Grrl Power #1414 - Smaug, minus "a" (Patreon)

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I may have mentioned this before, but for some reason, jokes about thinks being load-bearing always land with me. Probably because the only ones I've heard are absurdist. I think Brooklyn 99 did one about a balloon arch being load-bearing. Knees are, evolutionarily speaking, load-bearing. All bones are, really. Maybe not the skull, or the lower mandible. I suppose that depends on how you define "load." But knees are inarguably load-bearing, so my little joke meets my own standard for being absurdist, therefore, I made myself laugh with this one. 

Also, not to keep patting myself on the back, but "the most structurally reinforced of women's knees" (which is an awkward sentence, but I think it's grammatically correct?) also makes me laugh, because, yes, of course, there are such things as knee braces and in the advanced galaxy, powered armor, but the first thing my mind conjures is something like a woman wearing 6 pairs of pantyhose, or some kind of stocking and garter and flying buttress affair. 

In some settings, dragon fire would be just some napalm-ish goo stored in a gland and it's lit by the dragon clicking their teeth together when they have some flint stuck between their molars. That sort of biological dragon can account for the acid and chlorine breathers, but doesn't allow for the kind that breath lightning or "cold." In magical dragon settings, there's probably more to the breath weapons than some goo in a gland. So dragons would probably have a name for it that sounds cool. Soulfire was the best I could come up with. Which probably happened at a Dragon council meeting, and the Red and Gold and Magma dragons were like "I guess "SoulFire" is the best we can come up with." And all the other dragons who breathe cold or tornadoes or avalanches or starlight or whatever were all "No! It must be inclusive! EnergyForge!" "What are we? Dwarves?" "How about DragonCore!" "Ug, that sounds like an exercise trend for douchey nobles and High Elves." "Okay, fine, SoulFire it is, but must we do intercaps?" "The Time Dragon says it will be easier to Duck Duck Go, whatever that means."