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Worldbuilding Wednesday!
An idea I shamelessly cribbed from tumblr.
Pick a question and a character/place you want that answered for and I’ll answer next Wednesday. I try to make some art for it, too. Preferable related to Traces of Chaos, but Silent Suns is fair game, too.
First come, first serve. And if it takes off, I will make it a weekly occurance. :D
GENERAL:
- What are some of the tropes you would use to describe your characters?
- What are some personal problems that your characters are dealing with?
- What are your characters’ morning routines?
- What are your characters’ favorite things to eat for breakfast?
- What are your characters’ favorite foods?
- Do any of your characters have any odd/unusual/obscure interests?
- What is an experience your characters most embarrassed about?
- What is an experience your characters most proud about?
- If your characters were to transition from their world to our world, how would they react?
- What are some songs you associate with your characters?
- Who is the first character you remember creating? If you still have this character, how much have they changed?
- Who’s the latest character you’ve created?
- Do your characters live in the past, present, or future? If past or future, how far back/forward?
- Are any of your characters religious? If so, to what extent? If not, what are their spiritual beliefs?
- What do you like most about your characters?
- What do you dislike most about your characters?
- How would you get along with some of your characters?
- What are some of your characters’ talents?
- If one of your characters had to choose between their life or a loved one’s life, which would they choose?
- What are some of your character’s fears? Are they irrational, or have they resulted from a particular situation?
- What are some gross habits your characters have?
- What are some habits your characters would be embarassed about if people found out?
- If your characters attend a school – or if they were to attend a school – what kind of students are they? (i.e. class clown, straight A student…)
- (Directed to any characters who feel like answering) How are you doing today?
- Are any of your characters inspired by other people, such as celebrities or people you know personally? If you don’t mind explaining, what attributes do your characters have from these people?
- What are some of your characters’ body types?
- What do your characters seek in a romantic relationship?
- What are the fashion senses of some of your characters?
- If any of your characters don’t like food in general, why?
- Tell us a random fact about your character!
WORLD-RELATED:
- What are some of the laws of the universe your characters live in?
- Does the universe your characters live in have a god?
- If the place your characters live in is different from ours, what makes it different?
- Do ghosts or supernatural entities exist in your characters’ world?
- What kind of species live on the planet/in the environment your characters live in?
- What is the climate like?
- Is there an afterlife in your story’s universe?
- If there are supernatural entities in your universe, where did they come from?
- If the world your characters live in are significantly different from ours, would you be able to live there? (If it’s a place where humans are not supposed to live, imagine you’ve been given the ability to live there somehow.)
- How safe or unsafe is the place your characters live in, and what makes it this way?
- Does your world have multiple dimensions? If so, how many, and what happens in these dimensions?
- How technologically advanced is the place your characters primarily live in?
- Is the place your characters live in someplace people would want to go sightseeing in, or a tourist attraction?
- Are there any other places in your characters’ world that they want to travel to?
- If there is a pop culture, what’s considered “cool”? If there’s no pop culture, what are some traditions that your characters follow that have been inherited from ancestors or the culture they were raised in?
A thing to ponder… The future of computers.
Every one of them will arrive at the same place: “Can’t you just make us a general-purpose computer that runs all the programs, except the ones that scare and anger us? Can’t you just make us an Internet that transmits any message over any protocol between any two points, unless it upsets us?”
Go check out the full article “Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing” , it’s a pretty important read. If you agree or not, at least this is something we should think about.
In my case, it made me think about the fact that the future could look VERY different from what I expected as student. I always assumed people would end up having at least one, if not multiple general purpose computer in every home, which they can use freely how ever they intend.
But you know, it could be just happen in 10, 20 years that general purpose devices are actually either prohibited, severly regulated or just plain not accessible for Joe Schmoe and email, chat and stuff would happen about the government-approved (or, even more likely, COMPANY-approved – it’s not the governments that runs our world these days) applications/devices against which facebook or the iPhone is the very model of free, unregulated, unfettered and individual information distribution.
And the majority of people (including me?) would be happy with this state, because, well, as long as it’s convient and doesn’t get into the future-angry-birds, why complain? I know I usually don’t give a flying fuck about consequences of gating, at least as long as my toy does what I bought it for and I can look at my cat pictures.
You know, I never thought about how fragile the internet actually is.
A book needs to be found to be burned; but in order to get rid of the internet you just need gain control the phonelines (including wlan), as the unrests in England and the arab spring have shown. The whole freely accessible internet thing might just be a bubble about to burst, something that will die and wither, just like the hippie movement.
Welp.
At least this gives me some nice ideas how the people in my science fiction stories handle things like this.
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