Poll Time! (FFA Post #13)
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Almost anything involving fandom and fails is on topic. Mods take a wide view on fandom.
Entire meme is a choose not to warn experience.
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Almost anything involving fandom and fails is on topic. Mods take a wide view on fandom.
Entire meme is a choose not to warn experience.
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- Religion or lack thereof is off topic.
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Oh yes. And also, he (and his supporters) may think the kid (or the kid's appointed regent if it's not the uncle himself) is allied to the wrong kind of interests that may lead the country to ruin.
Of course, the kingdom in question may not even be an automatically hereditary monarchy. Sweden wasn't officially so until Gustav I Vasa's reign in the 16th century - before that, kings (and the one queen) had to be elected by the big landowners, though a firstborn, legitimate son of the former king often had a leg up.
I'd love to hear more of what you thought about with your three-way marriages!Really? Okay, but be warned it's a bit long, way geeky and may not make all that sense. Um, it was interwoven with the idea of people, or at least men, belonging to different moieties. In puberty all men in that ( ... )
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I would *love* to see more books that took into account that not all monarchies have to work the same way. Elected kings; kings choosing their successor from their sons or a whole pool of royal relations; eldest children inheriting regardless of gender. Actually, I'd like to see more princesses in line for the throne in general for any reason, because then it'd be more likely that someone would do it well.
Your society sounds interesting! Did you have a plot idea, or did you just do some intricate worldbuilding? Because I have this tendency to come up with detailed background stuff and then realize that I've got absolutely nothing to do with it. It's a problem.
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By "do it well" I mean not treating her like stereotypical oppressed marriage bait.
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I have that problem a lot, too. Here as well - I pictured the world and the marriage customs, but no plot, and also no individual characters to follow (except for the fandom ones that inspired me, but once I'd got this far into it, I felt using the idea as an excuse for shipping was wasteful and embarrassing, even though it was fun trying to figure out what the new constellations would be).
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I myself can create characters and single scenes pretty easily, but when it comes to plotting out how these characters would reach the point where the scene plays out I hit a wall. That's when I shoot an e-mail to my writing pal, who is not so good at creating characters but is excellent at concocting plot scenarios. It seriously only takes a sentence from her to unblock me and set me back on my way. Even observatory comments can be like brain drano.
The input of another person is like the spark to the fuse.
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I've always wanted to write a gay fantasy romance where the parents are up in arms, not because the couple is gay, but because they're both the crown princes of their respective kingdoms and one of them would have to abdicate. Commence political machination.
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They resolved it in that case by Arthur's mysterious disappearance.
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Locked his nephews in a tower and took the throne himself, claiming they were illegitimate.
English history is full of this sort of thing.
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That's not necessarily what happened. A lot of historians think that's only one possible interpretation and that Richard III was villainised by the people who were on the throne after him - a case of history being written by the victors, or those who came after at least.
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