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Cinder Spires Spoilers / Re: Should I feel offended?
« on: November 03, 2015, 04:43:43 AM »I had not heard the audiobooks so I can't tell. Mr Morton is the one doing the reading?Euan Morton, yes
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Cinder Spires Spoilers / Re: Should I feel offended?
« on: November 03, 2015, 02:57:53 AM »
for me, I always pictured the Aurorans as Italian-based. I was listening to the audiobook while I worked, and my accent identification stinks anyway, but it /seemed/ like that was what Mr. Morton was going for. I could easily be mistaken though.
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Cinder Spires Spoilers / Re: Ending (mayor spoilers, obviously)
« on: October 19, 2015, 03:19:08 AM »I am hesitant to call this a future of either the DV or Codex Alera. The best connection that I can see would be that the Vord show up at some point.I don't see it as the world of Alera, but the Enemy - particularly with Cavendish being a "puppet" - seems somewhat Vordlike. could this be TDF Earth thousands of years in the future, with whatever happens in the BAT altering the atmosphere enough and magic evolving into etherealists? possibly, but i don't think Mr. Butcher would canon-weld everything together.
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Cinder Spires Spoilers / Re: Ending (mayor spoilers, obviously)
« on: October 17, 2015, 04:00:26 AM »I think that sentient ships are the ones that earn a name for themselves in history, such as the Argo, which had a talking masthead. So a regular ship would not start as sentient, especially if the power core is new. But the older the core, the stronger the personality becomes. I would think it also depends on the captain and crew as well.perhaps the faceting puts limits on the core? or perhaps they all have the potential for sentience, but it takes centuries for it to develop. That they become more powerful as they age would make me think this is possible.
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Cinder Spires Spoilers / Re: Does anyone else picture Folly as...
« on: October 08, 2015, 03:46:09 AM »I got a big "Auri" vibe from Folly.count me in the "Auri" camp.
She's a thin waif of a girl who is more knowledgeable/powerful than outside appearances indicate.
Also a strange way of talking and seemingly crippling social/communication issues.
Am I the only one who saw Mrs. Cavendish as an evil Polgara from the Belgariad series?
I also got a sense that the competence of the Guilds from Habble Landing were sort of what the Patrician was aspiring to achieve in Ankh-Morpork
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Community Cork Board / Queen City Conquest Sept. 19-21st
« on: August 20, 2014, 02:35:50 AM »
I got the sense that there may be other posters in the Western New York area. Some of us aren't lucky enough to make it to a Comic-Con or GenCon, but they're holding a tabletop gaming convention in Buffalo next month and they're running a Dresden Files game on Saturday. There's only one slot left, just thought I'd throw it out there if someone wanted to give it a try.
there's a lot of D&D and Pathfinder events, and apparently they aren't doing a daily rate this year, so it would be $30 for the whole weekend.
http://live.queencityconquest.com/
there's a lot of D&D and Pathfinder events, and apparently they aren't doing a daily rate this year, so it would be $30 for the whole weekend.
http://live.queencityconquest.com/
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Community Cork Board / Kickstarter - Beyond Words
« on: July 10, 2014, 01:48:07 AM »
Caught this on Jim's main page, only 16 hours left and it isn't quite funded yet, but it's the chance to let an amazing photographer play dress up with Jim
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/354009039/beyond-words-2016-fantasy-author-calendar
for $25 you can get an autographed 5x7 of Jim in costume.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/354009039/beyond-words-2016-fantasy-author-calendar
for $25 you can get an autographed 5x7 of Jim in costume.
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DF Reference Collection / Re: What have Harry's friends endured? [SPOILERS for all books & short stories]
« on: July 08, 2014, 08:49:23 PM »
thanks ClintACK - will definitely be adding at least some of these.
I'm a little hesitant to put too much emotional trauma into the feed, as it were, but to ignore it is also a mistake. Physical wounds often heal long before emotional ones. I may color code physical versus emotional to help people looking for "X took a wound to Y" versus those seeking how much it has cost folks to be on Harry's side.
