I hear you, but .... Harry's staff has been observed to be stronger than just the wood. He mentioned once that using it for magic has made it stronger. I was just wondering if his blasting rod would get something like that too.Technically his staff is stronger when he's directly channeling kinetics with it or otherwise reinforcing it. Blasting rod is all fire I think. The multipurpose nature of the staff gives it that fringe benefit.
Harry's staff is made of oak -- which is already a very hard, very heavy type of wood. I don't recall it ever being mentioned that the workings make the actual wood physically stronger, but six feet of oak is already pretty darn strong.
I can buy the argument that his staff is stronger when he is using it, like in FM. And I can buy that when it's not being used for magical purposes, it's just a hunk of wood.
I wonder if his blasting rod is any more sturdy when he's using it too.
We know he's made several, and that it's not all that strong when not being used. I'm thinking of when Inari broke it over his head in Blood Rites, but I wonder about when he's using it.
With all this discussion of Dresden’s rod, I’m hoping for a fifty shades book after peace talks now.
LOL ... if you're interested in that ... you might look up the other Butcher author. Shannon Butcher.I don’t actually read that type of stuff. I did read Fifty Shades of Grey, though. A friend of mine went on and on about it, so I read it to know what I was missing. It turned out that what I was missing was the most poorly written book I’d ever forced myself to read. There was one line in there that is hilarious, though. It’s a bit sexy, so I’ll put it in spoiler thingie.
While I've never read her stuff, as I understand it, those are her kind of books.
Not necessarily BDSM type of stuff, but along those lines.
My wife read it; was not impressed.It’s funny because it’s so objectively bad, but the author made (I think) around 50million USD from the books. The series began as Twilight fan fiction and she’d never written anything beforehand. Also, all the bdsm in the series was just her fantasy, not based on any real life experience. If only I could be as terrible a writer as she!
A while ago, I made a blasting rod for a cosplay, and I think it's pretty close.
So I figure a wand is typically something thinner, like maybe the width of a pinky.
(Unfortunately, the main event I cosplay at -- Magfest -- is in Maryland and the blasting rod falls under billy club laws, so I can't carry it at the con. The nearly-six-feet length of holly I made into a staff, however, is perfectly safe, apparently)
That's pretty cool. Nice carving work.Thanks! I did it with a wood burner, and the runes read (phonetically) "AIM AWAY FROM FACE."
I have an old, illegal-as-anything-but-an-antique billy club cops in Brooklyn used to carry in the fifties, with a thick cylinder of freaking lead in the middle. That one I can understand, but yours doesn't look particularly dangerous. Whatever, laws, amirite?Yeah, it was kinda silly -- the guy who told me about it said the way the law is worded, the little souvenir baseball bats you'd get at a game are illegal, but an actual bat is perfectly fine to carry around.
And yeah, I'd suppose the blasting rod is thicker than a wand might be; we don't have a description of Molly's pair, at least not their dimensions (does he call one of them "anemic," or am I thinking of a different story altogether?), which, as far as I can remember, are the only ones shown on page. (For the record, I still think that the term "blasting rod" is made up by Harry because it's manlier than "wand.")I did get the sense that hers were more "traditional" wands, like the sticks with crystals you see in occult shops and such.
Thanks! I did it with a wood burner, and the runes read (phonetically) "AIM AWAY FROM FACE."
It’s funny because it’s so objectively bad, but the author made (I think) around 50million USD from the books. The series began as Twilight fan fiction and she’d never written anything beforehand. Also, all the bdsm in the series was just her fantasy, not based on any real life experience. If only I could be as terrible a writer as she!
A while ago, I made a blasting rod for a cosplay, and I think it's pretty close.
(http://as.crowdedstreet.net/Props1.jpg)
So I figure a wand is typically something thinner, like maybe the width of a pinky.
(Unfortunately, the main event I cosplay at -- Magfest -- is in Maryland and the blasting rod falls under billy club laws, so I can't carry it at the con. The nearly-six-feet length of holly I made into a staff, however, is perfectly safe, apparently)
I know some folks who are into that lifestyle. They all, to a person, say that book and the movie were crap. Not just not well done, but just WRONG.From what I understand, Gray is less of a BDSM dream man and more of an abusive stalker (https://theramblingcurl.blogspot.com/2014/02/fifty-abusive-moments-in-fifty-shades.html).
