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! 🧡

[comicbookmama]

Chibi Iskierka : DRAGON TANTRUM!

[comicbookmama]

Hatchling Temeraire chibi…

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Drew these with my company-provided black marker on paper trays and cranked the contrast up to eleven

[aromantic-spinda]

My friend: can I ask you for relationship advice?

Me: *prepares a wheel of fortune where the only two options are "communicate" and "break up"* yeah sure go ahead

[hiveswap]

Everyone go look up the song nasa banned from space

[hiveswap]

Don't forget to play it loud as fuck

[kowai-kabuki-tanuki]

please….listen to the whole thing. And imagine that you are IN SPACE in 1973 and you JUST woke up. Every time you adjust…it escalates somehow.

This song had to be designed in a lab for the sole purpose of fucking with astronauts. whoever added it to the NASA playlist was a genius.

[elodieunderglass]

theres a lot of hootin and tootin

[jthm-moved]

[hobo-rg]

“spicy pillow” jokes aside, I think @flowerkrone​’s tags deserve a serious reply:

#my old phone looks like this on my shelf lmao #im too scared to touch it to throw it away #idk what trash this even goes into when its at this point

The pillow-shaped object here used to be the phone’s battery. It’s not a battery anymore. Now it’s a balloon full of corrosive, pyrophoric chemicals and hydrogen gas and it’s one puncture away from burning your house down. I am 100% serious. You should be scared to touch it.

But you gotta touch it, because you gotta get it out of your house before the pressure builds up to the point where the balloon pops. This isn’t going to happen soon – there is no need to panic – but it will happen eventually.

And, indeed, it doesn’t go in the ordinary trash. You put this in the ordinary trash and you’re gonna set the garbage truck on fire. Don’t do that to the garbage collectors, their job is hard enough already.

The first thing you need to do is get a fireproof container. The most common household item that qualifies as a fireproof container is a cast-iron cookpot with a cast-iron lid – often sold as a “Dutch oven.” Any other cooking container that’s unreactive, has a very high melting point, and has a lid made of the same materials will also work: enameled or stainless steel, Pyrex with glass lid, etc.

However: Do not use a pot with a PTFE-based non-stick coating. If the battery does explode, the fire will probably be hot enough to degrade a PTFE coating, producing toxic smoke. (Not that you should breathe the smoke from the battery fire either, but PTFE breakdown products are worse.) Do not use a pot made of aluminium or copper. The fire might even get hot enough to melt those.

Whatever container you use, you might have to throw away along with the phone, so don’t use your good Dutch oven for this. Go to a thrift store and buy a cheap one.

Once you have the fireproof container:

Gently pick up the phone and put it in the fireproof container. If possible, gently tape the phone to the bottom of the container to prevent it from bouncing around. Don’t put any padding in there, that’ll just make a fire worse if it does happen. Put the lid on and tape it shut.

Put a label on the container, something like “DEFECTIVE LI-ION BATTERY – FIRE HAZARD”.

It is now reasonably safe to move the container around. However, if the battery does explode, the container is very likely to leak smoke and get hot, so keep it in a well-ventilated area and away from things that will be damaged by heat. Don’t leave it exposed to the weather, either.

You need to find either a hazardous waste disposal site, or an e-waste recycler that will accept defective Li-ion batteries. I can’t help with that because I have no idea where you live.

However, your local fire department, if you have one, will probably be happy to help. Call their non-emergency number. Nothing is on fire yet, so this isn’t an emergency, but things that can easily start a fire are still within the fire department’s responsibilities. Tell them you have a phone with a bulging lithium-ion battery, you put it in a fireproof container, and you want to know how to dispose of it safely.

If the fire department tries to tell you this isn’t dangerous or it’s okay to throw it out in the regular trash (with or without fireproof container), hang up on them and write a cranky letter to your local government representatives, then keep looking for a proper disposal site.

When you do find a a hazardous waste disposal site or an e-waste recycler, call them and make sure they will take defective Li-ion batteries, before showing up. That’s also a good time to ask if they will let you have the fireproof container back.

[lolbatty]

Reblog to save lives.

[bisexualbaker]

[Image: A phone with the insides visible, including a battery that has inflated like a balloon. The photo is captioned, “Pillow :33”]

[flock-of-cassowaries]

Reblogging because I would have had absolutely no idea what to do, either.

[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).