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Fictional me

Okay so I forgot to ask Kimi if her prompt of what book/show/series I'd insert myself in meant that I would be myself in the world or if I would be adjusted to fit that world, so I'm just gonna do both.

If I'm just myself

  1. Star Trek. So while without adjustment I probably couldn't join Starfleet, Star Trek has an Earth where there everyone is taken care of and prejudice is incredibly lessened. Sure, without some majorly new information it would take me a bit to adjust to the world, but I'd be doing that with free housing, food, education, and healthcare. Plus teleportation would make travel so much easier and isn't that the dream? 
  2. One Day at a Time. I just finished binging this on Netflix and I can't recommend it enough. Since this is a sitcom just set in our world, I wouldn't really need to be adjusted. But if I could go hang out with the Alvarezes (including the honorary ones), I would feel so special and so loved. Now, go watch this show.
  3. Scooby Doo. Since the gang is all amateur sleuths anyways, I don't think I'd need to be tweaked to join their group. I adore Scooby Doo and mostly they're just dealing with dudes trying to scam for some money so it's generally pretty low stakes. But the friendship of the gang ability to get to solve some mysteries for fun doesn't sound like a bad life to me. Plus, having a talking dog friend would make me just the coolest.
  4. Lumberjanes. This is a delightful series and while there is peril, it seems like most of the main characters don't have supernatural powers to get them out of it, they just use their teamwork and Girl Scoutesque skills. I would love to help Jen out with her cabin or delightful weirdos who always get into intense hijinks.

If I'm adjusted to the world

  1. Harry Potter. Okay, so this probably surprises exactly no one, but who wouldn't pick this one assuming they could become a witch/wizard? It would be our world but I would be magic and could have magical pets and a magical job and there seems to be less worry about things like healthcare and all that good stuff. Obviously, this has to go into the adjusted world one otherwise I would just be me.
  2. Star Trek. Now you'll see this appears in both categories. The reason I'd need to be adjusted to live my best Trek Life is the immense amount of historical, cultural, and scientific information I'd need to join Starfleet. Assuming I'm someone who just grew up in this world and had all of this ready to go, I'd be so stoked and would probably join Starfleet.
  3. Brooklyn 99. In order to really hang with the Brooklyn 99 cast, I'd need to be a cop or someone involved in law enforcement. I realize that this is something I could theoretically do, but in the Brooklyn 99 world, the worst injury anyone gets is shot in the butt and the detectives are quality people. If I could just hang out with all of them though, I would. Maybe I'd prefer to just be someone who worked at Shaw's (I think that's the name of their bar) come to think of it. Then I'd get to meet all the levels of drunk Amy and that'd be pretty fun.

This turned out to be harder than I thought it would be. So many shows involve really intense situations like wars (Game of Thrones, Saga, Marvel, Wizard's First Rule) or walking corpses (Game of Thrones again plus The Walking Dead) or just other peril (all of Gaiman) that I would not want to be in whether I'm adjusted or not.

(Prompt by Kimisha Cassidy)

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