Worldbuilding 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

The collection is revealed. We have over 100 works in over 70 fandoms (there are slightly more than currently show up on AO3, as some are unwrangled). Many thanks to everyone who contributed to the collection, especially those who picked up pinch hits.

Recipients

I very much hope that you enjoy your gift(s); if so, please do comment to let the creator know.

On the other hand, if there is an issue with a gift, please contact me privately so that I can take appropriate steps - email me at worldbuildingmod@gmx.com or send a Dreamwidth direct message.

(Reminder: Since Round 3, the rules have required that participants "acknowledge" their gifts either by commenting, contacting the mod about an issue, or using AO3's in-built gift refusal functionality. Failure to acknowledge your gift will result in a ban from future rounds. Edited to address a query I saw elsewhere: I would hope that in the vast majority of cases people would be able to acknowledge their gift during the anon period; however, in recognition of the fact that RL sometimes throws a curve ball, the timescale I use for this is much longer than that.)

Creators

You are very much encouraged to re-date your fics to today's date if you wish to do so; this may be particularly worth doing in high-volume fandoms where those browsing the fandom tag will not necessarily come across works which were unrevealed back when they were posted.

On the other hand, if your fandom is one for which there is currently no canonical tag on AO3, you might want to add the "Undisclosed Fandom" tag so that those browsing the collection via the Fandoms view can take a look.

It has transpired that I'm not going to be able to be online at 1655 UTC today when reveals were due to take place.

Rather than create uncertainty, I'm going to push it back five hours to 2155 UTC, at which point I'll definitely be in front of a computer. I'll update the countdown in the sticky post accordingly.

Apologies for the last minute notice.

(ETA: creator reveals next week will be delayed similarly, so that the anon period is a full seven days.)

The collection is now revealed!

I hope you enjoy your gift(s). Please do comment to let your creator(s) know, or if there is a problem with a gift get in touch with me so that I can sort it out. (Please remember that as of this round you must acknowledge your gift to be eligible for future rounds.)

I usually link works in unwrangled fandoms (which therefore don't show up in the Fandoms view) in this post; I didn't spot any during story checking this time around, but I may have missed some. Please let me know if I have and I'll edit them in.

Finally, just a note that while I will be on email this weekend and will respond asap to any queries I receive, I am travelling for family reasons (good ones, please don't worry) so "asap" may not be the same as "immediately".

The collection is no longer anonymous, and I've also closed it to posting new works. (I don't know if anyone was still working on any treats, but if you do have a burning desire to post something in the next few days, drop me a line and I'll reopen it to give you the chance.)

Following the success of this inaugural round (and once again, huge thanks to all of you for helping that happen), I intend to run the exchange again next year on roughly the same schedule, but with a somewhat more relaxed nominations/sign up period (and certainly more of a gap in between the two; the one thing I definitely underestimated was the complexities of tag set management behind the scenes). Look for a 2018 schedule post in early January.

If you have any feedback about any aspect of the exchange that you think might be able to work better/differently in Round Two, let me know in the comments.