If you could become a character and enter any universe and that becomes your permanent life what universe would you pick?
2mon 13d ago by lemmy.world/u/nicgentile in asklemmy
By universe, I'm talking a TV show, Anime, Graphical Novel, Cartoon, Movie, a book, heck even time travel.
I want to live in high tech but ethical peace and comfort
Janeway: "Hold my beer"
Janeway: “Hold my
beercoffee”
Beer? Have you ever even watched voyager? It's coffee all the way for her.
Having said that, voyager mostly wasn't very good, and federation standards were indeed very fluid in that show
To be fair, they were a LONG way from federation rules enforcement.
Hm... Maybe ... but I'm also shopping around for a universe that includes immortality.
The Culture has all that, plus furries.
And loads of sex IIRC
Edit: I was thinking a different Culture, from the book "remember Phlebas".
Use of Weapons, Look to Windward, Surface Detail, and Hydrogen Sonata are all reasonably sex-filled (if not entirely sex-positive) too.
Definitely hits all the points of Luxury Gay Space Communism.
Nah, same Culture. Consider Phlebas is the first book.
Ok now I need to watch culture, what is this show?!?
It's a book series. It's a semi utopia based sci-fi. The culture is an amalgam of species (including human). It's run by "minds" hyper powerful AIs. Humanity is akin to pet dogs. A mix of pampered and useful.
Basically, humans live in a life of luxury and choice. Changing genders, or even species is very common. Immortality is mostly a logistics and boredom issue.
The only downside is living in a universe that has the Borg. They are existential terror incarnate.
That said, they seem to always get defeated one way or another. Just make sure you live in a major federation star system and you're golden.
One thing they never really get into in Star Trek is how the body modification scene evolved in a future with medical replicators and "Doc will shine a light on it" levels of medical technology. I'm sure they could easily perform a gender transition, including changing reproductive organs to whatever combo a person wanted, in an afternoon, to say nothing of the possibility of cosmetic and functional structural changes. We see them perform highly complex and detailed biological modifications so crew members can pass as aliens like it's nothing, so why not make people taller/shorter, wider/narrower hips, bigger/smaller boobs, more feminine/masculine face, horns, pointed or alien ears, new sense organs, extra arms, etc. What kind of wild piercings are people getting? What new methods and styles of tattoos have they come up with? The possibilities are incredible. That would be a fun world to explore, even within the Federation's taboo against genetic alteration.
Quark gets a gender transition on Deep Space Nine
Oh yeah that's right I forgot about that. He got a full gender transition in a couple hours.
I think playing with the body and especially the mind (through eugenics, genetic engineering, or any other means) is as big of a nono in the Star Trek universe as fascism, due to trauma from the eugenic wars (you know, when Khan and his ilk fought baseline humanity).
Body modification enthusiasts, transhumanists, furries, and anything like that are probably treated with fear, loathing, and disgust.
Heck, they won't even treat baldness despite being perfectly able to fix it if they wanted to, and they don't seem to have made any effort to cure aging, despite being able to cure almost everything else; their life expectancy isn't much higher than ours, when it should be much higher.
You want that kind of thing try Iain M. Banks' Culture series. Even more freedom to live your life however you want, the only limits to body modification are your imagination and some of the laws of physics (much less than in Start Trek, though), and people live to a healthy 300 or so, throw a party, and die in their own terms because they're done, or curious. Or do not, no one is forcing them, they can keep on living if they want to.
Heck, one character used to have about sixty penises all over his body, just for fun. No more, though, even with four hearts at that point it was starting to get difficult to maintain an erection at the same time in all of them.
Human life spans do increase substantially (although not to 300) in the Star Trek universe. From Memory Alpha:
The average Human life span had gradually increased during their history. The average life spans during the 22nd century was about one hundred years. (ENT: "Observer Effect") This average age was still roughly the same during the 2250, but had risen to 120 by the mid-24th century. (citation needed • edit) However, at some point in history the average life span for Humans was only 35, and by 1999 it had become higher than a millennium earlier. (ENT: "Similitude"; VOY: "11:59") Leonard McCoy had by 2364 reached the age of 137. (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint")
why not make people taller/shorter, wider/narrower hips, bigger/smaller boobs, more feminine/masculine face, horns, pointed or alien ears, new sense organs, extra arms, etc.
