worldbuilding projects

one of my hobbies is making up fictional worlds! i like to focus on physical realism, because i'm not very creatively gifted :'<

tidally locked planet

my current main project is a tidally-locked planet. i think that the people on there would probably have some really interesting ideas about a bunch of stuff, cause they've got a weird position to view the world

as it says on my home page, i like maths :3 and, since i'm aiming for realism, there's a lot to do! which is good. unfortunately, i'm kinda stupid, so idk how to solve some of these problems yet. stuff like

• the specific shape the planet takes, beyond just "it's a triaxial ellipsoid" actually i decided that i was fixating on something that really doesn't matter :3
• the orbital period it needs to maintain a magnetic field
• exactly which particular sort of star it orbits, more specific than just a k-type

the physics is still fun though. also, i figured out a bunch of stuff that has societal implications, like how they won't be able to make stationary satellites and whatnot

world of cat people

another thing i'm doing is a world where the human analogues are two closely-related species of cat. i'm still working out how that happens, but i never claimed to be super good at biology. the society i'm focusing on is in the tail-end of their industrial revolution. for various reasons, they developed rockets a bit earlier than we did.