IC -- Vote for Mayor!

[sythyry]

Kismirth needs a mayor. That's less than a duke. (We won't have a duke at all. I'm going to have a couple of ducal powers ((1) I own the whole city (because I made it), and (2) I can veto various things), but I did such a bad job of ruling Castle Wrong and Strayway that I do not want to try to be the mayor of Kismirth.)

So, who should be our first mayor? [This person's term will have started a few years before the Feralan story. But I will use the results of this vote. -bb]

So here's what our candidates say about themselves:

• Arfaen: I'm gentle and I can run a kitchen, even a pretty big and complicated restaurant-style kitchen. I'm a low-status Cani, so I won't be a mean and overbearing kind of mayor, but I do know how to get stuff done. Also Sythyry's my concubine, so that would concentrate the power in the city in one bedroom, which might be a good thing while we're getting started, though it might get a bit tyrannical (or maybe just ducal) if we keep it going too long.
• Grinwipey: Wait, what? I'll be shoggled in my own butterfunk if I gotta be mayor! How c'n I get rich breaking the laws of Kismirth if I gotta do the laws of Kismirth? I ain't gonna may for you and that's a fact that you can cram in your windpipe and smoke it!
• Inconnu: I'm fearless and dashing and glamorous -- just what Kismirth needs as a public face when we're trying to get established as a very wonderful place one must visit! And I exemplify the fun side of transaffection better than anyone!
• Jyondre: I am perhaps the most sensible person in the core Strayway crew. I do not fear to take action, but I do not stupidly charge into action either. Yerenthax and I exemplify the devoted side of transaffection better than anyone.
• Phaniet: I'm very organized and very good at organizing people, which is crucial for a young city. I have considerable personal power, and can get people to do what needs to be done in a number of ways. And, if we're going on the basis of transaffection, I have been Este's partner for decades; we are what any traff couple should aspire to.
• Prince Rastomil: Well, my main qualification for being mayor is being royal. I suppose I can handle the symbolic aspects of the role adequately. But I have many other qualifications as well! I am inadequate as a degenerate and a lush, and will come to work sober more often than not. I have considerable experience at being enchanted in horrible ways and lounging around for weeks in the body of an older woman, which gives me a unique perspective which I very much hope will not be relevant for anyone in Kismirth ever again. I have failed to get married, and done so in an exceedingly dramatic way. I am not quite sure which of these is a good thing for a mayor. Still, if I am elected mayor, I daresay I will keep Kismirth in the broadsheets quite well. Occasionally, by accident, it might even turn out to be in a good way.
• Someone New: I am not any of these people! I surely have other virtues and flaws as well!

[Poll #1778966]

Comments

[koogrr.livejournal.com]

Oh no, please no more River Sues.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

What is a River Sue? Aside from a river in Sudan.

[koogrr.livejournal.com]

Melody Pond aka River Song

The hyper competent companion in the recent Doctor Who shows who does everything better than he does, upstages and criticizes him and basically reads like a bad fanfic self-insert Mary Sue that forces everyone to break character in ways that glorify her. She's been progressively wrecking the show since she showed up in the Library episode, and essentially fulfilling Moffat's joke-wish that the Doctor could regenerate as a female by taking over for the Doctor and sending him to fetch chocolate for her.

That Moffat also can't write a romantic relationship without the woman being dominant and demeaning to the point of smacking her partner around, compounds the problem, as there is a mirror relationship with exactly the same domestic problems, except occasionally Amy feels compelled to spread her abuse from Rory to the Doctor as well. Oh yeah, River Sue Song is in a romantic relationship with the Doctor, and he's supposed to love her, baaaaaaaaaaaasically because she said so.

It's Twue Wuv! After all, he'll just find out in the future. She's living her life backwards to the timestream, or something. I HATE IT I STOPPED WATCHING!

Which maybe you can relate to, but I can't, because if I was an immortal time travelling alien with a blue box that could take me anywhere, I'd drop "the kids" off at daycare or "the pets" at the shelter the moment they hit this level of problem. Or maybe not, I still have Zsofi, but I certainly wouldn't put up with another Zsofi after Zsofi. The Doctor needs to get on with saving the universe and not fixing broken romances.

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

But wait! Did you find out about the part where she was really the daughter of Amy Pond and the Tardis, AND a time-travelling shape-shifting robot inhabited by miniature time-cops, AND the prophesied savior of the universe?

...yeah, I wish I was making those up.

[koogrr.livejournal.com]

I see I stopped watching the River Sue show just in time.