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16553218 No.16553218 [Reply] [Original]

what's the most interesting detail of world building you've seen in literature ?

>> No.16553223

>>16553218
Hush in Batman Arkham City.

>> No.16553228

>>16553223
op here be more specific.

>> No.16553898

>>16553228
any good book is world-building done _right._ It doesnt necessarily have to be a fantasy world. So go check canonical literature.

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>world building
will this meme die already.

>> No.16553994

Nier: Automata

>> No.16553998

the backdrop of regimental intrigue and the looming threat of war which permeates Anton Chekhov's play "The Three Sisters" -- a sort of 'semi-consciousness' channel in the narrative which is born of its cast's inner anxieties and turmoil, and which transudes into the broader dramatic narrative of culture and gender politics in modernist Russia. there's a kind of "fog" over the play's events which suggests a kind of looming disaster, and which potentiates character interactions in a way that 'raises the (dramatic) stakes' for its personae. in terms of atmosphere, it is a very good play that is demonstrative of the subtler authorial undercurrents which enhance storytelling. i don't know whether this bullshit checks out from a common sense perspective, but it's definitely an authentically-configured analysis of the proverbial sort of "Cloud of Unknowing" present in many aspects of early modernist theatre. ebebebebehululululugagagaganooonooonooooooyaaaaarggghblsssht

>> No.16554002

>>16553218
The best worldbuilding I've ever seen was done by me when I created this world.
>t. solipsist

>> No.16554009

>>16554002
I'd say you did a pretty fucking terrible job desu please change

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>>16553218
Participating in it.

>> No.16554049

>>16553998
go off, schizo

>> No.16554055

>>16554042
Nice fantasy Butters, you have such an imagination

>> No.16555254

>>16553218
Probably the page long poems about made up heroes in LOTR. Shit like that or all the names they reference like Earendil or Gil-Galad make to world feel even bigger than 1400 pages

>> No.16555321

>>16553218
This is off topic, but I was recently really impressed by BG3's world building -- or at least one little slice of it. They have a priest of Loviatar, who's the goddess of pain, and he's got self harm scars in a way that's really faithful to what you would see in reality. It really helped give a very human grounding to see this kind of realism in a purely fictional world. In a similar vein, I really liked how they depicted Kylo Ren in the s*y wars sequels. I would bet that some people didn't like how he was depicted as "emo," but I thought he was brilliantly humanized. He's got that same adolescent brooding demeanor we have literally all at least seen, and it actually works under scrutiny, because it's a very faithful outcropping of adolescent angst in the context of Star Wars' universe. In his portrayal he expresses an authentically basic humanity in reaction with a fictional world since we can observe the same patterns in human behavior we all know reacting to purely fictional stimuli. That is, in my opinion, the essence of fiction.