Worldbuilding Wrap-Up

[ermingarden]

Wow, it has been a hot minute since I posted here! It's been a busy couple of months. (Happy Easter and/or Passover, as applicable!)

I had an absolutely marvelous time with worldbuilding_exchange this year!

I wrote "The Earliest Years of the Sun" for narya_flame, which is a funky little piece of in-universe meta I summarized as "A Gondorian academic in the Fourth Age explores the development of a solar calendar system among the Noldor in Beleriand." Unsurprisingly to anyone who knows me, it has footnotes *g*

And I received a magnificent gift from Callmesalticidae: "Notes Toward a Proposal for Renovating the Temple Refectory System" is a fun and extremely clever look at the logistical challenges of a multispecies society like the Jedi Order. I'm over the moon at such a great gift!

Here's a non-exhaustive list of other fics from the collection I particularly enjoyed:

"Into the Wood" by elementalraven is a beautiful canon-divergent Narnia fic about Jill and Eustace in the Wood between the Worlds, offering intriguing glimpses of many other worlds.

fiona15351 wrote delightful casefic for Robin McKinley's Sunshine: "Never Fall Far from the Tree" is a supernatural police procedural in the vampire-killing-stake orchard, with an engaging and endearing OC narrator, and I can personally attest that it's a lot of fun even canon-blind!

"Bullies, bugs, and birds: a case study on competition between introduced Squawkabilly and a native Fletchling population" by crowloft is Pokémon in-universe meta that's an uncanny recreation of an academic paper – right down to a "Retrieved March 11, 2023" timestamp at the top! Plus, it has graphics.

"burn for what you believe in" by flyingfanatic is a Locked Tomb fic about Pyrrha, the early days at Canaan House, and the founding of the Houses that had me unhinged.

And "Grown Deep" by Hokuto is a lovely Earthsea fic about a wizard reluctant to leave Roke; Hokuto recreates the Earthsea vibe really well!

I love this exchange just as much in its second iteration as I did last time – I can hardly wait for next year!