Random Act of Imagination

Dresden Files art

[doggogills]

an icon commission of the one and only Harry Dresden for @drfronkensteen

[sanzosin]

I dont think i shared my 12 months Harry Dresden. At least how i saw him at the start and by the end. Im so happy for Harry tbh. Thank you Harrys friends!

[vicekings]

been working my way thru the Dresden Files and wanted to doodle out how I’ve been picturing Harry in my head :3

[justwathings]

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[what-even-is-thiss]

I went to a Japanese garden with my family today and I considered meditating near one of the fountains but the Canadian geese are fighting each other for nesting spots this time of year so frankly the soundscape was not ideal for meditation.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I did get this picture though

Featuring the noise makers during a brief moment where they weren’t at war with each other.

[zanderzargarin]

There’s a quiet spot near a nesting goose I like take my breaks at. Other times it sounds like a goose battleground

[justwathings]

jakdqkdjwmdnd I forgot to draw his stubble so imagine I did!!!

Anyway, there's this local band and this song is SO Dresden-coded in so many parts, you all should support Wholesale! I'll probably do comics with this song again.

Listen here.

[justwathings]

I'm reading Proven Guilty right now, and I may be the next woman who tries to kill this man. GAH

[justwathings]

Getting into the Dresden Files was not on my '26 bingo card...and yet here we are. I'm on Proven Guilty so no spoilers, but this is Harry so far in my mind!!

[willczek-art]

@i-married-the-universe 👀✨

[drfronkensteen]

Small Favors thoughts/review

Michael??!????????? He doesn’t have the sword anymore!!????

CHARITY TELLING HARRY TO STAY AT RHE HOSPITAL BECAUSE FAMILY STAYS!!!!

I’ve really felt for a while now that while Michael and Harry are “friends” it’s also……. Not just that. Not exactly. Like, Michael is a Dad and I think Harry sometimes wants??? Idk. He never thinks of Michael as HIS dad or wanting Michael to be HIS dad.

But Michael wears the same clothes that dream-Malcolm wears. And Harry looks at the Carpenters and they are literally the definition of Family for Harry. They are the perfect representation of it. And Michael’s opinion matters SO MUCH to Harry. In a way that nobody else’s does. Maybe’s Eb’s opinion matters a similar amount, for similar reasons, but that was damaged with the whole Blackstaff thing.

Michael’s not Harry’s dad but also I do think the relationship has a dad-tint to it. Harry loves Michael and the Carpenters so freaking much. Harry wanted to save Michael and maybe he did, maybe he didn’t.

AND CHARITY LET HIM STAY!!!! CHARITY!!!!

Charity is one of my favorite characters. This very loving and good person and she’s been so set against Harry and he’s taken it so personally (how could he not) but also??? They made crock pot meals together and she named a child after him and she makes him bring in the groceries and HE STAYED AT THEIR HOUSE FOR A WHILE

Gah. Charity is like this, idk, window into domesticity that Harry craves but also feels like he’s not really allowed into. And now she’s letting him stay!! That’s not something Charity is going to mean lightly. Gah!!! I love Harry and the Carpenters and I LOVE Harry and Charity

Harry praying to God on Michael’s behalf!!! Uriel coming to him??!!?? WHAT IS HAPPENING

Harry traded in his shoulder devil and might actually now have a shoulder angel?? Idk.

I am sensing the stirrings of Big Plot. Nickelheads (thank you Butcher/Harry for giving me a name I can spell with ease - and it made Michael laugh!!!), the Black Council, the Outsiders, the opposite of Hell Fire, whatever the heck is going on with Mab— big stuff.

I’m really into Murphy and Kincaid. Idk. Like she picked a “safer” version of Harry. Someone less moral. Is there a short story of them in Hawaii? Is there a fanfiction? Because I think they had a GOOD time.

The entire Archive/Ivy thing is really weird. I agree with Harry’s approach to treating her like a kid. I just think it’s you know, morally dubious to use a human being as a living computer holding all the world’s written information. The implications are just. Not good! Not good, you guys.

