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@theworldbuilder1018
I love the random replacements for clichés writers insert in science fiction shows. like when a 21st-century human would say "stop pacing you'll wear a hole in the floor" but in a space show the alien/future human says "you're oscillating like a Betelgeusian night badger" or some shit. like fuck yeah he is. amazing drive-by worldbuilding. I'm gonna spend the next half hour wondering why the Betelgeusian night badger evolved to do that
Small fantasy worldbuilding elements you might want to think about:
A currency that isn’t gold-standard/having gold be as valuable as tin
A currency that runs entirely on a perishable resource, like cocoa beans
A clock that isn’t 24-hours
More or less than four seasons/seasons other than the ones we know
Fantastical weather patterns like irregular cloud formations, iridescent rain
Multiple moons/no moon
Planetary rings
A northern lights effect, but near the equator
Roads that aren’t brown or grey/black, like San Juan’s blue bricks
Jewelry beyond precious gems and metals
Marriage signifiers other than wedding bands
The husband taking the wife's name / newlyweds inventing a new surname upon marriage
No concept of virginity or bastardry
More than 2 genders/no concept of gender
Monotheism, but not creationism
Gods that don’t look like people
Domesticated pets that aren’t re-skinned dogs and cats
Some normalized supernatural element that has nothing to do with the plot
Magical communication that isn’t Fantasy Zoom
“Books” that aren’t bound or scrolls
A nonverbal means of communicating, like sign language
A race of people who are obligate carnivores/ vegetarians/ vegans/ pescatarians (not religious, biological imperative)
I’ve done about half of these myself in one WIP or another and a little detail here or there goes a long way in reminding the audience that this isn’t Kansas anymore.
Leave me and my weird names in peace
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Extremely nitpicky but I hate white wedding gowns in fantasy, especially when they make absolutely no sense in the setting. No, that culture in the far north that prioritizes function over form and mostly wears heavy furs would not have the means, ability, or desire to make a sleeveless ivory silk gown with a semi-sweetheart neckline. Please be sensible about this and use your creativity instead of just slapping a Kleinfeld wedding gown into a medieval fantasy setting.
Here's some tricks to making interesting fantasy wedding dresses:
Focus on the things that indicate wealth and prosperity in your fantasy culture.
What materials would your bride have access to and what would make the most sense for her to wear?
What colors are not only beautiful and culturally significant, but also require expensive or rare dyes?
What imagery could be used in patterns that are relevant to the culture (animals, plants, family crests, etc)?
What skills could be displayed in the making of the gown (beadwork, embroidery, fabric painting, etc)?
What interesting and unique materials can you add that are relevant to the culture (fur, leather, bones, plants, shells, etc)?
Would your culture be more focused on the amount of material, things like trains and heavy lairs, or on the quality and detail?
What will happen to the gown after the wedding (worn for other events, turned into household materials, turned into other clothing, etc) and are there details to it that make any other functions easier?
What other things make the bride stand out (veils, headdresses, jewelry, makeup, body paint, hairstyles, outerwear, etc)?
Is it more important in your culture for the gown to be made by other people (showing off wealth) or by the bride and/or her family (showing off the bride's talents)?
For a quick example:
If your wedding ceremony requires the bride to walk through a cold and snowy forest for cultural or religious rites, she would freeze her poor tits off in a sleeveless silk gown. Instead, consider a heavy wool gown in rich colors with elaborate embroidery and a thick cloak, maybe hooded, made of fine furs to show off her family's wealth. Jewelry, headpieces, and detailing on the gown could be made with things carved from stones, wood, antlers, and/or bones, especially if it's a culture that prizes hunting skills. Maybe a heavy veil that isn't just beautiful but also helps protect her face from biting winds during the journey.
What able bodied authors think I, an amputee and a wheelchair user, would want in a scifi setting:
Tech that can regenerate my old meat legs.
Robot legs that work just like meat legs and are functionally just meat legs but robot
Literally anything that would mean I don't have to use a wheelchair.
If I do need to use a wheelchair, make it fly or able to "walk me" upstairs
What I actually want:
Prosthetic covers that can change colour because I'm too indecisive to pick one colour/pattern for the next 5+ years.
A leg that I can turn off (seriously, my above knee prosthetic has no off switch... just... why?)
A leg that won't have to get refitted every time I gain or loose weight.
A wheelchair that I can teleport to me and legs I can teleport away when I'm too tierd to keep walking. And vice versa.
In that same vein, legs I can teleport on instead of having to fiddle around with the sockets for half an hour.
Prosthetic feet that don't require me to wear shoes. F*ck shoes.
Actually accessible architecture, which means when I do want to use my wheelchair, it's not an issue.
Prosthetic legs with dragon-claw feet instead of boring human feet or just digigrade prosthetics that are just as functional as normal human-shaped ones.
A manual wheelchair with the option to lift my seat up like those scissor-lift things so I'm not eye-level with everyone's butt on public transport/so I can reach the top shelf by myself.
A prosthetic foot that lights up when it hits the ground like those children's shoes.
