[artozea]

what i think happened right after yor kicked loid in that bar

[jun-hug]

"The Princess and The Knight"

My entire sky craves only your star

- Pavana Reddy

✶ carrd | print | stickers

Towards the end of last summer, I came across a small clearing full of clover, i remember being amazed how its greens were spreading from light to deep shades. It inspired me greatly, but at first I didn't know where would I include it in a piece; it wasn't until September, on my trip to Vilnius with my best friend, that I got a burst of inspiration. It was wonderful in Lithuania, but of course we didn't miss on adventures, so before l'd finished the line art, I got distracted and autumn began. And then my mind of course had lots of other ideas taking their place over this one. Every few weeks, however, I'd return to it, especially during lone visits to cafès, I had so many good times working on it that I almost didn't want to end it (so l made more art of Star and Sunshine in this AU - click 'stickers' if you're interested;p). Recently though a very interesting opportunity pushed me to finally finish it! You'll see what l'm talking about very soon on my profile :)

[creation-help]

Your ocs do matter. Your stories do matter. They do.

[buf309-art-binder]

Here are some TwiYor cuddles based on photos of mourning dove.

Why? Just because I want to and I can't sleep 🤡

[purr-in-ink]

A purrayer 🐾🤍

[unicorngunter]

[nekoning]

the use of AI lately has made me feel so hopeless, i translated pages of an unfinished fanzine of mine so i can remember why i love art...i hope it can resonate with anyone feeling the same way

[ocweek]

The official prompts for OC Week 2026 are here! 🎉 Be sure to tag your works with #ocweek2026 or @ this blog directly to be sure your work gets featured! And if you post any work for the event on AO3, here is our collection.

As always, you may choose whichever prompts you like to follow, you can mix up which list you like to use from, or you don't even need to use them at all - they are merely suggestions. Late works are welcome and I will continue to follow the tag and share works as they show up, so please do not feel pressured to finish if you need more time.

If you have any questions, please check the FAQ or feel free to send in an ask! Have fun and happy creating! 💗

OC Week (May 24 - 30)

Prompts: Day 1 - Alternate Universe Day 2 - Packing for a journey Day 3 - Something doesn't go as planned Day 4 - Music Day 5 - Cherished memory Day 6 - Sleep Day 7 - Free

Fashion: Day 1 - Most expensive outfit Day 2 - Traditional clothing Day 3 - Matching outfits Day 4 - Special clothes Day 5 - What's in my bag? Day 6 - Pajamas Day 7 - Free

Setting: Day 1 - Going shopping Day 2 - Park Day 3 - Space Day 4 - Beach Day 5 - Fast food drive thru Day 6 - Bedroom Day 7 - Free

[froggydraws]

let's all pretend that I didn't forget Anya is supposed to be a little shrimp and this is just set dubiously in the future 🦐

[purr-in-ink]

A tiny flower of hope for you 🐈‍⬛🌼

[pinguidraws]

Percabeth dancing

ESP/ENG

Waithing por the SEASON3333333

[hacvek]

reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics

[olyia-stories]

@dragonpyre any chance you could elaborate on this

[dragonpyre]

I grew up learning about land formations. Seeing fictional maps that don’t follow the logic and science of them makes me upset

[serinos-kitt]

What are the most common sins you’ve seen relating to this? I wanna know

[dragonpyre]

Mordor.

Why is the mountain range square. How did the mountain range form. Why is there one singular volcano in the center. Why does it act like a composite volcano but have magma that acts like it’s from a shield. If it’s hotspot based volcanic activity why is there only one volcano.

And then the misty mountains!!!! Why isn’t there a rain shadow!! And why is there a FOREST where the rain shadow should be!!!!!!!!

[serinos-kitt]

So what is a rain shadow?

[lethalbutterfly]

Wind blows clouds in from the sea, but mountains are so tall the clouds can't get past 'em, so you get deserts on the windward side of mountain ranges because clouds can't get there to water the land, or do so only very rarely.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Oh yeah nothing is more annoying than fantasy maps that can't get mountains, rivers and rain shadows right.

[mindfulwrath]

May I recommend my new favorite tool: Mapgen4. You start with a random seed and then add mountains, valleys, shallow water, or oceans as you like. You can adjust the wind direction to make wind shadows off the mountains fall where you want. You can adjust overall raininess to make the rivers larger or smaller, or have more or fewer tributaries. It works best for small, isolated landmasses (think islands more than continents) but as there’s no scale bar and it’s all slightly abstracted anyway you can do whatever you want with it. I’ve only just started playing with it but it’s SO FUN.

