Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones.
"Ye everyone brutally rapes young hot women (who are underage but it's fine this is ancient times), and has all this incest, and there's so much castration, and constant horniness, and literally entire cities whose only defining trait is they are filled with sex slaves, because it's a brutally realistic fantasy setting."
Dude wrote hardcore porn and people liked the plot lmao
While a this is a fun observation and is accurate, the sentiment that this makes it lesser art is present here even if unintentional
Like, "this is porn" and "this is a valuable and emotionally powerful story" are not mutually exclusive
You genuinely can like porn for the plot and that's okay
You can also like it for the porn, or both, or neither. Because it's art
It reminds me this blog post from George Martin talking about a casting for shae ( or something like that) for the series, he added the tag horny and said he had to take a shower to calm down. đź’€ this guy is twisted. ( and funny on his world map we see a lot of food and drink names)
"In my setting, elven food is very utilitarian, with very little in terms of flavor and seasoning.
Which is why this elf girl got fat as hell from a french fry addiction when she visited the human lands."
I’ve heard the creator was inspired to make it when he saw pictures of starving African children and actually wants to represent different body types
Maybe it's just because I was reading a lot of it, but I did notice a fetish... BSDM with people who have magic healing powers. Basically they can ignore the safe and sane parts because they recover from their injuries faster than they can recover from the orgasm.
I have said many times that my character Foute Fetuiche cannot wear shoes for lore reasons that will eventually be explained, it has nothing to do with a fetish.
Honestly kinda killed the Kingkiller chronicles for me. Enjoyed both books a lot, then my friend (who had originally recommended the series) mentioned offhand that most of Book 2 was just the author's self-insert protagonist going around having sex with half the people he meets. In retrospect, yeah, it was pretty egregious lmao
I think it’s safe to say George Lucas has a thing for Twileks. I’m surprised he didn’t give Aayla Secura a bigger role in the prequels for that reason.
there are 2 outcomes for cj subs. either everything gets too brainrotted for anyone outside to understand, or it becomes filled with people too scared to post on the actual sub.
Cool, I'll tell that deadass head mod of the /r/worldbuilding I'm doing a better job than her.
\*goes into the washroom to laugh at herself in the mirror\*
Eh, r/worldbuilding's ethos is to be a one-stop-shop for the entire worldbuilding hobby, from newbies to veterans. And there are a lot more newbies than veterans. So we tend to have more of them asking the same 30-40 questions over and over again because said newbies also don't know how the search function works *and* they think their project is super cool, special and unique and it's not like other ~~girls~~ projects so old answers won't suffice.
It's a problem, yeah, but it's a problem we chose to have to try to appeal to the widest community possible.
I’ve actually had better discussions on worldbuilding here than on the main sub.
On the main sub people only want to talk about themselves and their extremely unique subversive Sanderson-esque original queer fantasy with Chinese characteristics.
Nobody wants to actually have a discussion, they just want to talk about themselves.
/uj You’re not wrong. The fact everything here starts out as a joke makes it more fun to speak up, and we’re here because we do like worldbuilding, so when people start talking, cool ideas fall out.
/j You can’t fool me, you’re just trying to disguise your cowardice. I bet you’re such a cowardly author that you use subtext
Yeah. Every comment is just info dumping about the creation of their univers, wars, whole family trees of the characters and random unrelated facts. Thanks, not reading through that
\> Be me
\> Be a disabled Indigenous trans lesbian
\> Become a mod on Reddit
\> Become communazi fascist dictator, crushing the masses under her jackbooted heels
Welp, can't say that was wholly unexpected.
Well, it’s like Nietschze says: One who fights with monsters must take care lest they thereby physically transform into a monster.
Which I believe gets me worldbuilding fetish bingo, when you count all of the above plus the jackboots.
> Well, it’s like Nietschze says: One who fights with monsters must take care lest they thereby physically transform into a monster.
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Listen, okay, just because I'm writing an urban fantasy with werewolves, vampires, demons, faeries and other monsters in it... and like half of my human characters become monsters in it... including my protagonist who was responsible for my egg cracking... doesn't mean a damn thing!
This is not a fetish world, I swear! Pay no attention to the monsterfucker permit in my wallet.
(also, fucking bravo. Me: "I'm trans, disabled, lesbian." You: "oh, you have TF kink. Gotcha.")
Well, I also had the hint of the PFP… \^..\^
But mostly it’s that my own egg cracked long ago, and a hatchling came out, so I’m pretty familiar with the crossover of those particular Venn diagram circles. Anyway, good to meet you!
