As someone with some profound ADHD that has affected my career, I have to say, I would be fucking amazing in the Star Trek universe. For someone with an interest-based focus ability, a society where the standard of social merit is, "do cool shit you're passionate about," would be Heaven. I can do things. I can do amazing things. When I'm passionate about something, I can move mountains. But stick me in a cubicle and ask me to do the same grind day in, day out? I really struggle. Some people say they would just disappear forever into the Holodeck. But for me, the coolest thing about the Star Trek universe is that regular people can simply do whatever they're most passionate about, without concern for monetary profit.
Haha I was gonna reply with something similar. If you choose the Star Trek universe, then you'd better get awfully specific about when, where, and who you are.
1000%. Functionally unlimited lifespan in which to explore the universe, in a super-intelligent ship that contains the sum of civilizational knowledge? Hell yeah, sign me up!
Buneary, or Pichu and Dedenne would be fun, and really cute, to hang out with, too.
Ooh, or even Glaceon especially as it could literally make snow to play in whenever it wants, at least so long as it's cold enough outside for it to not melt.
Happiny would be a fun one too to decorate rocks with. Happiny running around with a rock painted up as a mini-me of herself in her pouch would be adorable.
They'd be a fun snow generator too, though, provided the outside weather is already cold enough to support snow, that is.
Ooh, Charmander could use his Flamethrower attack to fire hardened and glazed pottery in a pottery class too. Who needs a kiln in the Pokemon world when the finished pots can be placed in a pit for a cute little fire lizard to use his Flamethrower attack to fire them instead? Surely someone's depicted this in fanart already and I'm not the only one to think of it.
Futurama. People go to the moon for donuts, there are fast food joints even in the furthest reaches of space, you can go any part of the world in less than a second, most, keyword MOST, robots cater to your needs, you can live literally anywhere, and silly, adventurous stuff happen all the time.
similarly, the ending of
::: spoiler spoiler
The Good Place
:::
As many Jeremy Bearimy's as i want to explore reality, and live inifinite lives.. and then an exit when I'm ready to leave? Sure!
There's a million fantasy worlds i'd love to visit, but few i'd want to spend my life in.
Hell yeah, give it a go. Not everyone's cup of tea, but if you like it you tend to love it. It's a product of the 70s, and Zelazny has a particular prose, economical, broad brush strokes that leaves the reader to fill in the details with imagination, each reading unique.
Some dislike the second quintology. I think it's not as good as the first and faded, along with the author's life, at the end, but I liked it and bad Zelazny is IMO better than most out there. G.R.R. Martin and Neil Gaiman (yeah, I know, dick, but competent writer) both cite him as a major influence, and he has all the Hugos etc.
If you want to try something else by him first, A Night in Lonesome October is special, one chapter a day. I (most years) and others start on Oct 1 and read a chapter a day, does not disappoint.
This is going to sound silly but Kushiel's Dart. I just want to see a world with absolutely no sexually transmitted diseases and a reverence for all sorts of sex.
This is the one. A post scarcity society where you can do just about anything you want as long as you have a certain minimum proficiency. Plus, almost all the life threatening shenanigans happen way out in space far enough away it's just part of the background news.
Just let me live somewhere in the Super Mario universe. Reality is cruel and complicated. Let me be a weirdo hermet npc that gives tips to Mario and Luigi when they find my secret cabin.
Very few of them, which annoys me. 90% of fictional universes are dystopian, on the edge of collapse, and only savable by a smaller group.
The Trails games kind of stood out for having a world that’s usually on pace, and isn’t even aware of whatever sinister plot your detectives/adventurers are looking into.
If we assume I'm not one of the main characters but by living in the world it follows basically the same rules as them. Then zero question Phineas and Ferb.
I see so many people saying Star Trek but there are so many wars and other major issues in that world. In P&F the worst evil people in the world are part of LOVE MUFFIN and able to be completely handled and even often rehabilitated by animal agents.
Okay but the entire world is teetering on a razor's edge. If the Mysterious Force ever stops hiding the boys' inventions from Linda, the world's parents will outlaw fun and Doof will take over the world.
