#first name basis

[dynatoxinc]

Saw someone on twitter say how this scene looked like Wade was introducing his boyfriend to his mom for the first time, and I want to say, what do mean “looked like.” This was Wade introducing his boyfriend to his mom.

[marioposssa]

There's a joke I've heard a few times, that Laurence is so formal that even his lover calls him by his last name.

And there's certainly something to that idea so I wanted to do some fun statistics on the question:

Who get's called by their first name in Temeraire, how often (and by whom)?

For anybody who only wants the numbers here's the overall highscore:

Total mentions by first name only (638 total)

1st "Jane" Roland: 243

2nd "Emily" Roland: 154

3rd "Catherine" Harcourt: 100

4th "Edith" Galman/Woolvey: 55

5th "John" Granby: 25

6th "Tom" Riley: 23

7th "George" Allendale: 8 (all in Victory of Eagles)

8th "Tenzing" Tharkay: 6

9th "Henry" Ferris: 5 (all by his family in Empire of Ivory)

10th "Jean-Paul" Choiseul, "Augustine" Little, "Bertram" Woolvey, "Gerry" Stuart: 1

The more in-depth answer got way longer than expected, so I decided to split this post up a bit. For a more thorough look at first four places, keep on reading after the cut.

For place 5-10 read on in part 2. For a look into usage of Will and some dragon thoughs go to part 3

The place for most first name mentions over all goes to Jane Roland, who is mentioned a staggering 243 times out of 638 total. Laurence starts both thinking of her and addressing her as Jane after their first night together and even Temeraire uses Admiral Rolands first name in conversation (in Black Powder War).

What is interesting to me is that, after Laurence starts he does not really stop thinking of her as 'Jane' or addressing her as such in conversation, even after their break at the end of Empire of Ivory and through Laurence's general feelings of guilt in the later books. To me this goes a long way of showing that Laurence still considers them close, even if he can not get over the harm he has caused with his actions after taking the dragons cure to Napoleon.

Beyond Laurence narration, we also get two other moments in League of Dragon where Excidium talks of her as 'Jane' and 'my Jane' <3.

Looking beyond Jane Roland, one of the most consistent topics in her conversations with Laurence beyond the war seems to be her daughter. As soon as Jane first mentions Emily by her first name in His Majesty's Dragon, Laurence picks it up and Emily Roland becomes Emily more often than not from then on. This seems to happen especially often in more familial or interpersonal scenes, such as when Laurence takes her and Demane to task about their relationship in Crucible of Gold or when she is meeting Laurence father at Wilberforce's subscription-rally early in Empire of Ivory.

Emily is also called by her first name by both Temeraire and Mrs. Pemberton, who in their own way might both count her as part of their family or as in their care. We may also guess that, since Emily is friendly with a number of characters especially other minors over the course of the book, she may also go by Emily in a lot of other occasions that are simply not part of the narrative.

Interestingly, while Laurence is shy of calling any of the other aviators by their first name, he starts calling Catherine Harcourt 'Catherine' in his head by Empire of Ivory. Specifically he starts using the name after seeing Tom Riley greeting her on the 'Allegiance'. This moment seems to signify a shift in Laurence perceiving her as different from just her status as an aviator friend or acquaintance. While to our knowledge he never uses the name to her face, he also starts calling her Catherine when talking to Tom Riley.

The usage of 'Catherine' continues through Laurence narration in Victory of Eagles, though he is back to using 'Captain Harcourt' in the later books.

Overall there are 100 times when Harcourt is called Catherine.

In conversation it is mostly Lily (11) who uses her first name, but there's also Jane Roland who calls Harcourt Catherine in non-formal settings (2).

And then there's Choiseul in His Majesty's Dragon of course. His use of 'Catherine' is a pretty good indicator of their intimacy, even before Laurence picks up on their relationship. I think it works so well, since at that point in the books, the mention of any first names has been pretty rare. In response she calls him Jean-Paul. This stops immediately after Choiseul's betrayal though, and indeed he never mentions her by name from this point on until his execution.

I also want to mention Rankin, who certainly has not earned the informality, but calls Harcourt almost dismissively by her first name at her first introduction to Laurence. Possibly being condescending both about her age, as well as her being a women.

