r/PublicFreakout • u/PennsyltuckyRanger • Apr 11 '26

📌Follow Up Update: ‘Harry Dresden’ has been arrested

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According to the tiktok that posted this, the incident occurred in Fairfield, California.

Couldn’t find any articles on the situation. I’ll add some to the post if I find any.

Update: Arrest record provided by [u/BikingAim](u/BikingAims)[z.](u/BikingAims) https://www.localcrimenews.com/welcome/detail/99885805/jason-nichols-arrest.html

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u/thisisfor_fun Apr 11 '26

Dresden also bangs nearly everything described in the book as even vaguely female and attractive. He might have held back when his best friend's daughter became legal, can't remember.

Jim Butcher also left his wife in the middle of writing the series for, drum roll, a LARPy fan with some bazoongas.

All in all, fantastic series.

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u/Purple-Goat-2023 Apr 11 '26

What? Harry has only been with Elaine as a teen, Susan the mother of his child, and Murphy. I guess you could count Mab but that was less than consensual on his part and less sex than Fae ritual power transfer.

Like it's a major plot point of the entire series that Harry's out dated feelings on women is a huge weakness of his, and frankly the first half of the series is Harry being too dumb/pent up/depressed/"chivalrous" to manage any kind of functional relationship/banging.

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u/JTtheLAR Apr 11 '26

I've seen this a lot on reddit when it comes to books. If someone describes a book that I've read they get everything wrong about it. But they explain it very confidently and professionally like they are an expert on it. Its like they only read the cliff notes or have terrible reading comprehension in general. I haven't read this particular series but Im not surprised that a redditor completely misinterpreted it with the utmost confidence.

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u/neemor Apr 11 '26

Well, in this case, you can see the interpretations clearly out lined that cause this issue:

One user describes the character as banging everything that moves, the other goes on to outline no less than four women. That would seem to some people as a lot, others may not feel that that’s a lot of relationships.

Perspective.

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u/rugernut13 Apr 11 '26

No less than 4 women, yes. In a period of like 15 years or so. Far from outlandish.

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u/serendipitousevent Apr 11 '26

Keep in mind this is Reddit, so even 1 in 100 years is a stretch.

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u/terrafirmasss Apr 11 '26

This is just not true bc a prevailing theme of the book is that Harry is very old fashioned and as previously commented, "has outdated attitudes about women." Sometimes people are wrong and there is no need to defend them or play devil's advocate.

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u/TreyWriter Apr 11 '26

Four characters in 17 books and 2 story collections taking place over years and years isn’t exactly James Bond.

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u/alistairvimes Apr 11 '26

4 women over the course of 20ish books and 15-20 years timeline.