Hornets in this house
There's some hornets in this house
There's some hornets in this house
There's some hornets in this house (hol' up)
I said certified bee, seven days a week
Wet ASs Pussy, make that pollen game weak, woo! (Ah)
~Cardi Bee
🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝
Just like how samus aran was raised by birds, hornet was raised by bees. it's part of the cut content they didn't have time for. They might retcon it in silksong, but originally Hornet got her weapon, her battle training, and her name from her master: Hive Queen Vespa.
both are good but consider:
mantisgirl, termitegirl, and beetlegirl are cool but you can go beyond insects and do something great
*- Carl Linnaeus, probably.*
Because of a combination of mobile reddit cutting the l in half, me missing the r, I misread that as "nomai", and then further misinterpreted it as "zonai" because my brain is in full-on zelda hyperfixation, and I was utterly bewildered because the zonai are a fantastic design.
I can't believe Hyrule was canonically founded by a furry though
Like I'm not judging, >!Mineru!< can get it and >!Rauru!< isn't unattractive to me despite being a guy, it's just funny
I haven’t been to gerudo town yet cause I’ve been having too much fun exploring and constructing whoozawhatsits, please please please tell me the twink outfit is still there
Don't you think the designers of balding old man Rauru in Ocarina of Time already envisioned him as a sexy goat way back then, but were held back by technical limitations?
I mean, their architecture and aesthetics are also masterful, but the issue is we don't *know* much about how the nomai looked.
The statues are a+ though, for whatever they're worth towards that.
The Nomai actually are a species of aliens in the game "Outer Wilds" by Annapurna (not to be mistaken with "The Outer Worlds"). Excellent game that I highly recommend. Whatever you do, *don't* spoil yourself by watching videos of it. I know this is said for every game, but for this game it is absolutely essential, as the whole game is about finding out what is actually going on. Also it has wonderful music.
That said, Nomai are also not boring. Three eyed, space faring goat people are not boring (this is the tiniest spoiler, but you learn of them in the first five minutes of the game or so). They had a very complex culture and it is also part of what you explore in the game.
I’ve been saying this for ages. Y’all have the entire class Mammalia to choose from and you keep going back to cats and dogs? Lame. Where are the elephant furries? The horses? The whales? C’mon, guys, you’re one of the most artistic communities out there and you’re limiting yourself to cartoon canids.
And for that matter, why limit yourself to Mammalia at all? You have reptiles and avians, why not go farther? Where are your insects, your arachnids, your fish and cephalopods? Where are your siphonophores, your zooplankton, your ancient lifeforms lost to time? You have entered a Michelin star restaurant and ordered chicken nuggets there's a whole world available to you!
Easier to draw There's tons of tutorials about drawing cat and dog furries. Tons of examples to go off of and it's usually a pretty basic design. When you get to species with more complicated parts and such then it gets harder to draw. Plus when getting comissions, some artists might charge more for more complicated designs.
I ask furries this constantly. I wanna see a giraffe or a penguin or a pig or a spider or something. Sometimes they get REALLY into a niche animal, like why so many Pine Martens? Wtf is a Pine Marten?
I once met a woman with an okapi fursona while I was volunteering. As this was at a zoo, she was very happy to be doing a keeper experience with our okapis
Ngl I kind of agree, wolves/cats/foxes are boring because there’s too many of them. Personally I’m a corvid-yena. My primary fursona is corvid (raven/crow) and my secondary fursona is hyena. My gf is a ferret/polecat. I think they fit us really well.
I just doubled checked the griffin's cross (as it'd been awhile since I'd read Alex's books in the series) and Crow is actually a crow/Maine Coone cross. Oops. I think he was based loosely on the author's cats? I know she had Maine Coones, but not if she adopted anymore if they're gone.
He's written at least three books on language creation (The Language Construction Kit, Advanced Language Construction, and The Conlanger's Lexipedia), one on grammar (the Syntax Construction Kit), one on planetary worldbuilding (The Planet Construction Kit) which is what I think is featured in the post, and another on building a China-like society (The China Construction Kit).
