These are the reaction either i have given or my friends have given.
Bassicly i feel like most people who talk about worldbuilding have a document with it inside. Which we neve expect other people to see. So, no matter what it's an odd experience.
Fairy psychologists indicated that when an adult is suddenly and forcibly regressed to an infant-like state, their cognitive process enters a "negotiation phase."
During this period, the mind effectively shuts down traditional learning modes and does not operate with the speed typical of either adult or infant brains. Instead, it takes time to assess whether the experience is biologically advantageous or that this whole time, it has deluded the person into adulthood and was still a child.
This phenomenon may explain delayed reactions to"goblinification." Some goblins have come to accept their identity as perpetual infants, while others continue to behave as if they are experiencing the ideal "grown-up life".
For more information on goblins: https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldBuildingMemes/s/QSsAUTvKXI
Haha trucks go brrrrr
So, I've been using the word "vampiricy/vampiracy" as my noun for the curse of the vampire since I was a child, only to find out that isn't even a word.
Well, the good thing about being a writer. I don't have to care what the proper terminology is. It's my book consarnit.
Out of curiosity what do y'all think of these ideas, which sounds more interesting?
For context ROCS or the Royal oddities containment device formed in 1947 after a fishermen was dragged into the water by a kelpie they have been sent to contain or eliminate any and all anomalies in the British isles.
Context
This meme is for "Project Vigilant" / P.V, a predominately fan-fiction and moderately original world-building project that I have been working on at a leisurely pace since 2018. P.V is an attempt at merging elements from no more than 120 of my favorite I.P's and an assortment of original sci-fi, alternate history and fantasy material into a singular "patch-work universe" that I call the Project Vigilant Universe or PVU.
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In the PVU, the USA is replaced by a country known as Canam.
Canam's territory encompasses all of what would be Canada, Greenland, 98.9% of the real-world USA, the Baja California Peninsula and several overseas territories. Collectively, it covers some 8.5 Million square miles and 89.1% of North America.
Canam is a Federal Constitutional Republic and it's capital city and seat of government is Chicago.
Contrary to what you might think, Canam is not a fusion between Canada and the USA. Rather, it is an alternate version of the USA that annexed Canada before it could become known as such. The name "Canam" is an anglicization of Kihânam, a fictional Native American word from an equally fictional Lenape dialect that translates to “The defended land” or “The ground we hold together”. Canam adopted this name in 1783 when the nation's founding fathers collectively agreed that United States of America worked best as a placeholder title and a new name was needed. Canam was proposed by an uncertain author as a means of honoring the 13 Colonies Indigenous allies during the Revolutionary War and the name was approved as it was deemed to be the nicest sounding option.
Canam's flag depicts the Anishinaabe Thunderbird. The flag's official colors are royal blue and silver and the white is only used for mass-produced flags as a cost-saving measure.
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So anyway, what exactly makes Canam cooler than the USA?
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Historically, Canam was slightly nicer to the Native Americans than the USA was. Canam has 9 Native-American States that are known as the "Native Nine" and the founding tribes of these states were tribes that willingly accepted offers to join Canam's westward expansion by way of aiding in the conquest of smaller, weaker and less cooperative tribes.
Canam abolished slavery in the early 19th Century and never had segregation. After winning the War of 1812 and annexing the remainder of Britain's North American territories. The Southern states became politically isolated and threw a fit which evolved into a smaller and earlier civil war that was ended in 3 years.
Canam was much more welcoming to immigrants than the USA was between 1820 and 1920. A result of this is that Canam has a larger and more diverse population and by 2016, Canam's population was around 700 Million people.
Canam has three national-level languages, English, Spanish and French and a plethora of state-level languages that include Mandarin, German, Irish Gaelic, Creole and many Native languages. Much like the difference between American and British English, Canamian English, Spanish, French and Mandarin are notably different from British English, European and/or Latin-American Spanish, European French and original Mandarin.
Canam's women got the right to vote in the 1890s and homosexuality was decriminalized by a narrow margin in 1967.
Canam's line-up of presidents is much more diverse than the USA's line-up of presidents and includes multiple women and non-white persons. An example of this is that Martin Luther King Jr. was a president of Canam, however, since the circumstances that made him famous in reality don't exist in the PVU, the MLK of the PVU is politically unrecognizable.
During the 1950s, Canam went all-in with nuclear power and the majority of the country runs on atomic energy or renewables by the year 2000.
