#Worldbuilding

AsarathaHS

AsarathaHS

"MHA has no worldbuilding!" is a criticism often thrown at the series. This is a misconception in two parts. One, worldbuilding doesn't mean what you think it means. And two,

Overly Sarcastic Productions

OSPyoutube

Harry Potter was the series that got me to learn how to read, and I had a lot of affection for it because of the formative role it played in

N. S. Dolkart is swimming in desserts

N_S_Dolkart

WORLDBUILDING THREAD, but first my credentials bc why not:I'm a published novelist (fantasy) and a member of the neo-pro Codex writer's group, thanks to which (along with con-going) I also

Sascha Stronach (on Hiatus)

understatesmen

Conlangs tend to neglect sociolinguistics, and I wanna change that, so I'm going to give you a very simple #worldbuilding question that I imagine will have some incredibly deep answers:

Melissa Caruso

melisscaru

Ooh, I got a request for a thread about world building without info dumping, and this is always a fun topic, so here we go!So, I'm a big fan of

Elle M. (they/them)

ellle_em

Ok because the TL is shaping up this way I think we need to talk about the difference between worldbuilding and lore because they're not the same things at all

Quinn Murphy

qh_murphy

Ok, I have a day off and something on my mind, so here goes:We have talked about good & evil and why it is not a solid bedrock for action

Amruth (Inactive)

weeb_ams

12 KingdomsI wanted to talk about 12 Kingdoms more in depth about the things I loved and disliked about the anime, because it's a series worth talking about, it's an

Alex Hughes

ahugheswriter

Fellow authors, gather ‘round. I have something to share re: a segment of the reading population you may not have thought about much before: we’ll call them the Distracted Readers.

Tasha Suri

tashadrinkstea

Sometimes it takes work to fully engage with a piece of media. If you're a western consumer you may have discovered that to really get the nuances of k-drama or

Benjamin Rosenbaum

ben_rosenbaum

A thread about the extraordinary first sentence of @tazmuir's Gideon the Ninth, and, in particular, how much work the phrase "dirty magazines" is doing. 1/18 The book begins: "In the

S. Qiouyi Lu 🍃 IN THE WATCHFUL CITY out 8/31/21!

sqiouyilu

can't believe 1984 is just "what if… the sapir-whorf hypothesis were true?" me: *squints at newspeak* so, chinese? german? sometimes my notes to myself look like this tbh anyway, I'm

Kritika H Rao, Author, SFF

KritikaHRao

I was helping a writer friend brainstorm and we were trying to figure out why a set of characters would want a certain thing to happen in the story i.e.

Bandcloud

Bandcloud

Consistently excellent club label All Centre has started a sublabel Off Centrehttps://offcentre.bandcamp.com/releases Eric Porter Douglas (@AfrikanSciences) and @NGHBRHD_CHRCTR team up on @jujujordash's label for this sonic wonder

Kit Sun Cheah, Herald of PulpRev

thebencheah

One of the things that irks me about the #LitRPG genre is also its main feature. Stats. More precisely, how stats aren't adapted to the prose medium./1 Character A has

Samantha Shannon

say_shannon

I’m been thinking about how different and interesting SFF would feel if we stopped asking authors (with clear surprise) ‘Why did you NOT make your fantasy world sexist?’And instead asked,

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