they're a weird mob
my flist tells me that the new naomi novik is out soon! like, tomorrow soon! I want to read it and learning the title of the book "Tongues of Serpents" and knowing pretty much only the title and the fact that it is set in colonial australia just now made me think about my favourite dreamtime story that the state government made a point to educate us about in the 80's - the rainbow serpent. the rainbow serpent is an awesome dreamtime legend(I think i didn't likethe one about the frog burping up all the water for some reason, but snakes are cooool). My school had this really colourful series of books about dreamtime legends and I can almost see the covers of the books in my mind, it made so much of an impression.
anyway! so the title made me think about how different Australia really is, fauna wise, from other countries and then I was like, I wonder if the dragons are different?* And then I wondered about how terra nullius would happen with dragons in the mix. And then I thought about New Zealand and wow, I bet the Maoris have some BAMF dragons.
in conclusion: dragons?
unless, what happens is that there are no dragons native to australia, which, hmm, would make more sense ecologically, but as dragons are present in asia I think you could make a case for them making it here, or being transported with human populations, but what would a dragon population mean to the other native species and what would they eat?
in second conclusion: I HAVE TOO MANY THOUGHTS.
* dudes. MARSUPIAL DRAGONS. WITH POUCHES. i'm just sayin'
anyway! so the title made me think about how different Australia really is, fauna wise, from other countries and then I was like, I wonder if the dragons are different?* And then I wondered about how terra nullius would happen with dragons in the mix. And then I thought about New Zealand and wow, I bet the Maoris have some BAMF dragons.
in conclusion: dragons?
unless, what happens is that there are no dragons native to australia, which, hmm, would make more sense ecologically, but as dragons are present in asia I think you could make a case for them making it here, or being transported with human populations, but what would a dragon population mean to the other native species and what would they eat?
in second conclusion: I HAVE TOO MANY THOUGHTS.
* dudes. MARSUPIAL DRAGONS. WITH POUCHES. i'm just sayin'