MARCONE AND IVY MARCONE AND IVY I guarantee that the worst part of his torture was when they weren’t doing anything at all to him because they were doing things to Ivy.

A book that was explicitly about finding MARCONE had a painful lack of Marcone but what we got was good!!!!!!! Everything we get of Marcone is perfection. He hasn’t had a single bad line, sentence, or action the entire series. A flawless character used flawlessly. I don’t want to live in his head like I live in Harry’s but I do want Harry to be stuck in a room with him for an extended amount of time. I want Harry to just constantly be perceiving Marcone. I want Harry to be forced to write an essay about Marcone. I want Harry to be part of the jury assigned to a case where Marcone is on trial and it’s something Marcone is ACTUALLY innocent of so Harry has to argue on behalf of Marcone while hating every minute of it. I want a lot of things.

Harry got hypothermia!! My little fanfic whump heart was so happy about that. And I know Harry thinks that Luccio got him nekkid and cleaned him up but I don’t think so. Pick someone else boo.

Thomas continues to be the reigning big brother champion. He gentle parented Harry like a pro in this book. He pulled him from the water. Harry thinks his car and his boat are cool. Thomas teaching Harry about how to know when a girl is into you. Beautiful. Fabulous. No notes.

Harry is just a kid obsessed with his big brother. It’s a glorious thing.

Molly was really well utilized in this book. Established her as useful, as having a power set distinct from Harry, and I didn’t have to hear about her neck to crotch tattoo.

Murphy was *chefs kiss* this book. Facing the Gruff in the pub? Being worried about JARED? TELLING HARRY what everyone has been whispering about because SHE TRUSTS HIM. Maybe my favorite moment in their relationship.

The entire scene. Murphy crying over Kincaid, Harry holding and comforting her but not LOOKING at her because that would be too touchy feely. Harry and Murphy have this?? Incredible thing of loyalty and trust and WANT going on between them but Murphy can’t commit and Harry doesn’t know how to do casual. Except in this book they both kind of realize that hmm Murphy has caught feelings for her mercenary hook up and Harry can have sex with a deaged version of his boss on occasion.

Luccio is eghhhhhhh - not sure what she’s doing for me yet. I vastly preferred her as a physically old lady. Let female characters with prominent page time be decrepit hags, I say! But nooo it’s all lithe and beautiful this, long legs and perky boobs that. Her being into Harry is both understandable and sort of ehhhh to me. I guess I still see Harry as the wizard equivalent of an 18 year old. Sure, he’s legal, but he doesn’t even have a second set of sheets for his bed. His TWIN SIZED BED. The behemoth wizard with the wingspan of an albatross and he sleeps on a twin. Like Luccio what are you getting out of this? He’s looked like a raccoon the entire book (even Marcone, my beloved, said so). But i guess he is probably the most powerful wizard around and he’s got a bunch of sexy scars and cool stories. Keep it safe sane and consensual you weirdos.

Also I totally called the Demeter betrayal. Their relationship is hecka weird. I’m excited? to see where it goes.

Hendricks and Gard? A delight. A DELIGHT. Is this the first book where Harry out loud called Hendricks Cujo? If so, absolutely hilarious. Imagine explaining that. Oh yeah the first time I met you YEARS AGO when you and scumbag yoinked off the street you looked like a mad dog to me. First impressions and all that.

The Gruffs were great. Getting the donut was great. Toot toot and the Za Lord was great.

The fae courts have a tendency to stress me out. There’s this implicit loss of control and loss of self that happens when dealing with them that makes me wary. But I like the monsters Harry gets to fight with them.

What is Mab doing? Nobody seems to know. I bet it’s important.

That’s all I’ve got in me for the moment. I think I need to take a break from binge reading for at least the afternoon so I can piece my household back together. You too can plow through 15 books in a month if you shirk 95% of your responsibilities. It’s a lot of fun!

[drfronkensteen]

Does Eb know about Bob? Because Harry kept Bob after he blasty blasted Justin, and then Harry was brought in to be executed by the White Council, and then he was just plopped onto a farm in Missouri to live with Eb for a few years.

