Welcome to the Wongery!
The Wongery is a site for information about imaginary worlds. The
core features of the Wongery are the
Central Wongery, a wiki with content created by
the site's owners, and the Public Wongery,
where anyone can post their creations. All of the main content of
these wikis is released under an open license, so anyone can use it
for their own works, subject to the license's conditions.
Furthermore, aside from the description of the world, there are pages
devoted to additional applications, including RPG statistics, LEGO
models, and more.
If you're new here, feel free to browse the Central
Wongery or the Public Wongery, check out
the forum, or read the blog
to see a bit of the site's history.
(Yes, we know the site could really use some illustrations, among other things. The Wongery
is still very much a work in progress.)
Last week the Wongery was finally (finally!) moved over to its "new" hosting plan. I made a blog post at the time in which I said that (to my astonishment) the migration seemed to have gone smoothly and everything appeared to be working. I did, however, add parenthetically (I add a lot of things parenthetically) that "I haven't tried using all the site's features yet, so it remains entirely possible that something is broken in a way that isn't immediately obvious."
Unsurprisingly, it turns out that something was indeed broken in a way that wasn't immediately obvious.
I had set aside some time yesterday to work on the Wongery. More specifically, I planned to work on—and hoped to finish—rewriting and expanding the old article on Plakhán, one of the onirarchies of the world of Dadauar. (Oddly, the first onirarchy I wrote an article about for some reason, despite its being quite atypical and not a place easy to set a story or an RPG campaign.)...
I suppose there are multiple words that have been referred to as the "F word" (I can think of at least three, and I'm sure there are more), but the F word that the title of this post refers to is... probably the one most often referred to by that designation. The four-letter word which is sometimes claimed to have originated from an acronym for "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge", and at other times for "Fornication Under Consent of the King". (Both of these are of course spurious folk etymologies; it did not really originate from an acronym at all.)
It is not a word I use in conversation. It is not a word I have ever spoken out loud except perhaps when acting, a pursuit, like drawing, in which I have dabbled more than I should have despite demonstrably possessing no talent for it whatsoever. This is not because I feel that the use of such obscenities is morally wrong; I do not object to other people using them...
This should be a relatively short blog post, although of course I say that without yet having written it (or rather while in the process of writing the first sentence of it), and given my tendency to digress and ramble on in these posts I cannot deny the possibility that it will end up being much longer than I anticipate for no good reason at all. Anyway, though, although this is likely something that nobody cares about but me, I wanted to announce that something that I'd intended to do over a year ago has finally been done: I have migrated the Wongery to its new hosting plan.
I say "new" hosting plan, but in fact I purchased this hosting plan, with the intent of moving the Wongery there, way back in December 2023, before the (much heralded but ultimately fairly meaningless) "hard launch". I didn't move it immediately because the hosting company said they would perform the migration for me, but they...
