The Middle Distance

Title: Thunder On the Mountain
Fandoms: The Hobbit/Temeraire series
Pairing: Smaug/Temeraire
Also appearing (but not in the sex part): William Laurence
Rating: NC-17/E
Word Count: 7243
Warnings/content: Explicit dragon sex. Fighting as foreplay. Bargaining (maybe very mild dub-con? The characters don't think so.) Temeraire has a thing for fire-breathers. Smaug is just in it to win.

Summary: Temeraire has searched long and hard for his lost captain, in a strange and distant land. One very large obstacle presents itself and demands his attention. And other things.

Fulfillment of his quest comes with a price, and Middle-earth's future is subtly altered.


Thunder On the Mountain at AO3

HUGE thanks to isiscolo, tehta, and winter_hermit, for beta work above and beyond!

So obviously Peter Jackson and WETA and the whole crew are spending massive energy and brainpower and money and creativity to work out just how to do the bestest, hugest, most imposing, most convincing dragon character of all time. I bet they'll succeed at that, too.

Might they be doing it with an eye to using this knowledge even more in the future? PJ did buy the rights to the Temeraire series a few years ago...

Happiness found in the last 24 hours:

TEMERAIRE KINK MEME!

Unbelievably awesome 2010 Winter Olympics Men's Figure Skating slashfic by romanshoes:

1. Snakes (Johnny Weir/Evan Lysacek, NC-17)

2. утенок (Evgeni Plushenko/Johnny Weir, NC-17)

3. Revenge (Johnny Weir/Evgeni Plushenko, NC-17)

To be read sequentially. OMG her Johnny Weir POV narrative voice SLAYED ME with the hot, smart, and funny.

Extremely witty illustrated Good Omens biblefic in three parts, for daegaer at purimgifts; story by miarr and art by lukadron: links to all three parts here.

Enjoy! I sure have.