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Oh I don't know what Anson mount's deal is yet in the hell on wheels, but he is absolutely fucking gorgeous so I think I like trains now????

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Here I am, wideawake at midnight and a half o'clock, unable to sleep because I want to watch another episode of the train show, what has my life become

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If the algorithm really understood me, they would not be recommending more westerns just because I watch Hell on wheels

They would be recommending other shows where Anson Mount is wearing a hat

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His wife died and he's being really mysterious about it so now we know two things:

He is traumatized

He is single

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I'm a simple girl. I just want a man with nice eyes, a sharp jawline, questionable morals, and a fondness for knives.

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His Majesty’s Dragon the comfort book ever.. yes I have five hundred books on my tbr yes I am instead reading Temeraire again

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I owe my life to whoever decided to give him a jacket with sleeves that are too long

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No thoughts head empty except for Boats... Dragons... Boat Dragons,,, feat. the Aubrey-Laurence disambiguation my brain somehow needed.

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The very sturdy apology vase

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I think constantly about the absolute panic Laurence felt that a ✨LADY✨ might see him with his shirt untucked.

So much so that he physically hid behind Temeraire.

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“the ships are dragons” works well for other AUs too. currently imagining a hornblower (tv) ships-are-dragons AU. Indefatigable is possessive enough as a ship, I can’t imagine what she’d be like as a dragon. She’d never forgive Renown—two perfectly good lieutenants I gave you! Look at them now! Didn’t I tell you to be careful!

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If perchance you want an excuse to talk about your Temeraire Aubreyad AU, consider this one! What's Surprise-as-a-dragon like?

I always want an excuse to talk about both Temeraire AND the Aubreyad, so yes!

I haven't done much work on this yet, so have some half-baked thoughts:

Her name is just Surprise but in Latin (probably Ammiriata bc I'm not imaginitive and it also means Wonder)

She is NOT a big dragon. She's a smaller middleweight, probably an Anglewing due to their superior maneuvering/HMS Surprise's excellent sailing qualities

She's mostly good natured, but has a little bit of a tendency to malinger over injuries(HMS Surprise's tendency to gripe, and Ammiriata knows that STEPHEN knows the best way to be on Jack's good side is to be extra solicitous towards her, so Stephen lets her get away with it)

More AU Facts because they keep occurring to me and this is as good a place to write them as any:

Pullings and Mowett are obviously Jack's lieutenants. Obviously. Mowett's dragon poetry is notorious in the Gibralter covert

Diana is the captain of a Longwing. This too is obvious. I have not decided what Sophie is doing yet - she is scared of horses so I am not certain how she would feel about dragons. Dragons are much more physically intimidating than horses, but they can at least tell you they won't throw you off so it could go either way.

I'm putting all the Napoleonic War blorbos in. Hornblower and Bush are here too(maybe on a dragon maybe just Hotspur Husbands). Sharpe will make an appearance, as well as Edrington and Pellew. Idgaf this is already a crossover I'm throwing in everyone. Jane is there she and Jack hook up she and Diana also hook up

Stephen is going to have so much fun with dragons. Can you even imagine. He calls them a chuisle and honey and my dear and everything you can think of and they say it back

Harte is much scarier with a dragon O.o

Everyone keeps questioning why this bitty Anglewing and her captain get set as the head of the Mauritius squadron but no one would ever think it's because of her weirdo little doctor

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Just thinking about how they would have never survived the beginning of book seven if Laurence had never been in the Navy.

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Thinking about charting out every event, past or part of the active narrative, in Hornblower, Aubreyad, Sharpe, and Temeraire to see who's doing what at what time

No idea if it would be of interest to anyone but myself(and POB's six 1813s will perhaps complicate matters), but it is very tempting