Ace in Space

They say there are other worlds out there beyond the stone sea, but I think that's stupid nonsense.

in my mind if dragons were real then western and eastern dragons would be only distantly related species filling the same ecological niche across different continents. but due to visual similarities got called the same thing in English. and it would be one of those things that you hear on trivia game shows and go "oh that's neat" about and then move on with your day, like how tanuki get lumped in with racoons even tho racoons are musteloids and tanuki are canids. do you see my vision.

i must not get takeout. takeout is the wallet-killer. takeout is the little-death that brings total obliteration. i will face the kitchen, fridge, and pantry. i will make choices about what to cook and then execute them. when hunger is gone there will be nothing. only i will remain.

If the velociraptor is anything like a chicken, it's definitely trainable. Like they probably wouldn't respond to negative reinforcement in the slightest. Maybe even worse than chickens in that regard. But I think most predators tend to react with caution to larger animals, so you'd benefit from instincts a bit there. Training it to expect food when following a certain pattern, or to be comfortable with your presence, or to follow you around. Also it would be morally correct to domesticate it, so that'd help.