seanwildz
mccFantasy world where they have been breeding dragons to be smaller and smaller until they have little toy dragons that can sit in your lap and are popular among noble ladies and if you leave them unattended in a home they will gather up all the low denomination change under dressers and such and push them into a corner to make a tiny $4.78 hoard to sit on
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
Gastropod@mcc every house cat ever would like to discuss about this subtoot.
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.
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.
@mcc oh, look, dragonette!!
Jenny T. Malmiola (@[email protected])
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@faraiwe oh, adorable
@faraiwe (the image is from the rollmaster book?)
@mcc no, unforts, this is not from #RoleMaster #TTRPG ....
But it could be, if you desire to play a character with a dragonette. Who so happens to like to flame crème brulé. As a hobby, you know. They're quirky like that.
stephenI think this is the artist,
https://www.facebook.com/ArtofSandara3/photos_by
And they have a game
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cardboardalchemy/flamecraft
Cassandra is only carbon now
Jason Petersen (he)
honk if you want to honk 
Kevin Karhan 
Merilee D. Karr, MD, MFA@mcc Also, getting itself totally tangled up in the coat hangers. Embarrassing.
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*
ArtemesiaImagine making its year and undying love by tossing it a silver quarter.
Steven D. Brewer 🏳️⚧️@mcc Now I'm torn which I would want more: a "lap dragon" or a "pocket whale."
Och Menno@mcc ohh swamp dragons from sir Terry Pratchett fill that thing ^^ expect that they tend to explode because of inbreeding
Asta [AMP]@mcc This is exactly what I experience when my cat has claimed a blanket and I get too close.
Richard Barrell@mcc ehehe beautiful ❤️
Pokemod97@mcc now I'm just sad lap dragons don't exist
Ginnikin@mcc
I would read/watch this.
I would read/watch this.
Giselle@mcc I love that!! I want to read about this very thing of lap dragon and mini hoard in a wardrobe! With head clonking against something. And other stories...
Please tell me you're writing that. 🤞🤗
Please tell me you're writing that. 🤞🤗
lonely extrovert@mcc this is adorable and hilarious.
Sean Eric Fagan
Ravtrag@mcc This is exactly what my mini-derg friend does. Hoard the shiny stuff and be cute.
bob
серафими многоꙮчитїи@bob @mcc Every so often I think of the crime of what ~ humanity did to pigeons - making their entire species into what is essentially a familiar and then extensively altering them for ~ fashion over centuries, and then discarding them once technology advanced and fashion changed; they haunt our cities because we made them love us and be bound to us. And I think of a fantasy setting with dragons, and us binding them the same way, until we get petroleum, and fashion changes, and we discard them.
SwiftOnSecurity@flaviusb dawg wtf
@bob @mcc Sad pug dragons haunting fantasy cities, people treating them like 'sky rats', kids throwing copper bits (fractions of a copper penny) 'for their hoard' to them the way kids feed the birds with bits of bread today, no one talking about how the legendary forges that made the early parts of the fantasy industrial revolution possible (before magic natural gas/magic coal infrastructure was built) were all powered by pug dragons who were the valued familiars of the machinists guild members.
@bob @mcc And if I were looking at it literarily, I'd have the thing set in the equivalent of the modern day, with the machinists union having been basically smashed, and the plot would ~ exactly map on to what happened in real life in the US (David F. Noble - 'Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation' is a good source), with minor changes to link it thematically to the machinists casting out and erasing from history their dragon familiars (+ MC/CMC rather than NC/CNC &c).
@bob @mcc Yeah. A lot of what was at issue was similar to the earlier case of weavers and the current case of programmers; a potentially powerful labour bloc that could control an important part of production, which was dangerous because of the skill premium plus the internal lines of education, which were defanged by capital at first through propaganda/ideology, and then when that started to lose effectiveness, through destroying the skill premium and the internal lines of education.
@bob @mcc Many similarities between the power looms, NC (and then CNC), and LLMs, both in terms of their political economy (eg they are a centralisation + rentierism play backed by on the face irrational financing plus quiet military investment and weirdly lax military contracts) but also in the way they are lock step propagandised as increasing quality and decreasing costs while all actual testing shows that they decrease quality while increasing costs, they just decrease the return to labour.
@bob @mcc Yeah, the book I referenced upthread a bit does go in to that. NC and CNC were particular 'solutions' to the problem of labour power, as we can see by the fact that there were existing other 'computerfy machining' technologies at that time that instead raised productivity and lowered costs by raising the skill ceiling and reducing offcuts/scrap/the need for rework/etc. But NC at the time meant lots of bespoke tapes, produced by un-unionised white collar workers, and ticket clipped.
@bob @mcc But there was a concerted (And documented) effort to move to NC instead. Much like how there are a lot of forms of computer-aided productivity increase in programming, both already deployed (but underused) and in development, which raise the skill ceiling / reduce defeces / increase programmer speed and comfort, but CoPilot is being pushed instead.
acb
Jamie McCarthy
Terrana ΘΔ&@mcc Seems like the only proper thing to do is contribute whichever coin is the next denomination up from a nickel.
@terrana Personally, I think it's kind of bullshit that dimes are smaller than nickels. Not sure if the dragon is going to feel satisfied with this. It's not even made of a more valuable metal.
Tess Arnold@mcc
This is a series I'm willing to pay streaming prices for.
This is a series I'm willing to pay streaming prices for.
margot@mcc very important to me that the tiny dragons also act basically the same as cats do re: their larger cousins
Neia masks
Dr Daniel, Photon Shepherd🇸🇪🇦🇺@mcc not that far from the Discworld scenario!
aldeka@mcc and metallic clothing has come into fashion to entice the dragon to sit on your lap
there was no need to make riding around in a lady’s handbag more appealing
e. hashman 
@mcc sounds like the fire lizards in the Pern series
Rho
Joan Albright
Joshua@mcc Sounds like a convenient way of making toast, too.
+>e@mcc I imagine that pet-sized dragons would behave like cats
@mcc cats are independent, dependent, a trash, cute, obsessed with random things, uninterested by everything, perfect dragon behavior
Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦@eons @jmccleskey925
I always thought if kitties had wings, they’d be the terror of the skies. Birds and Teslas wouldn’t stand a chance.
I always thought if kitties had wings, they’d be the terror of the skies. Birds and Teslas wouldn’t stand a chance.
Markus Redeker 🐘@KydiaMusic @eons @jmccleskey925 Cats with wings do exist — they are the keas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kea#Relationship_with_humans)!
Avi Drissman 
Jay@mcc Picturing a more modern version with a disgruntled smolgon sitting atop a heap of credit cards and chittering and warbling its unhappiness at the indignity.
Erin@mcc tiny dragon spinning around inside an automatic change sorter having the time of its life