Welcome to #checkin for Friday, January 16, 2026!
Good evening/afternoon/morning, everyone, and welcome to today's #checkin. Today it felt a bit like spring with temps around 14°C and sun. However, the wind still felt cold. Earlier today I bought a new book, which fits perfectly as today is Appreciate a Dragon Day.
I sometimes feel like a book dragon...But it's not hoarding if it's books.
So who is your favorite dragon? Or what other fantasy characters do you like?
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Karl Auerbach
in reply to Christoph S • • •Did King Pellinore ever catch up with the Questing Beast?
Grendel was misunderstood. (But his mother was a terror - we once had a cat we named "Grendel's Mother".)
I am a Mothra fan - uh oh, that song by the two tiny fairies is now stuck in my head.
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Jay Bryant
in reply to Christoph S • • •I fell in love with dragons by reading The Hobbit. The Smaug of the Brothers Hildebrandt is still my favorite depiction of a dragon.
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Deb Zaccaro-Rojas
in reply to Christoph S • • •I have a Brothers Hildebrandt 1984 calendar for the wall, I kept it mostly for the same image @Jay Bryant posted (still have it, in fact!)
and @Karl Auerbach - I have downloaded all the Mothra films, even the two with the kids (with the mini Mothra)
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Joyce Donahue
in reply to Christoph S • • •I too am a fan of Smaug and enjoy the Hildebrand image. I also have appreciated the dragon imagery associated with St George... where the dragon unfortunately is an allegorical representation of error.
Also enjoyable are the rare images of St. Martha, Sister of Lazarus, who according to medieval legend, tamed a dragon that was terrorizing a town in France.
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alfmarc
in reply to Christoph S • • •oh yes!! dragons !!!
I like the slavic Zmeys dragons, they can be destrucitve for humains but also protectors of nature.
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libramoon
in reply to Christoph S • • •Best Quotes from the Dragon Riders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey
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libramoon
in reply to Christoph S • • •lauriecorzett.substack.com/p/d…
Dragon Shills
Of course there are no demons.
They are mere fictitious myth, fablers’ wares.
And Dragons are not fearful, not evil, never
terrifying agents of injustice, conveyors of brutal pain.
Dragons rise, glide, inspire awe;
strikingly majestic, lovers of beauty,
protectors of frail humanity, dispense peace,
prosperity, gifts of benevolent husbandry.
Their hellish flame, but a clever demonstration, a show.
So entertaining, so brilliant a display for us below.
Yes, they soar and claim vast territory as their own;
their largesse dependent on wide airways for discharging
smoke and fire, open plains to spread immense wings.
We wouldn’t want them cramped, self-singed, inconvenienced.
Dragons, special beings, above our meted stations, oversee,
keep our village tucked and safe, productive, running right.
Insinuate our primal lizard brains persuasively, teach these
hungry, humble children to feed their might.
Dragon Shills
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Jay Bryant
in reply to Christoph S • • •One of my favorite stories from one of my favorite authors: "The George Business," by Roger Zelazny.
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The George Business by Roger Z
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Muse
in reply to Christoph S • • •Anyone read the Dragonsinger and Dragonsong books by Anne McCaffrey? I loved those as a kid. I am particularly fond of the Tea Dragons.
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Andrew Pam
in reply to Christoph S • • •I have quite a few dragon books and even some video games... including some where you can play as a dragon! I particularly recommend:
A game where you can choose to become a dragon:
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous
And a game with a dragon in it:
Shadowrun: Dragonfall
2014 video game expansion pack
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Andrew Pam
in reply to Christoph S • • •Axtara (Literature)
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in reply to Christoph S • • •Angels with Scaly Wings (Visual Novel)
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Andrew Pam
in reply to Christoph S • • •Dragonbreath Series by Ursula Vernon
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Rod Mesa
in reply to Christoph S • • •I prefer the Tolkien illustration from the first volume of The Hobbit I ever read from, likely the 1951 hardcover second edition at the library.
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Richard
in reply to Christoph S • • •In terms of appearance my favorite is Sol Regem from "The Dragon Prince":
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In terms of endearment of the heart it's Igneel from "Fairytail"
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In terms of battle it's the "Flame Dragon" from "Gate"
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Why yes I watch a lot of cartoons, why do you ask? ;P
Flame Dragon
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Muse
in reply to Christoph S • • •@Samuel Smith "they have a Godzilla song"
HAHAHA That's pretty funny!
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Carsten Raddatz
in reply to Christoph S • •Tiger here too. Dragons.. well there's Fuchur from Ende's Neverending Story. Watching the movie as a kid both traumatized me because the book was so much more vivid and my imagination so very different from what I saw on the screen. Then again, Fuchur looks like a flying dog which i did not understand at the time. Not the look I expected, but the one character they got right. The 10yo me learned to distinguish between stories in a book and the concept of a movie adaptation.
Nevertheless I got hooked to the screen for quite a while. And I went to see this film a few times on my own to get over the initial shock and disappointment.
The funniest dragon I met was in a kid's book I read to my son. Super cute dragon kid Der kleine Drache Kokonuss who goes to school and experiments with things chemistry and whatnot, and asks very many questions, with troubles ahead.
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Lisa Stranger
in reply to Christoph S • • •Dragons have names? 🤷♀️
MIL collected dragons. We still have them in storage, oof. Not sure if her birth year was a dragon year or not.
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