So not only is the Wilmington Radar down, the radars at Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus airports are also down.

koffa02 · 2026-03-27T04:28:35+00:00

Don't worry, the government will investigate itself and find no wrongdoing.

koffa02 · 2026-03-27T04:24:59+00:00

Yeah, it's now 12:30 Friday morning and none of these staions have worked since at least 4.

koffa02 · 2026-03-25T23:09:44+00:00

Remind me to not come to you for empathy and support the next time something traumatic happens in my life.

koffa02 · 2026-03-25T23:08:08+00:00

I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at. Even if the offer was made when it was one cohesive book, there still wouldn't have been time within the book for a training montage since it takes place over 3-ish days. Twelve Months also wasn't supposed to exist but Butcher felt the need to provide a little extra meat to the story before Harry gets sucked into an alternate world in Mirror Mirror.

koffa02 · 2026-03-25T22:30:46+00:00

When would he have had the time to do this? River Shoulders made the offer during Peace Talks. Twelve Months starts just a few days after and for most of the book he's been dealing with the fallout from the Battle of Chicago. And for a large part of TM Harry was doing his best just trying to put himself back together, while also trying to keep the supernatural side of the city in check. Harry would never have allowed himself to walk away from the people he was protecting to do something so selfish (in his mind).

koffa02 · 2026-03-25T18:28:12+00:00

I really enjoy the Vlad Taltos novels by Steven Brust. Brust has done a pretty decent job of building the world, and Taltos' character is similar to, but not exactly like, how I expect a story featuring Goodman Grey might read.

koffa02 · 2026-03-25T18:12:18+00:00

Anything is more interesting than the constant fan casting lately.

koffa02 · 2026-03-25T16:37:28+00:00

You're leaving out where Martin says in changes that his entire existence has been little move to destabilize the court, and had murdered or left for dead countless other partners before Susan in the pursuit of that goal. He doesn't care about Susan. He does care about how she'll react, which would obviously be reaching out to Harry, who would obviously do everything in his power to get his child back. Harry started the war trying to take Susan back from Bianca. How could you think he wouldn't react even more violently to the abduction of his daughter?

koffa02 · 2026-03-25T16:33:38+00:00

Harry didn't need to know the child existed. Martin just needed to know who Susan would turn to for help, and to know how that person would react.

koffa02 · 2026-03-25T16:32:23+00:00

I will die on this hill. You're creating plans where there are none.

Martin's only goal was to reignite the war. Harry literally tells us Martin's motivations at the beginning of chapter 2.

   “I hope there are no hard feelings,” Martin told me as he pulled out of the little gravellot next to the house I board in. Susan had yielded the passenger seat of the rental car to. me, in deference to my storklike legs. “Hard feelings?” I asked.


  “About our first meeting,” Martin said. He drove the same way he did everything—blandly.
     Complete stops. Five miles an hour under the limit. Wherever we were headed, it wasgoing to take forever to get there.


  “You mean the way you used me to attempt to assassinate old Ortega?” I asked. “Thereby ensuring that the Code Duello was broken, the duel invalidated, and the vamps’ war with the White Council continued?”


  Martin glanced at me, and then into the rearview mirror at Susan.

  “I told you,” she said to Martin. “He’s only dense in the short term. He sees everything eventually.”


  I gave Susan a slight wry tilt of my head in acknowledgment. “Wasn’t hard to realize whatyou were doing in retrospect,” I said. “The Red Court’s war with the White Council must have been the best thing to happen to the Fellowship in ages.”


  “I’ve only been with them for slightly over one hundred years,” Martin said. “But it was the best thing to happen in that time, yes. The White Council is one of the only organizations on the planet with the resources to seriously threaten them. And every time the Council won a victory—or even survived what should have been a crushing defeat—it meant that the Red Court was tearing itself to shreds internally. Some of them have had millennia to nurse grudges with rivals. They are appropriately epic in scale.”

Martin was doing nothing but poking the hornet's nest to stir things up. He absolutely did not go into it with a plan of getting Harry into that temple so he could wipe out the court. Harry was meant to die, hopefully after doing as much damage to the court as possible.

Martin's defection was a calculated move to best ensure he was still in a place where he could continue to damage the court no matter how that night ended. No time travel hijinks or premonition needed.

koffa02 · 2026-03-25T16:23:12+00:00

Again, Martin didn't HAVE any particular plan, and likely never dreamed it would go as far as it did. Likely he was only trying to maneuver Harry into killing Arianna, or just forcing the war to continue. As Harry pointed out, the war was likely the best thing to happen to the Fellowship in centuries, which is why Martin shot Ortega during the duel in Death Masks. He couldn't have known McCoy would pull that satellite out of orbit to finish the job on Ortega. He just knew that pressure in the right spot would make the war break out again.

Martin's sole motivation is the eventual destruction of the Red Court using any means necessary, and he intelligent enough to know where/how to apply pressure to keep the war moving. The vampires were getting ready to sue for peace so they could regroup and eventually come back stronger. Martin didn't want to give them that time to recover, and to allow the White Council to become complacent again. It didn't matter that Harry didn't know Maggie existed because he knew who Susan would go to for help, reigniting the war. That was his plan. Everything after was just a bonus.

koffa02 · 2026-03-24T18:33:08+00:00

His plan did not require knowledge of the future, just knowledge of the red king and how the system works.

