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chiropteracupola · 3 hours

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He’s red and he’s white and he’s green and he’s grey / My bonny young dragon, come hither away...

Keith Windham and Nuntius, out of Luzula's stunning Flight of the Heron/Temeraire crossover fic 'The Flight of Dragons.'

#em draws stuff #em is posting about temeraire #temeraire #the flight of the heron #keith windham #PART ONE of the current massive I Need To Illustrate Other People's Tem Crossover Fic project!#luzula's fic is a really cool exploration of eighteenth century temverse britain and explores a lot of things that I too wished to know #about the history and variation of dragon-human partnership even within the british isles!!#really I think that this fic can and should be read by temeraire enjoyers even if they haven't read foth #(but also. if you read this and then want to read foth about this. More power to you &c &c)#other important thing to note here is how much nuntius's design owes to both the incredible tem fanart cataloguing being done by #esteemed tumblr user travellingdragon!! and their own design for greylings!!#...it was so weird to draw keith in a 1740s approximation of aviator uniform. he looks like just some guy now :]#also. caption lyrics are a modified version of real folk song 'my bonny moorhen' because I think I'm v funny and clever

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lacnunga · 4 months

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Ever wanted to print your own Keith?

#this is from ages ago and i was gonna draw him more outfits #but ill probably not finish it so i just slapped some colour on it #and figured some people here would want to see it anyway #this probably does work if anyone wants to cut it out feel free lmao #you'll have to cut out the face tho #keith windham #the flight of the heron #my art

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poppaeasabina · 19 days

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Considering the Jacobite rebellion in the Temeraire universe, and specifically, Jacobites and dragons.

As we see them, dragons in the UK are controlled by the military. Does this mean the Jacobites didn't have them? Did aviators defect? Or did they obtain dragons another way?

#temeraire #jacobites #the flight of the heron #dragons

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iamthemaestro · 8 months

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^^ full of hatred for scotland and rigid moral complexes

#oh keith windham. you are something else.#also he’s missing his gorget by the end I couldn’t be bothered #have to learn a whole new uniform for this.#I was just getting the hang of late 18th century military cocked hats and now I have to learn the mid century ones too??#no one talks about how hard cocked hats are to draw #keith windham #the flight of the heron #flight of the heron #foth #my art #I think I will put art that Isn’t Soldiers on this blog regardless of the content

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thebaffledcaptain · 8 months

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okay. thinking about how keith never had anyone to love him. thinking about how keith was ready to risk his whole career for the closest thing he had to a friend. thinking about how keith would have simply died for his country if he didn’t die for ewen and thinking about how his murder spared him that decision. thinking about how his gentlest ending would have been to die, as he did, in the arms of the man he loved.

thinking about how keith’s last gift to ewen is his ring and thinking about how he died with ewen’s parting letter to his wife in his breast pocket. thinking about how that’s probably the same place the dirk went through.

#OUGH #this is a love story #one that wasn’t meant to be. but it was love.#and literally!!!! it’s so romantic!!!! I don’t care!!!!!#wedding parallels. WEDDING PARALLELS #he had a love token from ewen on him all the way up until the end #and then it’s his turn #I’m not normal about this I need to talk about this #foth #the flight of the heron #flight of the heron #flight of the heron spoilers #this is your captain speaking

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kigiom · 6 months

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he ran in front of executioner's muskets for ewen. He Ran In Front Of Executioner's Muskets For Ewen.

#tell me that isn't a love story #the flight of the heron #keith windham #ewen cameron #thomas.text #thinking bout them again.

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sailorpants · 5 days

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me 🤝 keith windham

hazel eyes

resting scowl

#the flight of the heron

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ratuszarsenal · 9 months

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Lachlan loyal bloodhound MacMartin

#do you ever love your brother so much you kill everyone about it. including yourself #I know he's just a one-note character. but I get him. I see him.#it's his tragedy just as much as it's keith's #I always imprint on characters with a dog/loyalty motif. lachlan I hope I'll some day write a fic where your brother mourns you properly #I draw a lot of dogs btw and sight hounds are So Beautiful #eelart #foth #the flight of the heron #flight of the heron #lachlan macmartin #if you're wondering where his beard is. keep wondering

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tgarnsl · 3 months

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heron husbands for prompt 3?

Under orders to accompany Ewen Cameron to Carlisle, Keith Windham is faced with the reality of the future before him, and the matter of his own heart.

