#William Laurence

[emily-e-draws]

His Majesty’s Dragon the comfort book ever.. yes I have five hundred books on my tbr yes I am instead reading Temeraire again

[chiropteracupola]

you can turn anyone into little creechures :)

[pappadu]

gotta stop myself from binge-reading all the temeraire books somehow

[crownomancer]

I once again desperately want Temeraire acrylic charms, and because I haven’t found them yet, it means I have to make them myself.

So here’s my first one. We’ll see how much steam I have to complete others.

[kingoftheu]

William Laurence truly has one of the funniest character arcs of all time. He does a complete 360 over the course of the series. Totally turned around yet somehow exactly where he started. He completely changed his worldview while being absolutely steadfast about it. He undergoes impressive character development while his character does not change at all. He is so damn stubborn about his preconceived notions of honor that he is willing to abandon his preconceived notions of dragons, gender, and race. He transcends the regency society he lives in not by breaking the confines of rigid values but by expanding those confines to include everyone.

[sarcasticbeanie]

so it begins

[amemoryofwot]

Absolutely killed the poor man Edith has a body count

[sanjerina]

Rereading (via the excellent audiobooks) the Temeraire series lately. William Laurence is THE most self-sabotaging stupidly honorable pinnacle of Regency masculinity to exist. Tough as nails, exceedingly competent, will sail you a ship or carry out a diplomatic mission or teach himself an entirely new career! He is kind and handsome and well-spoken and humble! A genuine hero! Comes in clutch!

But (picks up blorbo by his cravat) give this doofus bitch a chance to shoot his own foot off for Honor and dumbass needs a dragon the size of a 747 and a full team of passionately loyal comrades to keep him still standing. You have never seen the like. His (subtexty) boyfriend, his (subtext is for losers) girlfriend, and his own dragon all roast him for it on the regular. A legend.

Forgot how much I love him. And all the people around him that are like “damn I admire your commitment to honor, but you do NOT have to go that hard, calm down”

[skelettflickan]

Temeraire and his pet human captain.

HUGE shoutout to everyone who helped me figuring out the dragon sizes!!

[tenowls]

if i could draw dragons i would put temeraire in the background

[emily-e-draws]

bedtime stories (a mathematics textbook)

[syaal]

Seaman's Leviathan

[wildtornado-o]

This is dumb

[pretendingday]

A Portrait of Two Gentlemen c. 1816

[sarcasticbeanie]

thank u @onawhimsicot for the vivid image. Cant believe I spent so long on a shitpost comic. Peace and love….

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[slimyshield]

bro. you're telling me that laurence had full on amnesia. like "weeks have passed and I still can't remember anything" amnesia. "the doctor thinks that if I haven't remembered anything by now I never will" amnesia. and the sight of his beloved dragon of eight years did not jog his memory, nor being told of various huge events in his life, including literal treason, which years after the fact still weighed heavily on him. none of that helped. I repeat: not even temeraire, the one living being above all others whose company he preferred. not seeing granby, who he knew almost as long as he knew temeraire, or berkeley or harcourt, or even emily roland, who looks a good deal like her mother, the woman laurence was lowkey dating for years. no, you're telling me that what jogged his memory at long last was seeing tharkay, who he had not known before temeraire; and he called him by his first name even as he remembered everything. and then he called in a favor to thee Napoleon Bonaparte, a favor earned when laurence committed treason, a favor that laurence practically vowed never to cash in on, in order to save tharkay's life even though he had also just realized tharkay was a spy, which laurence was super pissed about. and then later tharkay invited laurence and temeraire to live on his estate with him. as though this is all happening in a fucking romance novel instead of a nine-book series about the napoleonic wars. and I'm supposed to be normal about it??? I'm supposed to think that laurence and roland wound up together when tharkay is right there??? I Could Not Believe Mine Own Eyes reading the last two pages of league of dragons. oh my god