#im not even looking at religion worldbuilding videos bc they.. are so reductive

[moodr1ng]

i watch (/listen to) a lot of youtube vids/essays about writing and worldbuilding but eventually their usefulness to me (ESPECIALLY the worldbuilding ones) is always limited by the youtubers assumption that i am 1. writing sci-fi or fantasy, that my story will feature clear protagonists and antagonists, and that i will be writing in order to move forward a clear, action-based plot, and there seems to be no consideration towards the fact some people write like. other stuff than ya and high fantasy. 2. that their ideas of how societies or people or cultures or religions or whatever else function are universal, when in fact basically all these youtubers are white and culturally christian and constantly, evidently limited by their perspective lol

#im not even looking at religion worldbuilding videos bc they.. are so reductive #to them religion is all either christianity or pop culture greek mythos.. #they keep thinking their worldbuilding is so out there bc they put in weird concepts or alien races or whatever #but.. its still just. western christian culture repackaged. #they always fail to actually make a world there. #also they pontificate about avatar all the time #but interestingly fail to remember that when it comes to spirituality for example? #and tbh like. reference anything other than tolkien lovecraft and avatar please. there is more to worldbuilding. #i keep thinking 'my worldbuilding is clearly not original bc its just based on real world cultures w a different history' #but frankly actually. some people who pride themselves on their worldbuilding are doing more derivative stuff #all the while claiming to be doing stuff thats so different and out there #but the only different thing they can think of is fantastical/futuristic elements. #they cant imagine stepping out of the systems they currently live in or a poor rendering of medieval europe