Worldbuilding Meta
What underlies the recipe to Icewall? Which ingredients are picked fresh for the simmer, or stored away to age like a fine Madeira?
The articles specific to this collection are meta to the Icewall universe, but it's also worth noting here that the โFalling Downโ collection strikes at the heart that sparked and drives Icewall's nature (I would add that collection to this one, but apparently that's not possible because the Worldbuilding Meta collection is itself already a sub-collection within the โIcewallโ parent collection, and so cannot itself contain a sub-subcollection).
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If you're building a hardcore sci-fi world, it helps to know real world particles and how they relate to one another, so here's a quick primer walkthrough. Normally, the quarks, gluons, leptons, and gauge bosons are presented only slightly arranged, without overview of hadrons (these being left to tables of data); here we look at both the mesons and the baryons in a periodic array (essentially three dimensional [within the constraints of a 2D screen plus perceived Z-depth], though some cells' multiple contents could be construed as spin-like further dimensions).
Why? Because this provides a starting point for plausible particle decays, a working knowledge of which particle relates to another (quark content, charge, etc.). Adlibyons and ergogenic fields (just my own names) are no problem in pulp sci-fi (which I love), but not so great if you're ficcing on something from Forward, Benford, Egan, Metzger, Cramer, or Sheffield. If you can't tell proton from a delta, then this is a good spot to start from.
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Social programming, unlike predictive programming, acts herein as blinders to prevent thought on a given topic or along certain lines. Thought Crime isn't even possible, and when somehow encountered, this program acts to immediately shout down any such opposing view, or beat it into non-existence if submission isn't yielded.
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Sometimes we want to go. Sometimes we come back, but not all the way.
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๐ซ๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐, ๐บ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐! โค๏ธ
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How to make and fix a series on AO3 by Charles_Rockafellor, ๐๐ทแถฆ๐โรฐษ E โ๏ธ๐ พ๏ธjออญอจฬฬฬฬตอฬฬฬฬฬฎโน๏ธ (Charles_Rockafellor)
Fandoms: AO3 help - Fandom
23 May 2021
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๐ Don't panic. ๐
This takes you through an easy step-by-step process so that you'll have as many series as you wish in no time โ and yes, you can even weave multiple series together, and rearrange their order.
Bonus on how to search for a series (and other search tips and details).
Did your series glitch out on Next Work โ, or give you two fics with the same part number and zero of the one before, and now it's freakin' tutti sciancato? Work with me here: we can fix this, we have the technology (cue music from Six Million Dollar Man).
Did your series disappear from the page that shows all of your different series? ใฝ โช โซ I think that I know why... โซ โช
(Bonus section on indenting [CSS work skin] and different-width spaces [HTML], and screen reader problems with lists and symbols, and styling list items' bullet point markers, and empty row glitches.)
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Every story tells a thousand stories โ editorial by Charles_Rockafellor
Fandoms: Original Work
26 May 2020
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Where do stories come from? Where do they go? What lies beneath the story being told, both within the world of the story and within the mind of the teller?
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๐ซ๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐, ๐บ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐! โค๏ธ