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NA Nazli Aydin (Misselbereth) · ILLUMINATION Scholar

Ventilation in the Vales of Anduin: Or, How to Prevent Your Wooden Hall from Becoming a Bonfire

A Comprehensive (and Slightly Neurotic) Guide to Fire Safety Engineering for the Discerning Beorning Homeowner; Or, Why Beorn Was a Genius…

Jul 20, 2026 · 8 min read · 552 claps paywalled #architecture #history #tolkien

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RO Rosie Eldritch

Writing: How I Build a World

I wanted to share something I’ve been dying to share for quite sometime and I’ve decided to share my template. I leave you to decide to put…

Jul 17, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #writing-tips #creative-writing #writing

CO Connlyn Sinclair · Worldbuilding Wednesday

Magical School or Magical Club?

The worldbuilding genius that is the premise of The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya

Jul 09, 2026 · 3 min read · 72 claps paywalled #anime #fantasy #books

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JF J F McGuire

The End of All Things.

A god sat alone upon the mountaintop, waiting for another of his kind. The sun set over Ysceod as it did in any other corner of the…

Jul 07, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps #fantasy #fiction #worldbuilding

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AM A. MacHaru · Worldbuilding Wednesday

Why Some Places in a Story Feel Real and Others Don’t

On the difference between a setting and a place that feels alive

Jul 06, 2026 · 4 min read · 81 claps #worldbuilding #fantasy-writing #creative-writing

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YO You're Welcome To Try

DND: It’s About Time, Again.

The Greatest Magic System of All: Time

Jul 05, 2026 · 7 min read · 10 claps #dungeons-and-dragons #game-design #creative-writing

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AU Augusto La Fere

RPG: O mestre e o mundo

Na tradição do RPG de mesa, a figura do mestre acumulou expectativas distintas. Ele aparece associado à condução da sessão, ao uso das…

Jul 03, 2026 · 10 min read · 0 claps #rpg #mestre #worldbuilding

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TO Todd Heldt · ILLUMINATION Book Chapters

Ashes of a Dark Harvest

Welcome to Sulemanrule, an epic choose-your-own adventure.

Jul 03, 2026 · 3 min read · 50 claps #interactive-fiction #dark-fantasy #choose-your-own-adventure

VL Vlad Pandelea

How to Design Skill-Stealing Power Systems for LitRPG and Fantasy

One of the biggest challenges in progression fantasy and LitRPG is making character growth feel exciting throughout an entire story or…

Jun 29, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #game-design #litrpg #fantasy-writing

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AM Amara Eden · 404: Geek Not Found

Beautiful, But Distant: Horizon Zero Dawn’s Missed Storytelling Potential

Warning: this article contains minor spoilers for Horizon Zero Dawn.

Jun 27, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #videogames #storytelling #games

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SP Spiderwoman Diaries: Weaving Wonderworld

maiam Releases "Balancing Energies" A 27-Song Musical Journey Exploring the Practice for Inner Peace

A musical exploration of balancing life’s energies through healing, reflection, forgiveness, and courageous action.

Jun 27, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #healing #joy #music

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DA Daley W. · Worldbuilding Wednesday

✨Mapping out stars, circuits, and ley lines✨

June 2026 recommendations, resources, and rants for fantasy and sci-fi writers.

Jun 24, 2026 · 3 min read · 101 claps #worldbuilding #fantasy #science-fiction

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MI Missizz Puff 👽 · The Missizz Puff™ Planet 🪐

Baby’s First Heartbeat 💓

From Painting to Pulse

Jun 23, 2026 · 5 min read · 50 claps paywalled #animation #edm #worldbuilding

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AT Atena Leitner

Brand Strategy is Secretly Worldbuilding

The hidden overlap between lore, storytelling and brand strategy.

Jun 19, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps #brand-strategy #worldbuilding #branding

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AM A. MacHaru · Worldbuilding Wednesday

Eight Years of Building The Shift of Times

What I know now that I didn’t know at the beginning.

Jun 17, 2026 · 5 min read · 90 claps #worldbuilding #writing-life #creative-process

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BE Ben Copeland · Worldbuilding Wednesday

The Mythology Of The Batman

How the story of the Dark Knight’s world defies all superhero tropes to create a modern legend

Jun 17, 2026 · 6 min read · 150 claps #superheroes #dc-comics #comics

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UT Utibe Essien

How I Turned a Concept Into an Ability: A Practical Breakdown

Anyone Can Do This!

