spoilers #worlds beyond number #the wizard the witch and the wild one #bartimeus trilogy #the bartimaeus sequence #the bartimaeus trilogy

[the-fandom-fool]

Instead of shortening “Bartimaeus Sequence” to “bartseq” we should shorten it to BS. Not only would this be shorter, but thanks to both Bartimaeus and Nathaniel it’s also one hundred percent accurate

#batimaeus sequence #bartimaeus trilogy #bartseq #or should I say #BS #immediately after posting my funniest bartseq post I post my worst bartseq post #(this one) #nathaniel underwood #john mandrake #spoilers for horrendoushag

[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

[izartn]

I'm craving good het romance, as one does from time to time. Where do I find good fantasy not only romance het pairings. Where is my queer het plot!!!

Has anyone some book or manga recs? Preferably something finished please, I don't want to suffer waiting to the author to complete or abandon the story or of they're gonna be canon XD

EDIT after list is written: Okay. This post has officially become my list of what kind and why of het pairings I like. You've been officially warned. (Also a rec list of what to read/watch?) Trying to avoid spoilers.

Also more than half of this list is about teen me readings, I really need to seek out books and Manga bc wow. Very teen me, and I think that I've outgrown their canons even if the ship dynamic is also that still compels me.

I like:

CANON

El/Orion from the Scholomance. Whenever Orion gets a bit of focus I'm just. Oh wow (if you read between the lines he's so simple and so fucking unhinged at the same time). El extremely denying any vibes until last moment, but also falling extremely hard. Them both being such a battle couple/pair in general.

Whatever you can call what Agatha has going on with her two beaus in Girl Genius. They're all three of them so crazy competent and gone for each other too.

Yona/Hak and her vibes with Soo-won too (that foils thing she has with him is perfect and usually handled to male charas only, I'm biting my arm) (the loyalty thing with Hak and the way he pulls her higher too) (just the frustrated ot3 vibes of it all).

Jang Uk and Naksu|Cho Yeong in season 1. Their devoted and unhinged vibes destroyed me, I loved them. They were perfect, they only needed a bit more physicality. Season 2 defanged Yeong way way too much (in favor of uwu and blegh, let the woman cut off heads) and I didn't like the postponed angst and romance without knowing her identity.

Iron Widow OT3, which look. Wu Zetian rules even when she misses and nukes a city and everything is fantastically creepy and the guys lovely developed charas too with very different personalities and backstories

Tana and Gavriel from the Coldest Girl in Coldtown. (and this one also has threesome vibes with Aiden, uh) I like it when she is driven to do whatever it needs doing be it save her ex or her sister, or killing an ancient vampire in the company of another midly crazed vamp who is also very devoted to her and rediscovering life. Also the whole aesthetic and vibes of this one fucks.

Kate and August in Monsters of Verity duology. Dark dystopic urban fantasy and monster/human plus tragedy plus narrativelt active morally complex fem protags? I was obssesed with it when it came out.

Kaguya and Shirogane, but specifically if they weren't so innocent. Their chemistry is super fun, but I want something a bit more grown up and less teen panic. See also, me at 11 being obssesed with Blair/Chuck vibes in season 1 and 2 of Gossip Girl.

I'm on a roll. I loved Gilbert/Anne both in the 80's series and in Anne with an e. Obvious rivals to lovers where the guy respects her intelligence and she also has to have a whole arc about herself before realising she likes him.

I remember being bewitched by Lyra and Will once upon a time when I read the Golden Compass trilogy. Same re:Nathaniel and Kitty from Bartimaeus despite these two never having comfirmed anything just tragic unfulfilled potential.

Bipa and Aer from La Emperatriz de los Etéreos de Laura Gallego; theyre my fave pairing of hers and one of the only ones I didn't grew distant from as I grew out of her books. She's so practical and also kind and warm hearted, and he has the head on the clouds and is also completely out of this world in a familiar way. (this is me identitying with the guy who only appears like. A quarter of the whole novel bc he has been trying to give himself over to a lovecraftian alien soul-eater blue star while Bipa has to do all the journey to bring him back and destroy said blue star). Laura Gallego is wild.

NOT CANON

Younger me also enjoyed Artemis/Holly, not sorry at all for that one. He's so gone for her as a person and she's so out of his league (bc of their ages, bc of their species, their incompatible moralities up to the last books, etc, etc). Unfulfilled longing that makes you want to be a better person, the ship.

