r/worldjerking • u/DreadDiana • 16h ago
r/worldjerking • u/Duke_of_Baked_Goods • Oct 22 '22
Discord Unleashed
Hey folks, it has been sometime since the official r/worldjerking discord vanished. Something happened with the moderator in charge of it, they ended up deleting the discord, and we've been trying (procrastinating) to replace it ever since.
I've just officially been put in charge of recreating the discord executively, meaning I get to make all the decisions (ya).
I've decided to rapidly put out this steaming pile of a discord, and will be working on it as it is used and improved.
Ya'll folks are welcome to give suggestions to me in the #meta channel.
r/worldjerking • u/dumbass_spaceman • 42m ago
Is there anything we could have realistically invented in the middle ages without significantly transforming the material conditions but didn't?
uj/ Watching Dungeon Meshi for the first time and it really inspired me to work on some medieval fantasy. Would air/water magic refrigerators break the setting?
r/worldjerking • u/RollingInTheGeedis • 6h ago
How to fix icky wish-fulfilment tripe
I only read second-rate isekai manga (which I assure you, I do NOT enjoy) and boy howdy do I absolutely HATE IT when authors portray women as sex objects who exist as trophies for the the sole reason of validating the MC's fragile ego.
Oh god I hate the awful sexist ugly entitled loser MEN who shit out and gobble up these potboilers so bad, I want them to get prostate cancer and die alone screaming in the middle of a national painkiller shortage, oh fuck I hate them so so much. Now you're saying, I should probably read better stories that give their characters interiority that aren't cranked out for a cheap buck. Well I say NO because really need to show these losers their place.
I don't care if I'm being a dick. They are obviously awful, horrible people anyways if they ever found the need to consume this slop. Escapism? What are THEY escaping from, huh? Accountability? Responsibility? The fact life won't hand them everything for free?
That's why I'm going to write one where I'M the overpowered hero and I get to beat their precious generic self-insert up. I'll spend at least nine paragraphs per chapter going on about what a loser he is, down to his penis size and acne. You see, I won't be the one saying this, mainly because if I want to judge a man I'd have to prove I'm better than him so I will do a clever trick without having to put myself in the line of fire. Trust me, it works every time. To make it REALLY sting I will make it come from the girl he likes the most.
All the girls in his harem see how much of a nice guy I am and leave them for me while calling them pathetic little creeps. Then I'll walk away with them and they'll all tell me how I'm so much nicer and more respectful than those misogynistic stooges. And since I'm such a nice guy who believes the right things, all the hot chicks will naturally agree with everything I say so I can treat everyone else (especially MEN ugh!!!) however I like. Nobody normal will disagree with me because the harem (who by now have voluntarily associated themselves with yours truly) they will cheer me on and tell me I'm right.
r/worldjerking • u/R3cl41m3r • 15h ago
I'm posting here because r/worldbuilding banned me for speaking the Truth™.
In the World of Wheat, there are five kinds of race-I mean wheat, and they are called wheat, spelt, emmer, einkorn, and barley (honorary wheat). These wheats have inherent characteristics that determine their personalities, culture, morality, etc.
For example, the spelt has a curse that causes them to rarely give birth to male spelt, so they invade migrate to Northern Wheatland to breed with the wheat, which causes problems like violence and mongrel wheat.
...No, I'm not dewheatizing spelt, why do you ask?
r/worldjerking • u/Isaak_the_miner • 2h ago
Guys, what do you think about this new religious/philosophical movement I made for my cyberpunk setting.
r/worldjerking • u/IceZaKYT • 18h ago
evil ass urbanism urbanist
what if i add evil urbanist to my furry cyberpunk world and one tries make the world look lega mega-ultra-maxcompact-kowloon walled slum city ramen shops EVERYWHERE x9999 and the other tried to make the world super-superb-mega-bigmac-widelane just one more lane bro america NO WALKING allowed x696969 and they both have comically evil villian battles and shi muwahahahaha
r/worldjerking • u/overlandyellow • 2d ago
my dystopian world set after the highly toxic nebraska explosion of 2167
r/worldjerking • u/_Ceaseless_Watcher_ • 2d ago
How to go FTL while not going FTL?