Overall I think the use of Harcourts first name in the books is the most varied and it can almost always tell us as much, if not more, about the people using it in their different forms than about Catherine Harcourt herself.

Forth in place of intimate mentions is Edith 'Woolvey' née Galman. As Laurence former promised childhood friend he is consistently on a first name basis with her. She is mentioned as just 'Edith' 55 times in the course of four of the books: His Majesty's Dragon, Victory of Eagles, Blood of Tyrants - where Laurence thinks of her exactly once during his amnesiac arc and finally League of Dragons.

As you may have guessed from the numbers, the women make up the staggering majority of all first name mentions with a staggering 552 of 638, or 86% of all moments.

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Notes on the gathered data: I looked at all instances of known first names of main or supporting characters, but excluded the following:

Any mention where the first name was part of the full name or was prefixed by a title (such as Captain Catherine Harcourt, Lady Emily)

Any dragons, since dragons (with exceptions) only have single name

Any character mentioned exclusively by their first name (I'm sorry Demane, Sipho, little Gerry the Orphan and various babes)

[icryaboutit]

Strawberry Party!

SUMMARY: What happened at the end of Chapter 1

TAGS: Fluff, Baker Fae!Yuu/BF!Yuu/Patissier Fae!Yuu, Male Yuu, Heartslabyul chapter

WORD COUNT: 1,996 words

After the whole Overblot with Riddle Rosehearts, Yuu had been in peace doing school work and keeping Grim in Line.

"Yuu~!"

"Hey, Ace! You can't just burst in the Prefect's dorm as you please!"

And just like that Yuu's peace was broken.

"What is it you two? Causing so much ruckus early in the morning, Rosehearts would have scolded you two."

"Scold us later, remember the promised Unbirthday Party?"

Ace questioned, a cheeky grin on his face.

"*Sigh* How can I forget? That was also the same day you punched Rosehearts and the day of his overblot."

"Geez! No need to bring up ancient history... But anyways, it's today at three pm sharp, and you're invited!"

Yuu mused at this, a smile gracing his face.

"I see... Do I need to bring something with me? A gift?"

"Nah~ This is a sorry party for what he had said and done, so no need to bring any gifts!"

"Okay then, You two should head to your classes soon, I was exempted by Crewel-sensei after passing one of his hardest quizzes."

"Tch, you're definitely the favorite."

"Ace!"

"What? It's the truth!"

Yuu chuckled at their interaction, he reached both of his hands to place it on their heads.

"Grim is by the couch sleeping, bring him along with you, and hurry up. Crewel-sensei will get angry if you arrive late."

He said ruffling their hair before retracting his hands. Yuu looked amused at their flustered expression.

"Even though Ace said I didn't need to bring anything... It'll be rude to do so right?"

Yuu muttered to himself as he got all the ingredients and tools ready.

"And besides, Ace had punched Rosehearts really hard. This will do well as a sorry gift."

*Snap*

With a snap of his fingers, every thing was set up.

"Okay, so first..."

Yuu grabbed a bowl of strawberries and poured them into the saucepan, and proceeded to pour in a small cup of sugar, before opening the stove on low heat and mixing the two ingredients carefully.

As Yuu let go of the rubber spatula, it continued to mix it self as Yuu did the other things that needed to be done.

He went to another stove and began to melt some butter at the right temperature, left it alone as he went to grab a set of whole cookies, placed it in some plastic bag, and proceeded to mash it up using the counter tap, as he repeatedly smashed the cookies, making it into crumbs.

He then took them out and placed them in a bowl, before going to the stove and shutting it off, and getting the melted butter to pour it on the cookie crumbs. He then began to gently mix the two ingredients together.

Hearing the strawberries begin to cackle more, he let go of the spatula to cut some lemon, and at the same time, the spatula began mixing by itself like before.

He squeezed the lemon into a cup, once it all got squeezed in, he began to pick out the fallen lemon seeds, before heading to the stove with the lemon juice in hand. Pouring only the right amount of lemon juice, Yuu left it to stir as he went back to preparing other things.

At this point, the previous mixture of cookie crumbs and melted butter was now patted down by a spatula and the bottom of a floating cup., by the floating spatula, as instructed by Yuu.

