#happy appreciate a dragon day

[spiritofdragonfire]

Happy Appreciate a Dragon Day 2024 from me and my tiny dragons!

[weaponizedsunlight2]

how do I be more terminally online so I don't miss posts from my favorite dragon artists.

[fly-sky-high-bug-games]

Dragon devouring the Light

[venndaai]

spirit vs human cole is one of the best choices bioware ever put in a game i have to say

[candor-creator]

i've been animating for like a week and am super tired from work so here's Appreciate a Dragon Day fanart that still manages to be hk fanart. i know like dune worms or whatever but snakes have skin and scales and CLEARLY he has lost all of his since it is literally everywhere but on him. so here's what i imagine when he is alive

[sundogsandrainbows]

STORY SUMMARY: Trust is a delicate flower that needs to get nurtured and time to grow. Even more so love. A tale of two disparate Wardens forced together, of finding a way to overcome the distrust, and their own painful past in the time of the Blight. Very in-depth, character-focused exploration of the Dalish origin/warden, of all DA:O companions, and their relationship dynamics during the Fifth Blight. Follows and expands on canon events; AU in some ways. Multiple POV's, origins, and pairings. Slow burn af.

CHAPTER 52 SUMMARY -- SOUNDS OF YESTERDAY, PART I: In order to find the key for the chest left behind by Cailan in Ostagar, the Wardens and companions make a very reluctant detour to Lothering. Or rather what little is left of it, with it being now a destroyed, corrupted husk of a village.

CHAPTER EXCERPT:

[...] Smoke billows cloyed the firmament, obscuring what little daylight was left. Alistair had the infinite wisdom to take a torch with him, lest he’d stumble blindly through the torn down ruins of this village. What made it hard to breathe and watered his eyes wasn’t just the plumes of smoke from the fires still burning. It was the corruption here, like a leaden cobweb it wrapped itself all around them, stealing all life and oxygen. No wonder the man they’d met had contracted the taint sickness for entering here, for it was absolutely and entirely darkspawn territory now. Dead land, rotten and destroyed to what seemed its core. Unthinkable that it could ever recover from it, not with how thick the stench of death permeated the air.

“Ugh, lovely.” Lenya kicked at a stone in frustration. He illuminated the ground for a closer look at it, which was a baaaad idea in hindsight. Since it wasn’t a stone after all… but a small skull, long since picked clean. Maker, if that wasn’t belonging to an animal then… no. Nope. Nope . Refusal to complete this thought was the best course of action here, and the only valid one. “It is even worse than I expected it to be here.”

“Yeah.” Hard to imagine now that they were walking through this then-intact village almost half a year ago. Fresh-faced and thrown together after the tragedy that was Ostagar and their near death experience, in the search for information and equipment for their larger than life quest. It always had held the air of despair, filled to the brim with refugees as it were, but this here… was a completely disparate world. Theirs , to be exact. And every place would look like this, whole cities turned graveyards, should they fail. So many more people would die, futures and hopes crushed underfoot by incessant floods of darkspawn hordes. It was all the pressure, all the burden now visualized in this forsaken place; of what was at stake and expected of them both –just the two of them– that robbed him of all oxygen. How could he ever— The ground began to spin around him and with the torch still in hand, Alistair stumbled to a house's ruin at the side, to empty out his stomach into the snow-covered, decayed soil in front of it. The torch cluttered to the ground as he doubled over to heave. [...]

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[thegrindragonart]

happy appreciate a dragon day! :>

also this was doodled around christmas and shenanigans happened lol

[skullshoal]

Recently due to the long period at the beginning of a dragon's life where they are completely dependent on their guardians, new dragon parents have been hiring out help for the first couple years for rearing their young. Humans in particular, with their own young still being dependent for sometimes over two decades, have proven themselves excellent baby sitters. The young dragons aren't capable of understanding speech for several years, though they have their own way of communicating with other dragons. None the less this doesn't stop them from mimicking the sounds they hear from their human caretakers, and often this gives them a head start on language once they're ready.

[tribdinosaur]

I rewrote Puff the Magic Dragon <3 for Appreciate A Dragon Day

Puff the Magic Dragon Revisited [lyrics below the cut]

  Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff And brought him strings, and things, and packs of other fancy  stuff oh

Together we would travel on a boat with billowed sail I bravely kept a lookout perched on Puff's gigantic tail Yeaward-bound explorers would bow whenever we came Pirate ships would wave their flags when Puff roared out his name

I’m Puff, the mighty dragon borne by the sea With Jackie perched atop my tail we sail this kingdom free Puff, the magic dragon, together, he and me! We traverse through the autumn mist, of this land called Honah Lee

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee Puff, and Jackie Paper, together on the sea For years they ventured yonder in a land called Honah Lee

A dragon lives forever, but children, change so much Magic yields the way for other toys and things and such Then one gray night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more And Puff, that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar

His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane Missing his lifelong friend, Puff could not be brave So Puff, our dearest dragon, sadly slipped into his cave

Oh, Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea Once frolicked in the autumn mist, in a land called Honah Lee Puff, the lonely dragon, lived by the sea No longer would they venture forth across the boundless s—

[PUFF! PUFF the magic dragon!]

Then one grey quiet morning, the dragon heard his name The grown-up was a stranger…yet they looked like friend…the same child Puff had known before the years had turned him grey “Forgive me, Puff. For all these years. From you, I’ve been away.”

Puff and Jackie Paper, by the dragon’s home Worse for wear in times gone by, but no longer alone Puff the magic dragon! Embraced his treasured friend! “Thank you, Puff.” The human said. “I’m with you till the end.”

Puff the Magic Dragon LIVES by the sea with all his friends and neighbors in the land of Honah Lee

Puff the wondrous dragon! friend to you and me you’ll find him through the autumn mist, in your heart there he will be

[spiritofdragonfire]

Happy Appreciate A Dragon Day!

This is Moonfury, my baby dragon on the DracARys app!

Love his gorgeous & unique coloring! Can't wait to watch him grow from a hatchling into a fearsome adult dragon!

[neoninky]

I saw an instagram post from a local oddities store saying today was Dragon Appreciation Day so there’s only one thing to do…

*sets up tea party with snacks and invites @therealmalleusdraconia *

Ch 7 Spoilers kinda??

Mal, I know you’re going through a lot of dramatic ish canonically speaking right now but, you’re a good and very much loved boi.

Also you have a very handsome set of horns and soothing voice.

Cheers ☕️ *gives you a (insert favorite flavor) cookie*

[phantomdecibel]

happy jan 16 heres my contribution to Dragon Appreciation Day :)

[softcuddledrone]

Synths count as dragons, right? Close enough? Whagever. I appreciate you <3

thank you!!

I consider synths (and by extension Mistress) to be dragons (or draconic in nature)

she has a hoard and everything! (Her hoard is her cuddledrone network)

[twinkubus]

sootie soft dragon

[rouge-wall-enthusiast]

An origami dragon I made several years ago for your appreciation!

[kuromi-hoemie]

fictional or not, dragon lore is always so interesting.