#Dresden codex

[bairbrewing]

Review #30

Dresden Code by Human Robot was the perfect beer for the moment but not so much a perfect beer. A great name, a great look but far too hoppy for the style in my opinion. I love Mexican lager but this just tasted like a dark IPA. Balance is key, but even with its fault it was a good beer on a hot late spring day. 6/10

[tiphares]

[thecrankyprofessor]

I do wish we had mmore of them!

Left, a page from the Dresden Codex, a Maya text showing the solar disk, obscured, appearing to hang from a celestial band and about to be devoured by a monster. Right, a page from the Chilam Balam of Chumayel from 1775, explaining that an eclipse does not mean that the sun is bitten, but is caused by the moon’s movements around the Earth. Credit…via Jesús Galindo Trejo

[ravelqueen]

Realising once again that it's just so relaxing and nice to read books with GODDAMN ADULTS as protagonists which is so extremely rare in fantasy so if you have any recs to throw my way it's appreciated

[magicaldogtoto]

I don't know much about Jim Butcher as a person--I barely even know much about him as a writer (I've read some of his Dresden Files short stories, though)--but I hope someone somewhere is archiving his old Livejournal because the essays he has on writing are very useful references.

I can't even count the number of times I've read and re-read them and applied what they say to the stuff I've written. His essay on how to wade through the middle of a story so it you can reach the end and not get bogged down by the stress of being stuck in the middle is literally the main thing that's helped me get through the mid-section of Parallel Worlds Record as I write it out (not to mention the mid-sections of other stuff I've written or are working on, both fanfic and original fic). It would be terrible if no one at least saved the information he provided to share with other writers.

[book--brackets]

May I add the to the fantasy list

Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb

Merovingen Nights by CJ Cherryh

Riftwar saga by Raymond E Feist

Green Rider series by Kristain Britain

Rider at the Gate by CJ Cherryh

Dresden Files by Jim Butcher

Codex Alera by Jim Butcher

Everworld By KA Applegate

The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan

The Wandering Inn by Pirateaba

Vows and Honor by Mercedes Lackey

Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McAffery

Wiz Series by Rick Cook

that's all I got for now without adding more series by the same authors (notably Cherryh and Lackey)

I love getting these mile long lists lmao it's the kind of thing I'd submit. I've added them all!

[jurakan]

New Jim Butcher interview!

[thesetwoutes]

-looks at Jim Butcher-

Another storytelling rule I think people should remember is the law of diminishing returns. If you keep on ramping up the stakes higher and higher and higher, after a point it gets to where the audience can’t really care anymore.

[crossbordercroniclesro]

EXCLUSIV: Conform Calendarului Mayaș, Suntem în Anul 2842! Uimitoarele Predicții Ale Unei Civilizații Dispărute!

Ziua 126, Anul 2842 în calendarul Mayaș — ce ar fi prezis marii înțelepți ai acestei civilizații misterioase pentru noi? Uitați tot ce știați despre anul 2024! Dacă am fi folosit calendarul străvechi al civilizației Maya, azi ne-am afla în anul 2842, ziua 126! Da, ați citit bine! Conform sistemului lor incredibil de precis și enigmatic, ne-am fi teleportat deja cu aproape 800 de ani în…

[gingersnapwolves]

random post of the day

I know that Jim Butcher is mostly famous for The Dresden Files but I really feel like The Codex Alera should get more love. I'm re-reading it and realizing what a formative influence Tavi's character was on how I wrote Stiles in The Sum of its Parts. The 'powerless' character who uses his wits, inspires loyalty, makes allies out of his enemies, and has an uncanny knack for finding the third option.

And, I mean, this:

Tavi bared his teeth in a smile. "But we have something the Vord [an enormous army of insect-like creatures] do not." Varg tilted his head to one side. "What is that?" "Ink."

I'd say this is so TSOIP!Stiles-coded, except actually I'm realizing that it was really that when Stiles said things like "You know what would be an exciting development right now? Tax records," and "first we need to go to a kitchen" store it was actually that TSOIP!Stiles was being extremely Tavi-coded

[artifacts-archive]

Jar in the Shape of a Monkey

Aztec, Late Postclassic, 1300-1520 CE

The spider monkey’s popularity as a subject on stone vessels may relate to the saga of a failed creation, in which monkeys featured importantly, before the advent of true humans, or perhaps it alludes to the playful character of the patron deities of artisans. The association with a human burial of the only vessel with reliable archaeological context, however, strengthens a still-unresolved symbolic relationship between death and the monkey. Such a link has been noted in codical studies: in the Maya Dresden Codex, the monkey is invariably represented with death symbols, something equally applicable to such non-Maya books as the Codex Vienna or Codex Laud. The manufacture of vessels in the shape of a monkey using travertine may have had its source of inspiration in the much older production of similar forms in ceramics.

[majingojira]

This made me realize that Jim Butcher actually does what people wanted to happen with Harry twice over. It's mildly present in his "Dresden Files" series, but on full cultural revolution with "Codex Alera."

There, our hero changes the entire status quo of society because he rediscovers and spreads lost technology of the Romans that was abandoned in favor of magic, and gives it to those who have little to no magic in them.

And sets the groundwork for a full upturning of an elitist society in the process.

Though the Zerg invasion also helped.

Also, I must add this, every time, because when 4chan is right, it is so devastatingly right:

[dancing4heaven]

Colored in version of the last page of the “Dresden Codex”

[breelandwalker]

Mama Bree, this is a weird thing to ask but: can you recommend any good fiction about witches and sorcerers? I've read LOTR and The Silmarillion but I'd like to branch out, maybe try something more modern, and I wondered if you had any faves.

I gotchu, fam. 😁

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles (Patricia C. Wrede)

The Codex Alera (Jim Butcher)

The Harry Dresden Series (Jim Butcher)

The Practical Magic Series (Alice Hoffman)

The Abhorsen Series (Garth Nix)

A Nameless Witch (A. Lee Martinez)

Uprooted (Naomi Novik)

Spinning Silver (Naomi Novik)

Sebastian (Anne Bishop)

Belladonna (Anne Bishop)

Toil and Trouble: 15 Tales of Women and Witchcraft

Wicked Witches: An Anthology of New England Horror Writers

If you want something more along the lines of a solid brick of high fantasy, I might also recommend The Ruins of Ambrai / The Mageborn Traitor by Melanie Rawn (if you don't mind that she's never going to finish the damn trilogy) or her Dragon Prince series (it was written in the 1980s and it shows, but it's very entertaining).

There's also a particular subset of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series that focuses on a group of absolutely wonderful witches. I recommend starting with Equal Rites (Granny Weatherwax et al) and The Wee Free Men (Tiffany Aching) and going from there.

Happy Reading!

[rebp1lled]

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thats a lot of words

[gbfmi1]

Some honourable mentions:

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