Welcome to paracosmers

[matsushima]

Hello and welcome to paracosmers! I'm opening this community during 3weeks4dreamwidth in the hopes of finding other people with paracosms, inner/other worlds, soulscapes, etc. (While paracosms are generally assumed to be imaginary and intentionally created, here at paracosmers, we make no assumptions about the reality experience of members and their worlds.)

Every week, I'll post a discussion prompt about paracosms.

Please feel free to introduce yourself and your paracosm in a new post. You can use the template below (or not):
<b>Name:</b> <b>Pronouns:</b> <b>Age:</b> (approximate is fine) <b>This-world location:</b> <b>What is your paracosm called?</b> <b>How long have you been building your paracosm?</b> <b>Anything else you'd like to share about your paracosm?</b>

Please tag your post with #introduction and #!tag needed - I'll give you a member tag. Posts are members locked by default.

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Hello!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Name: ysabetwordsmith
This-world location: central Illinois

What is your paracosm called?
Well, I'm a worldwalker, so I visit many different realms, some imaginary, others not, and they go by a bunch of different names. Some I've built, most I've just wandered into.

How long have you been building your paracosm?

I think the oldest ones I still use are around ... 40-45 years old maybe? And the most recent around 1-2 years or so.

Anything else you'd like to share about your paracosm?

Sometimes other people can get into mine. If that's going to unnerve anyone, be careful not to fall in. Mostly my friends find it highly entertaining when we can both see the same things happening there without talking to each other about it.

My Serial Poetry page and Shared Worlds pages have links to materials from a bunch of different settings. Terramagne for Polychrome Heroics is one that several other folks have gotten into and also written in.

Peculiar-Earth for Peculiar Obligations is among the newest and doesn't have a landing page yet. This started out with a prompt about Quakers in organized crime, which quickly turned into Quakers and pirates, which is fun. And then I saw the bus-sized crocodile that I definitely did not put there. What are they even eating? Oh, boat-sized turtles. Okaaayyy ... It took me a while to figure out that this world's slightly-lower aggression means that a lot more of its megafauna survived the Late Pleistocene extinction. I'm still working out what's left.

A Conflagration of Dragons and Daughters of the Apocalypse (I don't think I've named either setting as such) are both handbuilt and have some notes posted.

I'm also a fan of quantum physics with its interesting ideas about different dimensions and levels of reality.