The Plot Doctor

What if rather than a sky father and an earth mother you had a lesbian couple? Rather than some bearded dude planting his seed, the two came together and force of their sex raised the mountains and carved the valleys. What if their spit became the oceans and their sighs became the breeze? What if the generation of life came from their love, their queer love, rather than something as mechanical as sex? What if everyone in the world is a child of love and choice?

What if the gods of war and peace are a gay man and their enby lover? Chasing one another down the centuries, never managing to be present where the other is. What if war is seen as the sharp piercing pain of penetration? And peace is the gentle relaxation of loving aftercare. What if through the lens of queer love war is viewed as a sad but necessary price of creating a more gentle world? What if the only time they meet is at the beginning and end of war?And their anger and sorrow incites people to war and leads them to peace?

What if the gods of rivers take their long and winding sensuous course until they gather power and penetrate the ocean, but every stream feeding them is another god? a million trains being run to create the most potent top imaginable. 

Mythology and sex have always been intertwined. Why not make it gay as fuck?

What if everyone in the world can change their body’s sex at will? either, or, both or neither? What if everyone could just make what was on the outside perfectly reflect their inner world? 

What if they could go beyond the humanoid template? What if somehow they could make their bodies express more abstract concepts, mythological creatures, rainbows? 

Perhaps people wouldn’t even need to adjust their bodies if they don’t want to? Maybe in this world everyone just has the power to project their gender so strongly that there is never any mistaking it? Or everyone has the power to instinctively grasp and understand every gender presentation.

What if all the great romances of the past never discussed the gender of their subjects? What if any love song could be about anyone? What if the entire culture of the world was built around queerness? Gendered anything exists only insofar as the people who want it to be gendered claim it for their own. 

Gender in our world is heavily entwined with systems of power, why not divorce it from oppression?

What if the hero of the world's greatest epic romance was explicitly ace? What if the gold standard of romance in this world is divorced from sex? What if the connection between two people was held in more high regard than the mechanical aspect of it all? 

What if the world's legal systems explicitly recognised polyamory? What if having more than two parents was common? What do familial kinship dynamics look like in a world where extensive interconnected families are common? How does inheritance play out?

What if the world recognised that some people have a very fluid experience of sexuality? What if that society was more open to polyamory as a result? What if the idea that you might go through periods of not being attracted to your partner was accepted? How would relationships look? More open and understanding? 

How does all of this affect material culture? What do houses look like to house very large extended families? Do people still give expensive tokens of affection or are they cheaper and more symbolic? Are there communal platonic living arrangements for those that are aro ace? How does food preparation and consumption look? What do children’s things look like to handle multiple children of roughly the same age?

My point with all of these question is to highlight just how far you can go in making world’s queer. How much a society can change and adapt to be more inclusive. How you can take common things that most worlds have and subvert them by making them queer as hell. How you can make people question why they’ve always done it the one way.

Hope this was useful. I’ll likely start building a super queer world and post my progess here. 

Thank you all for your continued support. It’s appreciated so much!