I laugh at this.
Does it matter? It raised awareness and made the author some money.
From what I understand, Gray is less of a BDSM dream man and more of an abusive stalker (https://theramblingcurl.blogspot.com/2014/02/fifty-abusive-moments-in-fifty-shades.html).
Seriously, you don't have to change the script much to turn it into a horror story.
A while ago, I made a blasting rod for a cosplay, and I think it's pretty close.
(http://as.crowdedstreet.net/Props1.jpg)
So I figure a wand is typically something thinner, like maybe the width of a pinky.
(Unfortunately, the main event I cosplay at -- Magfest -- is in Maryland and the blasting rod falls under billy club laws, so I can't carry it at the con. The nearly-six-feet length of holly I made into a staff, however, is perfectly safe, apparently)
I know some folks who are into that lifestyle. They all, to a person, say that book and the movie were crap. Not just not well done, but just WRONG.Jepp, that’s true. I had a friend who was into that scene and I’d occasionally go to those types of parties with her because you need to try everything once or thrice in life. ;P The stuff in the books was just the middle aged writer’s sex fantasies based on nothing. The nonsense that Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey get up to is pretty boring and is missing all of the things like safewords. (And, yes, those are really the names of the characters! Anastasia bites her lip nonstop as well and it drives Christian mad with lust. Need to try that trick next time I meet a bdsm billionaire.)
I laugh at this.
Does it matter? It raised awareness and made the author some money.
Out of curiosity, what is the blasting rod made out of?A pine dowel from Home Depot.
I like those ... thanks a lot.
Phonetically, they spell, "Donuts are tasty."
That is hilarious.Probably depends on who McCoy's master was, and so on. McCoy might be Scottish, but his Master-Apprentice chain stretches back to Merlin...
I always assumed he made up his own (assuming intent applies to enchantment), or else copied them off McCoy. Would McCoy use Celtic/Gaelic/Anglo-Saxon runic alphabets? Or would the runes he picked be whole-word substitutes rather than alphabetic (hieroglyphs, Kanji, that sort of thing)?
I always assume Norse runes when I thought of the staff/rod. However, Harry had prime opportunities to compare his runes to Norse runes when Gard uses her rune based magic and doesn't.I wondered that once myself when I went looking for non-norse Runic sets/alphabets, but best I could find the term "rune" is (historically in RL) only used to refer to the europe and/or the germaic regions. Even Runology is specifically a sub-section of Germanic Linguistics. Meaning all Runes are technically Norse Runes. There are plenty of fictional runic alphabets, but not many actual languages, and none outside Europe. Of course I couldnt begin to explain a functional difference between runes and the other various alphabets and pictoforms of the world.
You guys seem pretty good at wood stuff. What do you with these creations once they’re complete?
You guys seem pretty good at wood stuff. What do you with these creations once they’re complete?Practice Pyromancy, clearly ;-P
I always assume Norse runes when I thought of the staff/rod. However, Harry had prime opportunities to compare his runes to Norse runes when Gard uses her rune based magic and doesn't.He does, in fact -- he looks at her stuff and remarks that he's familiar with Norse runes, but that he doesn't recognize Gard's runes.
You guys seem pretty good at wood stuff. What do you with these creations once they’re complete?That blasting rod and one staff of mine usually end up as cosplay props. The holly staff is too heavy (and pretty!) to hike with.
Can you post more pics of the stuff you’ve made?More of the stuff is here: http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,39380.0.html
In regards to the books, this made me wonder about the staff Dresden uses. He must have a rubber thingie on the bottom given he uses it in urban settings where bare hard wood would create lack of traction while walking with it.
Nice, thanks for sharing those. I liked the colouration on the staff on the new one.Thanks! It's all natural color -- all I do is rub it down with Danish oil, which brings it out.
Making your own Traditional Ozark Folk Art, huh? ;D