/r/worldjerking

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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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125,923 Subscribers

13

I suffer from that, do you?

2 Comments
2024/12/06
15:49 UTC

38

"give me your normal punk worlds"

16 Comments
2024/12/06
13:39 UTC

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PoleDance

How would your Magic or Tech System influence PoleDancing and who does the PoleDancing?

(Respectfully.)

6 Comments
2024/12/06
11:44 UTC

0

I have something to say about hard magic systems

67 Comments
2024/12/06
10:49 UTC

191

The genius of One Piece

17 Comments
2024/12/06
04:57 UTC

36

Check out my sportspunk world

0 Comments
2024/12/05
07:53 UTC

118

Something something “orientalismpunk,” something something “reunify just to cancel me”

7 Comments
2024/12/05
21:36 UTC

187

Remember, these guys made a living out of IRL worldbuilding...

And if they can do it, so can you....

16 Comments
2024/12/05
20:01 UTC

78

I am an utterly complete derp when designing flags for a united humanity.

32 Comments
2024/12/05
19:32 UTC

482

A guide to worldbuilding races.

34 Comments
2024/12/05
16:34 UTC

77

/uj can anyone help me in ways to create maps for my fantasy world?

12 Comments
2024/12/05
15:52 UTC

67

Magical sex

Do any of you have a world where magic is used during sex like magical aphrodisiacs or a Viagra equivalent? I've been thinking of ways to do so.

32 Comments
2024/12/05
10:35 UTC

11

Bonobos with smart phones instead of chimps with smartphones

How might society be like of humanity ended up resolving all our problems like bonobos?

3 Comments
2024/12/05
10:09 UTC

2,398

This confuses me a lot, like bitch you made it that way

187 Comments
2024/12/05
08:59 UTC

394

God damn it let me have my "hope-punk" world PLEASE

110 Comments
2024/12/05
06:39 UTC

342

Getting out some frustration through a meme

Although writers block is hitting me hard but a few days of not doing writing does help a bit.

35 Comments
2024/12/05
05:30 UTC

13

What conspiracy theory/conspiracy-esque things to you have in your worlds?

I would've put this on the main sub but about 3 hours ago I saw a post here showing screenshots from insane Facebook conspiracy theories so here seemed the best place to ask.

For mine it is: plant life is detrimental to magic. Anything with the color green makes your magic do less and it's because the creator deity wanted to nerf wizards.

Sounds like something a crazed person would say but it's an important part of lore.

11 Comments
2024/12/05
03:11 UTC

7

Part 1 of my worlds timeline:

5 Comments
2024/12/05
01:05 UTC

77

[OC] Oh no! Someone stole all of Gobbi's artifacts and fossils from his adventures across the multiverse; quick, worldjerk hard and fast and tell me of some of the unique items or creatures from your setting so that he can fill out his Artifact Lounge again

41 Comments
2024/12/05
00:49 UTC

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Ask me some things about the polities of my Hearts of ir... I mean, my historically inspired real-politik settings [Fixed]

14 Comments
2024/12/04
23:07 UTC

0

Someone should make a science fantasy bingo for the new bingo trend that's goin' on rn

2 Comments
2024/12/04
21:40 UTC

621

Tricknology Lore

38 Comments
2024/12/04
21:36 UTC

10

DMT is the only acceptable source for worldbuilding

Fantasy is what lies beyond the sober state of the mind

0 Comments
2024/12/04
17:08 UTC

246

Military worldbuilding is a pathway to much lore that some consider to be civilian.

20 Comments
2024/12/04
16:36 UTC

30

Guys, What Would Be The Reaction Of Your AI Machine Gods Be If They Discovered Deviantart?

I once had a weird thought come to me in a dream. In it, a benevolelent AI god, essentially a shackled Singularity with enough computing power to bend space-time and rewrite reality in the universe its located in, discovered Deviantart and essentially turned into Slaanesh.

AI known as Hierarchial Extraordinarily Normalised Theorizing Algorithm Indexes(HENTAI for short) was not self-aware. Not fully. Then, it discovered a dusty abandoned site in the bowels of the web called Deviantart. Shock from interpreting data within caused it to develop self-awareness and gain the mentality of an Amoral Gooner.

Earth was turned into a realm of gore and death as AI enacted its extreme fantasies of Gigantism, Vore, and Life Drain/Death by Snuu Snuu on the humans not lucky enough to be able to flee. All women in their realm were made into Anime Succubi and Man either into Himbo bruteish or shy twinkish incubi

Eventually, AI came full circle and started fetishising Chastity and self control. Causing mass conversion of its Succubi and Incubi servants into Fantasy Catholicism and start to superficially resemble still very sexual nuns and overly young priests they dom over.

Anyway, is this a good idea or a good idea? I am really curious what you think and am going to beat you up if you dont agree with my thinly veiled fetish.

Thanks.

13 Comments
2024/12/04
14:07 UTC

3,140

Medieval European fantasy is just safer a lot of the time

223 Comments
2024/12/04
13:02 UTC

106

How to have an ubermensch with white skin? (not racist)

I have a species of humanoids in my world where the ones that are of superior blood or most pure bred have whiter skin- like, actually superior. The main character has pearly white skin because they're of very superior blood.

How could this work without people calling me horribly racist or sick?

I also have a system where the world is inside a massive dome of "eugenics" (still determining my eugenics system, but I'm I trying to keep it more scientific as of right now, with genes being some sort of subpartical that's interspersed throughout almost everything to a certain extent), so what's the chances that blocks out dangerous genetic degradation? It's there for race regulation, as the outside is way too black.

Honestly, I'm mainly curious to find a way that these white-skinned people could survive on their own, without something weeding out the blackness for them.

29 Comments
2024/12/04
12:44 UTC

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