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The Worldbuilding Internet Library
The Worldbuilding Internet Library is a directory of web resources for fantasy writers and other people who make art about imaginary or historical places.

Whether you’re looking for an overview of how climate works or an exhaustive discussion of eighteenth-century undergarments, you can use the Worldbuilding Internet Library’s collection of web resources to aide you in creating rich, realistic settings.

All resources are selected and evaluated by a library science graduate and novelist (me). Frustrated with unreliable Google searches and the discovery that there is not actually a Wikipedia article about everything, this collection started as a personal research library to supplement trips to the brick-and-mortar variety.

I am unable to guarantee the complete accuracy of each source, but they were selected with thought and care. I recommend that you always check multiple sources, ideally primary sources.
worldbuilding  writing 
4 days ago by ruricamhari
The Wolrdbuilding Internet Library
The Worldbuilding Internet Library is a directory of web resources for fantasy writers and other people who make art about imaginary or historical places.

Whether you’re looking for an overview of how climate works or an exhaustive discussion of eighteenth-century undergarments, you can use the Worldbuilding Internet Library’s collection of web resources to aide you in creating rich, realistic settings.

All resources are selected and evaluated by a library science graduate and novelist (me). Frustrated with unreliable Google searches and the discovery that there is not actually a Wikipedia article about everything, this collection started as a personal research library to supplement trips to the brick-and-mortar variety.
worldbuilding  writing  reference 
7 days ago by kuiskata
Water on Air, an Avatar: Last Airbender and Temeraire crossover fanfic by esama - FanFiction.Net
Why his father bothered being surprised when he went to sea, William wasn't sure. Everyone else, from his mother to distant cousin whom he had only met once and to all their neighbours and vague acquaintances knew that it was only matter of time; ever since he had first made water bend to his will at the age of three, it had been expected. After all, most all male waterbenders went to the sea. It was only matter of course. [8918]
fic  b:hismajesty'sdragon  au:fusion  ca:avatarthelastairbender  c:hmd:laurence  c:hmd:temeraire  c:hmd:tharkay  theme:sliceoflife  worldbuilding  theme:friendship  theme:team!  genre:gen  rating:pg-13  ficfromThePit  for-kayla 
7 days ago by scorpionvoices
Metropolis M » Magazine » 2011 No5 » dOCUMENTA (13) Thinks Ahead
"A collection of notes is a curious archive of attempts. Attempts to understand the language we use, the logic we trace, and the images we generate to understand life today. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, the artistic director of dOCUMENTA (13), would say that these notebooks are “worlding” exercises, weaving and stringing together different potentials.’"

"we are really interested in exploring artistic research. Artists, like scientists, are pioneers when it comes to creating new forms of connectivity between worlds that seem to have nothing in common with each other. They embark on the endless study of everything that contributes to different formulations of what we call reality. Taking artistic research seriously means accepting disorganisation within the relationship between disciplines that deal with contemporary art. The rise of cultural studies, critical theory, and the many variations of post-Marxist understanding of the relationship between art and economics is the fruit of…"
sketchbooks  worldbuilding  worlding  sensemaking  meaningmaking  meaning  cv  howwethink  howwecreate  howwelearn  howwework  research  art  multidisciplinary  crossdisciplinary  crosspollination  interdisciplinary  interdisciplinarity  artisticresearch  connections  potentials  sketching  drawing  language  logic  deschooling  unschooling  glvo  notebooks  2012  carolynchristov-bakargiev  chusmartinez  documenta(13)  documenta  understanding  notetaking  notes  learning  from delicious
9 days ago by robertogreco
Gordian by fresne (Sherlock (TV), Sherlock/John, 16 000 words)
On any given day, Sherlock might come out of the bathroom smelling like an Alpha on the hunt (Alpha #8) or an Omega in heat (Omega #9), a Beta brooding (Beta #3), or like no gender at all. The last one was his actual scent, which wasn't so much scentless as confusing. At least in an adult.

If Sherlock and John were the sort of people to read Mills and Boon novels, they could have said that what occurred was because destiny intervened and set two destined lovers in the one true pairings path.

It was the lasagne.

// A really interesting take on the alpha/beta/omega universe, fun worldbuilding.
fic  sherlockbbc  au  alpha/beta/omega  worldbuilding  sherlock/john  dubcon  knotting  mpreg  nc-17  by:fresne 
14 days ago by inna
Clive Thompson on the Importance of Fan Fiction
I quite like the word 'paracosmic'. Mind you, I'm not sure quite how directly the idea relates to fanfiction - I'm fairly sure it's just worldbuilding in general. I was going to say I remember doing something like that as a child, but of course I'm still doing it - there's a whole history to the Bright Angel universe that hasn't, and may never be, told, but the point is, it's there.
fan-fiction  worldbuilding  fiction  writing  imagination. 
16 days ago by engles
Nine Tenths of the Law - bendingsignpost - Sherlock (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
Summary: John knows what's his - of course he'll kill for it. (Modern vampire AU)


SPOILERS:



IMO: Wow, the best vampire fanfic in this fandom I've read! And one of the best in every fandom I've passed through. Instead of annoying me, your vampires fascinate me because the world-building is soo good and plausible, and described just so to be suggestive, but not in too much detail, so as to leave us the construction of the whole puzzle from the pieces you scatter here and there for your readers.
Such a fabulous story!
fandom:sherlock-bbc  vampires  author:bedingsignpost  !_brilliant  wip  ao3  worldbuilding 
5 weeks ago by Harpijka

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