Okay.

Sasha.20.♀

[pinkisbitter]

That fuckin picture of that guy at agraveyard holdin like, a cup or smt, with a mothman sized moth with him, both staring directly at the camera is somehow the funniest image but I haven’t been able to find it in months

[cryogenicmeltdown]

This one?

[pinkisbitter]

PRECISELY THAT ONE

[aleworldaddict]

Iman at Thierry Mugler Haute Couture F/W 1984

[brynwrites]

Conveying Worldbuilding Without Exposition!

(As requested by both an anon and @my-words-are-light​)

One of the hardest parts of writing speculative fiction is presenting readers with a world that’s interesting and different from our own in a way that’s both immersive and understandable at the same time. 

Thankfully, there are a few techniques that can help you present worldbuilding information to your readers in a natural way, as well as many tricks to tweaking the presentation until it’s just right.

Four basic techniques:

1. The ignorant character. 

By introducing a character who doesn’t know about the aspects of the world building you’re trying to convey, you can let the ignorant character voice the questions the reader naturally wants to ask. Traditionally, this is seen when the protagonist or (another character) is brought into a new world, society, organization. In cases where that’s the natural outcome of the plot, and the character has a purpose in the story outside of simply asking questions, it can be pulled off just fine. But there’s another aspect to this which writers don’t often consider: 

Every character is your ignorant character. 

In a realistic world, no person knows everything. Someone will be behind on the news. Someone won’t know all the facts. Many, many someones won’t have studied a common part of their society simply because they aren’t large part of that fraction or don’t have the time for it.

Instead of inserting an ignorant character and creating a stiff and annoying piece of expository dialogue, find the character already existing in the story who doesn’t know about the thing being learned.

2. Conflicting opinions.

A fantastic way to convey detailed world building concepts is to have characters with conflicting viewpoints discuss or argue about them. Unless you’re working with a brainwashed society, every character should hold their own set of religious, political, and social beliefs. 

Examples of this kind of dialogue:

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[smillingcartoonist]

Witches 2 #

[menandfashion]

CONTE JAPONAIS Tony Thornburg by Sølve Sundsbø LUNCHEON #5 S/S 2018

(1) Lemaire (2) Louis Vuitton, Haider Ackermann (3) De Fursac (4) Rick Owens (5) Raf Simons (6) Craig Green (7) Giorgio Armani (8) Alexander McQueen

[jehovahhthickness]

His hair omg

[sherman-klump]

👀👀👀👀 DAYUMM 😍

[der-abgrund]

山口貴由 - エクゾスカル零

[doctorfunk-deactivated20260514]

Cat bath

[markparham]

You Are Going To Have So Much Success In 2018 (pass it on)

[paganinpurple]

I nearly scrolled past, but I got nervous

[black2thefeature]

👆🏾 that part👆🏾

[weirdlandtv]

1972 cover art by French comics artist, Philippe Caza (1941).

[thunderstruck9]

Chen Jiaye (Chinese, b. 1988), Relationship No. 1, 2017. Oil on canvas, 120 x 160 cm.

[twixnmix]

Jean-Michel Basquiat photographed by Lee Jaffe, 1983.  

[redlipstickresurrected]

Max Frey (German, 1874-1944, b. Karlsruhe, Germany) - Meerestiefe (Sea Depth), c. 1926  Paintings: Oil on Plywood

[hellonheelz93]

Harpy - Leanna TenEycke, 2014

[opabinia-regalis-deactivated201]

“you’re on the wrong side of history, spiderman” is a deeply powerful sentence

[opabinia-regalis-deactivated201]

[weloveshortvideos]

british summer is here.

[sixohsixoheightfourtwo]

[rain pouring] [thunder rumbling] [car horn blaring] “go on. wheyyyyyyy!! Oh no.” [in distance: “YOU IDIOT”, uproarious laughter] “why would you go through that. what are you doing. ahhh no, he’s actually floating!” “well of course he is. what a fucking bellend!” “what a knobhead!” “fucking hell.”

[placedeladentelle]

Carine Gilson / Kimono + Gown

[earthstory]

The smoke in quartz

One of the more common minerals in anyone’s collection will be a crystal of this type, though maybe not as perfect or beautiful as the 7.8 x 6 x 3.6 cm from the Bernese Oberland in the accompanying photo. Pure quartz is clear and transparent as river water and formed of pure silicon dioxide, while most of the well known coloured varieties are given their hue by tiny admixtures of impurities (see http://bit.ly/1gQbjajfor an explanation of how this happens). Amethyst (purple) and citrine (yellow) are both coloured by iron (see http://bit.ly/2Fr6pha) that is activated to absorb colour differently with varying temperatures baking it in the Earth while rose quartz contains a smidgen of manganese. The smoky variety known to the old English gem trade as Cairngorm (for the granitic mountains in Scotland where they were found) is much more interesting.

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