#the flight of the heron #my writing #sorry this took so long #in my defence i finished a degree

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sanguinarysanguinity · 4 days

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Keith Windham famously spends all of chapter one miserable and bitchy, and the first part of chapter two, too. Just cussedly cranky, even mouthing off at Aunt Margaret of all people. (Who shakes her head in bemusement and gives as good as she gets.)

Then he sits down to dinner, has some trout and vension and claret, and... suddenly mellows. Doesn't mind at all that Ardroy tells the story of his vanquishment in combat! Just a mellow good mood, which persists after dinner, when he's shown up to his room and starts browsing Ardroy's books.

And I have to ask...

Did he have the hangries?

Could all that bitching about horrible wildlife and useless torrents have been fixed with a Snickers bar?

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This of course leads to a second question:

In all the fix-it AUs, does Ewen keep jerky and an oatcake on his person at all times, to shove in his husband's mouth whenever he gets bitchy? Does it work?

#the flight of the heron #keith windham #heron husbands #let this be a lesson to you kids #always carry extra rations in your pocket when going on a forced march through the Highlands!

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mycological-mariner · 1 year

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Hard copy of The Flight of the Heron arrived today and ooooh. It’s lovely. Yes it’s gorgeous BUT it’s the texture. The texture of the covers. It’s so good. This is my ideal touch flavour

#finally I can finish the book without looking at a screen!!#it was £6!!!! that’s insane an absolute steal wtf #is it leather? do I own an actual leather bound book???#idk but it’s sooo good I love it #it sounds so weird but you need to understand! it’s SOFT #I don’t wanna set it down even more now #yes this is the best texture of all time whatever it is #it’s also in REALLY good condition for a book published in 1931 (later edition soft <3)#the flight of the heron #it’s a 3 day weekend so hopefully I can finish this #im so exciiiiited

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sams-saved-posts · 6 months

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i just finished reading Mr. Rowl and MY GOD I am in love with D.K. Broster's writing. Anyone who's read The Flight of the Heron or enjoyed historical fiction NEEDS to check out my dearest Mr. Rowl, cross-dressing Honour-is-his-middle-name in-need-of-a-father-figure French prisoner-of-war boy in 1813.

Sadly not as much implied queer romance as The Flight of the Heron but a sailor does try to kiss our boy dressed as a woman.

#fiction #literature #the flight of the heron #dk broster #mr rowl #raoul des sablieres #queer books #books #historical fiction

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verecunda · 7 months

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Found this rather delightful image of Ewen and Keith crossing swords in the 1968 TV series. I think it must be some sort of publicity shot, rather than an actual still from the episode. For one thing, I don't remember that burn running by - and for another, poor Keith is so not looking that well-kempt by this stage of the proceedings!

#The Flight of the Heron #Ewen Cameron #Keith Windham #Ian McCulloch #Jon Laurimore

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iamthemaestro · 9 months

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I've been struggling to compose anything at all lately but this came to me tonight while I was thinking about the Flight of the Heron, and I decided to just go with it for an hour or so... maybe some other Heron enjoyers will enjoy it too I don't know

#i am now realizing this is just loch lomond. but slightly to the left #but percy grainger-ified #whatever. you get it #the mortifying ordeal of doing literally anything with my music ugh #idk i feel compelled to share it but idk where other than here #it feels good to have written something anything even if I did this instead of working on what I actually am supposed to write #that wasn't going so hot though #don't know the last time i put my music on tumblr i i've only done it once and that was. far before music school. so you can imagine #if i were to come back to this i would probably mess with some tempo stuff but logic pro was not having it and it's like 1am #foth #the flight of the heron #flight of the heron #my music #music #composerposting

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thebaffledcaptain · 9 months

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me starting foth: man. this keith windham guy is down bad

me halfway through foth, watching keith windham run back and forth across the highlands, defy orders, and get himself arrested for one (1) man all while being Really Subtle about it: man. this keith windham guy is down bad

#he is a Hot Mess and I love him so much #all because a guy was nice to him for Once in his life #oh keith what are we doing to do with you #foth #the flight of the heron #flight of the heron

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acrossthewavesoftime · 1 year

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Imagine you're walking along in the golden evening light, when suddenly you hear an ungodly screech in the tree to your right...

It's not The Flight of the Heron you should be wary of, but the Screech of the Heron...

#let's not forget this happened in the garden of a gay 18th century man #who had jacobite pals #did not spot ewen cameron alas #history humour #18th century #books and literature #d k broster #the flight of the heron

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