/r/worldjerking
Who knows what sick, twisted thoughts lurks in the hearts of worldbuilders?
Worldjerking knows!
A warning to all travellers: here be splitting rivers, elven subraces, original characters (do not steal), and magic systems... so many magic systems. Turn back now, or may God have mercy on your soul.
tl;dr: this sub is for satirizing trends in the hobby of worldbuilding, as well as those within the broader speculative fiction community.
IMPORTANT RULES
Rule 0. Mod discretion always applies. We may remove something that is technically allowed under the rules if the team has good reason to believe it is detrimental to the community. Conversely, if something technically breaks the rules but we deem it beneficial to the community, we may choose to leave it up.
Rule 1. All submissions should be related to speculative fiction and worldbuilding. If it is not obvious that the joke posted is in any way actually related to worldbuilding or speculative fiction, it will be removed.
Rule 2. All submissions should be original. Do not post random memes you found elsewhere on the internet. Do not post random images you found on google images. Do not take 4chan memes and slightly retouch them. Do not take screencaps of random posts you found on reddit, twitter, instagram, facebook, or anywhere else.
Rule 3. Submissions and comments should not be used to attack or harass other users. This subreddit's primary purpose is to satirize and call out ideas and trends, not attack individual people. Therefore, it is not okay to make a post mocking another user's artistic skill or personal attributes (such as their gender or ethnicity). Satirization of another user should never be dehumanizing.
Rule 4. There are restrictions on NSFW jokes. Specifically, we don't want to see jokes that focus on pedophilia and child abuse, especially in a context that minimizes or normalizes it. We also don't want to see explicit porn or hentai. To some extent, this rule means that NSFW jokes are held to a higher standard of worldbuilding relevance and execution. If we can't see how the NSFW aspect adds to the joke, we're more likely to remove it.
Rule 5. Crossposting is allowed. Crossposting should be relevant to the hobby of worldbuilding or speculative fiction. There are two requirements to a crosspost: You must ping the original poster's reddit handle in a separate comment in the post, and the title of the crosspost must have your own spin/joke on it. You have the right to satirize people's work, but the author also has the right to know and respond to it.
Rule 6. Do not take or modify artwork posted by people on r/worldbuilding without the artist's permission. This includes via crossposting. You must approach the creator for explicit permission to reuse or transform their work for a joke on Worldjerking. Ping the artist in a comment if you post their work. If the artist doesn't give you permission to use their art and you still want to satirize it, you should get yourself acquainted with MS Paint.
Rule 7. Humor should be in good taste. It is possible to be funny without being vulgar, cruel, hostile or hateful. This is not the place to tear other people down under the guise of humor.
Rule 8. No advertising. This is not the place to advertise. We don't want to see your Patreon, Kickstarter, random survey, discord community or political cause. All advertisements will be removed. You may link an advertisement in the comments as part of casual conversation, where it's relevant to discussion. If you want to do a full advertisement submission, advertise it on the main sub.
Rule 9: You can satirize official mod announcements and distinguished/stickied posts. Those are fair game and the team can take a joke. But if you can't make at least one mod on the entire team laugh, we reserve the right to remove it. If someone chuckles, we can only respond with disapproval emojis and table flips. ಠ_ಠ The rules about humor in good taste and not harassing individuals still apply.
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/r/worldjerking
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In my Dwarfascismpunk world, Elves are so universally hated within the Empire that all thoughts of maybe "some Elves being alright" will warrant you a one-way trip to the coal mines
10:50 UTC
World builders trying to depicted China as anything but these 2 (impossible)
It's either Wuxia fantasy, commie hell hole or sino-cyberpunk.
08:15 UTC
Do you have a non-magical silent cat in your world?
how
06:17 UTC
If I could give that awful civil war 2024 movie one thing, is that the idea every side wants to kill the government and do their own government
06:00 UTC
Dear Americans, our countries can be (are) shitholes as well. Stop hogging the dystopias.
05:23 UTC
Created a magic system for my delusionpunk world. Thoughts?
05:10 UTC
OK, I definitely started Humanoid war intentionally, but I feel bad about the Humansarespaceorcs.
04:51 UTC
Thoughts on this world's river?
03:36 UTC
Do they genuinely think, out of the trillions of stars in the universe, the master race would be us
03:13 UTC
American and Haitian Revolutions too ig
00:11 UTC
Propaganda poster from my tabletoppunk world
00:06 UTC
what do you think of my alchemy system on my dogpunk puppycoded world
22:12 UTC
Continuing from my other post, here is what sort of awkward stuff races in my sci-fi setting say when they've had a few beers (or biologically-appropriate equivalent)
20:28 UTC
In my space opera, everything's humanoid because the first species ever made was a humanoid, and the other gods lack creativity
20:27 UTC
"The elites don’t want you to know this but you can justify your lack of imagination in higher beings of the setting. I have 458 humanoid races"
17:02 UTC
In my balkans inspired Space Opera, every species thinks that they're the hottest shit ever and that everyone else are weak because their planet isn't hardcore enough.
