Socialist Worldbuilding - Lemmygrad
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Worldbuilding the process in fiction writing where one develops the setting, background details, and lore. Either done in order to create a more compelling and internally consistent plot or just for fun!

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There’s been a ton of talk on Lemmygrad (and in this community in particular) in the recent months about having better spaces for socialist/communist fiction writers, and after holding off for a long time I decided to finally make a worldbuilding community on here! It’s something I really love doing and I’m a socialist, so I hope I can help make it a nice place for socialist worldbuilders and writers in general. Doesn’t have to be explicitly socialist or leftist worlds, it’s more a community for socialists as opposed to specifically socialist writing.

I will be transferring my existing lore posts from Reddit onto there in a bit, after I edit them as most of them are from years ago and my worlds have changed. I’d love to see what all my comrades have created as well!

Funny, this is actually why I created an account on Lemmygrad in the first place. You probably know me by my Lemmy.ml account since that’s what I normally use to participate on here, but I feel that if I’m to moderate a community it should be done from an in-instance account. That and in case Lemmygrad decides to defederate with Lemmy.ml.

  • Nocturne Dragonite@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Sweet, I’m currently in the process of writing a story set in Black City in Unova, with themes of capitalist dystopia and class conflict since these things are never explicitly talked about in the games :))

      • Nocturne Dragonite@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Yes! Black City is described as a “modern city of ongoing development”, and the mayor in game is a greedy capitalist who loves money, it’s the perfect setting for class conflict, especially after the events of BW2 and the consequences of the attacks on Unova by Team Plasma. An economic downturn gives rise to a Unovan nationalist strongman whose family used to be Unovan nobility back during the time of the Kingdom of Unova.

          • Nocturne Dragonite@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
            6·
            1 year ago

            Thank you so much! I love the richness of the Pokémon world but there’s no clear explanation for how certain systems might work, like Gym Leaders. Are they appointed by the Pokémon League or is it inherited (ex. Janine and Flannery)?

            Maybe Gyms started the city structure because it was where trainers naturally flocked, and so businesses would be built around it. Maybe the idea of a Pokémon type specialist always existed and a place where you could challenge them would eventually evolve into the Gym format.

            It’s because the game doesn’t specify how things work that make me so interested in exploring the possibilities!

            (This is my special interest I could go on about this all day/night lol…)