We get asked about fantasy cussing all the time -- but before you can explore profanity, you have to decide what a culture holds sacred. What objects, rituals, or social contracts are inviolable? What bodily functions are unseemly for public discourse? What lines are there between etiquette and sacralization? Author K. B. Wagers joins us to explore building concepts of the sacred and the profane into your imagined world!
Transcript for Episode 40 (with thanks to our scribes! who had to do a lot of referential parsing in this episode, particularly)
Episode 137: Smile and Be a Villain, ft. CHLOE GONG
Episode 136: Live from WorldCon in Glasgow!
Episode 135: Philosophical Acts of Translation, ft. KEN LIU
Episode 134: Print The Legend: Weaving Myth and History into One, ft. NALO HOPKINSON
Episode 133: The Devil in the Details, ft. M.J. KUHN
Episode 132: Just a Small Town Worldbuild, ft. CHERIE PRIEST
Episode 131: Projects!
Episode 130: Large-Scale Worldbuilding for Character-Centric Worlds, ft. REBECCA ROANHORSE
Episode 129: Motorcycles and Magic, ft HANA LEE
Episode 128: The Carousel of Progress
Episode 127: Expanding Worlds
Episode 126: When Worldbuilding Gets Wild, ft PREMEE MOHAMED
Episode 125: Monstrous Worldbuilding, ft. JOHN WISWELL
Episode 124: Worldbuilding in Review, ft. PAUL WEIMER
Episode 123: Worldbuilding in Your Underpants, ft. JOHN HARTNESS
Episode 122: Now Kiss: Building Romance into Your Worlds, ft. GWENDA BOND
Episode 121: Brave New Worlds, ft. FONDA LEE and MELISSA CARUSO
Episode 120: World Bibles and the Gospel According to Tolkien
Episode 119: Worldbuilding Philosophy and Practices
Episode 118: Passing the Torch
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