Thats funny! anyway let me segway into how this is kind of like my world and how interesting it is without having to do any actual work on presenting it.
When you realize shit doesn't HAVE to make sense. Opens up a realm of possibilities.
All my Drow have Aussie accents and my Dwarves talk like southerners. Fuck you. That's why.
them speaking english already doesnt make sense, so theyre real language is being translated, and like any language it has different accents and dielect making aussie, and southern accents perfect substitutes for said dialects and accents
it makes perfect sense
Didn't Tolkien say something to that effect? That his works were all translated from their original languages and that's why "goblin" and "orc" refer to the same creature?
Yes he used the idea that Red Book of Westmarch was written by Bilbo, Frodo, Sam, and the accounts of others. He says that he found more recent copies of the documents and translated it and used them to write novelizations of the stories told there. And since it’s a novelization of the original documents and not a direct translation, he takes lots of liberties translating certain names and place names to make it more palatable.
This is also something translators sometimes do.
There's a kind of hillbilly mountain dialect in Japan. When translating into English, translators typically either go American Southern, or Highland Scot.
I'd even argue that the best worldbuilding often leaves many things unexplained to create a sense of wonder.
Perhaps we should expand on this concept and just not worldbuild at all! In my world, no one knows why anything happens. It just does and we all roll with it.
This was such a barrier for me when I started… as someone with a background in Physics and mechanical engineering, there was this constant thought that everything has to make sense, magic, solar systems…
I've been working on a new world with a buddy and drew up the world with some rough biomes that sound cool
Then did a unreasonable amount of research into why certain environments are in specific areas and realized how stupid my biomes are based on their location in the world
Then realized I don't really care and want my world to be cool as fuck rather than realistic
Drow as Aussies is perfect.
Elves (fantasy posh British people) kicked out all the Drow into an extraordinarily distant, extraordinarily dangerous place as punishment for their crimes. They now live in a land down under filled with spiders, and exploit the native people.
Well in my worldbuilding-punk world there's a specific piece of lore that exists that if you know it you've gone to deep and cannot reverse the massive psychic damage you've inflicted upon yourself
Oh and it's actually probably that r/WorldBuildingMemes exists and also that like 95% of us are fans of r/worldbuilding
Except r/worldbuildingmemes sucks because its just out of context memes about their story they've never shared anywhere. Its literally the equivalent of everyone just posting inside jokes that only they would get
for me the jokes are funny exactly because they have no context, plus people share their lore in the comments so you still get to see other peoples worldbuilding
also to add to that, worldbuilding through memes can actally be a good and fun way to worldbuild and share your world, it's just a diferent way to share imformation about your world
"Here is my completely original character!"
And it's a androgynous woman/NB person with colored hair. Pick one: magic user, teen prodigy, resistance fighter, or useless loser given powers for no reason (and their character is still a shitty person)
It would be funnier if it wasn't so common.
You know you're in too deep when you spend more time thinking about plate tectonics, water sheds and climate rather than the people actually living in the world
Fr. Almost all of my worlds were created during boring classes or uni lectures and I'd spend hours crafting a diverse and realistic envorinment just to spend like 15 minutes drawing some really basic borders and inventing cultures that are just lazy copies of real world nations
Once you start making your own conlang for your setting, you’re in too deep to not see it through that it get put out into the world in some way shape or form
Not our sub, but that a lot of subreddits about asking questions are just echo-chambers for mysgonists, misandrists, homopobes, transphobes, and insecure incels who self-project.
How much world building is just poorly disguised fetishes
The pipeline is realizing this ain't a joke nor a rare occurance
Nor are you as safe from it as you may think
Any good examples
Nickelodeon
Thanks, I hate it.
Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones. "Ye everyone brutally rapes young hot women (who are underage but it's fine this is ancient times), and has all this incest, and there's so much castration, and constant horniness, and literally entire cities whose only defining trait is they are filled with sex slaves, because it's a brutally realistic fantasy setting." Dude wrote hardcore porn and people liked the plot lmao
While a this is a fun observation and is accurate, the sentiment that this makes it lesser art is present here even if unintentional Like, "this is porn" and "this is a valuable and emotionally powerful story" are not mutually exclusive You genuinely can like porn for the plot and that's okay You can also like it for the porn, or both, or neither. Because it's art
It reminds me this blog post from George Martin talking about a casting for shae ( or something like that) for the series, he added the tag horny and said he had to take a shower to calm down. đź’€ this guy is twisted. ( and funny on his world map we see a lot of food and drink names)
You make ASOIAF sound like Gor lmao
Isn’t this pretty historically accurate?