I believe there's a late series crossover with Marvel that could have some sub-optimal ramifications to living in the Phineas and Ferb universe. Otherwise, I'd absolutely want to live in a world where the most evil thing someone can cook up is "Big Laundry".
Also, aren't you a little young to be a grand admiral of the imperial navy?
Yep I'm aware of the crossovers but even then the Phineas and Ferb effect seems to make up for it just fine. Even the Milo Murphy crossover included... Probably just choose not to live near his family although it would keep life interesting and I assume property prices are basically free there.
Whichever universe food commercials take place in. Soon as someone says their hungry the most beautiful food appears instantly but somehow no one ever gets fat. I know that IRL those commercials use paint, woodchips and all sort of nasty stuff to get it looking like that, but IN UNIVERSE everyone loves it. I wanna live there.
Stardew Valley. Theres some fucked up shit beneath the surface, but you can financially support yourself just from taking nature walks. thats all i want.
Frankly, any cozy-game universe would probably be perfect. Stardew Valley, Harvest Moon, Hello Kitty Island Adventure, Disney Dreamlight Valley. Even if I end up bored of all the happiness, I can go villain then later have a redemption arc.
The world of Shrek has tons of cool magic in it, sign me up! But also most cartoon/animation worlds, where you can survive all sorts of physical shenanigans with no injuries or consequences.
Since location wasn't a hindrance, I'd like to see Terra just after the Unification Wars, but before the Crusade proper. The capital city of the country I live in.still exists according to fluff, probably just as minor hive, but still, it'd be something to see that with Unity propaganda reels still crackling and things slowly getting better. I probably wouldn't live long enough to see it all go to shit either.
Living in that hopeful period when the whole planet more or less worked together either freely or ..less so would've been interesting. It wasn't stated I couldn't be well off enoughmmmmm to avoid getting horribly conscripted, either :P
100%. You can look however you want, live as long as you want, and pretty much do anything from going on wild space adventures to just chilling in complete safety with every want/need taken care of.
Buffy. X-Files. Battlestar Galactica. Batman and Superman and DC JL. ALF. Dr. Who. Firefly. Heroes. Bewitched. Knightrider. Power Rangers. Red Dwarf. Mr Robot. Star Gate. Star Trek.
I was looking up how Battlestar Galactica gets pulled in. Partway through the connections the link is Yoyodyne. I suppose that means the Crying of Lot 49 and the rest of Pynchon also get roped in. I wouldn't be surprised if that means a lot more links, although I'm not sure if linking through literature instead of TV & movies is done.
Oh no, it's actually an example of the ridiculousness of TV crossovers. Maybe 90% or more of the connections are subtle nods by writers or directors to other shows to be funny. I think a couple are just re-using the same props for invented products. Very rarely are they intentional.
Yoyodyne just as a funny, not real aerospace company name, gets used in Star Trek as a typically non-visible text on panels. I first heard of it from The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonsai. I'll sure the books by Pynchon were influential sci-fi read by people working on those, and no one ever thought it would be used for some 400+ show/movie crossover list.
I mean that's true for a lot of crossovers, even the ones where an actual character shows up. Tommy may be nonsense, but it's fun to see what you can link up.
star trek definately. My wife and I agree that if we had to live in a fictional universe this would be it. To many others its great to be main or special charactters but the average person its not necessarily great.
Wouldn't mind being isekaied to Palamustus from He Who Fights With Monsters.
Provided I get to be some kind of normal Outworlder like Travis or Taika, def don't want to be dealing with Jason level shit.
As awful as Rimworld can be, there's also some amazing tech that would be great to have. Sure 99% of the planet is some combination of nuclear wasteland, cannibals, Eldritch terrors, ravenous marauding insect swarms and capricious machine god puppets, but my colony is a paradise bastion where each colonist is perfected, given only the taks that fulfill them most, and catered to every need and desire in utmost luxury. Except body purists, but fuck those guys some people simply refuse to be happy.
I feel like I'd totally die of an infected papercut or get mauled by a pack of rampaging Labradors on the Rim, but in the meantime I volunteer for crafting/ research duty!
