#wordbuilding

[anonbeadraws]

Arei's Flora and Fauna sketches: Gravity Isles edition! So many things that grow despite or in spite of the gravity fluxes! All i know is, I don't want to be in the water when the Hingejaw Sea Serpent is! Discord| Backerkit

[luna-azzurra]

Mystical Woodland Places for Writers!!<3

[teratomika]

Eira's true form

although many folk tales mention ælshi being able to turn into human beings, animals or inanimate objects, they possessed no shape-shifting abilities. however, they were incredibly good at hypnosis

[faultsandfractures]

I think characters that specialize in illusion magic need to have more issues as a result of it. Digital photos and algorithms already warp the way people see themselves, and those stay within screens. A character who is crafting false worlds big enough to live in, and whose life depends on them being believable, should have some trouble telling what’s real.

[theangrycomet-art]

Lavender Eyes

Minor HC of mine is that bots' built during/post-war who have experienced long term energon deprivation/starvation their optics' turn purple due to the innermost energon breaking down.

This doesn't happen to older bots due to different and more varied resources being used during protoform manufacturing (not to mention the Allspark could better stabilize the frame) that could better withstand stressors

Yes this is based mostly on how Wasp's optics changed colors after his time in the Stockades, but also how 2/3 Stunticons (some of the more notably poorly treated decepticons) have purple eyes

Kofi Page | Commissions Open

[redslug]

Servant girls getting ready for bed Being insects, they're very communal and generally don't mind being stuffed into dormitories with tons of room mates. Nests take a long time to expand, so every square meter is valuable. It's highly unusual for a young bug to have their own room before they marry and start a family of their own. Even then, depending on the type of Nest they inhabit, they might not get a separate living space. Some Nests operate like villages that merged into one superstructure, all inhabitants can own and inherit some areas of those. Other Nests act more like fortresses or outposts. They are typically led by a noble that owns the entire thing. These types of Nests usually crop up in wild territories that require exploration or military presence. Over time these too can grow into more conventional towns if the conditions are right. The main sign that this started to happen is when new nests get built around the original outpost. This particular scene takes place in one of the outpost Nests. The sun rises and the Lady's personal servants go to bed, since moth nobility prefer being awake at night. At the same time other workers like builders and farmers head out to work – a way of separating nobility and commoners in such a condensed living arrangement.

[zal-cryptid]

so if there are more winter wonderlands, does that mean there are more missing people?

Yes. Some say the Otherworld is shaped by our stories. Others say it's the other way around. Perhaps it's both. An exchange of influence. From Mother Goose to Gooseworx, for as long as there have been stories about being spirited away, people have been spirited away.

Stories of living toys and candy people, of domesticating plants and icy kingdoms, these are echos of the Wonderlands.

[paladinadonevoeiro]

guuys i do be thinking about more worldbuilding for naath and the summer isles.

i'm a vegetarian so i'm interested in knowing how naathi cuisine would work + if they have a lot butterflies that means a lot of biodiversity so i think they should have vegetal cheeses & milk from cashews, protein from shredded jackfruit that you can fry so it has the same texture as chicken, mushrooms or lamb's ear.

silk should have a great significance in their culture with different families producing their own patterns and being a way to burry the dead (partially inspired by some cultures in Madagascar).

i think the villages and urban settlements of Naath could work like the garden towns in the Amazon Rainforest

i think the summer isles + naath should have their own Long Night mythology but rather than have snows and the cold it could be a dry season (Naath) and i haven't figured out how it would work in the summer isles yet but i think it could be a flood season or a season with treacherous winds that would make it difficult to sail.

the talking trees is such a cool thing and it connects to the weirwoods because it's a way to tie the past with the present and the future, you get it, so i think they could have a huge cultural significance and having a class of people that is trained to continuosly register the history of the summer isles in the trees.

i think afrobrazilian (and afrolatin culture as a whole) culture has lots and lots of cool inspirations for the summer isles