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!

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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.
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* 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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There were so many requests I cut for lack of room. Here are the ones that no one seems to have requested, or just one person and maybe your idea hits their DNWs (or maybe you are them and don't want to write for yourself).

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Gammarad

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lemniskath - you can find my current and past yuletide letters there, as well as most of the letters I've written for past exchanges.

I always like gen for every request, and have indicated the ones where I'd also like shipping and/or smut.

Basic DNWs for all of the following - ships between an underage character and an adult character; smut with underage characters; incest ships or incest smut. Injuries involving exposed bone.

Traveller in Black - Nominated characters were Worldbuilding and the Traveller. I'd love any story in canon style, or an outsider view of the Traveller, or anything world-build-ish about the world it's set in. I read this book way back in the day and re-read some bits in case it was requested.. and then it wasn't.

Apothecia - Nominated characters were Jesse and Spore Alien. I read this comic just because it looked interesting from the nominations list. It was really engaging. The ending was quite abrupt though... I'd love to see alternate endings and their follow up, or how things proceed after the end. Or back story on other places the spore alien has been?

Love Advice from the Great Duke of Hell - Nominated characters were Astaroth and Paul. I read this after seeing a link to it and I love how it reinvents itself, but that makes it really tough to fic. I'd prompt something missing-scene-ish and it's fine if it later is proven impossible - or go full canon divergence and explain some of the first season a different way than the second season did. Open to any ship(s) for this canon.

On a Sunbeam - nominated characters were Alma, Charlotte, Mia, Worldbuilding - I've written this before and love it. Anything worldbuilding-ish here would be great or anything about any of the three nominated characters, their lives outside the canon or alongside it. Maybe just a glimpse of their work on some strange building in space? Or a quiet moment of interpersonal stuff. Or something about how a world with buildings floating in space came to exist in the first place. Or the big gender question of that setting would be interesting to explore, too. Open to any ship(s).

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch - Any of Colin, Kitty, Peter, Stefan - I'm really more interested in exploration of the various paths and any of these four characters could work to do that. Really fascinated with the way the game went so wrong and caused so many terrible (potential) consequences. Open to smut or dark fic for this, as dark as canon or even a bit further if you like.

Clouds of Sils Maria - Maria, Valentine - I watched this movie I think last year or the year before for a possible other exchange or previous Yuletide. It's so mysterious with what happens and the characters nominated are so interesting and yet underdeveloped - there's a lot of gaps. Fill (some of) them in? Very open to shipping and/or smut for this one.

Sorry to Bother You - Cassius Green, Detroit - This was such a funny and horrifying and insightful movie. I'd love a story about either Cassius or Detroit or both. Canon divergence would be great, or pre-canon perhaps? Or off to one side of it, so to speak. Shipping is fine! Go as dark as the canon, or stay light, but ideally not darker...

V for Vendetta - Nominated characters were Eric, Evey, Ruth, V - I'd prefer a story about just one of these four, rather than cramming them in, though it'd be fine to have two of them interacting. I think the movie was super engaging and love the style of it, and the themes resonate for me. Open to shipping and/or smut for this canon as well as gen. Prefer more serious takes on this canon.

Galavant - nominated characters were Galavant, Isabella, Madalena, Sidney - I'm very fond of this silly show with occasional serious issues - I'd love anything funny and also love a serious look at things the show glances over. Any or all of the characters are very welcome, including any ships you like between them or between one of them and an un-nominated character.

Watchmen (TV) - nominated were Angela, Calvin, Laurie - I'd be very interested in a fic focusing on Angela or on Laurie. Calvin is welcome to feature in the story, too. This TV series was wonderful, and I might have liked it even more than I liked the comic. Shipping and/or smut are welcome in this canon, any and all ships.

Love Nikki - nominated were Momo and Nikki - I'd love any story about Momo and Nikki really. The game is so unexpectedly intricate for a paper doll type thing and I'm fascinated by their entire journey. I'm fine if you ship Nikki with any of the humans or human-passing characters, but would rather Momo's interaction with anyone be gen.

The Game (by Diana Wynne Jones)- nominated character was Hayley. This book was one I didn't even notice right away, but it was so clever and engaging. I'd love to read a story about it. Maybe Hayley grows up and makes adventures for her own younger relatives? Or something showing her growing closer to her family (in general or any specific member). Gen only please for this request.

That's it for unrequested canons. (you can see it was a really tough choice for me narrowing it down!) The below may have been requested just once, or the character(s)/ship I want may not have been requested at all or only in an "Any" request.

Sagas of Sundry Dread request specifically Darby/Raina - I really wanted to request these two but I had to sadly remove that request because there were so few slots. So if you want to write a ship fic for them, and don't see anyone to give it to, please please give it to me. I loved the canon dynamic between them and each of their individual strengths and how those interwove.

A Charm of Magpies request specifically Jenny Saint (optionally also other female characters from the series) - I'm very interested in the female characters in this series who don't really get a lot of fanfic. Considering the series is m/m romance, this makes sense. Still, Jenny got nominated, I'd love a story about her! Her canon ship is fine, a divergence with a different ship for her, or gen is also fine.

Commonweal series request any (love the series, didn't have room for request) - of the nominated characters, I'd like Dove most. Just anything for this entire series would work for me, though. I loved all the characters in book 2 (Edgar included, as well as the whole class of student mages, and their teachers) and the ones from book 1 too. Prefer gen for this request. Feel free to write about original characters in the setting if you like, also.

City of Heroes request any (love the game, didn't have room for the request) - Possible worldbuilding things I'd love to read about include the Rikti, the Circle of Thorns, the Crey corporation, the various heroes, the Praetorians... any of the task forces! Hamidon. The Tuatha. Anything really with a sci fi or fantasy slant to it, or a modern day politics one.

Cyteen - Catlin and/or Florian - These two are very interesting and some kind of character study about either of them, any version or incarnation. Or an outsider view of one or both?

Derkholm series - Querida - Stuff about her teaching career maybe? Or her research, or when she was a student herself.

Dragaera - Aliera or Zerika or both - Aliera I just love her, maybe something about her and her father from the Musketeers-esque books? As for Zerika, what was it like from her point of view in the late Interregnum time period? Or anything else about these two. A little mini-adventure perhaps? Or they could discuss something they both read? Have a practice duel of some kind?

Goblin Emperor series - Amiru and/or Othoro - I love these relatively minor characters in Witness and want to know more about either or both of them!

Patternist series - honestly I'd love some fic for Wild Seed's Anyanwu or some out-there worldbuilding set in Patternmaster time period which could include the nominated characters in passing if you wanted or not at all

Re: Traveller in Black - OMG, I am so sorry, this is me! I felt so bad about not requesting it after writing a promo post and everything (because I wanted it LIKE BURNING but the tag set defeated me, there were seven fandoms I wanted LIKE BURNING this year) but I figured probably no one had read them except me! But this is Yuletide, who am I kidding :D I have now requested it below!

(Also aw yeah Patternist fic -- I can't write it but I hope someone does!)

...and a Partridge in a Pear Tree

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