I RATHER THINK HE KNEW ANYWAY

it’s fine!! everything is FINE!! a bartimaeus meltdown blog. general meltdowns @dovebalitang

[winter-wise]

Nathaniel aged 12:

[jutenium]

Well, um... She.

Jane Farrar

"If Quentin Makepeace buttonholes me about that wretched play of his once more, I shall strike him" – quote from PG

[thewowsignal2026]

finished my ptolemy's gate reread im inconsolable i need to lie down for 84 years

[thewowsignal2026]

"i rather think he knew anyway" 6 words that will strip the skin from my bones under any circumstance

[d-i-r-k-s-t-r-i-d-e-r]

the first thing bartimaeus ever tells us about ptolemy, before he mentions his name or says anything about him, is that he was “someone i had loved”. think about that

[shadowy-dumbo-octopus]

[queezleofprague]

Bartimaeus was right, I do not know how I can stand being encased in a body every day of my life.

[teartra]

I love how Jonathan Stroud woke up one day and asked himself “hey, what if Harry Potter is evil” and started writing Bartimaeus Trilogy

[teartra]

THIS TAG

[cryingprotection]

*waving Bartimaeus trilogy at you* Hey kid you wanna read something really fucked up

[hopscorched]

good night to the girls with suspicious amounts of silver on their person; d*sney villains; Radicalized Bitches and people who have called king solomon, and i quote, ‘a certified freak 7 days a week’ in public… the rest of you.. gn i guess 🙄

[hopscorched]

pictures taken moments before ┻━┻ ︵ ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

[chronomally]

It's interesting that whenever Bartimaeus gets REALLY mad, we only see it from someone else's point of view

[littlefettuccinealfredo]

i actually don't want the bart trilogy to become popular bc then i would have to lose years off my life reading ice ice cold takes about it. however i think everyone should read them

[ritelli-archived]

;)

[dragonshine]

Ptolemy’s Gate makes me sad.

[zisurru]

bartimaeus’s confrontation with kitty over his form when she first summons him is literally just “you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like”

[tarragonthedragon]

#bartprompts20 Day 5: Role Reversal

nathaniel– a master, long ago, who lost himself and found himself again. a master like any other. dead, to spare his slave. 

ptolemy– something else. eons later. a scholar. entirely by accident, a revolutionary.

[janefarrar]

hi literally caNNOT stop thinking about this. modern ptolemy!!!!!!!

[tarragonthedragon]

#grad student ptolemy – a Concept………#bart thinks he’s too soft he thinks no one can possibly be this curious or compassionate#keeps waiting for the other shoe to fall#by the time he realizes it won’t it is entirely too late#:))))#ptolemy and kitty!#ptol wants to be friends#kitty is dismissive + deeply suspicious#she’s pragmatic though#recognizes his value#it helps that despite the fact he’s perhaps a little unintentionally snobby#he Tries#she ’ll give him that much#she’ll reciprocate his trust inch by inch#‘entirely by accident a revolutionary’ OBSESSED  (tags via @janefarrar)

yes this is EXACTLY what i was thinking about yes!!!

[mad-as-moriarty]

Who else has read The Bartimaeus Trilogy?  This was my favorite part.

[zisurru]

anyway WHERE is my book of nothing but slice-of-life stories where kitty is in her 40s and retired and she and bart just sit in the sun and tend the garden and occasionally have a misadventure. why do you keep this from me, jonathan