Cosplayer, Roleplayer, Slytherin, Sleep Technologist. Fan of all things Harry Potter, Fire Emblem, Teen Wolf, and Sherlock. Avid comic reader, energetic convention goer, sometimes-writer, and fun music listener.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
yeah, ok, i give up on these. They took so long to do and they still don’t look how i want them to. lol.
I was gonna put their names on them cause i couldn’t find good quotes but then i decided to be slightly more creative. i dunno whether it works or not. :p
i love the bartimaeus trilogy because it’s like. a demon, a corrupt politican, and a terrorist. these are your heroes.
“It’s already past midnight and neither of us has seen anything. On every occasion when this thing has attacked, it’s done so by midnight. Your only fear should be the boredom of a long, tedious vigil.”
Finally done with animating another Bartimaeus gifset. Several people suggested a Bartimaeus and Queezle scene, and since I’m very weak for those two I couldn’t resist.
“Well, it was my first time as a raven. And I’d had to alter in the dark. What did he expect? But it wasn’t the time or place to argue. I changed the beak.”
Bartimaeus and Faquarl as ravens. Based on a scene from The Amulet of Samarkand.
This took me forever to animate, so I hope you guys enjoy.
YOU ARE AMAZING.
oh my god
Bartimaeus musings
So I know this was never established in canon and it’s rather far-fetched, but I always imagined that when Nathaniel dismissed Bartimaeus that one last time, they didn’t separate as cleanly as they came together.
I mean, Bartimaeus even says it- they are, for all intents and purposes, one being. I would imagine that all KINDS of stuff would get left behind when you tried to find all the pieces of yourself separate from the pieces of him. Especially since it was highly experimental magic and had literally NEVER been done before.
Maybe I’m just grasping at thin air and I’m desperate for Nathaniel to still be alive in some form or another, but I headcanon, that from now and into eternity, Bartimaeus had a piece of his essence ripped away, a piece that died with Nathaniel. And in return, there’s a small, nonsentient piece of Nathaniel soul floating around in the Other Place with Bart. Just like a small, foreign bit of soul that Bartimaeus pokes at every now and again, and ultimately finds himself happy with it.
And in the future, if he’s ever summoned again, he leans toward that spark of intelligence- he’s confused that his mind translates the smell of old books as something good, he has distinct cravings for tea at teatime, and his arrogant streak has gotten even worse. And maybe- just maybe, he realizes that he feels just as comfortable in Nathaniel’s form as he had Ptolemy’s.
fdsjak I need to stop now.
:C :C :C
So you humiliate Nathaniel, leave him open to harm, lock him in his room for a month, don’t let anyone talk to him, never tell him what he did wrong or what he did right, fire his favorite teacher, AND THEN YOU LET THIS HAPPEN
He made swift progress with his studies, for his mind was fired with hate
I DON’T EVEN KNOW IF I’M UPSET AT ARTHUR UNDERWOOD OR AT SIMON LOVELACE OR AT JONATHAN STROUD
I’M JUST UPSET
Believe me, I know all about bottle acoustics. I spent much of the sixth century in an old sesame oil jar, corked with wax, bobbing about in the Red Sea. No one heard my hollers. In the end an old fisherman set me free, by which time I was desperate enough to grant him several wishes. I erupted in the form of a smoking giant, did a few lightning bolts, and bent to ask him his desire. Poor old boy had dropped dead of a heart attack. There should be a moral there, but for the life of me I can’t see one.
Ptolemy’s Gate (Jonathan Stroud)
(Source: theghostwitch)
