Introduction I guess
Hi, name’s Sydney, or Activate, she/he/they, Reddit runaway from the Great Blackout. I worldbuild through art of random nonsense, as well as long rambling lore dumps and short stories about other nonsense.
I’m on Artfight and FlightRising as well.
I’ve got two main worldbuilding projects:
The World of Light and Darkness, a generic fantasy world with dragons and elves and cool stuff like that. Also demi-communism, gang wars, transgender rights, and other fun things. Revolves around classic tropes like prophecies, ancient superweapons, and angels versus demons versus faeries versus dragons. Getting freezer burn in the very, very back of my mind.
The Layered Earth, a weird amalgamation of parallel realities I call kitchen-sink. There’s two flavors of urban fantasy, a bright sci-fi future, a dark sci-fi future, three post-apocalypses, speculative biology in goats, eldritch nonsense, dimensional travel, and a partridge in a pear tree. We’ve got bird-people, we’ve got demonspawn, we’ve got amphibious bulls, and two Englands, and totally not the SCP foundation but Russian, and space whales!
I used to post this kinda stuff on r/worldbuilding, but so much shit went down over there. That’s why I’m here now.
Ask box is open.
Tags for different things:
#worldbuilding - worldbuilding.
#layered earth - specifically my kitchen sink project, absolute nonsense and somewhat in need of a dusting.
#the world of light and darkness & #twolad - my high fantasy project, currently drowning in dust.
#margin beasties - my weird little creatures, named for their origin in the blank spaces of schoolwork
#me running my mouth - wordy stuff
Notable things:
- Literally just this post about how good Coyote Stories is at portraying what it’s like to live in the modern state of the world
- Maybe a poem called Sing a Song for Sixpence
- Its sibling Wild Blue Yonder
- An ongoing series of me being long winded about the Four Winds Albums by the Oh Hellos
- Why is this my most popular post
-The actual hell it happened again
- A poem known as Pinnacle, and the general concept of Broken Arrows and Half Lives
- The introduction to an unfinished scholarly article on the nature of gods
- A quiz to find the Era of Humanity you are most Familiar with. Do be very careful. The gods are not Human.
- Hopefully more to come
I also like isopods, reptiles, animals, embroidery, crochet, and cooking. My fandom side blog is @activate-shadow-of-the-window.
Bigots of all stripes, TERFs, homophobes, racists, ableists, assholes, and all that jazz, stay the bloody hell away.
Diverse creatures of all sorts, LGBTQIA+, POC, people who aren’t assholes, and all that pomp and circumstance, are welcome.





















