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⌈ Secret Post #2980 ⌋

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Re: Your Favorite Worldbuilding; Your Own Worldbuilding

[nyxelestia]

I love worldbuilding that's an "alternate universe" of our own universe.

i.e. if I'm developing a world that's an alternate version of our own, one of the first things I'll do is take a look at how major world religions would change, how the Bible might be different, and how this would impact cultural practices.

So in one universe, magic is real and has never been hidden. The Bible is mostly the same, and while it has a MUCH larger following, Paganism is also mostly the same. That's different is a subset of Pagan-Christians, who mostly just happen to follow traditions of both religions, but with one key difference: they interpret Mary and Joseph (Jesus' parents) not as wife and husband, but sister and brother - which is 'proof' that Jesus was conceived by God, and that Mary just didn't get knocked up by Joseph before they were married. This leads to a society that places a LOT more importance on sibling relationships over romantic or sexual ones. This subset of religion was a result of a brief period of time during the Middle Ages when paganism and Christianity weren't as hostile to each other as normal - leading to families sending their sons to become Christian priests, and sending their daughters to become Pagan priestesses (as they had more power than Christian nuns).

I also develop religious practices in the modern-day era. For my D/s AU, I've put a lot of work into making sure D/s as another 'division' in society is palpable, but also not the dominant division/only one, and doesn't overtake society. One way I've done this is Jewish right-of-passage traditions. Along with a bar/bat mitzvah when a kid comes of age, there is also another ceremony held in their later teens for when they manifest/declare as a Dom or sub. Catholics and Protestants also have their own traditions related to these, and said traditions are yet another one of those small but contentions points of dispute between the two, on top of all the usual stuff we have in our world between Catholics and Protestants. (And this stuff is still influential even in a now-secular America; a sub's wrists are a bit like a woman's cleavage in our world, thought just a bit less racy - Puritans thought subs' wrists should always be covered, while Catholics never cared much, and this is a debate that still rages in school dress codes to "this" day/into the 21st century).

I think what I wish came up more in fandom was ABO worldbuilding outside of sex/mpreg, and for both D/s and ABO, I wish people would stop eliminating other demographics like race, religion, etc. One of my favorite worldbuilding fics pretty much won me over by differentiating how two Alpha men acted because one was black while the other was white. How does a world cope with having six sexes instead of two, and what exactly differentiates male and female alphas/betas/omegas? Or, in the case of D/s, how does this change broader social interaction now that every ethnicity/culture has to contend with the subdivisions of D/s on top of gender divisions? Is this a world where it's acceptable for two men to be together as long as they're D/s, or does there still have to be one man and one woman?

Basically...I wish people fleshed out their worldbuilding a little more.

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*probably won't*