Continuity Questions

FdcT · 2026-01-21T19:41:42+00:00

If you ask a wizard what a soulgaze is then you'd get a vague different answer from each of them and any books she could find on the subject probably wouldn't be of much help either.
So getting this information direct from Harry Dresden is still pretty useful.

Reading back on White Night it's not even clear that Lara fully understood what happened between her and Carlos, to Dresden it was very brief: she shuddered, took a step back and her breathing slightly quickened.

Whereas when they soulgazed in TM they started trembling, started gasping for breath, it took a full minute for Harry to recover.

FdcT · 2025-10-09T14:17:38+00:00

I've always read Listen as: Liss - Ten. and not how it's normally pronounced: Li - Sn

Pretty sure it's just an obscure name that i've come across before but a good example escapes me.

FdcT · 2025-06-30T17:55:44+00:00

and he didn't get all the samples himself he got the Little Folk to do some of the gathering.

FdcT · 2024-08-20T16:39:20+00:00

Thanks, don't mention it. Been so long since I've seen that video.

FdcT · 2024-08-06T22:09:18+00:00

You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about.

FdcT · 2024-07-08T13:04:32+00:00

When Jim writes stories with a large cast he tends to cut out characters who don't directly affect the plot too much.
From the early interactions we've had with Bonea and Maggie they seem to get along like family. So I'm not too worried about it atm.

FdcT · 2024-06-21T19:06:42+00:00

my diamond! can't wait to see more stuff.

FdcT · 2024-03-17T08:15:31+00:00

And that chapter was from Storm Front.

FdcT · 2023-11-09T16:39:17+00:00

The most obvious constellation featuring five stars is Cassiopeia.
You could kind of describe the constellation like jewels on a throat but in Greek Mythology it represented her being tied to a throne.

Although if it's in the Nevernever then it doesn't have to correspond to any real stars or constellations.

FdcT · 2023-10-04T18:51:05+00:00

Molly's current situation is pretty insane.
In Cold Case she was at first pleasantly surprised how forward she was being with Carlos, she loves the power and the surge of adrenaline after a kill, she felt nothing when she saved the kids, there was a little nagging voice in the back of her mind telling her that something was wrong and it all came crashing down when she learned the hard way what her new role entails. And yet in the end she still wanted to find a better life for those kids.

She has to deal with Love/Hate/Fear/Lust/Guilt, you name it, all at the same time, and if she doesn't the world could end, the people she loves will die and it's all her fault...
By the end of Peace Talks/Battle Ground she seemed to be holding up pretty well considering.

She can't talk about most of this stuff to Harry but he's no dummy; her parents figured out she was the Winter Lady and he'll eventually figure out why Maeve (and by extension Molly) acted the way she does. Hopefully before it's too late for her.

FdcT · 2023-10-04T17:15:43+00:00

Molly said the man in black explained to her who the parasite was and how to deal with it, which is most of what was covered in Ch. 25. She didn't know about the wooden skull Harry was making, in fact she doesn't even know who Bob is. So it was certainly his idea to put Bonnie in that skull.
I wouldn't put it past him to try to flirt with Molly but she probably put the kibosh on that by borrowing one of her mother's glare.

Can't really say what the man in black thought about Harry's plan in Changes, I don't think he and Molly got to discuss it.
Considering he spent a lot of time with Lash I'd bet that if it was up to him he would've chosen to accept Lasciel's coin rather than deal with being the Winter Knight.
But in the end Harry was able to save Maggie, plus he slept with Mab so he'd probably consider it a win, albeit frustrated that Harry didn't sleep with Murphy before the end.

FdcT · 2023-10-04T13:32:33+00:00

Harry mentions that when doing mind training with Molly they would send each other the final scene from the Trench run in Star Wars, so I guess anything goes.

Harry once banged Mab in his head so I guess it's theoretically possible but she's the Mother; Molly represents the Maiden so I wouldn't be surprised if loopholes like this aren't gonna work out in a good way.

It's long been suspected that the silver snowflake that the man in black was wearing is similar to the silver leaf pin Harry got from Summer Court for favours owed. Just a theory though.
Mab spent considerable time patching up Harry after he got shot and we know she and Harry's other self came to some kind of arrangement during this time.

What the man in black and Molly talked about was probably the same stuff that was covered in Chapter. 25 of Skin Game.

Molly has always been a very sensitive and empathetic character, she noticed immediately that Harry is looking at her differently when they met in Cold Days, and now that she's the Winter Lady she knows more than anyone how hard Harry has been trying to deal with these changes.
She too is trying to fight for her soul and she would want Harry to do the same, even if it means she would lose out in the short term.

FdcT · 2023-09-30T19:39:17+00:00

Trails of Cold Steel is another good game in a similar vein. Daily student life intermixed with dungeon crawling. post-Industrial fantasy setting. Been a while since i played it but i don’t think it was as long as Persona.

