Writer's Salon - Worldbuilding Wednesday

[silvercat17]

It's the first World-bulidng Wednesday! Tell us about something of your writing world. Today's suggestion: a weird creature or plant

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[himejoshiheart]

manacats for duskverse! literally off to the side, I made them up randomly one day with Nothing In Live A Live supporting them, they used to have gendered fur colors (nonbinary inclusive) but I scrapped that for like. gem colors ig.
heres one of them. her names translucent. she's over an era old.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, she's great!

[himejoshiheart]

kibby cat

[zero_pixel_count]

In the vast majority of things I write, the plants in particular are more-or-less familiar ones (especially true of the Border Country world because the whole shtick is that close to the real world, faerie looks like the real world).

But they do twist a little bit as you go deeper in. One I threw in recently as a casual mention was 'thirsty blackthorn' - real-world blackthorn/sloe is notorious for scratches causing infection (some farmers in our area will just go straight to the doctor if they get stuck by it on the assumption that it's going to go bad). My worldbuilding thought was, what if there's malice in that? No real wits, and you never really see it move in any way that's not plausibly the wind / bent branches springing back (though, turn away and it might well have moved when you look back), but it is just a little bit carnivorous. Roots and low branches tending to grow into trip-hazards and snares, that sort of thing.

[silvercat17]

Ooo, foreboding!