There was a kerfuffle about Patrick Stewart being bald in the beginning production of TNG but they eventually realized that in their utopian future, no one would care if he was bald or not. Same with gender, body shape, sexual orientation, etc. Everyone is accepted in Star Trek just as they are so there's not much need for changes
Its not really about external acceptance. Being trans is partly about being accepted for who I am, but a large part is also wanting to see the real me in the mirror. If everyone just magically accepted me as a woman I would still transition because I want to actually be feminine. I would still transition if I was the last person on earth. Likewise with body mods. I want to be accepted for who I really am, but people can't really do that if they aren't seeing the real me, the me with extra jewelry holes and (eventual) ink. It would be a slap in the face and an invalidation of my feelings if people told me they accept me as I am so there's no need to change the things I want to change about myself.
Everyone would request the ability to suck their own dicks, and never leave the home anymore.
Discovery ruined that for us, you could end up in the shitty future after the Burn
Maybe, if this includes traveling to the future where the shoes mostly take place. Right now, in their universe, things aren't exactly going too well.
Warhammer 40k
-Nobody
But you could be a Space Marine and die a horrible death in battle, or an Imperial Guardsman and die a horrible death in battle. Or a civilian on a hive world and live in a repressive fascist theocratic hellhole, then die a horrible death when Chaos or xenos attack.
Bein' Orkses is pretty fun, silly humies jus go "pease don krump me mista ork sir" and den you smash em anyway else dey start blubbin.
Orkses jus go smashin an krumpin an shottin loadsa dakka at fings an sumtimes you gets smashed yerself but its all good in da waaaaaaagh.
The emperor protects tho...
It would be a lateral move from our current reality.
I'd probably go with Star Trek
Or "why you should specify where and when."
Also needs to specify "no redshirt positions."
For real. Welcome to Deep Space 9 in the middle of the Dominion war. And that isn't even close to as bad as it could get, haha.
The alpha quadrant in the late 2370s.
Gumby and his friends can walk into any book and play in that book's world, so choosing that fictional universe basically gives you access to all of the fictional universes. The only big trade-off is you and everyone else are ugly as shit.
Already ugly as shit. No downsides.
Might as well reroll
There's no way I'm playing Paragon route a second time, so I might as well see as much of the content on this f-ed up save as I can before doing a restart.
You could also go with Blue's Clues, cause they can hop not just into books, but also pictures, paintings, and each others' dreams/reveries.
So, do Playboys count as books?
Gumby's world only has Clayboys
Pleeeeaase put me in Stardew Valley
I dunno man, my farmer works from 6h to 23h with barely a break in between, only eats when he absolutely needs to or is going to fight ghosts alone to get sprinklers to ease the work just a little, and maybe has a couple days of talking to people or going to the arcade per season lol.
Relaxing for the player, maybe not for the farmer themselves.
Yeah, but it's only a couple of years, starting with nothing but a dilapidated farm, until that farmer becomes a millionaire. I'd take it.
from 6h to 23h
Those are rookie numbers. In the original ‘Harvest Moon’, the day was time-limited, but the night wasn't. So I had my guy chop stumps for hours in darkness, until the exhaustion mechanic kicked in and had him fall down from any attempt at effort.
Yes, started a new farm a week ago after years without playing, give me that sweet chill farmer life!
You have been drafted to fight the Gotoro menace!
Easy, a citizen of The Culture. Post scarcity society like in Star Trek but in steroids and completely anarchic. The pinnacle of what technology and society could offer.
That seems like cheating, so option B is technologically the opposite, if I can retain my modern knowledge I would choose to go back in time to live with a society of hunter gatherers of the neolithic. Your only job is to find food in a world with still very few people to compete with and everything nature has to offer.
in a world with still very few people to compete with
My anthropology knowledge is pretty paltry, but isn't that the opposite of how humanity spread? One slow expansion at a time, as a tribe grew too big and then split and settled in the next valley over seems to be more in line with how much of it worked. Some expansions may have been quite different, no doubt, like oceania or the east asia -> north america -> south america journey, but on average you would be relatively near other human tribes, right?
