DRAGONS VS. DINOSAURS: WHICH ARE WAY COOLER?

In my opinion, dinosaurs are way cooler. Thing about dinosaurs, is that they’re totally real and not pretend creatures. Whenever you hear about dinosaurs in real life, they’re usually unhinged and totally on the brink of destruction and it’s fucking sick. I wouldn’t want to think of birds as anything but dinosaurs with feathers and beaks. But to look at dragons with as much enthusiasm is almost way too difficult to recreate. I suppose that may be because of how a lizard is what counts as a dragon. Like a komodo dragon, which supposedly lost the ability to fly a long time ago. That’s the thing, there’s usually only one type of mythological dragon in popular, albeit overrated fantasy intellectual properties. And yet, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re limited simply because dragons have to always be flying lizards that breathe fire. But dinosaurs? Not the case. Not the case at all; actually the fun thing about dinosaurs is how the scaled behemoths themselves are able to create their own sub-breed of ancient reptilians underwater, in the air or simply to just dwell on land. But dragons, and therefore, dragon-loving people, are a little more limited in their thought-process. You can’t think that dragons are cool because they just give off a very black and white perspective. There are either good dragons out there or evil dragons out there. And that’s not quite so fair to anyone else that look to these dragons as tools. You don’t quite have to discern the right shoulder and the left shoulder with dinosaurs. Maybe it’s because they are the actual forces of nature that kicked off society, for all animals and life forms. And if that’s the case, there’s no such good thing as good and evil. Just “for-the-objective” and “against-the-objective.” As far as nature goes, morality is a human’s task. But that needn’t concern the animal kingdom, no matter how prehistoric they may be, simply because the one goal every animal has, even humans, is to survive. At our base existence, that’s why we do anything. To continue surviving. Hence, why I stay with this day job. I like but I don’t love it. But I need it because it’s readily there to let me survive off of when the going gets tough and I feel my own imminent extinction coming in the foreground. Who knows what will be waiting for us in the near future? You do not want to let the ill-fated tail of dragons being less cool than dinosaurs as you are always going to be chasing your tale, trying to get all the details down right and exact to how it makes most sense. But dinosaurs? They don’t have to worry about such human trivialities. To be a dinosaur is to have the best instincts, the best food and the best roar. Cry? Yell! I don’t know what you call it when a dinosaur bellows. How many “Os” versus “Rs” are there, all in their battle cries, I wonder.

Danny Archila

stand-up comic. graphic illustrator. big fan of french dip sandwiches. small fan of wooly mammoths. creator of The Intermittent Titter Magazine. www.dannyarchila.com

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