Seeing that everything was set, Yuu placed it in the freezer as he dealt with another task. He got out some cold water, and poured it in a rectangular bowl, before adding gelatin into it. He then proceeded to place it in the refrigerator to cool before going to do another task.

He took out a huge glass bowl, and there he smashed some cream cheese with a whisk, flattening it down like he did for the mold, stirring it repeatedly to make it more liquid-like.

Just like before, Yuu left the whisk to do its thing as he came back for the strawberries that were still being stirred by the rubber spatula. Looking at it, Yuu hummed in satisfaction, turning off the stove, and taking control of the spatula.

He then began to pour the contents of the saucepan, at an already-readied tool, to help filter out the chunks. Yuu mixed the contents as they fell on a clear bowl. After that, he placed a clear plastic wrap on top of it and chilled it in the freezer.

Finishing that, he went and grabbed the remaining lemon juice, and poured it into the mixture of cream cheese, before taking back control of mixing it.

***

Placing down the spatula, Yuu flicked his hand. At that, the fridge opened, and out came the rectangular bowl that you had placed the gelatin in the fridge, as the door closed.

With a swish of his index finger, the rectangular thin-shaped gelatin floated and got gently squeezed, to drain out excess water, before placing it in a smaller ceramic bowl.

It then floated in his hands, Yuu held it as his hand slightly glowed red-orange. The gelatin in the ceramic cup then turned into a liquid, that was poured into the cream, cheese mixture.

***

Yuu went back to the fridge to get out the strawberry that he had placed in the freezer and poured it into the thick substance in the clear bowl. (While he does that, a floating electric mixer, was mixing some heavy cream, in another clear bowl.)

Mixing it thoroughly, the color of the contents in the bowl began to change because of the strawberry puree in the mix. After some mixing, he grabbed the heavy cream that had been mixed and added it to the bowl he was mixing.

After that, another set of mixing went on before the mold with the cookie crumbs was in came out from the freezer, and floated next to the clear bowl.

Yuu began to pour an even amount of the contents of the clear bowl and, he placed down the bowl, as he shook the mold slightly which now contained some creamy content side ways gently, to even it out before he Yuu let go of it, and started floating back to the freezer.

***

Yuu poured in the last bits of the creamy mixture, with an obviously darker pink color, before finally putting it in the freezer, and setting up a 2-hour timer.

Yuu used that time to cut up some of his excess strawberries for decorations. And used the remaining time to bathe.

***

2 hours passed, and Yuu finally took out his creation from the freezer. He already had prepared a steamed towel for an easy release of the mold.

Finally lifting the mold, revealed different types of shades of pink, all in a perfect circular line. This was further perfected by Yuu flattening out the sides of the cake.

Huffing in satisfaction, Yuu took out the pre-cut strawberries from the fridge and designed the top of the cake.

As he placed the finishing touches, a knock from the entrance was heard.

"Prefect~! I came to fetch you up for the Unbirthday Party!"

The familiar voice of Cater exclaimed, from outside.

"Wait just a bit, Cater-san!"

"Okie Dokie!"

Taking out a box that he had gotten from Sam's. He assembled the plain cardboard and placed the cake inside so that no outside elements could ruin the cake.

After all of that was done, Yuu made his way to greet Cater.

***

Yuu came to the Unbirthday Party holding a box and in a different set of clothing.

It turned out, that the reason why Cater came to get Yuu was because the Adeuce duo were busy painting roses and cleaning up... Well, The other Caters too...

The Heartslabyul students were so busy, that Cater needed to create multiple clones of himself so that he could personally get you.

***

"Hm? What is that Yuu?"

Rosehearts, who finally noticed the box on the table just in front of Yuu after the whole painting of the roses and tart failure shenanigans happened, questioned.

"Ah right! This is for you Rosehearts. A sorry cake for Ace's stupidity."

"Hey!"

"A cake?"

Rosehearts repeated ignoring Ace's outburst. Yuu handed the cake to Rosehearts, and the other boy accepted it with gratitude.

"Thank You, prefect."

"Didn't we agree that no helping him Yuu?!"

'You can bake henchman?!"

"I didn't help him bake an apology tart though? And yes Grim, I can bake."

"That's not what I meant!"

As Yuu and Ace exchanged some words, Rosehearts began to open the box. His eyes widened when he saw the cake inside.

