This week on the New Worlds Patreon, we’ve got brainwashing, telekinesis, and bilocating Franciscan nuns — in other words, it’s time for psionics! Comment over there.

Alchemists, faeries, vampires, a callback to the old Highlander franchise: the New Worlds Patreon is taking a look at various kinds of immortal creature . . . comment over there!

The loyal patrons of the New Worlds Patreon have voted for certain specific magical traditions as the theme for this month’s essays — which means I finally get to unleash my rant about how most “alchemy” in fiction has bugger-all to do with the real-world traditions associated with that term! Comment over there . . .

The New Worlds Patreon is wrapping up this month’s look at sex on the high end of prostitution — so high, in fact, that it can sometimes leave prostitution behind entirely. We’re turning to courtesans: comment over there!

Prostitution is (unsurprisingly) a complex enough topic that it’s getting more than one essay from the New Worlds Patreon. This week we turn our attention to where and how it’s conducted; comment over there . . .

A combination of my choices around what to put in the topic polls and what my patrons have voted for means it’s taken until Year Eight for the New Worlds Patreon to get around to the topic of prostitution. But we’re finally getting started, so comment over there!

It’s gonna be a racy month at the New Worlds Patreon, as we turn our attention back to the topic of sex. Even discussing virginity requires us to get very frank about people’s bodies — comment over there!

Another fifth Friday of the month, which means another bonus theory essay for the New Worlds Patreon! Today we take on the question of whether you can have potatoes in Middle-Earth — which is to say, whether you’re allowed to mix and match your worldbuilding influences. Comment over there!

Wrapping up a month of the functional arts, the New Worlds Patreon is taking a look the wonders we have wrought with metal! Comment over there . . .

I’m a big fan of weaving, embroidery, and the various other textile arts that are the subject of this week’s New Worlds Patreon essay. Comment over there!

Our second “functional arts” essay for the New Worlds Patreon is kind of a twofer, maybe a threefer: ceramics, glass, and a side diversion into the more decorative topic of mosaics! Comment over there . . .

The May theme for the New Worlds Patreon is the functional arts, so we’re segueing out of ancient ruins into architecture as an art form! Comment over there.

The New Worlds Patreon is ending April with a topic near and dear to my archaeological heart: the question of how much ancient sites are ever truly “lost.” Comment over there!

Not all ancient works take the form of giant rocks. Some of them are carved into the earth itself — so the New Worlds Patreon is taking a look at geoglyphs! Comment over there.

The Pyramids of Egypt, the Argonath of Gondor . . . the New Worlds Patreon is taking a look at the wonders of megalithic architecture. Comment over there!

For April the New Worlds Patreon is taking a jaunt through ancient relics in the landscape — though as long as we’re talking about prehistoric rock art, I figured we might include modern graffiti as well! Comment over there . . .

Year Eight of the New Worlds Patreon is going to be a busy one for theory posts, as there are five months with five Fridays in them! To start us off, I recommend the merits of being a goat — comment over there!

Lack of belief in gods is not solely a modern concept, as this week’s New Worlds Patreon essay explores. Comment over there!

The New Worlds Patreon has talked a lot about religion, but in all this time, it hasn’t yet gotten around to monotheism. That changes today — comment over there!