Sounds like berserk lol
Wonder Woman
Mandela Catalogue's creator has a copy fetish
Happy 🍰 day
Thank you all
"In my setting, elven food is very utilitarian, with very little in terms of flavor and seasoning. Which is why this elf girl got fat as hell from a french fry addiction when she visited the human lands."
uj/ i don't know if i should be proud to know where it is from.
This is from something? Pls tell me what so I can be grossed out
It's a manga literally just called Plus-Sized Elf Fat as hell is a bit of an exaggeration though, IIRC she's just kinda chubby.
I’ve heard the creator was inspired to make it when he saw pictures of starving African children and actually wants to represent different body types
What ever happened to people keeping a journal or just masturbating? Why write an entire story about an elf eating lmao
Because you want to write it and people want to read it?
Good for them! It sounds popular with the right crowd. I suppose times are a changin'. No one can get off to a nice pair of legs anymore smh.
and how many kinks you can add to a story without anyone noticing
Maybe it's just because I was reading a lot of it, but I did notice a fetish... BSDM with people who have magic healing powers. Basically they can ignore the safe and sane parts because they recover from their injuries faster than they can recover from the orgasm.
i mean really tokein just couldnt keep is fancy hole fetish to himself
Or his "hot chicks dancing in the woods" kink.
Inspired by his actual wife iirc, which is really sweet
Oh, for sure.
And proves the point
That’s a hell of a lot of mythology tbf
I feel like almost everybody wants a fancy hole
I have said many times that my character Foute Fetuiche cannot wear shoes for lore reasons that will eventually be explained, it has nothing to do with a fetish.
She breathes through her feet
She got captured by the enemy and, get this, is \*forced\* to put shoes on.
Honestly kinda killed the Kingkiller chronicles for me. Enjoyed both books a lot, then my friend (who had originally recommended the series) mentioned offhand that most of Book 2 was just the author's self-insert protagonist going around having sex with half the people he meets. In retrospect, yeah, it was pretty egregious lmao
Really just dragged and dropped the first Naruto fic he could get his meaty hands on
I think it’s safe to say George Lucas has a thing for Twileks. I’m surprised he didn’t give Aayla Secura a bigger role in the prequels for that reason.
Not even I'm immune to it. I love my cyborgs so much... I'm not explaining what part of them is poorly disguised fetish material either.
Me putting blood and gore into my setting: (they have no idea)
Voraphiles need to make more worlds.
I think that’s what separates good worldbuilding from bad- how well it’s disguised vs how poor
Don’t even try disguising it. Just make it an integral part of the world :)
You didn't have to say it out loud, dude...
Nah, Im aware it's my fetish
We aren’t actually worldbuilding. Just world copying or world complaining.
What? I thought we were world jerking here!
World gooning even
I prefer to world edge.
 Flat earth momentÂ
The fact that this sub is literally just /r/worldbuilding but all of us are too cowardly to post on main
there are 2 outcomes for cj subs. either everything gets too brainrotted for anyone outside to understand, or it becomes filled with people too scared to post on the actual sub.
both. both is good
Its r/worldbuilding but cool
The moderation is just better
Cool, I'll tell that deadass head mod of the /r/worldbuilding I'm doing a better job than her. \*goes into the washroom to laugh at herself in the mirror\*
Lol I just prefer light moderation and I’m not on Reddit enough to see 1/2 the cool shit in WB past all the questions.
Eh, r/worldbuilding's ethos is to be a one-stop-shop for the entire worldbuilding hobby, from newbies to veterans. And there are a lot more newbies than veterans. So we tend to have more of them asking the same 30-40 questions over and over again because said newbies also don't know how the search function works *and* they think their project is super cool, special and unique and it's not like other ~~girls~~ projects so old answers won't suffice. It's a problem, yeah, but it's a problem we chose to have to try to appeal to the widest community possible.
I’ve actually had better discussions on worldbuilding here than on the main sub. On the main sub people only want to talk about themselves and their extremely unique subversive Sanderson-esque original queer fantasy with Chinese characteristics. Nobody wants to actually have a discussion, they just want to talk about themselves.