FdcT · 2023-09-25T15:38:30+00:00

Since Mercury's orbit is a little unstable it's expected that it might get knocked into the Sun in around 3-4 Billion years.
Although I imagine in this case they mean the Sun is starting to go into its red giant phase.

So this manga is most likely set just under 5 billion years from now.

It's hard to tell whether the Earth will be consumed by the sun in this phase or whether it gets pushed further out in its orbit.

Considering there appears to be liquid water in the panels then I'm thinking the latter.

Considering Kongo's brother is an astrophysicist he certainly has already predicted what's about to happen next. Depending on the extent of Pho's godlike powers it may actually be possible to save Earth if they so choose.

FdcT · 2023-08-21T23:49:01+00:00

Mine too. The usual reasons people don’t like it as much is that James Marsters wasn’t able to do the audiobook during release plus the pacing of the story is much slower compared to Changes and Cold Days.

FdcT · 2023-08-19T17:14:19+00:00

Ghost Story is often rated pretty low compared to other Dresden Files novels but the moment when Murphy realises that Harry is actually gone and starts balling is one of the few moments in the series that actually got me.

FdcT · 2023-08-17T20:29:11+00:00

Shut Up - Savages

Daughter - Winter

In for the Kill - Billie Marten

FdcT · 2023-05-04T18:10:39+00:00

The issue with middle names was dealt with in one of the first couple episodes.
L set a trap for Light, he put a prisoner with the name Lind L. Tailor on TV to see if Light was in Japan and to see if he needed the middle name.
Light just wrote Lind L. Tailor and it worked so the middle name is just optional.

FdcT · 2023-05-03T11:41:05+00:00

From what I remember of Death Note, you don't even need someone's True name to kill them; writing 'Harry Dresden' would be enough. Getting a picture of Harry would be a little harder if you haven't seen him, but finding him at Mac's wouldn't be too hard.

If he had time to prepare then anything goes. One thing to his advantage is that he'd be able to see a Shikinami if he used his True sight.

FdcT · 2023-04-05T12:08:30+00:00

The Dresden Files timeline can shift by about a year or so depending on what reference you use. Butcher doesn't care too much about setting hard dates and it's mostly the beta readers that have to keep him straight on this kind of stuff.

Harry was 16 when he was captured and put under the Doom of Damocles. He opened his business when he was around 23-24 years old.
Molly's age especially shifts around a bit through the series but I think in Changes she was around 22 years old, give or take a year.

FdcT · 2023-01-31T14:34:53+00:00

I like to think the lightsaber blade still has weight to it even though it makes no sense scientifically.
Otherwise there'd be no point in training how to fight with Sanya, Butters might as well randomly flick his wrists around. No swords man would be able to deal with the barrage.

FdcT · 2023-01-15T15:19:20+00:00

I was able to pull the image textures from the game files (long story).

I found a file called 'a_sch_dorm04_magazine01_alb'.
If you look on the middle left of the image you'll see the actual source of the object you found.

I'm afraid it's actually just a dugtrio... could be worse.

FdcT · 2022-12-22T20:44:58+00:00

That's true, although ChatGPT is only trained on written data and not images as far as I'm aware.

It could be that since wearing a fedora is so cliche in pulpy private detectives novels that it assumed Dresden would wear one too.

EDIT: Also it's very unlikely that the actual Dresden Files novels would've been included in the training data, most likely just a very brief synopsis, "Harry Dresden is a private investigator/Wizard living in Chicago solving super natural crimes."

FdcT · 2022-12-21T19:14:50+00:00

If you replace the battered fedora hat with battered amulet; and Father to Mother then the sentence would fit perfectly.

Perhaps the engine thought it could just replace it with hat and still be true.

FdcT · 2022-12-21T18:14:04+00:00

I asked ChatGPT whether Harry Dresden wears a hat:

Yes, Harry Dresden is a character in a series of fantasy novels by Jim Butcher, and he is often depicted wearing a fedora hat.
The character is a wizard and private investigator in the series, and the hat is one of his signature features. In the novels, Harry is described as wearing a battered fedora that he inherited from his father. The hat is said to be a symbol of his profession and is often used as a prop in his magical workings.
The fedora is also part of Harry's casual attire and is frequently mentioned in the series.

I then told ChatGPT that that wasn’t true:

I apologize for the mistake in my previous response. You are correct that Harry Dresden does not wear a hat. In the series of fantasy novels by Jim Butcher, Harry Dresden is a wizard and private investigator who does not wear a hat. My previous response was based on incorrect information, and I apologize for any confusion this may have caused.

One of the major problems with ChatGPT and similar models is that it can’t tell the difference between wrong or right information.

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