I FUCKING LOVE O’DEA OKAY. He’s such a little shit, making comments like “Jack’s spirit is haunting us” and using his poetic gift to spook the others… I love him.
O’DEA IS POSSIBLY MY FAVOURITE MINOR CHARACTER, I love when Laurence tentatively employs him to keep a secondary log of their journey because no one else can write, and then this is how he describes one of their encounters with a bunyip:
…the loathesome Creature gazed upon us long and meditatively, as if considering which to single out as its lawful Prey, tho the Carcase of the Offering lay before it limp and bloodstain’d from the Slaughter, ere it chuse the easier Course and withdrew beneath the Sands to devour the Flesh of the Kanga-roo and only dream instead of the Satisfaction to be found in a Repast accompanied by the piteous Cries of a more sensible Victim.
and Laurence just
(image belongs to Kate Beaton)
job interviewer: what would you describe as your biggest weakness?
me: oh fake relationship au for sure
Temeraire is such an adorable book – I was expecting dramatic high fantasy not a DRAGON who likes to go PADDLING and have books about rocks read to him what a fucking nerd
A Pretty Taste for Paradox 