I don't really know, the way I always understood it is that they were mostly nomadic people following whatever they hunted. Either way it is not that different, instead of settling in the next valley, those that split were moving around a bit further away.
The lack of porn/hentai universes in the comments is refreshing.
...That being said...
Everything can be porn.
Is there a porn universe where I also get to be a cool space man?
Animal Crossing. Just seems like a nice relaxing life.
You now owe a raccoon 7 trillion leaves
But he doesn't charge interest and sets no deadlines for payments. All he asks is that you pay off your existing loan before he'll give you another one.
You’ve touched a bush. You now owe a raccoon 8 trillion leaves.
It can still get to be more than a little aggravating being in forever debt
So, normal life except the air is clean and sometimes people give you fruit.
Man, I don't know your approach, but I have all of the upgrades, I've paid off all loans, and I have 18 million bells in the bank.
Starting out in debt kind of sucks, but it's usually possible to pay off your first mortgage in a week. I wish the real world were even remotely like that.
I mean, this isn’t a comparison of irl vs a fictional utopia, this is a comparison of fictional utopias.
My choice as well. The best post apocalyptic world. Until you want to get laid. You’re canonically the only human left, but you have plenty of friendly anthropomorphic animals to choose from. Rosie seems nice, but she’s a cat. Marina is thirsty AF, but she’s an octopus. Rocket best big sister type, but gorilla… pink gorilla at that! I know, everyone’s going for Ankha (the Egyptian goddess cat), Audie (the fox), or Raymond if you like men (cat with heterochromatic eyes).
Source: Aphexxtal
My wife cosplays Isabelle, so yeah, that's a given. My personal Animal Crossing waifu is actually Sable, the eldest Able Sister. In New Horizons (Switch), she's the one on the sewing machine. When you first meet her, she rudely says "other hedgehog, please," and proceeds to ignore you, but if you keep talking to her, you become the highlight of her day. She's a nasty old lady when you first meet her, she knows what she needs and wants, and she does not give kindness freely. But if you get to know her, you will become her favourite person. (She also has history with Tom, so there's that, too.) (I cosplay Tom, so it works with both of them. I'm not saying Tom cheats on Isabelle with his ex, I'm just saying he has an open door policy, and if you know one NSFW fact about tanukis, it's probably the same one I know, so you know one woman can't take care of him alone.)
I can also say that this is her New Leaf outfit (and possibly prior games). I think she will still wear the green top sometimes, but mostly it's salmon, and the design matches Tom's shirt, with the Nook leaves.
Wind in the Willows. How I long to live a lazy life along the Thames with Water Rat and Mole.
Didn't expect this. Yeah, a lazy life is not bad at all.
Star trek has transporters, holodecks, and amazing medical technology. There are other usniverses that have some of these, but not all 3 in one place. But basically, that is what I would go for.
Infinite food on demand as well so the only thing we have to worry about is alcohol that tastes good neat.
I'd choose a Ship's Mind from the Culture Series by Ian M. Banks, specifically a GCU class vessel.
Fuck, Id be okay with any random Culture citizen
That actually makes a lot of sense, ha.
(Just in case you aren't familiar with the Culture: yep, anyone or anything in it would be famtastic.)
Perfect, I also would choose this.
Really torn between My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Pokemon.
The My Little Pony world seems idyllic if you are not a protagonist or subordinate of the designated evildoers. Pokémon residents, on the other hand, experience crime, disease, capitalism, and forced cockfights whenever you happen to walk in front of someone.
Disease is still a thing in the MLP universe. And so are crime and capitalism, though to a much lesser extent, usually.
The forced cockfights are a wild thing, sure, but they're never (or at least very rarely) permanently injured from it, and (at least supposedly) a lot of them seem to enjoy doing it. And going by the anime style, battles don't happen every time you walk in front of someone -- it's usually more of an arranged challenge that you're free to decline if you're busy or just don't feel like it.
Plus, on the disease front, in the Pokemon universe, you could get injured or diseased, sure, but there are a lot of things in that universe with mysterious healing powers that might be able to fix you up -- not just pokemon with healing moves (which sometimes seem to also work on humans?), but also just a lot of random semi-mystical places and objects that have healing properties. Then again, MLP probably has some pretty good medicine too, with all the magic and potions and whatnot.