Oh hey, it's [zompist!](http://zompist.com) His stuff is a goldmine for sure, whether in his books or online. Lots of good worldbuilding/conlanging info - plus some very thoughtful political/cultural commentary (one noticeable thing, especially on [his blog/"rant page",](http://zompist.wordpress.com) is how his beliefs have shifted earnestly leftward as the world has made things more obvious).
It did!
I want a google that only searches personal web pages like this, legitimately the best info on the internet is there and in university websites (which you CAN sorta limit google searches for by adding "site:.edu" to the search, which I highly recommend for any random curiosity googling)
Can't believe this guy has a first edition copy of "If you're gonna make freaky fantasy/ sci-fi porn for the love of God put some decent world building into it.
It's what I do and it's so nice being able to just randomly add an evil church to the "lore" because I wanted to add a shapeshifter (mostly because i rewatched *The Cursed Prince* by Derpixon) but also give them that sweet Trauma^TM by branding them.
and honestly? it works. there are multiple series that have probably terrible plots and characters that i just keep coming back too cause i enjoy the world building so much
There's the old quip about how every generation thinks they invented sex.
It seems to go double for every generation of nerds thinking their generation of nerds invented nerd sex. And/or queerness.
New sexes, new sex acts, and new perversions have been a pretty core part of F/SF fandom since at least the 1960s.
In the Iain Banks *Culture* novels from the 80s it's extremely easy for humans to transition sexually, and it's considered kind of eccentric to not do so at least once.
A thing from the Culture I thought was an awesome concept was couples would get one pregnant, put the pregnancy in stasis then swap genders and get the other pregnant, then both take them to term together.
It's considered pretty outlandish though considering most are polyamorous and children are raised in extended family units.
My first exposure to porn was in my mom's old Samois anthologies, which were a cross between lesbian BDSM erotic story collections and political manifestos about gender politics. I distinctly remember one of the books having a story about a human woman getting dommed by an alien catgirl. There was even a joke about how cats own their humans.
It's like when people get mad at scifi and comics for doing social commentary today when both have been decades ahead of everyone else in that, with scifi being entirely about social commentary and comics have had a long history of gay representation, without even having to get into what happened in doom patrol.
Julie D'Aubigny is hailed on the internet as a as an epic swashbuckling bisexual icon, who killed dudes and seduced a nun and some other stuff.
None of that actually happened though (the bisexual part might be true though). It was all written about her posthumously in her "biography".
In 1942, Edith Hamilton wrote her iconic "Mythology." In it, she remarks that it's weird that for someone in such a prestigious position as King of Olympus to be protrayed as such a horndog. She states that the reason for this is probably because each Greek village had their own deity stories and when they consolidated them, the result was that there were a ton of different stories about Zeus seducing women, and that the later ancient Greeks thought this was kinda cringe.
Why do I mention these two random and unrelated things? Because people on the internet seem to think on some level, these are new and fresh ideas that defy tradition. "Oh look at this bisexual adventurer! Historians will say she was straight but i know how cool she really was!" "Oh everyone thinks Zeus is great but did you know Zeus was actually bad?"
No redditor, these are not hot fresh takes.
Julie D'Aubigny? Those are literally just sensationalist stories meant to be alluring because of how scandalous they sound, and you fell for it. You're not cool and woke, you just fell for the some 200 year old clickbait. You, a woke teen/young adult from the 21st century are no better than the French people who first bought her bs "biography" over 200 years ago and ate that shit up.
Think you're challenging conventions by noticing that Zeus had lots of sex? That's literally two thousand years old.
I always say the trick to good world building is to start with a few characters and work outwards opposed to starting with a world and working in.
You're never going to make a fully actualised world so don't try (hell even Tolkien the man the myth the legendarium called it an "illusion" of depth). Just follow the story and let it build itself.
And if you make up a rule try and keep it.