Jun 17, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #concept-design #creative-thinking #idea-generation

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AL Alex Rowe · Analog Stick

I Love Fictional Arcade Games

One of my favorite world building concepts in video games is when unique in-universe arcade games show up. I just love the notion that game…

Jun 15, 2026 · 7 min read · 209 claps paywalled #gaming #videogames #nostalgia

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OR Orin Sinh

Planetary Photo Index (Public Access Feed)

An expedition to map the unseen edges of a fully connected world.

Jun 15, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #futurism #transparency #worldbuilding

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13 13Letterz_Writes

How a Song Inspired an Entire Fantasy Kingdom…

Every story starts somewhere,

Jun 12, 2026 · 1 min read · 1 claps #fantasy #worldbuilding #kingdom

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LU Luana Cavalcante Farias

A Fisiologia do Morto que Voltou: Uma Teoria sobre Como o Vampiro Funciona

Luana Farias e Emanuel Martins

Jun 11, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #vampiros #viral-vampires #vampirology

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CO Connlyn Sinclair · Worldbuilding Wednesday

Kamen Rider And Rorschach Are Opposite Ends Of A Spectrum

What two of the most famous non-Marvel heroes teach us about the art of superhero worldbuilding

Jun 09, 2026 · 4 min read · 150 claps paywalled #superheroes #comic-books #comics

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TH The Way Teller

The Aetheric Emporium

Reader’s Guide

Jun 06, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #aetheric-emporium #mythopoesis #worldbuilding

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LO Lorenzo Bland

Hue and The Discovery of Manipo — Building a Spiritual World-Building Universe

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Jun 05, 2026 · 2 min read · 101 claps paywalled #worldbuilding #christianity #science-fiction

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ZE Zeest Zulfiqar · Weave It Together

Ready for Some Weave News?

Hi, people, and I’m so happy you’ve clicked over to read the Weave News for the month of May (and before). Thank you for joining the…

Jun 01, 2026 · 2 min read · 700 claps #fiction #fiction-series #worldbuilding

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BA Bahram Hooshyar Yousefi, Dr. techn.

Daddy’s Home: Designing a Board Game from a Fictional Nightmare

How a strange prop from a horror-comedy series became a playable tabletop prototype

May 30, 2026 · 6 min read · 1 claps paywalled #board-game-design #game-design #tabletop-game-design

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CH Christa J Nutter

Combrian Qors — Published 17 October 2023 — Current Blog Posts

Article Written: 11 April 1453

May 29, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #fantasy #science-fiction #science-fantasy

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TO Tony Atkinson · Worldbuilding Wednesday

Questions Fantasy Authors Should Have Answers To

Because readers are always going to ask them

May 29, 2026 · 4 min read · 296 claps paywalled #worldbuilding #fantasy #humour

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TH The Midnight Rewatch

Dorohedoro’s world is so unhinged it feels alive

Three realms. A man with a lizard head. A mystery so stupidly weird and complex I couldn’t spoil it for you even if I tried.

May 28, 2026 · 6 min read · 2 claps #dark-fantasy #worldbuilding #dorohedoro

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BE Behind The Pen

Lore

Obtained from the Department of Anomalous Phenomena ’s Office of records

May 27, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps #lore #worldbuilding #anthropology

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DA Daley W. · Worldbuilding Wednesday

✨Worldbuilding Wednesday is growing✨

May 2026 recommendations, resources, and rants for fantasy and sci-fi writers.

May 27, 2026 · 3 min read · 110 claps #writing #worldbuilding #fantasy

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AM A. MacHaru · Worldbuilding Wednesday

How Do You Build a World That Has No Magic System?

On science that whispers, strange objects, and worlds that reveal themselves slowly.

May 26, 2026 · 3 min read · 101 claps #worldbuilding #fantasy-writing #storytelling

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KE Kevin Pauley

Terra Concordia’s Architecture of Settlement

This is the fourth in the Terra Concordia series — the result of one autistic man’s “mental palace” run amok. It became an annotated…

May 26, 2026 · 6 min read · 51 claps #urban-design #regenerative-agriculture #cli-fi

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TH The Legend of Lumani

The Legend of Lumani — An African-Mythological Epic Is Coming

Ten years after the fall of a kingdom, a quiet 10-year-old boy works in a slave camp under a conqueror’s banner.

