alabastermenagerie:

bookavid:

wymanthewalrus:

palindromedary-blog:

I do not consider any fantasy worldbuilding complete before you cannot tell me something about

• the culture’s sense of humour, with examples of popular jokes,
• popular literature VS classic literature,
• what children learn in school (especially history, maths, biology),
• the common grammar mistakes your conlang’s native speakers make,
• the culture’s cuisine, with recipes,
• toy production,
• the embarassing old songs people sing when they are really drunk, but would not admit knowing while sober.

I have all of these nailed down except for toys.

For thirty different cultures

this is a joke, right

THIS is the sort of thing that makes a culture really pop