I could take it.

Man, I just don't know enough about Pokemon. I know the major ones like Pikachu and Meowth and I know that James from Team Rocket has breasts at one point, but that's about the extent of my Pokemon knowledge.

They'd be thick as thieves.

Haha, he's lost count XD But he has to have The Talk with her again, he promised Leysa.

Women are wedged into those roles for the same reasons men have wedged women into those roles ever since we moved from hunting and gathering to agriculture. Wives must be considered property to ensure they belong to one man, whose children she will produce so they can inherit his wealth and land. You let women wander and you don't know if your children are your children. Because men are physically stronger and can use a woman's children against her since she's blessed (burdened) with strong maternal instinct, they're able to enforce this. Thousands of years of female oppression in nigh every recorded human culture generally boils down to this.

Now you add in religious ideology to enforce it. Yes, the Ssaelit believe humans are the pinnacle of Creation. But what is a "human?" What makes a human a good human? If he's a man, Ssael says he must be honourable and honest, goodhearted and fair, and earn his way and enrich his heart and mind. If she's a woman, she produces and raises children, supports her husband, keeps a respectable home.

Assigning roles to men and women does not conflict with the Ssaelit anthropocentric view; it simply paints it in. Interestingly, since the Ssaelit believe in reincarnation and multiple lives, it's generally understood that every soul will have a go at both genders, and that it's spiritually healthy and necessary to be so well-rounded. If you're a woman who defies your role by not wanting children or even a man who defies it by wanting to stay at home, you're wrong. You're trying to cheat what you have been born into and you are in the wrong.

As in our world, "Küche, Kinder, Kirche" is only literal in cities and often only among the somewhat privileged. Poor women and rural women have always had to work just as hard - and often harder - than the men. Alderode's rough climate makes it tougher for everyone. If the Adeliers lived out in the country and Duane was a farmer, Leysa would be out in the fields with him with Simon strapped to her back, I'm sure.

Yep.

I do not have any Apple devices and I have not played Spaceteam.

I'm actually all sold out of postcard sets as of today, so no. Sorry, man :(

Old enough to kick your butt.

Kasslyne? Years of thinking and roleplaying and reading and writing and daydreaming.

Mikaila is just a kid and Vienne liked kids, so sure. Vienne would love to teach Mikaila just like she tried to teach Matty in their short time together.

I think he'd never expressly give his permission if she asked (and neither would Leysa or their ghers) but if she went against everyone's wishes and did it anyway, he would deal with it and support her. But it would be weird and difficult for everyone involved, and I wouldn't be surprised if it got her exiled from her community.

His pipe.

Well done :3

"the sides of the cup, and I could see the thing's FANGS!! twitching constantly and in my terror I kept thinking "it can poke through the copy paper" even though that's ridiculous, but I had to keep shaking the cup to knock the thing back to the bottom to keep calm. Somehow I managed to get downstairs and open the door while shaking the cup like a maraca and toss that thing into the black void of night where I hope it never returns. Anyway I'm telling you this because I read that the spiders in are much larger than what we're use to here (NE US), so make me feel like I was panicking over nothing and am a wimp for being afraid of spiders? Or do they creep you out too? Gah spiders ;______; "

I'm so glad you did not die and/or have to burn down your house o_o And you were brave and caught the spider instead of just squishing it. I salute you!

I cannot STAND bugs or spiders. I really have a bit of a phobia and have to keep a can of bugspray on my dresser even though I practically never see bugs in here. I had next door neighbours a few years ago who were certified hoarders whose house was foreclosed on. It was bought by flippers, and when they went to renovate it they had to fumigate it for roaches, and all the bugs crossed the fence and tried to move in here. Every night for about a month, soon as the sun set, there were sure to be two or three roaches in my room, crawling on my feet in the dark.

Much shit was flipped.

There probably are crazy spiders somewhere in Florida but not so much where I live. The copious lizard population keeps a lot of the worst of the bugs away. This is why I love lizards.

Stay vigilant.

Yep, the server would appear to be down. Can't do much about it.

Honour, serenity, and God.

Hicks' first name in Aliens is Duane (Dwayne, I think). And think about how awesome Hicks was. Duane is a secretly awesome name.

So back to tribalism? Depends how much they like webcomics.