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you just swoop down and burn down our villages and devour us all and it's really mean of you dragons, so inconsiderate!

so how do we taste then monsters? is it really worth all the suffering and pain you cause us!?

-human peasants

would they help teach dragonette things? would they make all sorts of crafts to use?

would they be cute curios to show the family had an exotic animal

im trying to tame the wild humans but so far nothing has domesticated them any tips?

-professional human resercher

Continuing the study of how fantasy creatures would store fat, I present a fat-tailed dragon. Fat stores also allow dragons to store hydrogen, a necessary essential element to flame production.

While surrounded by a lipid layer, the hydrogen is protected from unanticipated chemical reactions. The dragon’s endocrine system is responsible for moving hydrogen from adipose tissue to the flame gland.

In the cases of obesity, such as below, hydrogen stored in the tail cannot be immediately summoned, unlike hydrogen in visceral fat.

In some cases, dragon bodies store the bulk of their fat viscerally and even subcutaneously. This has the negative potential impact on limb and neck mobility. As such, artificial selection from the dragon’s predators - other dragons, and humans! - means many body-fat dragons do not have as good long term survival prospects as fat-tailed dragons. Mobility is key to the dragon’s primary offensive tactics.

Regarding hydrogen, such element stores means that the adipose tissue of dragons weighs proportionately less than mammal, reptile, or avian adipose tissue in the same quantity. This is part of the reason fat dragons do not typically lose their ability of flight.

Dragon fat is a wonderful alchemical and magical component. In a pinch, it can also be rendered down and used as a substitute for lamp oil.

would they start living underground? be good at seeing what's in the sky from long distances? Maybe even tasting worse over time?

How do you think they would adapt?

Anyone else have Dragon Pets? Got this one at a renaissance fair!

It was March 20th, 1992. Rural oregon. I was five years old. My mother was hosting a baby-shower; she was eight months pregnant with my brother. After the ceremony, she went to fetch my father, who was flying a kite in their field. She looked up– and there it was. Not a kite. But next to the kite. A silver Chinese dragon, scales and all. She could hear a slight shimmering sound as it moved. She turned to my dad. “Do you see that?” Weirdly– he did.“...you mean that dragon flying in the sky…Yes...” Thirty-two years later, their testimony is unwavering. They know what they saw.

How would you make sense of this?

TLDR: my parents saw a dragon lol wtf