#fool moon

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Our Love 💄

[hiskyhope]

Aren’t you cold?

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[oh-dameron]

I'm re-reading the Dresden Files in the lead up to Twelve Months slated release in January and some of the Early Instalment Weirdness is jarring.

Harry spends all of Storm Front convinced that the spell that killed Tommy Tom could only have been cast by a mortal practitioner. Which, yes, wizards do have the lion's share of phenomenal magic power, but also several later books have centered around various vampire courts and the major spells they can pull off. Try telling Thorned Namshiel or Lasciel that they can't do that, see how well it goes for you. Heck, The Archive would be easily capable of it (not that she would), and calling her a mortal practitioner would be a stretch.

I'm at the end of Fool Moon and Harry hasn't mentioned the Accords at all yet.

And something I forgot: Murphy is a terrible cop. She's not beating the ACAB allegations, she's too busy beating her handcuffed suspect! Who is Harry, incidentally, who did literally nothing to provoke it in this book. He's not hiding information from her, she's just wildly leaping to conclusions and going straight to police brutality as a response. Twice so far she's tried to arrest Harry in the middle of active combat situations in which he was the only thing keeping her alive. Get a fucking grip, Karen. Thank fuck both she and Harry grow and change dramatically over the series.

It's kind of neat weirdness, though, in the sense that clearly some of this stuff Jim just hadn't worked out yet, but it's explained in-universe because Harry is a dumb baby wizard who doesn't know jack about squat yet. He's such a big clumsy puppy--he wears his magic out by popping a few light bulbs and blowing up a jukebox. He can't cast evocations near anything he doesn't want Extremely On Fire, including himself, because he's got almost no control so it comes out like an uncapped hydrant. He did most of his apprenticeship under a sketchy dark wizard, then essentially Wizard Summer School with McCoy for a little while to catch up, but it wasn't in Justin's best interests for Harry to have a well-rounded education and getting information out of Ebenezer is like getting blood from a stone. Harry's magic education has gaps that you could drive a semi-trailer through, let alone anything passing for wizard cultural knowledge. Most of the useful things he's learned have come from Bob, which is basically like teaching yourself off of YouTube but with a personalised peanut gallery. Magic politics? Forget it, he's never heard of her.

It's a fun way of building out the world as Harry learns that actually it's more complicated than that over and over again every book.

[scarredlove]

Aubade - YoU thOUghT yoU hAD a CHancE?! HA HA!

Fool Moon - ...Pardon?

Aubade - SiLLy JesTEr~

Fool Moon - Grrr... Bastard...

I think they like each other :D

[kaibarin]

Slightly old Grizzly Ni Osowaretara meme ft. Gabi and Liam

[elderquintus]

fool moon is great

[bakedbakermom]

Fool Moon (6/7)

Written by: @bakedbakermom, @unremarkablehouse, @thursdayinspace

Many many many thanks to our beloved betas, @laurencem, @frogsmulder, and @onlineproblems, for encouraging us in this insanity. We will be posting a chapter every Werewolf Wednesday. Enjoy the ride. Awoo!

Summary: Their latest case is falling apart. Their only suspect is very dead. Mulder has gone missing, so it's up to Scully to try and solve the werewolf case while also pet-sitting a stray dog the size of a small horse, who has mysteriously appeared in their office…

Chapter 6:

He feels like Dorothy at the end of the movie, trying to reconcile Oz to a world gone suddenly mundane.

Read on AO3: Chapter 1 / Chapter 2 / Chapter 3 / Chapter 4 / Chapter 5

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