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worldbuildexThanks everyone for your nominations and clarifications so far! We’re still working through the nomination queue, but if not all of yours have been approved, please check below (and/or in Query Post #1) for questions and clarifications.
As 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).
Marvel Cinematic Universe - For WB: Influence of Sarah Rogers on Captain America and WB: Influence of Steve's time in the USO on him, these seem more like character-study prompts than world-building; can you clarify?
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.
As 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.
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Date: 2026-03-10 02:03 am (UTC)These are mine:
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?
These have both been accepted in previous rounds. For the first, I can see it being more of a prompt, but was thinking more along the lines of why/how they get pulled back.
For the second, it is unclear how times moves in the Realm as compared to reality. While they have clearly been in the Realm for some time, we see that apparently no time has passed in reality (we see at least one character who is temporarily pulled into the Realm who thinks it is a dream and does not know they are gone). I'd like to explore that concept.
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?
So in episode 1 of Revelations, Adam is killed and his secret (that he is He-Man) is revealed, which causes quite a upheaval. There is then the passage of an unspecified period of time before the show picks up again in which a lot has changes. I'm interested in WB about that specific period. We have some ideas of what has happened but not a lot of details.
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Date: 2026-03-10 02:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-03-10 07:05 pm (UTC)Fresh Gale on the High Sonora is an in-universe memoir about the use of Eupheus to move wagons across the US Southwest, driven by a "kite jockey" and powered by a sigilrist:
Actually, I only just realized that this means the memoir isn't written by a kite jockey, though it seems like a similar role (stock male character of the Wild West paired with woman sigilrist who calls the wind). If it would make the tag clearer, I think it can be pared down and generalized. Maybe WB: Using the Eupheus Sigil to Power Transport?
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Date: 2026-03-10 11:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-03-11 02:50 am (UTC)Jean Robertson Series
Date: 2026-03-10 10:49 pm (UTC)Carse - This is the name of a fictitious town where many events in the series take place. The town is intended to be a village overtaken by urban sprawl from the nearby large city and it is largely seen through a child's eyes which leaves quite a lot of scope for developing the town's character.
Castle versus Town - The different cultures contained within Carse - the castle and family that own it, the farm surrounding it and village for their workers; and the 'new' town that was built up around it. Again, from the child's perspective town and castle do not mix although the child protagonist straddles both cultures.
Up the Burn - the child's name for going on an adventure along the river which is forbidden territory.
Re: Jean Robertson Series
Date: 2026-03-10 11:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-03-14 04:48 am (UTC)For DC Comics, Metropolis and Gotham are indeed considered to be sentient (or sentient-ish) in several iterations of DC canon, especially Gotham.
For the Steve Rogers prompts, I figured that the amount of backstory needed for both Sarah Rogers and the USO girls, plus the historical nature of their influence (20s/30s and early 40s) would necessitate at least some worldbuilding, but I defer to your opinion.
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Date: 2026-03-14 04:24 pm (UTC)Based on this info, we will approve the sentient cities tag for DC comics. We'll also approve WB: The Captain America USO Show (MCU). I'm afraid Sarah's influence on Steve, while an interesting interpersonal/character study question, falls outside the scope of this exchange.