May 26, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #africanmythology #fantasy #fiction

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CH Christa J Nutter

Trouble in Rakara — Published 17 October 2023 — Current Blog Posts

Scene Written: 3 March 1453

May 25, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps #fantasy #science-fiction #science-fantasy

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SH Shrey Solanki

Journey To Bugo — 1

Contents

May 25, 2026 · 79 min read · 0 claps #fantasy #fiction #worldbuilding

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CH Christa J Nutter

Commonwealth Qors — Published 17 October 2023 — Current Blog Posts

Article Written: 19 February 1453

May 24, 2026 · 8 min read · 0 claps #fantasy #science-fiction #science-fantasy

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NE nelfia

The Witness, makhluk yang mungkin saja benar-benar ada

ini dimulai dari pertanyaan yang mungkin pernah terlintas sekali dua kali di kepalamu, apa yang terjadi setelah kita mati, bukan dalam arti…

May 24, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #philosophy #worldbuilding #creative-writing

ME Meta Essay Writer

The Victorian Cradle: A Treatise on John Watson’s Mastery of Regeneration

We know John H. Watson as the loyal friend and steady army surgeon, but we also knew that his time at St. Bartholomew’s and his empirical…

May 23, 2026 · 13 min read · 0 claps #scifi #worldbuilding #ai-writing

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FE Femme In Shadows

How Childhood Homes Become Haunted Without Any Ghosts

I live in the waterfront district of Dariya City — a city built on desert, where heat presses against our skin like punishment for living…

May 19, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #microfiction #fiction-short-story #short-story-writing

AL Alejandra Soto Priego

Haugan — The City of Memories

In the world of After the Shadow, Haugan is far more than the capital of the wolf nation.

May 18, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #worldbuilding #fantasy-worldbuilding

JA James Taylor

AI Dungeons — Voyage: The System beyond the Shores

For more AI Dungeon: Voyage content… The Benevolent DM

May 17, 2026 · 8 min read · 0 claps #ai-dungeon #game-ai #worldbuilding

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AN Anushka Mathur

When “Safety” Becomes Conditional: Power, Access, and the Paradox of Collective Care

A speculative enquiry into what happens when kindness is scored and safety becomes political

May 14, 2026 · 16 min read · 255 claps #speculative-design #service-design #design-futures

SM Smriti B

Beyond the Gap

How a speculative world turns breaks into evidence, and at what cost

May 14, 2026 · 15 min read · 5 claps #worldbuilding #speculative-design #design-futures

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AM A. MacHaru

I’m Tired of Chosen Ones. So I Built a Different Kind of World.

A quiet multiverse about friendship, hidden worlds, and ordinary people who choose to look closer.

May 13, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps #worldbuilding #portal-fantasy #coming-of-age

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CO Connlyn Sinclair · Worldbuilding Wednesday

When Urban Fantasy Abandons Fantasy

Ryogo Narita’s urban fantasy slowly stopped calling things supernatural

May 04, 2026 · 4 min read · 78 claps #anime #urban-fantasy #writing-tips

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LM L. M. Hawkes

AI Keeps Putting Katanas in Rome

It’s not random.

May 02, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #artificial-intelligence #game-design #historical-fiction

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DA Daley W. · Worldbuilding Wednesday

✨Witch brooms and space ships✨

April 2026 recommendations, resources, and rants for fantasy and sci-fi writers.

Apr 29, 2026 · 3 min read · 121 claps #worldbuilding #fantasy #science-fiction

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JA James Hopper

Beyond the Map: The Auteur Theory of Fantasy Fiction

Why the most enduring worlds aren’t built, they are dreamt by a single, obsessed mind

Apr 22, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #storytelling #fiction #fantasy

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DA Daley W. · Worldbuilding Wednesday

The magic of Witch Hat Atelier

Worldbuilders: don’t sleep on this series

Apr 22, 2026 · 4 min read · 245 claps #worldbuilding #writing #fantasy