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!
I finished reading the English version! But here's one thing I realized. I read that the one I read was the US edition at...
I see that the US and UK versions are slightly different - the UK version had Jabor and Ramuthra speaking in capitals, but the US version was normal.
Anyway, I am not very good at English, so I am glad I was able to complete the book even though I had to pull out my dictionary! I discovered a lot of different things. Especially the fact that Prime Minister Devereaux's afrit is a woman, something I would not have known had I not read it in English. The Japanese version does not describe her in any way that identifies her gender.
I'll be busy drawing manga for a while, so I'll read GE when I get settled.
Thank you also to those who supported me!
I love how Lockwood and Nathaniel both have complete impracticality for the sake of fashion in common. Lockwood with his absurdly long coat. Nathaniel with his ridiculously large sleeves. That is not the correct attire for hunting ghosts or summoning demons but nobody cares the awkward goth teen aesthetic comes first. Incredible.
Sometimes I think about how the story begins with an ambitious and unrecognized child dreaming of power and strength, and ends with a boy who has achieved a power that no wizard in history has ever had.
And he knows it doesn't matter, because in a few seconds an explosion will tear him apart.
Saw the Inktober Prompt for Day 1 (Gargoyle) and immediately thought of my boy, Bartimaeus. Made this, even if it’s completely out of my usual comfort zone in terms of lineart, since i wanted to keep with the spirits of Inktober. Probably not gonna do any of the other days, because life is too stressful but still.
Bart!
Comissions are open, click for better quality. Reblogs are love!
I’m sure it’s on purpose but a little thing that I think really humanizes the spirits is the way they call the Other Place home? There’s something so different between saying they want to go back to the Other Place and saying they want to go back home.
I think it’s especially obvious in Ptolemy’s Gate when Bart has been on earth too long, he says he’s tired and wants to go home and its just like GUYS. 🥺 LET HIM GO HOME 🥺 HE JUST WANTS TO GO HOME 🥺🥺🥺
And just how shocked and horrified he is over the other spirits burning their way back to the Other Place when he wants to know why any of them wouldn’t want to go back home and it just has me 🥺🥺🥺
Book report! Finally, we are over the tenth edition and have one-third to go.
Bart is very patiently saying words to Nat, who does not respond to him at all. Some passages seem gentler in the Japanese version, while others seem more gently phrased in the original.
Bart remembers Ptolemy through Nat, while Nat accepts Lovelace's words and decides to abandon conscience and honor and live only for himself. It is a memorable scene where their hearts are at cross purposes.
And also, “you've got nothing.” This line comes back to PG with the words, “You're not totally alone. You've always got me.”
I will do my best to read the rest.
He is 5000 years old. He is a 14 year old boy. He cannot touch silver without physically melting. He eats pigeons that think he is handsome. He measures distances in rat ass lengths. He has three boyfriends. He is deeply traumatised by lions. He can belly dance. He hates the cops. I didn't say his name but he popped into your head, didn't he?