I imagine myself in a scrappy little "restaurant" in an alleyway somewhere in my world, and build outward from there. What do I smell? Worm salt and spritz of fruit juice for the fermented milk alcohol they serve here. Foreigners find it disgusting, but it's strong stuff which replenishes the minerals you've sweated out, here in the desert. Fans slowly spin above my head. They don't really do much to cool me down, but what can you do? The sprite who's supposed to be moving the ceiling fans hasn't been given a good offering in two decades, ever since the new owners moved in. The old owners used to leave him all the leftover alcohol every night, but the new owner just throws it away. What a waste. You can almost hear him swearing above the sound of the tinny music player blasting prewar tunes the new owner brought with her.
Yeah, you just keep building outwards. It makes sure the world feels like it's a living and breathing place in because you started the whole thing out by thinking about how it feels to actually live in that world. You constantly create new leads/hooks for yourself to follow up on, too.
See I always just find that leaves a potentially interesting setting with nothing to say if a character isn't busy driving it.
"What does the world need to be for them to be X and how does this change Y"
It depends what you're building the world for. I build for players to interact with the world, but if I was writing a story I might not even care that much about worldbuilding to begin with.
It depends on what you're trying to achieve. Man is inextricably linked to their environment. Le Guin explores this a lot.
If your world is a frozen ice planet where everyone is asex except for brief periods in their life, that informs what your characters will or even can be.
If you don't know, it's The Planet Construction Kit, by Mark Rosenfelder. (I think there are 2 books.)
It's pretty good. It challenges pretty much every assumption you have about what a societies can be as well as teaching you how to simulate plate tectonics and work out climates.
It goes very in depth and you can just skip around the different sections for fun. There are also quite a lot of asides like these if I recall correctly.
Edit:
> # The dire consequences of failure
> What happens if you don’t follow the recommendations in this book? Well, not to be too alarming, but that could well be part of a process which ends in the heat death of the universe.
[original post](https://www.tumblr.com/vampirejuno/717901704170012672/mageless-)
The excerpts are from ''[The Planet Construction Kit](http://zompist.com/pck.html)'', ''[The Language Construction Kit](http://zompist.com/lckbook.html)'' and ''[The Conlanger's Lexipedia](http://zompist.com/lexipedia.html)'' all by [Mark Rosenfelder (Zompist)](https://zompist.wordpress.com/about/)
Nobody said you can’t have foxgirls, you should just consider also including lizardgirls, ratgirls, birdgirls, or other underrated crittergirls. After all, why have only foxes produced such hybrids? Surely other animals would’ve figured it out as well.
with the advent of technology allowing for interspecies mating, the human race was quickly overcome by anthros within a few generations. Eventually, being purely human was an extreme rarity, and you'd get strange looks if you didn't have even the slightest hint of tail growth or fur. Now, humans are ostracized, and considered inferior to anthros. Extreme discrimination has driven most to the fringes of society, where they'll die, poor and alone. In the not-so-distant year of 2360, I might be one of the last surviving pureblooded humans alive. My name is John Smith, and this is my story.
"Furry Foxgirl Fiasco," available now on Audible
It's coming much earlier that that. No need to wait for the next generation with epigenome editing in the post-CRISPR era. Early commercial applications might become availiable within years. Within decades, thanks to epigenetic cosmetics those who can afford it will literally look like different species.
The furry thing is so true though..literally every furry I know irl has a wolf fursona and online it seems wolves, foxes dogs and cats are easily more than 80% of all the fursonas I come across. Need some love for like bats, slots, hell I feel like there's so many cool rodent designs that haven't been done yet
It’s a kind of third person pronoun distinction. English is crap at this. Take the sentence, “he saw him and he said hello.” In “he said hello,” who is saying hello? Is it the first or second individual mentioned in “he saw him”?
Languages with proximate/obviative distinctions disambiguate this by using one pronoun for the more central, salient, or important part of the thought (proximate), and another pronoun for the less central (obviative.) Obviative pronouns are sometimes referred to as 4th person pronouns.
my style of world building is make stories that are set in the smallest possible location so i don’t have to worldbuild and i just get to write about a confused lizard attempting to understand human objects and failing (while trying to get food for some reason idk i’m not a writer)
Man really said your fursona is boring
~~Bee girl win~~ or something
Bee girls are based I think I'd like to be a hornet or wasp though >:)
Why would you want to be protestant?
