Fictional Worlds You Probably Wouldn't Want to Live In

Written by Shae Rufe

Bet you weren't expecting another Shae blog so soon, were you!? Well surprise, surprise my little lumplings. What even is that? I don't know. I just know that I'm here to write whatever demented thing came to my mind. And with a need for a distraction, I figured we would write about worlds we would not actually like to live in. Let's face it, a lot of these are kind of not fun.

Like The Hunger Games! Who in their right mind wants to live in Panem? Even if you lived in the Capitol, a society that supports the killing of children is not one anyone should ever want to be a part of. The Hunger Games is their yearly Super Bowl. People literally cheer and bet on what kid from what district is going to win. Remember Rue!? I remember. You want to talk about things that instantly piss me off? Give me an adorable little girl and then have her die in this all-out murder arena. I was swearing in the theater, which isn't unusual, but it's not really something people should do. Imagine living in any of the places depicted in this book, any. None of them sound appealing. Though, the commentary on the materialistic society was quite fantastic. While the story is a fantastic 'over throw the horrible tyrannical government!', it has a lot of flaws. Such as, the people don't rebel against the government that makes their children fight for sport! It literally takes 75+ years for the people to stand up and say enough is enough. Seriously, if that were me I'd rather die fighting against the man than see kids killing each other.

Along the same lines, Divergent. Okay, so this futuristic society is all about sorting you into some sub-sect of which you have a dominant personality trait for. That's literally like saying 'oh, you're a morning person? Go be with other morning people!' Totally a gross simplification and understatement, I know. But kind and generous people go into one group, the people who are really bad at lying and blatantly being an obnoxious truth telling dick go in another, and everyone good at parkour gets to be their whole own group. Each live in various sections of this world, that's surrounded by a massive fence. The whole point of this is to create a society in peace. Except if you don't fit into a faction, then you're a homeless zombie-like blight on the world. And if you have more than one dominant trait, you're a Divergent. Which is bad. Since you don't fit into an easily contained little box, then you have to die. The government is trying to be taken over by other factions, because reasons. As it so happens, you take a test as a teen to determine which faction you'd be best in, and then afterwards you can just choose whichever one. No, really, that's how this goes. All in all, between the over throwing of other factions, the faction-less being treated horridly, and the 'murder the divergent' thing, this place sounds awful. Legitimately awful.

You know what else sounds awful? Living at Hogwarts. Yeah, yeah, unpopular opinion, I know. But hear me out here. This school is dangerous! No parent in their right mind should be sending their fictional children to this fictional school. Yes, magic sounds amazing and awesome. But guys, kids literally died at this school! On top of that, their main sport is hella not cool. Quiddich looks awesome, sure, yet it too is violent and dangerous. With the fact that kids have died here, which is over looked, there's also the fact that the staircases move. On their own. Whenever they feel like it. Because that's safe. Potions class is basically a disaster waiting to happen, they can't keep a Defense against the Dark Arts teacher to save their life, and, oh yeah, there are giant spiders. Giant. Spiders. I won't even go into the fact that Slytherin is basically just outright evil.

Believe me, my list of fictional places that we shouldn't live in is vast, but today you got my top three! Stay tuned for more! Or don't. You're an adult, you can make your own life choices.

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