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Worldbuilding 203: Love Potions and Aphrodisiacs
Worldbuilding, Biology Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 26/10/2025 Worldbuilding, Biology Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 26/10/2025

Worldbuilding 203: Love Potions and Aphrodisiacs

The Spooky Season is upon us, and with it, Anne and I are cooking together some deliciously horrifying potions… and their problems! 👻

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Worldbuilding 203: Poisons, venoms, toxins
Biology, Worldbuilding Vivian Sayan 12/10/2025 Biology, Worldbuilding Vivian Sayan 12/10/2025

Worldbuilding 203: Poisons, venoms, toxins

We’re back! With a Halloween-themed topic: Poisons! Can you survive?

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Practicum: Tsxobjit Queerness
Practicum, Sex and Gender Vivian Sayan 23/03/2025 Practicum, Sex and Gender Vivian Sayan 23/03/2025

Practicum: Tsxobjit Queerness

In today’s blogpost, I do a practicum on the Tsxobjezn and a topic that I hold dear: alien queerness! Why this? Read the post and find the hidden reason!

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Worldbuilding 203: Organs and Body Structures
Worldbuilding, Biology Vivian Sayan 23/02/2025 Worldbuilding, Biology Vivian Sayan 23/02/2025

Worldbuilding 203: Organs and Body Structures

In today’s blogpost, I discuss organs, what they are and their purposes, to give ideas for how to make your own alien or fantasy ones.

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Writing 203: Xenosenses
Writing, Biology Anne Winchell 02/02/2025 Writing, Biology Anne Winchell 02/02/2025

Writing 203: Xenosenses

In today's blogpost, Anne explores how to incorporate non-human senses into writing and has fun coming up with some of her own.

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Worldbuilding 202: Healthcare
Worldbuilding, Health Vivian Sayan 12/01/2025 Worldbuilding, Health Vivian Sayan 12/01/2025

Worldbuilding 202: Healthcare

In today’s blogpost, I explore the basics of a healthcare system for your world and how to use it to enrich your world.

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Worldbuilding 104: Trophism
Worldbuilding, Biology Vivian Sayan 08/12/2024 Worldbuilding, Biology Vivian Sayan 08/12/2024

Worldbuilding 104: Trophism

In today's blogpost, I discuss the various ways that living beings can acquire energy and their importance.

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Writing & Worldbuilding 202: Monsters
Writing, Worldbuilding, Animals Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 27/10/2024 Writing, Worldbuilding, Animals Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 27/10/2024

Writing & Worldbuilding 202: Monsters

In today's blogpost, Anne Winchell and I finalize our Spooky October marathon by talking about monsters! Whether real or imagined, we've got you covered!

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Worldbuilding 104: Real and Alien Parasites
Worldbuilding, Biology Vivian Sayan 04/08/2024 Worldbuilding, Biology Vivian Sayan 04/08/2024

Worldbuilding 104: Real and Alien Parasites

In today's blogpost, I discuss parasites: what they are, their role in nature, and possible ways to use them in fiction.

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Writing 202: Writing Human Senses
Writing, Biology Anne Winchell 16/06/2024 Writing, Biology Anne Winchell 16/06/2024

Writing 202: Writing Human Senses

In today's blogpost, Anne talks about human senses and how to write them along with how to deal with characters who differ from the norm.

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Worldbuilding 205: Alien Queerness
Worldbuilding, Sex and gender Vivian Sayan 08/10/2023 Worldbuilding, Sex and gender Vivian Sayan 08/10/2023

Worldbuilding 205: Alien Queerness

I discuss a bit on how one can add new kinds of queerness when reproductive systems change.

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Worldbuilding 201: Introducing Death
Worldbuilding, Health Vivian Sayan 17/09/2023 Worldbuilding, Health Vivian Sayan 17/09/2023

Worldbuilding 201: Introducing Death

I introduce death as a concept in worldbuilding and how many things affect people and their relationship to death.

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Worldbuilding 203: Alien Sexes & Society
Worldbuilding, Sex and Gender Vivian Sayan 16/07/2023 Worldbuilding, Sex and Gender Vivian Sayan 16/07/2023

Worldbuilding 203: Alien Sexes & Society

I discuss somewhat the relationship between and interaction of sex and society.

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Worldbuilding 201: Aquatic civilisations
Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan 18/06/2023 Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan 18/06/2023

Worldbuilding 201: Aquatic civilisations

Discussion about underwater civilisation. They are fascinating but rarely done in any meaningful and interesting way. So let’s try making them interesting!

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Worldbuilding 201: Alien Sexes
Worldbuilding, Sex and Gender Vivian Sayan 04/06/2023 Worldbuilding, Sex and Gender Vivian Sayan 04/06/2023

Worldbuilding 201: Alien Sexes

A discussion about weirdness in sexes and potential expansions for fictional creations!

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Worldbuilding 102: Illnesses and Diseases
Worldbuilding, Health Vivian Sayan 07/05/2023 Worldbuilding, Health Vivian Sayan 07/05/2023

Worldbuilding 102: Illnesses and Diseases

A discussion about illnesses and diseases that do exist and can be used for inspiration for fictional ones to spice up the world.

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Worldbuilding 102: Alien biology and senses
Worldbuilding, Biology Vivian Sayan 16/04/2023 Worldbuilding, Biology Vivian Sayan 16/04/2023

Worldbuilding 102: Alien biology and senses

A discussion on what a sense is, which humans and other species have and how to make up new ones

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Worldbuilding 101: Alien biologies
Worldbuilding, Biology Vivian Sayan 26/03/2023 Worldbuilding, Biology Vivian Sayan 26/03/2023

Worldbuilding 101: Alien biologies

A quick look into the world of alien biologies, or xenobiology. What can we make and what could be done to make things interesting?

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