Welcome to the Hard Launch of a Temeraire Events Blog
The goal of this blog is to collect fandom events so spread awareness of anything that may be happening in the broader Temeraire discord. Send me events to reblog!
Considering signing up for the 2026 Temeraire Summer Exchange? Haven't quite gotten a moment to sit down and do your sign up? This is your last call! Sign-ups will close Thursday, June 4 @ 5pm UTC.
So get in there while the getting is good and sign up here!
For more info, our AO3 FAQ page has some guidance on what should go into a sign-up form, and you can consult our original announcement post.
The Temeraire Summer Exchange is back for another year! We're excited to celebrate our small but mighty fandom. This exchange is run on AO3, view the collection profile for all the details and an FAQ, and check out the highlights below:
Schedule:
Sign-Ups Open: May 23 (5pm UTC)
Sign-Ups Close: June 4 (5pm UTC)
Assignments Sent: by June 9 (5pm UTC)
Posting Deadline: August 5 (5pm UTC)
Works Revealed: August 8 (5pm UTC)
Creators Revealed: August 15 (5pm UTC)
How does this work? The first step is signing up. Sign-ups begin May 23. Once they’re open, use the sign-up form in the collection before June 4!
You are required to request and offer a minimum of one character or one pairing. You must also select whether you would like to receive or offer art, fanfic, a photomanip, or any combination.
After sign-ups, the participants will be hand-matched to each other based on what they offered and requested and assignments will go out.
Gifts must be posted to the Temeraire Summer 2026 AO3 collection by August 5. They will appear as anonymous gifts for the recipient. Works will be made available to read on August 8, with creator names still hidden. On August 15, all creators will be revealed.
A note on the tagset and nominations: We are using the same tagset as previous years. As this tagset has grown quite robust, we are foregoing a nominations period. If there is a tag you’d like added, please nominate it in the tagset page or message the mods any time before sign-ups close. Sign-ups do not need to have opened for tag nomination.
What are the minimum requirements for participation? For writers, a fic with a minimum of 500 words. For artists, a nice/cleaned sketch on unlined paper. A photomanip/moodboard should be substantially original. Please use your discretion – and reach out to the mod team if you have questions!
If you have any further questions which aren’t answered here or on the AO3 collection’s FAQ page, please don’t hesitate to reach out! You can send us an ask here, or email [email protected].
Additionally, the Temeraire fandom has an active Discord! Announcements will be posted to Tumblr and Discord concurrently. If you’d like to join, leave a comment or send us an ask or an email and we’ll get you a link.
Please note you will need an AO3 account to participate in the exchange.
After an overwhelmingly enthusiastic response to our interest check, we are pleased to announce that APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN! They will remain open until April 14th, 2026.
Information for the schedule, role descriptions, and portfolio requirements can be found in our Info Document, along with the link to applications. Our ask box remains open if anyone has any questions!
Hey there Temeraire fandom - anyone interested in this art/ comment event? Create any kind of art about your favourite Temeraire fics, or just leave a bunch of comments! Signups are now, the event is January ...
What is it?
A bingo event designed to counteract art commission scammers and encourage fic writers by making art for the fics you love in any fandom!
How it works:
Sign up via the entry form below. You’ll get a bingo card with prompts guiding you towards fics in any fandom. Pick a fic, make any kind of art you like (drawings, embroidery, playlists, memes, etc.), and share with the fic author to mark off each square.
Can’t draw?
You can make any kind of art you like – crochet, decorated cookies, composing a score, recording a podfic...
OR join the Fanfic Comment Challenge via the same entry form!
When is it?
Jan 1-31, 2026
Questions/concerns?
Check out the event FAQ or message the Fanart Frenzy team!
This blog is for collecting ideas and suggestions for a Temeraire themed pinup calendar! It's still not 100% it'll be a finished calendar at the end, but either way I'll have made some fun fanart :)
You can find my NSFW art on MilkAndBones @ AO3, not going to post any of it here since tumblr doesn't allow it.
he ought to have been certain of it (we have made no plans) - will laurence/edith galman
Day 3 of Temeraire Tracks 2025 is Rarepair. So. So I. You know. I. Okay. You know what I. You understand. This one is actually canon compliant though I prommy there's so much breakup and growing apart but in parallel music here. The fun part is spotting what songs also work for their canonical relationships that don't break up.
The playlist title comes from their last meeting in LoD. "He ought to have been certain of it" is about Woolvey, and "We have made no plans" is about Laurence and Temeraire. And ain't that just the way.
