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.
Ian M Banks creation, The Culture.
hands down. no contenders.
yeah ill be the dragonborn
Adventure time.
Heaven
pretty sure every kid that has played Minecraft has dreamed of being isekaied there
alone in the universe, insane in 7 days
The Traveller RPG Third Imperium would be the universe I would inhabit.
Either the one from the Robot and Monk series (psalm for the wild built by Becky Chambers) or the Culture series.
Probably some chill children’s show
Madoka Magica
Phineas and Ferb /j
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 as so bad at it that they are consistently kept in check and even rehabilitated by trained animals.
STARCRAFT ZERGLING! STARCRAFT ZERGLING! STARCRAFT ZERGLING!
lotr high elf, so I can look at others with contempt
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 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?
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.
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
