[micanomancy]

YOU’RE TELLING ME JOHN GRANBY LIKES DICK AND BALLS???? Never cheered so loud in my life

[checkoutmybookshelf]

Not Captain William Laurence dealing with his big feelings about his real father and his father figure dying at nearly the same time by *checks notes* challenging a drunk Prussian to a duel at a party and justifying it by saying Temeraire can take orders without him to mediate them.

[themundanemudperson]

hello dear temeraire fandom! i made fanart!

well, actually, i made the fanart a while ago, when i started my reread. but i forgot to post it, so here it is now!

it's temeraire's egg!

[omegas-reincarnation]

Laurence: I am an extremely law-abiding and naturally obedient person who would never challenge authority except in the most extreme and desperate circumstances. Tragically, these have occured every single day of my life.

[raincitygirl76]

Haha! And adding relevant tags from @cerulean-melancholy and @omegas-reincarnation

And more delightful tags from @owl——feathers

This is all referring to Captain William Laurence, the human protagonist of Naomi Novik’s Temeraire book series. Set in an alternate Napoleonic Wars where the belligerent countries all have dragon air forces.

Having sentient fighter planes that run on cows rather than jet fuel gets complicated. Particularly when you add the newly hatched Temeraire and his new handler, naval officer William Laurence. Laurence was not an Aerial Corps officer, he was on a Royal Navy ship that captured a French frigate with a dragon egg in the hold. A dragon egg that was about to hatch.

Dragons in Naomi Novik’s universe imprint on the first human they communicate with, like very large and fierce ducklings. So now Laurence is an Aerial Corps officer. Between Laurence’s strong (but rather idiosyncratic) sense of ethics and Temeraire’s….everything, His Majesty’s Aerial Corps doesn’t know what hit them.

Laurence is a little like if Captain America lived 200 years ago and was British. He looks all patriotic and dutiful at first glance, the perfect officer. But he’s a stubborn son of a bitch, and his sense of personal morality and justice can be a real pain in the ass for his superiors.

However, hilariously, Laurence is convinced Temeraire is the only chaotic one in their partnership. As far as Laurence is concerned, he himself only ever does his duty. It’s just that Laurence tends to define his own duty. He doesn’t let other, higher-ranking humans define it for him.

Also, Laurence is very competent and hardworking. His partnership with a highly intelligent, highly creative, highly chaotic dragon makes them a formidable team. And not only against Napoleon.

[galexibrain]

‘He said you did not like dragons, and that you wanted to be back on your ship,’ Temeraire said, very low. ‘He said you only flew with me out of duty.’

Laurence went breathless with rage; if Dayes had been in front of him he would have flown at the man barehanded and beaten him.

I love those reminders of feral Laurence is in his heart. That man is a menace barely reined in by good manners.

[arabella-strange]

[source: Karen Harvey, "The History of Masculinity, circa 1650–1800," JBS (2005): p.301.]

[istadris]

It doesn't matter if no one in the Temeraire fandom mentions it, including Novik herself, I know in my heart of hearts there was an transitory period during which William Laurence, experienced Navy captain, dignified gentleman, prim and proper lad, grown-ass man of thirty built like a fridge, had to get used to being scooped up like a kitten whenever his 20 tons cat got too emotional.

[fedyastars]

someone needs to sedate me. I’m CRAZY ABOUT LAURENCE!!!!!!!! CAPTAIN WILLIAM LAURENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AUGHHHHHHFHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh

[cerulean-melancholy]

My man William Difficult Situation Laurence really went from being a normal post-captain slowly making his way up the list to being personally acquainted with Every. Single. Royal. of importance on the PLANET (except for the King of England, whose nation, by everyone's reckoning but that of the British, is a backwards hovel of a country anyway) (and that's if we discard that time when DISGRACED Laurence helped the King to walk across a wet courtyard).

My man got adopted by a twenty-ton dragon-shaped metonymy for radical reform and now he's the ADOPTIVE SON (/brother) to the Emperor of Fucking China and the Tsar of Russia requests him Personally so that the board has to make him (a convicted traitor!!!) a fucking Admiral. The King of the Tswana had had him lashed and their Prince greets him years after the fact. The Inca aka most powerful woman in the world feels the need to explain herself to him. Napoleon wants to fuck him so bad it makes him look stupid.

[voluptatiscausa]

Temeraire dashboard simulator

☁️ dragonflyer

temeraire the boat 🤝 temeraire the dragon

stolen from the french

😠 angrywinchester

ok for a moment i was going crazy i was like. wasnt it english built. but apparently the battle of trafalgar temeraire was named after an earlier temeraire stolen from the french

😠 angrywinchester

also fantastic move by william laurence, after stealing a dragon egg from the french. “yknow what would be so funny-"

☁️ dragonflyer

the royal navy: rubbing it in since 1759

☁️ dragonflyer

going through the wikipedia for the temeraire-class and I swear like a third of these things were captured by the british lmao

😠 angrywinchester

“should we build a new temeraire?” “no….just wait….wait for the french to build it…"

