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Worldbuilding for Masochists — 182 episodes
Episode 180: Subgenre Spin, ft. FONDA LEE
Episode 179: That's Me in the Spotlight, Worldbuilding My Religion, ft. VAISHNAVI PATEL
Episode 178: Character and Conflict, ft. CARISSA BROADBENT
Episode 177: Getting in Tune: Music in Worldbuilding, ft. MIA TSAI
Episode 176: Atmospheric Conditions, ft. H.M. LONG
Episode 175: Folklore Monsters and Their Origins, ft. AMÉLIE WEN ZHAO
Episode 174: Stress-Testing Your Worldbuilding, ft. ANDREA STEWART
Episode 173: Talking about Writing: A Crossover Episode with SFF ADDICTS (Adrian M. Gibson, M.J. Kuhn, & Greta Kelly)
Episode 172: Inquiries and Interrogatives
Episode 171: Eight Days a Week
Episode 170: Save It for the Patreon
Episode 169: For the Cartography-Curious
Episode 168: It's Bigger on the Inside... of Book Two, ft. APARNA VERMA
Episode 167: Spice Up Your Worldbuilding. ft. NIA DAVENPORT
Episode 166: The Histo-Remix, ft. ALIX E. HARROW
Episode 165: Pour One out for Your Worldbuilding
Special Episode: ArmadilloCon 2025!
Episode 164: Worldbuilding and the Lens of Perspective, ft. MARTIN CAHILL
Episode 163: Gryphons and Dragons and Owlbears, Oh My!
Episode 162: A Leap of Faith: Worldbuilding Fantasy Religions, ft. DEVA FAGAN
Episode 161: The On Ramp
Episode 160: Cozy Worldbuilding, ft. SARAH BETH DURST
Episode 159: Holding Out For A Heroic Worldbuild, ft. JOHN WISWELL
Episode 158: The Invisible Hand of Worldbuilding, ft. ELIZABETH BEAR
Episode 157: How Far We've Come, ft ROWENNA MILLER
Episode 156: From a Certain Point of View, ft. KATE ELLIOTT
Episode 155: The Rule of Cool, ft. JIM C. HINES
Episode 154: Judge Worldbuilding by Its Size, Do You?
Episode 153: A Long, Skilled, Satisfying Cunning Linguist Session
Episode 152: Setting the Scene, ft AI JIANG
Episode 151: Everybody’s Working for the Worldbuild, ft AUGUST CLARKE
Episode 150: Team Efforts, ft. THIRD PERSON (Xen, Matt Roen, and Sara Wile)
Episode 149: Especially the Lies: Building Unreliable Worlds, ft. MARINA LOSTETTER
Episode 148: Horny on Main: Smutting Up Your Worldbuilding
Episode 147: Something Is A-Myth, ft. KRITIKA H. RAO
Episode 146: A Matter of Character (ft SOPHIE BURNHAM)
Episode 145: To Worldbuild or Not to Worldbuild, That Is the Question
Episode 144: What Do You Do with a B.A. in Magic?
Episode 143: Children of the Revolution
Episode 142: Law & Order (DUN DUN)
Episode 141: More Perfect Unions
Episode 140: Practical Magic, ft. ROWENNA MILLER
Episode 139: 2 Crunchy, 2 Curious
Episode 138: Crunchy Questions
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
Episode 117: More Queries and Quandaries
Episode 116: Choosing, Presuming, and Decision Fatigue
Episode 115: When Not Writing Is Writing, ft. MUR LAFFERTY
Episode 114: The St Crispin’s Day Special, ft. ANNA SMITH SPARK
Episode 113: Trust Your Instincts, ft. SEANAN MCGUIRE
Episode 112: Whirlwind Worldbuilding ft. JAMES L. SUTTER
Episode 111: Let’s Pick a Fight: Balancing Realism and the Fantastical in Martial Matters, ft. S.L. HUANG
Episode 110: In Your Leisure Time, ft. MATT WALLACE
Episode 109: Seer-iously: Religion, Prophecy, Politics and Tradition, ft. APARNA VERMA
Episode 108: The Myth, The Legend, The Cultural Impacts, ft. EHIGBOR OKOSUN
Episode 107: Livin’ on a Prayer: Religion, Worldview, and the Individual
Episode 106: Lighten Up: Making your World a Little Grin-Dark, ft. M.J. KUHN
Episode 105: We’re Going on an Adventure!
