New Worlds: Cultural Spheres + Let's Go to the Zoo!

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As most of you probably know by now, one of the bonus funding goals for the New Worlds Patreon covers a fifth post in the months that have five Fridays. For these "theory posts," I step away from the specifics of what goes into a world, and instead look at more abstract matters: either techniques of handling this stuff in writing, or anthropological concepts of use in worldbuilding. This month is one of the latter, with the idea of cultural spheres.

Also, I forgot last week that my cross-posting plugin is broken, so I failed to manually cross-post the announcement of the essay on zoos and menageries, wrapping up the month of animals.