#about laurence

[chiropteracupola]

you can turn anyone into little creechures :)

[emily-e-draws]

bedtime stories (a mathematics textbook)

[avocado-hater]

If I had a nickle for everytime I've seen Timmy C marrying Florence P even tho he is in love with someone else I'd have two nickles which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

[captainjonnitkessler]

Granby: Laurence you have to help me, Izkierka is trying to marry me off to the Empress

Hammond: Laurence you have to help me, this dragon is trying to adopt me and she will NOT take no for an answer

Laurence, to whom the plot has been happening for seven straight books and is honestly just glad to not be the only one anymore: Yeah sometimes stuff like that happens, I find it's best to just accept it

[saildraws]

hide & seek

[choiraugur]

i havent drawn laurence in a hot minute

[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

[istadris]

I love that in a world where dragons are high social, extreme pack-bonding creatures, who in some regions litterally hoard humans alongside gold, Temeraire is still regarded by about every dragon as particularly protective, jealous and obsessive of Laurencd.

He's a crazy cat lady but he refuses to even entertain the idea that he'll outlive his beloved pet.

[bahoreal]

Yonderland 3x04 Boo

Cake Bake Lady Edith the woman of my dreams

[aimeedaisies]

12 year old Zara Phillips giving her step-dad Tim Laurence a bite of her mars bar, whilst Princess Anne watches on, at the Gleneagles charity golf competition in Scotland, on 17th May 1993.

Thank you @paniniseller for finding the wonderful video 🫶

[chiropteracupola]

A very fine captain, and a finer friend.

[emily-e-draws]

temeraire!!!

a sneak peek from my latest batch of sketches up on patreon :-)

[thiziri]

Princess Anne and Sir Tim Laurence visiting Lycee Auffray where Team GB resides, on 28 July 2024.

[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.

[laurancezvahlslefteyebrow]

His Choice

Laurance Version

based on this v

basically what if Laurance sacrificed himself to save Garroth and kill Zane instead of Aaron

Edit: the fic is up

[choiraugur]

curiosity killed the cat / satisfaction made it thirsty