Sat, May. 19th, 2012, 12:18 pm
[info]bethbethbeth: HP Beholder 2012 Fic and Art Master List

Remember that the Artist and Author reveals for HP Beholder 2012 will be posted next Sunday (in other words, our participants are still anonymous!), so take advantage of the coming week to catch up on the 10 artworks and 47 stories that our wonderful, talented participants have contributed this round.

ART )

ART & FIC )

FIC )

And once again: Please do me and your fellow community members a favor and leave a comment to this post with links to any ART or FIC recs you've made recently. No coding necessary: simple links to the posts in which you made the recs will do (and I'll sort out the recs later)

Thanks so much!

Fri, May. 18th, 2012, 12:48 pm
[info]bethbethbeth: And that's a wrap!

With today's entries - "Tasting Party" (ART, Igor Karkaroff/Viktor Krum, R, NWS) and "Professor C. Binns: A Personal History" (FIC, Cuthbert Binns/Walburga Black, PG.) - we have reached the end of the 2012 HP Beholder exchange posting.

Tomorrow, I'll be posting the (anonymous) Fic and Art Master List, and next Sunday (May 27) will be the Author and Artist Reveals.

Please take advantage of the time before the reveals to catch up on your reading/viewing...and your feedback!

Fri, May. 18th, 2012, 12:27 pm
[info]bethbethbeth: ART: "Tasting Party" for chazpure

Recipient: [info]chazpure
Artist: ???
Title: Tasting Party
Rating: R
Pairings: Igor Karkaroff/Viktor Krum
Medium: Digital.
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *Nudity*.
Summary: "There are two things best taken naked, one of them is Ogden's Old Firewhisky." ~ Wizard Proverb.

Tasting Party )

Fri, May. 18th, 2012, 12:17 pm
[info]bethbethbeth: FIC: " Professor C. Binns: A Personal History" for odogoddess

Recipient: [info]odogoddess
Author: ???
Title: Professor C. Binns: A Personal History
Rating: PG
Pairings: Cuthbert Binns/Walburga Black, Walburga Black/Orion Black
Word Count: ~13,300
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *Strong language (one use), one moment of domestic violence *
Summary:Transcribed from back cover of book:

Professor Cuthbert Binns (living: 1865-1963, haunting: 1963- ) is the leading Magical Historian of his day. He has published widely on topics ranging from, 'The origins of magic in native rock art,' to 'Wizard-Muggle relations through the ages', and was awarded an Order of Merlin (second class) in 1936, when his seminal work, 'A History of the magical world in 100,000 pages' became the best-selling Historical text on record.

This volume, however, is - for the first time - autobiographical in nature. It is thus somewhat experimental in nature, but serves to remind both the author and the reader that we each build the fabric of History, in our own ways, however small.

"Being in love with a person is more difficult than being in love with a book. You can carry a book with you wherever you go, but a person moves around on their own, and one is never sure where they are or where one will see them, next. Also, books get older in a predictable way: if you take good care of them they don't seem very different at all - aside from the odd scratch on the cover or a looseness to the spine - but people can change their thoughts and feelings and opinions, such that what was once written there disappears altogether and is replaced by information of an entirely different sort.

That is why people are so difficult."


Author: C. Binns.
Dictation: Gluey the House elf.
Production: A.P.W.B. Dumbledore, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry,
Published, 1964; Revised, 1991.


Author's Notes: Cuthbert, Walburga and Orion belong, of course, to JKR. This tale is also somewhat inspired by 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time' by Mark Haddon.

Many thanks to [info]bethbethbeth for once again running this marvellous fest, and to [info]odogoddess - whose request included 'friendship' and 'a meeting of the minds' - for giving me the freedom to write this.

Professor C. Binns: A Personal History


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Thu, May. 17th, 2012, 11:56 am
[info]bethbethbeth: FIC: " The Two Names of Xiomara Rolanda Hooch " for noeon

Recipient: [info]noeon
Author: ???
Title: The Two Names of Xiomara Rolanda Hooch
Rating: PG-13/Teen
Pairing: Hooch/McGonagall
Word Count: ~2400
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *None*.
Summary: Hogwarts changes. She changes.
Author's Notes: I'm told that JKR provided some additional backstory for Minerva on Pottermore, but I haven't read it, so if you have, just pretend you haven't! Thanks to D for taming the wild semicolons. Any remaining errors or infelicities are my own.


