I really like the theme in diom of "what you have learned in the light, don't forget in the darkness." The books use plenty of physical applications to illustrate the concept but it's so relevant even in real life? It's so easy to forget truths and good things on bad days, but that doesn't mean they go away!
- Who was your favorite character in this book? What was your favorite scene/defining moment with that character?
- What was your favorite theme in this book?
-writing/drawing prompt: pick one of the circles! Which one did you think was the most interesting? Try to draw what it looks like or write something about its nature and what it represents.
Billy Bannister and Bonnie Silver + Christmas in Killarney (if that doesn't inspire you, you can also do something generic like 12 Days of Christmas, I'm not picky😂)
(in my head this is set in between The Candlestone and Circles of Seven. Also I kinda adore that song!!!)
Humming a Christmas song to herself, Bonnie headed into the Foley’s living room, cradling a basket full of greenery for the decorations. Billy and Walter looked up at her arrival— the two of them had been tasked with wrapping presents, while Ashley finished up some of the baking.
“Where are the others?” she asked.
Getting to his feet, Billy took the basket from Bonnie, and she shot him a grateful smile as he set it on the coffee table. “Walter’s dad took them out on a sleigh ride with Mom to keep them out of the way while Walter and I wrap presents,” he explained.
“And Prof is helping my mom and Ashley in the kitchen,” Walter added, adjusting the Santa hat he was wearing. “Between you and me, I wouldn’t go in there. There’s a lot of anti-cookie eating sentiments going on.”
“Because you keep stealing them!” came a shout from the kitchen, and Walter offered them a guilty smile.
Covering a laugh, Bonnie said, “I’m sure we won’t have too much longer to wait.”
“Which is good, cause I don’t know how much longer either of us can wait,” Billy joked as Bonnie started sorting through the contents of her basket. “Want some help?”
“Sure,” she said, smiling at him. “Start with the pine branches— I’ll help you figure out where to put them. We’ll work as a team.”
For anyone who hasn't heard it, here's the entirety of the infamous Walter Foley fish joke!
So one day, a fish flopped up on the seventh green, and he saw four golfers getting ready to putt. He said to one of them, "I'll bet you I can make that putt." So the fish tried to grab the putter, but the golfer snatched him up and hung him from the golf bag, glad to have dinner for the night and a funny story to tell when he got home. After a while, though, the fish started drying out and cried pitifully, "I'm drying! I'm drying!" The golfer felt bad for the fish and tossed him back in the pond. "Why did you let him go?" one of the other golfers asked. The first golfer shrugged his shoulders and replied, "I decided I have bigger fish to dry."
(@kanerallels @accidental-spice @fairytale-lights @taleweaver-ramblings because I know you will appreciate this, and because I don't know if you have heard the whole joke)
Just started rereading Dragons in Our Midst, and . . . somehow? I just missed? that it takes place in West Virginia, specifically? Which means Billy and Walter probably have some degree of WV accent. My brain does not know what to do with this revelation.
Gabriel probably, although the whole Tumblr DIOM party loves him very dearly as well so idk if he's underappreciated.
- glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week)
JADE FROM CHILDREN OF THE BARD, the four-armed girl who helps Matt (and Darcy) and is the keeper of that... portal-y place. I LOVE HER.
- poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave)
...is there even one??? tbh I feel like I did have one at some point but I haven't read the books in so long that I'm forgetting who it was. maybe Darcy from COTB, since she's questionable for quite a while
- horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason)
...Devin??? but tbh probably nobody lol
- eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell)
If anyone wants to follow along with the Dragons in Our Midst reading thing, here’s the schedule I’m thinking:
August - Raising Dragons
September - The Candlestone
October - Circles of Seven
November - Tears of a Dragon
December - Eye of the Oracle
January - Enoch’s Ghost
February - The Last of the Nephilim
March - The Bones of Makaidos
April - The Song of the Ovulum
May - From the Mouth of Elijah
June - The Seventh Door
July - Omega Dragon
How would you describe Billy's personality? I keep trying, and keep running into "boring male main protagonist with unremarkable personality." At least as of Circles of Seven. I can't tell if he just hasn't been developed as much by this book, or if my perspective is skewed due to my passionate love of funny side characters and I'm not picking up on it
If I had a nickel for every time a straight laced, no nonsense character who's the holder of the brain cell and also has a hilarious love interest that I absolutely ADORE got empathy powers, I'd have two nickels
Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice
- Who was your favorite character in this book? What was your favorite scene/defining moment with that character?
- What was your favorite theme from this book?
- writing/drawing prompt: the candlestone! What does it look like? On the outside or the inside. What do you think it would feel like, either to be a dragon and have it around, or to be light energy inside of it?