March 19, 2021
Show Archive
March 19, 2021
March 19, 2021
Year One
- Playing God in Your Spare Time: Introducing Year 1 hosts Marshall Ryan Maresca, Rowenna Miller, and Alexandra Rowland, and asking the question: When it comes to worldbuilding, where do you even start?
- Terra Firma and the Firmament: Maps, solar systems, and geology
- As Narrated by David Attenborough: Flora and fauna
- Civilization and You, with guest Fonda Lee: Basics of civilization-creating
- People in a Petri Dish: Populations and demographics
- An Interlude with Spreadsheets, with guest Jenn Lyons: Organizing your worldbuilding
- Just Shake and Add Magic: Building systems of magic
- A Trip over the Tongue: Language, conlangs, and weird words
- Picking the Ties that Bind, with guest RJ Theodore: Family structures
- Death Becomes Us: Mortality, morbidity, and funeral customs
- Threads of Life: Fiber arts
- The Play's the Thing, with (then-)guest Cass Morris: Popular culture and entertainment
- And Now a Reading from the Sacred Text, with guest Tasha Suri: Religious and sacred practices
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Something: Holidays and festivities
- Potpourri: Answering listener questions
- A Game of Anything but Thrones: Politics and government structures
- A Brief History of..., with guest S.A. Chakraborty: The long lens of history
- Monuments and Wonders: Wonders of the world, both natural and human-made
- Triskadekaphilia: A deep-dive into one of our invented cultures, the Thirteen Families
- When Two Wizards Love Each Other Very Much, with guest Cat Sebastian: Sex, desire, and relationships
- Medicine and the Concept of the Body, with guest Freya Marske: Medicine, health, and the body
- First We Eat, with (then-)guest Cass Morris: Food and mealtime
- We Are Gathered Together, with guest Tochi Onyebuchi: Ceremonies and rituals
- Dress for the Quest You Want, with guest Melissa Caruso: Clothing and accessories
- Rebel Scum and the Evil Empire, with guest Andrea Stewart: Empires, rebellions, and revolutions
- Take Pride in your Worldbuilding, with guest K.A. Doore: Crafting a queernorm culture
Year Two
- Potpourri 2: 2 Pot, 2 Pourri: Introducing new co-host Cass Morris and answering listener questions
- Framing the Concept: Physical art
- Cornerstones and Building Blocks: Crafting a city
- Fantasy Race and Avoiding Fantasy Racism, with guests K. Tempest Bradford, K.S. Villoso, and Sarah Guan: Interrogating questions of race and racism in fantasy worldbuilding
- Living by the Sword, with guest Michael R. Underwood: Armed combat and military cultures
- There's No Place Like Home, with guest Zoraida Córdova: Domestic spaces and homes
- Disability and Inclusion, with guest Elsa Sjunneson: Designing a fantasy world with disabilities in mind
- The Reluctant Worldbuilder, with guest Mike Chen: What to do when your instincts aren't to overcomplicate your writing life
- The Circle of Life: Youth, aging, and life cycles
- Toil and Trouble: Witches and their particular brand of magic
- Names Are Hard -- A Deep Dive into WFM's Shared World: Applying the considerations from several past episodes to our co-created world
- Writing the Dark Side, with guest Anna Stephens: Antagonists and evil characters
- Three-pourri: Another listener questions episode!
- The Sacred and the Profane, with guest K. B. Wagers: Etiquette, social contracts, sacralization, and cussing
- Myths, Legends, and Other Lies of History, with guests Marie Brennan and Alyc Helms (M.A. Carrick): The stories your characters tell about themselves and their cultures
- Life, Worldbuilding, & Everything, with guest Stina Leicht: The craft of working your worldbuilding into your book
- Getting There is Half the Fun, with guest Kate Elliott: Transportation and vehicles
- Old MacDonald Had a Dragon: Domestic animals and furry companions
- Let's Be Diplomatic: Diplomacy and espionage
- Join in If You Know the Chorus, with guest C. L. Clark: Texts-within-texts
- The Timey-Wimey Episode: The concept, calculation, and charting of the passage of time