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DF Reference Collection / Re: Questions for Jim 2012 style 2
« on: December 03, 2012, 09:51:09 PM »
Can a White Court vampire feed on Harry? On Murphy?
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CD Book Club / Re: Cold Days Book Club - Chapters 45-53 **MAJOR SPOILERS**
« on: December 02, 2012, 11:16:44 PM »I'm a beta. Jim sent us the final chapters toward the end of July, though I guessed Molly's fate months before. Jim suggested the pinup subject to me in mid-August.thank you - I was curious on the timing.
you aren't part fae yourself, are you?
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CD Book Club / Re: Cold Days Book Club - Chapters 45-53 **MAJOR SPOILERS**
« on: December 01, 2012, 08:04:52 PM »The art is by Lee Moyer. I was the model for Lee's reference photos of the various Mollys. You can see a handful here!so, had you read the ending of CD when you modeled, or were you shocked that the story went down that particular trouser leg?
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CD Book Club / Re: Cold Days Book Club - Chapters 45-53 **MAJOR SPOILERS**
« on: December 01, 2012, 04:37:29 AM »Anyone else think that Maeve's birthday suit piercings foreshadows the Molly situation?weren't they also the only two who wished him a happy birthday?
and then, Molly chose the music before decloaking the Water Beetle.
"We Will Rock You." By Queen
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Calendar Event Discussion / Re: Jim's 2013 Schedule
« on: September 29, 2012, 01:03:07 AM »
I'm about 100 miles from Toronto, so I really hope I can see Jim there. I only wish it were a week earlier, since my favorite band will be releasing their next album in Toronto on 3/30 and that would make the weekend even more awesome. Looks like we may just have to make back to back trips.
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DF Reference Collection / Re: Questions for Jim 2012 style 2
« on: September 06, 2012, 01:44:34 AM »
Something that's been striking me during my current "listen through" at work - Is Jim putting Harry and Molly on opposite sides of minor (but often heated) issues?
1. Star Trek (Molly) vs Star Wars (Harry) - Ghost Story
2. McDonalds (Molly) vs Burger King (Harry) - Small Favor Molly and Thomas vote, Harry overrides.
3. DC Comics (Superman shirt - Molly) ("Last Call") vs. Marvel Comics (Harry) (almost always)
4. Pepsi (Molly) ("Last Call") vs Coke (Harry) (always) - Harry calls her a heathen.
5. Careful reading of a paperback to not crease the spine (Molly) vs. dog-eared, well loved books (Harry) (Turn Coat) Harry calls her a wuss.
not to mention the younger/older, blonde/brunette, delicate magic/brute force magic, always changing vs. stuck in a routine...
1. Star Trek (Molly) vs Star Wars (Harry) - Ghost Story
2. McDonalds (Molly) vs Burger King (Harry) - Small Favor Molly and Thomas vote, Harry overrides.
3. DC Comics (Superman shirt - Molly) ("Last Call") vs. Marvel Comics (Harry) (almost always)
4. Pepsi (Molly) ("Last Call") vs Coke (Harry) (always) - Harry calls her a heathen.
5. Careful reading of a paperback to not crease the spine (Molly) vs. dog-eared, well loved books (Harry) (Turn Coat) Harry calls her a wuss.
not to mention the younger/older, blonde/brunette, delicate magic/brute force magic, always changing vs. stuck in a routine...
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DF Reference Collection / Re: Worst Kick in the Gut Moments in the Series
« on: August 29, 2012, 02:16:59 AM »"Mommy, mommy, mommy", she said. "Owie, owie, owie."
White Night is filled with kicks in the gut. Finding Anna dead. I dunno if Lash committing suicide was a kick in the gut or not, but it was very powerful.
just listened to both of these today... but didn't get to what might be even more heart-wrenching during the fight at the Deeps, where Lash takes the psychic bullet for him.
and pretty much almost all of Ghost Story, top to bottom.
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DF Reference Collection / Re: Questions for Jim 2012 style 2
« on: August 24, 2012, 02:30:12 AM »
How much of a threshold did Anna Ash have in her apartment? She lived alone, and yet her threshold did quite the number on Harry's power. Back in SK, Elaine entered Harry's apartment and easily lit the fire and then, later, put up a veil she knew would hide her from Morgan and another warden, while still inside. I don't recall her ever getting the invite from Harry, so she had to have left some power at the door, hadn't she?
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DF Reference Collection / Re: Questions for Jim 2012 style 2
« on: August 16, 2012, 11:54:20 PM »
I've done some searching to no avail, but I imagine that some of these have been asked before...
1. Is there significance to the fact that both Sanya and Ebeneezer seem to detect evil by scenet? In DM, Michael tells Sanya that what he's perceiving as a rancid smell is Nicodemus, and in BR, McCoy says that the bad blampire mojo that is driving off the street people "stinks".
2. Does the name of the boat in DM - the Etranger - also have significance? Being deficient in both French and Camus, I totally missed that this is the original title of The Stranger, so when I wiki'd it, that came up, along with the sentence "most English translations of the French title L’Étranger are rendered as The Outsider". Did the Churchmice buy the boat, or did they rent it, or what? Does it matter?
1. Is there significance to the fact that both Sanya and Ebeneezer seem to detect evil by scenet? In DM, Michael tells Sanya that what he's perceiving as a rancid smell is Nicodemus, and in BR, McCoy says that the bad blampire mojo that is driving off the street people "stinks".
