Alicornutopia

I have more than one character who objects on principle to eternal sorcerer-monarchs.

I kind of object in principle to immortal sorcerer-monarchs too, but in practice they would usually be better. Democracy with term limits and representatives and everything limits the power of government, including both the bad the government can do and the good the government can do.

I would still like the mint Bells to expedite figuring out a system to allow emigration, like in this out-of-continuity question.

I stand firmly behind the superiority of eternal sorcerer-monarchs who actually turn out to be superior in practice, and we can tell that these characters turn out to be superior in practice because they're fictional and how they turn out is determined by their authors. Real actual people don't have this advantage, so in real actual life I prefer some kind of sensibly organized democracy, if such a thing is possible. But while we're imagining bringing fictional characters to life I have no problem imagining them turning out to be as good at their jobs as we expect them to.

I don't actually rationally think that we should have eternal sorcerer-monarchs, it's just a really strong emotional reaction when my college's sidewalks are the battlefield for a chalk war between pro-Trump and anti-Trump people. Long story.

Alicorn wrote:I will point out that in earthfic settings Bells do not acquire political power. They're kind of unsuited to it unless they have substantial magical leverage.

Also dead.

I saw a post on tumblr with a "rules to live a good life" or something to that effect and the seventh one was "smile, you don't own all the problems in the world".

My mental models of Bells, Miles, Yvettes and Adarins screamed.

Bluelantern wrote:I saw a post on tumblr with a "rules to live a good life" or something to that effect and the seventh one was "smile, you don't own all the problems in the world".

My mental models of Bells, Miles, Yvettes and Adarins screamed.

Thea also disagrees.

As does Sadde.

Edie rolls her eyes and flips them off.

Edit: "Them" meaning the people who wrote rule seven, not Sadde and Yvette.

Yvette would like her model updated with the information that she doesn't think every problem in the world is her problem, only the ones she decides are her problem. Mind, she'll decide that pretty often, especially if she personally has a way to fix it and it's wafting in front of her, but it's not automatically her problem. Being dropped in a world and told that its entire well being is her problem without her getting the chance to decide it first is likely to really tick her off.

Adarin's pretty spot on if you replace 'screamed' with something less... Screamy. He doesn't want to scream at it, he wants to sigh at it and go, 'Well I think otherwise, and I am the one that gets to say whether or not it is, not you.'