Cracked Phoenix: College of Boom: Dragon Trivia

[azurelunatic]

Now we know what happens (at least vaguely) to people who had some (but not all) of the aptitudes for being a dragongeek after they were inducted; what happens to people who had all the aptitudes but you could not get them to be a dragongeek over their dead body; and that it's Not Particularly Good when an outsider stumbles in.

Also that queen dragons, like chickens, will lay eggs when there is no knight dragon around, and they will become broody. Extracting unfertilized eggs from a broody queen dragon's nest is amazingly safe these days. You'll probably survive it if you're lucky! Since it is, objectively speaking, in this day and age, a high-risk job, you might think that maybe it wouldn't be done -- but ain't nobody wants a *dragon* egg going off and exploding.

Fajita Mom (hat tip to exor674 for reading "FAJITA NOM" as "FAJITA MOM" in #dreamwidth backscroll) has a weekly(ish) trip to the Brotherhood of the Salamander frathouse with groceries; she cooks meals for them which wind up being a bit of a frat open house, and there have been no few brothers (male brothers, female brothers, brothers of other genders; at some point there was a Question of Inclusiveness, and the brothers voted that it wasn't strictly necessary that one of their brothers be a he, strictly speaking, but he might as well still be a Brother; I reckon that it will take a brother who is particularly insistent upon zeir pronouns sometime within the next 20 years for them to swap over to Sibling, because Siblinghood of the Salamander does have an attractive alliteration) whose decision to join was tipped over by the food. Fajita Mom attempts to fill her empty nest by taking care of the Brothers. She couldn't be an effective mother to her own child (because of Reasons) so she might as well make up for it by mothering the ones she can.

Comments

[jeshyr]

Is Fajita Mom like Fishmum?

[azurelunatic]

Not really half so actually caretakey in practice. She is really only there when cooking, and a whole lot slips under her radar, to the point where you have to have really fucked up for Fajita Mom to have noticed and commented. Fishmumming involves trying to head off certain disasters at the "wow, that won't end well" point.

There is a certain amount of nonspecific "I trust you boys to make the right decisions" but less "clothing is often a valid life choice".