#am worldbuilding

[firesidefantasy]

do you guys have any favourite myths & legends? favourite heroes??

[scriobh-an-iontas]

When talking about worldbuilding, what parts should I talk about first?

Core Lore! Everything builds from that, PLUS it's good to start with the basics

Cool Lore Stuff First! Besides, you can add in details later

The Cool Characters! I know you love them and I want to love them too!

Locations and Places! I want to know where everything is!

Fibonacci World Nodes! I want to know where this Earth's timeline split! Wait, t

Organizations! I want to know what the groups of people are up to!

No, hold on! This is a parallel Earth? The fuck do you mean, of course it is? Th

Your Inspirations! What authors helped shape the way you write?

No, they weren't! How was I supposed to pick up on that kind stuff?! No, it wasn

No, Let me finish, damnit! You can't just say that and then decide to not let me

Voting ended onJun 28, 2023

[scriobh-an-iontas]

I spent five years working on the last book, and mostly rambled about it to my friends.

The NEW book, however, I have not begun to track or write about AT ALL. So Y'all's get to hear ALL about it.

It's called "Eurystheus" and it's going to be the story of Heracles / Hercules as told from his cousin Eurystheus point of view. Here's what I have so far:

Eurystheus is not simple, but, rather, is direct. He didn't want to be king, and resents Heracles for not needing to take up the crown. At the same time, he loves his cousin, and wants him to do well. They have a complex relationship, but mostly a loving one.

Heracles is harder SPECIFICALLY because I want him to feel human. He killed his family, but, unlike how it's normally done, neither Hera nor any other god was responsible that.

Instead, I'm describing Heracles as "a man of great passions who had trouble controlling them." He felt love with passion, he felt anger with passion and he had trouble realizing his own strength.

He knows how lacking he is and hates the harm that he brings to others, which means that he has LOADS of self loathing. Not entirely without merit, mind, but still.

Like, when he goes to Eurystheus, it's only partly to find redemption for his acts. The other part is that he trusts that his cousin is smart enough to figure out a way to kill him without killing him directly, thus incurring the wraith of the Kindly Ones.

All in all, I'd be writing Heracles as a very tragic hero.

And, again, this would all be told from Eurystheus's point of view. He wants to tell the story of Heracles the man, who, in his opinion, is so often overlooked compared to Heracles the god, and he wants to set the record straight.

[scriobh-an-iontas]

The system architects didn’t know where the creatures, the codelings, came from or what part of the programming they made their home in. They didn’t make sense. All the architects knew was that, theoretically, once the drives were online there should be no reason to turn them off again as they were self-regulatory to a fault.

And yet each time they turned the drives on, the codelings would show up.

“Ok, we’re all good over here. How’s your team looking?” asked Thea, lead database architect for Syndine Intelligences, over the telecom at her desk.

“We’re ready,” replied Elliott, the lead system architect, her voice coming out a little scratchy.

“All right then. Shut down the drives,” said Dian, their mutual boss. Dian didn’t normally need to oversee things like this, but this was the fifth time that they’d needed to shut down and restart the main drive in an attempt to purge it clean and corporate was starting to breathe down their necks. Each shutdown meant dollars lost, after all, and shareholders didn’t like that no matter the reason.

[scriobh-an-iontas]

So it's turns out that, like any good queer author, I really want to write a story about the Greek gods ("with a twist!").

So now I'm going through Wikipedia to create a rough map of each god's etymological origin, so I can divide up the Greek pantheon into a "Pre-Greek and therefore probably a local" group and a "Indo-European and therefore was added in later" group.

I'm going in on the basis of "most people like things to be simple, not complex" and so am assuming that most original pantheons are small, only growing as culture groups interact more and more with outside groups.

[i-was-bored-so-this-happened]

[tries to keep my mood from going downhill by making up words]