#and that doesnt rly bode well for claiming to teach ppl worldbuilding.. | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

moodr1ng · 1 year

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worldbuilding tips/videos/articles will be like "this is genre-neutral! you can use this to build any world just ignore what doesnt apply :)" and then exclusively include stuff about building magic systems and fantasy elements and sci-fi tech and aliens. like thats not genre-neutral thats exclusively speculative fiction of a fairly standard variety (tropey high fantasy and sci-fi only) 😭

#97 #me when my worldbuilding does involve magic but these things also do not help bc they STILL always rely on trope-following #like. if the only way to worldbuild magic is to create a magic system that has magic users and rules for using magic #then youve already forgotten entire other ways of worldbuilding #(such as like.. magic existing within the environment and not being used by people or only as a fringe practice?)#and that doesnt rly bode well for claiming to teach ppl worldbuilding..#like the thing that bothers me ig isnt just like “oh this isnt useful to me personally” its more like.#you make so many limiting assumptions about what can and cannot even BE built into a fictional world before you even start anything #and if you are this limited in your scope and imagination and creativity you are not good at teaching worldbuilding?#if your advice hinges on the assumption that everyone ever is just creating a slightly different version of either tolkien or star wars...

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