My 2025 Reading List

A resource with an alternative or secret application

  I am working on reading all the responses to this prompt. My own entry was personal reagents.      
Flowers in Resistance Floriography
Material | Aug 2, 2025
This is a very creative idea, using flower arrangements to hide in plain sight and send clandestine messages in public spaces.      
Miracle Silver
Material | Jul 30, 2025
Miracle silver is a very intriguing article. I like the way science was applied and how the people of the world had correct but incomplete understanding of sanitation with regards to medical procedures.      
Soap
Material | Aug 31, 2025
soap a simple article but well executed showing how soap is used and seen in a wide spectrum of society.    
Dirinnium
Material | Jul 29, 2025

A magic-absorbent and highly reactive silvery metal often used to trick traders.

Dirinnium is a very creative concept that is well-executed. The article was visually well laid out too. I can see why this world has soo many followers.      
Nyxharra Bloom: The Source of Crimson Light
Material | Jul 28, 2025
I like that a flower can be processed to do so many benevolent and malevolent things, creating complex laws and attitudes around it.    
Devil Gears
Material | Aug 2, 2025

The totemic gravity source of the former Hidden Moon, now the Forged Moon. They are a dark reminder of the devil god's influence on the moon of the soulforged.

The article is short and could use more detail, but it's a very intriguing concept to have engines powered by suffering left behind by "absent" villains now that people have to figure out what to do with. Can they be used for non-evil purposes?    

Honorable mentions

  Fungal Leather in Cradle of Worlds   Rock Salt in Erisdaire   Monsoon opals in Ys Talovar   Emerald crystals in Aubekai   nivris eggshell in Núreht   Sniffledust in Dolvareth   Ghost Iron in Arcadia   oxidane in Perseus Arm   Azul honey in Elema   plastic in Tales from the Peppermint Twist   pine nuts in Isekei   A lover's gift in Luveri  

A place people aren't supposed to go

  I'm going through all of these. Reading kind of fast as I'm towards the end of the deadline for the Reading Challenge participation badge.   My own piece for this prompt was Faramund Fields. It got a positive response.   the ethereal plane Hardly the first fantasy writer to cover the aetherial plane but this was an evocative description that was efficiently presented.   For some reason I can't get the block link to work for this article with a preview of the header. It's a nice header.  
The Thundering desert
Geographic Location | Jul 22, 2025
a nice high fantasy barrier to entry that adventurers and villains may have to use as a short cut  
Grove of the Withering Root
Geographic Location | Jul 17, 2025

The Grove of the Withering Root is a stillborn corner of Vyrewood—unmoving, unchanging, wrong. In a realm defined by constant transformation, this grove is silent. No new growth. No whispers. No tricks.

Kind of blurring the lines between a fantasy swamp and a sci-fi swamp. I like the writing style. I'm giving his world a follow. Though at this point I can barely keep up with all my followed worlds.    
Dead Mountain
Geographic Location | Jul 19, 2025
A little wordy but overall good fantasy horror imagery throughout the article.    
Thermocline Grotto
Geographic Location | Jul 16, 2025
a glacier is an interesting take on a place peopel aren't supposed to go. And it's got a decent ecosystem of monsters  
Broom Closets
Geographic Location | Jul 9, 2025
this is the most unique take on this prompt I've seen and it was a fun little story vignette to boot.  
Sunfire Lake
Geographic Location | Jul 28, 2025
a nice urban legend-y lake well told  
The Mysterious Wildwood
Geographic Location | Aug 2, 2025
a well-protrayed haunted forest. An oldie but a goody.  

Honorable Mentions

  Void Space in Fatesight   Honama in Elunara   the Soufest system in Iphars   the Eastern Jungle in Defiance   Mountain Spider Cancel in Fabularia   the Sands of Madness in Aran'sha   Earth in Ascension Space V.3   Mah'hbum Cave in Ethnis   the Valley of Ashes in Gilden   Glassy Trench in Yonderverse   Lake of Sorrows in Hysal   Realm of the Dead versus the Sheep in Serenstia


Cover image: Summer Camp 2024 header by World Anvil Team

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