An interesting line of questioning struck me today.

I've already pondered the relative merits of rabbits and smeerps. Today, though, it occurred to me that I'm not sure the goblins in my fantasy world are so similar to the goblin archetype - what there is of a goblin archetype, anyway - that calling them that is the best option. So: calling a ( Read more... )

I recently ran up against an interesting worldbuilding issue: a reason for smeerps.

In case you're not familiar with the convention of "calling a rabbit a smeerp", it is when a writer of sci-fi or fantasy includes something that is clearly recognizable as an existing object, concept, or creature (e.g. clock, love, rabbit) in a non-human (or at ( Read more... )