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<pre>[Z] Dawn of the Dragons (Diana Miller) | |||
quote from this book, or another book?? no date given. figure this out later | |||
in-universe book? | |||
- dragons ruled both air and sea living in harmony with nature. the ice came. dragons fled into earth. dragons came out. | |||
- cinder is a silver dragon. mom is silver. flare is...? 1-2,5 | |||
- silver dragons came down from the north 7 | |||
- the rebels have found us 2-4 | |||
- dragon council allocated territory for each of two herds of dragons, these dragons attacked the silver herd 6-7 | |||
"the dragons are coming" | |||
- "you know there's no such thing as dragons" outside forest fires are raging 13 | |||
ah. so this is the payoff of the part about the dragon war. | |||
that's quite funny, in that it actually evokes an idea of pandemic denial. it feels better thought out than the second book | |||
very strong theme of government cover-ups and people sharing things around being their inherent road to Freedom. 14 | |||
I do not like the feel of this. it's a relatively standard application of the science-fiction trope of things that are bad in real life becoming okay. that's not new. but, that's very Idealist. it's this notion that things are reducible to abstract concepts that _inherently_ interact with each other in particular ways ('inherently' is the problem) but it's the same old concept with no change that "is sometimes good" just Because The Ideal of Anti-Essentialism. disgusting. | |||
- dragon lab leak theory. 14 | |||
for no real reason I started thinking about Guardians of Ga'hoole and how it had the equivalent of the owl Catholic Church and the owl crusades, and going, huh, does that book series have a better grasp on the bad things about religion than Feuerbach? | |||
my terrible ability to focus has upsides and downsides. the downside, if I want to focus on things that are dumb but long it does this. the upside, if the random things I think of are somehow related to the things I can't focus on, I end up with a stronger understanding of all the texts because I've isolated and tied together the core concepts that went into all of them. LithoGRAPHica is one huge wad of ADHD in one of the only ways it's possible for that to be good. I have a terrible feeling there will be several more of these tangents. | |||
- my dad says the government knows about them and will blast them to smithereens 15 | |||
again this horrible connotation that you can't trust the government, but the people who say it _are correct_. which seems like a very bad theme to put in a pandemic novel | |||
- Noah's father storms into library terrified 27 | |||
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=> wikidata.org/wiki/Q131463482 New Dragon City | |||
=> wikidata.org/wiki/Q131149986 Hachette copyright notice - present. | |||
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; stamp on book: 22 Dec 2025 | |||
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[Z] Dawn of the Dragons (Diana Miller)
quote from this book, or another book?? no date given. figure this out later
in-universe book?
- dragons ruled both air and sea living in harmony with nature. the ice came. dragons fled into earth. dragons came out.
- cinder is a silver dragon. mom is silver. flare is...? 1-2,5
- silver dragons came down from the north 7
- the rebels have found us 2-4
- dragon council allocated territory for each of two herds of dragons, these dragons attacked the silver herd 6-7
"the dragons are coming"
- "you know there's no such thing as dragons" outside forest fires are raging 13
ah. so this is the payoff of the part about the dragon war.
that's quite funny, in that it actually evokes an idea of pandemic denial. it feels better thought out than the second book
very strong theme of government cover-ups and people sharing things around being their inherent road to Freedom. 14
I do not like the feel of this. it's a relatively standard application of the science-fiction trope of things that are bad in real life becoming okay. that's not new. but, that's very Idealist. it's this notion that things are reducible to abstract concepts that _inherently_ interact with each other in particular ways ('inherently' is the problem) but it's the same old concept with no change that "is sometimes good" just Because The Ideal of Anti-Essentialism. disgusting.
- dragon lab leak theory. 14
for no real reason I started thinking about Guardians of Ga'hoole and how it had the equivalent of the owl Catholic Church and the owl crusades, and going, huh, does that book series have a better grasp on the bad things about religion than Feuerbach?
my terrible ability to focus has upsides and downsides. the downside, if I want to focus on things that are dumb but long it does this. the upside, if the random things I think of are somehow related to the things I can't focus on, I end up with a stronger understanding of all the texts because I've isolated and tied together the core concepts that went into all of them. LithoGRAPHica is one huge wad of ADHD in one of the only ways it's possible for that to be good. I have a terrible feeling there will be several more of these tangents.
- my dad says the government knows about them and will blast them to smithereens 15
again this horrible connotation that you can't trust the government, but the people who say it _are correct_. which seems like a very bad theme to put in a pandemic novel
- Noah's father storms into library terrified 27
------
=> wikidata.org/wiki/Q131463482 New Dragon City
=> wikidata.org/wiki/Q131149986 Hachette copyright notice - present.
=> research.moraleconomy.au/entry/EC:9k/RD/Q618-LawyersLawyersLawyers metadata formatting
; research.moraleconomy.au/entry/User:RD/9k/Q12,1,18/comm
; stamp on book: 22 Dec 2025
:: cr. 2026-05-02T14:53:11H
; indentation: " "
Legend
>: direct quote-: statement directly in book[S]: abstract theme directly in book(no mark): comment