Was Bob just?? Hanging out with Harry at Eb’s? Did Harry not talk to Bob for years until he had officially moved out? Did he talk in secret? How could Eb have not noticed? I dont imagine the farmhouse being very large

Also don’t get me started on abused puppy Harry living at Eb’s farm. Likely distrusting and wary and just completely overwhelmed with grief over Elaine (and also Justin too because that was Harry’s foster father and mentor and also it went to shit and it wast like Justin was a good guy but he was something and now Harry’s lost all of that—)

And Eb! Stuck his neck out for this kid and cares for this kid but also this kid has done dark magic, this kid is hurting, this kid has so much power but does he even like his power right now? Does he even like magic right now? He thought he and Justin and Elaine were the only people like themselves and he learns that it’s bigger just as his world implodes and now he has death hanging over him every moment if he does something wrong

But Eb????? Teaches Harry about magic. Does it in a way where Harry loves magic. Magic is a pure and beautiful and good thing and Eb helps Harry believe in it in a way that is true and real. Michael Carpenter believes in God and Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden believes in magic. And Eb did that!!

Harry recovering from All Of That through physical labor and fresh air and probably plain and simple living. Harry taking care of horses and animals and having chores every day and becoming as normal of a person as he can.

(Morgan showing up like some sort of terrifying CPS agent except it’s not for Harry’s protection it is for everyone around him because Harry is Dangerous, a magic criminal. And Harry somehow doesn’t believe that, doesn’t believe that he’s a bad person, doesn’t think that he used magic without just cause, and was that born from Harry’s own core or is that something Eb taught him too???)

[toweringclam]

Peace Talks and Battle Ground were very obviously written by an author Going Through It. A divorce, a messy move, crippling writer's block...

I think they suffered for that. There was a lot of... discontent behind it. Almost spiteful. There was a meanness to the story that wasn't there even in previous Big Event stories like Changes. There was also a big element of "just finish the fucking story." It was sloppy in a way that Butcher's work has never been.

Twelve Months is clearly written by an author who Went Through It, and is coming out the other side. It addresses a lot of criticism, some of them long-standing criticisms of the series. I especially like the more mature perspective Harry shows on the female characters. He has a ways to go but it's like he's finally realizing that women are actual people, not just monsters, warriors, and victims.

I've had to stop at times to cry due to my own experiences with both disaster and loss.

[drawsdenfiles]

Hiya! Your art is amazing and lovely! I absolutely love the Dresden Files, but there’s one thing I’d love to see(if it’s okay to ask) could you pretty please draw Harry, Karrin, Maggie, and Bonnie being a sweet domestic family together?

Just chilling or playing?

You don’t have to of course, it would just be lovely to see.

Either way, whether you do or not, thank you for all of your Dresden art.

c:

I did it!

[zanderzargarin]

I am about 1/3 of the way through Twelve Months. Here are some brief surface level notes/thoughts I’ve had so far. SPOILERS

Grief in the book (although no amount of pain can make me forgive Murphy’s death) is written in a way that works well with the pacing and time skips. Grief makes each day a year, but it fills everything and overrides chunks of time.

The book (Molly) acknowledging that Harry sees women differently than he sees men. It sort of feels like trying to slap a small bandaid on a gaping wound the series has

The random mentioning of the White Court and bisexuality. Maybe I only notice because I’m desperate for some real queer representation. Seems like it was added as a strange afterthought.

I like the new character Bear, she’s badass. I didn’t expect to like a new character so soon.

There’s a lot I could say about Lara and Harry, but at this point in the story I don’t mind their character dynamics

The Dresden Files used to feel like the events took place in our world but in secrecy. The last few books with the battle and the aftermath in Chicago, it’s more like a parallel timeline. If that makes any sense.

[drawsdenfiles]

Twelve Months!

[zanderzargarin]

A new live-action Dresden Files idea??? Also I can’t believe I missed this AMA

[lilymarch]

the woman dies.

[zanderzargarin]

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