Worldbuilding

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A Lemmy community for worldbuilders.

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Rules

Regarding morals and politics

It's pretty much impossible and bad moderation to exclude content with a particular moral or political message, but make sure that all agendas and messages take a backseat to actual worldbuilding.

It's fine to create a world that happens to promote a particular message, but not to create a world for a particular message.

This will be a very subjective rule but at least make sure that you have some sort of substance behind your world that isn't blatantly pushing an agenda.

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All posts require context

Users can submit text in addition to a link. You can include links within the text body for the purpose of providing additional context, but the post itself must contain some level of context to help readers understand what they are looking at.

It doesn't need to be super extensive every time. A minimum of a few sentences that give a rough idea of the setting is all that is required.

It could be useful to write and save context that can be copied and pasted in order to provide more detail about your world for each of your posts

Be polite and constructive

If someone's work is bad, make sure that your response are polite and constructive if you want to mention it.

Sensitive topics

Sensitive and heavy subject matter is allowed, although it is suggested to use content warnings depending on the content and context.

Do not misuse NSFW tagging. NSFW tagging is for sexual or graphic content and should not lose it's meaning and consequently its protection. Please be specific when tagging sensitive subjects in the title.

Various negative topics and forms of bigotry are allowed to be contained within worlds, as long as it is clear from context or later developments within the story that they are not beliefs held by the author.

Personal opinions and morals

Personal opinions and morals are allowed as long as they are not the sole focus. The world must contain content and substance beyond simply being a soapbox to advance personal opinions.

Be original

While it's a common trope that writers should "steal" as many ideas as possible, please make sure to make everything your own whether it's from other works or historical sources.

Current events (within 20 years) fall under sensitive topics and special caution is advised.

Fanfiction and fan works

Fanfiction is generally not allowed except in the case of open ended works that encourage player worldbuilding.

AI creation policy

AI is allowed unless it creates content that is substantially similar to unpermitted work. Anyone asserting that AI use is somehow theft will be required to cite literally every single work they have ever experienced and may be banned for transphobia against AI.

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"The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight."

In the setting I created, there is an immaterial spirit realm. The religious theory of schizophrenia is that the soul-self within the shadow realm literally becomes "lost at sea" in an endless void of unconstructed symbolism and narratives. The islands are existing constructs.

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The Shturmovik Revolution started in 48,775 with the beginning of violence by some accounts going back to 48,770. It was fought against the tsarist and atheist Bolshevik Party. The communists were motivated by the Transformatsiya religion that alleged that the troubles of its followers were caused by living in a purposeless technocratic society where people were separated from God. The communists consider capitalism to be a form of separation from God and the corporations and leaders to be idols.

Transformatsiya is centered around the religious revelations of the spiritual entity Tanisha Reznova who was formed in 2004 as an amalgamation from the thoughts and ideas of the Ancient Merikans. She was created in the form of a trans lesbian Red Army girl who initially hated Ancient Merika. Tanisha appeared in dreams and psychedelic experiences to the early communists and revealed God to them. She would also appear in the dreams of "unhatched" atheist conservatives and attempt to "hatch" them by revealing God to them and informing them that the reason they were depressed is because they were separated from God.

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You can post about anything you want from it or give a general overview.

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Tanisha is the final prophet of Transformatsiya who provided the revelations that created it. She is a spiritual entity and the counterpart to Elisa Kyle, who was created as an amalgamation in the minds of the Ancient Merikans.

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Andrei Obolensky is the first transhuman president and a former slave who was elected in 50,016 after announcing plans to run as a shitpost.

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The Volkshturm is a radical militia and activist group of the communist faction. They are often seen at protests and providing security for religious groups.

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Transformatsiya is an Abrahamic (heh, once you get into it) religion that started around 48,000 and seeks to emancipate "slaves" and claims that the state can be abolished through submission to God, which will create the structure needed to exist in a stateless society.