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It is the mid-1800s. You are Karl Marx. You have risen to prominence aming leftist circles, with your scathing attacks in contemporary Capitalism and Imperialism. You hear a knock on your front door. Your front door is shattered.
A very large black dragon, a veteran of the British Millitary, apologizes for the damage. His name is Temeraire, and he is a Member of Parliament.
He has read your work and wishes to discuss it with you.
#temeraire#temeraire books#his majesty's dragon#karl marx#Friedrich Engels#communism#communists#naomi novik#revolution#revolutions#leftism#left wing#dragon#dragon rider#military#talking dragon#william laurence#temeraire would love the 'workers of the world unite' bit#but would not like being told that wealth is bad#“ok the workers can own the means of production but can I keep my very nice chain”#“i do not understand why i should have to give up my gold. i made it through my labor”#Temeraire accidentally causes a leftist schism
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Quick sketch of Iskierka!
She really came out of the egg and said 'when I grow up I wanna be a problem'
#temeraire#iskierka#his majesty's dragon#naomi novik#fanart#bookart#I'm having Temeraine brain rot so bad it's not even funny anymore
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Laurence, meeting Temeraire:
it is a beast, to be sure, and to be its captain shall be a hard burden... although one i will shoulder for love of my country, even as it shall consign me to misery
Laurence, meeting Granby:
what a miserable fellow of poor temperament, holding unfair grudges. he dislikes me quite intensely and the feeling is mutual.
Laurence, meeting Tharkay:
a rather unsavoury fellow who seems quite inclined to leave us for dead in the desert who seems to enjoy mocking me. i must be mindful that he does not double-cross us.
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(anyway, my point is that someone isn't very good at recognising lifelong-companions-to-be)
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woe, dragon militia be upon ye
That's everyone! Every named dragon in the dragon militia (as of Victory of Eagles). This doodle required far more research than I want to admit. I labeled all the dragons below for your reading pleasure:
Kinda different from my normal stuff, but sometimes you just have to scribble dragons, you know? Thanks for reading!
#his majesty's dragon#temeraire#iskierka#arkady#im not going to tag all thirty dragons its gonna take forever#dragons#dragon#2024#my art#got to draw many species i haven't before!#i want to do more chequered nettles and winchesters if I have the time
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I’m usually not someone who wants to buy a new printing of a book just because it has a different cover but the Temeraire art by Rovina Cai has me so tempted!
There is even spine cover art for the entire collection!
This series remains one of my favorites and I implore everyone to read these wonderful books! Dragon riders in the Napoleonic wars, with rich cultures from around the world, intense battle scenes, dragons arguing for fair rights and pay, and more!
#temeraire#naomi novik#his majesty's dragon#books#dragon#dragon rider#throne of jade#black powder war#empire of ivory#victory of eagles#tongues of serpents#crucible of gold#blood of tyrants#league of dragons#stuff from me
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I recently finished the first Temeraire book, and I wanted to sketch out my headcanons for Maximus, Lily and Tem himself.
And a tiny Laurence too:
#dragons#my art#temeraire#maximus#lily#his majesty's dragon#i have to make him look like a chinese dragon#all of us do
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The true Temeraire experience
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Bitches be like “aww baby🥺” and the ‘baby’ is a 20 ton dragon.
(It’s me, I’m bitches)
#ro speaks#I started reading Temeraire and now he has my heart#flying death machine? I only see an insecure baby#his majesty's dragon#temeraire
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🥺🥺Laurence reads his dragon bedtime stories???? My heart
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Battle of the Ships
Round 3 Part 3 Poll 1
Per Aspera : It’s a ship with several large masts with kind of magic sails.
Temeraire :
He's a uuhhhhhhh dragon.
While he's more of a 'plane' technically I guess, his captain is a navy captain, he's named after the original ship 'Temeraire', and something like 75% at least of the books takes place on/around navy ships... Plus he likes swimming so I guess in a way he's a sea-faring vessel??
As far as looks go; big-ass black dragon.
#battle of the ships#tournament polls#round 3#per aspera#rolling with difficulty#rwd#temeraire books#temeraire#his majesty's dragon#naomi novik
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Temeraire Series Bingo Sheet!
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hello dear temeraire fandom! i made fanart!
well, actually, i made the fanart a while ago, when i started my reread. but i forgot to post it, so here it is now!
it's temeraire's egg!
#temeraire#william laurence#captain william laurence#tenzing tharkay#wilzing#john granby#augustine little#catherine harcourt#temeraire series#temeraire books#naomi novik#his majesty's dragon#mundane arts#life's mundanity
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this might not be the most canon visuals for temeraire and laurence i'm sort of just operating on vibes
～＞°）ニニニニ＝～
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Re-reading His Majesty's Dragon and the immediate thing that sticks out to me (besides my brain just flailing DRAGONS like the inner fangirl it is)...
Is how much the English treatment of dragons sucks.
I remember that being something of a slow build the first time I read it. Admittedly, I think that was mostly because that was like, over a decade ago, and I was just a teenager who just wasn't as media literate. It was also partially because of genre convention. For every 'dragon rider' story out there where the dragons and the humans are equal partners in societies where they have the same status, there's probably two others where dragons really are more animal-like, and must be trained like horses or raptors. (Or else, ones where they have human-level sapience but the narrative doesn't see anything wrong in treating them like animals.)
But in this series?
Temeraire comes right out of the egg talking. And not baby talk or anything. Fully formed, thoughtfully constructed sentences. He's young and naive and inquisitive and prideful but from the start he's clearly a person.
Yet what's the first thing he-- and all other English dragons-- receive?
A harness. Or else he might fly away, a wild creature.
Over the first part of the book we learn how:
the average person deeply mistrusts dragons, fearing that even "well trained" ones will lash out and kill humans
joining the dragon corps is considered... well, not a fate worse than death. but certainly not a respectable profession by any means
as such, said dragon riders are pretty firmly cloistered from polite society as much as possible.
all dragons are subject to eugenics breeding program to develop specific skills and traits
the army does everything it can to control who a dragon's handler is. they tell Temeraire truly dreadful lies about Laurence to debase his self-esteem and trick him into accepting another rider... No doubt these tactics are not unusual.
All these passing comments about "no one understands" the intellect of dragons, or how they make decisions, or roll their eyes at the creatures being so headstrong
but they're just
they're just people
and yes this becomes a bigger themes in later books. as we begin seeing other societies and discover that in other cultures dragons are treated as people, sometimes with great social standing...
but man it should be apparent from the start how truly fucked up the British Empire was on this front. (but then, it was the British Empire. So of course)
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In celebration of the Year of the Dragon, here's Lily's full formation overhead!
I really wanted to show the full variation in color and wing structure of the group. The wing shape is all based on different birds as that was the easiest way for me to visualize different skills between each dragon breed.
Would love to draw more of the middleweights and lightweights! I wasn't able to give them much detail here.
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reading some P. G. Wodehouse and this line perfectly encapsulates what Laurence's crew must have felt when they realised he was Serious about his neckcloth
#his majesty's dragon#temeraire#i really do think it's so funny when all the aviators are in shirtsleeves and laurence is just there. coat on. neckcloth tied. boots shined
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