Episode 104: Riffing on the Real World, ft. KAT HOWARD
Episode 103: Worldbuilding - It Builds Character, ft. KRITIKA H. RAO
Episode 102: Side Dishes and Second Helpings: Serving Up Some Food Culture, ft CHANA PORTER
Episode 101: All About the Zhuzh
Episode 100: The Game is Afoot! ft. CATE OSBORN, ANDREW NOME, and SHARANG BISWAS
Episode 99: Connect the Dots
Episode 98: Mysterious Worlds, ft. ANDREA STEWART
Episode 97: Perfect Pairing - Intersectionality and Worldbuilding, ft SUYI DAVIES OKUNGBOWA
Episode 96: The Big Blue World: Oceanic Worldbuilding, ft DARCIE LITTLE BADGER
Episode 95: Building and Bending Gender, ft. G.R. MACALLISTER
Episode 94: Natural and Supernatural Disasters
Episode 93: Queries and Quandaries
Episode 92: Ringing in the New Year
Episode 91: Making the Incredible Credible, ft. CHARLAINE HARRIS
Episode 90: The Editor’s Take ft. BRIT HVIDE
Episode 89: Stealing the Best Parts of History, ft. LAURA ANNE GILMAN
Episode 88: Hashtag Aesthetic, ft. MARY ROBINETTE KOWAL
Episode 87: Building Up Hope, ft BRANDON CRILLY
Episode 86: Live at WorldCon!
Episode 85: Falling in Love Again… with Worldbuilding Ft SARA MUELLER
Episode 84: Make or Break Worldbuilding Deep Dive: The MNG
Episode 83: Using Our Vacation Time
Episode 82.5: Live at ArmadilloCon!
Episode 82: From One-Note Worlds to Complete Space Operas, ft. Valerie Valdes
Episode 81: That’s Just Good Policy feat. VICTOR MANIBO
Episode 80: Festivus for the Rest Of Us
Episode 79: Building Past the Horizon
Episode 78: Reimagining Relationships w/ FOZ MEADOWS
Episode 77: Pull a Thread, Build A World w/ KRITIKA H. RAO
Episode 76: Farm to Table Fantasy ft. SARAH GAILEY
Episode 75: Worldbuilding Beyond Borders
Episode 74: FMK Worldbuilding Edition
Episode 73: In-Line Worldbuilding ft. MELISSA CARUSO
Episode 72: This is Cerulean, Right?: Fashion, Politics, and Power, ft. NATANIA BARRON
Episode 71: X Marks The Spot ft. PENG SHEPHERD
Episode 70: Magical Ethics and Ethical Magics ft. KATE HEARTFIELD
Episode 69: The Sexy Things People Don’t Want You To Think About, ft. ELSA SJUNNESON
Episode 68: Potpour-V
Episode 67: WorldCon Minisode
Episode 66: Deep History, ft MARIE BRENNAN and ALYC HELMS
Episode 65: Money Makes The Worldbuilding Go ‘Round
Episode 64: The Times, They Are A-Changin‘, ft. FONDA LEE
Episode 63: It’s A Grimdark World After All ft. ANNA SMITH SPARK
Episode 62: Otherworldly Worldbuilding ft. SEANAN MCGUIRE
Episode 61: Worldbuilding: The Search for Intelligent Life ft. MARTHA WELLS
Episode 60: Worldbuilding: The Never-Ending Story
Episode 59: Ooooh, Shiny! Crafting a World from Shiny Ideas
Episode 58: L’Etat, C’est… Quoi? ft. C.L. POLK
Episode 57: Ask a Necromancer ft. AMANDA DOWNUM
Episode 56: Word Building ft. SARAH BETH DURST
Episode 55: Epic GrimDarkPunk Romance
Episode 54: Cyberpunk Worldbuilding ft. PJ MANNEY