In my colony, it would never come to that. The medical trainee on duty would amputate and fix you up with a badass bionic spine, kidney and arm the minute the paper cut occurred and probably implant you with some custom genetics while you're under. But if it did get that far, possibly due to a surgical mishap, we always keep the medicine cabinet stocked with resurrection nanites just in case. As for the Labradors, what's left of them after the minefield and auto guns, every citizen over the age of 13 is armed at all times with their preferred weapon type and a suit of power armor, so you and your neighbors and the security robots and your faithful alpha thrumbo will certainly be able to handle it.
You sound like the kind of person that would be kidnapped, have your legs and arms cut off, your eyes removed, the unnecessary organs harvested for sale, only to finally be given over to the tax collector as dues on their next visit.
Sounds like body purist propaganda. Of course all those inferior flesh bits will get removed and replaced with superior bionics. Kidnappers? Tax collectors? If you meet a stranger on the road, they're probably just going to eat you and you should shoot first just in case.
The Cosmere, specifically post-Catacendre Scadrial. The vibe is just so cool between Wild West and 1930s New York mixed with amazing powers that anyone can use given the right tech.
Honestly, my own, but it would depend heavily on exactly where.
In the city of Dragonwatch on New Earth, humans, chimera, and xenos live together in something resembling the modern world but cooler. There's public transit and healthcare that actually work. Augmetics are common, but not required. Nobody uses the terms 'cis' or 'trans' because changing your gender just isn't a big deal. And because I'm writing smut, there's plenty of opportunities for vigorous entertainment.
Also, no cell service. I'm bringing back phone booths. If you want a network connection outside your house, you go to a terminal and plug your slate into the network. None of this instant communication that's ruining fiction these days.
I haven't actually written much, and I'm committed to do the actual writing part without ai, and it's going very slowly (was really proud of doing 15k words in two weeks and since then I've done 100 words in six months). I do use ai for compiling my notes and exploring ideas, and for other uses outside this project. That's going to be an automatic no from some people and I respect that. If it helps, 99% of the major character and locations and other important details I had established before generative ai was a thing. I've been dicking around with this setting since 2001, and have only started using ai a couple years ago.
Anyway, external validation helps the creative process, if my setting sounds interesting I'd love suggestions for communities where I can post chapters when I eventually have something worth sharing.
So long as it's post-show, I would have basically zero qualms living in the Summer Camp Island universe. No spoilers as to why.
I also wouldn't mind living in the Legend of Hei universe if I was a spirit. The caveat being I am some animal spirit. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't like it as much. Being a human looking spirit or like that one weird looking blue guy whose cave was turned into a tourist attraction would be kinda mid for me.
Then again, I see no reason why I wouldn't love to be in a peaceful enough looking universe as Angry Beavers ( but only if I were a beaver or otter ).
Similar thing with Tiny Toon Adventures. Seems like a fine enough fictional world to live in and, if I'm lucky, I think I'd fit in at Acme Looniversity, if I was an animal toon young enough to attend instead of being my current age. Would be kinda creepy for me to be mg current age and attending that school as a student...
Although, I think I wouldn't mind being my main Toontown character... so long as tge world isn't as small as the game is. If it were an actual fleshed out world, you bet your jellybeans that I would be off fighting cogs!
Yeah, so I am gonna stop here because there are a TON of different cartoon/cartoon adjacent/animated universes I wouldn't mind living in.
There’s a big soup of civilizations and frontiers and mysteries to explore. Some danger to keep it interesting. Infinite and transcendental pleasure
to experience, entire simulated worlds you can
try.
But it’s grounded in real physics, so you don’t get that big can of worms from living in a universe that isn’t… self-consistent.
In other words, its as sci-fi as you can possibly get without things getting timey wimey.
But my adventure-yearning-heart says Avatar.
Bending is just so freaking cool. It’s the best magic system ever.
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As someone with some profound ADHD that has affected my career, I have to say, I would be fucking amazing in the Star Trek universe. For someone with an interest-based focus ability, a society where the standard of social merit is, "do cool shit you're passionate about," would be Heaven. I can do things. I can do amazing things. When I'm passionate about something, I can move mountains. But stick me in a cubicle and ask me to do the same grind day in, day out? I really struggle. Some people say they would just disappear forever into the Holodeck. But for me, the coolest thing about the Star Trek universe is that regular people can simply do whatever they're most passionate about, without concern for monetary profit.
