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...and a Partridge in a Pear Tree
There are 3623 fandoms nominated in this year's tagset, with 14007 amazing characters. Given that this is a multi-fandom exchange, it doesn't matter if you requested the minimum (3 fandoms) or the maximum (6 fandoms) in your sign-up, there is a high possibility that even 50 slots wouldn't be enough for all the fandoms you know, love, and would enjoy to read fic for. That's where ...and a Partridge in a Pear Tree 🕊 🍐 🌲 comes in!
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How does it work?
- Go through the tag set.
- It's your decision if you include only the fandoms that were narrowly cut from your requests this year or if you list anything and everything you slightly recognize from osmosis.
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- Comment to this post with the list of fandoms you would enjoy receiving a treat * for so that authors who really were hoping to write for that fandom this year can know someone out there would like to receive it!
- Only providing fandom names will be considered an "Any" request for whatever characters are nominated in that fandom.
- If you want to provide an author with generic likes guidance and/or DNWs that you wish to see honored, include a link to your letter/sign-up.
- If you have specific characters you would like to read about in any given fandom and/or have prompts suggestions, you are encouraged to share that information.
- If you're listing a fandom you previously requested, you are welcome to link to the letter you requested it in but only if it is for characters nominated in this year's tagset.
- Add participation to the app so that anyone browsing will know that you're signed up for this challenge!
- * Note: Since none of these are official requests and thus cannot be someone's main gift, anything made for this challenge must be posted into the 2021 Madness Collection. If you post it in the main collection there is a strong chance the mods will contact you and/or kick it out!
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Letter or App Sign-Up Link: This year's letter - general likes and DNWs at the top. :)
Fandom(s): These are some fandoms/character combinations with few/no requests that I'd be delighted to receive a treat for. With prompts (optional, as always)!
Evelyn Caldwell, Martine
Gah, this book. I love how complex and problematic Evelyn is as a character. She waffles so much on being able to see Martine as a genuine person, and over respecting her autonomy on any level. And of course, all these things have such complex roots/underpinnings: her own childhood history of abuse and proximity to murder, her role in inventing the cloning technology and various related politics, and of course, the violation of her husband's actions in creating Martine to begin with. And I also have a serious weakness for characters of various types (clones, AIs) who may not strictly be "human," but are cyphers for an exploration of humanity via the ways in which they discover and develop their own personhood.
Okay, this is getting much longer than I'd intended. For this canon/set of characters, I'm most interested in post-canon fic that goes in one of two directions: 1) the ways in which living together and co-parenting a child leads to change and growth for both women, perhaps to the point where a greater degree of mutual respect, balance, and even affection and co-identification are possible (an enormous challenge for both!), or 2) a story that explores what happens if they can't develop that way, where Evelyn perpetuates the cycle of abuse and oppression/ownership, and perhaps Martine is able to self-actualize more fully and find a way to free herself and her daughter/find a new life (and legal existence?) independent of manipulative scientists.
I'll keep the rest shorter, I swear.
Chava, Dima, Kreindel Altschul, Sophia Winston
After completing The Hidden Palace, there were two things that I immediately wanted to read more about: Chava and Kreindel's co-habitation and the development of their uneasy acquaintance, and how things transpire between Sophia and Dima and their accidental connection ... how they cope or struggle or come to an arrangement/some kind of balance. For the latter combination, I'm distinctly interested in a shippy direction, though I'd enjoy gen as well.
Merlin St. Jacques, Susan Arkshaw, Vivien St. Jacques
This book was just such a fun ride, and I'd love more about these three characters and their relationships with each other. Here's my request from last year.
Georgia Mason
I would very much love something set pre-series, with a focus on the OG Georgia Mason. I enjoy the entire series, but something I appreciate about it is that the clone Georgia isn't exactly a no-penalty resurrection of my favorite character; she really is a different person, in ways that make all the sense. And I can't get enough of the first George, with her drive for truth-telling and her sharpness and dry, sometimes caustic wit. I'd especially love something from her early-to-pre-Ryman career, getting her team together, conducting an investigation, etc. Other characters from the series welcome, especially the newsies and Buffy.
Slightly awkward addendum - I have a serious incest squick (and DNW), one which generally does apply to adopted siblings who were raised together, not just those who are actual genetic relatives. The canon Georgia/Shaun ship is, consequentially, my least favorite thing about this series. (No judgement on anyone who has different tastes!) And as far as I'm concerned, in the first book, there's really no indication that they're in a romantic/sexual relationship; they read as close siblings to me (a dynamic I especially love and enjoy). So, basically: my incest DNW applies here. No need to go out of the way, but if you write Newsflesh for me, please don't give any indication that Georgia and Shaun are anything but close siblings?
Arden Windermere, Bridget Ames, Cassandra Brown, Chelsea Ames, Walther Davies
I have a thirst for more about any/all of these secondary characters! I'd love a story about Arden navigating queenship, not to mention living fully in the Faerie world again (and what that transition is like), with Cassandra's help/shared learning curve. Possibly also including Walther, his relationship with Cassandra, his alchemical exploits ... anything about him, really. He deserves more exploration! And I'm also very curious about Bridget & Chelsea's respective experiences learning to live in Faerie society and how they balance that with the parts of their lives that are still embedded in the Human world. The rest of the cast is welcome too; I love just about everyone in these books.
Paget Damerell, Robert "Rollo" Threlfall
So I'm a huge P.G. Wodehouse fan, and Rollo is such a pastiche of the typical Wodehouse airheaded-but-amiable young man of leisure. I'd really love to read more about the ridiculous scrapes and social faux pas he gets himself into, which long-suffering but fond Paget has to get him out of - mundane in a Wodehousian way, except not, because DRAGON. (Aunt Georgiana is, naturally, heavily encouraged.)
Victoria Grant
One of my favorite films since late childhood, and also eternally frustrating because of the ending. I'd love something Victoria-centric about her exploration of her own gender and experiences around that, either during the film, or after. (Maybe she's not as content to just fall back into a 100% normative feminine/heterosexual identity/presentation after all, once the dust settles from the prospective fraud charges etc?) Engagement with some of the actual queer/trans community of the era would be welcome. Playing with a) the alternate/original version of the story in which King Marchand doesn't spy on her in the bath, and therefore doesn't know her "secret" before they get together, and/or b) Norma's attraction to "Victor" and interest in his abruptly disrobing in front of her would both be welcome.
Additional Details:
I am always and forever opted in to Wrapping Paper for every fandom! Also, I totally waive my "explicit sexual content" DNW for The Golem and the Jinni (Dima/Sophia) and Victor/Victoria.
Feel free to contact me with questions, or not! If any of the above inspires or interests you, I hope you'll run with it and have fun. I've enjoyed the opportunity to do a bit more rambling about canons I love!