Soul/Maka on the other hand have super married vibes despite nothing ever being official and I love them and want to set on fire all the fic there's is about them bc it's general romcom / modern setting without that battle partnership and soul trust + domesticity I love. Also extremely teen but alas.

Yatori from Noragami bc I love tragedy specifically and human/gods relationships are fascinating. Even if it's unfinished. Even if it's out of focus somewhat.

Bellamy/Clarke from the 100 for all of the three seasons I saw before abandoning the series. The plot was unsmokeable but their relationship perfectly done. I was resigned to a boring romance with Finn and bam. Complex relationships, Clarke being bi with Lexa, parallel leaderships arcs, etc. Oh wow.

When someone bothers to write Aredhel/Celegorm on her PoV and it hits incredibly HARD. Damn. Whether aroallo or full-romo. Let post rebirth Aredhel be wild and Celegorm reckon with the knowledge of what wrong he almost brought to Luthien given Aredhel. Aredhel loving Lomion despite everything and loving disaster Celegorm, but not forgetting what they did, the awkward bonding between Maeglin and Celegorm as two former bad guys. Or them avoiding a bad ending and dying together fighting on the First Age before the Second Kinslaying. Playful times in Valinor pre-darkening.

ESPECIAL MENTION

I loved Laini Taylor characters and worldbuilding but her love at first sight kind of romances left me cool which is sad given I liked like everything else about her stories. Including the two characters involved on the romances, but not the romances per se. I guess I'm too aroace to believe first sight as anything reasonable in a serious plot even with the fairy tale vibes her stories have lol.

I also love Reylo vibes and symbolism but hated what they did on the last movie with them and I'm weirdly unable to read much fic of them. So...

#my thoughts #recs #but also me ranting about my fave ot3 with het or otp het pairings #and discovering it's either extremely ruthless driven and morally grey fem chara who is tired of this shit #x her equally driven and ruthless partner who is also so so tired of this shit and all in with her shaneaningans #(maybe he's a bit softer than her having already tried it the hard way but he still loves her and they're both driven crazy by the world so) #or either book-ish and intellectual girl x her rival or childhood friend with whom she has a mutual understanding despite themselves #they adore each other but they realise it later #lmfao #my two sides: very angry at the world VS very intellectual and a bit passive-aggressive. FIGHT #also some exceptions but they mostly follow some of these archetypes which. yeah.

[imhereformysciencefriends]

Y'all know that post that's like "you ever meet a tween boy thats just so shitty you want to punt him into the sun but also show interest in his passions and give him a fruit cup cause clearly no one else has and it's probably why he's like this? Like shut up you little shit I'm taking you to summer camp and im gonna listen and pay attention when you tell me about Fortnite"

That is the EXACT emotion I feel reading Nathaniel Bartimaeus Trilogy. I'm halfway through Amulet of Samarkand and the amount of times I have felt This Exact Emotion is entering an incalculable territory.

#no spoilers please i just HAVE to share my thoughts with the world #bartimaeus #the bartimaeus trilogy #amulet of samarkand #tbt #nathaniel bartimaeus

[lostsometime]

this headcanon is a little more angsty than the last one so go ahead and skip this post if you don’t wanna be sad, okay?

I was really into the Bartimaeus novels in high school, in which, for the uninitiated, an immortal demon (Bartimaeus) who can change his appearance at will sometimes takes the shape of his long-dead human friend, Ptolmey.  He does this for many reasons, including wanting to honor him, wanting to make sure his face is remembered, and as an expression of both grief and respect.

Anyway, my headcanon is that a hundred, two hundred, even thousands of years down the line, sometimes Artagan can be spotted in his travels around Exandria, in the shape of a leetle blue tiefling.