"Woah..! You made this prefect?!"

Such an outburst was enough to catch everyone's attention of everyone. Now everyone's eyes were on the cake Yuu brought.

"Holy moly~! Now that's magicamable! Let me take a pic Riddle!"

Cater didn't even wait for Rosehearts's reply, as he was already all over the cake while taking different angled pictures.

"You could bake the whole time?!"

"Mow Ace-"

NO! You could have helped us immediately but nooo!"

Ace gripped both of Yuu's shoulders, as he shook them. Yuu didn't seem to care though, letting himself get shaken. Until Deuce stops him.

"Oh c'mon, Ace! Even if the prefect can bake, it wouldn't mean he can also bake tarts."

"Actually I can-"

"SEE! He could have helped US!!"

"Correction! YOU, he could have helped YOU. Not us, I nor Yuu had any ties with your punishment and had clearly no reason to help you for your mistakes."

Deuce who spoke, made Ace look at him in bewilderment.

"The hell you acting all mature n' stuff? You hit your head or something?"

"The hell-!?"

"Amazing..! Can you tell me how you made them prefect? If not it's fine."

"Nah, I can tell you, I'll even give you the recipe if you want."

"Really?! That'll be great! Thank You!"

As Ace and Deuce argued, Yuu and Trey were in their own world, Cater was done taking pictures and was already picking the greater-angled ones to post to Magicam.

Rosehearts amongst the loud crowd looked at the cake in awe. It was unlike any cake presentation he had seen. It looked so simple, yet alluring for him.

"Don't you want to try it Rosehearts?"

Yuu who spoke, snapped out Rosehearts from his own world. His eyes that once looked at the cake now looked up to the people, who looked at him for his answer.

"If ya don't want it, then I'll gladly have it! My henchman was the one to make it after all!"

Grim who was about to pounce on the cake was stopped by Yuu, who proceeded to scold him.

Seeing this, Rosehearts let out an amused huff, before taking a knife to cut a piece of cake to put on his plate. Placing the knife down, Rosehearts looked at his perfectly portioned piece for a second, before grabbing a fork to eat the cake with.

Everyone, most especially Yuu, waited in anticipation, as Rosehearts placed a piece of cake in his mouth.

Roseheart's eyes widened, the fresh taste of strawberry was very much welcomed. The cool temperature was also a refreshing treat for a sunny afternoon tea. The soft texture of the cream he had tasted, melted into his mouth despite the cool taste, and the crunchy underlayer only enhanced the flavor of it!

"Delicious! How did you bake such a cool and fresh-tasting cake prefect!? It is unlike any cake I've ever tasted!"

Rosehearts exclaimed as he stared into Yuu's eyes with genuine delight and curiosity. Yuu dare even say it sparkled like the night stars.

"Pff- Hahahahaha~! I'll tell you after the Unbirthday Party. I already promised Trey to tell him later too, so just enjoy the cake Riddle. You deserve it."

Riddle who was caught off guard by the sudden call of his first name only smiled.

"Okay, Yuu."

[howifeltabouthim]

'My friend,' he said. 'I will be called friend by you no more,' she said. 'You must call me Marie, your own Marie, or you must never call me by any name again.'

Anthony Trollope, from Phineas Finn

[kwadlayns]

Small crows' hang out 🐦‍⬛🧡

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Bonus: their hand poses match their 3rd Year Karasuno jerseys (Yachi is automatic #4, of course)

[pandadrake]

Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) Post-Credits Scene (Colorized)

Been wanting to draw a thing including that cursed MCU Peter photo for a while.

Tumblr ate the image in my last post so here it is again.

[jbk405]

Where do you think we got Gob from?

Last name politicians

Trump

DeSantis

Haley

Biden

Warren

Klobuchar

First name politicians

Kamala

Bernie

Pete

Hillary

Jeb

[ciderjacks]

despite Laios low self esteem making him think that if he’d been eaten, Chilchuck and Marcille wouldn’t have helped Falin,

theres a small part of me that thinks the reason Chilchuck stayed with the party and went back in the dungeon in the first place was because he didn’t want to leave Laios alone. That Laios was moreso the reason he stayed.

[vveltergeist]

ALSO have a Bonus Grandpa Galeo Funny voiceline:

You've heard of 'he should be at the club' now get ready for 'he should be at a retirement home.'