I'm starting to think the biggest differentiator here is the danger factor. In the Pokemon world, even young children can freely explore pretty much wherever they want, without needing to worry too much about their safety. But in the MLP universe, the edges of the map are full of very dangerous places that only the most hardened adventurers would ever dare to visit, with very dangerous and hostile creatures in them. Once you get outside the boundaries of Equestria proper, that world is a very dangerous place.
Oh, and Pokemon has much more prolific and advanced technology... If I'd like to continue watching movies and chatting on the internet, Pokemon is the way to go.
Wait a minute... I've been going about this all wrong!
I'm an author! I could make a fictional universe, perfectly tailored to exactly what I want! Pokemon/MLP/furry crossover with immortality, no significant danger or disease, transformation at will, rampant horniness, and Fully Automated Luxury Communism! Let's fucking go!
I’m an author! I could make a fictional universe, perfectly tailored to exactly what I want! Pokemon/MLP/furry crossover with immortality, no significant danger or disease, transformation at will, rampant horniness, and Fully Automated Luxury Communism! Let’s fucking go!
And the wheel of time turns again...
On the topic of pokemon, between the various games and the anime, there are a lot of places that are just plain awesome, and I seem to recall plenty of people that live in the wilderness perfectly happily. It seems like a paradise world, with enough space for everyone to have wilderness if they want it, city life if they want that, etc.
Yeah, no offense to Pokemon, loved the games, but definitely one of those situations where the vibes are STARK contrast to what would be the lived experience.
The Doctor
The TARDIS 💙
So, watching your entire people be destroyed, and then watching people all around you who you get close to often meet horrible, depressing fates, and eventually having to spend 4 and a half billion years in a time loop punching through a diamond wall with your bare hands?
Unironically, yes. You can't go through one lifetime without going through some stuff. You can't even be born without going through some stuff. You certainly can't live that long in our universe without going through some stuff. Learn to accept the painful memories and enjoy the rest.
"The Doctor went through some stuff."
I get what you're saying, but that's quite the understatement.
Generic isekai with magic. Should be fun
Born as the son of a noble trope or I also have access to direct shipping through a magical web UI trope. Let's goooo
I'll go with the "I have a skill that everyone thinks is useless, but it's actually the most OP skill ever because I'm so smart in how I use it" trope.
Like, my skill is material molding. Most people use it to make nails or to be a production worker of some type, making wheels for carts and the like, but since I know about the modern world, I'll be making record players and computers and cell phones and solar panels.
Nearly every isekai I've watched/read has involved a lot of brushes with death and/or having to repeatedly pull yourself out of near-impossible situations. Not sure it's worth the magic and elf-girl harems...
I would do practically anything that isn't evil for magic, so worth it in my book.
This, basically
I'll go first. I'm stuck between Futurama, Jonny Quest/Venture Bros and even old school Hawaii 5 - 0.
star trek next generation 100%. I can't think of anything that would be better than that.
Conundrum: STNG overlaps in time with DS9 (even if they didn't, they're both part of the same "universe" as posed by the question), so by selecting the universe of STNG, does that mean having to live through the Dominion war? Not sure that makes it a deal breaker either way but definitely takes some of the utopian edge off.
My thought process as well.
TNG? Hell no, it was the end of a Golden Era. SNW, all the way. By the time you get old enough that missions of science and explorations are thrown to the side in exchange for war, you're 100 and living in some retirement holodeck.
I guess real nice would be to have the star trek online universe where I like goto starfleet and become a captain like out of the academy and am allowed to do whatever I want with my vast fleet of ships n junk. I took STNG because that was the holodeck and replicators and until the borg invasion it was relatively peaceful and even that did not last long.
I'm shocked nobody has brought this up yet.
I would absolutely be a town citizen in Phineas and Ferb. Ideally the guy who always has a new fun project and the side effects from the kids just drop everything in his lap.
Every benefit of a cartoon world with almost none of the cartoon downsides. Nearly Culture level tech after a few years once the boys grow up to by adults and actually start taking things "seriously" as shown in episodes where they go to the near my future.
