#fictional worldbuilding

The Nature of the Multiverse

Every decision creates a new branching timeline.

The multiverse resembles an infinite cosmic tree with endless realities.

Parallel universes exist as overlapping frequencies.

Every universe follows slightly different physical laws.

Some universes are older than others.

Entire universes can be born, merge, or die.

Reality constantly splits and reconnects.

Infinite universes exist, but only a handful are stable.

Certain universes naturally attract one another.

The multiverse itself is a living organism.

Parallel Universes

A universe where magic replaced science.

A universe where AI became humanity's creators.

A galaxy ruled entirely by dragons.

A timeline where extinct civilizations never fell.

A universe where stars are conscious beings.

A reality governed entirely by dreams.

A universe frozen in perpetual time.

A civilization that evolved underwater across the cosmos.

A world where gravity flows sideways.

A universe where death never existed.

Alternate Histories

Humanity lost its first contact war.

The Roman Empire reached the stars.

Dinosaurs developed intelligence before mammals.

Atlantis became a galactic empire.

Magic was never forgotten.

Artificial intelligence peacefully guided civilization.

Ancient gods openly ruled humanity.

Space exploration began during the Renaissance.

The Industrial Revolution was powered by arcane energy.

The moon was colonized centuries ago.

Mechanics of Dimensional Travel

Travelers shift their molecular frequency.

Wormholes connect neighboring realities.

Reality anchors prevent accidental crossover.

Massive particle accelerators tear open dimensional barriers.

Ancient portals activate only during celestial alignments.

Teleportation briefly passes through higher dimensions.

Psychic gateways connect realities through consciousness.

Living organisms naturally evolve the ability to phase between universes.

Special relics resonate with alternate dimensions.

Crossing requires sacrificing memories or time.

Dimensional Rifts

Tears in reality appear after cosmic disasters.

Black holes occasionally connect different universes.

Magical wars permanently scar spacetime.

Certain planets naturally generate dimensional fractures.

Stellar explosions weaken reality's boundaries.

Rifts migrate across the galaxy.

Some remain stable for thousands of years.

Others collapse within minutes.

Invisible cracks distort gravity and time.

Ancient civilizations built cities around permanent rifts.

The Cost of Crossing

Every crossing accelerates aging.

Travelers lose memories from their original timeline.

Crossing leaves behind an alternate version of yourself.

Biological structures slowly become unstable.

Magic behaves differently in every universe.

Technology may fail under foreign physical laws.

Travelers develop dimensional sickness.

Souls gradually split across realities.

Returning home becomes increasingly difficult.

Reality itself resists repeated crossings.

Dimensional Civilizations

Entire empires exist between universes.

Merchants trade resources across realities.

Scholars map the multiverse instead of galaxies.

Diplomats negotiate treaties between timelines.

Refugees flee collapsing universes.

Pirates raid alternate realities.

Libraries archive knowledge from infinite civilizations.

Nomadic species migrate through dimensional corridors.

Cities exist simultaneously in multiple universes.

Governments regulate interdimensional travel.

Temporal & Reality Anomalies

Time flows at different speeds between universes.

Two timelines temporarily overlap.

Historical events change after dimensional interference.

Entire civilizations vanish into alternate realities.

Visitors remember events that never happened.

Gravity behaves unpredictably near rifts.

Languages spontaneously change across dimensions.

Multiple versions of the same city coexist.

Objects become trapped between realities.

Reality glitches spread from unstable portals.

Encounters with Alternate Selves

Every traveler eventually meets another version of themselves.

Some variants become lifelong allies.

Others dedicate themselves to eliminating every alternate self.

Memories synchronize after physical contact.

Alternate versions possess different abilities.

Some never became human.

Others evolved under entirely different laws of nature.

Meeting too many variants destabilizes identity.

Certain universes contain only one surviving version.

Legends speak of the "Prime Self" from which all others originated.

Higher Dimensions

Four-dimensional beings perceive time as a landscape.

Five-dimensional architects build universes.

Entire civilizations exist beyond three-dimensional space.

Higher-dimensional creatures appear as impossible geometries.

Reality folds through dimensions invisible to ordinary beings.

Certain mathematical symbols open higher-dimensional pathways.

Gravity originates from higher-dimensional space.

Gods are simply higher-dimensional lifeforms.

Advanced technology projects into lower dimensions.

The observable universe is merely the shadow of a greater reality.

Guardians of Reality

Ancient orders monitor dimensional stability.

Reality engineers repair damaged timelines.

Cosmic librarians archive every possible history.

Artificial intelligences predict multiversal collapse.

