LINKDING

Summary: Final Paper for HIST-232, 19th Century Europe. Profile a change agent from between 1790-1910. Describe their influence on their social or political surroundings, and attempt to analyze the limits and drives behind their actions. // Temeraire's career, after the war. ➜ yuletide fanfic, for Temeraire ➜ in the form of a student's essay written centuries later about Temeraire's political career after the war ➜ absolutely delightful, the things you can see about what the standard narrative about Temeraire must have been, that this student is trying to upend! ➜ and it's so right about Temeraire, too....his temperament is revolutionary but he loves money too much to be in favour of any politics that might lead to him having less of it ➜ also, love the very Student Essay nature of it, with most of the footnoted sources leading back to a single book, lol ➜ 1k words in length

Summary: He had got everything he’d ever dared to want, and it felt like a fragile relic in his hands. ➜ yuletide fanfic, for Temeraire ➜ featuring laurence/tharkay on tharkay's estate post-canon; laurence comes to tharkay with a business proposition ➜ and by business proposition he means -- ➜ anyway it is SO CUTE I love themmmmm ➜ 2k words in length

Summary: Laurence says, “It is wholly natural, anyway, with no women around.” ➤ delightful post-canon queer gen temeraire fic ➤ ft. Laurence & Tharkay friendship, and Laurence realising some things about himself ➤ I love how much fun Tharkay can have teasing Laurence, and how Laurence despite his excess englishness is still willing to engage with the conversation! ➤ 800 words in length

no summary ➤ post-canon Temeraire fic about Laurence/Tharkay exploring Tharkay's estate for the first time ➤ really good at vibes and the themes and the narrative voice! loved this one! ➤ 7k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>AU: There is no fire on the Allegiance; Tharkay doesn't arrive in time to deliver his message.</blockquote>

Summary: <blockquote>AU meeting. During the Battle of the Nile, the Goliath burns. Lieutenant Laurence is saved from drowning by a Longwing named Excidium, and his captain.</blockquote> ➤ mutual admiration though nothing comes of it in the course of the story

Summary: <blockquote>Tenzing stays in Australia. And there is a moment where Laurence thinks, I am already a traitor – what is one more law?</blockquote> ➤ pining that never gets resolved within the space of the story

Summary: <blockquote>“Marry me,” says Laurence two weeks after they meet. Jane Roland laughs in his face.</blockquote> ➤ awww!

Summary: <blockquote>In many ways it seems that John's life revolves around William Laurence.</blockquote> ➤ from granby pov, about finally moving on and finding happiness in his relationship with little

Summary: <blockquote>Laurence delivers some worrisome news to Emily, then reassures her later. Early series.</blockquote>

Summary: <blockquote>One naturalist, obsessed with ocean fauna. One newly hatched dragon, eating up the local sheep herds. What else is there to say?</blockquote>

<blockquote>Or: 3 looks at Jack Aubrey in the Temeraire world.</blockquote>

<blockquote>With Temeraire and Tharkay gone, Jane proposes that Laurence help manage things at her estate awhile. Then Tharkay returns. Laurence had no idea Tharkay disliked the admiral so much.</blockquote>

<blockquote>After Yongxing's death, Laurence finds Emily crying in the garden. (Among all these political machinations, no one thinks of the children).</blockquote>

<blockquote>Tenzing Tharkay, trying to find William Laurence during the invasion of Britain, in more than one sense, must reconcile the man he knows with the massacres he is committing.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Laurence has amnesia, and is apparently a member of the Aviator Corps. But at least not all the news is bad - apparently it's legal for women to join!</blockquote> ➤ where Laurence is a woman who has been pretending to be a man

<blockquote>Laurence desires nothing more than to retire to Tharkay's estate and help Temeraire get to Parliament, for what more could he want than a place in Britain with space enough for a dragon, and the company of a dear friend? But wars rarely end so neatly. Bellicose lords, Bourbon princes, errant heirs and shadowy forces threaten to undermine the very peace that Laurence and Temeraire fought to obtain, and ruin the happiness that Laurence was just beginning to glimpse.</blockquote> ➤ a great post-canon fic about politics and relationships and thwarting a dastardly plot

<blockquote>Anne Elliot unexpectedly gets recruited to the Aerial Service. Frederick Wentworth is forced to wait and does not enjoy it.</blockquote>

<blockquote>General Wellington selects Colonel Fitzwilliam for a very singular honor during the Spanish Campaign: working with dragons-- and, in particular, with Captain Elizabeth Bennet, of His Majesty's Dragon, the Longwing Wollstonecraft. Temeraire/ Pride and Prejudice crossover entirely to have Elizabeth Bennet as a dragon captain during the Peninsular War, with Charlotte Lucas as her uber-capable first lieutenant.</blockquote> ➤ Series consists of: A Monstrous Regiment A Nobler Ambition Five Times Mary Crawford Kisses an Aviatrix (bookmarked separately) Five Times Frederick Wentworth Lied to a Superior Officer Epaulettes No Humor to Give Consequence First Meeting Lady Catherine de Bourgh has a pleasant fun-filled day The Reality of Promotion

<blockquote>After the war's end, Temeraire gets a pavilion, a seat in Parliament, and a secretary; Laurence and Tharkay get each other.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Laurence pauses. Looks around. He finds only the quiet woods, the crackling fire, and the energetic young dragon, now chewing contentedly on a fish-bone. “...Where is your captain?” asks Laurence, quietly. But the dragon, of course, does not answer.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Laurence is beginning to enjoy life as a privateer - though he cannot figure out why Tharkay should still be sailing out with them - when Temeraire decides to ask him about sodomy.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Long before William Laurence lost his memory, before treason, and exile, and journeys across the face of the world, John Granby loved him.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Laurence is happy in Scotland, happy with Tharkay and Temeraire and their new life. Mostly.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Temeraire pushes to pass a law that lets dragons adopt human families. Issues with the paperwork lead to some unexpected, but not unpleasant, consequences.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Laurence awakens in 1804 during the moment of Temeraire's hatching. He weighs his knowledge and makes a choice.</blockquote> ➤ oh nooooooooo :(

<blockquote>Mr. Tharkay was entirely clever, entirely self-sufficient, and the Admiral was a true gentleman, respectful and warm towards the servants without being permissive, and they were both, Mary supposed, very great men in their own rights. It was only that, when they were together, she couldn't fail to think that they were not in their right mind. Tenzing Tharkay, William Laurence, and the servants that observe them.</blockquote>

<blockquote>There was a room, and a pallet inside it; a small torch burned low in a socket upon the wall. A man lay upon the cot, his face bruised and battered, his hands curled against his chest bloody, and Laurence did not know him. Or, a little part of Blood of Tyrants goes differently.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In which the instution of marriage is discussed, and the impediments therein are removed. ...mostly via the application of liberal amounts of alcohol, and maybe a smidgeon of actual use of words.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Tharkay is the only one on the Reliant who is not already tied to a position, and so he is the one chosen to harness the dragonet when it hatches. (Or: the one where Tharkay is a reluctant aviator, and Laurence is an outcast wanderer.)</blockquote> ➤ seems to be abandoned, but what does exist is amazing