Wheel of time
Idiocracy, at least Kamacho is kompetent
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.
Tron, throw me in the computer.
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.
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.
Discworld.
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.
An alternate universe where the shooter didn’t miss.
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.
Culture
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.
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.
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.
most of them seem to require an advanced alien/ being to save “humanity”
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
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.