Whumpy Fantasy Species Traits
Whumpy worldbuilding traits that I’ve used in my writing and worldbuilding. Feel free to use these or gain inspiration from them!
- Butterfly/Fairy wings not being able to fly in the rain, getting weighed down by water
-Magic strain turning someone’s hair white, skin pale, and eye hue lighter
-Turning into pure white frail statues upon death; starting to lose pigment during fatal injuries or sickness
-Over the top uncontrollable frost aura. One touch from them, and frost scatters across the unprepared skin
-Requiring hibernation
-Emotion based camouflage (like a chameleon)
-Feathery wings molting due to anxiety
-A larger hunger and caloric need
-Hair that is made of fire, revealing its natural color and losing its flaming property when wet
-Plantfolk wilting with stress, and losing color with strain.
-Eyes that are all too sensitive to the light; likely for nocturnal, underground, or deep ocean creatures
What cloth dyes are avalible in your world?
How do people in your world generally feel about cohabitation and how common is it?
It is very common, and mostly accepted. The ‘found family’ trope would also be very common in their story books as well.
Hey btw, if you're doing worldbuilding on something, and you're scared of writing ~unrealistic~ things into it out of fear that it'll sound lazy and ripped-out-of-your-ass, but you also don't want to do all the back-breaking research on coming up with depressingly boring, but practical and ~realistic~ solutions, have a rule:
Just give the thing two layers of explanation. One to explain the specific problem, and another one explaining the explanation. Have an example:
Plot hole 1: If the vampires can't stand daylight, why couldn't they just move around underground?
Solution 1: They can't go underground, the sewer system of the city is full of giant alligators who would eat them.
Well, that's a very quick and simple explanation, which sure opens up additional questions.
Plot hole 2: How and why the fuck are there alligators in the sewers? How do they survive, what do they eat down there when there's no vampires?
Solution 2: The nuns of the Underground Monastery feed and take care of them as a part of their sacred duties.
It takes exactly two layers to create an illusion that every question has an answer - that it's just turtles all the way down. And if you're lucky, you might even find that the second question's answer loops right back into the first one, filling up the plot hole entirely:
Plot hole 3: Who the fuck are the sewer nuns and what's their point and purpose?
Solution 3: The sewer nuns live underground in order to feed the alligators, in order to make sure that the vampires don't try to move around via the sewer system.
When you're just making things up, you don't need to have an answer for everything - just two layers is enough to create the illusion of infinite depth. Answer the question that looms behind the answer of the first question, and a normal reader won't bother to dig around for a 3rd question.
Mae grew up in a tribe that keeps boffish!
Boffish are filter feeders somewhat like whale sharks. A docile, friendly species, they eat plankton and krill as they wander about the merfolk territories. Boffish eggs are full of nutrients and an essential part of the nomadic merfolk diet, and as such, most of the boffish they keep are female. The boffish themselves are used as pack animals when the tribe makes their pre-winter journey to warmer southern waters, where more stationary merfolk cultures have established year-round trade with humans, harpies, and the rare iterin from the Pathways.
The harness is made from braided kelp, and the bags are embroidered with byssus threads that have been processed above water by selkies or humans.
with the tags and search officially being completely broken on all platforms (no new posts are showing up in them anymore), now feels like a good time to remind everyone that the only way to help creators is to reblog their stuff. even before the tags were busted most people found new creators through their content being rebloged onto their dash, and now, at least for the time being, that will be the Only way to find and spread things.
Fast reblog is a thing, you dont have to leave comments, you dont have to leave tags, just reblog stuff if you want to keep seeing new content being posted to this site.
and as a final note, with this change likes are officially completely pointless for content creators. up till now they served to boost a posts placement in the tag searches (a post tagged #girl with 40 likes would show up higher in the search than a post tagged #girl with only 10 likes,)
[outdated. the glitch was fixed a few hours after this post was made ^^ still reblog stuff tho]
SO I JUST FOUND OUT YOU CAN POST ORIGINAL STORIE’S ON AO3, NOT JUST FANFICS.
I HAVE FINALLY DISCOVERED HOW TO GET MY STORYS OUT THERE!!!
….now I just have to write them….
Does anyone have any tips of how to figure out populations? Like towns, states, county’s and the like?
I’ve already drawn up a map of my planet but now I want to figure out how many people could/would live in it.
What is the total population of each country in your world?
How much does the average first-time buyer spend on a home in your setting?
I’m looking for constructive criticism on how people in my world get their necessities.
I’m open to answering questions and hearing how you think this would workout.
housing, food, hygienic/household medical supplies, water, electricity, gas and sometimes clothes are given to them by the government. They work for money for anything else they need/want. If they have jobs they pay taxes which go back into community maintenance, buildings and medical treatment
they can also be given enough money to pay for their own necessities if they choose.
anyone can get a job of $15 per hour minimum wage (of course they can be payed more, that's just the minimum employers are allowed to pay) if they want to buy more of these or want luxuries.
luxuries are classified as anything a person doesn't need to live or care for their mental, physical and emotional well being.
