Morgan Micro Fiction

[Bad Alias]

CEO's don't litigate.  Ever. No matter how good a Attorney they might be.

This. It's pointless.

I think you could be mistaken there, as we've learned Mab has a reason for every move she makes.

Yeah, but she's a fictional character written by a fallible writer.

[Arjan]

This. It's pointless.

Or maybe it is just a hobby? After a long knight of torturing disloyal winter knights she calls Lea to tell her she has to stop playing with her dogs and watch the border while she is torturing someone on a completely different way in a courtroom.

Really not everything is work for her. Sometimes she hurts Harry for spite.

It might actually be useful to have a human cover.

Yeah, but she's a fictional character written by a fallible writer.

Who prefers to find ways to make his mistakes work. 

[Mira]

Or maybe it is just a hobby? After a long knight of torturing disloyal winter knights she calls Lea to tell her she has to stop playing with her dogs and watch the border while she is torturing someone on a completely different way in a courtroom.

Really not everything is work for her. Sometimes she hurts Harry for spite.

It might actually be useful to have a human cover. Who prefers to find ways to make his mistakes work.

 Agree with all of that plus it is fantasy, so why can't Mab be a lawyer just for the hell of it?

[morriswalters]

As part of a plot, I can't see it.  But then again, he is going to write a book about wrestlers who are gods of one kind or another, so who knows.  And one of his protagonists was a porn actress.

[Arjan]

As part of a plot, I can't see it.  But then again, he is going to write a book about wrestlers who are gods of one kind or another, so who knows.  And one of his protagonists was a porn actress.

The logical thing to do for a white court vampire and maybe the logical thing to do for Mab is practice law. It is in her nature. She has to do it.

And she has enough time to do so. Surely torturing slate has its uses but she has people for that as well and it took a lot of time. She can spend some time with  Sarissa watching frozen. She can do some things she wants to do.

[g33k]

I can see Jim using it tangentially...  Like, Mab and "her people" (maybe just her Knight) are in negotiations with Marcone and "his people."

Marcone's lawyer goes pale when he sees Mab, "are we litigating against... her?  I've done that before, and... as your lawyer, I would advise against it."

[Hagbard Celine]

Phew.  Got through this entire thread.  It's amusing how some people seem to know more than Jim Butcher about his own story.  You can't fill in the blanks in a sketch like this and then write pages about how your filled blanks must be mistakes by Jim.  Yikes.

[g33k]

Phew.  Got through this entire thread.  It's amusing how some people seem to know more than Jim Butcher about his own story.  You can't fill in the blanks in a sketch like this and then write pages about how your filled blanks must be mistakes by Jim.  Yikes.

Well... crazy house-of-cards speculations are what WAGs like these are all about, after all!

Wild Ass Guessing, baby!  Don't knock it 'til you've tried it!    .

Also, Jim freely admits that he DOES make mistakes, forgets stuff, changes his momedit:mind and, etc etc etc... So there's that.

But it's ALSO true that sometimes something that someone spots as a "continuity error" or other mistake, "and therefore my pet theory <X> is obviously true!!!1!1!!" turns out to be Jim dropping a hint that All Is Not As It Seems.

[Con]

19 pages out of 600 word short story. You nerds.

[Kindler]

19 pages out of 600 word short story. You nerds.

In my opinion, it's a 600-word short story with implications way beyond any other short he's ever written, with the possible exception of Backup and the explanation of the Oblivion War. This story puts Morgan's actions across the whole series in a totally new light and implies a level of familiarity that's totally unaddressed in the main series, and likely never will be. I mean, just that Morgan knew about Nemesis 10-20 years ago is a big deal, let alone the idea that he was supposed to look out for Harry because he promised Margaret.

On the other hand, I totally agree that many or most of us are nerds.

[Bad Alias]

So there's a new Q&A from Jim. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA6hcE5-YCA. In it, Jim says something about how Morgan was always a good guy, but he had to be a giant pain in Harry's, and basically only Harry's, backside.

Mostly the whole thing is stories we've heard a hundred times. (If I'm going to go to the effort of seeing someone in person, I'm going to have looked them up on Youtube and not ask a question that's been asked a hundred times).

(all times approximate)
@21 minutes Jim talks about only writing about cultures he is familiar enough to be respectful; mentions Navajos approaching him since writing about skinwalkers.

@30 minutesish Jim talks about a new Mouse short story happening. That's about it on that one.

Jim starts on the Morgan stuff starts at about 37:30. There was a question, but I haven't tried to figure out exactly what it was.

[Dina]

"another" Mouse short story? 

[Bad Alias]

I was counting Zoo Day as a Mouse story.

Zoo Day is a short story in the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. It is set at the same time of Day One, and is in turn narrated by Harry Dresden, Margaret Angelica Dresden and Mouse. It is included in the anthology Brief Cases.

https://dresdenfiles.fandom.com/wiki/Zoo_Day

[Dina]

Ah, I totally forgot about that. I have not read it (I did not buy Brief Cases). Thank you

[g33k]

... Mostly the whole thing is stories we've heard a hundred times. (If I'm going to go to the effort of seeing someone in person, I'm going to have looked them up on Youtube and not ask a question that's been asked a hundred times) ...

Yeah.
       

OTOH, I can envision carefully-researched queries being totally shut down by Jim as being too pointed and revealing too much.  More than once, he's replied along the lines of "I can't tell you guys that!" or "you think I'm just gonna blurt out an answer like that?"