27dragons

Mom, editor, writer, geek.

[torstherapy]

[tinsnip]

Per @spoonstrek

[justcallmedom31]

These are so beautiful.

Credit goes to the wonderful artist: ChibiGreen

[justcallmedom31]

Oh my gosh, i found more beauties!!

Credit once again goes to the wonderful artist: ChibiGreen

[rosewinterborn]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jayce/Viktor (League of Legends) Characters: Jayce (League of Legends), Viktor (League of Legends), Heimerdinger (League of Legends), Mel Medarda Additional Tags: Set in Season 01 Between Act 01 and Act 02 (Arcane: League of Legends), Crack, not taken the slightest bit seriously, this is engineered to do as much psychic damage as possible, the heimerdinger sex talk none of us deserved, happy pride i guess Summary:

“I must be getting slow in my old age, but i had the epiphany this morning over my tea and I wanted to express my sincerest congratulations!”

“The epiphany?” Jayce repeats.

“Congratulations?” Viktor echoes.

“Yes! Congratulations!” Heimerdinger toddles over to an unused lab stool and drags it laboriously closer to the chalkboard. “The art of exploration is always more rewarding with a companion, isn’t it?”

[cinnabarfangs]

no pride month is complete without jayvik as far as i'm concerned!! who do you think they're discussing so intently

(this totally wasn't a scrapped frame from my dnp/jayvik animatic that i reworked shhh.... you can find the original frames in the digital ccau zine here tho hehe)

[teathattast]

[beardedmrbean]

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

I know people don't like having the blindingly obvious suggested to them but the following do have to regularly be said to people I know so:

Have you tried turning it off and then on again?

Is it plugged in properly?

What does the manual say?

You can probably Google that

Have you eaten?

I know you remember making the food but did you actually eat it?

Well do it sitting down then

You're probably having a reaction to one of the ingredients, read the label and see if there's anything in there that you recognise

Okay did you actually tell him that? With your mouth? Using words?

The painkillers only work if you take them

Cool had has self-flagellating actually made this work before or?

Yeah okay you 'must remember to' but you remember to NOW so do it NOW

Put it in your fucking calendar

Do you want me to show you how to set up reminders

So use BOTH hands then

... the suggestions of the blindingly obvious will continue until people demonstrate consistently that they don't need it.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

did you take your fucking meds

[imrix]

Speaking as a former teacher, people have a way of ignoring the obvious answers, because they're obvious. The mind has a way of going, "a problem this big can't be that simple, there's gotta be more to it."

Which is to say,

did you drink water lately?

[tabris-the-seventeenth-angel]

HEARTBREAKING: friends who i should be going to the movies and playing dnd and watching anime and cosplaying and going to the mall and having sleepovers and exploring the woods with live one hundred trillion miles away

[fictionadventurer]

One of my biggest literary pet peeves is when historical or history-inspired fiction pretends that "courting" is a synonym for "dating". Usually it's just a one-to-one word swap--in a modern context, these characters would be dating, but this is olden times, so they call it courting instead. Sometimes they'll pretend there's a shade of difference, and that courting is a more serious exploration of marriage or something. But I read a lot of fiction that was actually written during these historical eras, and the word "courting" is never used like that.

Two people do not decide that they are "courting". One person decides to "court" someone else. It's an action, not a stage in the relationship. A man decides to court a woman because he wants to encourage her to have romantic interest in him. He's trying to win her favor. It's not an exclusive relationship--a woman could be courted by multiple men at once. She'll spend time getting to know the guy who's interested in her, but they won't officially define their relationship as one where they only show romantic interest in each other. If they reach a point where they want it to be exclusive, that's when you propose.

There's no middle ground--either you're getting to know each other, or you're committed to marrying each other. This idea of a period where you kind of commit to each other until you decide you definitely want to get married is a modern one, and it occurs in eras where they use the word "dating" to describe it. The closest equivalent I can think of are times and places where they'd talk about a couple "stepping out together", but they're still not calling it "courting". Words have meaning, and the word "courting" has never meant that, so stop using it that way!

