Talk:Author Authority/@comment-5265497-20141031215352/@comment-4867780-20141102113815

But fiction isn't real life, unlike with the later we control the rules, we control fate and causality, we can decide how things are, what exist and what doesn't. We are the God of our stories, so there is just no need for all this glorified masochism, no need to look for value and meaning among suffering and chaos. Things can just be right. They can just be inherently good and well, the way real life would be if a kind soul was actually in control of it, because stories are exactly the way we write them. The one and only reason things invariably go sour is because that is just boring, because it's a marvelous happiness we cannot relate to and can never hope to reach, so it is better forgotten.

I understand that making things difficult and complicated is necessity to make stories interesting and keep the audience entertained, I'm just saying that from the characters' viewpoint it is effectively needless cruelty, and while Featherine is effectively a sociopathic bitch on this regard, the same can be said for every writer that doesn't make his setting a genuine and safe paradise (so basically 99.99% of them, for the aforementioned reason).