It needs to be a thing year-round, not just on one magical day.
^And ^Star ^Wars ^is ^totally ^fantasy. ^Come ^at ^me, ^bro.
It's actually already in existence in the form of /r/AskScienceFiction and it's a pretty active sub with nearly 40,000 subscribers. I must note that it also welcomes questions under the realm of Speculative Fiction (Yes, Fantasy, you're welcome too.)
Taken from their sidebar:
It's like Ask Science, but all questions and answers are written with answers gleaned from the universe itself. Use in-universe knowledge, rules, and common sense to answer the questions. Or as fanlore.org calls it Watsonian, not a Doylist point of view Take the fictional rules of the universe to their logical conclusion, ad absurdum.
ETA: It looks like /r/asksciencefiction has actually turned into /r/AskHistorians for the day!
ETA2: Didn't expect so much karma for sharing a subreddit– thanks for that! More importantly, I do hope the lot of you could bring your excellent writing on over to /r/asksciencefiction or to /r/shittyaskhistory because it was a joy reading everything. Mods, this was a fantastic idea and expert cryptohistorians, you guys were absolutely wonderful.
Relatedly, can we have some kind of awards for best April Fool's Day questions and comments? If so I nominate two questions:
/u/DrSpaceUnicorn for the super-meta Why did so many survivors of the Wounded Knee Massacre become guards in Skyrim?
/u/dekrepitbirth for fictional trutherism in Battle of the Blackwater: Could wildfire REALLY melt wooden beams?
Kalidor Crescents all around.
/r/DaystromInstitute is essentially this for Star Trek year round.
sigh The sad part is that my knowledge of Star Trek probably exceeds my knowledge of Mesoamerica.
Get in touch with /u/IGetNoSlack. He is already trying to get something like this off the ground, and I'm sure would love a helping hand.
Ask and ye shall receive. /r/AskFantasyHistorians
also kinda /r/shittyaskhistory
Not a Reddit (lots of great ones listed already) but there is a stack exchange for sci-fi too which often deals with in-universe Q and A:
http://scifi.stackexchange.com
(Also includes fantasy)
Shameless self promotion right here but this is basically what we are going for in /r/Mawinstallation in regards to Star Wars discussions.
Worth pointing out that, if the whole Fourth Wall issue doesn't bother you, many subs do exist for pretty serious lore discussion. /r/falloutlore is my favorite, but my understanding is that there are subs for most fictional universes with any following.
Yes, oh gosh yes.
Edit: So many new-to-me subs, so little time.
Come check out /r/teslore for all questions related to the elder scrolls series.
I made a multi-reddit called lorediscussion to combine all of the answers of people in this thread describing subreddits where these sorts of discussions occur. Some of them may contain other topics as well (e.g. Daystrom Institute), but I tried to focus on the ones that will have plenty of lore discussion.
Edit: I'd second http://scifi.stackexchange.com as another option, because I like stack exchange in general.
I'm going to be all over DragonLance
And Star Wars is totally fantasy. Come at me, bro.
It's sci-fi fantasy. Get your subcategories right, man! :P
Though I think the category epic space opera is a better fit anyway.
Whenever someone asks to make a new subreddit, it probably already exists and they're just too lazy to search for it.
I tried to make it a sub, but it wouldn't let me use the name.
Technofantasy? Science Fantasy?
I came here to ask the same thing. This is awesome.
And Star Wars is totally fantasy. Come at me, bro.
What part of a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away don't you understand?
Anyone can make a subreddit at any time you know, you don't need to come ask for permission.