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Slightly Revised HP Beholder Guidelines for 2009
For a complete background to the hp_beholder exchange, click here, but if you're just interested in reading the [slightly updated] guidelines, read on...
Note: This is NOT the sign-up post: Sign-ups begin Thursday, January 29, so you have time to read the instructions and decide what you're going to request.
General Information
This is a Fic/Art exchange created to let those characters who some less-than-discerning people think are unappealing get a little action and/or a little romance. To get an idea of the sort of pairings we're talking about, the Master List from 2008 can be found here.
There's no smut requirement, per se, but the characters you feature in your art or fiction must be shown in a relationship of some kind. This might mean they're just starting to date by the end of the story and do little more than hold hands, or it might mean they're encountering each other late one night via a glory hole, but either way, this isn't a Gen challenge (much though your fearless mod loves gen)
This is an anonymous exchange, which means I'll be posting all the stories and art, and only revealing the names of the authors and artists at the end of the exchange. Please make sure there's no identifying information (your signature, your betas, the name of your cat) when you send in your completed story/art file.
All completed work (1000 word minimum .txt files with basic html coding on stories, please) - and all questions - should be sent to me at: beholder.mod [at] gmail [dot] com
For a variety of reasons, the main posting for the exchange takes place on IJ, but LJ-only users can sign up and leave comments with OpenID. All posts will be linked from the mostly-mirror community on LiveJournal
Note: If you haven't participated in
hp_beholder before, make sure a link to your fiction and/or art appears somewhere on your journal.2009 DEADLINES
THE LIST (i.e., The list of characters from which at least one member of your primary pairing must be selected)
| Albus Dumbledore | Aberforth Dumbledore | Alecto Carrow |
| Amycus Carrow | Arthur Weasley | Molly Weasley |
| Dedalus Diggle | Augusta Longbottom | Professor Binns |
| Bloody Baron | Grey Lady | Barty Crouch, Sr |
| Vincent Crabbe | Gregory Goyle | Aunt Marge |
| Dudley Dursley | Petunia Dursley | Vernon Dursley |
| Eileen Prince | Elphias Doge | Tobias Snape |
| Fat Friar | Fenrir Greyback | Mrs. Figg |
| Argus Filch | Firenze | Filius Flitwick |
| Cornelius Fudge | Griphook | Professor Grubbly-Plank |
| Rubeus Hagrid | (Rolanda/Xiomara) Hooch | Igor Karkaroff |
| Olympe Maxime | Marcus Flint | Marietta Edgecombe |
| Marvolo Gaunt | Merope Gaunt | Walden Macnair |
| Minerva McGonagall | Millicent Bulstrode | Moaning Myrtle |
| Alastor Moody | Mundungus Fletcher | Mr. Ollivander |
| Peter Pettigrew | Irma Pince | Poppy Pomfrey |
| Quirinus Quirrell | Rabastan LeStrange | Madam Rosmerta |
| Rufus Scrimgeour | (Aurora) Sinistra | Sybill Trelawney |
| Rita Skeeter | Horace Slughorn | Pomona Sprout |
| Ernie Prang | Stan Shunpike | Tom (of the Leaky Cauldron) |
| Dolores Umbridge | Walburga Black | Xenophilus Lovegood |
| Viktor Krum | Charity Burbage | Nearly-Headless Nick |
| Morfin Gaunt | [...] | [...] |
SIGN-UP TEMPLATE
Contact Info and Background Data
For the art/fic you will be RECEIVING:
For the art/fic you will be GIVING:
Additional Likes and Dislikes
(Important Note: the giver isn't required to take these additional preferences about setting, era, tone, etc. into account, but it might help them come up with ideas, so include as many ideas as you like)
SAMPLE SIGN-UP (with italicized, parenthetical comments included!)
For the art/fic you will be RECEIVING:I would like to receive Art/Fic/No Preference: No preference I would like to receive Slash/Het/Femslash/No Preference: Slash or het, so if my author/artist chooses one of the women I've listed, they'll have to be in het pairings. I would like to receive Fic/Art rated R/NC-17; PG/PG-13; G; No preference: Mostly no preference: all ratings are fine, but I'd rather not receive a PWP...a little plot would be good) I would like to to receive art/fic featuring one of the following: Eileen Prince, Tobias Snape, Firenze, Argus Filch, Rubeus Hagrid, Igor Karkaroff, Minerva McGonagall, Millicent Bulstrode, Horace Slughorn (Note to participants: You needn't include more than five characters. List in order of preference, so your author/artist has some sense of your taste) I am unwilling to receive art/fic featuring any of the following: Griphook, Dedalus Diggle, Ginny, Sirius, Aunt Marge, Fenrir Greyback, Cornelius Fudge, Marvolo Gaunt, Dolores Umbridge, The Others (*to learn who "The Others" are, look at the section labelled "Who Can I Reject?") (Note: Remember that the characters you've requested are going to be paired with somebody - and except for the characters you list here, that "somebody" is up to the author/artist. However, more info can be left in the "Additional Likes and Dislikes" section below.) I am unwilling to receive art/fic containing any of the following elements: Hardcore BDSM, Scat, Roman Showers, Rape, PWPs, Death, OOC-ness without some indication of why the characters are acting that way (like...they're under a spell? *g*)
For the art/fic you will be GIVING:I would like to give Art/Fic/No Preference: Fic (you don't want my art) I would like to give Slash/Het/Femslash/No Preference: No preference. I would like to give Fic/Art rated R/NC-17; PG/PG-13; G; No preference: No preference.
