Unspoiled! The Dresden Files

Art cedit! https://www.deviantart.com/exorcisingemily/art/Dresden-Files-Murphy-109248845Hello to all of you theydies and gentlethems, and welcome to the premiere episode of White Night. I'm your host Natasha, coming at you with the last episode ever recorded on my piece of shit old desktop. It's the end of an era. A slow, clunky, beach-bally era. This episode, RoShawn and I talk about how we have some reservations about the fact that in some ways, this book feels like a step backward in terms of its treatment of female characters. We have the oh-so-original trope of women being targeted by a serial killer, a sexual aspect to their deaths, and then Molly the hot young woman just HAPPENS to be the one to actually experience an orgasm in front of the two men. Not a great start. RoShawn is willing to wait to come to any conclusions because Butcher has built up some goodwill by now, but he's gonna have to work extra-hard to get us on board. I am very interested in hearing what you all think! Thanks for listening!

Make sure to check out our sponsor at warforthetower.com Hello everyone! RoShawn and I just managed to get in this Dresden Files recording under the wire of me cancelling my regular recordings for the week, and I'm so glad that we were able to at least wrap on Proven Guilty before taking a week off while I get my computer issues and transition straightened out. This episode, RoShawn and I have so so much to talk about and I'm really glad that we decided to split up the final eight chapters the way that we did. This last chapter is LOADED. We have Michael suddenly sweeping in and fixing things with Molly and the White Council, and RoShawn is really tickled that Michael turns this around on Harry and says "What if Molly was supposed to save you?" Also, there's the scene between Harry and Molly where she offers herself to him and as cringeworthy as it is, there's something really honest and solid about the way it's handled and written. RoShawn and I both approve how this whole thing went down, and we're hoping t

Art credit! https://vincentchongart.myportfolio.com/bw-art-the-dresden-filesI meant to use this piece of artwork for the second episode covering the invasion of Arctis Tor, but I decided instead to opt for a more hopeful image of Charity splayed out happily in the church with her kids, safe and sound. However, in trying to find a satisfactory image of the trial of Molly Carpenter, I came up woefully short and decided that I would take a step back and use this piece after all because it's beautiful, if terrible and tragic. This episode, Molly goes to see the White Court, and it goes so much more poorly than Harry had expected. He goes in with some kind of plan, but when he realizes that the Merlin holds almost all the votes it's really a blow. Harry manages to outmaneuver the Merlin in the end, bu it turns out that doing too well is just as much of a death sentence as failing entirely, and the Merlin orders Molly's execution to be carried out immediately. Thank you all so much for listening, and make sure to c

Art credit! https://www.deviantart.com/priscellie/art/Dresden-Files-The-Carpenters-38780236Hey you gorgeous witches and wizards! It's time to talk about The Dresden Files! This episode, RoShawn and I have an awful lot to cover and she's not feeling too great but soldiers valiantly on so I beg you all to give her a round of applause for getting through it all! Because we've got the fight on the way out of Faerie, the revelation that Lilly set Harry up to bait Winter, the chat where Murphy reveals that she will likely lose her position with SI, AND the convo between Harry and Molly about how she discovered and used her magic. There's a whole lot happening here, folks. Thanks so much to all of you for listening, and I will see you again soon with a new episode!

Artist credit! https://www.deviantart.com/janderkeats/art/Queen-Mab-s-Fortress-312001016Hello everyone! I'm sorry we had to miss last week, but we're back this week and I'm going to try my best not to miss next week even though I'm sick because I WANT TO HEAR WHAT ROSHAWN THINKS ABOUT THE NEXT PART. You all know what I'm talking about. This section is when Harry & Co. get to Arctis Tor, with a little help from the Summer Court. Lily can't travel into the heart of winter and must stay behind, but she gives Harry one of her fiery butterflies to keep the group warm and light the way. Meanwhile, something serious has happened at the castle, some kind of attack, and Harry can sense that Hellfire was used. What on earth went on here? They battle to the top and find Molly, only for an old enemy to step out and get in their way. Luckily, Lily's gift looks like it's going to be pretty handy. Thanks so much for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!

Art credit! https://www.deviantart.com/wildcard24/art/Dresden-Files-characters-4-383522483I'm so excited that I am finally getting to use the illustration of Charity Carpenter being a BAMF that I spotted a while back. This is iconic and she's my favorite and I love her forever and ever amen. These chapters are the ones where Harry tries to use Little Chicago, but doesn't get any results with the baby hair until Murphy suggests Charity's blood. It's a pretty great moment of perhaps divine intervention, and I love the descriptions of Faith in Charity's eyes. Then they go to a movie theater and fight some movie theater monsters and it's great. Enjoy!