The Two Names of Xiomara Rolanda Hooch )

Thu, May. 17th, 2012, 11:52 am
[info]bethbethbeth: FIC: "Cultural Differences" for leni_jess

Recipient: [info]leni_jess
Author: ???
Title: Cultural Differences
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Snape/Krum
Word Count: ~4,101
Medium: Fic
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *None.*.
Summary: "Of course Viktor didn't really want to spend the weekend reading for work. One couldn't say that to a man who had nearly sacrificed his life in single-minded pursuit of stopping evil."
Author's Notes: Thank you to R for reading this quickly at the last minute! I hope I did not add errors in the work I did on the story after she read it. She was very encouraging!

Cultural Differences )

Wed, May. 16th, 2012, 01:42 pm
[info]bethbethbeth: ART and FIC: "The Life She Chose" for femmequixotic

Recipient: [info]femmequixotic
Artist/Author: ???
Title: The Life She Chose
Rating: G
Pairings: Eileen/Tobias
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): * None*.
Summary: Her reasons were her own and no one else's business.
Artist's/Author's Notes:: 4 Pencil drawings, colored in Photoshop - plus a 325 word ficlet.

The Life She Chose )

Wed, May. 16th, 2012, 01:35 pm
[info]bethbethbeth: FIC: "The River Horse" for featherxquill

Recipient [info]featherxquill
Author/Artist ???
Title The River Horse
Rating soft R
Pairings Amelia Bones/Severus Snape, hints of unrequited Poppy Pomfrey/ Amelia Bones
Word Count 9800 words
Medium Fic
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View) *A homophobic wizarding world and some readily spotted AU not!deaths. Quotations from DH are in italics.*.
Summary What better match than the head of Magical Law Enforcement and the spy within Voldemort's ranks (and Dumbledore's, too)? A very gifted witch and a very gifted wizard might have some hope of surviving a war.
Author's Notes [info]featherxquill, I hope you enjoy this. Be aware that I think of Amelia looking pretty much like Judi Dench, only more athletic, because, both witch and ex-Auror. Thanks to my beta reader F for last-minute whip-cracking and helpful beta work, and to [info]bethbethbeth, our saintly Mod, for patience, world without end.

The River Horse )

Tue, May. 15th, 2012, 03:54 pm
[info]bethbethbeth: FIC: "In the Shadow of a Black Hole" for miramiraficfic

Recipient: miramiraficfic
Author/Artist: ???
Title: In the Shadow of a Black Hole
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Andromeda Tonks/Rita Skeeter
Word Count: ~1200
Medium: Fic
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *None*.
Summary: Why did she let Rita Skeeter into her home?
Author's/Artist's Notes: Thanks to M. for reading. Thank you to the mod for being so incredibly patient!

In the Shadow of a Black Hole )

Tue, May. 15th, 2012, 03:47 pm
[info]bethbethbeth: FIC: "Life Less Muggle" for vividzephyr/vividescent

Recipient: Vividzephyr/Vividescent
Author:???
Title: Life Less Muggle
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Millicent Bulstrode/Dudley Dursley, background Harry/Draco
Word Count: ~3,000
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *none *.
Summary: Dudley never expected to live in the magical world, but then there was Millicent.
Author's Notes: A million thanks to my beta and inspiration, F. And too many hugs to count to the mod for this fest and its annual festivities, and also for not killing me while waiting :D

Life Less Muggle )

Mon, May. 14th, 2012, 03:09 pm
[info]bethbethbeth: FIC: "The Oddity of Kisses" for kinky_kneazle

Recipient: kinky_kneazle
Author: ???
Title: The Oddity of Kisses
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Snape/Goyle, background Harry/Draco
Word Count: ~6,300
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *post-war, EWE, frottage*.
Summary: Sometimes when Greg's flustered his mind doesn't work quite properly, and then things happen. Like kissing Snape.
Author's Notes: Huge thanks to N for betaing and to bethbethbeth for her very gracious modly patience. kinky_kneazle, thank you so much for giving me a chance to write a pairing I've always wanted to try my hand at. \0/

The Oddity of Kisses )

