LINKDING

<blockquote>What it says on the tin. Five times Mary Crawford kisses a female aviator in England's draconic Aerial Corps. Sort of a companion piece to 'A Monstrous Regiment' but should make sense on its own without it.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In which Lady Kiyomizu is a big fan of Shakespeare, and also, alcohol.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The war with France has been oddly quiet of late, which is good (though frustrating) news for Temeraire, newly-trained and just learning to patrol the English coast. Meanwhile Laurence meets an amnesiac Frenchman in Dover and takes advantage of the covert's idleness.</blockquote> ➤ in which an amnesiac Napoleon ends up in England for a while

<blockquote>When her son returns from breakfasting in town and tells her that he plans to move to Scotland to stay with his friend Mr. Tharkay, and that Temeraire will be taking one of the new seats in Parliament, Diana says only, “Well, dear, you must bring Mr. Tharkay to tea, then. Tomorrow?”</blockquote>

<blockquote>‘It is no good asking me,’ Laurence said at last, pushing the pattern-book away over breakfast, ‘I am not the one–’ Not the one who would be living with the result, he had been about to say. But they had hardly accepted Tharkay’s invitation as casual houseguests.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Laurence never goes on to Russia or finishes the war. He stays in China, instead, with Temeraire.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Two dragons create a scandal in Britain, life with Tharkay is wonderful – and also a bit scandalous – and Laurence is apparently destined to be a political symbol for the rest of his life. What kind of symbol, though, is debatable.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In which Temeraire finds that the present is a foreign country. Set two hundred years after the events of the novels</blockquote> ➤ oh no it's so SAD

<blockquote>There are pearls that might turn a man into a dragon, a dragon into a man. What if a man does not remember his past?</blockquote>

<blockquote>Sometimes the effects of head-injuries are not always readily apparent.</blockquote> ➤ okay I think this one might be worse than the one where Temeraire died

<blockquote>After capturing the Amitié, Captain Laurence meets an odd French officer who refuses to give his parole.</blockquote>

<blockquote>After Laurence is thrust into his new role as an aviator he wonders if sudden-onset telepathy is a typical part of the captain-dragon bond. He tries to find out without asking, and Temeraire is largely unhelpful.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The Regal Copper Laurentius accidentally acquires a captain, Tharkay spectates, Temeraire is Not Actually an Orphan, and no one really knows who's leading France. Someone should probably get on that, considering England is at war with the place.</blockquote> ➤ AMAZING. An au in which all the humans are dragons and all the dragons are humans.

<blockquote>While investigating Mrs Bingley’s secret, Mr Darcy receives an unwelcome shock.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Perscitia encounters two men at the London covert, and one of them is her captain.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The Spanish Armada is about to descend upon England, and her greatest hope is a captainless dragon hatchling.</blockquote> ➤ the romance felt a little pasted on but everything else was GREAT. ➤ About the earliest Longwing captain(s)!

<blockquote>Empress Joséphine prepares for the arrival of Lung Tien Lien in Paris.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.” --- “I am fastest,” Volly said, and he knew this was true. The other dragons told him so; no one was faster than Volly, not in the entire Aerial Corps. “We will save friends.” -- Volly is a courier dragon, not a hero, until the day he's both. (Volly POV)</blockquote>

<blockquote>No one pays much attention to Greyling hatchings, except of course the boys to whom they mean everything.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Holmes' investigation into a series of murders in Chinatown reaches an impasse, Watson must call upon an old acquaintance for help.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Three times William Laurence was oblivious on the journey to Australia.</blockquote> ➤ oh look, another of those "wait I was sure I'd bookmarked this before" fics. It's been a while!

<blockquote>Fantine finds work at the dragon breeding grounds of Vernon, with the help of General Georges Pontmercy and his dragon Hyacinthe.</blockquote> ➤ wip through ch 3 at time of bookmarking

<blockquote> "Then I am glad we shall be shipmates," Laurence finally said, the faintest hint of color showing on his cheeks, but he appeared more pleased than horrified by the shock of having a familiar face onboard--so perhaps he didn't quite perceive what Tharkay meant by it.</blockquote> ➤ I seriously hadn't bookmarked this before? Sometimes my past self makes baffling decisions. Or - and more likely - I was totally intending to bookmark it and something got in the way of that happening. It certainly happens often enough today still that things don't get bookmarked when I fully intend them to. Sigh. I can but hope that one day I will be a fully responsible bookmarker.

<blockquote>Perscitia learned a great many things, after the invasion.</blockquote> ➤ PERSCITIAAAAAA!

<blockquote>There was a pianoforte in the officers' club; this was more of an oddity than Victrix's taste for Virgil, but perhaps less of one than Robbins' dresses or Leightley's flamboyant eyepatch.</blockquote> ➤ or: at the New South Wales covert

<blockquote>Rescuing that baby from the burning house was only the beginning of Laurence's troubles. And, of course, Tharkay's.</blockquote>

<blockquote>To be cowardly in this, to refuse to see it through, seemed more unmanly to Laurence than beginning it.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Ray finds the egg in a run-down shed in a shitty little village suspected of hiding members of the Taliban. (AU)</blockquote> ➤ needs a beta to fix improper comma usage, but a fun fic

➤ the first dragon-human partnership, in roman times

<blockquote>The hatching of a Vor lordling's dragon is a crucial rite of passage. Miles fears he'll screw this one up like he has most of the others.</blockquote> ➤ (contains the stories "In A Name" and "When You Fly")