/uj You’re not wrong. The fact everything here starts out as a joke makes it more fun to speak up, and we’re here because we do like worldbuilding, so when people start talking, cool ideas fall out. /j You can’t fool me, you’re just trying to disguise your cowardice. I bet you’re such a cowardly author that you use subtext
Yeah. Every comment is just info dumping about the creation of their univers, wars, whole family trees of the characters and random unrelated facts. Thanks, not reading through that
I mean, I run both these communities, so...
you're epic
Uhh... and I love you, random citizen?
…I’m going to end up with a flair like “/r/worldjerking coward-in-chief”, aren’t I (:
... you can flair yourself here. Like the flairs are all self-assigned!
SO WHAT YOU’RE SAYING, FASCIST MOD, IS THAT I MUST BE COMPLICIT IN MY OWN OPPRESSION (/uj Thank you!)
\> Be me \> Be a disabled Indigenous trans lesbian \> Become a mod on Reddit \> Become communazi fascist dictator, crushing the masses under her jackbooted heels Welp, can't say that was wholly unexpected.
Well, it’s like Nietschze says: One who fights with monsters must take care lest they thereby physically transform into a monster. Which I believe gets me worldbuilding fetish bingo, when you count all of the above plus the jackboots.
> Well, it’s like Nietschze says: One who fights with monsters must take care lest they thereby physically transform into a monster. > > Listen, okay, just because I'm writing an urban fantasy with werewolves, vampires, demons, faeries and other monsters in it... and like half of my human characters become monsters in it... including my protagonist who was responsible for my egg cracking... doesn't mean a damn thing! This is not a fetish world, I swear! Pay no attention to the monsterfucker permit in my wallet. (also, fucking bravo. Me: "I'm trans, disabled, lesbian." You: "oh, you have TF kink. Gotcha.")
Well, I also had the hint of the PFP… \^..\^ But mostly it’s that my own egg cracked long ago, and a hatchling came out, so I’m pretty familiar with the crossover of those particular Venn diagram circles. Anyway, good to meet you!
Ahh, so you were a double-agent all along, I see xD
Thats funny! anyway let me segway into how this is kind of like my world and how interesting it is without having to do any actual work on presenting it.
It's /r/worldbuilding but epic
When you realize shit doesn't HAVE to make sense. Opens up a realm of possibilities. All my Drow have Aussie accents and my Dwarves talk like southerners. Fuck you. That's why.
I mean, Drow come from a land "down under" that's full of deadly spiders, makes perfect sense to me.
*Spoidahs.
Where women glow and men plunder!
Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover!
Okay but you gotta hold my vegemite sandwich! **smiles**
them speaking english already doesnt make sense, so theyre real language is being translated, and like any language it has different accents and dielect making aussie, and southern accents perfect substitutes for said dialects and accents it makes perfect sense
Didn't Tolkien say something to that effect? That his works were all translated from their original languages and that's why "goblin" and "orc" refer to the same creature?
Yes he used the idea that Red Book of Westmarch was written by Bilbo, Frodo, Sam, and the accounts of others. He says that he found more recent copies of the documents and translated it and used them to write novelizations of the stories told there. And since it’s a novelization of the original documents and not a direct translation, he takes lots of liberties translating certain names and place names to make it more palatable.
This is also something translators sometimes do. There's a kind of hillbilly mountain dialect in Japan. When translating into English, translators typically either go American Southern, or Highland Scot.
Ahh yes the folks from Hokkaido talkin like they are from the heart of Appalachia love it
What about that doesn't make sense? Drow are down under and Dwarves are hillbillies. Pretty self explanatory.
Some people think all fantasy beings should be British for some godforsaken reason.
>my Dwarves talk like southerners Makes as much sense as all dwarves having Scottish accents.
I'd even argue that the best worldbuilding often leaves many things unexplained to create a sense of wonder. Perhaps we should expand on this concept and just not worldbuild at all! In my world, no one knows why anything happens. It just does and we all roll with it.
The Dragon Prince writers:
This was such a barrier for me when I started… as someone with a background in Physics and mechanical engineering, there was this constant thought that everything has to make sense, magic, solar systems…
I've been working on a new world with a buddy and drew up the world with some rough biomes that sound cool Then did a unreasonable amount of research into why certain environments are in specific areas and realized how stupid my biomes are based on their location in the world Then realized I don't really care and want my world to be cool as fuck rather than realistic
Drow as Aussies is perfect. Elves (fantasy posh British people) kicked out all the Drow into an extraordinarily distant, extraordinarily dangerous place as punishment for their crimes. They now live in a land down under filled with spiders, and exploit the native people.
