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If you could live in the universe of any book or movie, which one would you choose?
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LadyButterfly she/her piefed.blahaj.zone LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone
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jtrek startrek.website jtrek@startrek.website
Joined: 2026-02-22
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The culture, probably. Post scarcity. Live as long as you want.

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Jaysyn lemmy.world Jaysyn@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-04-09
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The culture, probably. Post scarcity. Live as long as you want.

You beat me to it.

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BonkTheAnnoyed piefed.blahaj.zone BonkTheAnnoyed@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2026-01-23
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Too many to count, but since I finished it recently, The Spellshop

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Hamartia lemmy.world Hamartia@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-11-02
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You beat me to it.

And me

Augment your body how you wish. Charge sex back and forth. If you get bored, larp in a medieval society to gently guide them. Bored with our galaxy go visit the next one over. Visit earth, dispair at the backwardness.

What's not to like

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Jimbabwe lemmy.world Jimbabwe@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-09-18
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Hilda

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grumpasaurusrex lemmy.blahaj.zone grumpasaurusrex@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2026-08-06
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Definitely the world of Becky Chambers' Monk & Robot series (A Psalm for the Wild-Built and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy). It's a kind & beautiful world where people can be and do whatever feels meaningful to them because it's close to a post-scarcity anarcho-communist utopia. Humans live in small but interconnected communities that exist in harmony with nature.

Highly recommend the series if you want to escape to a warm comforting world for a while. It's a duology of novellas, so a pretty quick read through.

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gingersaffronapricat lemmy.world gingersaffronapricat@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-08-20
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One of the diana wynne jones worlds. A safe one please

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Repple (she/her) lemmy.world Repelle@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-11
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Maybe daughters of a coral dawn? No men on the planet sounds lovely.

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Shamyase jlai.lu Shamyase@jlai.lu
Joined: 2026-07-27
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Maybe daughters of a coral dawn? No men on the planet sounds lovely.

You got me interested, thanks for the reco !

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Meatwagon lemmy.dbzer0.com Meatwagon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-08-12
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I decided as a child that it would be Pokemon.

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Lady Butterfly she/her reddthat.com LadyButterfly@reddthat.com
Joined: 2025-07-04
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I decided as a child that it would be Pokemon.

Oh that would be lovely!

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Domi lemmy.blahaj.zone Domi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2026-01-18
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The culture, probably. Post scarcity. Live as long as you want.

Came here to say that. Particularly interested in the body swapping part for totally cisgender reasons.

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Balinares pawb.social Balinares@pawb.social
Joined: 2023-06-09
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Hilda

Oh wow, great thinking!

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Balinares pawb.social Balinares@pawb.social
Joined: 2023-06-09
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Pern, no question. The people who mentioned the Culture are definitely on to something, and yet, all the same... Give me Pern.

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almost1337 lemmy.zip almost1337@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-04
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I wouldn't pick Cradle to start with, but the Cradleverse would certainly be interesting.

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blkvvvs lemmy.zip blkvvvs@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-07-29
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I read a lot smut soo I'll just say somewhere with magic.

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ZDL lazysoci.al ZDL@lazysoci.al
Joined: 2025-06-06
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The world of Earthsea from Ursula K. LeGuin's books. Why?

  • the setting's philosophy is nearly Daoist in its focus on balance over domination;
  • although it started (deliberately) with a very patriarchal magic order, over time it was revealed that the "mere witches" the mages looked down upon held the roots of true magic and were instrumental in preserving the world;
  • said magic was based on "true names" meaning to hold power over anything at all you had to deeply and profoundly understand it, resulting in a world of scholars and poets and deep observers – a world, in short, of knowledge instead of warriors;
  • the world wasn't white, with the default skin colour being a reddish-brown, if memory serves;
  • being a world sort of on the cusp of iron and bronze age technology, but stable (c.f. further above on balance over domination), the world is mostly idyllically coded and the conflict comes mostly from within, instead of the usual fare of huge earth-shattering events that threaten all.
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proudblond lemmy.world proudblond@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-22
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This is essentially the plot of The Astral Library by Kate Quinn (I think?).

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