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Worldbuilding Exchange fandom noms are open now! I don't think I've done this one before? But I definitely want to participate now!

So this is a post for brainstorming about which fandoms to nominate. I would love to hear about what fandoms you'd like to see worldbuilding fic for, even if you don't anticipate participating in the actual exchange!

I am going to nominate Chalice, as usual, and also "Seventy-Two Letters," a short story by Ted Chiang. I'm also thinking about the Mossa & Pleiti Series since The Mimicking of Known Successes had some of my favorite worldbuilding of the past year. Probably Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and "This Is New Gehesran Calling." And maybe I'll try to read another Ted Chiang collection in the next few days since he definitely fires up my mind in the worldbuilding arena.

Tell me about any canon that has worldbuilding that you really love!

Whoever is running the exchange is hilarious. Per the nomination guidelines: "Real Person Fiction (RPF) will not be allowed, on the grounds that "real world worldbuilding", if it means anything at all, covers essentially all forms of human intellectual enquiry from quantum cosmology to celebrity journalism, and is therefore outside the scope of a fanworks exchange." Lol!

[eta] And I just saw the Hurt/Comfort Exchange is about to do signups too!!!! I love that exchange!!! But I'm already doing the MXTX Remix and then I do want to do Worldbuilding right after that and...that is too many exchanges!!! We cannot fight them all!!!

So maybe I should take the fact that I missed fandom noms for Hurt/Comfort as a sign not to do it this year? Why are there so many awesome exchanges? And why do I have to have a full-time job instead of being able to stay at home and write fic all the time???

[eta] You know what? I'm going to do both. There's a whole month separating the due dates, I should be fine!

Lol I'll have a fic assignment due March 29, April 21, and May 31!

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I wonder if that applies to fandoms that are based on/inspired by true events. *is vaguely considering nominating Masters of the Air and prompting something about what happened to the female characters' personalities*

/mostly not serious.

I really enjoyed The Terraformers, for stuff I've read recently, though the worldbuilding was entirely bananas. And the lesbians on Jupiter, though I haven't read the new one.

I have no idea where the line is!

though the worldbuilding was entirely bananas

Honestly, that could make for really good fic!

Yeah, I haven't read the new one yet either, but I LOVED the worldbuilding for lesbians on Jupiter!

This exchange looks really cool! I do not have the time for an exchange right now, but I am subscribing to see what comes out of this! Same for Hurt/Comfort, lbr.

:D

There are so many cool exchanges!

Aren't nominations for the hurt/comfort exchange open until the 25th?

Are they? What was I looking at that made me think they were closed??? I don't know, but that changes things!

I'm looking at the scheduled pinned at

hurtcomfortex but maybe we're talking about different exchanges 😂

No, you're right! That's what it says! I must have been looking at something completely different!

I've never done this exchange and am probably not going to this time either because it just feels too intimidating somehow, but if I was going to, the canons I would request wouldn't necessarily be the ones whose worldbuilding I love. Like, The Expanse is a canon with a lot of worldbuilding I love, but it's not one I'd be likely to request in an exchange like this because I'm largely satisfied with what canon gave me on that front. I'd probably request stuff like Star Trek or the MCU, big sprawling canons with a lot of different things going on that weren't all explored very much. Like the time Star Trek Discovery set up this whole thing about Saru going back to his home planet nine hundred years in the future when it presumably would be massively different, and then did very little with it. Or the time Star Trek Picard set up this whole thing about an ex-Borg rehabilitation project and then did very little with it. Etc.

What I probably am going to sign up for is Space Swap, and request a couple of worldbuilding tags along with a bunch of character and relationship ones. I'm also considering Hurt/Comfort or maybe Id Pro Quo but I'm not sure exactly what I'd want to request this time.

Yeah, definitely, I'm all about requesting fandoms where I didn't get enough worldbuilding or fandoms where I foudn the worldbuilding frustrating for some reason.