Mmdrgaons

Temeraire, scaly beasts, and dragons in general.

[just-a-dead-meat-thing]

wherethe FUCK oare the reat of my fucking FANFICS

[chimaerakitten]

Literally the whole time I was reading the Temeraire series I was constantly thinking about how history is going to view some of the events, most of which must look absolutely wild from the outside.

And anyway I’ve lately come to the conclusion that despite Laurence’s many, many frustrations with the inaccuracies in the way his contemporaries view events that happen around him, he’s going to have the last word in the end because nobody else is writing shit down.

Like, Laurence is a very good corespondent who writes letters constantly and reports diligently, which is not true of most aviators. And considering how much of the series is just Tem&Co traveling all over the place there’s huge swathes of the story for which Laurence’s reports would be the only English-language primary source. Sipho will almost certainly be the one who writes the interesting, descriptive, polished versions, (the ones people actually want to read 200 years later) but he’ll be writing them years after the fact so Laurence’s reports will be the thing to check everything else against.

Which is going to mean there’s a lot of things that will eventually go down in history accurately despite several major colonial powers wishing it otherwise, but it will also make it hilariously difficult puzzle out anything about Laurence’s temperament etc. because the image of his personality that emerges from his oft-cited extremely dry reports and the image that emerges from every outside source is going to just be wildly different. Which will only increase the likelihood that he’s going to be one of those “ask six historians from six countries about him and you’ll get seven answers” historical figures despite the fact that in the English-speaking world at least he’s one of the people with the greatest control over the historical narrative.

[darlingofdots]

He also has absolutely no idea how people perceive him AT ALL. Like when the Russians say "ah yes we've heard of you we will do whatever you want" he is so absolutely flabbergasted. The man has incredible vibes dysphoria and I bet that makes comparing his records to other people's really difficult! Like yes he'll write down the facts accurately but his assessment of what the world thinks of him is SO off!

[chimaerakitten]

Yeah! And it’s off in such an odd way too because it’s both him not understanding that he’s an influential political figure of pretty significant consequence and him never quite figuring out that there’s a pretty large contingent of people who do not actually care about the treason—or at least, who only care about it insofar as it’s a pattern of behavior and not because it was dishonorable (or any of the other things he thinks about it)

[asterisk395]

#I’d say ‘it’s ok bc once temeraire becomes aware of this difficulty #he will write his own very extensive memoirs in like 150 years’ #but! that will actually make the confusion worse (via tanoraqui)

[crownomancer]

Starting sketch of Tharkay using these vintage ads as reference. Someone told me number 4 needed to be Tharkay and I wholeheartedly agreed.

[pegasusbrain]

Quite enamoured with this piece of artwork from the upcoming Temeraire ttrpg...

Let him in

[nighttimepatrons]

Granby's "support" team getting him ready to marry Anahuarque

[glowspider]

[aviantide]

Uhhh so I did the whole trio

An alternative version where Tharkay is halfway a pirate (inspired by some awesome fics that feature him with earrings)

[glowspider]

[glowspider]

[greaseonmymouth]

[Iskierka] added, “but I do not believe in taking foolhardy risks—”

Granby choked heavily upon his own dinner, coughing, and had to be rescued with a steady thumping upon his back, and several glasses of wine.

[crocheted-levitas]

Who should we crochet next?

Lien

Lily (+ formation)

Churki (I’m so irrationally excited to make 100 tiny feathers-)

Iskierka

Persitia

Other (comment + let us know!)

Voting ended onOct 6, 2025

[crocheted-levitas]

So, we’ve been keeping a secret…

Two secrets to be more precise.

Levitas has friends!

Temeraire has been around for several months now and I just finished volley a few days ago.

They are not to scale with each other as was my original plan, entirely because I just didn’t enjoy it. Temmy went through 3 different bodies before I decided to make him much smaller than I had been making him, and he turned out so much nicer than any of the previous attempts. Although- I’m not quite sure how Volley ended up being bigger than Levi. Volley did also get his very own scarf because both Levitas and Temmy have accessories and I didn’t want him to feel left out.

[iamstuckinthevoid]

good things about small fandoms

less notorious people

no drama

pretty tight knit

bad things about small fandoms

Where Is Everyone

[uovoc]

"a lot of theoretical knowledge that was anywhere from 60-70% inaccurate shit" is exactly how informed I am about the Napoleonic wars, thanks to the Temeraire series

[bugyarn]

crawls out of a hole. hello temeraire fans i’m coming home

[tane-p]

[tane-p]

[crownomancer]

Idea sketch for Laurence as the 10 of Swords.