Can't imagine what specific passion you might have. Unforeseeable, that.
Easy. A post-scarcity world sounds amazing. Never have to really worry about the necessities, just explore whatever art or joy you have.
Sure, you can live in the Star Trek universe. In 2026.
Enjoy the impending Eugenics Wars and Post-Atomic Horror.
Haha I was gonna reply with something similar. If you choose the Star Trek universe, then you'd better get awfully specific about when, where, and who you are.
Star trek but in 1417.
We're getting close to the Bell riots.
The Bell Riots were supposed to have happened two years ago.
Yeah the timeline is a little messed up. Pretty sure it just got delayed
Instead of sanctuary districts for dims we've got concentration camps for immigrants.
It's a cliche at this point, but I think that means we're in the mirror universe.
Okay B
The culture series by Ian Banks.
This or Star Trek are the only serious answers.
IMO I would be surprised if anyone who has read the Culture series doesn't say the Culture. That's where I'll be.
Like, oldfangled Trek though, where everyone is highly educated and extremely competent and people turn the lights on more often than not.
1000%. Functionally unlimited lifespan in which to explore the universe, in a super-intelligent ship that contains the sum of civilizational knowledge? Hell yeah, sign me up!
This is what I was going to say!
Seconded.
The Pokemon universe would be kinda fun just to have one of the creatures there as someone to chill with.
For sure me and Jigglypuff would end up in marker scribble fights pretty frequently.
i would go with Gardevoir myself.
Buneary, or Pichu and Dedenne would be fun, and really cute, to hang out with, too.
Ooh, or even Glaceon especially as it could literally make snow to play in whenever it wants, at least so long as it's cold enough outside for it to not melt.
Happiny would be a fun one too to decorate rocks with. Happiny running around with a rock painted up as a mini-me of herself in her pouch would be adorable.
I'd keep a glaceon around as a portable AC.
They'd be a fun snow generator too, though, provided the outside weather is already cold enough to support snow, that is.
Ooh, Charmander could use his Flamethrower attack to fire hardened and glazed pottery in a pottery class too. Who needs a kiln in the Pokemon world when the finished pots can be placed in a pit for a cute little fire lizard to use his Flamethrower attack to fire them instead? Surely someone's depicted this in fanart already and I'm not the only one to think of it.
Futurama. People go to the moon for donuts, there are fast food joints even in the furthest reaches of space, you can go any part of the world in less than a second, most, keyword MOST, robots cater to your needs, you can live literally anywhere, and silly, adventurous stuff happen all the time.
Also, the various lengths of wire.
Except there's a bullshit little delivery company in New New York calling down all manner of hell upon us on a weekly basis.
Also, euthanasia is socially accepted. And cheap!
Trix commercials. I get to steal food from that rabbit all day with zero consequences.
No. You got it all backwards.
That's the world where you can't even pour a bowl a cereal without a cartoon character trying to steal it!
Brazzers
Culture. No question.
Wouldn't mind a lift, if the good ship Arbitrary is listening.
I'm coming with you.
same
Always my first thought when I see this question
If I had to live in one as a normal person: culture or startrek, as mentioned
If I get to choose my roll/skillset, gleeman in Wheel of Time, visiting all the countries would be amazing
Yup, as a peon Culture then Trek. If I get to be a main, Zelazny's Amber, nigh immortal and can travel to any universe I can imagine? Fuck yes.
Haven't heard of Zelazny’s Amber. You recomend?
similarly, the ending of ::: spoiler spoiler The Good Place ::: As many Jeremy Bearimy's as i want to explore reality, and live inifinite lives.. and then an exit when I'm ready to leave? Sure!
There's a million fantasy worlds i'd love to visit, but few i'd want to spend my life in.
Hell yeah, give it a go. Not everyone's cup of tea, but if you like it you tend to love it. It's a product of the 70s, and Zelazny has a particular prose, economical, broad brush strokes that leaves the reader to fill in the details with imagination, each reading unique.