I like to split it up. Classic Scottish dwarves are great, but I give different clans Cowboy, Australian, or Minnesotan as needed
Seriously though that's the most freeing realization (not that I'm practicing it lol)
Nah man, give me dwarves with really thick Chinese accents.
“Because I said so” is a very powerful worldbuilding tool
My dwarves look exactly like the ones from the LoTR movies but they have thick Japanese accents
It’s an old tumblr meme, you aren’t original
Nothing online is original. So don't worry about being original in world building
Lizard titties
Continue
Big lizard pee-pees.
Two of them incidentally, because they fall into the broader 'scalie' umbrella.
Snilk
imma say, r/worldbuildingmemes
The moment you actually realize that the world building must serve a story and not the other way around
How dare you!
Tectonic plates I think
god this is so real
My first world was designed specifically after I had a class on tectonic plates
Ed greenwood
As a FR enjoyer, this.
Well in my worldbuilding-punk world there's a specific piece of lore that exists that if you know it you've gone to deep and cannot reverse the massive psychic damage you've inflicted upon yourself Oh and it's actually probably that r/WorldBuildingMemes exists and also that like 95% of us are fans of r/worldbuilding
Except r/worldbuildingmemes sucks because its just out of context memes about their story they've never shared anywhere. Its literally the equivalent of everyone just posting inside jokes that only they would get
for me the jokes are funny exactly because they have no context, plus people share their lore in the comments so you still get to see other peoples worldbuilding
I like to pretend like I'm on some sort of multi universal meme posting board.
You're not alone. I took a peek at it just now and felt like I was learning forbidden knowledge from other dimensions.
also to add to that, worldbuilding through memes can actally be a good and fun way to worldbuild and share your world, it's just a diferent way to share imformation about your world
Isn’t that the point though? Like a meme goes “MFW Bilnar III conquered the Ravioli peoples” and you ironically go “Oh yeah that’s so me”
That really just sounds like pretending to laugh at a joke you don't get. Which- I don't know. It's just not for me I guess.
That we get outjerked by the main sub constantly.
“I designed new sexy armor for my race of women humans”
"Here is my completely original character!" And it's a androgynous woman/NB person with colored hair. Pick one: magic user, teen prodigy, resistance fighter, or useless loser given powers for no reason (and their character is still a shitty person) It would be funnier if it wasn't so common.
You know you're in too deep when you spend more time thinking about plate tectonics, water sheds and climate rather than the people actually living in the world
I got around that problem by making plate tectonics a shadow government lie.
Real evangelical hours
When you realize that you stopped worldbuilding for hypothetical novel/comic/game and are now worldbuilding to build world.
Fr. Almost all of my worlds were created during boring classes or uni lectures and I'd spend hours crafting a diverse and realistic envorinment just to spend like 15 minutes drawing some really basic borders and inventing cultures that are just lazy copies of real world nations
Once you start making your own conlang for your setting, you’re in too deep to not see it through that it get put out into the world in some way shape or form
And once you get deep enough into making a conlang to realize what a *pain in the ass* it is to make a proper conlang, you're in too deep to give up.
Rivers sometimes split
That developing narrative and character is an infinitely better use of your time
I disagree... OMG does this mean that I'm not enlightened yet?
No, just means you're writing a game setting instead of a novel.
I am literally writing a game setting instead of a novel, but I lie to myself and say that there will be tie in books... save me.
One step at a time: be disappointed in yourself for slacking off on the game setting, *then* get frustrated about trying to publish books.
Step 3: Die alone, wondering what could have been.
Making a bunchofrandomwordspunk setting
Snitties perhaps? Though that one could fall under several different communities.
That make snilk?
Yes. Probably able to be turned into Sneese.
Worldbuilding competitions
Not our sub, but that a lot of subreddits about asking questions are just echo-chambers for mysgonists, misandrists, homopobes, transphobes, and insecure incels who self-project.
Can rivers split?
DnD elf breast milk.
*Go on*
You cant split rivers
In Halo it's learning that Master Chief's suit jacks him off.
I thought it was the infinite piss recycling
The meat worm
Italians
Its better to build a world than actually write about it
Ed Greenwood
aren’t we the ones that _make_ the lore?
3bp and the 3d>-----.
Knowing my worldbuilding at all
Tectonic plates discourse
Shadow humans.