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orcboxer

wizard college is going to kill me I swear to god. I just saw someone without a component satchel reach into their pocket and pull out a handful of LOOSE tapioca to use as a substitute for blood in their fell ritual. and it worked. I've never been so fucking mad.

You know it was the Professor too, still hung over with an unlit cigarette perilously hanging off his lower lip, wearing his shabbiest comfortable sweatrobes and snap back wizard hat with the really wide brim. Like he's on the edge of the lectern and you can see his bare ass white legs, mismatched brown socks and fucking flip flop shoes.

"Ugghh brurrph, phew, I tasted that one. Mmrrpp. Okay, gonna... I'm gonna show you how to- urrph how to, uh, break a demon pact to get free ... ugh, free unlimited refills at McDonalds."

And he starts pulling packets of sugar out of his pockets and you end up taking notes anyway because you know this is on the final. You talk to your advisor and they're just like, long sigh, "Okay yes, but I wish he didn't show you that you could."

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Other Vampire Courts

Grey Court: - Considered a cross between Black & White, being beautiful, undead monsters. - Have their human souls but is twisted by their equivalent of the Hunger - Have a number of "sub-courts" - Claim biblical origin - Would have the numbers and man power to be major contenders in the supernatural world if they weren't caught in a centuries long civil war between three rival factions. Even intrafaction cooperation is shaky. Lacks a proper "Grey King", though their mythical progenitor could fit the bill if he's still around. - Blood is highly addictive like Red Court spit, and also belies some power to the thrall. They re-use a word for another supernatural creature to describe this. - Each turning of a new vampire is weaker than the last, which is another mark against their long term prospects as a great power. - Stake through the heart only paralyzes them. - Bodies rot to expected corpse state upon death.

Violet Court: - Speculated to not be truly undead but extremely hardy if so. IE, getting dusted and then brought to life on the regular. - They have children, so they must be alive, though they can infect normal humans with their curse as well. They do this very rarely, however. - Many of their powers and traits come from their heads and personal perceptions. IE, frightened of holy symbols iff they recognize it as such. - The thirst for blood can be replaced with something else. It exists entirely in their head, though they lose much of their power making this sacrifice. - Despite being so hard to kill, permanently, they're not all that powerful compared to other creatures.

Maroon Court: - Speculated to be failed experiment hybridizing Black & Red Court, a dead corpse possessed by a demonic copy of the original. - Relatively weak as supernatural creatures go. - "Flesh mask" is very tame, mostly just look human and don't rot like corpses. Older Maroon Court Vampires start to have their true demonic spirit break fourth. - Turn to dust upon death. - Make great spooky-shit barometers as they are unconsciously drawn to places of bad mojo.

Azure Court: - Very powerful but also extremely rare. "Azure King", the progenitor, went on a rampage and wiped out all his progeny. - Prospective vamp must be a virgin or else they just rise up as an undead monster borrowing that same name. - Only two vampires of the Azure Court are alive today, including the Azure King, and they both work for the British government.

Fun fact: In this model, there are three whole ass people [looks it up] four! Four vampires that each claim to be Vlad Tepes III. One Dracula, two Dracula, three Dracula, four Dracula! Count them, that's four Dracula, ah-ah-ah! They are not allowed to be in a room together.

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mbrainspaz

The only thing that's made watching most of the whole season of Dresden Files (2007) bearable is imagining a universe breach situation where the real Harry Dresden ends up getting his hands on a copy of this show. Butters and the wolf pack stop by the castle unannounced and find him yelling "THAT'S NOT HOW MAGIC WORKS!" at the screen during episode 2 so of course they demand to stay. Bob sides with them and refuses to play episode 3 until everyone is settled in with popcorn. Someone secretly dials Mac and he shows up with a cooler. Bob hits 'play' and Harry watches through his fingers. Billy is the first to fall off the couch laughing when TV!Harry raises his hockey stick staff. By episode 5 they have to take a break to assure Bob that he's cooler and sexier than Ghost Bob. Everyone yells 'BOOOO' whenever the Jeep is on screen. Someone throws a popcorn bowl at Justin's face after they find out he killed Harry's dad. Georgia puts a hand on Harry's knee and whispers a worried, 'that's not true, right?' Harry just rolls his eyes. They all drink a toast to Murphy even though they agree that Karrin would've hated 'Connie' Murphy. They marathon the whole series that night. Nobody teases Harry after episode 12, which is just as well because he's barely holding it together. "That was...," Bob starts, but his voice fades out. "Terrible," says Mac. There's a tired chorus of agreement. Harry thinks that's the end of it until a ribbon-wrapped hockey stick appears on his doorstep a few days later.

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orionis13

Finally posting some classwork from this semester! Variant board game box for Evil Hat’s Dresden Files board game! Had a lot of fun with this one :)

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sanzosin

Not an ask I just needed a moment to gush. I've been a huge fan of your Jack/Nisha for years. I LOVE Jake and the story you've created for him. You stay true to the characters and bring your OCs to life. And then, and THEN I see you're doing Dresden Files art??? I almost died. From the bottom of my heart thank you for all your wonderful art. ❤️

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Murphy and her cute earlobes . (according to Harry)

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IT'S FANFICTION WRITERS APPRECIATION DAY!!! TIME TO SHARE SOME LOVE!!

John had obviously managed to take care of himself just fine before he met me, and he had Cujo the Linebacker to take care of whatever he couldn't himself (though I got the impression that John was perfectly capable of handling most threats). I'd only known the man for a few hours and I'd apparently already dragged him into my friend circle whether he wanted to be there or not – all of that meant that it was my job to keep him safe.

This fic is so fun and by lovely fellow Temeraire fan ladyshadowdrake! Their copy arrived last week so here are the two of them together! Harry Dresden & John Marcone (& Hendricks!) get a little down and dirty in Undertown. This is definitely a common reread fic for me; the prose & humor and characterization is spot on.

This is a color palette I haven't really worked with before and I'm loving it!! The greens and the browns are lovely. The moon on the cover is inlaid marbled paper, the cloth is colibri, and the endpapers are by @renato-crepaldi.

I found a very cute Chicago skyline watercolor, which incorporated in a line art trace on the cover, on the title page spread & section titles with a watercolor moon. To finish out the spread I grabbed a jousting knight, and I'm very happy it how it turned out.

While the spine is a little curved there due to some styling on my part, this is technically a flatback book... which I had previously stated I would never sew an endband for bc I though it wasn't worth it. Whoops. I didn't realize until afterwards because these little sewn endbands felt so integral to making it cohesive 😅.

Much love to you, @lightshadowverisimilitude, for sharing all your wonderful work & creativity with us, and for being a lovely friend to hang out with in fandom.

I have not read this (yet) but I love book binding and the Dresden Files! This is soooo cool!

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I love the Dresden Files so much because they take all the mythology, lore, legends, and monsters that I love and bring them all together to fuck with some dickhead wizard with a smart mouth.

It's got everything from your classic vampires, demons and werewolves, to the Faerie Queens, to Odin and Hades, all the way to freakin Santa!

There's even a short story about Big Foot! Which is freakin killer, btw.

Jimmy, my boy, you've done well.

I should start describing the series this way to people

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