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Scoot's avatar

Man your answer for #3 gave me nostalgia for things I have never experienced! What a great memory--and a great candy for it 😂

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Michael S. Atkinson's avatar

1. Interesting, depending. Mushu in Mulan, hilarious. Smaug in The Hobbit, awesome. I haven't seen the Hobbit movies so I wouldn't know about that one.

2. I do, if I'm safe. Rain on the window, lightning in the distance, oh, that's fun. When the power goes out and you're worried about tornadoes, not so fun.

3. Mountain Dew and ice cream. I'm a simple guy with simple pleasures. :)

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Meaghan McIsaac's avatar

FUN! I. love. dragons. I know, I'm basic, and there are no bad dragons to my mind. But make them interesting in a new way. I love this challenge and I will be thinking about it all day.

Super fun story, thank u!

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Scoot's avatar

Thank you so much for reading! I am glad you enjoyed!

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Nathan Slake's avatar

I'm generally put off by dragons in any story now. It was all fine and good in ASOIAF, but it's just become mega tropey, especially the notion of riding them. I was mildly curious about what all the fuss was about Fourth Wing, but then after a few pages, nope. I slogged through Priory of the Orange Tree, which had some merits, but the beginning trials for Tané felt pretty cringe due to just peddling tropes. I'm probably an outlier for generally disliking that book.

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Scoot's avatar

When I was a kid there were a bunch of "Dragon Riders of Pern" books by Anne McCaffrey around my grandparents house. I never read them, but they intrigued me-- I wonder if those hold up to the flood of contemporary dragon riding? Sounds like you and Kay Moulton are of similar mind on Dragons though!

This challenge of taking a trope and making it impactful again is a fun one! I wonder what other tired tropes can be reworked?

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Nathan Slake's avatar

That's cool, I never read those, but they'd probably be decent given the time.

Yeah, interesting challenge, good work :)

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Caz Hart's avatar

While dragons tend to have tropes, like so many other character types, I wouldn't say they are a trope.

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Scoot's avatar

This is a great way to put it!

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