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World Building EX 2022
Jan. 24th, 2022 12:10 amHere is a letter. I should work on it. Ooops.
I love how Dalemark is a fantasy world which goes through phases and changes. Historical artifacts are being created in the weaving, and storytelling and songs and ballads are all intertwined with how the culture and gods and understanding are developed and change over time.
I love how even the geology changes within the series: the world changes, physically and culturally and technologically. We get so many slices of history within a world. We see the beginnings of new ways of living. We see the start of industrialisation, and the end of gods, and it's all just so Big.
I love the weaving as spells and storytelling and fabric. Dress historian examining Dalemark things? Linguists or mythology professors arguing meaning? A fed up college student's sarcastic essay on how no one could ever have believed that weaving could be magic?
Many Yuletides ago (8 years ago), a perfect human gifted me a Dalemark Quartet/Time Team mash up. The idea behind that is still so cherished to me. Dalemark is a fantasy continent which has *history* and geology and shifts on a grand scale, and anything which explores that is amazing, and anything which pastiches that way of exploring thigns... WOAH.
DNW: anything focused on Maewen/the Crown of Dalemark book. Use the time frame, sure, but the actual characters and plot left me with a pile of sigh.
Just... I love that Peter saw the 'left over women' of WWI as a resource to be used. These are brilliant women not really given the option to marry and carry on life as it used to be, and so they go off and become a secret spy network? It's the most amazing thing.
I want to know about how the Cattery came about. How it works? How the internal power struggles of the ladies might fall out? Something gossipy and full of intrigue and tea break gossip? Office politics?
...just thought of this, but Murder Must Advertise is my favourite novel, and the vibe of the cluttered typists room, and the gossip that flows through it, and the power those ladies have.
Something like that, with the Cattery? Or even just what the hell is on Peter's bookkeeper's desk to explain the expenses the Cattery entails? Do they ever get to bring evidence to the police? Do any of the ladies have specific scams they like to bring down most?
I love outsider pov on the Waynes, and the bats, and the whole Justice League. Gotham must be such a weird place to live as a civilian.
I'd adore coming back from the dead to be such a mainstream thing as to have specific Gotham paperwork. Or it being a giant mess and Jason is justifiably salty about the whole thing?
DNW: Bruce/any batkids (the media speculating about it is fine, excellent even, so long as it's not true) as those ships are not for me, thanks. Permanently dead Alfred.
The magpies? What do I even mean by that? Fuck if I know, I just think they're all fabulous. The tattoos, obviously; the corvids following Crane around when he's on the street too; the ones on the family plates all coming to life?
I love to see more of the internal politics and fuck ups and machinations of the Justiciary. The layers of class etc that we already saw were amazing, but like all good bureaucracy, we didn't scratch more than the surface. I love the idea of them being overwhelmed by form filling and such in a future manifestation of it? How it got codified and created?
Chinese vs English magic... I just like the idea that culture and magic are very interconnected, and the way Stephen does things aren't compatible with working in China. Or it being very compatible, but tricky. Or learning new things - someone learning English styles, or Chinese styles? The idea of certain forms of magic being taboo to one culture and not to another?
I love how Dalemark is a fantasy world which goes through phases and changes. Historical artifacts are being created in the weaving, and storytelling and songs and ballads are all intertwined with how the culture and gods and understanding are developed and change over time.
I love how even the geology changes within the series: the world changes, physically and culturally and technologically. We get so many slices of history within a world. We see the beginnings of new ways of living. We see the start of industrialisation, and the end of gods, and it's all just so Big.
I love the weaving as spells and storytelling and fabric. Dress historian examining Dalemark things? Linguists or mythology professors arguing meaning? A fed up college student's sarcastic essay on how no one could ever have believed that weaving could be magic?
Many Yuletides ago (8 years ago), a perfect human gifted me a Dalemark Quartet/Time Team mash up. The idea behind that is still so cherished to me. Dalemark is a fantasy continent which has *history* and geology and shifts on a grand scale, and anything which explores that is amazing, and anything which pastiches that way of exploring thigns... WOAH.
DNW: anything focused on Maewen/the Crown of Dalemark book. Use the time frame, sure, but the actual characters and plot left me with a pile of sigh.
Just... I love that Peter saw the 'left over women' of WWI as a resource to be used. These are brilliant women not really given the option to marry and carry on life as it used to be, and so they go off and become a secret spy network? It's the most amazing thing.
I want to know about how the Cattery came about. How it works? How the internal power struggles of the ladies might fall out? Something gossipy and full of intrigue and tea break gossip? Office politics?
...just thought of this, but Murder Must Advertise is my favourite novel, and the vibe of the cluttered typists room, and the gossip that flows through it, and the power those ladies have.
Something like that, with the Cattery? Or even just what the hell is on Peter's bookkeeper's desk to explain the expenses the Cattery entails? Do they ever get to bring evidence to the police? Do any of the ladies have specific scams they like to bring down most?
I love outsider pov on the Waynes, and the bats, and the whole Justice League. Gotham must be such a weird place to live as a civilian.
I'd adore coming back from the dead to be such a mainstream thing as to have specific Gotham paperwork. Or it being a giant mess and Jason is justifiably salty about the whole thing?
DNW: Bruce/any batkids (the media speculating about it is fine, excellent even, so long as it's not true) as those ships are not for me, thanks. Permanently dead Alfred.
The magpies? What do I even mean by that? Fuck if I know, I just think they're all fabulous. The tattoos, obviously; the corvids following Crane around when he's on the street too; the ones on the family plates all coming to life?
I love to see more of the internal politics and fuck ups and machinations of the Justiciary. The layers of class etc that we already saw were amazing, but like all good bureaucracy, we didn't scratch more than the surface. I love the idea of them being overwhelmed by form filling and such in a future manifestation of it? How it got codified and created?
Chinese vs English magic... I just like the idea that culture and magic are very interconnected, and the way Stephen does things aren't compatible with working in China. Or it being very compatible, but tricky. Or learning new things - someone learning English styles, or Chinese styles? The idea of certain forms of magic being taboo to one culture and not to another?
