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Practicum 203: Mainkinruru Holiday
Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 23/11/2025 Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 23/11/2025

Practicum 203: Mainkinruru Holiday

The holidays are upon us, so let us see what a big holiday for my fungimal species is like!

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Worldbuilding 301: Creating Your Flag
Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan 01/06/2025 Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan 01/06/2025

Worldbuilding 301: Creating Your Flag

In today’s blogpost, I go through general advice on how to design a flag and also how I made my own flags along with their reasoning.

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Worldbuilding 201: Rituals
Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan 27/04/2025 Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan 27/04/2025

Worldbuilding 201: Rituals

In today's post celebrating May Day, we examine rituals: what they are, what purpose they serve, and how we can use them in stories.

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Worldbuilding 203: Martyrs
Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan 21/04/2025 Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan 21/04/2025

Worldbuilding 203: Martyrs

In today’s Easter blogpost, I discuss martyrs: what are they, and why are they so powerful?

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Worldbuilding 205: Assimilation
Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan 06/04/2025 Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan 06/04/2025

Worldbuilding 205: Assimilation

In today’s blogpost, I discuss assimilation, or how one culture gets absorbed into another.

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Practicum: Holidays - Tribravery
Practicum, Culture Vivian Sayan 22/12/2024 Practicum, Culture Vivian Sayan 22/12/2024

Practicum: Holidays - Tribravery


In today's holiday blogpost, I do a practicum on the Tribravery, a Raixhen Holiday!

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Worldbuilding 201: Geography
Worldbuilding, Geography Vivian Sayan 01/12/2024 Worldbuilding, Geography Vivian Sayan 01/12/2024

Worldbuilding 201: Geography

In today's blogpost, we introduce geography and try to disentangle all its many meanings.

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Worldbuilding 203: YARRR PIRACY!
Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan 24/11/2024 Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan 24/11/2024

Worldbuilding 203: YARRR PIRACY!

Yarr, in today's blogpost, we be talkin' ‘bout pirates! How they be fitting ye world and some of the myths people be believin’.

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Worldbuilding 203: Voting Systems
Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan 03/11/2024 Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan 03/11/2024

Worldbuilding 203: Voting Systems

In today’s election special blogpost, we are taking a look into voting systems: what systems exist, and what can be done with them?

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Practicum: Ethical Circuses
Practicum, Culture Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 08/09/2024 Practicum, Culture Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 08/09/2024

Practicum: Ethical Circuses


In today's blogpost, Anne and I offer a practicum on ethical animals again, this time focusing on circuses as we explore a circus from Stellima!

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Worldbuilding 202: AI and Worldbuilding
Worldbuilding, Culture, Language Vivian Sayan 12/05/2024 Worldbuilding, Culture, Language Vivian Sayan 12/05/2024

Worldbuilding 202: AI and Worldbuilding

Today’s blogpost is about AI: what is is, how it works, and how to use it for worldbuilding.

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Writing 202: Savior Stories
Writing, Culture Anne Winchell 21/04/2024 Writing, Culture Anne Winchell 21/04/2024

Writing 202: Savior Stories

In today's blogpost, the magnificent Anne discusses saviour stories, the multiple issues with using them, and the ways you can use them to promote tolerance instead of intolerance.

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Worldbuilding and Writing 202: Bigotry
Worldbuilding, Writing, Culture Vivian Sayan 14/04/2024 Worldbuilding, Writing, Culture Vivian Sayan 14/04/2024

Worldbuilding and Writing 202: Bigotry

In today's post, Anne and I discuss bigotry in terms of worldbuilding and how to write about it without endorsing it.

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Worldbuilding 205: Winners write history
Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan 07/04/2024 Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan 07/04/2024

Worldbuilding 205: Winners write history

In today's blogpost, I examine the old saying, “History is written by the winners,” and dismantle it to reveal the truth.

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Worldbuilding 201 Spirituality & Religion
Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan 31/03/2024 Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan 31/03/2024

Worldbuilding 201 Spirituality & Religion

In today's post, I discuss spirituality and religion along with the basis for making your own.

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Worldbuilding 201: Holidays
Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan 24/12/2023 Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan 24/12/2023

Worldbuilding 201: Holidays

I discuss holidays in broad strokes to help you know what to think about when you worldbuild

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Worldbuilding 202: The Big Lie (of society)
Worldbuilding, Government Vivian Sayan 26/11/2023 Worldbuilding, Government Vivian Sayan 26/11/2023

Worldbuilding 202: The Big Lie (of society)

Today’s discussion is all about what I call “the Big Lie” which is inherent to all societies and is fundamental to their function.

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Worldbuilding 205: Food and cooking
Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan 19/11/2023 Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan 19/11/2023

Worldbuilding 205: Food and cooking

I discuss the basics of food and its role in society, and how you can do even more in alien settings.

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Worldbuilding & Writing 201: Scary stories
Worldbuilding, Writing, Language Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 29/10/2023 Worldbuilding, Writing, Language Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 29/10/2023

Worldbuilding & Writing 201: Scary stories

I talk about how scary stories can be used to enhance worldbuilding and writing in and of itself, and Anne provides an amazing example.

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Worldbuilding 201: Cultures
Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan 09/07/2023 Worldbuilding, Culture Vivian Sayan 09/07/2023

Worldbuilding 201: Cultures

A heavy discussion on the early stages of a culture and what makes it a culture.

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