Update notice, March 21st: Probably no new page this week, but two next week. (-_-;) I pulled an all-nighter yesterday to finish a job (and all in vain, since apparently I’m the only one at work who would pull all- or even part-nighters to hold deadlines — so I could just as well have taken it more easy … grmbll …). Today I awoke to broken Internet, and once I finally got it running again I was bombarded with work from another client. Guess I just didn’t have any days off this week … Whine, whine, whine.
… Swine? V`(oo)´V
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Maybe they would be like the heron and the crane in the Russian folk tale (and also the animation by Yuri Norstein, which you can watch here – or in poor quality but with English subtitles here). In fact, Willie’s last name comes from čapek, which is Czech for heron …
Unlike other parts of the UK and also most other parts of the entire world, in Scotland the marriageable age is 16 with no need for parental consent or court permission.
Aww, Willie’s so sweet when she’s nervous. So typically tsundere. And umm… Aeron? Expressing your lack of commitment in previous relationships is an… unconventional approach to asking a girl to marry you. Just so you know.
16 *is* very young for marriage, but finding a country where such is legal can’t be too hard when you’re an inter-dimensional traveller…
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Bwah, I’ve always opposed the opposition to marriage. At least the modern concept of marriage as a non-religious ceremony and not favouring one partner over the other. Does that make me conservative despite my socialism? I dunno. I think it’s perfectly reasonable to have a binding relationship between two people – it’s not like such things aren’t broken all the time anyway…
Hmm, marriage is kind of obsolete in modern society, though, isn’t it? The only reason to keep it up would be that you decide it’s important for *you*. And when there are no economical, religious or other reasons greater than you, I guess it’s a lot harder to keep the commitment. And so, almost all marriages end in divorce nowadays. So I would think, why bother with all that paperwork? :o/
It’s hard to put into words, but I think the existence of a personal agreement of fidelity still has a lot of value, and such an agreement might as well be called marriage. And the formalities of the matter do help make (some) people feel bad about breaking the agreement- and so they should. People should just be careful about making such agreements… Not like Aeron in the above comic. Not that I blame him.
I understand what you mean. But I guess I’m too jaded … V^(oo)^;V
Besides, I really don’t like the thought of being bound to a personal agreement of fidelity through “outer” forces (the formalities, all the paperwork). I would value such an agreement much more if it was made freely between the two people involved. Maybe because I’m an anarchist … ;o)
Heh, before you judge Aeron too harshly you should read the next page(s). But yeah, he’s Eva’s brother so of course he *is* a bit weird. Maybe just in a more subtle way.