I'm a little hesitant to put too much emotional trauma into the feed, as it were, but to ignore it is also a mistake. Physical wounds often heal long before emotional ones. I may color code physical versus emotional to help people looking for "X took a wound to Y" versus those seeking how much it has cost folks to be on Harry's side.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Skin Game Interview gathering topic
« on: May 29, 2014, 04:09:23 AM »5/27/14 Geek & Sundry Vlog: Tigermonkey Interviews Jim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV1FzVQ5cr0and you can win a pentacle necklace too!
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DF Reference Collection / Re: What have Harry's friends endured? [SPOILERS for all books & short stories]
« on: May 12, 2014, 09:34:05 PM »Also, do you have any problems with the curators making any additions to your post or do you wish to take the lead?not at all... it's a reference thread, not an ego trip.
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DF Reference Collection / Re: What have Harry's friends endured? [SPOILERS for all books & short stories]
« on: May 11, 2014, 08:05:07 PM »Thanks for pointing this out in the trailer topic xakko.I'll give it a whirl, thanks!
I've got two suggestions for the topic.
One is to add list code to the lists (this will add bullets, not terribly important but it looks nice)
The other is to possibly put things in chronological order (a taller order imo, but more significant)
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DF Reference Collection / Re: What have Harry's friends endured? [SPOILERS for all books & short stories]
« on: January 22, 2014, 04:11:05 AM »IMO, I think that debating what can and can't be laid at Harry's feet is kinda missing the point. Guilt junkie that he is, he probably blames himself when someone he said hello to once twenty years ago gets a damned paper cut. It's both his greatest strength and greatest flaw as a character.again, this thread isn't to lay blame on Harry at all, but to recognize that he's not the only "good guy" being smacked around over the course of the series.
Thanks, KurtinStGeorge for the additional info.
I'll probably need to add an entry for Morgan, if I'm including Carmichael.
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DF Reference Collection / Re: What have Harry's friends endured? [SPOILERS for all books & short stories]
« on: January 22, 2014, 03:38:08 AM »"Even Hand" Marcone, Gard and Hendricks all got knocked around, Justine had been kidnapped.I wasn't sure if we wanted to include Marcone & company, since they aren't really Harry's /friends/, but I've thrown them on the second post. Thanks for the Justine reminder.
Justine got slashed in the abdomen by the Skinwalker in TC.
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DF Reference Collection / Re: What have Harry's friends endured? [SPOILERS for all books & short stories]
« on: January 22, 2014, 02:18:47 AM »I would include Kim Delany (he describes her as a sometime apprentice, and WoJ is that she is the closest he has to a daughter figure back then). Sure, it was partially her own fault, but in retrospect Harry could have done better by her.
Malone - wouldn't have been targeted by the Nightmare.
Carmichael - though that is arguably partially Murphy's fault.
Alicia Carpenter - Kidnapped to pressure Harry.
Others:
Sarissa? Mac? Morty?
Kirby was in the hospital with a broken pelvis(?) and both legs broken during "Something Borrowed." The injuries happened off-screen, though, so not sure it counts.
Added, thanks!
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DF Reference Collection / Re: What have Harry's friends endured? [SPOILERS for all books & short stories]
« on: January 21, 2014, 03:01:17 AM »I am thinking what Harry's friends have endured because of him. If you don't limit it to that, you probably can include:both of Murphy's divorces were pre-series, although I will consider the emotional impact of losing her first husband. I'm still not sure Charity counts as a "friend", and again, her rescue from Siriothrax was before the series. I'm making an exception for Elaine's possible enthrallment, though, so I guess I'm being inconsistent.
1. Murphy twice divorce and the death of her first husband.
2. Charity being sacrifice to the dragon.
and so on. You get the idea.
If it have to be because of Harry, I'll discount anything that equally benefited Harry's friends like what Murphy enjoys from Harry early in the series. I will also discount anything that is not started by Harry, like what Susan did.
This is a riff off TCF's thread here: http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,30964.msg1311610.html#msg1311610