Cover art is Orpheus and Eurydice by Louis Hersent.
despair. joe hisaishi // attendance at the funeral. toru takemitsu // it is done. john debney // je ne me consolerai jamais. eleni karaindrou, alexandros botinis // destiny is a book you write yourself. frederik wiedmann // i am already dead. steven price // bound. robin carolan // i could have stopped it. òlafur arnalds // kingslayer. ramin djawadi // sorrow. maik styrnol
than any ship in the navy - a will laurence fanmix (Tidal | YouTube | Spotify)
justice is expensive - a tenzing tharkay fanmix (Tidal | YouTube | Spotify)
without a change-about every so often - a jane roland fanmix (Tidal | YouTube | Spotify)
since we were little children - an edith galman fanmix (Tidal | YouTube | Spotify)
and does no good to anybody - a temeraire fanmix (Tidal | YouTube | Spotify)
Day 2 of Temeraire Tracks 2025 is Character Introspection so I'm sharing my mixtapes for each of the POV characters in with this ring because 1) I like them and I worked on them for a long time and 2) they actually are largely canon compliant imo, and I'm pretty proud of the double meanings present.
Cover art, in order, is: Captain George Duff in the style of Henry Raeburn; View of Constantinople from the churchyard outside the city by Harald Jerichau; View of Dover by Richard Wilson; The Dawn of Love by William Eddy; and Perseus and Andromeda by Frederic Leighton.
Okay I'm gonna talk about the folk songs under a read more.
So an early decision I made was that I could not get hung up on the Historical Accuracy(tm) of the music I used in my Temeraire playlists because that's how I would create a bunch of playlists I would never ever listen to. But that doesn't mean we can't do a little bit of folk/traditional music! I am not a music historian by any means so I'm not saying these are Period Accurate(tm), but rather that they are all Tradition from the current day's POV.
Okay into the good stuff. Laurence's was actually the hardest to get- I went through like 8 million sea shanties and a whole rabbit hole of trying to find a song about Robin Hood that wasn't the Disney one that also sounded fun to listen to. But none of them fit the Vibe exactly! The Trooper And The Maid actually came to live in this playlist during ren fair season, because Laurence might not have a woman in every port, exactly, but he does keep leaving situations worse than he found them in, and it's a fun little nod to all the children that he Does keep adopting. Plus it's a bop, and maintains the energy of the playlist really well.
Tharkay gets two, because Tharkay is special, and I wanted to balance his playlist in the same way he balances his identity: at odds with each other. So there's a beautiful Nepali instrumental at the beginning of the day, a memory to begin with, and an incredibly well-known Scottish ballad that not only has lyrics, but a spoken explanation at the beginning of the song, at the end of the day and the metaphorical life of the playlist. Heads up: the version on Tidal has a different prologue than the version on Spotify/YouTube. I think the dissonance is fun. Alastair MacDonald's Loch Lomond explanation also speaks to that same kind of duality that Tharkay has in him so much: the condemned man and the reprieved man, the homeward bound and the exiled, the dead and the living, etc.
Roland, my beautiful wife who has only ever been a soldier, of course gets The Parting Glass (but a cover done by a modern queer band to inject her gender subversion) for the sheer weight of how many goodbyes Jane Roland says over the course of the series. The cost of doing her job, and doing it well, is to say goodbye, again and again and again with only the hope of seeing them in the future and the knowledge that war is rarely so kind. The Parting Glass has an Irish rap, but it is actually Scottish, and of course now thanks to diaspora is known the world over. I've always imagined that Jane was more or less raised in Loch Laggan, but that's neither here nor there: The Parting Glass's life as a song is as much of a world traveler as Jane's life is.
Did you think that I, the captain of the Edith Galman Fan Club, would not make an Edith Galman character introspection fanmix? You fool. You absolute fool. Oh, you did expect it? Yeah that's fair I don't blame you. Anyway, The Driving of the Deer actually name drops Sir Peverel, who may or may not be the same William Peverel that is listed in the Domesday Book as owning Greasley Parish, which is where Beauvale Priory is, and Beauvale Priory is where I pulled the Galman's title name- anyway. This is a song also about changing culture, and civil conflict, and the city versus the country, and the people who straddle those lines, and all of that sits at the heart of Edith Galman (or Edith Woolvey, or Edith Laurence) for me.