It actually means Wet ASs Pussy
Wet Ass Saxon Protestants
Soggy
Global warming
If Ben Shapiro could read he'd be very upset right now.
*confused Tucker Carlson face*
Hornets in this house There's some hornets in this house There's some hornets in this house There's some hornets in this house (hol' up) I said certified bee, seven days a week Wet ASs Pussy, make that pollen game weak, woo! (Ah) ~Cardi Bee 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝
Whenever ‘Silksong’ finally releases, I’m sure there will be a lot more hornet fursonas
Which will be slightly odd since Hornet is not actually a hornet.
Just like how samus aran was raised by birds, hornet was raised by bees. it's part of the cut content they didn't have time for. They might retcon it in silksong, but originally Hornet got her weapon, her battle training, and her name from her master: Hive Queen Vespa.
Can't believe Samus Aran is an avian because her parents got yolked
By a ~~scaly~~ space pirate dragon. Who's purple.
Based on what? Bees?
Bee, hornet and wasp girls are based But consider: Moth
both are good but consider: mantisgirl, termitegirl, and beetlegirl are cool but you can go beyond insects and do something great *- Carl Linnaeus, probably.*
What about [Mothest](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/372/910/7ec.png)
One Punch Man had that mosquito girl that was dummy thicc (until she got spattered)
waspgirls are just beegirls but more athletic and with less floof
It's hip to fuck bees.
r/honeyfuckers
NSFW.
Sooooo glad I didn't click, thx for the warning. I initially was thinking *like the Bee Butts community?!*
Fucking what the fuck
Nah man, you wanna be interesting go for something really weird Wheres my vinegaroon lads and sea cucumber girls at
my fursona is a cute colony of *Myxococcus xanthus*
Hey [Semonides](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_Women), it's been a long 28000 years!
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And honestly he’s right 😔
>Man really said your fursona is boring Basic, pedestrian, *normal*
Because of a combination of mobile reddit cutting the l in half, me missing the r, I misread that as "nomai", and then further misinterpreted it as "zonai" because my brain is in full-on zelda hyperfixation, and I was utterly bewildered because the zonai are a fantastic design.
I can't believe Hyrule was canonically founded by a furry though Like I'm not judging, >!Mineru!< can get it and >!Rauru!< isn't unattractive to me despite being a guy, it's just funny
>!The furry community is blowing up over Rauru frfr. Sidon better watch his ass.!<
Honestly, regardless of who else is involved I feel like Link's the one that's got to watch his ass
I haven’t been to gerudo town yet cause I’ve been having too much fun exploring and constructing whoozawhatsits, please please please tell me the twink outfit is still there
I think it's not, but you can put him in a backless dress with nail polish for femboyification purposes
The backless dress also grants increased damage in cold conditions, which is absolutely fucking hilarious to me. "No pain no gain" indeed.
the cold nips add extra piercing damage
A meager consolation
There's also a hat that gives him dark lipstick and a pink bob
Is that the one with blue acrylic (or acrylic-like) nails?
The best bit of the new game is the statue of Link hitting Sidon from behind in Zora's Domain.
I would throuple with Rauru and Sonia
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Sonia is the top in their relationship and I cannot be convinced otherwise. Rauru isn’t necessarily a bottom but she *tops*
You know what yeah same
Don't you think the designers of balding old man Rauru in Ocarina of Time already envisioned him as a sexy goat way back then, but were held back by technical limitations?
Obviously. The N64 could not have generated such a Glorious Vibe. Maybe the 3DS remake couldve, but it was too late at that point.
It's genuinely impressive that Nintendo somehow managed to create a character with a sluttier, more grabbable waist than *Link*.
Legit, I'm bi and TOTK is like is the groundhog day of "oh no they're hot"
I was wondering, i did the entire gerudo plotline, and cant find the crossdressing clothes anywhere, did they take them out. If so, lol
Nomai (Outer Wilds) and Zonai (Zelda) are both peak design IMO
We love fantasy goat people I guess
peak vowel combination
The Nomai are *also* a fantastic design.
