/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.
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.
more to be added, if you think something's missing, Modmail us! We bite!
/r/worldjerking
no one can explain how it works, no one knows, not even me! it just does stuff!
My hindenburgdisasterpunk world where everyone builds up static electricity and after travelling a certain distance in their life they spontaneously combust into a hydrogen-fuelled flame. The skin ruptures at the back, burns up, and the hydro ballast tanks all implode (you have hydrogen ballast tanks in your spine to keep yourself buoyant because my world has actually 1.0001 times more gravity so we evolved counterweights)
Pic related, this is my buddy Eric, he died
— the realistic version of Dracula
What things from real life have you fantasized in your world?
For example, in my world, things like cockfights and and bullfighting, and anything of the sort have the animals replaced by beastpeople, so in place of seeing two abused animals kill eachother, it's more of a R18 WWE where you see two peak specimen gore eachother
This is because there's no greater homoeroticism than another of the same gender trying to kill you, and because i wanted to add hot furry men(and women!!) goring eachother in live television and having gex during commercial breaks
so, what about y'all?
Like think about it. It must be someone's poorly written conlang. Literally no one would ever actually talk like that.
You could be a farmer from Bretonnia whose heard of, but never seen anything like vampires, Tomb Kings, or any kind of elf, or an Ogre with scars from a huge battle against Greenskins, or a Daemon Prince of Khorne battling one of Nurgle. Point is, how much fantasy you’re gonna get, I feel, varies much more wildly than in other settings, and I love it for it.
Uw/ In all honesty, there's a lot of interesting things you could do with hybrids between species, especially between species that aren't even the same body type Regardless of if that's biological or artificial hybridization
…and anyone who reads that into the text is a sicko, YOU are the weirdo, weirdo!
Had a dream last night. In it, there was no fire anywhere. So I went up to the guy who sells fire and asked him where the fire was. He says to me, "bro, this world ain't got combustion reactions. Fire ain't real. Wake up from your dream."
So I woke up from my dream and wrote down a world without fire. Maybe in caveman times they just rubbed things and each other to stay warm in the ice ages? Idk. Just spit balling.
Am I a creative genius?
He has gills, but he cant move so hes constantly suffocating. He cant die either since shapes dont die.
Asking for a friend