Absolutely thrilled to be able to announce that worldbuilding_exchange will be running next year, picking up where worldbuildingex left off.

This will almost certainly be the last post on this comm; thanks again to everyone who participated over the years, and very best of luck to everyone involved with the new exchange.

Here are all the works I found in this year's collection that are in fandoms which don't have a canonical tag; if I have missed any, please do let me know and I'll edit this list to add them in.

As per the previous post, creators may want to add "Unspecified Fandom" or similar to make these at least somewhat findable via the collection's Fandoms view (some have already done so, but I've still included them here so that people can see what fandoms are involved). Please note that at what point a particular fandom gets made canonical on AO3 is not something I can influence in the slightest, and in some cases can be an indefinite wait.

cardigan - Taylor Swift

(bit of an odd one here - "(Song)" is canonical but "(Music Video)" isn't, so one of these shows up and the other doesn't, but I should probably include them both)

The Adventurous Musician's Guide to Piano Travel, Preface to the Third Edition
The Music of the Spheres

Matthew McConaughey Lincoln Commercials

but tomorrow never came

Scaredy Cats (TV 2021)

Book of Spells

Spelunky 2

Earning a Name

(There's also Tips for Aspiring Spelunkers in the canonical Spelunky tag)

Star Trek: The Vulcan Academy Murders by Jean Lorrah

New Human Student FAQ

All required gifts have been uploaded, so we are on track for reveals at 0755 UTC tomorrow (Friday 25th).

Countdown

A couple of quick notes at this stage:

• I've always been very relaxed about people editing - even extensively - all the way up to reveals, but (especially now) please do make sure that any version you save to the archive is something that would be acceptable if it were to be revealed in that state.
  
• RL has thrown me several curveballs this week; on the off-chance reveals don't happen on time, please assume I've been held up by something unexpected and be patient - I will get to it ASAP.

There are no pinch hits at this time. Between the last batch of pinch hits and various extensions, there are six assignments which still need to come in for the collection to be able to open; I remain optimistic that we are on track for works to be revealed on time, but I won't be able to be certain until fairly close to the time.

Countdown to scheduled reveal time

The main pinch hit/extension deadline has passed with no further pinch hits required at this stage. I will advertise the two remaining pinch hits from the last post again shortly, with a new deadline of 0755 UTC on Thursday 23rd 24th March.

I am optimistic that all will proceed smoothly from here, putting us on track for reveals at 0755 UTC on Friday 24th 25th March. However, if at 0755 UTC on Wednesday 22nd 23rd there are still unclaimed pinch hits (including if any new ones are generated by the assignments that are due at that time not coming in), I will most likely decide to delay reveals in order to allow more time for them to be filled.

ETA: Correction - there is one new pinch hit, so there will be three pinch hits on the next post.

ETA again much later: to fix day/date mismatch.

Post-deadline pinch hits will be going up shortly. There are a number of extensions granted; if you don't yet have a gift, and don't see yourself in the pinch hits either, please don't worry at this stage.

Thanks once again to everyone who's already uploaded their gifts, and best of luck to everyone still working away.

Most remaining assignments

Unless you have an extension, assignments and pinch hits up to #12 are due 24 hours from the time stamp of this post, at 0755 UTC on Friday 18th March. (For those in time zones west of UTC, please note that this is the early hours of Friday morning for you/possibly even very late on Thursday, so unless you're very much a night owl it might be best to think of the deadline as whenever you go to sleep on Thursday.)

Countdown

Post-deadline pinch hits and extensions

Pinch hits from #13 onwards are due at 0755 UTC on Monday 21st March (as above, effectively Sunday night in the Western hemisphere). I am also considering this to be the time at which most* of the various extensions I've granted are due - effectively, if you had asked for some part of the weekend, I'm happy to call it the whole weekend. Here is a countdown to that due date.

*For the avoidance of doubt: if we've had private communication about a later due date for your particular circumstances, that takes priority over this general message.

If you don't yet have an extension but think you might need one, please do get in touch; email to worldbuildingmod@gmx.com or a Dreamwidth direct message are the easiest ways to get hold of me.

Here are the current pinch hits (to avoid any potential confusion: yes, pinch hit #16 is the same as initial pinch hit #9). The deadline for all of these will be 0755 UTC on Monday 21st March but this is open to negotiation.

To claim, please comment here (screened), clearly indicating your AO3 username and which pinch hit you are interested in picking up (by giving the number and/or recipient). Comments will not be replied to directly; if you see a pinch hit marked as claimed and it doesn't appear for you as an AO3 assignment, then you should assume it went to someone else. Thank you!

( Pinch Hit #1 - Saiyuki, Weiß Kreuz, Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty )

( CLAIMED! Pinch Hit #13 - Star Wars (Clone Wars & AMT), DCU (comics), ST: Lower Decks, Original Work (SF, Lost Colony SF, Weird West) )

( Pinch Hit #16 - Philosopher's Series, Discworld, Perdido Street Station, Star Trek: DS9 Relaunch novels, Star Trek: TNG )

Assignments are due this time next week (give or take an hour or so - countdown here). Thanks to everyone who has already posted and best of luck to everyone still working away.

By tradition, today is referred to as the "default deadline" in worldbuildingex although there isn't (nor has there ever been) any penalty for defaulting later.

Some time on Saturday (UTC), once things have shaken out a bit, I will put up a new pinch hit post; those pinch hits will have a deadline of Monday 21st March.

My inboxes also remain open for extension requests, though please note I am posting this just before a very hectic work day so please don't expect any responses for at least 12 hours.

As per this news post, AO3 have now implemented an option for users to not receive gifts other than via assignments or non-anonymous prompt meme prompts.

I do not anticipate this having much if any impact on Worldbuilding Exchange, especially as all existing users are opted into receiving gifts by default, and everyone signed up must have been an AO3 user before this change. However, if anyone wants to talk about it (either in the comments here or privately via DM/email), I am more than happy to, and I cannot 100% rule out the possibility of some strange second order bugs ending up affecting the exchange further down the line.