Some dislike the second quintology. I think it's not as good as the first and faded, along with the author's life, at the end, but I liked it and bad Zelazny is IMO better than most out there. G.R.R. Martin and Neil Gaiman (yeah, I know, dick, but competent writer) both cite him as a major influence, and he has all the Hugos etc.
If you want to try something else by him first, A Night in Lonesome October is special, one chapter a day. I (most years) and others start on Oct 1 and read a chapter a day, does not disappoint.
Animal Crossing. All I have to do is go to bed by 1800 (2000?) and I avoid ever seeing the knee high tarantulas.
The Culture
Most correct answer possible.
This is going to sound silly but Kushiel's Dart. I just want to see a world with absolutely no sexually transmitted diseases and a reverence for all sorts of sex.
Star Trek would also be heavenly.
Star Trek.
TNG era Star Trek; not modern Trek.
This is the one. A post scarcity society where you can do just about anything you want as long as you have a certain minimum proficiency. Plus, almost all the life threatening shenanigans happen way out in space far enough away it's just part of the background news.
Just let me live somewhere in the Super Mario universe. Reality is cruel and complicated. Let me be a weirdo hermet npc that gives tips to Mario and Luigi when they find my secret cabin.
Very few of them, which annoys me. 90% of fictional universes are dystopian, on the edge of collapse, and only savable by a smaller group.
The Trails games kind of stood out for having a world that’s usually on pace, and isn’t even aware of whatever sinister plot your detectives/adventurers are looking into.
For a second I thought you said the 'Trials' games. I guess living in a world of cartoonish side scrolling motocross wouldn't be so bad
Not even Trials is safe from dystopian sci-fi. The series has some gnarly entries lol
The cable guy porn universe.
If we assume I'm not one of the main characters but by living in the world it follows basically the same rules as them. Then zero question Phineas and Ferb.
I see so many people saying Star Trek but there are so many wars and other major issues in that world. In P&F the worst evil people in the world are part of LOVE MUFFIN and able to be completely handled and even often rehabilitated by animal agents.
Okay but the entire world is teetering on a razor's edge. If the Mysterious Force ever stops hiding the boys' inventions from Linda, the world's parents will outlaw fun and Doof will take over the world.
I believe there's a late series crossover with Marvel that could have some sub-optimal ramifications to living in the Phineas and Ferb universe. Otherwise, I'd absolutely want to live in a world where the most evil thing someone can cook up is "Big Laundry".
Also, aren't you a little young to be a grand admiral of the imperial navy?
Yep I'm aware of the crossovers but even then the Phineas and Ferb effect seems to make up for it just fine. Even the Milo Murphy crossover included... Probably just choose not to live near his family although it would keep life interesting and I assume property prices are basically free there.
An alternate universe where the shooter didn't miss.
Whichever universe food commercials take place in. Soon as someone says their hungry the most beautiful food appears instantly but somehow no one ever gets fat. I know that IRL those commercials use paint, woodchips and all sort of nasty stuff to get it looking like that, but IN UNIVERSE everyone loves it. I wanna live there.
Stardew Valley. Theres some fucked up shit beneath the surface, but you can financially support yourself just from taking nature walks. thats all i want.
Animal Crossing for me.
Frankly, any cozy-game universe would probably be perfect. Stardew Valley, Harvest Moon, Hello Kitty Island Adventure, Disney Dreamlight Valley. Even if I end up bored of all the happiness, I can go villain then later have a redemption arc.
Adventure Time. Wild crazy adventures, all sorts of interesting creatures. Artisan pickles. You would never be bored.
Was about to reply the same but thought I'd check if anyone else said it. +1!
Solar punk
The world of Shrek has tons of cool magic in it, sign me up! But also most cartoon/animation worlds, where you can survive all sorts of physical shenanigans with no injuries or consequences.
Early 30k.
Warhammer 30k?
Early, yes. After the Unification wars, but before the Crusade proper. I find it the fluff interesting around those times.
Depends on which world you end up on… because there are quite a few Space Marine legions you don’t want to be invaded by.
