#willzing

[fenrir-flamekeeper]

me when the guy i’ve been having unresolved feelings about brings me 20 feral dragons and acts all nonchalant about it

[linddzz]

what can I say. I love it when one is kinda dumb and noble headed to a fault and when one is smaller and also off their fucking rocker

[walkthebass]

I'm sorry, I'm still not over Tenzing "The 'journey' tempts me" Tharkay's complete and utter lack of subtlety. Mr. "Oh, I just thought this lot of previously hostile feral dragons from 1300 miles away might be useful." Mr. "The entire city is collapsing into chaos and flame; just stopping by to rescue you from certain death with a smooth one-liner." Mr. "Nothing interesting on, thought I might lock myself on a boat with you for eight months and go to Australia." To say nothing of the whole "move in with me" debacle. Yeah, completely normal behavior. Just ask Laurence on a date. You're embarrassing yourself.

[andro-beaurepaire]

I think you will like the countryside very much.

[syaal]

Capturing the moment

[waterlilyvioletfog]

No one prepared me for Tenzing Tharkay striding across the fields like 2005 Mr. Darcy to say sup i’ve got a mansion now. Uhhh Temeraire you wanna come to my house and join Parliament? Oh and Laurence can come too. I suppose. If he likes. Like i don’t know man, seeing you cured his amnesia and he sacrificed his own scruples enough to ask Napoleon for your pardon and now you’re inviting him to hang out with his hot rich badass best friend on a remote estate forever— i don’t know if he’ll agree! (OF COURSE HE’LL AGREE)

[galexibrain]

A drabble of Tharkay staring at Laurence.

Which could mean nothing.

[sere-allwehaveisnow]

Why Strathvagan?

Have you been wondering why so many post-canon Temeraire fics call Tharkay's Mysterious Scottish Estate Strathvagan?

Well, it's my fault. Canon is ambiguous about whether the location of Tharkay's estate is in England’s Peak District or in Scotland but, since I'm Scottish, my headcanon is the latter. I put it relatively close to the English border: in Ayrshire (I like a pun, so where else would an aviator live—plus it gives Tharkay and Laurence a nearby shoreline for romantic walks or endless wistful pining). And because of my love of puns, I called it Strathvagan. "Strath-" is a Gaelic place name element meaning valley, seen in names like Strathclyde. Its pronunciation is sometimes elided: Strathaven is pronounced "stray-ven".

So ... in my head at least, Strathvagan is pronounced "stra-vaygan". And "stravaigin" is an old Scots word for "roaming, wandering around."

So there you go. Strathvagan exists largely because of my desire to have Tharkay be called, basically, "Lord Wanderer". (And anyone who likes is welcome to use it! I get a little shiver of delight whenever it pops up in someone else’s fic!)