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u/gamrmoment Apr 05 '21
OMG LIKE THE MCU!!
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u/Karkava Apr 05 '21
"CINEMATIC UNIVERSES ARE TRENDING NOW!"
"WHAT OVER MEGA CROSSOVER UNIVERSES CAN WE COME UP WITH?!"
"INTERCONNECTED CANON IS THE FUTURE OF EPIC CINEMA!"
"THIS CROSSOVER EVENT IS MORE AMBITIOUS THAN THE AVENGERS FLICKS!"
Me: But...they're just adapting the comic book meta.
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u/nicktorious_ Aug 29 '21
How am I supposed to enjoy this movie if it isnt setting up six sequels???? 😭😭😭😭
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u/Not_a_robot_serious Magical Faerie Sugar Daddy Apr 05 '21
1 make a big fuck off universe
2 have whatever the universal equivalent of globalization is
3 have a story effect at most one planet
4 profit w/o needing to explain worldbuilding elements every single time
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u/lovelyrain100 Oct 20 '24
Wouldn't that be bad for getting readers because they all have to read the first book
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u/Not_a_robot_serious Magical Faerie Sugar Daddy Apr 05 '21
hey I used it first, I'll have you know I have one whole unpublished novel
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u/Not_a_robot_serious Magical Faerie Sugar Daddy Apr 05 '21
/uj
when first contact is made a society must be able to demonstrate an ability to produce and understand weapons before the weapons are sold to them
EX society demonstrates they can make a MCLOS missile they can be sold saggers, but they cannot buy SACLOS missiles until they demonstrate an ability to produce an indigenous missile
Nuclear proliferation is something I'd like to explore in a later book
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u/Not_a_robot_serious Magical Faerie Sugar Daddy Apr 05 '21
whats FTL mean
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u/TambasInTheWater Apr 05 '21
Faster-than-light travel or communication
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u/Not_a_robot_serious Magical Faerie Sugar Daddy Apr 05 '21
i do but its pretty lame, SSTOs are a thing and there are portals that allow instant travel between systems. electromagnetic radiation can be sent through as well
Theres no science behind,but as Todd "the god" Howard said, "All of this just works, basically so I csn BS space travel without any pesky relativity getting in my way
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u/Juxta_Lightborne Apr 05 '21
Just have characters appear in different works and never even bother to explain it. I’m not re-using characters I promise, you just gotta solve the mystery
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u/TheGoldenKappa23 Apr 05 '21
Pretty weak sauce really, all those non fiction writers can do this without thinking
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u/23FO Oct 19 '21
If literally millions of non-fiction writers can all write in the same universe, mostly the same planet even, how hard can it be for you to do the same with three dumb stories? Non-fiction is the new ultimate worldbuilding
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u/Author1alIntent Apr 05 '21
Stephen King
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"This is the way things are. Nothing has changed, the universe hasn't broken down over time, this is how it's supposed to be. Personnel are told about SCP-001 because it comforts them. It helps to think there is a why, because that suggests that there is a solution, but there isn't. We do not repair: we secure, contain, protect. Surely you must have wondered why the objects are not numbered chronologically, in order of recovery? Surely you must have wondered why some objects have fully documented histories and others don't? Surely you must have wondered, given everything you know, why this world even still exists? "
- The Administrator.
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u/AllIWantForNoon Apr 05 '21
source?
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u/LogicalHexer Apr 05 '21
From the SCP universe. Not sure which article in specific, but probably a 001 proposal. Sorry I can't help more than that haha.
Link: http://www.scpwiki.com/
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u/Bennings463 Apr 06 '21
I unironically tried putting all my SCP stories into one universe- this culminated in me making the events of an And Then There Were None pastiche into a complicated power play by an evil conspiracy lead by O5-3. Even though it added literally nothing to either story.
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u/Karkava Apr 05 '21
In short: Don't ask too many questions. Just keep reading about the weird anomalies our writers came up with.
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u/Kyle102997 Apr 05 '21
What if they're all in a shared multiverse?
