Talk:Author

Sentient or Sapient?
According to Wikipedia, sentience is the ability to feel (often the ability to suffer); sapience is the ability to 'act with appropriate judgement'. Both are used near-interchangably in SF, so that's no help. So which do we want to use? I'm pretty sure Mary-Sues are considered (by the PPC) to be neither - they can neither act of their own volition, or have actual feelings. Actually, saying that, they seem to be more sapient than they are sentient - they can act and react, but are not capable of actual suffering.

And the context seems to back that up. We're talking about murder - and it seems far more likely that you'd define that as 'don't kill things that will suffer thereby'. In fact, Wikipedia states that 'The concept is central to the philosophy of animal rights, because sentience is necessary for the ability to suffer, which is held to entail certain rights.' Huinesoron (talk) 04:35, April 26, 2014 (UTC)

Wait a minute.
"An author is effectively omnipotent within the world he has created. PPC agents are advised to remember this when taking care of the creations of Suethors: nothing stops an author from simply writing, "And Mary Sue painfully and messily killed the PPC agents, and went back to making out with Legolas." However, this has never happened, and since PPC agents are written by their own authors, chances are the agent's author could simply respond with "But it was all a dream, and the agents charged the Sue and threw her corpse into Mount Doom." The back-and-forth godmoding could potentially go on forever, tying up PPC resources in an unwinnable battle. This is one of the reasons why Suethors are generally not notified of their Sue's assassination."

Yes, that would be true, but for one thing: These Suethors cannot write anything canonical to the PPC multiverse. The Permission policy forbids that. They'd just be shouting into the darkness. It would probably go like that reaction gif where one cartoon character calmly leans against the wall as another one furiously attacks the glass door.

SkaterTheDJWolf (talk) 18:27, August 3, 2018 (UTC)