Happy New Year! I hope you're all having a fabulous 2008 so far! We start our year off with a quickie challenge:
Celebrate Snape!
That's right, our beloved Potions master turns 48 this year, and in his honor, we're having a free-for-all on his birthday, January 9! So, prepare your tributes for posting on the 9th. Anything goes - drabbles, fic, art, sketches, themed lists, reviews, essays, photomanips, colourbars, discussion - if you can think of it, post it! And if you happen to pair Snape with a certain younger werewolf, all the better!
If you have any questions or needs, feel free to ask, but Celebrating Snape should come naturally to us. See you on the 9th!
In other news, the
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snupin_santa reveal is in a couple days, but until then, there's icons here for the participants. Check them out! And until the reveal, you can try your hand at the Guessing Polls. And finally, if you spend the month catching up with the exchange, don't forget to leave a note for the participants. Feedback definitely dropped off after the first week, but it's never too late to let a creator know you viewed her work.
Remember when I talked about finding your three fics or pieces of art you'd like art/stories for? My next posts (later today) are going to be sign-up posts for our Trading Places challenge!
Artists are always hoping they will inspire someone to write fic based on their art, and writers are hoping an artist will be inspired to draw something their stories, so we're making a challenge out of it. Choose your three pieces of art or three stories for which you'd like to receive embellishment. There will be a separate sign-up post for art and a post for stories.
I ask that there be no extra "chatter" on the sign-up posts, because that's where claiming will eventually happen. If you want to discuss anything, feel free to come back here and post a link to the sign-up reply you're discussing.
You can choose any three Snape/Lupin pieces you wish of any length or type, but you may only offer one threesome in the three pieces you sign up with. Sign-ups will be open until next Friday, January 11. At midnight EST on January 12, claiming may begin, there's no need to wait for me to open it up. Writers will be asked to write a minimum of 500 words for one art piece if they sign-up with stories, but artists may do sketch-quality work and claim two pieces at a time. This is because we have many more artists than writers here.
If you sign up by offering links to your work, you will be expected to return the favour by then making a claim to create. I think 500 words (5 drabbles!) and at least one sketch or drawable should be easy enough for many to try. You don't have to offer links (sign-up) to make claims, but if I find we don't have many art links or story links, I will come begging. Don't make me beg, ok, because then I'll have to break out the blinky eyes. *g*
If any of this is clear as mud, please ask your questions here,
Posts are up! Sign-ups for Art || Sign-ups for Fiction
That's all for now. Thanks to all the members for making this a super community! I'll be back later today with sign-up posts, and later this week with a new non-secret project and, hopefully, the State of the Snupin! OOO la la! ~_^
love, lore