magenpies:

quecksilvereyes:

thistherapylife:

aergiaaa:

@muslimfinn

After this week, this gives me faith

he’s mirroring! cats do that to be social that’s also why they will lie on laptops or books. they want to do what their humans are doing because they enjoy being in the same room and socializing that way. getting him his own prayer mat was a really good idea bc now he gets to mirror without being in the way!

The other thing is that cats have a very good sense of time and tend to like regular schedules. If OP’s family members pray every day at the same times, in the same place, the cat knows the drill and probably considers this an official Household Activity which requires Feline Supervision.

doctorbluesmanreturns:

koinohnia:

“The husband being the ‘head’ of the woman means the protecter, the overseer, the one that watches upon. You’re making sure she’s safe, not becoming her boss. And the wife yielding herself and adapting is the word ‘submit’, it doesn’t mean you’re his slave.”

— anon

The fake trad men on here: I can’t read most of this but I see “boss” and “slave” so it’s all good.

Do people with powers have to register with the government now, and ooh, do they have a special designation, like “Empowered-American”?

emeralddodge:

No, there are no registries. The collapse of the camps was a watershed moment for Supers, though. Before that, the camps had a monopoly on superheroism and controlled how Supers were viewed. After that, people from the obscure families were a lot more comfortable coming out of hiding; there was even a certain glamour attached to being from one of the “rare” non-camp lines.

(Don’t worry, I’m pretty sure these are my last few questions. Probably.) Did any Federal or local government agencies take any heat for not inspecting the camps to make sure they were livable/making sure the children were being properly educated? Even private school are periodically subject to investigation.

emeralddodge:

I love when readers ask me questions. Please send as many as you want–I promise that you’ll never annoy me.

The DOJ got in trouble with pretty much everyone for not monitoring the camps better, but to be fair, the camps had done a lot to hide what was going on. There were “inspections” occasionally, but like in real life, virtually all of them were communicated ahead of time. 

The big thing is that the people in the camps were private citizens, just like people in real-life cult compounds are. The amount of neglect they could legally get away with is quite real. 

Ember seems to have placed a lot of her relationship with Reid on his making her feel safe. How did that dynamic change once he lost his powers?

emeralddodge:

Ember did a lot of good, hard thinking during Reid’s convalescence. She rarely left his side, usually sitting in the corner chair and just looking at him. Most people, Jill included, assumed that Ember was thinking loving thoughts and standing watch over her beloved.

In reality, Ember was considering her options for if, and then when, Reid woke up. She loved him, and she wanted to be with him, but she was just as concerned for her safety in the hospital as she was at any other time. And like you said, her feeling of safety was a pillar part of their relationship. Could Reid offer her any protection anymore?

Things changed when Reid began to be able to talk to her again. She was able to visit him in his mind, and there she finally admitted what she’d been considering. Reid and her discussed how they’d construct their life, steps they’d take to make sure they were both safe, etc. 

Even though Reid was comatose, he had his own two cents to put into the discussion: how Ember had treated people during Mercury. I said in another post that she didn’t get the dressing-down she deserved, but I meant that she didn’t get it in the book, which is probably what readers wanted. But she did get it from both Reid (kindly) and Marco (not so kindly). Reid told her that if they were going to be married, she needed to take responsibility for all the crap she’d pulled in the lab–and he didn’t even know what she’d done to Benjamin. 

That was extremely difficult for her. In fact, when he told her to do it, she pulled out of his head and walked out of the room for several hours. She finally came back and admitted she’d been horrible. 

In the end, the animal sanctuary was purchased in a roundabout way, so neither of their names are attached to it. It would be hard to track them via paperwork. Ember has virtually no social media presence, and Reid doesn’t publicly talk about her. All staff on the farm are hired and vetted through a third party company that doesn’t disclose the names of the owners until after the person has been hired, and everyone signs non-disclosure agreements. Even then, Reid deals with them almost exclusively.