Mon, May. 14th, 2012, 03:05 pm
[info]bethbethbeth: ART: "Time Traveler" for teshara

Recipient: teshara
Artist: ???
Title: Time Traveler
Rating: G
Pairings: Arthur Weasley/Helga Hufflepuff
Medium: Photoshop
Warnings: None
Summary: Young Arthur Weasley, fascinated by Muggle devices, finds a Time Machine and lands before the building of Hogwarts, surprising a young Helga Hufflepuff, out gathering herbs
Artist's Notes: thanks to C for the pairing! Now, who will write the fic? ;-)

False Reluctance )

Fri, May. 11th, 2012, 02:26 pm
[info]bethbethbeth: HP Beholder 2012 FIC/ART Round-up #4

Greetings, HP Beholder fans,

Here's the links round-up from the fourth week of fic and art posting. Our next posting will be Monday afternoon (NY time), so take advantage of the break to catch up with your reading/viewing …and your feedback!

ART & FIC

  • "Fantastic Beasts and How to Tame Them: a Guide For the Seasoned Auror" (Moody, Kingsley, Draco, Snape, Abraxas. For further pairings information (spoiler) highlight to view: *Moody/Draco, Kingsley/Abraxas, Severus/Lucius, mentioned Moody/Kingsley*. NC-17) for leela_cat on LJ)

    ART

  • "False Reluctance" (Rabastan/Andromeda. NC-17) for gamma_orionis (on LJ)


    FIC

  • "Scapegoat" (Igor Karkaroff/OMC. R.) for carrot/vikingcarrot (on LJ)
  • "Links to build a life" (Arthur/Molly. NC-17) for nimrod_9 ( on LJ)
  • "Bravery and Ambition" (Amycus Carrow/Peter Pettigrew. R.) for venturous (on LJ)
  • "Chosen and Accepted" (Andromeda Tonks/Augusta Longbottom, with references to Andromeda/Ted, Augusta/Frank Snr, Augusta/Minerva. PG.) for woldy (on LJ)
  • "A Hand, Outstretched" (Viktor Krum/Percy Weasley. PG-13) for snapelike (on LJ)
  • "Burrowing" (Arthur Weasley/Molly Weasley. PG) for lyras on LJ)
  • "The Magpie and the Rat" (Peter Pettigrew/Mundungus Fletcher. PG-13) for alwaysasnapefan. ( on LJ)

    ***

    Note: Please do me and your fellow community members a favor and leave a comment to this post with links to any [info]hp_beholder ART or FIC recs you've made recently. No coding necessary: simple links to the posts in which you made the recs will do (and I'll sort out the recs later)

    Thanks so much!
  • Fri, May. 11th, 2012, 12:36 pm
    [info]bethbethbeth: FIC & ART: "Fantastic Beasts and How to Tame Them..." for leela_cat

    Recipient: [info]leela_cat
    Author & Artist: ???
    Title: Fantastic Beasts and How to Tame Them: a Guide For the Seasoned Auror
    Rating: NC-17
    Main Characters: Moody, Kingsley, Draco, Snape, Abraxas. For further pairings information (spoiler) highlight to view: *Moody/Draco, Kingsley/Abraxas, Severus/Lucius, mentioned Moody/Kingsley*
    Word Count: 78,800
    Medium: Pastels on Ingres
    Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *Minor character death - and you have to trust me on this one!*.
    Summary: The summer holiday is approaching and Alastor Moody has a plan: he is going to investigate a cold case he has never forgotten. He is joined on his quest by a bored Minister for Magic, a Snape who will rather be in Azkaban and a Death Eater who can't sleep at night. Together they attempt to solve the case that has haunted Moody for a decade. Together they face immense dangers as they land on the Unplottable Isle of Drear. To solve the case, the group of determined wizards must learn to cooperate, solving the riddle of the mysterious disappearances. Moody, however, finds more than just the answer to that. Much more.
    Author's/Artist's Notes: For [info]leela_cat who wanted plot, dialogue and inventive uses of magic. Dear Leela, I hope you enjoy this romantic suspense drama; I think I managed to fulfil at least a few of your wishes on the way. I have enjoyed many of your stories, so it was a great pleasure to write and draw something for you. Thanks to my wonderful and helpful beta, G, for her never-wavering support. Without her, I could't have accomplished this. Also thanks to [info]bethbethbeth for patience, encouragement and a bit of hand-holding. Thanks, Beth, you are great! <3 The full text of the 1542 Witchcraft Act can be found here.


