DRAGONS.

🌵20s😌they/them🧡dragon biologist🐉 🐺blogging out of the rain 🌧️

[travellingdragon]

Hi! If you've stumbled across this blog because of Temeraire, maybe have a look at my quite long Temeraire tag list.

And here's my art tags: 🎨 general/all 🐉 Temeraire 🐲 other dragon art 🖌️art that is not dragons (surprise that exists ^^)

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Please do not repost my art! 🧡

[c0smicf00x]

I've been absolutely devouring the Temeraire books, so here's a little Lung Tien Lien for y'all :)

[khorazir]

Watercolours for Black Powder War

The third commission by Subterranean Press for Naomi Novik’s splendid Temeraire novels. The first three books are:

His Majesty’s Dragon

Throne of Jade

Black Powder War

All my Temeraire artwork (also uncommissioned stuff I did for myself) can be found at my website. Some are also available as prints at my Artflakes shop.

[khorazir]

Watercolours for Throne of Jade

Some years ago, I was lucky to be commissioned by Subterranean Press to illustrate the first three of Naomi Novik’s splendid Temeraire novels. The books are:

His Majesty’s Dragon

Throne of Jade

Black Powder War

All my Temeraire artwork (also uncommissioned stuff I did for myself) can be found at my website. Some are also available as prints at my Artflakes shop.

[khorazir]

“The Hatchling”, “A life changed”, “Shelter” and “First Flight”

Four watercolours I painted in late 2006 and 2007 after reading His Majesty’s Dragon, the first book of Naomi Novik’s marvellous Temeraire-series, a Napoleonic Era AU that combines the historic setting with the fantastical element of dragons. For me, it provided an excuse to paint guys in naval uniforms (as if I needed one …).

When I heard that Subterranean Press was about to publish limited editions of these books and was considering to have them illustrated but was yet lacking an illustrator, I emailed them out of the blue and included the artworks. Some time later, I was commissioned to illustrate the first three books. Sometimes, things just work.

For anyone interested in acquiring the watercolours in the form of prints, they and plenty other artworks (mostly Tolkien and Beowulf) can be found at my Artflakes shop.

[khorazir]

Watercolours for His Majesty’s Dragon

Some years ago, I was lucky to be commissioned by Subterranean Press to illustrate the first three of Naomi Novik’s splendid Temeraire novels. Been meaning to post my artwork here for ages. The books are:

His Majesty’s Dragon

Throne of Jade

Black Powder War

I’ll post the other two sets of illustrations tomorrow and the day after. All my Temeraire artwork (also uncommissioned stuff I did for myself) can be found at my website. Some are also available as prints at my Artflakes shop.

[systlin]

Getting down on my knees and thanking the humans who invented dishwashers and washing machines.

[specialagentartemis]

I do increasingly want to make an ace and aro anthology where cozy slice of life is OUT and Bad Rep™ is IN. Give me your aro and ace nonhumans, your alien species where no one has invented romance and sex doesn’t exist, your loners, your grouchy bad-attitude assholes, your hackers who feel more affinity with computers than other people, your characters who are deeply hurt when others abandon them for their romantic partners and are not gracious about it, your people who feel outside of their society, your characters who make bad and selfish decisions and conversely your characters who are dramatically self sacrificing. Give me military SF and postapocalypse and angst and drama and stories where a small research team goes to a distant planet and everybody fuckin dies. Give me ace characters who aren’t patient or understanding and aro characters who do not give a shit about romance, fictional or otherwise. Give me aroaces who decide to take fate into their own hands and bomb Mercury about it

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Sometimes my little cat will approach me all "what if there was a little cat now" and it's always an excellent idea I love when there's a little cat

[gaynfl-moved]

STOP CENSORING YOURSELF ON THIS WEBSITE. FUCK SHIT SEX MURDER ALCOHOL DRUGS FAGGOT DYKE QUEER TRANS BITCH SLUT WHORE SEX SEX SEX SEX!!!!!!!!!!!

[your-sleep-paraylis-demon]

OK OK. UH UHHHH..... KILL?

[gaynfl-moved]

[harvestspriteirl]

[enki2]

[thebdelliumlady]

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

[chapscher]

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).

[khorazir]

Crossover between Patrick O'Brian’s brilliant Aubrey/Maturin series and Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series: “Sonata for violin, ‘cello, flute and dragonhorn”. I think I need to watch Master and Commander again …

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

The world spins around you

[guesst]

i have an agenda now

[guesst]

Another baby tem and will fic for you: Both of us a Hatchling by flyndragon

OOH THANK YOU here’s a teenage laurence for you

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Queen of all evil

[chiropteracupola]

It's the gift that keeps on getting / It's the shrapnel from your wedding, she said / Hey, I love you better when you're wild! Suits you better if I say so...

proposing what I believe to be a wholly new temeraire ship. a marriage alliance with napoleon could give you half the world on a platter, but even that doesn't compare with His Majesty’s Trusty And Well-Beloved Admiral of the Air Jane Goddamn Roland. let's consider.