Welcome to the Wongery!
The Wongery is a site for information about imaginary worlds. The
core features of the Wongery are the
Central Wongery, a wiki with content created by
the site's owners, and the Public Wongery,
where anyone can post their creations. All of the main content of
these wikis is released under an open license, so anyone can use it
for their own works, subject to the license's conditions.
Furthermore, aside from the description of the world, there are pages
devoted to additional applications, including RPG statistics, LEGO
models, and more.
If you're new here, feel free to browse the Central
Wongery or the Public Wongery, check out
the forum, or read the blog
to see a bit of the site's history.
(Yes, we know the site could really use some illustrations, among other things. The Wongery
is still very much a work in progress.)
I've previously lamented in this blog my complete lack of artistic ability. Several times, in fact. I wish I oculd create illustration of the creatures and concepts described in the Wongery, that I could portray them as I envision tham and make eyecatching visuals to bring attention to my work, but unfortunately I am terrible at drawing. As I've said before, it's not for want of practice; I've loved to draw since I was a child, and I spent a lot of time on it, but while I suppose my artistic skills have improved somewhat, they're still not anywhere near what I'd consider remotely passable.
But the fact that I am bad at something does not stop me from trying to do it anyway. If it did, I guess I'd never do anything. And while I doubt I'll ever consider my art good enough to make illustrations for the Central Wongery mainspace, I'm still going to try and make art for some of the subspaces I'm less picky about, if only because I don't have the money to pay real artists to...
Last week the Wongery was finally (finally!) moved over to its "new" hosting plan. I made a blog post at the time in which I said that (to my astonishment) the migration seemed to have gone smoothly and everything appeared to be working. I did, however, add parenthetically (I add a lot of things parenthetically) that "I haven't tried using all the site's features yet, so it remains entirely possible that something is broken in a way that isn't immediately obvious."
Unsurprisingly, it turns out that something was indeed broken in a way that wasn't immediately obvious.
I had set aside some time yesterday to work on the Wongery. More specifically, I planned to work on—and hoped to finish—rewriting and expanding the old article on Plakhán, one of the onirarchies of the world of Dadauar. (Oddly, the first onirarchy I wrote an article about for some reason, despite its being quite atypical and not a place easy to set a story or an RPG campaign.)...
I suppose there are multiple words that have been referred to as the "F word" (I can think of at least three, and I'm sure there are more), but the F word that the title of this post refers to is... probably the one most often referred to by that designation. The four-letter word which is sometimes claimed to have originated from an acronym for "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge", and at other times for "Fornication Under Consent of the King". (Both of these are of course spurious folk etymologies; it did not really originate from an acronym at all.)
It is not a word I use in conversation. It is not a word I have ever spoken out loud except perhaps when acting, a pursuit, like drawing, in which I have dabbled more than I should have despite demonstrably possessing no talent for it whatsoever. This is not because I feel that the use of such obscenities is morally wrong; I do not object to other people using them...
