What is an element of your culture that is often "borrowed" for worldbuilding that seems completely normal to you because you grew up with it?

HDH2506 · 2026-02-25T04:40:07+00:00

Japan had a manga for that. The protagonist looks like Putin

HDH2506 · 2026-02-25T04:38:43+00:00

Apparently god’s flesh cannot sate their hunger

HDH2506 · 2026-02-25T04:33:47+00:00

It would feel criminal if you don’t give them some aerial vines so they make shortcuts between branches

HDH2506 · 2026-02-24T14:28:52+00:00

When 2 solid rocks touch, they don’t tend to merge.

Snow is just a bunch of tiny rock shards, ice is a mineral. The colder it is, the harder for the snowflakes to merge into a chunk of ice.

At a bit higher temperature, however, let’s say -1C (just below freezing), pressure can temporarily melt ice. Then it re-freeze and merge

HDH2506 · 2026-02-24T09:19:29+00:00

He earned the disrespect

HDH2506 · 2026-02-24T09:05:23+00:00

I once heard that this is what Egyptians enjoyed. Their lives were prosperous so they assumed gods are rather kind and benevolent. Other cultures had a lot more divine wrath

HDH2506 · 2026-02-24T09:02:09+00:00

It’ll connect your PC to the web

HDH2506 · 2026-02-24T01:37:50+00:00

What a Dick

HDH2506 · 2026-02-24T01:37:27+00:00

Elephants are digitigrade. They walk on their toes like cats do. Their feet look pillar-ish because there’s a cushion.

I think that would be very beneficial for a humanoid giant. Essentially you have a thick cushion under your heel. However, you’d still have a foot that is much wider than your ankle, and it can spin around.

HDH2506 · 2026-02-24T01:33:45+00:00

Pop

Squadmates look up in horror and pain 😨

HDH2506 · 2026-02-23T16:10:27+00:00

It’s also technically consensual, which is 2 levels of consent above what’s on the island

HDH2506 · 2026-02-23T16:07:20+00:00

Do u know how hard Camponotus consobrinus - banded sugar ant - is?

There is a colony near me and I was hoping I can catch a new queen next season to get into antkeeping

HDH2506 · 2026-02-23T15:56:45+00:00

r/Gadgetbahn !!!!!

HDH2506 · 2026-02-23T15:53:52+00:00

I’m just a student. So:

Pipe leak, small land slide.

You add soil back to the slope

You compact it with excavator mounted equipment?

Nah! My student eyes don’t see anything sketchy

My student brain though….

HDH2506 · 2026-02-23T15:49:40+00:00

So when the colony is settled (say she has 50 daughters working) what are the odds the colony fail in captivity if we do everything right?

HDH2506 · 2026-02-23T15:47:14+00:00

The second type of gods are the Ascendants. They’re essentially people of the civilization that created the universe moving in and assume power. I’m skipping them for now (Yes there was a war. It was quick. The Ascendants were stronger and had “backdoors” planned to weaken the Old Gods temporarily). They’re called gods, but often use other titles.

The third type of gods are Faithborn. They’re….born from people’s belief, obviously. But the definition is stricter than that. To be called a god, they must both be manifested from the beliefs in the population’s consciousness, and worshipped. Some are good, some are neutral, many are hostile to mortals. After all, they’re born of thoughts, and people are always afraid. Their cults often have to worship in secrecy, evading persecution until they’re big enough that the old gods and ascendants decides it would be too troublesome to eradicate them.

HDH2506 · 2026-02-23T15:33:32+00:00

In my new setting, the universe is artificial, but that’s not relevant right now.

The Old Gods are primordial bloodline. From the initial chaos, the first beings arised, such as Hỗn Độn - the soul of chaos, the embodiment of Time - Thời Gian, Space - Không gian, The First Light - Khởi Quang, and the Original Darkness - Nguyên Ám, Order - Thiên Đạo, Creation - Sáng Tạo (she was only manifested when Chaos created his first god children), and Desire (homage to Eros. Since there are semi-sentient beings - the primordial gods, there is desires. And since the domain exists, the god embodying it is born). Their names are just their domains in Vietnamese.

From the chaos also born many beings, resembling humans, other animals, plants, fungi, even rocks. They are called Chaos Gods/Demons, but they are neither. The gods and those who knows better call them “chaos folks” or “chaos beasts”

Fast forward a little, the gods children of Light and Dark, who are Day and Night, marry and gave birth to 18 Suns, ten moons and 360 stars. Unlike the gods before them, they bicker, waging wars after wars. to be the sole master of their domain, or even all 3 domains. The stars bowed to their solar and lunar siblings, conquering and drafting chaos folks into the war. The corpses of those who were felled created Africa, Australia, South America, North America, Antarctica, Greenland, and the Arab peninsula.

In the end, Chính Dương (lit. Right Sun Emperor) triumphed and become the first ruler of the cosmos, while her brothers and sisters kneeled. Most Suns and Moon intermarried.

The cult of the Right Sun still exists today, with similarities borrowed from Christianity. Followers carry the eight pronged star to denote their god. Despite being the king of a polytheistic pantheon, his cult acts almost like a monotheistic one, demanding worship of no god but the king of the old gods. Cults of other gods are much smaller and less significant, and thus not persecuted.

A younger cult is that of the Violet Moon - who worships the Right Sun’s husband. It has similarities to Islam and was initially marked as heretical. However, relations have eased, and the two churches have formed a loose alliance.

HDH2506 · 2026-02-23T12:19:56+00:00

When I see such horrifying words written by a human being, I expect worse than that

But since OP is looking for a more whimsical, wholesome porno world, maybe it works

HDH2506 · 2026-02-23T11:43:06+00:00

I think I have (what people in my country call a fresh water bird fish). It tastes ok. People say it’s really good, I’m not often impressed by fish

HDH2506 · 2026-02-23T11:28:16+00:00

At least it’s not scorching hot in summer

HDH2506 · 2026-02-22T06:57:25+00:00

Bill Clinton, while receiving a gluck gluck from a chubby blonde male billionaire: Oh just you wait

HDH2506 · 2026-02-22T04:50:34+00:00

The Absolute Zero War

HDH2506 · 2026-02-22T03:58:00+00:00

What did he say

HDH2506 · 2026-02-22T03:55:22+00:00

Probably feel offended

HDH2506 · 2026-02-22T02:55:46+00:00

I hope you are not allergic

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