imployee of the month

foliot is short for fully autistic

[silverfeatheredserpent]

And again StudentAU

[mogblin]

the thing about job searching is i see all these job postings and im like i dont wanna do any of this for any of you

[mlarayoukai]

fucked up cat thing from the pacman cartoon

[gremlynn-draws]

A rabbit, his sword and his slain enemy.

Inspired by illuminated manuscript marginalia depicting armed rabbits.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

interesting kink assortment on the dash

[human-pet-they]

when the author describes someone dying and you can just tell they’ve never actually died by the way it’s written

[simpkin]

bartimaeus looooves whining about his chronic pain and getting unwanted calls like yeah bitch?? you and every human adult. shut up maybe

[necrowyrm]

[michaelnordeman]

Hooded crow/Corvus corone cornix/kråka aka gråkråka. Mariehamn, Åland (25 May 2026).

[yunisverse]

the unknowable horror lovers' eternal struggle

[simpkin]

oh my god alert the fucking press I’m famous

[simpkin]

it’s been like a week and no one’s shamed me for my horrible slutty icon yet

what did I even make this fucking blog for

[shadowy-dumbo-octopus]

No sure why we should shame you. You're correct.

[simpkin]

[rawrijustlookatbartimaeusthings]

I love being delusional, more people should try it

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

This one is my favorite

Why, you may ask? Because he has zero lines and zero importance, this man is shown on screen for a total of two and a half seconds then forgotten, he's not even animated.

[whumpster-fire]

Behold, a Faquarl!

[somecleverreference]

the fact that Arthur Underwood owns a computer brings up some insane worldbuilding implications

like wdym this imp could’ve been an email

[somecleverreference]

@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.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk

[somecleverreference]

@drakedadragon the way I could not rest until I put this down on paper

[saint-oleander]

I love this!

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.

(The doylist explanation — as per Mr. Stroud himself, Festival della Letteratura di Mantova, I don't remember the year; I think other interviews too — is that he put it in the first book and then never addressed the lack of other technology later, and that this detail haunts him to this day.)

[somecleverreference]

Wait the real reason is even better oh my goddd

Please don’t worry mr stroud it’s been over 20 years and we’re doing all the heavy lifting

[whumpster-fire]

I think there were also computers mentioned in The Golem's Eye - the clerks in the courthouse at Kitty's hearing were using them.

Email seems rather insecure and difficult to destroy evidence of for a lot of the communications magicians use, though. My headcanon is that the computers they have are, like, 80s or early 90s level at best, and they probably don't have an actual internet because computers aren't common enough to justify it and if they really need to move files around, handing a messenger imp a bag of floppy disks is the highest bandwidth option.

[simpkin]

handing a messenger imp a bag of floppy disks is the highest bandwidth option!!

[simpkin]

it’s been like a week and no one’s shamed me for my horrible slutty icon yet

what did I even make this fucking blog for

[simpkin]

Bartimaeus: some spirits cope with their enslavement by really leaning into servility and taking pride in their bullshit labor

Me, a Customer Service Worker:

[worst-roommates-ever]