What country tho.
1945 for an ethnic Chinese in America is not exactly fun... racism and all
1945 in China is um... yea I'm gonna get gulag'ed/laogai'ed
this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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How does hunger and thirst work, if I cannot die? Do I still get hungry? What if I don't eat? What if I just spend most of my time building a house in the woods and doing artwork for months or years at a time, since I don't need to restock provisions?
You can eat if you want. It's more if a question of boredom and losing your mind
How will I survive if I cannot die? I just will
The challenge is in not erasing yourself by the rules, by being famously immortal. Presumably, you also don't age. So you just have to move around every decade or two.
If you vary the timeline too much you will cease to exist.
But there's a chance you will make the timeline better for those you leave behind? I'd be spending a lot of time in NYC, waiting for an opportunity...
So you just get a normal job and get to live through one of the greatest economic booms of American history where you can raise a family of 5 with one singular income?
Literally just go to work for 40hrs a day 5 days a week and you could have damn near anything you want as long as you're white?
This is a dumb "what if".
I think having a family would be too sad
as long as you're white
And male, cis, straight, Christian, etc. You could fake some of those things if needed, but that's generally a crappy way to live.
Also, assumes American.
Yeah you right. I made that assumption but the premise didn't give you much to go on.
Plus this would be right as ww2 was ending so you're relatively safe either way unless you're black in the south. Again in America
Well if you want to be boring with your answer and not have fun thinking of other interesting ways to solve this problem then yeah it's dumb,
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How do you survive until modern day?
I just do ... you literally said I cannot die.
There is the caveats they put in that you've got to make sure no one finds out you're immortal or you'll just cease to exist and can't change history in any significant way or be met with the same fate
I think if I was 20 I could just backpack all over, get easy cash in hand jobs and fuck around for decades. However, if I'm sent back now at 48 being twice the weight I was at 20 I'd probably struggle as this late middle-aged oddball who has come from nowhere and has no period-specific skills.
Immune to disease? Welp, time to become a massive slut throughout the ages.
I would survive on Mamie Van Doren, Brigitte Bardot, Sheree North, Rebecca De Mornay, Pam Grier, Rosie Perez... I mean I could go on.
...I mean someone's gotta make horny posts without Violet, right?
Love that the only thing stopping you from being a massive slut is your mortality and fear of venereal disease!
Yeah, the 60s would be insane. Everyone fucking because they live in a world where they are far less aware of STDs. Ignorance is bliss
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Fuck it dude, I'd just go bowling.
Sit around and wait. I'm immortal.
"Hey this guy has sat here for 30 years and he hasn't aged one bit!"
* ceases to exist *
Sleep it off in a coffin like a vampire? They didn't say you could starve.
Become a famous actor, nobody will believe I'm immortal because it's not possible.
if I am immortal then just do my own thing. Work a job for a while and move on. Rinse and repeat. I have been a nobody for 63 years. It is not really that hard. You know like the Highlander.
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I stay in my same body, at the same age I am now, keep all my teeth, etc? I am nearsighted, it's gonna be difficult.
What happens when I pass the day I am born, though? Are there 2 of me?
I don't think I'd change the timeline much anyway, it seems hard to. Though I'd love to become a lawyer and advise Al Gore against conceding the election he won. Even if I ceased to exist that might be worth it.
Im assuiming doctor who rules where just dont interact with yourself
I’d assume Harry Potter time turner rules, where there were always two of you when you were growing up, because future you had already gained immortality and gone back in time. But you never realized there was a second you when you were growing up, because future-you actively avoided interacting with past-you.
It also resolves a lot of the “what if you accidentally change the timeline and prevent yourself from ever being born” types of paradoxes, because you were already born which means anything your future-self does will automatically resolve with you being born.
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As I was reading this, I disappeared in a flash of light and landed in 1945. But I have a plan.
- Learn acoounting, get a job, grind for 10 or so years
- Start investing in Ford, GE etc. and wait for the compound interest to kick in
- Buy a farm, continue to invest. Retire "early"
- Grow a beard, get some white hair paint
- Travel to "relatives" in Australia for 6 months every year
- While in Australia, get rid of beard, set up alternative identity as my own nephew, get involved in fledgling computer domain, invest
- Back home, take up fishing, end up disappearing at sea one day, nephew inherits everything
- I am nephew. Got enough money now to stop working, buy a vineyard in NZ, spend 6 months in the year abroad
- Invest in IBM, I should be filthy rich by now
- Hire professionals to set up a dozen or so alternate identities in English speaking countries. Kill nephew, avoid Australia for the next 20 years
- Numbered Swiss accounts, different looks, pro theatre makeup, the works. By now my 10+ offshore companies own 10% of Berkshire Hathaway between them
- Rotate identities as needed. Invest in the dot com bubble from 100+ offshore shell companies. Cash in and buy tech stocks after the crash. I am now richer than God, but still not intervene in not-yet-current affairs
- No posh events, no media, no socials ffs. My ghosts come and go. I own a few law firms that take care of business and identity management. When suspicions arise, I change countries. Ireland works for a while. I now own 10-20% of all major tech companies, because I bought them before it was cool
- I get into crypto early. Money has no meaning anymore. I mark the days and months remaining to May 19, 2026, when all of this began. I need to insert myself into my old life right as past me begins the journey, will probably feign a nasty flu afterwards to get back on track. Small price to pay for total freedom
And here we are. Money wise, I own about half the world and now I can finally act. Where should I start?
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Kill history’s greatest bastards and/or their parents until I destabilize and cease to exist.
I like this one. Changing the world for the better is noble
immortal
looks inside
how do you survive?
It's gonna be tough being a queer POC but I'd probably just be a sidequest queen and travel the world doing random shit, trying not to stay in the same place for too long and not return until i can reasonably claim to be my own child
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Go to Leningrad, kill Putin parents, die. If still living, go to next city to kill another old fart fucker parents. Fuck this world.
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