Canam does not have an Interstate Highway System and it's cross-country road traffic relies on an expanded version of the pre 1958 highway system ( Route 66, Route 101 etc. ) In place of the I.H.S, Canam has a high-speed rail network wherein all of the nation's major cities are connected by maglev trains.
Because there are no freeways, Canam's major cities feature pre-1950s urban density.
Canam is really into "Regime Maxxing" wherein the government spares no expense on making it's government buildings, monuments and civic projects as grandiose as possible. Canam is very fond of Art Deco and The government headquarters in Chicago ( located at the site of the Jane Byrne Interchange ) are a massive art-deco styled building that dwarfs Romania's "Palace of the Parliament".
Canam is more secular than the USA. It's governmental officials are always and only sworn in on the Constitution and there are no mentions of any Gods in Canam's Constitution or in Canam's currency.
Canam's army and navy are known as the "Continental Army" and "Continental Navy" respectively. It's Air Force is known as the "Sky Force".
Canam's national anthem is a song called "Land of Plenty". LoP is based on and nearly identical to "Horn of Plenty", the anthem of Panem in The Hunger Games.
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It's important to note that Canam is not a reflection of my personal politics. It's just supposed to be a USA with more "Aura". Politically and economically, Canam operates similarly to the People's Republic of China and it's government is authoritarian. It also has an equivalent to the House Un-American Activities Committee known as the HAPAC ( Home Anti Patriotic Activities Committee ) that is operating as of 2016.
Morally, I would describe Canam as "The friend who is almost based". Canam is terribly close to being a shockingly upstanding country but it holds itself back with a plethora of morally dubious or bankrupt bullshit.
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(another meme of my worldbox world)
Yk "all roads lead to rome" right?
Well on my worldbox world It would be "all roads lead to Champ".
Champ was the capital of Wirnecroft, one of the first 6 kingdoms that were formed when the first humans were spawned.
It lasted all the way into the 570s when It fell after suffering a rebellion and their King died causing every city except the capital (which later fell) to rebel.
But before that , they were the top dogs.
The way their geography was shaped meant they had a city per island , and thus 5 ports and armies from the get go.
They participated in many wars on the main continent, amassing land and also loosing It.
Even if not at the same time , they had power over the entire world (the continent , their archipelago , and the southwest , northwest, and southeast islands).
With the largest continuos empire any kingdom ever achidved, their archipelago was full of ports and even if they were not the richest , they were still the strongest on the ground and on the sea.
And then you look at the current year by the time i make this post(768) and champ is ruled by the kingdom of Belechova , which came out of a sucesion crisis of the kingdom of Szczece in 585 (which came out of a rebellion of Wirnecroft's continental posesions in 550 and later took Champ in 570).
And It has only a one level port contrary to the advanced one It had under Wirnecroft.
All roads lead to rome apply to Champ , you cant look at a current kingdom/city's history without eventually finding out that Wirnecroft was involved. They either used to own It , or they owned the kingdom that founded It.
Wolvrens and Trinins really underplay how dangerous everything around them is.
“One does not simply survive the first engine”
High Admiral Kasfar was leader of the fearsome Scourge Fleet. He built a thriving military dictatorship from a struggling pirate pirate republic and led many successful raids and wars (They still raid other civilizations as not everything can be efficiently made on their space ships). Additionally he revolutionised the law, reshaped the caste system (He provided Worker Caste with many personal freedoms and delegalized forcing marriages by "higher" castes as well as poligamy. Normalising and codifying the vassalage and tributary law led to rapid conquest of new planets and rapid technological development. But on the other hand he took power after assassinating previous High Admiral and ruled for over seventy years with iron hand. He turned Admiral's Watch into a secret police embedded on every ship and led two purges of disloyal captains and crewmen. Additionally he was rumoured to be over hundred years old when he took office and it showed. His skis was thin and almost translucent without a trace of melamine. Not a single hair could be found on his entire body and his teeth were entirely artificial. This was all side effects of the early Excelsior Programme. He was one of the first superhumans produced by the Fleet. As the time went on he only became more eccentric, sometimes he talked to things only he saw (Psychic priests confirmed that no demons or spirits were present) or entered phases of animalistic hunger when he gorged himself on anything remotely edible (it included living humans, animals and aliens when different food sources weren't available). It was hidden from the crew and more importantly captains, since they were the only ones allowed to vote for new High Admiral. It all led to his assassination and civil war after two candidates were elected in two separate elections (both fraudulent).