(Beauty is in) The Eye of the Beholder

With the posting of "Barfly"; "Sweet Dreams"; "Roll in the Hay" (ART, Aberforth Dumbledore/Severus Snape) and "Sod Off" Means "I Love You" (FIC, Severus Snape/Millicent Bulstrode/Dennis Creevey), Beholder participants and other community members/visitors have until Monday, May 24 (when the Authors and Artists names will be revealed) to catch up on reading, viewing, and commenting! (those of you who haven’t started commenting yet might consider checking out the stories and art from the most recently posted and working your way backwards)

( FIC )

( ART )

One more order of business: Back on February 5th, when thoughts of the catastrophic earthquake suffered by the Haitian people was fresh in everyone's mind, I pledged $1.00 (US) to Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières for each story and work of art posted in this year's HP Beholder Fest. With our last story and the trio of art pieces posted today, this year's Beholder total stands at 60, and I've just made my $60 donation to DWB/MSF.

A number of people stepped up to the plate and made variations on my pledge (yay!!), so to make things easier for those folks, I'm going to give some totals. Note: everybody's totally free to decide when they're going to contribute, how much (feel free to increase the amount you're giving *g*), and to which charitable organization.

* meri_oddities, who's matching my donation of $1.00 for each story/artwork completed and posted in this year's exchange. (60 x 1.00)
* r_grayjoy who's pledging .50 for every slash piece posted in this year's exchange. (21 x .50)
* venturous, who's pledging $1.00 for every work that includes Snape in this year's exchange (12 x 1.00)
* ragdoll, who's pledging .50 for every het or femslash piece posted in this year's exchange. (38 x .50) (*note: see below for the event ragdoll's donating to and consider lending it your support!)
* atdelphi, who's pledging $5.00 Canadian for each story that features Argus Filch in the main pairing. (3 x 5.00)
* torino10154, who's pledging $1.00 for anything with Eileen or Tobias and $.50 for anything with Severus. (3 x 1.00 and 12 x .50

(the numbers of het plus slash plus femslash don't equal the total number of stories and art because some work had multiple mixed-category pairings)

Hello, all!

In just two more days, art and fic posting will begin for the 2010 edition of HP Beholder. Each afternoon (U.S. east coast time) for the next month and a bit beyond, two gifts - or occasionally one, in the case of particularly long fiction - will be posted to the main IJ community and to the LJ mirror community, as we did last year.

The majority of the art and fic has already been submitted and the work features 41 of the 70 chararacters on the Beholder List of [Not Really] Undesirable Characters...and I can tell you right now there are at least a half dozen pairings never seen before on Beholder - and possibly never seen before anywhere! :)

Keep an eye on the community and support - with your comments - the talented artists and authors who believe, as most of you do, that all characters should be given a chance at romantic/sexual relationships, not just the young and the beautiful.

Hi folks!

A quick reminder that apart from a few exceptions (i.e., people who have already arranged for extensions due to extenuating circumstances) all submissions (stories and art) are due next Thursday, the 1st of April.

Please do your best to get your submissions in by that date. If some difficulty has arisen in your life (health, work, school, etc) that will require a brief extension, please email me as soon as possible so that we can discuss re-scheduling.

Hi, hp_beholder participants (and community fans)!

All the assignments have now been mailed out (Shhhh! Don't tell anybody what your assignment is...it's a secret!)

Please reply with a confirmation as soon as you receive your assignment. If you haven't received an assignment, email me (beholder.mod [at] gmail.com) as soon as possible so that I can re-send.

And for the early birds amongst you, ( the Fic/Art Submission Header Template is beneath the cut tag... )

( Complete HP Beholder Participant List )


***

Last week, I mentioned that for each person who signs up (...and who actually completes their hp_beholder fic or art so that I can post it), I'd be donating $1.00 to Doctors without Borders to aid in the relief efforts in Hait. I asked, at the time, if anybody was interested in matching the donation or pledging a variation on the donation theme, and a number of folks responded.

Many thanks to the following:

* meri_oddities, who's matching my donation of $1.00 for each story/artwork completed and posted in this year's exchange.
* r_grayjoy who's pledging .50 for every slash piece posted in this year's exchange.
* venturous, who's pledging $1.00 for every work that includes Snape in this year's exchange.
* ragdoll, who's pledging .50 for every het or femslash piece posted in this year's exchange.
* atdelphi, who's pledging $5.00 Canadian for each story that features Argus Filch in the main pairing.
* torino10154, who's pledging $1.00 for anything with Eileen or Tobias and $.50 for anything with Severus.