baby dragons that sleep in your fireplace and roll about in the soot and the ash trying to get comfortable on burning logs, screeching loudly whenever people walk by or when more logs need to be added to its roost and not stopping until content again
baby dragons with wings that are disproportionate to their bodies until older but nonetheless stubbornly trying to pick themselves up off the ground by running and aggressively flapping and managing to only get a few feet off the ground for a few seconds before crash landing
baby dragons that haven’t been exposed to priceless things such as gems and gold pieces and instead infatuate themselves with other unusual shiny things — like silverware, brass clocks, instruments, and pots and pans
baby dragons who get cold in the winter and crawl up into their caretaker’s clothing (almost always while said clothing is being worn) and curl up as tight as possible and begin to make sounds similar to content purring as they sleep
An ocean mystery that doesn’t need solving is how many marine animals there are.
See? Pliny the Elder’s got this. 176 animals in the sea. Everyone else can go home. We don’t need marine biology anymore:
#write with the confidence of a roman naturalist who has literally no idea what he’s talking about
sound advice
*looks out the window at the ocean* … *looks at buddies* So, like… How many things do you think live in that water. Like, in all of it… It’s gotta be at least 100 right?
