Imagine opening up your closet door and there in the...

mcc

Imagine opening up your closet door and there in the back of your closet is your lap dragon, sitting on a rudimentary hoard of six nickels and 17 pennies. "Graaaak!", it says, as it spreads its wings wide (span 2ft 3in). The threat display is made somewhat less terrifying by its head getting caught in the underside of a coat, causing it to flap around briefly

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Happiness for Stray the Cat

@mcc every house cat ever would like to discuss about this subtoot.

24 March at 3:38 | Open on mastodon.social

faraiwe

@mcc funny tidbit #TTRPG #Rolemaster bestiary (Creatires & Treasures vol III?) has exactly that: dragonettes.
They come in all varieties of their larger cousins, but with proportionate breath and magic that is more prosaic and quirky. Whereas dragons considered genius level intelligence, dragonettes are nore... pet like.

24 March at 4:44 | Open on mastodon.social

companion_cube

@mcc
And then it can still set your house on fire, it doesn't take much flame. Oops. Imagine if cats could breathe even a little bit of fire, right on your head as you're asleep!

24 March at 5:09 | Open on octodon.social

Nazo

@mcc Is it weird that my first thought was the Discworld "swamp dragons"? 😁

24 March at 5:20 | Open on mastodon.social

K`shandra :fuck_verify:

@nazokiyoubinbou @mcc I went right to McCaffrey’s fire lizards, personally.

24 March at 5:33 | Open on sfba.social

Nazo

@kshandra @mcc Were there any small dragons in any of the Pern novels? As far I know even the smallest ones were large enough for a human to ride.

24 March at 5:34 | Open on mastodon.social

RAOF

@nazokiyoubinbou @kshandra @mcc in the first (chronologically, not necessarily publishing order?) Pern book the riding dragons are genetically engineered from cat-sized (and quite cat-like) indigenous flying fire-lizard things!

24 March at 6:32 | Open on toot.cat

Nazo

@RAOF @kshandra @mcc Ah, I didn't remember it being mentioned what size the originals were. I see!

24 March at 6:39 | Open on mastodon.social

Dave

@nazokiyoubinbou @kshandra @mcc Yes, there were. Dragonsong (the one with the cover photo in this discussion) introduced them as the original species that got bred / genetically engineered into the big dragons.

24 March at 7:19 | Open on mastodon.nz

mcc

@nazokiyoubinbou the swamp dragons sounded a little… undignified. I didn't realize they were small enough to sit in your shoulders!

24 March at 5:35 | Open on mastodon.social

Nazo

@mcc Their scientific name is draconis vulgaris, lol. Pratchett did them as a sort of extreme opposite direction of the legendary dragons.

Some burp wrong when upset and explode.

This is clearly not at all what you were talking about, but I had Discworld on the brain.

24 March at 5:36 | Open on mastodon.social

Merilee D. Karr, MD, MFA

@mcc Also, getting itself totally tangled up in the coat hangers. Embarrassing.

24 March at 6:58 | Open on federated.press

Kazii The Avali

@mcc *takes the dragon and its hoard to a slightly larger hoard of 17 nickles 1 dime 1 quarter and 20 pennies making a lot of nickles and pennies and a lap dragon*

24 March at 7:39 | Open on bark.lgbt

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@mcc Watching them Orange around the table during a feast, mixing pieces of meat off of the lady’s plate, then flying over to the kid’s table knowing they’ll definitely feed it better take scraps. 😀

24 March at 8:29 | Open on xvlt.net

Artemesia

@mcc

Imagine making it's year and undying love by tossing it a silver quarter.

24 March at 9:26 | Open on techhub.social

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