By universe, I’m talking a TV show, Anime, Graphical Novel, Cartoon, Movie, a book, heck even time travel.
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.
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.
yeah ill be the dragonborn
Heaven
Adventure time.
The Traveller RPG Third Imperium would be the universe I would inhabit.
I want to live in high tech but ethical peace and comfort
Janeway: “Hold my beer”
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.
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.
Everyone would request the ability to suck their own dicks, and never leave the home anymore.
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.
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.
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.
So, do Playboys count as books?
Gumby’s world only has Clayboys
Animal Crossing. Just seems like a nice relaxing life.
You now owe a raccoon 7 trillion leaves
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.
The lack of porn/hentai universes in the comments is refreshing.
…That being said…
Everything can be porn.
I’d choose a Ship’s Mind from the Culture Series by Ian M. Banks, specifically a GCU class vessel.
I also came in here to choose the Culture, although I’d be a human. Drug glands FTW.
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.
I’ll go first. I’m stuck between Futurama, Jonny Quest/Venture Bros and even old school Hawaii 5 - 0.
Walter Bishop, Fringe