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🗡️ rolandinthedeep

New South Wales core

😎 kuling-chill-e

:(

🗡️ rolandinthedeep

/affectionate

😎 kuling-chill-e

:)

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🚓 is-william-laurence-currently-a-convicted-criminal

no

#check back tomorrow

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🐉 temer-marry-me

fellow dragonfuckers I’m thinking about those tendrils today

🧚🏽 dragonrider69

#girl I am at WORK you cannot be distracting me like this

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🗣️ morelikeaerialbore

people thinking we can’t let dragons walk around London because of the size of the streets or the citizenry pissing themselves in fear, WRONG, the real reason is dragons talk too loud and you would never escape the sound of Perscitia arguing with the finance bros about bitcoin

#I’m the only one brave enough to say this #dragon rights

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🪽 wingmanbutnotmid

the captain and tharkay are back from yet another harrowing adventure

#the sight of tharkay literally cured his amnesia and you’re telling me I’m tinhatting

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👑 vivelempereur

New chapter of The Emperor’s Greatest Conquest (E, 183,832k, 42/?) is up!

Laurence does not turn away from the window as Napoleon enters the room. He must not have heard the footsteps, too absorbed in contemplating the beauty of the Emperor’s work, the gracious pavilions, the broad streets, the well-tended and loyal beasts. That is the only explanation; Laurence is ever courteous, even when held as a guest of honour in a land not his own. It gives Napoleon a chance to study Laurence in profile; the proud raise of the chin, the intelligence in the gaze, the slight frown of the lips. To any other, perhaps, his face would be unreadable. But to the Emperor…he knows. He knows the war that wages in that noble breast, of loyalty and desire. Today, Napoleon vows, Today. Today, I will taste a tongue that has never told a lie. Today, I will have him.

#Napoleon x Laurence #Napolliam #rpf #things are finally getting spicy! #don’t like don’t read #next chapter will post after this one gets at least 500 comments

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👩🏼‍✈️ themainjane

Longwing captains in books written by men: The wind tousled her auburn locks and parted her shirt, revealing the creamy hills of her bosom, as she stood on the neck of her dragon. She sighed, fearing such would be the only caresses she would ever know. When, oh, when would the admiral look upon her, and see, not a Captain of the aerial corps, but a woman? A soft and tender woman, with a woman’s needs and a woman’s heart?

Longwing captains in real life: I think I left my neckcloth in the tent of the courier I pegged last night

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💅 notsolittle

Napoleon if he was @kazilikdeeznuts’s captain

🔥 kazilikdeeznuts

As if my Granby wouldn’t look perfectly splendid with his tits out, I will commission this at once

🧯 longjohns

do nOT

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🇬🇧 ioutrankinyou

@/identifying-ships-in-posts was literally convicted of treason but y’all still reblogging. He is not your “wholesome navycore dad” he’s a fucking criminal. And all you apologists can stop sending me anons, it’s like I’m the only one who has any fucking loyalty to their country

🧯 longjohns

girl….just say you’re pro-war crimes it’s faster

#he’s really out here saying this shit with his whole chest still

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🏳️‍🌈 queerthesky

#just met admiral roland #join the corps they said #it’ll be fun they said #you can wear breeches and hang out with dragons #I am here to warn you that this is a joke they are playing on the sapphics #they want us dead

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☀️ alwaysanensign

look LOOK I’m glad the captain got his memories back too ALL I AM SAYING is it was so fucking funny to watch the most proper gentleman ever invented realize women served in the corps, AGAIN, we got to see it TWICE like you can’t pay for that kind of entertainment

🦅 flyyoufools

I knooooow I’m glad he’s loosened up but remember what he was like when he first got to Loch Laggan idk sometimes I miss that guy

🗡️ rolandinthedeep

petition to hit him on the head once a year and say “it’s ok sir we will take you to meet with the admiral” and re-introduce him to my mom

#please it would be so funny #I would trade christmas for this

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🪽 wingmanbutnotmid

Captain Laurence when you’ve been serving with him since the year 5 but still call everything that floats in water a boat

#he’s not mad he’s just disappointed

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[frishbi]

aint no way I'm forgetting them!!

[skelettflickan]

Reunion in Rio

Inspired by a fanfic by @verdet-cadet

Shout out to @ruvigapo for convincing me to crop the image lower and for sketching out the feet.

Zoom in to look at them cry :3c

[presidentheartbeat6]

theeeeeee. guys of all time

I CANT STOP DRAWING THEMB HELP.

[presidentheartbeat6]

redrawing some stuff.... I have so much tem fanart I haven't posted yet HELP

[skelettflickan]

Some quick doodles of Them. Trying to figure out how to draw all the characters again!!

[vastwinterskies]

Harcourt and Lily do the brush-brush-kiss thing when she is polishing Lily's scales.

Once Iskierka witnesses this, Granby is condemned to the very dangerous task of brush-brush-kissing the spikiest creature on earth ((who also produces steam and flames when well pleased))

[chiropteracupola]

Things will be different in the new year...

[skelettflickan]

She's just a little baby.........