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Nazo

@mcc Is it weird that my first thought was the Discworld "swamp dragons"? 😁
24 March at 5:20 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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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
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