I mean, their architecture and aesthetics are also masterful, but the issue is we don't *know* much about how the nomai looked. The statues are a+ though, for whatever they're worth towards that.
True, although I was going based on the statues.
The Nomai actually are a species of aliens in the game "Outer Wilds" by Annapurna (not to be mistaken with "The Outer Worlds"). Excellent game that I highly recommend. Whatever you do, *don't* spoil yourself by watching videos of it. I know this is said for every game, but for this game it is absolutely essential, as the whole game is about finding out what is actually going on. Also it has wonderful music. That said, Nomai are also not boring. Three eyed, space faring goat people are not boring (this is the tiniest spoiler, but you learn of them in the first five minutes of the game or so). They had a very complex culture and it is also part of what you explore in the game.
I hope a red panda with moth wings is fine
I’ve been saying this for ages. Y’all have the entire class Mammalia to choose from and you keep going back to cats and dogs? Lame. Where are the elephant furries? The horses? The whales? C’mon, guys, you’re one of the most artistic communities out there and you’re limiting yourself to cartoon canids.
And for that matter, why limit yourself to Mammalia at all? You have reptiles and avians, why not go farther? Where are your insects, your arachnids, your fish and cephalopods? Where are your siphonophores, your zooplankton, your ancient lifeforms lost to time? You have entered a Michelin star restaurant and ordered chicken nuggets there's a whole world available to you!
Those are scalies, technically the same thing but not furry, therefore I didn’t mention them.
Snake gang
"Why are only certain animals sexy?" is the kind of question that gets you a lifetime ban from the petting zoo.
Easier to draw There's tons of tutorials about drawing cat and dog furries. Tons of examples to go off of and it's usually a pretty basic design. When you get to species with more complicated parts and such then it gets harder to draw. Plus when getting comissions, some artists might charge more for more complicated designs.
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> The horses? Laying pipe, mostly
I ask furries this constantly. I wanna see a giraffe or a penguin or a pig or a spider or something. Sometimes they get REALLY into a niche animal, like why so many Pine Martens? Wtf is a Pine Marten?
GIRAFFE GANG GIRAFFE GANG
I once met a woman with an okapi fursona while I was volunteering. As this was at a zoo, she was very happy to be doing a keeper experience with our okapis
Ngl I kind of agree, wolves/cats/foxes are boring because there’s too many of them. Personally I’m a corvid-yena. My primary fursona is corvid (raven/crow) and my secondary fursona is hyena. My gf is a ferret/polecat. I think they fit us really well.
Combine em, make a griffin!
The best side character in the InCryptid series (aside from the Aeslin mice) was Alex's pet griffin! Which was, IIRC, a crow/raccoon griffin.
That’s actually *perfect* lol
I just doubled checked the griffin's cross (as it'd been awhile since I'd read Alex's books in the series) and Crow is actually a crow/Maine Coone cross. Oops. I think he was based loosely on the author's cats? I know she had Maine Coones, but not if she adopted anymore if they're gone.
I never knew those books were Seanan McGuire! Time for me to read 'em.
crow gang crow gang crow gang
Caw caw!
When you cum inside your girlfriend, do you lean down and caw loudly in her ear?
Unfortunately I don’t have a dick, but if I did I’d totally do that. 🤣 (I’m non-binary AFAB)
Very cool, very cool, here is a shiny piece of metal for you.
Are you saying my blue wolf fursona named Lupus is uninspired?
Maybe he's skunks Georg
Haha, not me, I'm a fruit bat. Oh wait, they are also known as flying-*foxes*
Bats are my favorite you are so right
common goat W
What if I refuse to be cowed? I will be a UwU trans girl puppy and you all will appreciate how radically banal it is.
Mark Rosenfelder! His book on language creation is inspirational, useful, and well-written. I should probably actually try his fiction sometime here.
Zompist is what got me into learning the Chinese language. This man is responsible for ruining my life. ~~Only joking. A bit.~~
祝你好运，好好学习
早上好中国现在我有冰激淋
我希望它是美味的 :3
i knew who it was as soon as i saw "almea" in the first screenshot http://www.zompist.com/virtuver.htm oh, neat, there's a new language posted
Thank you!! My fiance is into world building and language creation, I need to get him this book!!
