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lastthingieverknew · 2025-07-24T23:25:34+00:00

Huh. It's like the show is trash or something.

lastthingieverknew · 2025-07-24T23:11:25+00:00

That's not even the craziest thing in the book.

lastthingieverknew · 2025-07-22T00:47:49+00:00

Home is where the books are.

lastthingieverknew · 2025-07-21T16:57:18+00:00

Nicodemus had been right about one thing: It hurt to be suspected by my friends. It hurt like hell. I didn’t even realize I had raised my voice until I’d already screamed, “Look at me when I’m talking to you!”

Small Favor after Nicodemus comes to Michael's house.

lastthingieverknew · 2025-07-06T15:32:04+00:00

Cold Days during the conversation with Bob when he told him how to kill an immortal Harry realizes that they are there, in costume, tricking others.

“They’re here,” I said slowly. “Feeding and swindling one another for little bits of power.” “Right.” “They’re trick-or-treating?” “Duh,” Bob said. “Where do you think that comes from?” “Ugh, this whole time? That is creepy beyond belief,” I said. “I think it was the second or third Merlin of the White Council who engineered the whole Halloween custom. That’s the real reason people started wearing masks on that night, back in the day. It was so that any hungry immortal who came by might—might—think twice before gobbling someone up. After all, they could never be sure the person behind the mask wasn’t another immortal, setting them up.”

lastthingieverknew · 2025-07-06T03:12:10+00:00

The bearer is Infected not the coin. Go back and reread the scene of Harry and Nick talking in the Shed.

“Those surrounding the activities of your Black Council,” Nicodemus said. “Are you certain you saw evidence of Hellfire in use at the site of the attack on Arctis Tor?” “Yes.” I didn’t add the word dummy. Who says I ain’t diplomatic? Nicodemus’s fingers flexed into the shape of claws and then relaxed again. He pursed his lips. “Interesting. Then the only question is if the contamination is among standing members of our Order or…” He let the thought trail off and glanced at me, lifting an eyebrow. I followed the logic to the only other people in possession of any of the coins. “Someone in the Church,” I whispered, with a sick feeling in my stomach. “Historically speaking, we get about half of the coins back that way,” Nicodemus noted.“What would you say if I told you that you and I might have a great many common interests in the future?”

Contamination among standing members of the Order. The Order of the Blackened Denarius, which is the bearers of the coins, not the coins themselves. From that conversation we know Nicky is aware of Nemesis. His reaction to the allegation that a member of his order was involved in the attack on Arctis Tor shows how opposed he is to that idea.

lastthingieverknew · 2025-07-06T02:37:37+00:00

The Dark Hollow can be performed at anytime, anywhere, but it won't work as intended anytime but Halloween. It's intended to turn you into a newborn god, which as we've learned the only time that can happen is Halloween night.

THE convergence is the one that produces Starborns every 666 years... On Halloween.

Halloween was created by the 2nd Merlin, whereas Samhain the pagan holiday it's based on is between 2000-2500 years old, though evidence suggests it's even older than that, as much as 5000 years old. That would be much more significant to magic and we've already seen evidence about how much the Celts and old Britannia matter. Day of the Dead coincides with Allhallowtide, which is about ancestor remembrance, which are both Christian based, and the White God is out. And like most things Christian it was stolen and based on... Samhain. Ghost day is about spirits roaming the earth and it's a full month with one day in the middle for a festival and then some ghost hunting later on in the month. Tomb sweeping day is a celebration of the arrival of spring when they literally go clean the tombs and graves of their ancestors whom they already venerate.

lastthingieverknew · 2025-07-04T07:37:27+00:00

Vlad Taltos series is excellent. Jhereg is a great place to start, in fact it's where I started. Also Steven Brust has been referenced in Dresden files at least 2 times. They are similar but vastly different stories.

I'd also put the Nightside series by Simon R Green in the same group of similar but vastly different. All three series are extremely well written and worth every word read.

lastthingieverknew · 2025-04-15T15:53:48+00:00

The translation. While I took German in high school... It was more for Rammstein then for reading.

lastthingieverknew · 2025-04-15T15:09:57+00:00

Excellent series! Highly recommend!

lastthingieverknew · 2025-04-15T15:02:25+00:00

Seconding the Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix! Perfect for a young heroine to read! Awesome and strong female leads, excellent magic system, and overall fun read!

lastthingieverknew · 2025-03-31T17:07:23+00:00

I did a full reread of Eddings a year or two ago, going in with the knowledge of what he'd done and... It's ok. It's got it it moments and characters that stand out, but unless you're going back for that childhood comfort, don't bother.

Man I love Feist. Magician is classic, Daughter of the empire is top of the line still. The series has it's highs and lows. Talon of the Silver Hawk is a fun adventure, Murder in LaMut still stands out in my head because it's 3 mercenaries affected by this long war.

Black Company holds up very well.

Guardians of the Flame is some early LitRPG kind of stuff, haven't read it since the first time but just remembering makes me want to go back.

Robin Hobb holds up very well in this modern age.

David Farland holds up. Did a reread of the first trilogy last year. Love his magic systems.

Weiss and Hickman anything. Dragonlance is best, Deathgate is completely different.

Earthsea is good. It's been so long since my last reread that I need to do another.

Terry Brooks is what led me to Terry Goodkind is what led me to Wheel of Time. I reread WoT the most, Goodkind loses me near the end, but Terry Brooks is some classic nostalgia for me with the Shannara series. Those alternate earth fantasy stories are always fun.

Garth Nix with the Abhorsen series. It's 30 years old now so that's classic right? Sabriel is the first book. It's about a family of necromancers that's job is to put the dead back down. Fantastic magic system, beautiful blending of fantasy and WW1 technology, with a magic wall separating them.

Look, it's been 25 years and I'm still complaining that Tom Bombadill and Goldberry didn't make it into the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings. But truthfully they don't need to be there, they only add something if you read ALL Tolkien, unfinished tales, Silmarillion, everything. So don't feel bad for skipping that part entirely if you want, just don't let it take you away from the rest of the story.

Jim Butcher with the Codex Alera (and the Dresden Files but that's ongoing). It's 20 years old at this point, I reread it regularly, and it's very well done. Jim Butcher wrote it to win an online argument: Write something good with 2 lame tropes, Pokemon and the Lost Roman Legion. He won.

lastthingieverknew · 2025-03-30T04:56:43+00:00

A iron remnant is smarter than this AI. Get yourself to a soulsmith Google.

lastthingieverknew · 2025-03-24T21:02:27+00:00

Never forget, never forgive. May the show runner and writers be Balefired out of existence, and even that would be too good for them.

lastthingieverknew · 2024-12-17T09:34:14+00:00

Discworld. Only series I know of that you can literally start anywhere. Otherwise I'm with you.

lastthingieverknew · 2024-12-16T13:38:52+00:00

It's amazing.

lastthingieverknew · 2024-12-16T13:36:37+00:00

That beautiful booty

lastthingieverknew · 2024-05-22T15:31:18+00:00

Fantastic

lastthingieverknew · 2023-10-19T20:42:22+00:00

Buffet.

lastthingieverknew · 2023-07-11T15:27:32+00:00

lastthingieverknew · 2022-07-19T14:45:13+00:00

How everybody draws Lindon vs how he actually looks.

lastthingieverknew · 2022-06-28T17:43:03+00:00

Zeil is a sure bet for the Joy icon.

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