Since location wasn't a hindrance, I'd like to see Terra just after the Unification Wars, but before the Crusade proper. The capital city of the country I live in.still exists according to fluff, probably just as minor hive, but still, it'd be something to see that with Unity propaganda reels still crackling and things slowly getting better. I probably wouldn't live long enough to see it all go to shit either.
Living in that hopeful period when the whole planet more or less worked together either freely or ..less so would've been interesting. It wasn't stated I couldn't be well off enoughmmmmm to avoid getting horribly conscripted, either :P
Culture
100%. You can look however you want, live as long as you want, and pretty much do anything from going on wild space adventures to just chilling in complete safety with every want/need taken care of.
Easy: Tommy Westphall Universe
Buffy. X-Files. Battlestar Galactica. Batman and Superman and DC JL. ALF. Dr. Who. Firefly. Heroes. Bewitched. Knightrider. Power Rangers. Red Dwarf. Mr Robot. Star Gate. Star Trek.
All the same universe, my friends.
https://thetommywestphall.wordpress.com/the-master-list/
You already do. As mentioned in the comments, X-Files had a crossover with Cops, which is our universe.
Ahh! Whatcha am I gonna do when they come for me?
I was looking up how Battlestar Galactica gets pulled in. Partway through the connections the link is Yoyodyne. I suppose that means the Crying of Lot 49 and the rest of Pynchon also get roped in. I wouldn't be surprised if that means a lot more links, although I'm not sure if linking through literature instead of TV & movies is done.
Oh no, it's actually an example of the ridiculousness of TV crossovers. Maybe 90% or more of the connections are subtle nods by writers or directors to other shows to be funny. I think a couple are just re-using the same props for invented products. Very rarely are they intentional.
Yoyodyne just as a funny, not real aerospace company name, gets used in Star Trek as a typically non-visible text on panels. I first heard of it from The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonsai. I'll sure the books by Pynchon were influential sci-fi read by people working on those, and no one ever thought it would be used for some 400+ show/movie crossover list.
I mean that's true for a lot of crossovers, even the ones where an actual character shows up. Tommy may be nonsense, but it's fun to see what you can link up.
Just like Mona Lisa, a manga (soon to be anime) where people are born genderless and at 12, they choose which puberty to go through.
Yes I'm trans, why do you ask? 😆 And this whole manga's concept is making me really dysphoric 😭
star trek definately. My wife and I agree that if we had to live in a fictional universe this would be it. To many others its great to be main or special charactters but the average person its not necessarily great.
At this point pretty much any of them would be a step up.
Less well known but,
Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers or
The nine worlds of The Hands of the Emporer by Victoria Goddard
nice people doing the best they can, in a world that isn't like our current dystopia
In Psalm, would you want to be a robot or a human?
Just assumed I had to be a human, but now given the choice, I'll take life as a robot.
I want to live in Gorjo City. Post stipend, please.
Arcane - League of Legends (NOT the game).
Discworld.
Idiocracy, at least Kamacho is kompetent
I would have said Adventure Time but someone else got there first. I'm only about a third in but maybe Persona (5)? For the music alone 🎶
Starfield. Its boring as fuk, and that's what you want. Nice quiet life. With spaceships.
For both you have to be --- this depressed and traumatized and fueled with controlled rage
The one where common sense is actually common.
Tron, throw me in the computer.
Wouldn't mind being isekaied to Palamustus from He Who Fights With Monsters.
Provided I get to be some kind of normal Outworlder like Travis or Taika, def don't want to be dealing with Jason level shit.
As awful as Rimworld can be, there's also some amazing tech that would be great to have. Sure 99% of the planet is some combination of nuclear wasteland, cannibals, Eldritch terrors, ravenous marauding insect swarms and capricious machine god puppets, but my colony is a paradise bastion where each colonist is perfected, given only the taks that fulfill them most, and catered to every need and desire in utmost luxury. Except body purists, but fuck those guys some people simply refuse to be happy.
I feel like I'd totally die of an infected papercut or get mauled by a pack of rampaging Labradors on the Rim, but in the meantime I volunteer for crafting/ research duty!