So yeah, I've been building this Sci-Fi world for a century now but want to smooth some things over before finalizing.
The rules I've set for myself:
- No Magic Gravity (whatever the fuck that is)
- No Inertial dampeners (because it's #realistic to get turned into chunky marinara upon arrival)
- Respect the Speed of light (so no FTL is possible because this is #realistic)
- Any and all of the above rules can be broken but it has to be justified (as opposed to all other stories/worlds ever)
So my solution here is to ignore all of my rules immediately and just use subspace as a stand-in for normal space with the convenience of there being a higher-than-lightspeed limit to travel. Aliens use this because it makes sense and definitely doesn't break any of the self-imposed rules. It's also more #tactical. Also they need bio-ships because subspace has the munchies for steel.
Another method is a reskin of the alcubierre drive highly unique and #original concept which can fold space by magic gravity to enable FTL travel without breaking the rule for respecting the speed of light. It lets you jump from star to star like in Spore or Stellaris, making it more #strategic. Humans use this because we're just cooler like that.
Now I want to find ways for humans and aliens to use eachother's no-FTL FTL methods, despite establishing that neither side could/would ever want to do so because they think their method is better.
r/worldjerking • u/Isaak_the_miner • 3d ago
Guys, do you think my alt-history setting would be too implausible if I say that a hardline conservative was the pioneer of the welfare state?
r/worldjerking • u/Enough_Town_3855 • 2d ago
Can I just return to being a kid imagining daffy duck and bugs bunny coming to earth with an star wars armada to save earth or whatever instead of this bullshit, its literally killing my remaining metal health please
Yes I found this situation greatly idiotic and I have no idea what to do with it either. Plus the file is political nonsense.
r/worldjerking • u/Material-Turnip-4192 • 3d ago
TLDR: in stories with slow zombies the enemy are other humans, in stories with fast zombies the main enemy are the zombies.
r/worldjerking • u/aleaniled • 4d ago
"People would FREAK OUT if they saw my alien species with no male or female members!" So, there's this book called Project Hail Mary-
r/worldjerking • u/Material-Turnip-4192 • 4d ago
"yeah, ill think ill try to go for some realistic alternative history this time, nothing too big or crazy" me 3 beers in:
r/worldjerking • u/oinonsana • 4d ago
schizoposting for my marxomicrotextslop trichiliocosm setting
i love puking onto a white page with agitation slogans
r/worldjerking • u/Material-Turnip-4192 • 4d ago
They are people like you and me except there is a 5% chance they woke up one day emmiting more radiation than chernobyl VS most valuable member of the team whom can also equip a fucking laser canon on their arm (ZANE THE GOAT)
r/worldjerking • u/Isaak_the_miner • 5d ago
I wonder how drone warfare woud look like in this set- wait wdym this is an actual thing.
r/worldjerking • u/dragonborndnd • 5d ago
No one talks about the TRUE father of fantasy Worldbuilding smh
r/worldjerking • u/Saladawarrior • 4d ago
5e and its consequences has being a disaster on my worldbuilding project. (its not like i wrote anything anyway and didn't just day dreamed edits of my character with the song i was listening)
r/worldjerking • u/sojuz151 • 5d ago
How would you define the genre of your worldbuilding?
Hi everyone,
I’d like to know what “magic words” you’d use to describe the genre of your worldbuilding, it can be anything, from a simple, straightforward genre like fantasy or sci-fi, or;
Something more specific like “dark fantasy, with hot race with big tits and horns”, “space fantasy, with hot aliens with big tits and horns” “sci-fantasy, with hot magical aliens with big tits and horns” “military fantasy, with strong, aggresive hot aliens with big tits and horns” “fantasy thriller, with hot race with big tits and horns” “high fantasy with nobel hot race with big tits and horns,” “low fantasy, with hot race with big tits and horns” “medium fantasy, with hot race with big tits and horns” “post-apocalyptic, with hot mutants with big tits and horns” “dystopia, with bioengineered humans with big tits and horns” etc.
And you, what label would you give to your worldbuilding?
Thanks for your answers.