So, what's your ultimate fantasy?

[erratio]

So I've recently fallen into the timesink that is Effulgence. The premise more-or-less being: take ultra-rational Bella from Alicorn's Luminosity/Radiance universe, and put versions of her in various fanfiction universes. Oh and it's a co-writing thing between two authors. It's well-written (otherwise I wouldn't be reading it, obviously), but after

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[lotusvine]

My problem is that with these world domination porn fics - well, they don't really have any good antagonists to challenge them and shake up their world views. (Well, Voldemort was a good antagonist in HP:MoR) What you're describing sounds like didacticism, which Ayn Rand got rather fond of, with uber-protagonists gleaming with moral purity amid a crumbling cardboard world with straw-men eneies that failed to challenge them. Sounds like some of the LW crowd set out to challenge stuff like Objectivism and end up falling into the same didactic trap.

[erratio]

Nah, in this case it's not didactism. I know for a fact that the authors didn't originally intend Effulgence for an audience, and Raikoth likewise started out almost entirely as self-indulgence. Alicorn just really likes writing world-domination porn. I'll agree about the Randian superbeings vs cardboard enemies though.