#cr spoilers #cr speculation #meta #my meta #cr meta #jester lavorre #artagan #the traveler #bartimaeus trilogy #jonathan stroud

[mellowkotto]

Nathanie- I mean John Mandrake

He's literally me, although I'm fairly certain that I wasn't groomed into a corrupt government official nor did I go out in a blaze of glory but anyways

#the bartimaeus trilogy #the bartimaeus sequence #bartimaeus #bartimaeus fanart #john mandrake #nathaniel underwood #the bartimaeus sequence fanart #Spoilers in the caption or something

[genderfcker]

mage's current fics:

frankenstein's monster, a genshin fic where subject two runs into my oc evie after the events of shadows amidst snowstorms and decides to pretend to be albedo's totally human twin brother. this goes about as well as you would guess. [finished w/ a one-shot sequel/more on the way]

ever after, a bartseq/lockwood & co crossover set after the events of both series where the (some canon, some not) dead characters end up on another world and get some cool power ups! featuring a salty former ghost, a politician boi grappling with his newfound independence, and a former guard very much done with the guys she's now stuck with. heavy on the bartseq angst at first, heavy with the l&co angst later on. [hiatus]

put back together a little wrong, a raven cycle/dreamer trilogy fic where noah lives and solves all of his friends' issues via possession shenanigans. [ongoing]

#fic: frankenstein's monster #current wips #fanfiction #genshin impact #shadows admist snowstorms #2.3 spoilers #evie: mondstadt's mechanic #subject two #mage's fics #bartimaeus trilogy #bartseq #lockwood and co #lockwood & co #bartimaeus sequence #nathaniel #asmira #the skull #skull in the jar #fic: ever after #fic: put back together a little wrong #f: put back together a little wrong #trc #tdt #the dreamer trilogy #the raven cycle #noah czerny

[drublaccthorn]

Writers :

#uh writers #i might just tag some who hurted me #rick riordan #cassandra clare #ve schwab #jonathan stroud #neil shusterman #roshani chokshi #madeline miller #benjamin alire sáenz #shadowhunters #tsc #percy jackson #the pandava quintet #tpq #bartimaeus trilogy #bartimaeus sequence #monsters of verity #the owl house spoilers #toh spoilers #literature

[teartra]

Jonathan Stroud and his “no kissing” rules

#i havent read scarlett and browne so no spoilers #this is for you locklyle #but fr even nat and kitty might kiss of the book was not written by jonathan stroud #or bartimaeus lol #lockwood and co #lockwood & co #lnc #anthony lockwood #lucy carlyle #locklyle #lucewood #bartimaeus #bartseq #bartimaeus trilogy #nathaniel underwood #kitty jones #heroes of the valley #halli sveinson #aud arneson #jonathan stroud

[awed-frog]

If you're going to summon djinn, you summon their history with them. It's wise to keep matters firmly in the present, for fear of what you might awaken.

Jonathan Stroud

#jonathan stroud #the bartimaeus trilogy #book rec #demons #djinn #supernatural #magic #folklore #am i crying over fictional demons? #yes i am crying over fictional demons #goddammit #still haven't finished the book though #so NO SPOILERS please!

[dragonshine]

Heeey folks, *holds up metaphorical beer bottle unsteadily*

if you are wondering at the radio silence today and yesterday its because TROS (star wars) happened and I'm devasted and emotionaly destroyed (and not in a good way) *laughs wetly*

It really hit me in a very bad place and I wasn't prepared at all. I haven't felt this much raw shock denial and grief since PG almost 7 years ago. (i cant think about nat im sorrai folks it's too much right now(but l'll make yall sad later haha) even though I'm very excited for fanzine)(fanzine is only thing im looking forward this christmas now)

I got way too attached to a character and dared to hope.

*puts head in hands*

But I'll be okay dont worry I just need them to tweak the whole movie.

#gonna leave this vague cause i dont want to spoil the movie #spoilers #wyv rambles #gosh i feel sick I really cant deal with this #but ill be fine #gimme like 10 days #not bartimaeus trilogy #i was baited so hard!!

[the-fandom-fool]

What Nathaniel hears: Nat

What Bartimaeus means: Gnat

#bartimaeus sequence #bartimaeus trilogy #bartseq #nathaniel underwood #john mandrake #spoilers for horrendoushag

[thatgirlonstage]

Reading Challenge 27/7/18

Book 1: The Golem’s Eye: A Bartimaeus Novel by Jonathan Stroud

Read: loc 1021-8246 (end), 723% of goal

Favorite Passage: 

“The British Museum was home to a million antiquities, several dozen of which were legitimately come by. For two hundred years prior to the magicians’ rule, London’s rulers had made it their habit to filch anything interesting they could from countries where their traders called. It was something of a national addiction, based on curiosity and avarice. Lords and ladies taking the Grand Tour of Europe kept their eyes open for small treasures that could be stuffed unnoticed into handbags; soldiers on campaign filled their chests with looted gems and reliquaries; every merchant returning to the capital carried an extra crate of valuables in his hold. Most of these items made their eventual way to the ever-expanding collections of the British Museum, where 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. In due course, the magicians looted the museum of its magical items, but it reamined an imposing cultural charnel house.”

