Assignments are out!
Mar. 22nd, 2026 10:25 pmAs a reminder, assignment minimums for each medium are:
Additional posting guidelines are in the Rules post here.
If you did not receive an assignment that matches your offers, please email us ASAP. If you need to default at any point, you can either email us or click the "Default" button on your assignment on AO3.
Feel free to reach out with any other questions! Comments on this post are public, or you can reach us privately at worldbuildmod@gmail.com.
Initial Pinch Hits will be posted within the next 24 hours.
Happy worldbuilding!
Matching in Progress! Check your email
Mar. 21st, 2026 09:49 pmFriday's comic!
Mar. 19th, 2026 09:07 pmhttps://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20260320
... and it seems to still be incomplete! Will there be a third panel on Monday? When will we get an elegant and finely crafted link?
(The Professors also left out a bit between the first and second pages.)
2 Days Left to Sign up!
Mar. 19th, 2026 06:54 pmKey reminders:
You must request at least three and offer at least four distinct fandoms, defined as fandoms that do not share an "All Media Types" or similar franchise parent or metatag. You're welcome to request multiple subsets of the fandom (or the same fandom more than once) as long as your signup overall meets those minimums.
You will be matched on one (or more) character tags, one (or more) worldbuilding elements, and one (or more) medium type. Please ensure that for each of your requests and offers, you are happy matching on any combination of your selected tags across those categories!
Please state any "Do Not Wants" ("DNWs") in the AO3 optional details box for each request, or include a statement that you have no DNWs. DNWs should be clear, neutrally phrased, not contradict any of your requests, and not box your creator into creating one very specific type of fanwork.
Listing likes and/or prompts in your optional details (or in a linked letter) is encouraged but optional.
The boundary between "Fanfiction" and "In-Universe Media" is intentionally somewhat fuzzy: if you are signing up to receive one but not the other and have strong preferences about which side of that boundary you would like your gift to be on, or certain types of media you do not want to receive, please make that clear in your optional details.
Still have questions? Comment here (comments will be publicly visible) or email us at worldbuildmod@gmail.com.
Performing some traffic maintenance today
Mar. 14th, 2026 01:04 pmHappy Saturday!
I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!
If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.
2026 Signups Open!
Mar. 12th, 2026 05:37 pmTagset
Collection
Rules
Mod Contact: worldbuildmod@gmail.com
Signups are now open! They will close on Saturday March 21 9pm EDT (Countdown)
Key reminders:
You must request at least three and offer at least four distinct fandoms, defined as fandoms that do not share an "All Media Types" or similar franchise parent or metatag. You're welcome to request multiple subsets of the fandom (or the same fandom more than once) as long as your signup overall meets those minimums.
You will be matched on one (or more) character tags, one (or more) worldbuilding elements, and one (or more) medium type. Please ensure that for each of your requests and offers, you are happy matching on any combination of your selected tags across those categories!
Please state any "Do Not Wants" ("DNWs") in the AO3 optional details box for each request, or include a statement that you have no DNWs. DNWs should be clear, neutrally phrased, not contradict any of your requests, and not box your creator into creating one very specific type of fanwork.
Listing likes and/or prompts in your optional details (or in a linked letter) is encouraged but optional.
The boundary between "Fanfiction" and "In-Universe Media" is intentionally somewhat fuzzy: if you are signing up to receive one but not the other and have strong preferences about which side of that boundary you would like your gift to be on, or certain types of media you do not want to receive, please make that clear in your optional details.
Still have questions? Comment here (comments will be publicly visible) or email us at worldbuildmod@gmail.com.
Query Post #3
Mar. 10th, 2026 09:49 pmThanks everyone for your nominations and clarifications so far! We’re still working through final approvals and replying to responses on previous query posts.
Nominations have closed, but mods will manually update/add tags based on query post replies made before March 12 at 7pm EDT (UTC-4). Signups will then open March 12 at 9pm EDT. In the meantime, we’ll be working on approving final nominations, checking the tagset, and making sure the Original Characters and Any or No Characters tags are available for each fandom. We’ll also be removing any fandoms without worldbuilding tags. If you spot any errors or tags that have wandered out of their intended fandom, have rejected tags that you think shouldn’t have been, or have pending tags that haven’t been queried, please let us know!
For the following fandoms: we have questions about one or more tags. If you’re the nominator, please include a link to your nominations page in your response.
Pirates of the Caribbean (Movies) - For WB: Elizabeth's Similarities to Calypso (Pirates of the Caribbean), this seems more like a character study or meta-analysis prompt than worldbuilding; could you clarify?
Pluto (Manga) - For WB: Atom grieving post-canon (Pluto), this seems more like a character study or plot prompt than worldbuilding; could you clarify?