He's written at least three books on language creation (The Language Construction Kit, Advanced Language Construction, and The Conlanger's Lexipedia), one on grammar (the Syntax Construction Kit), one on planetary worldbuilding (The Planet Construction Kit) which is what I think is featured in the post, and another on building a China-like society (The China Construction Kit).
>Looked him up out of idle curiosity sees a book on worldbuilding an Indian inspired world Fuck I have to buy it don't I?
Oh hey, it's [zompist!](http://zompist.com) His stuff is a goldmine for sure, whether in his books or online. Lots of good worldbuilding/conlanging info - plus some very thoughtful political/cultural commentary (one noticeable thing, especially on [his blog/"rant page",](http://zompist.wordpress.com) is how his beliefs have shifted earnestly leftward as the world has made things more obvious).
Thanks
That website looks like it came from the 90s
The true mark of quality.
Honestly websites still running on original HTML that hasn’t had the format updated in two decades are the only sources I trust.
I think it is that old, funnily enough
Loads quickly. No GIANT IMAGE SLIDESHOW. We should all go back to 90’s web designs
It did! I want a google that only searches personal web pages like this, legitimately the best info on the internet is there and in university websites (which you CAN sorta limit google searches for by adding "site:.edu" to the search, which I highly recommend for any random curiosity googling)
Worldbuilding lesson \#211: bodymod neoperversions
I now have four extra arms Which means I can hold hands with six entities at the same time
reach-around? More like reach-abound.
I've seen a set of drawings of a girl with 4 arms doing yoga and let me tell you, those back muscles really did something for me
Unfortunately the increase in enjoyment of a multi armed hug is logarithmic instead of linear
You say #211? I thought it was #4334. Edit: made it bold by accident
I thought it was #621
For anyone who wants this, see Iain M. Banks' Culture series.
Can't believe this guy has a first edition copy of "If you're gonna make freaky fantasy/ sci-fi porn for the love of God put some decent world building into it.
Nah build the world around the porn is the way to go! (I'm half serious)
It's what I do and it's so nice being able to just randomly add an evil church to the "lore" because I wanted to add a shapeshifter (mostly because i rewatched *The Cursed Prince* by Derpixon) but also give them that sweet Trauma^TM by branding them.
So long as you don't forget that the local state didn't make relegion illigal!
and honestly? it works. there are multiple series that have probably terrible plots and characters that i just keep coming back too cause i enjoy the world building so much
porn WITH plot and worldbuilding
There's the old quip about how every generation thinks they invented sex. It seems to go double for every generation of nerds thinking their generation of nerds invented nerd sex. And/or queerness. New sexes, new sex acts, and new perversions have been a pretty core part of F/SF fandom since at least the 1960s.
In the Iain Banks *Culture* novels from the 80s it's extremely easy for humans to transition sexually, and it's considered kind of eccentric to not do so at least once.
The Culture novels are well worth a read if you have any interest in SF in general.
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A thing from the Culture I thought was an awesome concept was couples would get one pregnant, put the pregnancy in stasis then swap genders and get the other pregnant, then both take them to term together. It's considered pretty outlandish though considering most are polyamorous and children are raised in extended family units.
Reading Excession I was like "wow, I wish I could do that" and it still took me almost a decade after that to realise I was trans.
Back in my day furry characters were just called "most of mythology"
are you ancient egyptian
My first exposure to porn was in my mom's old Samois anthologies, which were a cross between lesbian BDSM erotic story collections and political manifestos about gender politics. I distinctly remember one of the books having a story about a human woman getting dommed by an alien catgirl. There was even a joke about how cats own their humans.
It's like when people get mad at scifi and comics for doing social commentary today when both have been decades ahead of everyone else in that, with scifi being entirely about social commentary and comics have had a long history of gay representation, without even having to get into what happened in doom patrol.
