Pedro's Point

[Marri]

Possibly relevant

[pedromvilar]

Once Upon A Time's Rumpelstiltskin has requested admittance to my brain...

Is this related to the Ruby Slippers post I sent you?

...ruby slippers?

[Ezra]

Yes, chaos just like that, Marri. :D

[Bluelantern]

Once Upon A Time's Rumpelstiltskin has requested admittance to my brain...

Is this related to the Ruby Slippers post I sent you?

...ruby slippers?

Dorothy x Red riding hood ship

[pedromvilar]

Oh, no, it was something else

[pedromvilar]

Upon being reminded of the actual plot of Fine Structure I'm no longer convinced it's suitable for glowfic. Bye, Fine Structure.

[Ezra]

Some of the sub-stories of Fine Structure might be salvageable, like the superheroes? But yeah.

[Nemo]

Just reread it. Things that looked potentially usable:

–Someone starts making headway with the Eka Script. Develops a supertechnology or three, stuff happens. (Spoiler-ful caveats about how that could happen and what the side effects are if they use them.)
–The Crashes. Most glowfic characters probably object. Especially the Bells; it's not literally their worst nightmare but I'm sure they'd agree it's worse.
–Universe +1 sounds like it'd be a really cool setting if there were more information on it. Do they have a Prime Directive? Why on Earths is it year 189? (Context: they set their calendar by "the smallest year number not in use anywhere else," which should result in a much larger number. Unless somehow the explorers from however many civilizations got all the way kata to Universe +1 in less than 190 years from whatever.) I'd suggest combining this with Pratchett and Baxter's Long Earth series, if I had read more than the first two books and liked it more.
–Also some people have superpowers I guess.

[jalapeno_dude]

Why on Earths is it year 189? (Context: they set their calendar by "the smallest year number not in use anywhere else," which should result in a much larger number. Unless somehow the explorers from however many civilizations got all the way kata to Universe +1 in less than 190 years from whatever.)

I think you're misreading this. The definition given is "the current year number is The Smallest Year Number Not Currently In Use Anywhere Else." The 'currently' in the definition is very important. The fact that it's year 189 means that none of the civilizations that have contacted Universe +1 currently have calendar systems where it is exactly year 189 right now, but they can have years less than that *or* greater than that. (Incidentally I think this implies that new civilizations either contact Universe +1 or known civilizations start new calendar systems at a rate much greater than 1/year, or the current year number would almost always be the lowest possible one (0 or 1 depending on details, I guess).)

[DanielH]

I think the reason for it being 189 is that it implies there are a LOT of universes?

But also, if all the worlds were identical, and then an event happened with moving between universes, only worlds ±1 would have had a different experience than any of the others. All of this difference in culture must have spread out FROM those worlds at some point.