Book 2: Ptolemy’s Gate: A Bartimaeus Novel by Jonathan Stroud

Read: loc 1-3342, 334% of goal

Favorite Passage: 

“He stood then, and looked at her wearily. ‘You think we can wake it?’

‘Yes, with the right techniques. The Shimmering Coil or the Essence Rack perhaps. But I’d say we’ve got less than five minutes. It can no longer maintain its form.’

‘Those techniques would destroy it.’

‘Yes. But we’d have the information. Come on, John. You!’

She snapped her fingers at a manservant hovering at the fringes of a small knot of watching guests. ‘Over here! Bring a dustpan or some kind of shovel—we need to scrape this mess up fast.’

‘No…there is another way.’ Mandrake spoke quietly, too quietly for Mrs. Farrar to hear. As she issued orders to the men around her, he crouched once more beside the frog and uttered a long and complex incantation under his breath. The frog’s limbs shivered; a faint gray mist dribbled off its body, as of cold air meeting warm. With great speed, the body of the frog melted into the mist; the mist coiled about Mandrake’s shoes and ebbed away.”

Manga: Boku no Hero Academia by Horikoshi Kohei

Read: Chapter 192 (caught up), 19% of goal

Favorite Passage:

Total Read: 1076% of goal

Ongoing reading projects:

Bolded means I read the most recent update today! Strikethrough means I’m caught up and waiting for an update. Plain text means I’ve fallen behind, or that I’m in the process of reading through it.

Original Webcomics:

Aerial Magic | Ava’s Demon | Awaken | Balderdash! | Beyond the Canopy | The Boy Who Fell | Cucumber Quest | Damn it all to Hell | Hearstopper | Monsterkind | Namesake | Paranatural | Wilde Life

Fan comics:

Bark and Bite | Blue Paladin’s Journey | SVTFOE Ship War AU | The Tale of Tashi and Nima | Wavelength AU

Manga/Print Comics:

Boku no Hero Academia | Boku no Hero Academia: Illegals | Providence | Sandman

#tal reads #the golem's eye #ptolemy's gate #bartimaeus trilogy #jonathan stroud #bnha #bnha manga spoilers #horikoshi kohei

[threewaysdivided]

Ask Box is Open

Heck with it, let’s talk.  Feel free to come and ask me things or even just share fun stuff you’ve been up to!

I’d love to hear your thoughts about the recent Chapter 18 of my fic, I’m bringing the #YJ:DW Spoilers and #YJ:DW Meta tags back into action since there’s a bunch of fun future stuff that I’m tired of sitting on by myself until I can write and post the chapters, I just reblogged an ask game if you prefer to fling numbers at me, and I have been consuming/ am currently getting into the following series if you want to chat about them:

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Fullmetal Alchemist

Into the Spiderverse

Psychonauts

Hollow Knight

The Dragon Prince

Kingkiller Chronicles

Millennium Trilogy (aka The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and sequels)

The Bartimaeus Sequence

Soulsborne/ Sekiro/ Elden Ring

Tales of Arcadia

Demon Slayer

Leverage

Criminal Minds

Elementary

Alex Rider

Mayday: Air Disaster

Keys to the Kingdom

Recommendations also welcome!

#Obviously also DP and YJ for fandom chats but I feel like that's a given #I also have intentions towards Netflix's Arcane/League of Legends and Castlevania when time allows #Ask box open #3WD

[elkshed]

It’s just hit me all over again that Nathaniel - the boy you follow and love and watch grow - Nathaniel dies. This wonderful, smart boy who goes through so much and learns so much - learns how to forgive, learns how to love - Nathaniel dies at the end. Nathaniel is dead. He intentionally sacrificed his own life just at the moment when he was fully capable of loving and moving on and living a complete, full, whole life that could finally be his to enjoy. But Nathaniel dies.

#bartimaeus spoilers #tbt #stfu about bartimaeus lucy #the bartimaeus trilogy #the bartimaeus trilogy spoilers #sorry this is weitten is shitty tumblr fandom style #but it was 12am and I just had to get it out somehow!!