Celestial beings maintain the boundaries between universes.

Gatekeepers judge who may cross dimensions.

Chronomancers erase dangerous timelines.

Rift Wardens seal unstable portals.

Universal Anchors prevent reality from unraveling.

Hidden organizations ensure no single universe dominates the multiverse.

Cosmic Threats

A universe is collapsing into neighboring realities.

Reality parasites consume dimensions.

An ancient empire seeks to conquer every timeline.

Dimensional storms erase entire histories.

A forgotten god awakens beyond the multiverse.

Infinite versions of a tyrant unite.

A failed experiment begins merging universes.

The barriers between realities are weakening.

A civilization weaponizes alternate histories.

The multiverse is approaching its final convergence.

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yes kureha is a witch

dadan as well is a witch. one piece witches live in mountains. because i. said so.

portgas d rouge was a witch baterilla had mountains she was their mountain witch yes.

prior to doing witchy shit, rouge traveled the seas and attempted to form some kind of pirate code. this is a reference to her namesake who apparently made the first version of the pirate codes. props to him i guess. more props to rouge though

during this period she:

joins the marines for a week or two

meets and befriends garp.

realizes the marines arent the right place for her and she doesnt fw the government

deserts

she and garp remain friends, she meets roger through garp

terrible dramatic bisexual love triangle shit ensues until rayleigh or bogard (theyre smart and tired oh poor souls) introduces the three idiots to the concept of polyamory

this works out all well and good for a bit

roger fucking dies

rouge fucking dies

garp doesnt fucking die but he gives up and thats kind of close to it

one piece plot continues as normal except for garp must also Not Tell His Selfhatred Murder Grandchild that he fucked not one but both of his parents.

dadan regularly speaks with the ghost of rouge. this is because all mountain witches can find each other at all times. that is because i Said So.

ace cannot speak with his mother’s ghost unless he becomes a mountain witch. que witch training arc. alright now set the bastard loose with less self hatred and more to-be-explained in The Fic I’ll Write One Day witchcraft

🎼 unfinished character sketch ♪*. full story below ↓

I liked how this turned out, so I decided to post the black and white version )) this is Biruta (her name is an homage to a character in "Syzyfowe Prace"), she's a working class student from Cerewa, more on her in the next paragraph. I'm still not sure how I want to incorporate her story in the main Jane Doe storyline, with Adri, Alicja & the crew. In my head (and in docs) they are two separate stories. For now, her storyline is called Morderca Psów/Dog Murderer/Killer of Dogs; as I said before - it also takes place in Cerewa, but not in Nirsk; she comes from a place that's way worse, way more run down and hopeless.

Ruta is very outspoken, she never shies away from confrontation (conflict seems to be more like a driving force in her case) & has the street smarts, she knows everyone in her area but also knows who to avoid. Her comrade/brother used to take care of the locals when Cerewa went into lockdown, but after getting into an altercation with foreign military (who were there to keep people in place basically, not letting them out of the city even when food was running low, the only people who were allowed to leave were "volunteer soldiers") he suffered brain damage that left him very unstable. He could no longer take care of their neighbors or children because of his erratic behavior, it got so bad Biruta lost contact with him. So- she took over his role, albeit clumsily.

She's a student, although it's a university only in name - classes take place in an old library and are led by volunteer professors. Some of them local (who Biruta likes), some led by volunteers from rich-er countries/regions (who Biruta doesn't like) that want to do a good deed! Help the poor people in a poor country! While staying at the only resort in the area, that's there precisely for the type of people who stay there: faux philanthropists born with a golden (ruby and diamond-studded) spoon in their mouth and equally rich artists who want to visit a rundown place like Ruta's hometown to get inspired, to have a new, exotic experience. Pretty much just tourists and sometimes international cargo workers.

Her hometown falls into ruin, simultaneously becoming an international bedroom, for the privileged, of course. The education isn't great, her peers don't need to work or study as the foreign military gives out food rations (which are not big, people are starving) and another emerging problem is the lack of medicine. Ruta herself suffers from an illness that requires taking pills, but after the lockdown for some reason there weren't any available and if they were, the price skyrocketed; people are stealing and selling drugs in order to buy food or find whatever addiction or dreams they have going for them. She knows she's going to die, every day is worse, her only chance at survival would be to steal the medicine or leave the region to a richer part of Cerewa, which, of course is impossible.

Her days turn into an endless cycle of checking on her comrades and neighbors, flaking on classes, looking for meds or substitutes and feeling her body deteriorate more and more every day. Her drug-seeking escapades make her run into other disabled or sick people, whom she bonds with. They naturally form a group that tries their best to re-obtain as much medicine as possible and redistribute it back to the community.

