Hey, everyone!
Now, who is looking forward to the short story about Mouse and Cerberus?
I do!
Though I'd prefer a new Dresden novel, of course. And the new Cinder Spires.

But in this collection there are several stories by several authors I am interested in. For example one by Patricia Briggs about the werewolf Sherwood and his kitten Pirate I am looking forward to. In the last main novel Sherwood's I wonder if it is from his point of view or from the cat's. Though I expect it to be from the werewolf's POV. She has never done an animal POV before.

Still I hope after the release there will be news about the progress of Olympian Affair, like is he done now and in the editing process or is he still writing. Something like that.

OK, I make my own post now:
As I wrote in another post...


WAG:

Thomas will be human after being freed by Butters' sword. And he will become a wizard, because he would have been, if not for the Hunger awakening in his youth. That's my headcanon.
So there will be 3-4 wizards from Merlin's direct bloodline to fight Outsiders in the BAT: Ebenezar (Black staff), Harry (starborn Winter Knight Warden of Demonreach...), Thomas (Ex-Whamp redeemed, cured by Fidellaccius, wielding Amoracchius) and maybe little Maggie (wizard with RCV abilities) if she is old enough by then.

But! There is one descendant missing. There should be 5 !
It is always 5. 5 points in a pentacle for example! ...

Where is the 5th descendent?

OMG WoJ says the "English Prisoner" is not Merlin. OK, but what if it is true, he is not Merlin, because Merlin wasn't Merlin after all? Merlin was TimetravelHarry.
This is a theory that has already been discussed here.
And I admit I feel there is something there.
The prisoner told Harry in the first chapter of Skin Game that he is someone who needs to be there.

What if "Merlin" (whoever he was, doesn't matter for my theory, if he was TT Harry or not) in order to keep the prison safe had to put himself in eternal stasis to keep the prison functioning. What if without his continued presence there, the wards would eventually fail.
There was a curse in the books which took it's energy from the bloodline of the curse's creator. Harry's mother's death curse for Lord Raith. Or so it seemed in Blood Rites.
There was another evidence that the bloodlines are important: the Ramps' bloodline curse in Changes.

So what if Merlin tied the power of Demonreach's wards to his bloodline and himself? So they won't weaken over time and he realized he needed to sacrifice himself to do it. Not by his death but by his life.

And either he is Harry or Merlin isn't his name any more, because he has changed so much in all this time in stasis.

This would mean, if the prisoner is freed, the wards would come down and all the prisoners are released...
...
...
Starting the BAT.


Ah, and if that wasn't clear enough, the English prisoner would then of course be the 5th descendant. Duh. 
*** thoughts tumbling over themselves in my brain making me want to type faster but not succeeding ***

The 5 wizards are necessary to control the released prisoners.

Maybe it is the other way around: maybe the Outsiders break through and the EP reveals himself to Harry, telling him, he needs to release the prisoners including himself, so that the 5 descendants can use their army of monsters against the Outsiders.

... about the new audio book "The Law":
https://twitter.com/longshotauthor/status/1519699588990480384?s=20&t=yBiJcrICa_ksonXWK3anjQ

So, has anybody found anything about how his advance is with Olympian Affair?
There has been no update on his website for 4 months. I've found nothing new on youtube.
I thought his progress with the book would be interesting to know. I mean like "is he still writing?"
"is he done writing and the editing process has begun?"
Things like that.

Remember our discussions of the sample chapters of Peace Talks? The chapter in which McCoy tells Harry about the Council vote. We sort of thought, Harry would still be on the Council after Battle Ground.
Because the title "wizard of the White Council" is mentioned in the short story "Christmas Eve".

So, I read the short story as it is " printed" in my e-book. It is when Harry tries to assemble the bike and says to himself that it should not be a problem to [tadaaaaaa!!!!!!] "the Wizard of Chicago".
This confused me, so I compared with the older text, the illustrated one from the website. And in that version he indeed called himself "a wizard of the White Council".

I see you, Butcher!

Do you think, Mr. Butcher hadn't decided yet in 2018, if Harry will be thrown out?
Or did he write "White Council" deliberately to not spoiler us readers?
Edit: or to mislead us?

Hello, everybody.
I was wondering what the next chapter will be about. Up to now, in every chapter at least one new problem was introduced. Maybe some of you would like to speculate with me, what you think will happen in chapter 6? Let's see on Tuesday , if someone's got it right.

My guess is: Michael and Molly.

Harry goes to the Carpenters to take his daughter home. Molly comes, too. Molly, Michael and Charity have their talk about what Molly has really done since Cold Days. There will be guilty feelings from Harry, blaming each other for various consequences ... Maybe a fallout of some sort between Molly and her parents or Michael and Harry.
Something like that.

Now let us hear your guesses.

Hello, all you wonderful weird people!!!

I started a new topic, because the last one has gotten pretty long, and invite all the weird folk to join and chat.

Weird? Probably. But just because you're weird, doesn't mean there isn't a bunch of other weird people about to chat with one another.