In my colony, it would never come to that. The medical trainee on duty would amputate and fix you up with a badass bionic spine, kidney and arm the minute the paper cut occurred and probably implant you with some custom genetics while you're under. But if it did get that far, possibly due to a surgical mishap, we always keep the medicine cabinet stocked with resurrection nanites just in case. As for the Labradors, what's left of them after the minefield and auto guns, every citizen over the age of 13 is armed at all times with their preferred weapon type and a suit of power armor, so you and your neighbors and the security robots and your faithful alpha thrumbo will certainly be able to handle it.
You sound like the kind of person that would be kidnapped, have your legs and arms cut off, your eyes removed, the unnecessary organs harvested for sale, only to finally be given over to the tax collector as dues on their next visit.
Sounds like body purist propaganda. Of course all those inferior flesh bits will get removed and replaced with superior bionics. Kidnappers? Tax collectors? If you meet a stranger on the road, they're probably just going to eat you and you should shoot first just in case.
The Cosmere, specifically post-Catacendre Scadrial. The vibe is just so cool between Wild West and 1930s New York mixed with amazing powers that anyone can use given the right tech.
Wheel of time
Seinaru Otome to Himegoto wo
I'll take my chances of death by snu snu.
Honestly, my own, but it would depend heavily on exactly where.
In the city of Dragonwatch on New Earth, humans, chimera, and xenos live together in something resembling the modern world but cooler. There's public transit and healthcare that actually work. Augmetics are common, but not required. Nobody uses the terms 'cis' or 'trans' because changing your gender just isn't a big deal. And because I'm writing smut, there's plenty of opportunities for vigorous entertainment.
Also, no cell service. I'm bringing back phone booths. If you want a network connection outside your house, you go to a terminal and plug your slate into the network. None of this instant communication that's ruining fiction these days.
I haven't actually written much, and I'm committed to do the actual writing part without ai, and it's going very slowly (was really proud of doing 15k words in two weeks and since then I've done 100 words in six months). I do use ai for compiling my notes and exploring ideas, and for other uses outside this project. That's going to be an automatic no from some people and I respect that. If it helps, 99% of the major character and locations and other important details I had established before generative ai was a thing. I've been dicking around with this setting since 2001, and have only started using ai a couple years ago.
Anyway, external validation helps the creative process, if my setting sounds interesting I'd love suggestions for communities where I can post chapters when I eventually have something worth sharing.
So long as it's post-show, I would have basically zero qualms living in the Summer Camp Island universe. No spoilers as to why.
I also wouldn't mind living in the Legend of Hei universe if I was a spirit. The caveat being I am some animal spirit. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't like it as much. Being a human looking spirit or like that one weird looking blue guy whose cave was turned into a tourist attraction would be kinda mid for me.
Then again, I see no reason why I wouldn't love to be in a peaceful enough looking universe as Angry Beavers ( but only if I were a beaver or otter ).
Similar thing with Tiny Toon Adventures. Seems like a fine enough fictional world to live in and, if I'm lucky, I think I'd fit in at Acme Looniversity, if I was an animal toon young enough to attend instead of being my current age. Would be kinda creepy for me to be mg current age and attending that school as a student...
Although, I think I wouldn't mind being my main Toontown character... so long as tge world isn't as small as the game is. If it were an actual fleshed out world, you bet your jellybeans that I would be off fighting cogs!
Yeah, so I am gonna stop here because there are a TON of different cartoon/cartoon adjacent/animated universes I wouldn't mind living in.
Sigil, FR
I mean, practically? Orion’s Arm.
Taking care of humanity is literally trivial.
There’s a big soup of civilizations and frontiers and mysteries to explore. Some danger to keep it interesting. Infinite and transcendental pleasure to experience, entire simulated worlds you can try.
But it’s grounded in real physics, so you don’t get that big can of worms from living in a universe that isn’t… self-consistent.
In other words, its as sci-fi as you can possibly get without things getting timey wimey.
But my adventure-yearning-heart says Avatar.
Bending is just so freaking cool. It’s the best magic system ever.
most of them seem to require an advanced alien/ being to save "humanity"