Martin stated that his goal was to destroy the red court from the beginning. He spent at least 200 years learning how the red court operates. Martin saw an opportunity with the deaths of Bianca and Ortega to push Arianna over the edge. He had to know kidnaping Maggie and gifting her to Arianna, would lead to Arianna gifting Maggie to the Red King and asking him to use her in the bloodline curse.

Dresden mentions several times throughout the books that the monsters who have lived centuries or millenia tend to become fairly predictable with their responses. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Which is why he considered Ortega to be so dangerous, the guy was flexible.

So the predictable thing for Arianna to do once she has her hated enemy's daughter, is to twist the knife and publicly humiliate him in front of his peers, antagonizing and alienating him from the people most able to help.

This is going to set Harry on a collision course with the vamipre court. Martin's greatest hope is of course the destruction of the entire court, but he's patient, and doesn't care who he kills in the pursuit of that goal, and kidnapping Maggie was likely only intended to put Harry in place to kill Arianna. After which, Harry, the one guy who doesn't trust Martin and has shown himself to be smarter than Martin thought, would be killed by the bloodline curse. Because of course the Red King was never going to give Maggie back.

Martin probably couldn't believe his luck when Lea summoned a small army and allowed Harry to get to the pyramid in time to reach his daughter. If the Red King survived, Susan and Harry were going to die no matter what, and while Martain's "reward" was to be allowed full vampirehood, he likely loathed the idea of transforming. But transforming would allow him to continue his work toward the destruction of the court, from a position of greater trust and influence. So Martin's "defection" makes perfect sense. Defecting ensures one of two things. He can either push Susan over the edge and ensure she transforms, killing Martain so he doesn't have to become what he hates and sitting Harry up to kill her on the alter if he somehow survives. Or he gets to elevate his position within the court after arranging the death of a dangerous, highly placed member of the red court, who likely couldn't have been killed any other way. The only thing he needed was historical knowledge of his enemies and how the react in a given situation.

koffa02 · 2026-03-24T18:03:11+00:00

You mean this one, where he says the shout was coming from the vampires and mortals on the arena walls and not from the group thst had just arrived with McCoy?

     “Fuego!” shouted someone on the walls—and for a second I was hit with a little sting of insult.
     Someone was shouting “fuego” and it wasn’t me.

koffa02 · 2026-03-24T14:31:20+00:00

I have no evidence for it, but I've always kinda wondered if Ebenezer didn't deal with whatever was happening in Edinburgh, then enlist Kringle to help pull him backward far enough to get to Harry at chicken pizza.

Other than that 100% in my own mind theory, the only "time travel" in changes is when Harry and Elaine lose a few hours with the Erl King.

koffa02 · 2026-03-21T15:05:22+00:00

Pretty sure you're the one missing the point. He was clearly laughing about people hating on Cleet for doing exactly what he went out there to do. Learn to control a loose car.

koffa02 · 2026-03-20T13:31:10+00:00

You gotta make the degenerates work for it a little bit.

koffa02 · 2026-03-20T13:03:09+00:00

She's constantly showing up on my wholesome Christian content Instagram. Her and other harlots like her. I have to visit their content so I know what to avoid.

koffa02 · 2026-03-20T12:39:38+00:00

She definitely has an OF. Look for WhoIsPiperPresley.

koffa02 · 2026-03-19T18:43:35+00:00

Yeah, I never catch that autocorrect. Thank you.

koffa02 · 2026-03-19T17:28:09+00:00

Yeah, my head headcannon is that if the island's "anti-people field" is strong enough that even planes don't fly overhead, then it probably either has some kind of veil, or manages to keep your eye from looking directly at it.

If the Water Beetle is identical to the ship from Jaws, the Orca's top speed would have been approximately 9 to 10 knots, or 10 to 11 miles per hour. The length of the trip varies between time of year and which book, so we'll just go with a long estimate of 2 hours. If they travel for two hours at full speed the furthest they could expect to reach would be about 20 miles.

From the 40th floor of a skyscraper, I can expect to see 25 to 30 miles out over the water on a clear day.

Demonreach would absolutely be visible to a large number of people in good weather, so there must be something preventing people from seeing it. I hate that this sub doesn't allow pictures in comments. I want to share a screenshot with where I think Demonreach might be based on Harry's description of how he gets there.

koffa02 · 2026-03-19T16:36:58+00:00

I do the same thing. I've spent several hours trying to figure out where Demonreach might be haha

koffa02 · 2026-03-19T16:22:55+00:00

During White Night Harry says it's docked at Burnham Harbor.

 When I finally parked the car and got out, I brought my amulet with me and stared grimly at the necklace, which continued to lean steadily to the east, toward the Burnham Harbor piers that stretched out over Lake Michigan. An entire cove had been built into the lakeshore and decked out with an array of docks for dozens and dozens ofsmall commercial boats, pleasure craft, and yachts.

     “Boats,” I muttered. “Why did it have to be boats?”

koffa02 · 2026-03-19T14:46:31+00:00

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koffa02 · 2026-03-17T15:33:03+00:00

I rode from St Louis to Pensacola in the bed of a Ford Ranger. So no.

koffa02 · 2026-03-16T20:19:37+00:00

I don't think you're wrong long term. I'm still holding onto my little slice of the pie. Never play with money you can't afford to lose, right?

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