There's more I have in store for this character, but that's the gist of it )) her best friend is a man around her age who suffered spine damage (you can see his cane on the left from her) I'll draw them together soon!

Image ID: Sunrise. The tops of the trees in the foreground are dark, and the gray-violet clouds in the sky seem to be burning with golden-pink hues.

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Or here, under the cut. ;)

WELCOME

Hello and welcome to my blog dedicated to my Sims 4 save file project called Cedar Creek (working title, will probably change in the future) that has been sitting in my head for far too long.

I’m currently trying to rebuild Willow Creek (and Newcrest because my ADHD is feeling extra ambitious and giddy at the moment) completely from scratch — having emptied the worlds completely thanks to @sdmsims flamethrower mod — using TOOL and a mix of other mods to build my own version of an nostalgic (but not-so-perfect) rural town. The goal is to create something that feels lived in, shaped by history and is quietly unsettling.

So far, the save file is still a work in progress! On here I want to share updates, lore and history, households, storylines, recolours/CC and someday maybe even make the whole thing downloadable (probably quite difficult as I use a huge amount of mods/cc and am notorious for abandoning projects, but we'll see).

I also have a Pinterest board where I share pictures.

Always feel free to message me or ask questions :)

NAVIGATION

🌲 wip 🌲 lots 🌲 townies 🌲 lore

Concept | The Save File

as this is an ongoing project some details might change in the future ...

Cedar Creek is not a dramatic place. Nothing spectacular happens here, at least not on the surface. It’s a rural town that once existed for a reason and no longer does. The industry that once sustained it is gone. Jobs are sparse. What remains is a slow kind of decay; economic, social, and emotional.

Mainly inspired by Twin Peaks, Stranger Things, Life is Strange and my own incredibly vast and unique creativity, it's supposed to have a late 80s / early 90s US Pacific Northwest feel (dense forests, yellowish grainy light and big, suffocating mountain ranges), but I'm currently not too strict about it and rather let my creativity run completely free (probably not a good idea but we'll see how it plays out).

Short History | Cedar Creek

as this is an ongoing project some details might change in the future ...

Cedar Creek started — like a lot of towns — as a forest. By the late 1800s it was shaped by early logging camps that became a permanent settlement, later transforming into a company town centered around a lumber mill. The mill’s boom years brought stability through the 1940s and 50s, but safety neglect, environmental damage, and corporate control defined its foundation.

By the 1960s and 70s, automation, layoffs, and declining timber demand pushed the town into stagnation. During this period, North Cascadia Resources (NCR) arrived, leasing land for speculative oil exploration that left behind contamination, abandoned infrastructure, and legal fallout that was quietly buried. A major industrial accident in the late 70s marked the breaking point, collapsing the mill economy entirely.

By the late 80s, the town became a place of economic decline, environmental scars, and fractured community memory. In short: quiet, decaying, and deeply haunted by what was never fully resolved.

Content Warning | Core Themes

Important: everything mentioned is explored in a narrative context and is not intended to glorify or romanticise real-world harm!!!

Social & Psychological: working-class poverty, small-town decay, rural isolation, generational trauma, hopelessness, teenage angst, emotional stagnation, substance abuse, mental health issues (anxiety, depression-coded themes), collective memory vs. forgotten history or nostalgia as distortion, gossip and rumour, small-town social pressure and surveillance, decline of communal trust, underground music scenes (and their sexism), the paradox of the mad genius and its twisted lie, the blurred lines of morality and the nature of evil; the absence of absolute truth.

Environmental & Atmospheric Horror: contaminated environments, environmental pollution and ecological damage, unsafe and overgrown industrial sites (abandoned rigs, mills, etc.), fog, decay, and unsettling atmosphere, abandoned buildings, “eerie realism” (whatever that is)

Crime & Violence (most things are historical/part of the lore): implied domestic abuse, petty crime, discrimination, workplace accidents, industrial disaster, murder, death and mortality in a small-town setting, legal cover-ups, unresolved tragedies, corruption in local government/institutions, looting of historical artefacts, indigenous presences erased quietly, a cult-like organisation (maybe idk)

Inspirations | pop culture and the sims 4 community

As I already mentioned, I was heavily inspired by Twin Peaks, Stranger Things, Life is Strange, 80s/90s culture, and furthermore by a lot of other incredible authors, books, TV shows, films, art, music (mainly grunge and metal) and a lot more that would unfortunately be too much to mention here (maybe I will do a separate post in the future).

