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cinematic world

a world where everything works according to the cinematography rules

time passes the way it does in the movies - you go to bed and next thing it’s morning and you’re on your way to work

you don’t remember sleeping or getting up/dressed/breakfast, you’re just there - and it’s normal

sometimes though you’ve got this short sequence of the things you’d done up to current point in your life, you don’t remember doing them, you just have this short vid in your head that tells you what you’ve been up to and what’s more likely to be your next move

hair and makeup always remains flawless even if you’re crawling through the muddy rainforest on some distant moon of a faraway planet

when you need to go somewhere by car/train/plane/any other means of transport you don’t actually travel anywhere: you sit in a vehicle with a greenscreen all around you,  the vehicle shakes but stays in the same spot; in a little while you exit the vehicle and find that you’ve arrived at your destination

if you find yourself walking into a bank while it’s being robbed and you feel a strong urge to fight the criminals using nothing but a half-burned match and your sassy attitude, chances are that you’re the Hero who can easily dodge a hail of bullets and save the day sustaining only Minor Injury

you know for a fact that accidental meetings lead to love triangles, so if you don’t feel like burdening your life with unnecessary romance you better hide in the bathroom whenever you notice someone you haven’t seen in a decade entering the coffee shop you just walked into

you’re never surprised to see aliens, vampires, werewolves, witches or psychics: everyne knows those are real

however, if it’s the first time you’re encountering any particular non-human species, you should probably duck: there’s a good chance you might be set up as an Innocent Bystander (you know those always end up lying very still on the coroner’s table for long periods of time - and that’s boring and also cold)

you can always tell when shit’s about to go down by the change in background music

the most dreaded fate is that of a Minor Background Character: all your life is just glimpses of you doing mundane things nobody pays attention to, or standing by the elevators with a cup of coffee while something happens in the other end of the hall

although some people prefer the fate of a Minor Background Character as it doesn’t require too much thinking and spares you the burden of emotions and constantly questioning your purpose in life

death as we know it is impossible in the cinematic world

if you die you have to lay very still for various lengths of time, sometimes get displayed in a coffin and buried

after that you find yourself elsewhere with a whole new backstory (if you’re lucky) and a different life to live

you remember them all, the stories you’ve been a part of, all the lives you lived

there’s a 99.9% chance you and everyone you know are healthy straight white cisgender people

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the wall world

yep that’s just it: a wall

that’s the world

it looks like it’s about 50 ft high but you can’t be sure about that bc the top of the wall is hidden in some kind of white mist or a very low-hanging cloud layer

it seems to go on forever and has no beginning and no end

the material it’s made of varies if you walk long enough but the transition between them is always seamless and you can’t point at the exact spot where old red bricks stop being old red bricks and become thick tree trunks planted so close together it looks like they’ve grown into one huge tree

there’s parts of the wall made of steel and parts of it made of crumbling concrete with dandelions growing through the cracks

if you turn your back on the wall about a dozen steps is as far as you can go

you can keep walking for hours but the distance between you and the wall will be the same dozen steps

there are people

not many of them though

none of the people living by the wall remember how they got there or anything from their lives before, including their names

all they have is the wall and a nagging feeling somewhere deep inside that maybe it wasn’t always like that

but most of them try to push that feeling deeper and live like it’s not there and the wall is their entire world

there’s food, but it’s nothing like any food we know of

in fact if a person with their memories intact saw the wall people’s food they’d never guess it was something edible

people living near the different parts of the wall are different

no two people there are alike of course but there’s a clear difference between the steel wall people and the white brick wall people and the mossy stone wall people

there are just a few of each kind though

they prefer to live by themselves, although they do interact with each other every now and then

nobody’s ever tried to climb the wall

nobody’s ever left by walking away from the wall

nobody’s ever came into the wall world with their memories intact

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okay but consider this:

a world that isn’t earth as we know it, but earth 1.0, the one god used for beta-testing before actually creating humanity

I’m picturing it as this huge flat model spread on a table in one of god’s labs

it’s got a dome warp attached to it so from the inside it looks and feels like the real deal, the round planet thing orbiting the sun with other planets and stars thrown in but not really there

its inhabitants, humans 1.0, are aware of the fact that it’s a beta-testing module they live in bc it says so in godspeak on these glowy stone signs scattered about the surface

they’re able to read godspeak bc it’s the only language they know of seeing as god created them before he thought of the whole tower of babel thing

there aren’t any countries at all - instead there are limited access testing grounds for all sorts of thing god intended to introduce on earth 2.0

there’s your war, famine, pestilence and death areas that aren’t inhabited any longer (for obvious reasons) but the keep off signs still flash along their borders night and day

there are the test grounds for the runners-up and winners of the seven deadly sins contest, yep, still inhabited. well, most of them

there’s the dinosaur canyon closed off from the rest of the world with a forcefield

(god decided to stick to just dinosaur fossils after a test drive with humans exploded in his face. he thought tiny humans would look spectacular among these giant birds. he wasn’t wrong, but the spectacular part didn’t last long enough to contribute to the survival of humanity that was the main goal of his project)

probably a number of other test areas, too, for various things - the opportunities with this one are endless

all of the areas have warning signs forbidding its inhabitants to move past its borders

all of the area inhabitants and their descendants (he did not create them immortal he wasn’t an idiot) stay within the borders of their test areas, living their lives the only way they know of

some of the areas have just these warning signs, others have borders that can be easily dealt with, but humans and not-quite-humans and nonhumans stay within their territories because it’s Always Been This Way

but for the inhabitants of the one most carefully locked up area

free will test grounds, obviously

they’ve been locked there for centuries but it doesn’t mean they haven’t tried to escape

and when they finally do, the story begins

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hello hi

welcome to vacant worlds - a place where you can find a perfect world/au setting for your story!

what’s a vacant world? it’s a world that’s got lots of worldbuilding stuff and some premises for a potential storyline or two or ten, but zero characters. and you kinda need characters to be able to tell a story, right? so. if you’ve got characters but not sure what setting would fit their story best, or what their story even is, you’ve come to the right place.

I’m a writer. I’ve got loads and loads and LOADS of stories begging me to write them, and those have characters and worlds and everything of their own. I actually don’t have any use for these vacant worlds - except that they are worlds, too, and they want to be witten, too. so what I’m trying to do here is give them their general outlines and set them out into the world in hopes that they meet with their intended author. this means that they are up for grabs - consider them writing prompts of sorts, just very detailed and thorough.

so please, feel free to use them as settings for your stories. any stories, really. fanfic? great! short story? awesome! a book? hells yeah! whatever characters or storylines you have in mind when you read the world’s description, I say go ahead.

you can create further details of the world on your own. you can shoot me a message and I’ll tell you more about the world you’ve chosen (in case I have those extra details). you don’t have to credit this blog in your work. if you want to share a story you’ve written using one of the vacant worlds - tag this blog or submit a link to your story, and I’ll be more than happy to reblog it here.

this is just a beginning for this blog, so here’s what I’m gonna do. I will be making posts about the worlds that come to me as soon as they come to me. it might be every other day or every other week - depends on the worlds, really. but hey. I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one vacant worlds come to. this is why this blog is open to submissions. so if you’ve got worlds sitting about in the dusty dark corners of your mind/notebook/documents folder and you’ve got no use for them - drop them off here. I’ll post them on this blog so that they can begin their journey towards their intended author.

every world deserves to be written!

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