[starfieldcanvas]

the other mild historical disjoint i run into is when people talk about dating in the fifties like it automatically meant exclusivity. the whole reason we have the expression "going steady" is because the default was to or "go around with" or "go out with" multiple people. not in the sense of being in a stable polyamorous vee, but in the sense that archie is actively "seeing" both betty and veronica during the entire time the two girls are competing for his attention and they're both seeing other guys to make him jealous, and nobody involved considers this "cheating."

bizarrely, America has in many ways gotten more conservative about dating since World War II.

[penrosesun]

I ran into a truly wild cultural misunderstanding with my father some years ago, when I had to explain to him what “hookup culture” actually was, and that the thing he assumed it was was actually what we call “cruising culture”. His response was “how is that different from dating?” and when I explained how it was different, he said, and please note that this a direct quote: “That’s ridiculous! You can’t expect a woman to stop fooling around with other guys for anything less than a marriage proposal. I mean, she’s not a prostitute, you can’t buy her.” Now obviously there’s like… a lot to unpack there, but I think it’s pretty darn illustrative of a substantive cultural shift around the assumption of monogamy!

Also, following this, I asked my mom what her thoughts were on the matter, and she said that while she “wouldn’t put it in those terms” she broadly agreed, and thought that anyone expecting any sort of exclusivity when a marriage proposal wasn’t at least on the very immanent horizon was “nuts, honestly.” I hesitantly asked if she was including relationships with premarital sexual activity in that, and her response was “Of course. I mean, gosh, you know your Aunt Terri used to have a guy for every day of the week before she finally settled down.”

And this was when I learned, to my shock, that the oft-repeated story of how “Aunt Terri used to have a guy for every day of the week” didn’t just mean “Aunt Terri had a full dance card” but rather meant that Aunt Terri had a period of her life where she literally dated exactly seven guys at once, all of whom she was sleeping with (or, my mom was quick to disclaim, “well, fooling around with, I don’t know how far she actually went with any of them, but they were definitely all fooling around behind closed doors”), on a literal weekly rotation. Like, they had a schedule. A schedule that all seven of the guys knew.

America has gotten a lot more conservative about dating, actually.

[bon-bonsai]

Happy pride month to everyone! and to my fav genderfluid, agender; demon and angel.

[nondelphic]

writing is just sitting in front of a computer and making up problems for imaginary people while ignoring your own. fun and casual hobby.

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

do you have some crazy family lore

yes

no

no but i know someone else's crazy family lore

results

Voting ended on21h

[billymayslesbian]

imagining a universe where porn is a marketable genre so you have to deal with raycon ads while trying to jerk your shit

[torchichate]

You’re an easy slut, aren’t you kitten? Almost as easy as dinner with Hellofresh

[gothicprep]

one of my classic texts, from the archives

[wolfythewitch]

all all all

[pinabunny]

I want them to be happyyy

[27dragons]

OMG you guys! I've had this for several days but been sitting on it until the other recipient got theirs but now I can yell about it!

The INCREDIBLY talented and amazing @carcrash429 bound Safe and (the) Sound as a gift for a friend and also sent me a copy!

This is such a stunningly well-made trade bind that honestly, for like half a minute I thought they'd done the typesetting and then had the printing done by a printshop (which, to be clear, would already have been extremely cool)!

BUT NO! Once I looked at it a second time, I realized the whole thing was handmade! (Listen, in my defense, my mail arrives really late and I excitedly opened the package before I even got inside so it was dark!)

I love everything about it, from the font choices to the nautical theme in the accent art to the gorgeous cover and end papers! All the gorgeous art is in there (even the saucy stuff!) and our chapter notes, and it printed so beautifully!

Also I am just crying over the thought that anyone would love a nearly ten-year-old fic enough to want a physical copy!

Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for this!!! ❤️❤️🐉❤️❤️

(More pictures under the cut!)