Open Thread: Oracle Hotline

[mithen]

 How do the social, political, or cultural systems in your world shape your characters' choices and conflicts?

Part of what I love about these kinds of questions is thinking about how interesting your answers are likely to be! The historical research that Brady is doing, the possibility of the Russian cultural influence Svgurl might be digging into--it's really fascinating. For me it's mostly the urban/rural divide of the Victorian age and the tension between the "frontier" (which Kansas kind of is at the time) and the more elegant city life is really interesting, I am very eager to write Clark visiting Gotham for the first time!