Vulpithecus fidelis, AKA the monkey fox, an arboreal quadruped with a prehensile tail, and the only other creature besides humans known to have achieved sapience.
They've only been around as long as modern humans, but they evolved a written language directly from a scent-marking behavior rather than inventing writing much later to record spoken language. This innate literacy allowed them to reach level II on the Kardashev scale millennia before humans discovered agriculture.
Jan 01 · 4 months ago · 👍 stack, The_Jackal · 😄 1
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🗡️ The_Jackal · Jan 03 at 05:48:
Anthropomorphism is out, monkifying non-primate creatures is in! Are these drawings just little tidbits you add lore to, or are they part of a larger worldbuilding project of some kind?
📻 Anchorite [OP] · Jan 03 at 20:16:
@The_Jackal My thought process when coming up with them was "I don't want them to be anthropomorphic, so I'll devolve the human characteristics to make them more simian." An unexpectedly fun twist to this decision was that I now have to answer the question "How would quadrupedal sophonts do X?" They are part of a larger constructed world, but it's not meant to accompany any published media, it's worldbuilding for its own sake. I have a few conlangs made for them, and I posted one of my stories on the sci fi subspace. Most of my work is posted on the CBB forum.
— The Lonely Galaxy megathread on the CBB forum
— The grammar of the Commonthroat language on FrathWiki
🗡️ The_Jackal · Jan 04 at 00:29:
@Anchorite I might make a few stories in my project, but I have a project I created for the sake of worldbuilding as well (you should be able to find it in s/art). It started out as an excuse for making my own knockoff SCPs and the biotech and retrofuturism aspects just came from me thinking they would make a cool mix. I can't draw so it's all text, but I might practice to eventually make some things to upload here. I'm interested in seeing what else you'll make. The CBB forum looks nest though, I might upload my project there. Do you know any other good sites to upload worldbuilding projects?
📻 Anchorite [OP] · Jan 07 at 11:10:
@The_Jackal The CBB is an excellent place for your work. My username there is lurker, an ironic name given nearly 1% of this 15-year old forum's content is mine and I only joined 2 years ago. Like I said, ADHD hyperfixation. I also post frequently on a worldbuilding community on Lemmy (fediverse Reddit clone), but other than myself people seldom post there, or maybe I post too much lol. Lemmy as a whole is a profoundly unpleasant place IMO, but that specific worldbuilding community isn't half bad other than the lack of content.
— c/worldbuilding on lemmy.world
🗡️ The_Jackal · Jan 07 at 18:23:
@Anchorite That sounds nice, but I'm not sure if I'll use the Fediverse. I don't know if I plan on really 'publishing' my project and related things, but I wonder how it would be putting it somewhere where people could make contributions. I don't want it anywhere on Archive of Our own or something similar though.
📻 Anchorite [OP] · Jan 07 at 18:45:
@The_Jackal The CBB is an excellent place for you to get comments on your work. I know it's the CONLANG bulletin board but your world need not include conlangs to be posted there. And if you are interested in learning about language construction there are plenty of people willing to help.
Traditional forums are a much better format for this sort of thing. You can make a single megathread and post under that, and others can comment. Here everything I post floods everyone's feed and people will eventually get sick of it I'm sure.
🗡️ The_Jackal · Jan 07 at 19:00:
@Anchorite I'm considering making an account there. I also left a couple more comments explaining how I intend for the beasts to be under my Kovechir post as well.