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The dragons in Wings of Fire must have some sort of instinct that allows them to determine gender based off of the tiniest clues. Often dragons can correctly determine gender based off of a few seconds worth of interaction, like bumping in the hallway. What are the differences between male dragons and female dragons? What do the dragons know that we don't? The graphic novels don't seem to show any visual differences between genders, so maybe it's a scent thing? But there's a few scenes where the protagonist sees a dragon from far away and thinks "who is he?" or something similar. And whenever we meet the mysterious far away dragon, their gender is always the one the protagonist guessed. So there must be some sort of big difference that us humans aren't realising. And it doesn't seem to align with our gender standards either, if you saw five random dragons and didn't know who they were, you'd get some of their genders wrong. So do trans dragons exist? And without anything like clothing or hormones like we have, is it possible for one to pass as their correct gender? Dragons definitely have sexual organs though, and nothing short of magical intervention is going to change those, especially with the technology they have. So maybe it's something about posture, which is both visible from far away and adaptable. But of course, the graphic novels don't show anything of the sort.

Oh. Well. I'm so glad you asked.

when you sent me this I was out in the middle of nowhere. I don't think you're bored at work anymore but have some recommendations anyway

music - basically anything from julia ecklar. most of what she does is sorta like country music but it's sci-fi or fantasy instead, plus also that weirdly religious one.

audiobooks - I do not listen to many of these but here are some of my favourite books that also have an audiobook form: anything by Naomi Novik, The Martian by Andy Weir, All Systems Red by Martha Wells, and Scythe by Neal Shusterman.

Have this I stole

oooh! Glass squid