Worldbuilding Exchange v2

The rules for the Worldbuilding Exchange v.2 are mostly taken from the previous incarnation of this exchange.

Current round: 2025
Schedule: Schedule and links (sticky post)
Tag Set: Worldbuilding Exchange 2025 Tag Set
Collection: Worldbuilding Exchange 2025
Mod contact: worldbuildingex@gmail.com

What is "worldbuilding"?

For the purposes of this exchange, "worldbuilding" will be defined as any exploration of how a fictional world works beyond the information presented in canon. This includes (but is not limited to) more detailed extrapolation of information presented in canon, filling in gaps in the canon backstory, attempts to reconcile apparent contradictions in canon information, exploring the perspectives on canon events of characters implied to exist but not considered within the canon, and so on.

This exchange allows all fictional fandoms except RPF. Some fictional fandoms, especially those without fantastical elements, may overlap closely with how the real world is known to work already. When you request worldbuilding topics for this kind of fandom, we recommend you concentrate on grey areas, areas where a canon is unique in its handling of a broad topic, and topics where a creator has leeway to make things up, so that the amount of worldbuilding a creator can do is not strictly constrained by historical record or current reality.

It is absolutely fine for the gift you create to be an action-adventure story/shippy fanart/etc. (provided your recipient hasn't expressed a desire for you to avoid such things), so long as there are also worldbuilding elements present in a significant way.

Participants are expected to create one of:

• Fanfiction - a complete fic of at least 1000 words
• Fanart - a finished piece of art, not on lined paper
• In-Universe Meta - a complete piece of in-universe meta of at least 1000 words

When you sign up, you will need to request at least three fandoms, and offer at least four. The maximum number for both requests and offers will be ten. You may request/offer the same fandom in more than one slot, but the total number of distinct fandoms must still be three or more (for requests) or four or more (for offers). You may request specific characters, Any or No Characters, or Original Characters, or any combination of these. If you choose Any or No Characters, this means any characters in the canon, not just in the tagset; however, you may DNW particular characters from the canon. You may request original characters to be of a specific gender (or non-binary) if that gendered tag was nominated in that fandom.
Worldbuilding tags are requested in the relationship slot and are specific to each fandom.

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