#william laurence

[skelettflickan]

What if... modern teens AU...

[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 :)

[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.

[argetcross]

Temeraire, Tharkay, and Laurence in the Alps

[goddamnshinyrock]

a spy and a traitor (war heroes) share a drink and a laugh

[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.

[skelettflickan]

This whole comic was supposed to be a treat for an AO3 exchange for @fuckman360kickflip, who had put both modern AU and piercings in her list of prompts. I had a vision and had to make something out of it. I never did any of this potato + needle at home piercing shit myself, but I had friends who did, and yes, they were Very Worried about piercing the gay™ ear. It was a big deal. Also the piercings usually got Very infected. Simpler (worse) times. Excellent fodder for putting characters in situations though.

[emily-e-draws]

bedtime stories (a mathematics textbook)

[sarcasticbeanie]

so it begins

[dreadbirate]

I love a man of honor punishing himself with responsibility for atrocity because he thinks he is no longer good for anything else.

[andro-beaurepaire]

Fighting the artblock, one (very) self indulgent sketch at a time.

[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

[amemoryofwot]

Absolutely killed the poor man Edith has a body count

[presidentheartbeat6]

like they really just let this random navy man up on a dragon