The worst people in the world are so bad at being bad that they are consistently kept in check and even rehabilitated by trained animals.
nicgentile@lemmy.world Either Star Trek when they are reached the level of The Culture or The Culture. A advanced enough ST, would have dimensional & time travel so you could visit other existences.
The Culture seems like the obvious choice. You can be whoever you want, do whatever you want (or not do much of anything, if you prefer), live as long (or as short) as you want... There are no downsides, really, unless you object to living in a society where the Minds are so vastly more intelligent than humans that you're functionally their pet. I can see how some people might find that unsettling.
That's a solid bet. I hadn't considered that.
The Elder Scrolls, because I know the duplication glitches and the restoration portion loop. I shall become a vampire Emperor, personally slaughter every fucking Thalmor, and use my magical staff to turn my enemies into sweet rolls and then fucking eat them.
Probably a wizard of some kind, as long as it's not a Rowling one. Just wanna draw runes and ponder orbs, you know?
Discworld UU Wizard. Mostly refraining from using magic, and eating enormous dinners.
I still need to read about Discworld wizards. The closest I've got to was the magic school in A Hat Full of Sky
Pratchett's Wizard Magic and Witch Magic are quite different styles but all the Discworld books are Good at a minimum and your taste will determine which are Beyond Excellent.
I guess I haven't read any Pratchett wizards then. Recommend me a book! (please)
The Science of Discworld novels are a fun mix of science and wizardry.
Thief of Time is not wizards but underrated Buddhist Time Monks.
The early wizards books didn't really grow on me as well as the later other books.
excellent, thank you!
Since you've met Tiffany you should meet Eskarina and get a backdoor exploration into Unseen University. So try Equal Rites. Then for more wizards you can go back one to The Light Fantastic, or keep moving forward to explore the whole Discworld and read 'em all. They each have unique qualities, a motley of new and recurring characters, and insights into some of the better and nastier aspects of our own world.
I like publication order, but if you just happen upon any of them someplace, read it. And as you'll know already, his Young Adult writing is really only a matter of having a young protagonist. So don't sleep on The Amazing Maurice either. It's profound.
That sounds cool! The parts about Tiff's books I liked so much was it felt like she was mucking about in the unfathomable depths of Discworld so an Unseen University sounds interesting
I mean, you can draw runes and ponder orbs in the real world, if you like!
I think pondering my orb irl might be killing me.
But you're right. Drawing some runes might help, just as a distraction from the orb at least
If you really want to make a cool hobby out of it, forget drawing orbs. Learn to CARVE them. Literally in stone!
that would be sick. I was thinking about leaving them around the town where I live. maybe try to make a giant rune circle around it
I have a long-term art project on the list where I carve a runestone and just leave it in the woods somewhere.
that's a pretty arcane sounding hobby for an arcane sounding username
DO IT!
Yeah, I can see that.
Tbh, Rowling actually has the best wizard world. You get a wand and tv to binge? While in LOTR, the fediverse doesn't even exist.
Nah I don't want to be a wizard in a world where wizards get to act like they're the master race
Hard to find a world where that isn't the case. I'd definitely consider myself part of the master race if I could cast spells.
oh sure plenty where they try to. But HP would be the only setting where that actually works out for them and they're rewarded by the narrative
I prefer myself some cosmere or some rivers of london
I would choose Pokemon because childhood. When I experienced my first mushroom trip, I found myself in a different realm where I had infinite connection with the love of the universe. That would be an incredible place to exist....
Good answer but which pokemon would you be?
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Specifically, being an ordinary inhabitant of one of the best custom planets without any knowledge of the unethical origins of the planet or even that other planets exist would probably be pretty dope.
Also, all the people answering The Culture has convinced me that I'm gonna need to check that series out when I've finished the Ink & Sigil trilogy 😁
Huh. I just read the first iron druid book and wasn't real impressed. Are the ink&sigil books better, in your opinion? Also, the culture books are great, totally go for them.
Hey you, you're finally awake...
I hope i survive long wnough to settle downn with Lydia.
Walter Bishop, Fringe
Awesome idea, but Walter goes through some serious shit.