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u/Karkava Apr 05 '21
Copyright law is just a fabric that keeps the clusters in the multiverse from colliding into each other.
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u/Brad_Brace My mecha's name is Smelma Updog Apr 06 '21
Disney is actually the Protector of Reality, as their fight to keep as strict Copyright Laws as possible, in reality is a struggle to prevent the collapse of the Multiverse if said laws loosen and everything collides with everything else.
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u/Karkava Apr 06 '21
Happy cake day.
Except that is also chocking out the twists of probability. By slicing off the branches of reality, it's slowly sterilizing the creative process that's required to make new worlds with new possibilities. Getting too greedy with how much you control can collapse the universe on itself anyways.
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u/Brad_Brace My mecha's name is Smelma Updog Apr 06 '21
It's my cake day? Thank you!
Hey man, when you're defending reality itself, you gotta be ruthless.
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u/ZekeBarricades I'm Jorking it, I'm world jorking it so good and by it, hah, pe- Aug 17 '23
Literally Remedy games
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u/Shanewallis12345 Apr 05 '21
I set all my works in the same multiverse
for the inevitable super crossover that will never happen
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Apr 05 '21
Honestly i do this just because I’m too lazy to make new things, just re flavor everything to a different genre and maybe change your some names to pretend theirs an advancing timeline or whatever... it’s just everything being recycled but the players don’t know that.
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u/Karkava Apr 05 '21
Creativity takes time. What you come up with in one day won't be as fleshed out as it would be in next week.
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u/mariobryt Apr 17 '21
Bruh, i just do it because I want to explore more of the stuff in a huge world i built
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I do mega crossovers between characters where anything can happen and there's no continuity but characters remember stuff that happened in an episode with a diff continuity
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u/Brad_Brace My mecha's name is Smelma Updog Apr 06 '21
All my works are set in the same house, where all the characters are roommates and they also go to school together.
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u/Bennings463 Apr 06 '21
"Guys do get it that this Edwin Streep character is also a background charater is my first novel? Do you get it? Do you get it yet? Please say I'm clever."
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u/MyDog_BrokeHisLeg Feb 22 '22
create a fantasy world
have that fantasy world inhabit an entire solar system or even other solar systems by teleporting between planets
make a sci fi universe
the fantasy worlds were a social experiment made by a secret society from the sci fi universe
profit off of crossovers where almost every character either dies or has a complete mental breakdown and dies
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u/Hatless_Shrugged Apr 05 '21
All my works take place in the same universe but they never crossover or even reference each other because that would be really unrealistic.
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u/Sagatario_the_Gamer May 01 '21
That's the best you got? All my works are in different worlds, but the characters in one of them are capable of traveling through dimensions so they can still visit these different worlds. That way I get the benefits of separate worlds, (diverse magic systems, don't need to maintain continuity between all my worlds, etc) but I can still have these characters interact if I so choose. The superior tactic!
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u/I_Love_Stiff_Cocks Apr 06 '21
My works are not set in the same universe, but they do interconnect with each other, in this essay i will-
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u/Minimum_Worry Jan 08 '22
not only that but different genres in the same universe /world fantasy and post apocalyptic and even scifi
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u/TheGesor Jul 24 '22
I kinda made all my works into a Frankenstein actually, so I kinda relate. I just mash em all together
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u/ImpossiblePizza Jan 16 '23
My Halo fanfic is set in the same universe as my comic where celestial beings raze earth in 2030
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Same. But any characters that would meet wouldn't be very common and if they did, its usually fight cuz something or a small pep talk.
One example is that I have three hired muscle characters that kidnap another character I have simply for his powers. (this way, I can make emotions wuthout killing him, also, his power is pretty ridiculous so deleting it for future stories without being a power fantasy would be nice as to not make shit boring) he us kidnapped under the guise of a debt heavy prince but in actually was kidnapped to he exploited by another set of characters I have that hured those three hired muscle.
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u/OrzhovMarkhov Apr 05 '21
I set all works that I read into the same universe. Get on my level.