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C.R.E.A.M

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(Saying upfront that I came up with "Three Turtle Doves" so that I don't get accused of plagiarizing myself...)

I kind of want a "...And a Partridge in a Pear Tree*" mini-challenge that focuses/hinges on Madness. You sign up by listing all the fandoms you know/like that are in the tagset but didn't have the slots (or couldn't think of enough prompts) to request this year. People who really love those fandoms and have a fic of their hearts inside them/ideas of their own can then treat you in Madness with them. Those who have one or two prompt ideas or who only have specific ship/characters they want can say, otherwise the assumed default is that you're asking for "any" since this is guaranteed to be a treat and is mainly to help out authors who desperately wished someone had requested that thing they nommed.

* name is open to change

I *love* this idea!

+10000 This sounds super cool.

MTYG Mod here and I'd be happy to put that one up too if people want it. I figure that if morbane & company don't like it they can just delete the post, right?

Thank you!

I LOVE this idea

This is kinda dubious to me. It smacks of those people a few years ago who would put an extra request in their letter and hope to trick treaters in the letters post into writing for them in a canon they couldn't fit, or that hadn't made it into the tagset. Your intentions seem good, but I can't help but feel skeeved.

Apparently it was dubious for someone else too because the post was deleted.

I wonder if the OP deleted or if it was the mods?

In chat, Morbane said the mods asked the person to take it down while the mods discussed it.

Oh, thanks. I hope they decide it's okay!

I really like that!

1- The name is delightful
2- If I thought this was kosher I'd sign up gladly
3- This feels... a little weird to me? I don't want to get extra gifts for myself if that means someone's browsing the requests for treats and makes one for me instead of treating that person with 3 requests of the heart that they could write for with a little more time in canon review.

My impression is that the purpose of this challenge is to please the treater, not the treatee. That's how it's phrased - the treater was disappointed that no one requested this canon they wanted to write, here are people who didn't want this canon enough to give up a slot for it, or didn't have a good enough prompt to request for it, who are volunteering to receive a fic in it if you'd like.

didn't we always have that, though? you could gift treats to a yule goat or father christmas or some dumb name if no one requested it or you deviated too far from a prompt

The yulegoat has never been an official recipient/this is something the mods have never been crazy about IIRC?

There used to be a yuletide_fairy account you could gift to, but I don't think that exists any more, and the requirement is that gifts must have one signed-up recipient in the main collection, at least one signed-up recipient in Madness.

I don't think the recipient in Madness has to be signed up. Works just need to have a recipient.

From the FAQ: The Madness collection is for stories under 1,000 words, stories which do not exactly fit the fandoms and characters requested, or works of any length and type written on December 25, after the main collection closed. These works must still be gifts for other participants.

Right. But I recall they define participants loosely? Sorry, it might have been in Discord

If they use the phrase "signed up recipients" or similar and not just "participants" then they're excluding the non-signed-up pinch hitters that they deliberately solicit prompts from and encourage us to treat

Re: Mini-Challenges

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I don't want to get extra gifts for myself if that means someone's browsing the requests for treats and makes one for me instead of treating that person with 3 requests of the heart that they could write for with a little more time in canon review.

That's a big assumption. If I can't treat someone with the thing I want to write, I won't say "oh, I'll do canon review for something else and write something else", I'll just... don't write any treats.

Yeah.

If I’m browsing treats and decided to not treat someone it’s because of something about their requests. Not because I’m browsing a second tier wishes list in another tab.

Me too. A second tier would make me write more, but never less!

Great idea, and I love that name!

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