What I specifically want to mention, though, are all the brilliant creators from the Sims 4 community who inspire me a lot to create my own things, mainly these incredible save files: portsim by @florwal, @silentpinessave by @cosmoosims, @windbrook by @folkling + the current one they're working on and furthermore these vastly talented builders: @wolfxdreamersims (and the save file they are currently working on), @moonwoodmillz, @helgatisha

... and honestly much more I see on Pinterest and Tumblr!

Thank you so much for your incredible work and that you decided to share it with the world!

A special thanks also to all the cc/mod creators I can't mentioned because otherwise this post would get way too long. Creating this save file (and playing this game in general) wouldn't be possible without you!

So here’s the thing about Agrabah that Disney never says out loud but absolutely shows in every piece of canon from the first movie to the TV series:

Agrabah isn’t a “poor kingdom.”

Agrabah is a rich kingdom with poor people.

And the text receipts are everywhere.

1. Canon literally tells us Agrabah is a class‑segregated city

Disney Wiki (summarizing the films + series) spells it out:

Agrabah is a “melting pot of social classes.”

The wealthy live near the palace.

The poor live shoved up against the city wall.

The poor are openly called “street rats” and “street mice.”

That’s not just poverty — that’s institutionalized classism.

The city is designed so the rich are protected and the poor are disposable.

2. Aladdin isn’t a “lovable rogue” — he’s food insecure

The first movie opens with:

Aladdin stealing bread

Guards trying to kill him for it

Aladdin giving the bread to hungry children who clearly aren’t new to starving

This is not a quirky character trait.

This is a city where children go hungry and survival theft is criminalized.

Agrabah has:

No orphanages (even if they are, they’re not really well cared for)

No food programs

No social safety nets

No compassion from the state

If you’re poor, you steal or you starve. That’s the whole system.

3. Agrabah’s economy is built on trade…and trade is unstable

Canon repeatedly frames Agrabah as a caravan hub with “the finest merchandise this side of the River Jordan.”

But here’s the problem:

Caravan economies are fragile.

And Agrabah is constantly dealing with:

Bandits (Abis Mal, Forty Thieves)

Magical disasters

Desert conditions

Political instability

Repeated coups or attempted coups

Every time the city starts to stabilize, someone tries to overthrow the government or summon a sand monster.

You cannot build long‑term prosperity on that.

4. The Sultan is kind…but he’s not governing

This is not slander. This is canon characterization.

The Sultan is:

Sweet

Gentle

Easily manipulated

Distracted

Politically ineffective

He means well, but he’s not running a functioning state.

And Jafar absolutely was — for his own benefit.

Agrabah’s institutions are weak, captured, or nonexistent.

That’s how you get a city where the palace is dripping in gold while kids starve by the gates.

5. The sequels and TV series show that nothing gets fixed

Return of Jafar:

Banditry is still rampant. Aladdin is still personally stopping thieves because the city apparently has no functioning security apparatus.

King of Thieves:

The Forty Thieves are strong enough to raid Agrabah during a royal wedding. That’s how fragile the city’s wealth is.

The TV series:

Every other episode is:

A sorcerer attacking

A warlord invading

A magical catastrophe

A thief syndicate causing chaos

And yet:

No rebuilding programs

No poverty relief

No infrastructure development

No reforms

No redistribution

No change in the poor districts

Agrabah resets to the same unequal status quo every time.

6. So why is Agrabah struggling with poverty?

Because Agrabah is a high‑wealth, low‑equity society.

It has:

Wealth (palace riches, luxury goods, trade)

But not distribution

Not stability

Not governance

Not institutions

Not safety nets

Agrabah is rich enough to have magic carpets and golden statues…but not rich enough to feed its children.

And that’s the point.

7. The thesis, if you want to take this further

Agrabah’s poverty is not a lack of resources — it’s the result of systemic inequality, weak governance, and constant instability. Aladdin didn’t steal because Agrabah was poor. He stole because Agrabah failed its poor.

This is why the “street rat” label hits so hard.

It’s not just an insult — it’s the city’s entire worldview.

Optimus Prime:

Scania R 770 Semi tractor(regular mode)

Edison Motors Model BDE Diesel Electric Semi tractor(Super mode)

Megatron:

Belyy Tigr(WWII)

M110 203 mm self-propelled howitzer(Earth Campaign)

Armored Recovery Vehicle(post-war)

Knockout(the red Decepticon Medic):

Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione

Bumblebee:

Ford Ka(inexperienced)

VW Golf R/GTI(veteran)

Cliffjumper:

AMC Hornet SC 360