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Volly and Levi doodle because this reply to my post made me SAD :V

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my one true Temeraire 'rarepair' so far? straightup Levitas and Volly I think they'd like each other. Friems,,

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Thinking about how at the beginning of His Majesty's Dragon, Laurence (and by extension the reader) is given to think that aviators are removed from society because dragons are unruly, barely tamed animals who would present a danger for society and at best be unable to coexist with humans without falling back on their base instincts, and that's why aviators don't marry or mingle much with the rest of society. We're lead to believe it's a sign they're not fit for proper socializing, as they prefer the company of beasts to their own kind.

Then we meet Temeraire, who can talk and is curious and polite and eager to help, and we meet Volly and James who immediately befriend this stranger, and we meet the aviators whose only real standard for friendship is "don't be a dick to dragons".

And we see China, whose dragons are part of society as much of humans, and the Tswana whose dragons are enraged by the theft of their families, and the Inca with dragons hoarding humans, and the Americans with their entrepreneurial dragons.

And all through the series we see dragons being a highly social species : small dragons unabashedly sleeping on bigger dragons, dragons gossiping like ladies at tea parties, ferals who lived their whole lives removed from humans and yet jumping at the first occasion of friendship with humans (interested as it might be), even the breeding grounds being a whole society with various kind of dragons mingling together (mostly) cordially, dragons wishing for jobs beyond war and, when they're allowed to, doing a damn good jobs and being very protective towards the humans they care about.

And it makes you realize, aviators didn't *need* to be shunned and scorned. Dragons never were an issue, and social creatures as they are, they thrive into society ; but they were deprived of it, and their humans with them.

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@elexuscal just proposed “Night at the museum movies in the Temeraire universe” and my immediate thought was:

One of the museums has a wax figure of Laurence

However, due to display size constraints their Temeraire figure is a cat-sized miniature

So Laurence carries him around

Everyone finds tiny!Temeraire adorable, much to his chagrin

and keep politely putting him off when he suggests he can solve one of the various plot problems

This continues right up until the climax of the movie

When tiny wax Temeraire proves that he does, in fact, still have the divine wind

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Rwby volume 10?

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i like Ma & Pa Kent a lot bcos like, their whole thing is that they’re the normalest, nicest human parents in existence, but also, they are the people who found a baby inside a crashed spaceship and just took him home and told no-one.

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listen hobbit pussy could be mediocre (doubtful) but even if it was it's still followed by a 17 course homecooked meal and the kind of weed that would make sauron scared. lithe beautiful immortal elven pussy has no power compared to the simple, hardworking hobbit. and it goes without saying that you cannot handle dwarven pussy.

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My fucking cat has figured out how to gently dig his claws into my eyelid and pull my eyes open while I'm sleeping. He does this. It does not hurt. He is remarkably precise and gentle. I however am asleep when it happens and do not appreciate being clockwork oranged by a needy clingy goddamn animal who thinks he needs attention.

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Waiting for Her Sock

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What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.

--Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

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Couldn't find a transparent version of this masterpiece anywhere so I made a quick one before work.

Cool werewolf for voters only

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I can't stop thinking about this reddit post on soapmaking dude

I cannot express what an insane recipe that is. No one else could grasp it either

Like beeswax doesn't. It kinda just stays as beeswax in the soap. The lye has nowhere to go with it. That liquid seeping out of the soap? The brown and clear drops?? That's lye. That's straight up lye. This mf made the soap equivalent of the Chernobyl elephants foot.