yuletide | ...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!

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.
- The Taglist Filter makes this easy!
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!

That's it. Have fun! Hopefully this challenge will result in fics that otherwise couldn't or wouldn't have been written and will see the Madness collection get some extra love this year! :)

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AO3 Username:

xslytherclawx
Letter or App Sign-Up Link: here!

Fandom(s):
These are the fandoms I'd be happy to receive treats for!

» Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik • Character: Mirnatius
With or without Irina, I just love him. There's something about miserable, pathetic little men who think they're the greatest that I just can't get enough of. I loved Mirnatius from his like, second scene, and I only loved him more as the book went on.
I do like his relationship with Irina (as in canon, but if you'd like to explore post-canon, I'd be interested in your read on him after he's free for the first time in his life. I disagree that it would change his entire personality drastically, but like... I do want to see more of him).
Happy with anything about him at any point. Pre-canon, missing scenes, post-canon - even an AU, if you can swing it! It's Madness, so go wild!
Opt-ins Wrapping Paper • MultilingYule • YulePorn • Crueltide (though I'd ask for nothing about Mirnatius abusing Irina)

» American Girls: Kit • Character: Kit (though anyone else in the canon is welcome!)
Kit was always one of my favorite American Girls growing up. The way she felt stifled by femininity and class and (largely) gender expectations, and her desire to become a reporter (which was not as common for women in the 1930s by far) - I feel like every baby gay who read those books loved her lol.
I'd like something at least mostly historically accurate, but like basically everyone requesting Kit this year, I'd like to see where she is when she's grown up - in the 40s or 50s or even 60s!
DNW: setting change - by which I mean please keep the canon setting canon. If you'd like to move her to a different location as an adult or write about her later, that is perfectly fine! I just don't want, like, Kit in the 1800s or present day, or in any canon fusions.
Opt-ins Two For One: feel free to crossover with AG Sam (or other AG characters) or Mad Men if you'd like! • Wrapping Paper • MultilingYule

» American Girls: Felicity • Character: Felicity
I was always a Felicity girl at heart, and she remains one of my favorites to this day. I love her! Not just because I was a horse girl, or because I was obsessed with the 18th century as a kid. I love her personality, her friendships, and her relationships with her family!
I know she canonically belongs to a wealthy, slaveholding family - I'm not, personally, overly bothered by whatever you want to do with that. I'd prefer nothing overly dark or focused on slavery, but it was a really cruel and awful reality that Felicity canonically was a part of. (If you'd like to move her to Philly and make her a Quaker - and therefore likely abolitionist - instead in an AU, I mean, I'd like to see that tbh)
DNW: Felicity/Ben. Even if aged up. it just doesn't vibe with me.
Opt-ins Two For One: feel free to crossover with Bridgerton or Seducing the Sedgwicks (in letter) if you'd like! • Wrapping Paper • MultilingYule

» American Girls: Samantha • Characters: Gard, Cornelia
I was always fascinated by Cornelia as a kid (for... what I now realize were really gay reasons lol), but like, she's a suffragist and just... all around the kind of cool aunt every kid wants, right?
I love her relationship with Gard - how equitable it seems, and how Gard really seems to support her! I'd love something focusing on them, either when they were courting or after they were married (they are wealthy, so where did they honeymoon? what was that like?)
Opt-ins: Two For One: feel free to crossover with AG Kit (or AG Rebecca, which is not in the tagset)! • Yuleporn: Cornelia/Gard only • Wrapping Paper • MultilingYule

» Call Me By Your Name (2017) • Characters: Elio, Oliver
Love the movie, love the book it's based on - love Elio and Oliver both. It remains both one of my favorite films and one of my favorite novels! In terms of the film, I'd like to see something after the ending - do they ever see each other again? Feel free to borrow from the novel canon or go your own way!
Opt-ins Wrapping Paper • MultilingYule • Yuleporn

» Mad Men (TV) • Characters: Pete, Bob
PETE CAMPBELL! Love him!! Absolute dumpster fire of a human being!! He is my absolute favorite in this show, and I just kind of love watching him ruin his whole life. As a certain user on tumblr said, Pete is playing to the top of his intelligence (which is to say: he’s not very smart but he’s trying) and it’s honestly one of my favorite parts of this show.
As for Bob/Pete... I’m unironically obsessed with this ship. Like… of all people…. Pete Campbell. Really, Bob? You pick the rat man? Basically all you need to know is in this video. I lose it every time.
But seriously re: canon divergence - I am obsessed with what might have been if Pete had taken Bob up on his offer. Literally also I think a succession-style Tom/Greg kind of thing would be so fucking funny with them.
I had requested them as a ship for Soul2Soul, if you'd like to look at the tropes I'd requested there.
Opt-ins Two For One: feel free to crossover with AG Kit or Succession (fusion preferred) or Oliver Appropriate (fusion only) if you'd like! • Wrapping Paper • MultilingYule • Yuleporn • Crueltide

» Succession (TV) • Characters: Roman, Gerri
Tell me how they have the healthiest relationship about of anyone in that show. You can focus on either/or, but I love them together! Their relationship is kind of dysfunctional (and obvi Roman has some mommy issues lol), but it actually works.
I'm keeping up with canon weekly as it airs, so spoilers are not an issue - but if you'd like to keep it as of season 2 (or even season 1), that's fine, too! You could also probably make an AU work, too tbh. ~~(I'm not saying King Lear AU but...)~~
I had requested them as a ship for Soul2Soul, if you'd like to look at the tropes I'd requested there.
Opt-ins Two For One: feel free to crossover with Mad Men (fusion preferred) if you'd like! • Wrapping Paper • MultilingYule • Yuleporn • Crueltide

Additional Details:
Do you opt-into any of the other mini-challenges for these fandoms? Yes - see above. Opt-in details specifically and links to my comments are on my letter here!
Is it okay for your treat author to contact you with questions, or are you open to anything no-questions-asked? You can contact me on tumblr:

xslytherclawx , but you don't need to if you really just want to go wild!
and this is my masterlist of Dear Author letters, if you'd like to see what I've requested for these fandoms / characters before (not all fandoms listed there).

...and a Partridge in a Pear Tree

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