Artist credit! https://www.deviantart.com/mirandajane/art/magical-mouse-163556211You all know that I had to punish RoShawn somehow for messing up my whole plan last week, and I decided that the best way to do this was to make her stop reading right before a big reveal, just before the end of chapter 31. It was terribly painful for her, and I'm feeling pretty satisfied about it. This episode, I live-read chapter 32 to RoShawn so that she can share her reactions in real time and we can chat about the implications of it afterward. Charity tells Harry the truth about her own history with practicing magic and the true reason for her split with Molly; turns out, she wanted Molly to give up her magic, and Molly had no intention of doing it. And the fact that neither of them reached out for help means that Molly has been practicing without a guide, and did some magic that really hurt her friends. Even though she was trying to help. Thanks so much for listening, everyone! I hope you enjoy the episode, and we will see

I'm gonna need you all to go yell at RoShawn for me. I HAD A WHOLE PLAN BUT THEN SHE READ FOUR CHAPTERS INSTEAD OF THREE AND RUINED EVERYTHING. Anyway. Enjoy the show. Artist Credit: https://vincentchongart.wordpress.com/2015/05/21/proven-guilty-interior-art/

There's a lot of set-up happening in this episode and I'm going to get right down to it. First of all, Harry and Murphy have an impromptu conversation about the future of their relationship and they wind up coming to the conclusion that they're not going to be compatible because her goals and his clash too often, and he's going to live for a lot longer than she does. Which makes a lot of sense, and I'm not mad at her. Then Harry gets into the set-up and strategy of his spell with Bob, and then...he gets decked in the face. Heh. Enjoy the show!

Hey there everyone! It's time for an installment of The Dresden Files, and I am delighted to have found an illustration of Maeve wearing the 'Your Boyfriend Wants Me' tee, so please check that out here https://www.deviantart.com/memoirs-of-a-phoney/art/Maeve-Fan-art-Collab-142325630In this ep, there's some real shit going down in Faerie, and Harry has to bring in a big gun to find out wtf is happening...only to not really get enough information to satisfy Ebenezer's buddies, and probably just enough to push him deeper into the mess. Then there's a weird meetup with Darby Crane at Splattercon!!! and Murphy almost gets...something done to her. What are your theories? Thanks a ton for listening! See you next week.

Artwork credit~https://www.deviantart.com/dawnsio-ar-y-dibyn/art/Murph-Harry-Hug-Dresden-Files-346007044Hey there lovely people! I apologize for not having an episode for you last week (this month has been ROUGH AF) and I hope that you all enjoy RoShawn and me as we discuss how many Harrys we're covering are having terrible days lately. Dresden goes to the hospital with Murphy in order to take a look at the victims and see if there's any correlation between them. The first person he sees is Rosie, Molly's friend, and she's obviously got some addiction issues that she's working on as well as really strange little burns on her temples. He can't see any psychic damage on her, though. Then there's the old man, whose spirit refuses to be intimidated by whatever attacked him. And worst off is the young woman whose back was sliced open...seeing her with his Sight makes Harry literally vomit. It's not good. He doesn't think she's coming back. Then as if all that wasn't bad enough, he gets home a little early and just

Hey there my beauties! Those of you who only listen to Dresden Files didn't miss an episode last week, so you may not know that I've been sick and had to cancel and postpone a bunch of recordings. For those who have emailed and messaged, please bear with me as I work on getting back to all of you! This episode was really a lot of theorizing and setup... an aftermath, as Harry calls it in the first sentence of Chapter 13. Karrin comes along and saves Harry from some interminable questioning from Sergeant Green, who is pretty suspicious of Harry and seems to think he somehow managed to kill someone from the other end of the hotel while in the company of Rawlins. Harry winds up having a conversation with Karrin about the potential possibility of them being together, and she kind of tells him that she's not sure the timing is every going to work out. Which of course is what Lasciel brings up later when she's chatting with Harry in his head. He kicks her out eventually, but asks her to leave the illusion of the ho

Hey there, everyone! It's been a minute! I hope you're all having a lovely 2019 and that you're ready from more goodness from me and RoShawn. One of my resolutions is to type less here, and remember to always credit the artist. So without further ado, here is the link to the artist (BEWARE OF SPOILERS IN HIS ART!) and on with the show. https://vincentchongart.wordpress.com/2015/05/21/proven-guilty-interior-art/

