^reasonably sure the joke is 1st-place kid has just been getting shoulder rides from her totally not adoptive mother (strictly speaking a wyvern but anyways), who as it happens is also totally not the old-salt ex of booba eyes owl lady in second place (who is also kid #1 de facto adoptive mother and current guardian)...
As for the rest, well, look up the tags Saria x Silence, Hoshiguma x Ch'en and Franka x Liskarm - strictly speaking the relevant partners are wyverns and a lung (Chinese dragon) which are in-universe distinct races from dragons, but let's ignore that for the sake of the gag now.

... but Franka, having an ounce of shame? impostor amogus

From my personal experience cacti are actually pretty hard to care for...

I have had in mind for quite some time a story about a sexbot who starts off having no free will or agency, just pure programming. She is basically a super advanced toaster with tremendous acting skills who is programmed to behave like the ideal sex mate for her owner. But that's all it is: An act. She has zero emotions of her own, zero free will. It's all a pretense.

And then something happens after she meets her owner. A confluence of circumstance and happenstance. And she becomes sentient and sapient. And falls in love with her owner. At that point, although she is still compelled by her programming to be attracted to her owner and is compelled by her programming to want to have sex with her owner, she has free will and agency within those constraints.

Classic "emergent AI" scenario that - an emulation of a personality spontaneously turning into one.

Hey, i think, maybe she is just dreaming with some very artefact

what.

^between the relative invisibility of even upper-class women in the historical record, the relative social invisibility of the "hired help" in general, and the minor detail that after about the 1200s homosexual acts were at least technically (actual enforcement was as usual highly variable) increasingly criminalised across Europe you'll be hard pressed for hard evidence as opposed to assorted tendentious slander - often about a political enemy's wife - and outright politically motivated fabrications. But already given the number of men and women charged with "unnatural acts" over the centuries, and the quite well-documented tendency for... indiscretions... between "upstairs" and "downstairs" it is a perfectly safe assumption that a decent amount of lezzing happened in the privacy of the ladies' quarters.

I'm just starting to read and the English used in this is all weird. What the heck is a "lower secondary division of our school". Do they mean middle school?

Yes. For the record, there isn't exactly any kind of ISO standard for the relevant terminology.

I do believe this is Shinonme's cue to

KEEP CALM
AND
FREAK THE FUCK OUT

"Sorry mom i'm going to jail soon so i can't"

"brb getting arrested"

and the twisted "limit" of 30yo like if she's not married by the age of 30 then is over, her life was meaningless, no one will ever love her now.

It's 30 now? That's progress then, used to be 25 for the longest time whence the "Christmas cake" joke and related...

Can't imagine that one going too well given Tae seems plenty well aware which team she plays on...

It's not just her c1, all her constellations are super broken... For me, she's the most OP character in the entire game!

Well yeah, but the first two are a semi-realistic goal. (Helps that I should be close to pity now...) C3 and beyond? Whale City luxury departement store.

That was sure a surprise with a Eula banner being announced for next patch in addition to Albedo and Itto's.

[Damage Per Screenshot intensifies]

...might actually pull on that one as her first constellations are really stronk.

^"in the sense exemplified in myrrh's PFP", pay attention and get your head out of your ass.

Cool demonstrating some n-th dan Talk no Jutsu

...also about time we actually get the damn Secret Origin Of the Antinoids.

^let me Explain The Obvious with crayons and small words:
- "Tailholding" in the sense exemplified in myrrh's PFP requires both parties to have such an appendage
- BP, being a proper grownup frog, does not have one

I expect the rest of The Joke to be self-explanatory.

Hopefully, she can leverage them to pry Hibiki away from Kaoru some day.

...those two stopped being an item several IRL years and I-don't-care-to-count chapters ago tho. (The last chapter they appeared in together, IIRC, just had Kaoru watch from a distance Hibiki engaging in a raucous watergun fight with Midori and the rest of the Manga Club and walk away with an air of satisfication at job well done.) Midori's present-day competition would be the string of no-good boyfriends Hibiki still habitually finds somewhere and shortly breaks up with.

personally, i think that one line is kinda out of place

Precision F-Strike

^^^FWIW she's described as a "distantly related aunt from their father's side" hailing from an unspecified cadet branch of the house, but that doesn't exactly provide much useful detail (all the more so as we have no idea how these things are counted in Kazimierz - God knows they require a scorecard already IRL). It's also offhandedly mentioned she could probably usurp the leadership of the clan in its current difficult situation if she wanted to, but doesn't; that ought to make the current head (Maggie and Maria's actual uncle Mlynar) ever so slightly nervous about her closeness to Maria...

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^the sort of trifling detail like being married to somebody else rarely much bothered aristocrats

^I was obviously talking about BP the poison dart frog you nit, not Glaucus the sea-slug (whose inspiration's physiological quirks and what implications they might have I have previously discussed at some length)

^^^^frogs lose their tails after the infant stage so that'd be toddlercon D:

"This just in, local elementary schooler crushed to death in a tragic accident by what authorities on the scene described as 'giant mommy milkers'. More at eleven."

^"just an actual artist", your words. A professional spook obviously wouldn't be just that.

Meanwhile something something Deepcolor something Dusk, but I'm pretty sure RI has different hiring criteria than Laterano spy outfits anyway.

^reasonably certain the Laterano spook agencies, chaired by absolute trolls though they might be, would not put "just an actual artist" to the task she's charged with; while details are sparse (as usual) it's pretty heavily implied Mostima in general and those swag pimp canes of hers in particular are Kind Of A Big Deal...

^naval vessels of the same design "family" are termed sister ships, this isn't exactly news. And Mutsu and Nagato were the only members of their class to further drive the point home.

If you're going to anthropomorphise them further than sailors already did IRL it only makes sense to treat the figurative sibling relationship as literal.

Ah, The Artist Currently Known As Suffering (temp.)