wow what a long title hope it brings you all down my rabbit hole
anyways
I'm looking for lil things to add on to my Wonderland to make the world nonsensical, absurd, and to build a culture of contrary.
Examples of what I have so far:
- seasons are temperamental- they last as long as wonderland wants. Or as short. For example, the "10 year spring" or the "13 minute 23 second winter" (okay that's highly specific maybe just 13 minutes lol)
- the directions are left, right, up, and down. None of that north/south/east/west nonsense, no. Also you know how we'll have a 1st north street? Consider…. 1st right street. "Take a left on first right." (I'M SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS ONE IT'LL BE FUN)
What other elements would you add to make wonderland as whimsical and nonsensical as possible?
a note: if it gets a teensy tiny bit dark or twisted, that's probably okay, this is a fractured fairy tale anyways. I'll let you know if it's too dark. But I really just want pure and utter nonsense.
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Everyone has absurd hair colors?
The nobles all have a drug ring of sorts?
I have a lot of crazy wonderlandafull thoughts.
Then keep going, by all means!
Maybe absurdly colored buildings, sidewalks, etc?
The flowers can’t talk to you, but they can talk; if you listen closely, you can hear them, even though you can’t understand them.
Yeah those are two ideas
Sorry they’re pretty bad :P
In Through the Looking Glass, the White Queen mentions “the last set of Tuesdays”, so it’d be cool if each week was filled with random numbers of one day, for example
One week would be three days long and made up of only Wednesday’s, and the next is sixteen days but only made of Monday’s
Wow this brings me back to the wonderland story I was writing like five months ago I should finish that
Not to mention the rp
Turtle, I love the talking flowers concept!
Also, "I Don't Know Who I am Anymore," I LOVE THAT SO MUCH
If you eat any natural foods in certain areas they work as drugs?
I already have natural magical properties built into most foods, and yes, the area affects it
great minds think alike! : D
I have a lot of wonderland ideas that envolve drugs…
This is more of a cultural idea, but maybe instead of celebrating on certain days of every year, maybe every day is celebrated as a holiday, but there are a couple of days a year where everyone goes about things that would be considered mundane to us. Like getting groceries, going to work/school or whatever the equivalent of that is in your world? Just a thought!
I have a lot of wonderland ideas that envolve drugs…
I noticed lol
Sadly I won't be able to really incorporate them into my story, but they're still v interesting!
Ooooh, what if at random times of day, certain things start to float or change colors? Like, one Wednesday, at precisely 6:45:3, the town hall turned bright pink and floated for three minutes straight.
ooooh building off of that, what if the whole world just turned upside down at a random time?
Like on Mortis in Star Wars where there's no concept of night or day and everything is very fluid.
Measurements in this world change depending on the ruler's growth? E.g. The definition of a metre would be the current height of the ruler, so it would change yearly, even monthly!
This could be spread out throughout the royal family/government as well (A ruler's height is a metre, a male heir's foot length is a feet, a female heir's height is a yard etc.).
Ahh you are all so fantastic! Thank you!
Okay a slight shift in prompt:
"I sometimes believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast?"
what whimsical impossible things do you believe before breakfast?
Hmm
Spontaneous change of personality? Receiving a memory that doesn’t actually belong to you? Remembering ‘backwards’ like in the Looking Glass? Waking up with an extra limb? Smelling sounds/ seeing tastes sorta like a collective synesthesia thing? Waking up in someone else’s house but when you eat breakfast you appear back at your own house?
OKAY YES TO THE MEMORY THING I HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THAT
I'll incorporate some synesthesia, that def vibes with wonderland
I also like the last one lol
also remembering backwards!