Episode 53: Worldbuilding 301
Episode 52: Pot4ri
Episode 51: Gender, Equality, & Gender Equality ft. E.J. BEATON
Episode 50: Playing in Somebody Else's Sandbox, ft. DELILAH DAWSON, TINI HOWARD, DAVID MACK, and MIKE CHEN
Episode 49: An Immodest Proposal
Episode 48: That Belongs in a Museum, ft. MARINA LOSTETTER
Episode 47: The Timey-Wimey Episode
Episode 46: Join in If You Know the Chorus, Ft. C. L. CLARK
Episode 45: Let’s Be Diplomatic
Episode 44: Old MacDonald Had a Dragon
Episode 43: Getting There is Half the Fun, ft. KATE ELLIOTT
Episode 42: Life, Worldbuilding, & Everything, ft. STINA LEICHT
Episode 41: Myths, Legends and Other Lies of History ft. Marie Brennan & Alyc Helms (M.A. Carrick)
Episode 40: The Sacred and the Profane, ft. K. B. WAGERS!
Episode 39: Episode 39: Three-pourri
Episode 38: Writing the Dark Side ft. ANNA STEPHENS
Episode 37: Names Are Hard -- A Deep Dive into WFM’s Shared World
Episode 36: Toil and Trouble
Episode 35: The Circle of Life
Episode 34: The Reluctant Worldbuilder (ft. MIKE CHEN)
Episode 33: Disability and Inclusion ft. ELSA SJUNNESON
Episode 32: There’s No Place Like Home ft. ZORAIDA CÓRDOVA
Episode 31: Living by the Sword ft. MICHAEL R UNDERWOOD
Episode 30: Fantasy Race and Avoiding Fantasy Racism ft. K. TEMPEST BRADFORD, K.S. VILLOSO, and SARAH GUAN!
Episode 29: Cornerstones and Building Blocks
Episode 28: Framing the Concept
Episode 27: Potpourri 2: 2 Pot, 2 Pourri (Welcome to Season 2!)
Episode 26: Take Pride in your Worldbuilding featuring K.A. DOORE!
Episode 25: Rebel Scum and the Evil Empire Featuring ANDREA STEWART!
Episode 24: Dress for the Quest You Want Featuring MELISSA CARUSO!
Episode 23: We Are Gathered Together Featuring TOCHI ONYEBUCHI!
Episode 22: First We Eat (Featuring CASS MORRIS!)
Episode 21: Medicine and the Concept of the Body (Featuring FREYA MARSKE!)
Episode 20: When Two Wizards Love Each Other Very Much... (feat. Cat Sebastian!)
Episode 19: Triskadekaphilia
Episode 18: Monuments and Wonders
Episode 17: A Brief History of... (featuring S.A. Chakraborty)
Episode 16: A Game of Anything But Thrones
Episode 15: Potpourri
Episode 14: Have Yourself A Merry Little Something
Episode 13: And Now A Reading From The Sacred Text... (feat. Tasha Suri)
Episode 12: The Play’s The Thing (feat. Cass Morris!)
Episode 11: Threads of Life
Episode 10: Death Becomes Us
Episode 9: Picking the Ties that Bind (with guest star RJ Theodore)
Episode 8: A Trip Over the Tongue
Episode 7: Just Shake and Add Magic
Episode 6: An Interlude with Spreadsheets (with guest star Jenn Lyons!)
Episode 5: People in a Petri Dish
Episode 4: Civilization and You! (with guest star Fonda Lee!)
Episode 3: As Narrated by David Attenborough
Episode 2: Terra Firma and the Firmament
Episode 1: Playing God In Your Spare Time