Not sure, but I know which one I absolutely would not choose: Westeros.
That's a wise exclusion. I can't think of anyone in that world who is actually happy.
Probably some chill children’s show
Phineas and Ferb /j
Madoka Magica
The good place. Seems like a decent place to exist
A universe where basically everyone goes to 'the bad place' to be tortured for all eternity?
Fork these shirtballs
After they fix the errors, sure. Alternatively, with the group we watch would be nice. Before they fix the problems, and everyone is tortured by demons for eternity? I'll pass.
I'd say either pokemon or very hungry caterpillar
The pokemon world would be an absolutely terrifying place.... wild beasts running around with powers capable of essentially dropping nukes on command, if not planet or universe destroying powers. Even if we assumed all the pokemon low level, they could pretty much all dominate humans with no problem. Caterpie would have you wrapped in a cocoon and be feasting on your inards before you even had the time to consider running.
Gardevoir, casually: creates palm-sized black hole instantly destroying solar system lmao gottem
Since the question doesn't force me to do it, just says I "could" do it, I would choose to not do it.
Would be pretty shitty to disappear, abandoning your family/friends/partner/kids, even if your new life would be nice.
Seems like everyone else in the thread is jumping at the opportunity to go pick up some milk though. :P
Dark Souls. hopefully I can bring the age of dark, or die. or go mad. all good things.
Plot twist YOU never get the darksign. Just a normal mortal without. (There is precedence for normal mortals in universe, Seiglinde of Catarina).
One of the more badass characters in series. Somehow survived with no immortality perk just to delivery a message and then puts her father to rest.
Adventure Time
lotr high elf, so I can look at others with contempt
Leap into the world of Quantom Leap, because how funny would it be leaping into the guy who is leaping into other guys/gals.
Aren't the leaps 2-way? Do I remember it wrong (I haven't watched since it first aired).
I thought when Sam leaped into someone, they were pulled into his body in the future.
Yeah but then you always have to spend the first hour furiously masturbating with the new body and that’s going to cut into your time.
Star Trek TNG Picard anytime.
If not that, I'll happily go for the Orville as well
Why not Q?
Eh, sure, maybe... Just remember that the Q are deadly bored by now.
I'd be Q if I had the ability to slowly forget things so that I won't end up like them
Let’s do hard mode.
Alice in Borderland.
I need to know more about it. Is this a "you get to be part of the main crew" thing, or just "you exist in that universe?" Because it'd be cool if I could be a Bob-like AI in the Bobiverse, but if I were simply transported into the Bobiverse in 2026 well... I'm not sure I'd even notice.
You could be an obscure person referenced once every while or you could be the main person. Dealers choice.
Ian M Banks creation, The Culture.
hands down. no contenders.
The good place from well... "the good place"
Umm, wasn't that hell though? Or were you actually talking about the boring and largely uninhabited good place in the final season?
It wasn't all that boring, they were able to cross off everything on their bucket list for however many lifetimes they spent in the real good place
Nope it was literal utopia. You could do whatever you wanted. You could enter made up universes. Eat anything you wanted. The best part is that if you where done done you could just stop existing.
So you ask us to isekai and to tell you which, but you don't say if we get powers or not.
Take Overlord for example. I would love to, but, do I arrive there as a level 100 player or am I another regular human?
I would probably also love any DnD setting, say Baldurs Gate 3 to give a specific example. But again, under which conditions do I materialize in my chosen universe?
Giving you a general answer, I think I'd be happy in any high fantasy setting provided I'm in good health and can harness many of the special magic skills and abilities the main characters have.
Being more specific though, I find that what I really like is universes that really value craftsmanship and the arts, which is something that keeps eroding in this reality we live in. It's not just being somewhere with magic, it's being somewhere I can design, create, use and give to others items that are beautiful and treasured.
Either the one from the Robot and Monk series (psalm for the wild built by Becky Chambers) or the Culture series.
Emperor of Mankind 40K
You want to be a psychic zombie strapped to a life support machine powered by thousands of dead psykers?
Okay now that I put it like that it seems metal as fuck.
Make sure to read up on parenting before acquiring adult sons.