[marioposssa]

As some have pointed out, 'Will'iam Laurence is absent from the last two posts on first names. I wanted to do have a bit of a separate look at him and also take a further look into how the dragons deal with the whole first name vs last name matter.

Who's calling William 'Will' Laurence by his first name?

'Will'iam Score: 15 total 1st Edith: 4 2nd Lady Allendale, George Allendale & Tenzing Tharkay: 3 3rd Gerry Stuart: 1 ?th Granby: 1?

To answer, it's mostly "family". Edith calls or mentions him as 'Will' 4 times and we get 3 moments each of his brother George and his Mother Lady Allendale calling him by his first name, with Lady Allendale using his full name William twice.

And then there's Tenzing Tharkay, who after his dramatic rescue and Laurence being cured from his Amnesia in Blood of Tyrants calls Laurence 'Will' a whole three times in the chapters until the end of the book.

We also get 2 more mentions. The first is Captain Gerry Stuart, a friend or acquaintance in the navy greeting Laurence during the evacuation of the Danzig Garrison at the end of Black Powder War.

The second is a great example of how Laurence narration actually obscures a lot of the actual moments happening in the background of the book. An amnesiac Laurence in Blood of Tyrants mentions that Granby is 'a man who called him Will', implying that the first name basis has been reciprocal for some time even though there's no explicit moment in the text.

How many more people are there just casually calling Laurence by his Christian name? We will never know, because Laurence as so often, doesn't often tell

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And how do the dragons adress the humans? Well there is not too much data on this but we have instances of dragons calling their captains by their first name: Lily and Catherine and Immortalis and Augustine. As well as by their last name, namely Iskierka, Temeraire and Maximus who exclusively use Granby, Laurence and Berkley to refer to their own and each others captains.

When dragons talk about other people, they vary as much as any of the humans. It may be that they imitate their captains or other dragons in their address. For example Temeraire refers to Emily Roland by her first name, but uses last names to address most of the rest of his crew, mirroring Laurence. On the other hand Temeraire talks about Granby only on a last name basis, even though Laurence directly refers to him as John at least once in Cog, when talking to Temeraire.

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Previous posts: Part 1 | Part 2

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[6-epigraphs]

Me about Alain: His career wasn't defined by Senna 🤬🤬

Me about Ayrton: Yeah Prost was literally his entire life

[dykekarkat]

i wonder when wymack had to sit down and give neil the taxes talk or do u think he was just coasting along like yeah im already working with the yakuza still whats a little More tax fraud

*okay imagine a world where neil runs out of his blood money during his sophomore year for idk. whatever reasons you so wish*

neil: hey do u think i have time for a part time job before i get signed professionally. im out of cash

kevin: no you need to be putting all your energy into exy i cant believe-

nicky: that sounds like a great idea!

aaron: i think u mean terrible. can u imagine josten making your coffee? id be wondering if he poisoned it

nicky: nahhh with that face? everyone would be obsessed with the new cute barista

kevin: -you would even entertain such a thing exy is your LIFE. LITERALLY. you dont have time to play cafe when any second ichirou-

andrew: kevin.

kevin: ugh fine. whatever. go play barista for all i care im NOT helping you with taxes and im NOT explaining to ichirou why you're suddenly interested in a career in customer service.

aaron: what do u even know about taxes have u worked a single day in your life

neil: wait why would i pay taxes

everyone: ??????????

everyone: bcus you'd?? be on a payroll?? you have a legal identity now??

neil: oh what the fbi's gonna knock on my door for a little tax fraud? how r u even supposed to pay taxes? how would they even know i didnt do it. how would I even know.

nicky: oh god no one ever gave him the tax talk can someone get wymack

andrew already on the phone: wymack you have a very fun and entertaining evening ahead of you

[mishy-mashy]

Toga: Someone who wanted to be happy

Uraraka: Someone who wanted to make others happy

And also,

Toga: Someone who wanted the world to be easier to live in

Uraraka: Someone who wanted to make the world easier to live in for others

[animinarts]

This was not casual

I will not get over this scene

[losttranslator]

using "tu" and "vous" incorrectly in french dubs and subtitles should be punishable by law actually. like with jail time or something