I am willing to create art/fic featuring any of the following characters (10 characters minimum from the above list, or Any): Any..isn't that brave of me? I'd prefer to write one of the teachers, but I'll write anybody (although if it's a student, I don't want to write them underage) I am unwilling to create art/fic featuring all of the following characters (ten characters maximum from the above list). See above. I'll write anybody. I am unwilling to create art/fic containing any of the following elements: Hardcore BDSM, Scat, Roman Showers, PWPs. Anything else is okay, even death fic if somebody really wants that.
Additional Likes and Dislikes
I'd prefer Snape paired with anybody you choose (just like I'd prefer to write Snape). I like hopeful endings, at least. And while I'll write any era you want, I'd prefer to receive something set in Harry's sixth year or later, and something with some kind of plot. Apart from that? I'm easy.
WHO CAN I REJECT?
When you're trying to figure out who to exclude from the characters you're willing to give or receive (remember, you have a maximum of ten characters you can reject), there are three separate groups of characters you can take into consideration.
A. The first is the group made up of the characters who are the focus of this exchange - and you can certainly choose all ten of your "rejected characters" from that list.
B. If you want, however, some of your ten maximum rejected characters can come from the following list. This group is made up of the most popular individual characters ("popular" here indicates how often the characters have been the focus of recent holiday exchange stories/art).
Bill
Draco
Ginny
Harry
Hermione
Lucius
Luna
Narcissa
Neville
Regulus
Remus
Ron
Sirius
Snape
C. The third group is "The Others." This group is every single HP character who isn't specifically mentioned in A and B above. Choosing "The Others" absolutely guarantees that you won't receive a story featuring one of your five favorites paired with some obscure Ministry official that you never thought anybody would even remember (because remember, even if you give suggestions in the "Additional Likes and Dislikes" section, the author/artist isn't required to pay attention to those suggestions). However, rejecting "The Others" also ensures you won't get a story or art in which the main pairing includes characters who aren't in A or B and who you actually like, such as Kingsley or Tonks or Pansy or Charlie Weasley.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Can I request Helga Hufflepuff even though she's not on the list?
Sorry, no. At least two people had to request a character for that character's name to appear on the list. Maybe you can write about her paired with someone who is on the list though?
My recipient listed two characters I despise in their requests: does this mean I have to write about characters I hate?
No. You only have to write about one character from their request list...and since you offered at least one of the characters your recipient requested, this shouldn't be a problem.
But...I thought I had to write about a romantic and/or erotic pairing. Like I said, my recipient only has one character on their request list who I'd even consider writing about.
That's okay. As long as you pair that character with somebody who isn't on your recipient's "unwilling to receive" list, that's fine.
Even if the other character in the pairing is, like, Harry Potter?
Yep
But he's not undesirable!
Well, no, not to most people. In any case, only one character in the primary pairing has to be on the undesirable list. As noted above, the other character in the pairing can be any canon character who isn't on your reipient's "unwilling to receive" list.
So...can I write a story in which the primary pairing combines the one listed character my recipient and I have in common with Harry Potter, even though that listed character is a man and so is Harry - and my recipient doesn't want slash?
Okay, now you're just trying to be difficult, aren't you? *g*
No, you can't write a male/male pairing if your recipient wants to receive het. However, if you said you'd only write slash, you won't be asked to create a gift for a het-only recipient.
Hey, I'm the recipient. I received a story that doesn't exactly ignore any of the things I mentioned in my sign-up, but...it wasn't really my favorite pairing. Why didn't they write the pairing I wanted?
Well, first of all, sorry about that. I wish you had loved the story you received. But honestly, this exchange was set up so that you'd get a chance to read (and write) about your favorite mostly-unloved characters, not your favorite rare pairings. Maybe next time?
Why are Slash and Femslash treated as two different categories in the sign-ups?
In the best of all possible worlds, they wouldn't be. In fact, there wouldn't be any categories at all. But we're not quite in the best of all possible worlds yet.
When you say I can ask for up to ten elements to not appear in the art or fic that I receive, what do you mean?
Well, it might be a kind of kink (say, Watersports, for example). Or maybe you don't like any story set at Hogwarts. Or AU's. Or chibi-style art. Or characters referring to each other by cute pet names. It's up to you, but keep the "no, please no" list down to ten. Dislikes that are less significant can be mentioned at the bottom of your sign-up, but remember that your author/artist isn't required to follow those wishes.
Can I write a story where Slughorn goes on a diet and grows a foot taller and uses a time turner so that he can be 21 years old again?
Is it possible you're sort of missing the point of this exchange?
I'm so excited about this! I want to fulfill all my recipients requests and write six different stories and paint three different portraits and...seriously, can I give more than one gift?
Yes, you can (you over-enthusiastic participant, you!), but one at a time, please.
Does my pairing have to include Snape?
Only if you want to make the mod very happy. Otherwise, absolutely not!
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