Don't worry I'm sure their mom's got their welfare on lock. Big E don't do nothing after providing the Big D...
pretty sure every kid that has played Minecraft has dreamed of being isekaied there
alone in the universe, insane in 7 days
nah bro u get to place blocks and shit like jack black
Pokémon. No big evil. Happy easy explore. Money no problem. Think it nice.
No big evil.
Except, you know, for big bad supervillain types who -- with troubling regularity -- come up with plans that will destroy the entire region/world. (But it's okay, you can usually count on some plucky 11-year-old kid to come along and defeat them.)
I forget this, ha. Always think they funny.
Definitely Archer!
Dang, another choice I would pick.
Attack on Titan, could be fun
Nice. That would be cool.
Are we talking about "official" fiction? Or is any stuff in this scope (fanfic included)?
Anything.
Yuzu, Citrus.
Still cis though.
Any of the Ghibli movies? Have you seen the food they have? Aside of that joke ....
It is really hard to decide. Marvel universe would be interesting because you just get superpowers basically by default.
None of the classic animes. They are too focused on the main characters to have any meaningful world building.
Star Trek during TNG is very chill for the masses. So that would be safe and interesting.
None of the SW bs, no Harry Potter neither... Maybe some Forgotten Realms stuff - probably after the Drizzt saga (i stooped reading after the 5k orcs books so probably arond there).
Dragonlance had a nice idillic world building. And they had dragons!
Very hard question, indeed!
I hear you. I had three choices and as I read what people wrote, i keep getting more.
Tom and Jerry universe.
I will play the role of El Magnifico.
STARCRAFT ZERGLING! STARCRAFT ZERGLING! STARCRAFT ZERGLING!
Them slutty, overdramatic-as-shit Anne Rice vampires of course. Join me up in the Talamasca, hunt me down a gay bodychanging lover, all the things.
Logan's Run, a non stop drug and sex fuelled good time up until your bones start creaking and they melt you down. Sounds perfect.
yeah ill be the dragonborn
Heaven
Logan's Run
Hey, a good time is better than a long time!
I feel like I could exist happily in the Super Mario Universe. I would try to homestead in a forgotten forest level or on a hill where the stars always shine in the sky.
You and my nephews would get along great.
Fun mode: The Asterixiverse. If only for those amazingly delicious-looking wild boars.
Hard mode: The DavidLynchiverse.
Asterix, Tintin, Joko, or even Blake and Mortimer.
my little pony gen 4
Yep. Definitely a great choice, and way up there for me.
I mean, can't you just make your own graphic novel / book tailored to what you want then based on this question?
Space Runaway Ideon
Adventure time.
Deep in the valley
This is probably too late but, I just make up my own universe. Make yourself an Obsidian vault and start writing notes. What are the planet(s) like? What sapient races are there and what are they like? What animals and plants exist? Languages? Religions? Countries? History? etc etc. Worldbuilding doesn't have to be attached to a piece of media, you can construct your own world.
I never stopped playing pretend, I just started documenting things as I got older.
Never too late. I use Obsidian too and this is how I author stories. You could be an author you know and make it all happen.
I have attempted some fiction in my conworld but the stories serve to build the world further rather than the world existing as a backdrop for the stories. Also, I've migrated from Obsidian to DokuWiki. I want version history and an easy way to share what I write. I used Obsidian in my post because I figured people would know it better.
Right. I know Dokuwiki. My day job is managing tools for people and this is one of them.
That being said, very cool. I had a whole weekly page in a popular regional for over 10 years. The guy who taught me how to write really showed me the way forward and gave me the final oomph to get into fiction. Now I have a whole website, with episodes.
Cool. My conworld deeply reflects my interests and fears, and I don't expect or intend it to be broadly appealing. I am both the author and the only audience member worth pleasing. One of the reasons I love amateur speculative fiction is that I'm seeing the author's raw imagination unfiltered by editors or focus groups. The prose is rough at the best of times but rarely is the setting or concept uninteresting.
That being said, I love drawing but I'm not good at it, which is why I attempt writing. I'd love to make this into a web comic, since I always have little scenarios or character interactions in my head that would work best in that format.
Scytale. From face dancer to master.
The Traveller RPG Third Imperium would be the universe I would inhabit.
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