Spider-Man: Spider-Verse (Sony Animated Movies) - For WB: What Are The Different Canon Events of Spider-Man's Life, could you clarify what you’re looking for here?
Spider-Punk (2022 Marvel Comics) - For WB: How do Earth-138's Deaf Daredevil Power work? Is she mutant or is there a version of the HAND in the Spider-Punk Universe?, we’d like to simplify this to WB: How do Earth-138's Deaf Daredevil Power work?; does this work for you? For WB: Norman Osborne as President of Earth-138 and how it affected Kingpin and Daredevil's relationship, we’d like to simplify this to WB: Effects of Norman Osborne’s Presidency; does that work for you?
The Old Guard (Movies 2020 2025) - For Any Immortal Character (The Old Guard), we are not accepting “Any” descriptor character nominations. Would you like to specify specific immortal characters or a worldbuilding aspect relating to immortals?
The Trials Series - Quinn Audio - For WB: Theo and Jane's first meeting in college (TT), this seems more like a relationship or plot prompt than worldbuilding; could you clarify?
Hallo itt Mátyás király! - Bogáti Péter - For WB: Modern archaeologists discovering Károly's copper cylinder, this seems like a specific plot prompt and we're having trouble finding canon context; would something along the lines of WB: Archaeology or WB: Archaeology of the Canon Time Period fit what you're looking for?
NoPixel (Web Series) - For WB: The Nerds Prior to Los Santos, WB: Yeager Demonblood's Childhood, and WB: Yuno Sykk's Childhood, these seem more like character study prompts than worldbuilding; could you clarify?
When the Angels Left the Old Country - Sacha Lamb - For WB: Religious Experiences as a Metaphor for Queerness, is this something that is understood/discussed as a metaphor in universe? If so, we’ll approve it, if not, this seems like meta-analysis outside the scope of this exchange.
ここは今から倫理です。| Koko wa Ima Kara Rinri Desu | From Now On We Begin Ethics (Manga) - For WB: Takayanagi's Childhood, WB: Takayanagi's Home Life, and WB: Tokigawa's Home Life, these seem more like character study prompts than worldbuilding; could you clarify?
仙王的日常生活 | The Daily Life of the Immortal King (Cartoon) - For WB: Froggy's Daily Life, this seems more like a character study prompt than worldbuilding; could you clarify?
Query Post #2
Mar. 9th, 2026 07:10 pmAs a reminder, please nominate characters in the character slot, and worldbuilding topics in the relationship slot (formatted as "WB: Topic (Canon)"). Relationships ("Character A/Character B") will be rejected. Please also disambiguate all nominations with the name of the canon in parentheses.
For the following fandoms: we have questions about the fandom as nominated, or about one or more worldbuilding tags. If you’re the nominator, please include a link to your nominations page in your response.
DC Comics - For WB: Gotham and Metropolis as Sentient Cities, are the cities sentient in canon, or is this a prompt for an AU where they are sentient? If the latter, that’s not really worldbuilding within the scope of this exchange.
Dungeons and Dragons Cartoon - For WB: Characters Forced to Return to The Realm, this seems more like a plot and/or character study prompt; can you clarify how it is worldbuilding? For WB: How Long are The Kids in the Realm?, this seems like a question with a short answer; can you clarify what you would be looking for in a fill for this tag?
Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood - For Chris "Madam Christmas" Mustang's Girls (FMAB), we are not accepting group nominations for characters. Could you specify a particular girl, or an aspect of worldbuilding relating to this group?
Loki - For Character: Other Loki Variants, we’re not accepting group nominations for characters, but given the fandom context we’ll accept WB: Other Loki Variants (Loki TV).
Masters of the Universe: Revelations/Revolution - For WB: What Happens After Adam's Death (MOTU: R), this seems more like a plot prompt than worldbuilding; can you clarify?
Iron Lung - For WB: What happened at Filament Station (Iron Lung) and WB: What happened to the rest of humanity (Iron Lung), these seem more like plot prompts than worldbuilding; can you clarify?
Jean Robertson Series - For WB: Carse, WB: Castle versus Town, and WB: Up the Burn, we’re not sure what these mean and are having trouble finding fandom details; can you clarify?
Philosophers Series - For WB: Eupheus and Kite Jockeys/Fresh Gale on the High Sonora, we’re not sure what this means and are having trouble finding fandom details; can you clarify?
If you nominated a tag that was rejected and you don’t think it should have been, please let us know your nominations page.
Monday's page
Mar. 9th, 2026 07:52 amPhil Foglio reported being sick with a bad cold this weekend, but the page is out on time anyway.