#dresden files thoughts
You know what’s something that still surprises me? That there are people in the fandom who would root for, accept and predict that Harry and Lara can/will fall in love in the course of the year leading up to the wedding.
Like, fine, you’re a shipper of that pairing, and maybe there’s some basis for it, but wouldn’t that be too short of a time, considering EVERYTHING that happened so far until BG?
idea: scene with two characters eagerly stripping each other clearly about to bone, but they keep getting interrupted by finding carefully concealed weapons in each other’s clothing, so they keep just unholstering, revealing and unstrapping increasingly ludicrous amounts of hidden guns and knives as the clothes come off, and it’s lowkey killing the mood a little
Alternatively: it’s not killing the mood at all but it’s totally making both of them giggle like they’re twelve and possibly get lowkey competitive in a subconscious way about who has the most to drop.
The more that I think of it the more I’m seeing the incredible intimacy of letting someone know where you keep your backup knife.
Like my god, the trust involved in letting someone undress you and learn your secrets instead of popping into the bathroom to change where they can’t see and hiding all your weapons under the sink
…Oh
second alternative: you go to hide all your weapons under the sink but there’s already a bunch of weapons hidden underneath the sink.
awkward
It’s not that there’s already a bunch of weapons hidden underneath the sink that makes it awkward so much as that there’s so many weapons hidden underneath the sink that they fall out of the cabinet with the unmistakable sound of a knife-alanche, and then the other person comes in like “I can explain!” and you’re just dead-ass standing there with your own armload of weapons like “I can also explain.”
Married version is shoving your hand in your partner’s clothes when you’re out of weapons because you KNOW where their spare is. Or wearing a weapon in a spot you can’t draw from yourself because its now spare storage for your spouse’s weapons.
Every single one of you is a genius
Reblogging once because good and a second time because Spy x Family
Karrin/Kincaid vibes
What if…
Murphy comes back just for the wedding or some time around that timeline, and she gets to confront Dresden about it, and she asks “Do you have feelings for Lara?” And by that time Butcher would have played the whole “oh, she’s a monster with feelings” card and shoved Dresden toward her. And so, we see Dresden hesitate for a second. That would absolutely crush Murphy, because it’d play on all her insecurities or make her go just “oh, fuck this” because she won’t be tolerating this shitty treatment from another man, less of all the one she truly believed was special. And that would draw a wedge between them again, effectively separating them emotionally, which is what Dark!Harry seems to be being pushed toward and why the story wanted to get rid of Murphy. So, we’ll get what we want, Murphy back, though not with Harry.
BUT, Harry will realize what he’s done, how he’s lost her in a completely different way now, and he will realize that he truly wants her. So, he will finally, actively, try to win her love/redeem himself with her/show her that he really does care.
Okay, this is going into a story *adds it to the ever increasing pile*
What if…
Murphy comes back just for the wedding or some time around that timeline, and she gets to confront Dresden about it, and she asks “Do you have feelings for Lara?” And by that time Butcher would have played the whole “oh, she’s a monster with feelings” card and shoved Dresden toward her. And so, we see Dresden hesitate for a second. That would absolutely crush Murphy, because it’d play on all her insecurities or make her go just “oh, fuck this” because she won’t be tolerating this shitty treatment from another man, less of all the one she truly believed was special. And that would draw a wedge between them again, effectively separating them emotionally, which is what Dark!Harry seems to be being pushed toward and why the story wanted to get rid of Murphy. So, we’ll get what we want, Murphy back, though not with Harry.
BUT, Harry will realize what he’s done, how he’s lost her in a completely different way now, and he will realize that he truly wants her. So, he will finally, actively, try to win her love/redeem himself with her/show her that he really does care.
The best culmination for the day today, would be a nice, mostly smutty, fic where Harry goes to Valhalla to find his woman, damnit.
I’ll never forgive Butcher for not giving us more of that night before Battle Ground, after the bath.
If Harry could feel all the wounds and the pain of the people under his banner in the night of Battle Ground, did they get to feel his pain in return? And you know what pain I’m talking about here. It would also explain part of the reason why people didn’t want to even go close to him. Maybe he was thinking they were afraid, but maybe they just knew how fucking raw he had felt, and the size of the real pain he endured that night. It wouldn’t be weird for him to misinterpret things.
@bluestockingbaby That’s an interesting point, I didn’t think about it that way, I just interpreted that the people following his banner were people finding in Harry a figure behind which they could gather and rally and canalize their own feelings of rage and stuff. Though, one does have to wonder how much of that was Mab’s influence, but I didn’t read it as Harry having an influence on them directly. Interesting.
It is true that Harry spends most of the books after Changes thinking about how things directly affect him and how everything fits or doesn’t into his own little selfish worldview and story, which is my gripe with the treatment of the way in which his romance with Murph finally comes to pass. I think he loved her, just not well enough, he took way more than he gave and it cost her her life in a way. And what pisses me off about Murph’s death is that it’s probably going to be used to get Harry to learn the lesson that he needs to be more thoughtful about others.
Somebody talk to me about Karrin Murphy. Karrin Murphy and Harry Dresden. Karrin Murphy and Jared Kincaid.
Headcanons?
Wishes?
Predictions?
Today feels more like a Karrin/Kincaid kind of day, for some reason (maybe because I imagine Kincaid always gets shit done, lol)
Somebody talk to me about Karrin Murphy. Karrin Murphy and Harry Dresden. Karrin Murphy and Jared Kincaid.
Headcanons?
Wishes?
Predictions?
