We read “Temeraire: His Majesty's Dragon” by Naomi Novik, the first book in a series of alternative history novels where the Napoleonic Wars are fought with Dragons. We join Captain Will Laurence as he reluctantly forms a bond with a newly hatched dragon and instantly becomes the “I’ve only had Temeraire for a day and a half but if anything happened to him I would kill everyone on this boat and then myself” meme.

If you like the premise go read it, we’ll wait! (Definitely read it.)

Part one of two. 

Content Warnings
Abuse/neglect of a dragon (dragons are sentient, and the abusive relationship is somewhere between a parent/child or owner/pet situation)

Warfare

Mild Sexism

Additional
We reference JK Rowling’s work in this episode and want to make it clear we support Trans rights - here are a few UK Trans organisations we support and you can too:

https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/
http://genderedintelligence.co.uk/
https://transgenderni.org.uk/

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