    Fantastic Beasts and How to Tame Them: a Guide For the Seasoned Auror


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    Thu, May. 10th, 2012, 02:40 pm
    [info]bethbethbeth: FIC: "Scapegoat" for carrot / vikingcarrot

    Recipient: [info]carrot / [info]vikingcarrot
    Author/Artist: ???
    Title: Scapegoat
    Rating: R
    Pairings: Igor Karkaroff/OMC
    Word Count: ~1,200
    Medium: Fic
    Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *Non-con, violence, underage sexual contact, implications of incest.*.
    Summary: When the Dark Mark starts creeping back up Karkaroff's arm, the future it threatens is no worse than the past it evokes.

    Scapegoat )

    Thu, May. 10th, 2012, 02:34 pm
    [info]bethbethbeth: FIC: "Links to build a life" for nimrod_9

    Recipient: nimrod_9
    Author: ???
    Title: Links to build a life
    Rating: NC-17
    Pairings: Arthur/Molly
    Word Count: 4,300
    Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *Grief, elements of hurt comfort*.
    Summary: Arthur and Molly keep each other strong through the years.
    Author's Notes: Dear nimrod_9, I really hope you enjoy this! Thank you to T for beta-reading.

    Links to build a life )

    Wed, May. 9th, 2012, 01:25 pm
    [info]bethbethbeth: ART: "False Reluctance" for gamma_orionis

    Recipient: gamma_orionis
    Artist: ???
    Title: False Reluctance
    Rating: NC-17
    Pairings: Rabastan/Andromeda
    Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *Dub-con, light bondage*.
    Artist's Notes: While poking around your journal I discovered that you enjoy this pairing and Andromeda in general, so I rolled with it, having never drawn Andromeda before. I hope you like it. :)

    False Reluctance )

    Wed, May. 9th, 2012, 01:21 pm
    [info]bethbethbeth: FIC: "Bravery and Ambition" for venturous

    Recipient: [info]venturous
    Author: ???
    Title: Bravery and Ambition
    Rating: R
    Pairings: Amycus Carrow/Peter Pettigrew
    Word Count: 9,300
    Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): * mind-altering potions use, brief and inexplicit attraction to a sibling when under the influence of a potion *.
    Summary: Amycus Carrow falls for a promising Gryffindor named Peter Pettigrew and discovers that bravery and ambition are rarer than he'd thought.

    Bravery and Ambition )

    Tue, May. 8th, 2012, 03:13 pm
    [info]bethbethbeth: FIC: "Chosen and Accepted" for woldy

    Recipient: [info]woldy
    Author: ???
    Title: Chosen and Accepted
    Rating: PG
    Pairings: Andromeda Tonks/Augusta Longbottom, with references to Andromeda/Ted, Augusta/Frank Snr, Augusta/Minerva
    Word Count: 4000
    Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): * References to canon character deaths *.
    Summary: They meet, inauspiciously, at a funeral.
    Author's Notes: Many thanks to K for the beta, and to Beth for being an Awesome Mod. [info]woldy, I hope you enjoy this. I loved the idea of this pairing, and when I came to write it I found that I could not do it without reference to their very similar life situations, left raising grandsons alone. There is therefore a considerable amount of Teddy in this fic, but I have tried, re your sign-up request, to not make it the absolute focus of the story. I hope the result works for you.

    Chosen and Accepted )

    Tue, May. 8th, 2012, 03:05 pm
    [info]bethbethbeth: FIC: "A Hand, Outstretched" for snapelike

    Recipient: [info]snapelike
    Author: ???
    Title: A Hand, Outstretched
    Rating: PG-13
    Pairings: Viktor Krum/Percy Weasley
    Word Count: ~4,420
    Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): * None *.
    Summary: Percy was almost the diametric opposite of the athletes who usually attracted Viktor's attention. And yet Viktor found himself more than simply attracted; he was intrigued, perhaps even fascinated.
    Author's Notes: My betas are truly women without price. Any mistakes you find are not their fault.

    A Hand, Outstretched )

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