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I've always dreamt of waking in a magic forest. And I mean like, no explanation. Just Poof I'm there, kinda thing. I think a lot of it stems from games like Zelda or any RPG.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Gonna sound weird, but the ability to change a person's age at will, with the ability to make the progression/regression either physical, mental, or both at once.

Imagine you have a co-worker who acting like a little kid. You could turn them into what they're acting like physically so they can suffer the indignity of knowing they're not supposed to be so young and helpless. Or follow an age regression storyline where your cheating partner gets turned into a helpless baby that you now get to take care of and embarrass as they still retain their mental state.

Also, imagine you and a friend are going to some event like a movie or a fair or something else where kids get cheaper tickets. You or your friend could be shrunk down to kid size and then all you would need to do is find a place to change back once inside. Saving money!

The possibilities are endless. Also, blame the fact that a lot of cartoons from the 90s onwards that I watch/watched in reruns have some form of age regression stock episode where one or more of the characters goes through age changing shenanigans for implanting this idea in my head.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Getting laid.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Socialism would be nice.

Or just something that can actually be called democratic with a straight face.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago

Managed Democracy 😎

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Becoming an agent of an ancient entity who gives me power and prestige in exchange for aiding with their possibly-evil goals.

Like my Fursona!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

Honestly? I would like our earth - friendly technology online, ecological not total utopia but some Earth-first version of our world. All the housing, food, and energy generation done in some organic beautiful way, like growing your house, yes? Nearly unlimited energy generation, just because the sun shines and the wind blows clean water for all with the waste water used in some helpful way, no food insecurity for anyone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

furries rn: become my fursona

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

Meet truck-kun

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'd like to live in a world where people come together to save it instead of splitting apart.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

Hard agree, but the first image in my head was this:

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

Now now. Let's not get overly enthusiastic here, shall we?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Secret group of super powered freedom fighters recruits me to their cause on the basis that I’ve got some kind of special sauce inherent to my being. Hot chicks who’ve admired me from the shadows hand me weapons that I somehow already know how to use, and only their utter devotion to our world-saving cause keeps them from ripping my clothes off and covering me in kisses. All the horror and suffering of my life finds meaning in a mission the fulfills my need for purpose.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd like minimum wage to be able to support my family, so that a job flipping burgers could actually feed us

Failing that, to live as a bunny in a cottagecore tree stump, spending my days slicing up strawberries like they're roasts, and baking pies with my neighbours

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I'd keep my eye on the latter. The former is far less likely.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Two chicks at one time. Fuckin A.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Twins, Basil

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I'd like to be a peregrine falcon. No natural predator, able to soar above it all.

I'd also like to be wealthy enough, not in any unethical or greedy way, to have my own home by myself and not have to work, simply so I could enjoy the rest of my life in peace. No need for golden toilets and limousines, just the ability to get up in the morning and have peace and be free of fear of what is happening to me right now.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

As someone with a progressive disease: healing magic. I would pay all the bullion and cattle and sacks of wheat necessary to heal, or at least regress this stupid thing.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Owning my own home.

It that doesn’t count as fantasy, I really want there to be an underworld with strange creatures. I just think it would be so interesting.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A harem of goblin chicks. Simple as.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be clear, would you BE one in the harem or would the harem belong to you?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

he want to be the harem

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

I’d love to retire to a cozy inn with an endless pot of stew

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Be able to shapeshift so my body can finally match my identity

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

One where there were multiple sentient species in addition to humans.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I just want magic but magic based on understanding and manipulating matter. Like magic based on real life physics

Kinda like the sorcerer's apprentice where they can make fire by vibrating the molecules in the air until they get hot enough to combust.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

I would like to choose how I live in the world outside of the control of capitalism, the nation state, and boarders.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The fantasy: i gain time stopping powers with little to no side effects on using it

The result: "Billionaire suicides skyrocket across the globe"

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Acquire all Investiture.

The powers of a dead god.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

I want to know how to cast magic spells.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

The good guys winning.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Wish granted ! Stand right there I’ll be back in a sec !

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

The Truck Kun commeth

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Star Trek's 24th century Earth sounds like a reasonably nice place. I doubt I'd qualify for Starfleet, and wouldn't try.

I just want to see what life is like for the average broken neurodivergent in that reality. Also, what's at the location of my current house in that reality? Same construction? Did a version of me live there? Was it there but replaced in the intervening 350 years? etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just want to see what life is like for the average broken neurodivergent in that reality

Broccoli

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I hate that I understand this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I'm okay with not understanding it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well it whooshed me, so here's your chance to shine with your magnificent knowledge! 😉

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Being able to actually do anything you understand well enough, the way that magic works in many settings. A brilliant engineer can design an airplane, but he still needs lots of workers and machines and materials to actually build one. A wizard who knows how to cast "fly" can just go ahead and cast it and fly around. If he has the right books, he doesn't need other people for anything at all.

The sort of mystery only possible in a story where the author himself doesn't have to know what the secret is. I love science but I was very disappointed when I was a kid and I realized that science meant that everything ultimately had a mundane explanation. A mysterious structure? Built by some Bronze Age dudes. Dinosaurs? Unusually large animals. Legendary heroes? Made-up stories. Even if elves or unicorns turned out to be real, they would have a mundane explanation too because the whole universe follows rules.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

In case you're not aware, there's a whole genre of media like that called isekai.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Brain preserved, revived (not "uploaded"/copied!) by someone competent and caring (a science organization perhaps) in hundreds of years, somewhere that's not complete shit assuming there is such a place still. I wouldn't mind staying in the VR-jar for a while for a slow assessment, training, and introduction to the future world and brain fixing etc while building connections.

A new form of life. A deeper connection to technology does not mean I want to abandon nature. If anything I want more robust microbiomes than humans have and whatever techniques can be borrowed from nature (photosynthesis or creation of other organic molecules, connect to mycelium network etc) for homeostasis or environmental management/living conditions. Which would allow me to focus on hobbies while my body mostly maintains itself.

Ideally I could exist as something comparable to the size of a microwave but could connect to larger bodies if needed. Or as an extra observer/backup shift/co-pilot etc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Holding out for a vampire prince. So far, the prospects have been enthusiastic but anatomically illiterate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Two extra inches. Either height or... Y'know. Ideally both.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey, you can get those two extra inches with dedication and training! You just gotta start with the smaller plugs until your circumference can stretch 2 extra inches :D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

Circumference? No, diameter!

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