Yes hello oh my gosh can we keep talking about the Bartimaeus trilogy for a moment because it's one of too few fantasy series that actually presents an anti-colonial narrative where the ruling government is terrible without being exaggeratedly ~evillll~, and where a grassroots resistance movement in a modern urban context are actually good guys not evil terrorists, and it does it all with great characters and laugh-out-loud funny moments. I love those books ;_;

YESSS THANK YOU 

JONATHAN STROUD IS AN ANTI-IMPERIALIST, ANTI-COLONIALIST, CULTURE LOVING GENIUS WHO WRITES THE GREATEST BOOKS YOU COULD EVER READ

AND HE WRITES THEM FOR CHILDREN WHOSE INTELLIGENCE HE RESPECTS MORE THAN MOST ADULTS

WHICH MAKES FOR A BRIGHT FUTURE FOR OUR NEXT GENERATION OF READERS. 

Real talk though the amount of subtlety he puts into the narrative is amazing, like it’s not the focus of the story, but the setting is so mired in classist/marxist themes and dystopia without overly exaggerated and tired cliches. 

And he understands oppression on such a well-thought out scale, on how even kindness doesn’t automatically mean equality, shows it in Bart and Kitty, all while never sacrificing the beautiful fantasy story.

He is, and will forever be, my favorite writer of all time. And Bartimaeus my favorite book series, forever.