Selftopias
See also https://glowficwiki.noblejury.com/books/glowfic-events-and-trends/page/selftopias-trend for a writeup explaining the trend.
dath ilan
Iarwain's setting. Originally created for an April Fool's Day Tumblr post, as a setting in which all coordination problems have been solved and people learn decision theory in school. The setting has evolved somewhat over time, and is now is Iarwain/Eliezer's medianverse. Some details of the setting in early posts/threads may not still hold for the current version of the setting.
dath ilan's name is intentionally lowercase.
Qualities of dath ilan include:
- Keepers deal with infohazards and such
- Wheat is not a major staple crop in the modern era
- History was screened off at great expense for reasons that are kept secret
- The ratio of sadists to masochists is extremely skewed, and so the entire concept of BDSM is considered an infohazard
- Note: in early dath ilan threads, before the evolution toward being Iarwain's medianverse, the concept of BDSM was simply unfamiliar to everyone
- Everyone gets taught economics, decision theory, etc
- Society makes heavy use of prediction markets and other systems to optimize things
For non-glowfic posts on dath ilan, which do not include history being screened off, see dath ilan - LessWrong.
Threads containing characters from dath ilan:
- a dath ilani matchmaker in King Randale's court
- but hurting people is wrong (sandbox)
- Authors: Iarwain, Alicorn
- Wiki page
- Note: this was an early dath ilan thread, setting details may have changed
- Note: This is also the only thread partially set inside dath ilan itself.
- once you have reached the summit of your own heart
- Iarwain has declared this thread non-canonical to dath ilan
- planecrash (Continuity)
- Authors: Iarwain, lintamande
- Wiki page
Threads specifically containing Merrin, Swimmer963's character alted into dath ilan:
- a thematic math hello
- Merrin in mdzs
- green the hills and lovely
- Merrin and Belrun in Green (Alicorn's selfworld)
- in a free unstinted measure
- Merrin in Atlas Shrugged
- a dath ilani EMT in queen abrogail's court
- Merrin in Linta/Iarwain's Cheliax
- contre nous de la tyrannie
- sounds like something brian tomasik would be against but okay
- Merrin in westwind's Cthulhu Mythos
Anomaland
NormalAnomaly's medianverse.
Green
Alicorn's medianverse.
Ozytopia (Teachingverse)
Westwind's medianverse.
This setting was first introduced on their blog as an April Fool's day post: My Second April Fools’ Confession.
Threads set here or containing characters from here:
- once you have reached the summit of your own heart
- A medianverse summit where Ozytopians participate
- keep calm and drink tea
- boys and girls across the world
- why'd you take your glasses off if you don't intend to fight
- Surreal and Sublime
- the natural law is written on the human heart
- it is a beautiful day at the censorship bureau and you are a horrible medianworld
- Medianverse fiction thread hosted by Ozytopia
- the invisible dragon in our garage is not impermeable to flour
- Spinoff medianverse nonfiction thread hosted by Ozytopia
Bicameral
Swimmer963's medianverse, characterized by most people having multiple personalities, which can be characterized as "Law" and "Chaos." The world is also divided into (above-ground) "Law" and (below-ground) "Chaos" parts.
Threads set in Bicameral:
- won't you get to know me?
- You wouldn't like me when I'm angry
- never bring a flag on the summit
- Medianverse summit where Bicameral participates