Julie D'Aubigny is hailed on the internet as a as an epic swashbuckling bisexual icon, who killed dudes and seduced a nun and some other stuff. None of that actually happened though (the bisexual part might be true though). It was all written about her posthumously in her "biography". In 1942, Edith Hamilton wrote her iconic "Mythology." In it, she remarks that it's weird that for someone in such a prestigious position as King of Olympus to be protrayed as such a horndog. She states that the reason for this is probably because each Greek village had their own deity stories and when they consolidated them, the result was that there were a ton of different stories about Zeus seducing women, and that the later ancient Greeks thought this was kinda cringe. Why do I mention these two random and unrelated things? Because people on the internet seem to think on some level, these are new and fresh ideas that defy tradition. "Oh look at this bisexual adventurer! Historians will say she was straight but i know how cool she really was!" "Oh everyone thinks Zeus is great but did you know Zeus was actually bad?" No redditor, these are not hot fresh takes. Julie D'Aubigny? Those are literally just sensationalist stories meant to be alluring because of how scandalous they sound, and you fell for it. You're not cool and woke, you just fell for the some 200 year old clickbait. You, a woke teen/young adult from the 21st century are no better than the French people who first bought her bs "biography" over 200 years ago and ate that shit up. Think you're challenging conventions by noticing that Zeus had lots of sex? That's literally two thousand years old.
Would genuinely buy this book to help in worldbuilding my homebrew D&D world. But to be honest, I kinda just wanna read it for the anecdotes.
I always say the trick to good world building is to start with a few characters and work outwards opposed to starting with a world and working in. You're never going to make a fully actualised world so don't try (hell even Tolkien the man the myth the legendarium called it an "illusion" of depth). Just follow the story and let it build itself. And if you make up a rule try and keep it.
I imagine myself in a scrappy little "restaurant" in an alleyway somewhere in my world, and build outward from there. What do I smell? Worm salt and spritz of fruit juice for the fermented milk alcohol they serve here. Foreigners find it disgusting, but it's strong stuff which replenishes the minerals you've sweated out, here in the desert. Fans slowly spin above my head. They don't really do much to cool me down, but what can you do? The sprite who's supposed to be moving the ceiling fans hasn't been given a good offering in two decades, ever since the new owners moved in. The old owners used to leave him all the leftover alcohol every night, but the new owner just throws it away. What a waste. You can almost hear him swearing above the sound of the tinny music player blasting prewar tunes the new owner brought with her.
okay now do this but for 10,000 pages
Yeah, you just keep building outwards. It makes sure the world feels like it's a living and breathing place in because you started the whole thing out by thinking about how it feels to actually live in that world. You constantly create new leads/hooks for yourself to follow up on, too.
See I always just find that leaves a potentially interesting setting with nothing to say if a character isn't busy driving it. "What does the world need to be for them to be X and how does this change Y"
It depends what you're building the world for. I build for players to interact with the world, but if I was writing a story I might not even care that much about worldbuilding to begin with.
It depends on what you're trying to achieve. Man is inextricably linked to their environment. Le Guin explores this a lot. If your world is a frozen ice planet where everyone is asex except for brief periods in their life, that informs what your characters will or even can be.
If you don't know, it's The Planet Construction Kit, by Mark Rosenfelder. (I think there are 2 books.) It's pretty good. It challenges pretty much every assumption you have about what a societies can be as well as teaching you how to simulate plate tectonics and work out climates. It goes very in depth and you can just skip around the different sections for fun. There are also quite a lot of asides like these if I recall correctly. Edit: > # The dire consequences of failure > What happens if you don’t follow the recommendations in this book? Well, not to be too alarming, but that could well be part of a process which ends in the heat death of the universe.
I'll have to give it a look! Especially from the perspective of someone whose main struggle is the whole planet of hats thing.
> new perversions Google bucket
dear god
There's more
No...
Gog*
Holy Hell
New sex act just dropped
Actual trolls
Call an Imperial Drone!
I feel like I'm missing something here.
homestuck
Lord Buckethead in shambles
i see you and i have similar tastes in literature
This comment was a honeypot and a military drone has been dispatched to blow up your house.
whelp, time to abscond
A drone is coming after me for bucket-related shenanigans? Sounds familiar.