Temeraire technically only has one folk song but I'll talk about The Fighting Temeraire, which is an instrumental inspired by the painting (and perhaps the various poems) because the poems Have been set to song, but the melody is a little variant, and also kind of whack. But this song nods at all of that. The Little Birds, however, comes from a Smithsonian project to document Chinese folk songs. The liner notes of the album (available here) describes this song as "a dance-song" where the singer is a child who is saying goodbye to the migrating birds. Temeraire, like Laurence, spends a lot of time Leaving Places, but especially China, which isn't exactly his literal childhood home, but certainly is his emotional childhood home, alongside the concept of the ocean. So reframing him as both the child saying goodbye and the birds which are leaving makes me! A little weepy.
Anyway the folk songs were important to me because they impart a sense of Place and Location and Belonging and History to these characters who are so often defined by their Comings And Goings. And yet place is such an important concept in the Temeraire novels, and also in real life, and also to how people develop! And I, personally, really like folk music. :^)
Okay last recommendation: The Fighting Temeraire by The Spartan Dreggs is such a fun and punchy song that I wanted to use so so badly but I just could not justify another shout-y folk punk songs on Temeraire's playlist without making his playlist just. Overwhelmingly shout-y folk punk as a sound.
Day 1 of Temeraire Tracks 2025 is Dragon and Captain so I chose our beautiful Harcourt and Lily <3 I like to imagine this sort of follows them from Loch Laggan to the Peninsular Wars.
Cover art is Esther by John Everett Millais and lightly edited in Canva.
Welcome to the inaugural Temeraire Tracks Fanmix event, designed to share, create, and collect playlists, mixtapes, and fanmixes inspired by our very own beloved dragons (and the humans who hang around them)! This event will run for seven days during the week of September 21st, and each day has an optional theme to inspire any new playlists you may not realize you want. I'm not in charge of you though- listen to the song in your heart, and make whatever playlists speak to you! Post your playlists to the #temerairetracks2025 tag to share during the week and enjoy some new music with your fellow aviators!
FAQs:
"What's a fanmix?" I'm so glad you asked. A fanmix is a playlist inspired by the media (in our case, the book series) that a fandom is centered on! Fanmixes are a tragically dying art in the post-8tracks era, and even if they weren't, there can always be more music to listen to.
"Where do the playlists live?" Whatever streaming service you use for music will work perfectly for your fanmix, though you can also just write a list of songs in text post form.
"Okay, but I have a lot to say about this particular song-" Lyrical analysis of why you chose what song you chose is not required but more than encouraged.
"How will I find other fanmixes?" Anything posted to the #temerairetracks2025 tag will be reblogged here, though the tag will also be an excellent place for viewing.
"What kind of music should I use?" Whatever music you listen to. Historically accurate sea shanties? God speed, soldier! 90s grunge? Absolutely! 70s glam rock? I think Iskierka would like it, and I know that I would! Lofi instrumentals? Original Soundtrack is a prompt for a reason! Playlist made of exclusively Hozier songs? He's the reigning king of fanfiction titles, after all! Genre, form, style is no barrier- make your playlists as you will!
If there are any other questions, feel free to ask. T-minus one month until Temeraire tracks!
Welcome to the inaugural Temeraire Tracks Fanmix event, designed to share, create, and collect playlists, mixtapes, and fanmixes inspired by our very own beloved dragons (and the humans who hang around them)! This event will run for seven days during the week of September 21st, and each day has an optional theme to inspire any new playlists you may not realize you want. I'm not in charge of you though- listen to the song in your heart, and make whatever playlists speak to you! Post your playlists to the #temerairetracks2025 tag to share during the week and enjoy some new music with your fellow aviators!
FAQs:
"What's a fanmix?" I'm so glad you asked. A fanmix is a playlist inspired by the media (in our case, the book series) that a fandom is centered on! Fanmixes are a tragically dying art in the post-8tracks era, and even if they weren't, there can always be more music to listen to.
"Where do the playlists live?" Whatever streaming service you use for music will work perfectly for your fanmix, though you can also just write a list of songs in text post form.
"Okay, but I have a lot to say about this particular song-" Lyrical analysis of why you chose what song you chose is not required but more than encouraged.
"How will I find other fanmixes?" Anything posted to the #temerairetracks2025 tag will be reblogged here, though the tag will also be an excellent place for viewing.
"What kind of music should I use?" Whatever music you listen to. Historically accurate sea shanties? God speed, soldier! 90s grunge? Absolutely! 70s glam rock? I think Iskierka would like it, and I know that I would! Lofi instrumentals? Original Soundtrack is a prompt for a reason! Playlist made of exclusively Hozier songs? He's the reigning king of fanfiction titles, after all! Genre, form, style is no barrier- make your playlists as you will!
If there are any other questions, feel free to ask. T-minus one month until Temeraire tracks!
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