2. Does the name of the boat in DM - the Etranger - also have significance? Being deficient in both French and Camus, I totally missed that this is the original title of The Stranger, so when I wiki'd it, that came up, along with the sentence "most English translations of the French title L’Étranger are rendered as The Outsider". Did the Churchmice buy the boat, or did they rent it, or what? Does it matter?
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GS Book Club / Re: Ghost Story Book Club - Chapters 46-FINISH **MAJOR SPOILERS**
« on: August 13, 2012, 01:01:48 AM »No one got an interactive goodbye moment with Harry other than Mouse, because only Mouse could see him. Even Mort couldn't see him once Uriel pulled him out of Molly's mind. (Which I think says something important about Mouse, since he could see Harry, even when a major-league ectomancer couldn't.)i wasn't surprised. Mouse cowed Lea, and for all his power in GS, I don't know if Mort shows up on her radar.
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Regardless, though, Thomas did get seriously screwed over in Ghost Story. I'd bet that'll be a big issue between him and Harry in the future. He got screwed over in Changes, by not being warned about Harry's suicide arrangement, and he got screwed over even worse in Ghost Story, when Harry didn't visit him or have the chance to drop by and explain everything, or say goodbye. That's the kind of thing that could hurt a close family member's feelings.definitely screwed, but it was also well explained in the story. Thomas wasn't out and about in the world, drowning in his misplaced guilt. Harry was on a deadline, and once he got moving, he didn't have time for sight seeing, and Thomas wouldn't have been able to see him at the end, anyway.
Hopefully, realizing how human he still is (by nature of his grief for the perceived loss of Harry) and Justine's solution to their problem will help him recover from what happened to him in TC. He could easily have let it push him over into letting his Demon win.
As for Michael-- well, of everyone Harry knows, Michael is the one best able to deal with death, imho. I don't think Michael really needed a visitation from a ghostly Harry to be okay with how things turned out.
None of that ruined the book for me, though. I just assume that it will be handled at some future point in the series.
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DF Reference Collection / Re: PG: combining Neurovore and Knnn.
« on: May 04, 2012, 11:18:34 PM »All this has led me to a somewhat small conundrum: if Harry was the key Mab needed to fight Captain Kudzu, because Kudzu is outsider-boosted, why is it summer's fire that was the key to wounding him? It seems like some sort of outsiderbane-ness should have been the deciding factor, which was what made Harry important to the equation, rather than summer's fire which did the trick. I'm not debating the point that Captain Kudzu was outsider boosted--I think the arguments on that fact are compelling. I know this is a small point to the overall arguments, which are impressive, but I am trying to digest it all....The Outsider magic resistance may be related to mortal magic. Maybe summer fire is something else entirely? It is totally inimical to Winter, certainly, and would certainly have injured the fetch seriously if it had no such protection.
I don't suppose Papa Raith would like to go ten rounds with Lea to test this theory? If he lasts more than three seconds, we can assume his magic protection extends to the Sidhe...
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DF Reference Collection / Re: Dresden Files Purity 2.0
« on: August 30, 2011, 09:56:22 PM »
You have the rank of
Mouse
Your total Dresden Files purity rating is 62.8%
All scores:
Supernatural Power:80.7%
Social Skills:57.6%
Armed Combat:15.2%
Unarmed Combat:57.7%
yay!
Mouse
Your total Dresden Files purity rating is 62.8%
All scores:
Supernatural Power:80.7%
Social Skills:57.6%
Armed Combat:15.2%
Unarmed Combat:57.7%
yay!
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DF Reference Collection / Re: Ghost Story & Aftermath spoilers: Anyone notice... Toto?
« on: August 25, 2011, 03:57:45 AM »Yeah. It does make more sense that she is Marcone's. What about some other entity? I think that it is too easy for it to be just Marcone. Maybe I'm looking for connections where there are none. But she was way out of Marcone's territory to be enlisted into his employ I think. Maybe some one we haven't seen. If you learned how to turn into a wolf, would you stop even if your group of friends grew apart. Maybe she got into some messy shiznit in California (I think that's where they said she was.) That would also be a great reason to pick up & leaveshe said she worked for ILM. maybe that was a cover? could she have worked for Silverlight?
maybe she's Lara's creature, not Marcone's?
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DF Reference Collection / Re: Ghost Story & Aftermath spoilers: Anyone notice... Toto?
« on: August 25, 2011, 12:16:23 AM »I suggest you reread, as Toto is jumping at Will because he likes him, hence the latter scene where he snuggles next to Will's wolf form. Will even smiles as Toto lunges at him, so from my reading Toto has no ill will towards Will, just Marci.hard to say - "the little dog abruptly sprang out of Abby's arms"... "Abby shushed the Yorkie and frowned at Will" I took Will's smile as him being amused. And while Jim doesn't specify if he showed teeth, that would be a sign of aggression. I don't think Abby would've felt the need to stop Toto or frown at Will if the dog were just going to happily trot over for a scritch.
Which is a tad peculiar to me.
I imagine in his Wolf form, Toto recognizes Will as the Alpha. er. no pun intended...
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DF Reference Collection / Re: Ghost Story & Aftermath spoilers: Anyone notice... Toto?
« on: August 24, 2011, 11:57:39 PM »
You may have a point, there's a lot here and in Aftermath to make you wonder. - but Abby did have to use her precog to stop Toto from going after Will after he got done with being growly at Marci.
It could also be a stealth reference to the Discworld, were wolves and Werewolves do not get along too well.
It could also be a stealth reference to the Discworld, were wolves and Werewolves do not get along too well.