Ontploffing Boer @ontploffing@writing.exchange

Of course, if you give a worldbuilder a building, he'll want to make a city. Which is why I'm now dinking about with #Leaflet again, to make a slippy map showing all the different approximate sites I'm considering for placing the city that holds this convention center.
#worldbuilding

Imagine a modern pyramid, glass-sided, in the middle of a major city, on the waterfront.

How steep are its sides?

This is my present #worldbuilding/#writing dilemma. If it's too steep it looks weird; if it's too big the lower floors' interior volume is unwieldy and outside window-walls are unusably shallow.

Please comment; this is too free-form for a poll.

A heist in which the victims's shredder blades are replaced with rollers, so that papers fed into the shredder are passed, unmutiliated. #worldbuilding

Random #worldbuilding detail free for the taking: A city where all buildings have doors painted solid colors to reflect their public usage. Homes and private spaces have doors of unpainted wood or other materials.

I'm going to regret this, but I'm now seriously considering writing up a Bionicle-based neoreligion as procrastination from all my other work. https://irradiate-space.tumblr.com/post/189302661988/bionicle-as-a-neoreligion #worldbuilding #bionicle #religion

Tooting to save the link: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1612/1612.03238.pdf #worldbuilding

An exhaustively-plotted, poorly-researched, somewhat-thought-out delve into cultures and memes forming the Hives in #TerraIgnota, with a particular focus on the SF Bay Area memespace: https://irradiate.space/worldbuilding/towards-utopia-terra-ignota/

A #worldbuilding post in which I play with #Cytoscape.

In a village where the previous toot's approach to blood oaths is the standard, a child is born missing a limb. What does this effect have on their perception of the child? Is the child perpetually forsworn, or is the child held as incapable of swearing oaths? #worldbuilding

A #worldbuilding document for a syncretist religion focused on #Angels as fragments of a diminished God: https://irradiate.space/worldbuilding/an-angelic-religion/

Free idea:
a setting with blood oaths, where if you break the oath your forsworn may take from you the limb from which the blood was drawn: prick your finger and they take the first joint of the finger, cut your palm and they take your hand, slash your breast and they take your torso.
#WritingPrompts #writing #worldbuilding

Charlie Stross, again with the tropes, this time as a taxonomy of cliches. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/03/towards-a-taxonomy-of-cliches-.html
If you liked things in the "Falsehoods about names" genre, collected at https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood, then the antipope link above is for you. #worldbuilding

Map editing question: Is there a tool that will let me draw lines across multiple separate images, as seen in this screenshot? The images are separate tiles of a #leaflet.js #map, and I'd like continuity of linework between them without having to count pixels. Preferably without having to manually place images. #DND #worldbuilding

Idea inspired by https://twitter.com/Orbitaldropkick/status/1083146823852875776 : A human character who had their head removed; their system rearranged to place the brain and other important bits elsewhere in their body; their "face" presented via hologram and the usual senses replaced with something akin to DND's blindsight https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Blindsight_and_Blindsense via other sensors. #worldbuilding

Got some of that #worldbuilding about a magical-mecha-based replacement for Quidditch written up: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/atwc86/d_saturday_munchkinry_thread/eh6zyyi/

How would you, a student, get up to shenanigans in #Hogwarts with magical mecha? I'm very curious as to what you'd do. #HarryPotter #HPMOR

What if that one "Youkoso Jyapariparke" fan-dubbed Destiny 2 trailer described a race of mechanocytic beings that must maintain coordination in order to not fall apart? In this #worldbuilding post, I elaborate upon the ideas, and suggest some video game mechanics. https://irradiate.space/worldbuilding/dancing-robot-warriors/ #CreativeCommons

#worldbuilding idea: a religion whose holy text comes as a box set, where the box has room for two books but only one book is in it.

Everyone knew that the pharmacist worked at CVS; their devotion was draped around their neck. It was a custom-knit scarf, a foot for every year of service, carefully styled to look like one of that pharmacy's notorious receipts. #tootfic #worldbuilding

Consider: Thor, God of Thunder, but his damage type changes. Instead of starting with Mjolnir, upgrading to raw lightning, and finally getting the Stormbreaker axe-hammer, Thor starts with the Gjallarhorn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gjallarhorn, upgrades to claps and yells, and finally wields Sexy Sax Man's Saxophone #worldbuilding #marvel

Someone's blog post about the history of spaceship design: https://canmom.tumblr.com/post/172819083352/which-way-up-is-your-spaceship-a-history #scifi #worldbuilding

Another #Gundam 0083 #worldbuilding detail that I'm lowkey amazed by: in zero gravity environments where men wear magboots, women in formal contexts still wear heels.

Now there are three interpretations for this. The uncharitable one is that it's character design sexism. The middling one is in-universe sexism. The charitable one is that women wear magnetic heels and have developed stupendous calves to compensate for nonexistent ankle support.