[jeanjauthor]

I do think this could be useful for writers! ...Caveat, if you're going to use this for making a map for anything published (digital or paper, even if it's only in a fanfic archive or whatever), please, please credit the creator and their program as how you made that map! The more ways information like this gets out there, the more useful it'll be to other writers, roleplaying game DMs/GMs, creators, etc.

[oh-opossum]

One of my favourites for mapping plates, biomes, etc is Tectonics.js. If you're familiar with how tectonics shape a planet, you can guess where the features go by toggling plates, crust thickness, etc. Between Mapgen4 and Tectonics.js, we've got some pretty sweet tools at our disposal.

[brehaaorgana]

More stuff!:

European Geosciences Union Blog — Beyond Tectonics: Building fictional worlds to better understand our own

Reshaping Reality's Worldbuilding Tips

Worldbuilding pasta's series, An Apple Pie from Scratch also check their resources page!

R/worldbuilding's Reading List. Also check out their collected resources link. This basic geology guide from 11 years ago is still nice.

Creating an Earth-Like Planet, and The Climate Cookbook (aka Geoff's Climate Cookbook) technically the climate cookbook is a part of Creating an Earth like Planet I think.

Related: Worldbuilding Workshop's "Working Out Climates Using Geoff’s Climate Cookbook." Which goes through using the resource in order to map make. Also just the Worldbuilding Workshop in General.

Madeline James Writes's Worldbuilding Guide

Worldbuilding 101 (this links to the Biomes section but there's like...everything.)

Also I would recommend looking into Landscape Archaeology as well! That's because Landscape archeology is basically adding the social/cultural layer on top of all that geology and geography. Environments change when communities live in them, and communities likewise adapt to various environments.

This is a short free introduction to the concept: "Notes on Landscape Archaeology." To summarize, Landscape archaeology sort of like...studies the relation of people to places/spaces (that is, landscapes) in time.

Also this paper [An Archeology of Landscapes] breaks down/introduces the key concepts that I learned which is first that you can form the "construct paradigm" of a landscape from settlement ecology, ritual landscapes, and ethnic landscapes.

And then the highlights of their summary of what constitutes defining a landscape:

Landscapes are not synonymous with natural environments. Landscapes are synthetic (Jackson, 1984, p. 156), with cultural systems structuring and organizing peoples’ interactions with their natural environments ...

Landscapes are worlds of cultural product ... Through their daily activities, beliefs, and values, communities transform physical spaces into meaningful places. ...

Landscapes are the arena for all of a community’s activities. Thus landscapes not only are constructs of human populations but they also are the milieu in which those populations survive and sustain themselves. A landscape’s domain involves patterning in both within-place and between-place contexts ...

Landscapes are dynamic constructions, with each community and each generation imposing its own cognitive map on an anthropogenic world of interconnected morphology, arrangement, and coherent meaning ...

Basically a "landscape" is made by a community living in an environment. Once you have a geological environment that makes sense, landscape archaeology is like... Basically how I feel confident knowing where trade routes would be on a map, where there are areas of continual high conflict, what kinds of agriculture exists where, etc. once the geological stuff is hammered out, it's like...I know how that would influence the local cultures and vice versa. At that point, it's easy to start marking the natural borders, settlements, trade/port cities, and even strategic fortresses. If you have properly put rivers on a map, then marking your port cities is effortless, basically.

Also:

This course syllabus for a Landscape Archaeology class is freely accessible. It includes an online resources page.

Place, Landscape, and Environment: Anthropological Archaeology in 2009

(Landscape Biographies is open access, as is Landscape Archaeology between Art and Science: From a Multi- to an Interdisciplinary Approach. But I wouldn't try to read every essay.)

[dedicatedfollower467]

If you are like me and find it helpful to have video reference for a process/activity in addition to a written guide, Artifexian is a YouTube channel that does a LOT of world building stuff and specifically he's in the process of creating a world following a lot of Worldbuilding Pasta's methodology!

[decomposedmaw]

forgotten, together

[ocweek]

We have our dates! OC Week 2026 will be running May 24 - 30!

Prompts will be announced later this month, stay tuned!

[131-vr]

IM STILL ALIVE I SWEAR.

2. Frienship

I live for a large hair Macaque, I think it suits him.

Bros do each other hair at least ones right....... that's not just a girls thing .... right?

Better late than Never?? ;(

[soft-lovely]

what do you have in your pocket?

[aerequets]

I neglected to bring my tablet to work so now I'm drawing on paper like a chump 😒