16:27 UTC
How do I make this more realistic?
My world has a bunch of cool stuff in it but I really want to make it more boring and scientifically accurate. I'm worried that someone might think as hard about my world as I do and notice that some things in my world are implausible and they might think I'm stupid because of it.
How do I remove anything mildly fantastical, is there a guide to scientifically building a perfectly realistic world?
12:44 UTC
Titles are hard
12:02 UTC
Guys, review these four kingdoms I gave you for my fantasy world!
10:07 UTC
Hopping on the bandwagon (if you want context just ask)
09:14 UTC
Choose your tone, war is glory or war is hell.
08:23 UTC
Compositionally similar to coal, and literally called "night soil"
07:04 UTC
Hey Jerkerinos! We're recruiting NEW MODERATORS to help run this hellhole. You interested in unleashing your inner Evil Overlord? More details within!
As noted in the sticky posts that nobody reads, we're a bit short-staffed, and we want to do more with this sub/help it grow and flourish, and we need a few more hands on deck to help with this. So we're opening up recruitment again for Spring 2024 and hoping to add a few more folks to the team here to help out.
Applications will be open until 11:59 PM UTC on Sunday, May 12th.
#You can apply using our form, found here: https://forms.gle/dZnzBYYdBpp1QYPC8
###About the Role
The Worldbuilding Network moderation team manages not just this subreddit but also r/worldbuilding, r/nsfwworldbuilding, and our twin Discord servers.
The r/worldjerking moderators perform a variety of duties, including:
- Removing off-topic posts and spam from the subreddits.
- Removing comments and posts that break our subreddit rules
- Adding flairs and OC-tagging to posts.
- Investigating and resolving reports from users and our automated moderation tools.
- Responding to modmail regarding user concerns and questions in a timely and professional manner.
- Developing policies and rules that keep the subreddit running smoothly, efficiently, and at the quality our users have come to expect.
- Working with Reddit Administration to ensure that the subreddit is in compliance with Reddit’s site-wide rules.
- Managing and moderating our affiliated IRC and Discord chat services.
- Managing activities, such as competitions and spotlights, across our platforms.
- Ensuring a constant tone and moderation across the entire worldbuilding network.
- Creating and maintaining automated moderation tools, messaging, and bots to streamline the moderator workflow.
- Developing CSS code and other graphical improvements for the subreddit.
- Whatever else happens to get thrown at us.
###Requirements
You do not need to have any previous moderation experience to apply, though any previous leadership or moderation experience will help. Here's a list of our current requirements for incoming mods. If you do not meet these requirements, your application will likely be rejected unless you stand out in some exceptional way.
- You must have an active Reddit account that is at least 6 months old.
- You must be willing and able to use Discord, as we use our Discord to coordinate moderator activities across the network.
- You must be a user in good standing on r/worldjerking. Previous warnings or bans, even if not active, may be considered detrimental or disqualifying.
- You must be able to demonstrate you have at least one speculative fiction project at a modest level of development.
- You must complete the Google application at the top of this post. The more in-depth you can make your responses to it, the better!
###OF SPECIAL NOTE:
We're especially in need of moderators from non-American time zones, as we lost half our non-American mods (either due to resigning or relocating!) about two years ago and still haven’t plugged that gap. So we're a bit short-handed when it comes to European, African, Asian and Oceanian mods. So, if you're from one of these regions (or have unusual waking hours!) and are on the fence about applying, we strongly encourage you to toss your hat in!
04:18 UTC
I posted this in r/Humansarespaceorcs how long do I have to live?
03:29 UTC
Just saw an episode of Star Trek where a character said "Translate [the alien transmission] into Federation Standard" and I thought "what a totally normal thing for a multicultural political entity to call its own language which is ostensibly based on English"
01:27 UTC
I got this cool world-building idea where the good guy rebels have to deal with more extreme and violent comrades. So they make a devils deal with their former enemies so save the new Republic
Gonna call it Weimar Germany
00:36 UTC
This map would look so bad if it was in an althistory. They literally just drew 2 horizontal and 1 vertical line on the entire continent and called it a day. Then gave the big island to some random minor country that didn't even participate in colonizing the mainland?
23:46 UTC
I fucking hate when writers retcon the most interesting parts of their worlds
23:16 UTC
Average winning through sticking to your morals enjoyer
22:03 UTC