Just some silly thoughts about chapter 6 of PG

The scene where bart gets summoned to Nat's office in chapter 6 of Ptolemy's gate, reads exactly like a couples therapy session between two people trying to save their marriage.

Bart's the dissatisfied house spouse that wants Nat to open up about their struggles and is threatening divorce if Nat won't go through with it; and Nat's the stoic husband that refuses to cooperate with the therapy, and instead throws himself into his work so he doesn't have to admit he has a vulnerable side...or...emotions -despite the fact that his stressful job is a major reason for the strain in their relationship, and his treatment of his spouse when he gets home.

And poor Piper is the woman who took a psychology course because she wanted to help people, and is just realising that her class did not prepare her properly for the chaotic energy that is the soon-to-be-divorced Bart and Nat.

I think if they had a more suitable mediator at this point, ie Kitty, they might have actually gotten rid of some the tension between them and sorted their shit out way sooner.

If anyone has ever read The Chrestomanci Series- specifically the lives of Christopher Chant (which I highly recommend btw) this whole interaction reads exactly like Christopher's two parents arguing and passing notes between to each other through the servants, despite them actually loving each other a lot but being too proud to admit they want to stop fighting.

The Stars Reversed

Kitty’s story is dear to me. She’s belittled, misinformed, abused, threatened, robbed of her rights, used, played and betrayed by almost every adult in her life. And yet she’s resisting like the badass she is. I love her.

The chase in the crypt is my favorite horror scene in the books. Run Kitty, run!

Happy Bart Prompt week 2024 everyone!

Starting with day 1:

The Fool

A tarot-inspired interpretation of my favorite funny scene

The Hanged Man

Ptolemy gave me a small salute, then his head fell back gently against the wall… All light around me vanished, my consciousness departed; the Other Place pulled me away. Furiously, against my will, I accepted Ptolemy's last gift.

oh my favorite trope? two people who go through something so unique and agonizing and entirely beyond words that they have no choice but to create a bond that transcends all other types of love, thus acting as the sole point of understanding for the other person in a world that cannot fathom what they’ve been through

HELPPPP

every time i open my copy of amulet of samarkand i am forced to remember that uh

as a child i loved this book so much i started EATING THE PAGES

A Japanese-language paperback edition of The Ring of Solomon will be available! This is great publishing information following Scarlett and Browne. I would like to take the time to read RoS again at some point.

This one is BartNat, a Red Riding Hood parody. I received a request for this one sometime ago. Nat is holding a pistol. I don't know if I answered the request correctly, but I enjoyed drawing it.

Something about magicians in Bartimaeus Sequence erasing their own names for self protection is so Tasty. In order to perpetuate that violence, to treat demons (and commoners) as less than human, they must first symbolically make themselves unperson. So many cultures practiced damnatio memoriae as one of the worst punishments and they did it to themselves. If you are alive as long as your name is spoken they are dead long before they die.

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.

I draw this every two weeks, so I generally post this once a month. The months go by quickly, and this was another year of drawing Bartimaeus fan art. Thank you to everyone who took a look. I wonder if I will continue to draw Stroud works next year.

five thousand years of slavery, oppression and suffering

My friend(X:@bombcoro) made a BartNat plush based on my design! Bartimaeus has very few official items, so even though it's unofficial and my design, it's sooooo cute! I look at it all day long😍❤️

This is my impressions from the fifth and sixth reading of the original book.

I finally finished reading the first part of the book, relying on the dictionary but managing to read it on my own. Bartimaeus' part is more difficult! Maybe because there are more metaphors and peculiar expressions?

I read TOSaB 2 with the help of the DeepL translator, so I may try reading 3 on my own. But if it's a book I haven't read yet, I'm too curious about the rest of the book and I'm afraid I won't be able to stand my own reading speed.

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.

Very funny if Bart kept his soul in the other place and Nat became a spirit as a result. Haha.

This is BartNat with a horror taste. Please read from right to left. I'm drawing this as a love story(Bart got Nat's soul forever), but it could also be seen as a revenge story? Interpret it however you like. Nat is not interested in Other Place or other spirits, so he is not likely to go to Other Place. But he is jealous and competitive, so he might go to Other Place at least once to be considered the best friend by Bartimaeus. My desire. By the way, this is my old man Nat↓, whom I drew a long time ago; I liked his style when he was GE, and I wanted him to grow his hair out again when he became an old man.

When Bartimaeus is observing Nathaniel's thoughts, he's shocked when he sees Ptolemy's face, before he realises that it's actually Nathaniel thinking about him.

What's interesting is that the reason he's so shocked is it had been "So long since I had seen it... Two thousand years."

Given how often Bartimaeus wears Ptolemy's form this is surprising to me... so, he's never seen his (Ptolemy's) face in a mirror? A glass window? Metal? His sword? A pool of water?

And that's how I came up with the headcanon that djinn are like vampires- they don't have reflections