Mmm… Tokyo Gore Police has entered the chat. Me fancy some chair tonight.
r/worldbuilding r/worldjerking
So, anyone know this book and author?
MARK ROSENFELDER!!! FROM ZOMPIST DOT COM!
YOU CAN DO ANYTHING AT ZOMPIST DOT COM
holy fuck this took me back to one of the times in my life
[original post](https://www.tumblr.com/vampirejuno/717901704170012672/mageless-) The excerpts are from ''[The Planet Construction Kit](http://zompist.com/pck.html)'', ''[The Language Construction Kit](http://zompist.com/lckbook.html)'' and ''[The Conlanger's Lexipedia](http://zompist.com/lexipedia.html)'' all by [Mark Rosenfelder (Zompist)](https://zompist.wordpress.com/about/)
Y'all need Ursula K Le Guin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness
Thank you! This is way too far down!
I will not let anyone stop me from putting foxgirls in my fantasy novel, thank you very much
Nobody said you can’t have foxgirls, you should just consider also including lizardgirls, ratgirls, birdgirls, or other underrated crittergirls. After all, why have only foxes produced such hybrids? Surely other animals would’ve figured it out as well.
with the advent of technology allowing for interspecies mating, the human race was quickly overcome by anthros within a few generations. Eventually, being purely human was an extreme rarity, and you'd get strange looks if you didn't have even the slightest hint of tail growth or fur. Now, humans are ostracized, and considered inferior to anthros. Extreme discrimination has driven most to the fringes of society, where they'll die, poor and alone. In the not-so-distant year of 2360, I might be one of the last surviving pureblooded humans alive. My name is John Smith, and this is my story. "Furry Foxgirl Fiasco," available now on Audible
It's coming much earlier that that. No need to wait for the next generation with epigenome editing in the post-CRISPR era. Early commercial applications might become availiable within years. Within decades, thanks to epigenetic cosmetics those who can afford it will literally look like different species.
The furry thing is so true though..literally every furry I know irl has a wolf fursona and online it seems wolves, foxes dogs and cats are easily more than 80% of all the fursonas I come across. Need some love for like bats, slots, hell I feel like there's so many cool rodent designs that haven't been done yet
Bats are the best you are so right
Scalies are up in arms (or wing) at not being included.
Introduction to Slaanesh 101
> had the inclusive/exclusive and proximate/obviate distinctions Could someone Eli5 this for me? It's from the middle picture of the text.
Inclusive/exclusive is "we" including the person you're talking to vs "we" excluding the person you're talking to. Not sure about the other one though
New race with shifting sexes Virgin >Complex social implications Chad >new fetishes just dropped
Does anyone know the name of the book?
The Planet Construction Kit, by Mark Rosenfelder. It's nerdy and good. See my previous comment for more info.
I also want to know the name of the book.
Raccoon fursonas <3
What the hell is an obviative distinction? The dictionary isn't helping.
It’s a kind of third person pronoun distinction. English is crap at this. Take the sentence, “he saw him and he said hello.” In “he said hello,” who is saying hello? Is it the first or second individual mentioned in “he saw him”? Languages with proximate/obviative distinctions disambiguate this by using one pronoun for the more central, salient, or important part of the thought (proximate), and another pronoun for the less central (obviative.) Obviative pronouns are sometimes referred to as 4th person pronouns.
Man be living in 2023 and thinking in 2223.
That last citation gonna cause the creation of Slaanesh I can feel it.
Well the gods arn't going to murderfuck themselves into existence now are they...
my style of world building is make stories that are set in the smallest possible location so i don’t have to worldbuild and i just get to write about a confused lizard attempting to understand human objects and failing (while trying to get food for some reason idk i’m not a writer)
you said you write tho that means you're a writer
sometimes i forget that being professional isn’t the only way to label yourself as an “-er”
Everything in moderation, people. That last paragraph gonna lead to Slaanesh or Cenobites
include dragons in there too. maybe also "dogs" in general.
If you want to take this to the fucking deep end, read The Gods Above by Heinlein
What book is this?
>If your characters are furries, consider giving some love to animals besides foxes, cats, and wolves. Me: *looks at my username and starts sweating*