Starfield. Its boring as fuk, and that’s what you want. Nice quiet life. With spaceships.

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 🎶

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.

Idiocracy, at least Kamacho is kompetent

Sigil, FR

The one where common sense is actually common.

Discworld.

Tron, throw me in the computer.

Wheel of time

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.

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.

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.

An alternate universe where the shooter didn’t miss.

Star Trek.

TNG era Star Trek; not modern Trek.

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