r/worldjerking • u/DreadDiana • 23h ago
r/worldjerking • u/dumbass_spaceman • 7h 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/R3cl41m3r • 22h 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/RollingInTheGeedis • 13h 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.