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Socialist Worldbuilding

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Worldbuilding is the process in fiction writing where one develops the setting, background details, in-universe history, lore, basically anything establishes and/or describes the universe in which a fictional story takes place is worldbuilding. Either done in order to create a more compelling and internally consistent plot or just for fun!

This is an explicitly socialist/Marxist space, but the fictional worlds you post does not have to specifically be socialist or leftist worlds, any is fine as long as it follows the broader Lemmygrad rules. Likewise with any genre or medium that your world is portrayed as.

Any type of post relating to worldbuilding is welcome here, including sharing lore that you've developed or generally talking about your world, questions, discussion and advice, writing prompts, etc.

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Welcome to [email protected]! This is a place to share, discuss, and develop fictional worlds for writing, visual art, game development, or just creating them for fun! Worldbuilding is an important part of creating fiction and I'd love to see what my comrades have created! It doesn't have to specifically be socialist or leftist worlds, any genre is fine as long as the broader Lemmygrad rules are followed, though I suspect a lot of us will be posting about socialist worlds.

I really hope I can help kick off a socialist writing community on Lemmygrad!

Also, if anyone who's a long-time Lemmygrad user wants to help moderate, hit me up!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Cool idea, good luck!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How do I avoid getting doxxed? I have a couple of worldbuilding pieces, but unfortunately I've shared them elsewhere, and due to the unfortunate habit of oversharing, it all can be traced (pretty easily) to my IRL self. I'd like to avoid it, but also to share with the comrades for criticism and assistance

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've tried to separate my real identity and lemmygrad identity by creating different worlds for the different personas, but I do have a tendency to overshare, too. So I just cross my fingers and hope I'm never important enough to land on somebody's radar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Guess I'll do the same!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is unfortunately something I worry about as well. Luckily the only accounts I shared my words with is not tied to my real identity, but yeah it could be a pretty big issue if you don't want people to know you're communist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's less about people learning I'm a communist, and more about redditoids and general libs from the fediverse finding me and doing what these types do. Maybe if I change some of the names

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's a concern for me too. I haven't experienced any personal attacks from Lemmy or Reddit but you never know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds cool!

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