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Title: Novels and Novelties
Fandom: Temeraire
Characters/Ship: Laurence/Tharkay
Word count: ~5k words
Summary: Post-canon crack treated seriously. Laurence writes a completely fictional book about an unlikely protagonist stumbling upon a dragon egg and becoming a captain. He's quite certain he doesn't deserve all this mockery.

Notes: The prompts for December: holidays together | crack treated seriously | moving in together | "that's my favorite thing about you | forgiveness | tattoo parlor / flower shop au.

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Title: Glorious Revenge
Fandom: Temeraire
Characters/Ship: Laurence/Tharkay, Laurence & Temeraire & Tharkay
Word count: ~1k words
Summary: Modern-day with dragons AU. Temeraire wants a couple's costume, Will wants clothing he can move his limbs in, and Tenzing wants to be far enough away to take mocking pictures and laugh. 1/3 isn't too bad, is it?

Notes: The prompts for October: couples costume | text messaging | identity shenanigans | you can't bench me! | lightning | sports team AU. ...Okay, I don't really meet the sports one, but I'm claiming it on a throwaway line and a technicality.

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Title: That blessed arrangement
Fandom: Temeraire
Characters/Ship: Laurence/Tharkay, Granby/Little, Laurence & Temeraire & Tharkay
Word count: ~5k words
Summary: In a post-war AU where the crew didn't meet Tharkay during the war, Granby finds himself both a victim and a perpetrator of matchmaking. Little is very onboard with this.

Notes: The prompts for August: au of your choice | time travel | meet cute/blind date | “you’re the only one i could turn to for help” | storm | vampire/werewolf/dc vs vampires au. Title taken from Princess Bride.

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Title: I planned to walk this road alone
Fandom: Temeraire
Characters/Ship: Laurence/Tharkay, Laurence & Temeraire & Tharkay
Word count: ~5k words
Summary: The one where Tharkay is the dragon captain and Laurence is the support.

Notes: The prompts: vacation together | power swap | enemies to lovers | “batman won’t like this” | stars | coffeeshop au. I'm going to be real with you: this was not what I intended to write at all. I was totally going to go the coffeeshop AU route. I don't know what happened.

Thanks to VervetCadet for the beta! All remaining mistakes are mine.

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Title: With All My Worldly Goods
Fandom: Temeraire
Characters/Ship: Laurence/Tharkay, Laurence & Temeraire & Tharkay
Word count: ~5k words
Summary: Soulmarks are names scrawled on wrists, Britain is not at war with France, and Laurence still doesn't visit home often enough. Fortunately, it turns out that his soulmate is fully prepared to travel with him.

Notes: The prompts were: Wedding/proposal, "you aren't what i expected", downpour, soulmate AU, sick fic, (accidental) love confession. I'm arguing that I hit all but the last two.

Relative to canon, things and characters are cheerier in this canon-aligned soulmate AU, where (1) the religious significance of soulmarks means that same-sex marriage is legal, (2) Britain is not at war, and (3) Tharkay's parents are inexplicably both alive and well. For the sake of simplicity, I am pretending that "Tharkay" is our friend's patronym, or that for some unknown reason, his 18th-19th cen. British father took his mother's family name as his own rather than vice versa. However it's spun, I am calling the whole family the Tharkays, and I'm designating their home base in Scotland.

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