Hello my faithful little cherubs, and welcome to the last episode of Dresden Files for the year 2018! I will be taking a vacation next week, so there won't be another episode for a minute. If you miss us, show us how much by leaving an iTunes review and helping us rise in those algorithms. I'm so excited because we're getting a little deeper into the story and Harry meets Molly Carpenter again for the first time in a few years. Molly is all grown up, or at least pretty close, and she calls Harry in the middle of his huge, involved ritual to ask him to come bail her out of jail. Turns out she's full of shit, and it's her boyfriend who is in jail. Oh, Molly. Not a good first impression, girl. Then Harry tells Molly that he's taking her home to her parents' house, and although she tries to put up a fight, Harry makes no bones about threatening her into it. To top it off, by doing this Harry is agreeing to his first face-to-face meeting with Michael in two years, and Lasciel's presence in his head is making him v

Hello beautiful people, and welcome to the newest installment of The Dresden Files! I really am delighted to have started this book, and as much as I cannot wait for RoShawn to reach a few certain parts, I also kind of want to stretch it out because it's going to be over before you know it. These chapters are a lot of setting the scene for things to come. First, Harry is recovering from the hit-and-run, which contrary to what RoShawn was hoping for, does indeed seem to be some kind of direct attack rather than an actual accident. He can't go to the hospital though, and winds up home with Murphy, telling her about the shit day he's had and how the White Council beheaded some kid in a warehouse. Needless to say, Murphy is less than pleased about this. Then, we get to see where so much of Harry's paycheck has gone to, and it turns out that he's building a nice little super-villainy lair in his basement with a map of Chicago that encompasses several miles. He's got models of every building, and pieces of each are

Hey everyone! It's finally time for RoShawn and I to get started on the 8th book in the Dresden Files series, Proven Guilty! I am really excited about this one. I've been re-listening to it and there's so much about this one that I had forgotten! I can't believe how much happens in this book! These chapters are pretty intense, as Harry is getting to watch his first-ever execution of a young wizard who used black magic. He doesn't handle it well, physically or mentally, and winds up lashing out at the Merlin in a surprisingly controlled way that nevertheless gets across what contempt he feels for these people. RoShawn and I have to admit that maybe the contempt is misplaced, though, once we hear about what this guy did to warrant execution. Then Harry is approached by Ebenezer, who confides in Harry that there's some shit going on that he doesn't understand, and he wants Harry to look into it for him. Turns out that Winter hasn't been lashing out at the Red Court in the way one would expect, and since Dresden

Hello everyone! Forgive me for the lateness of this episode. I was away for the week of Thanksgiving, and when I got home I got sick. I always get sick after air travel; I should just start scheduling a sick week into my calendar after every vacation. Anyway, this is a really fun and slightly more lighthearted story from Harry's archives, and I'm always a fan of Bigfoot Irwin because he just seems like such a good-hearted cinnamon roll of a dude. So when I first read this and found out that someone was fuckin around with my boy, I got soooo mad. And then when I found out WHY that person was doing what they were doing, I got even madder. Thank you all so much for your patience, and I will see you next week with the first chapters of Proven Guilty!

If you're wondering who that is in the image, the answer is "Nobody". It was one of the image results when I searched "Cowboy Wizard" and I decided to just go with it. Here's the source. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/GVz94This time around, RoShawn and I are only slightly more in command of ourselves than last time. Please forgive us. Looking forward to I Was A Teenage Bigfoot in two weeks! Have a great Thanksgiving, if you're celebrating!

Credit for this piece of priceless art goes to https://www.deviantart.com/ktobermanns/art/Bob-the-Skull-335328335This week and next week, RoShawn and I will be covering short stories that take place between Dead Beat and Proven Guilty, which while not crucial to the main plot, add a lot of detail and background that serious fans will really love. If you're interested and you haven't already read them, you can pick up Side Jobs here: https://amzn.to/2z47ABZ Next week, we will be doing "Fistful of Warlocks" from Brief Cases, which you can find here: https://amzn.to/2RPmlQi, and the following week will be "AAAA Wizardy", then "I Was A Teenage Bigfoot", both also from Brief Cases. So. It will be a little while before Proven Guilty begins, and I know you all are impatient to get there, but don't bite my head off, okay? This episode, by the way, is a hot mess. RoShawn and I were punchy as hell and you'd think that we were wasted at the way we cannot keep it together for more than ten-minute stretches before burstin

Hey there, you fine people! I'm here on this the final day of Dead Beat coverage to warn you that next episode we will not be starting Proven Guilty, but instead will be covering the short story "Something Borrowed" from Brief Cases, the collection of Dresden Files short stories. If you haven't already read it, I highly recommend it, and you can find it here! http://ow.ly/4SN330mwmq9This episode, RoShawn and I are slightly more subdued than we have been in the past. There are definitely some aspects of these last chapters that she wasn't happy with, and didn't find satisfying, although there are others that intrigue her. I'm very interested to see what she makes of things with Harry now being part of the Wardens. Thank you all so much for listening, and see you next week!