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ANNOUNCING: Santas Lap Returns for the 2009 Holiday Season!!!
ANNOUNCING:
Santa is coming around again in 2009. santas_lap will be running again this year using the same model as the 2007 fest. gnomad has graciously allowed shadowess to assume the modly role. Thank you gnomad for all your hard work creating this fest. It was so wonderful the first time around, it needed another run.


Fest Guidelines and Rules
Welcome to santas_lap!! This is a holiday fest specifically for HP chan slash.
If you're interested in participating in the fest, please read the community guidelines & rules. The rules and guidelines are the same as the ones set for the 2007 Fest but with a modified timeline.

The 2009 fest is prompt-based. In a few days, a post will follow that invites anyone to submit prompts and scenarios for the fest. Participants will then be able to claim the submitted prompts to use as a guide for their work. I've outlined the general process, rules, and timeline below. Please read it carefully if you'd like to participate.

General Rules

• You must be at least 18 years old in order to participant in the fest. When the prompt claims post goes up, participants will be asked to include an age statement as well as their prompt choice.


• This is a chan slash fest; therefore, your submission must contain slash related content and it must feature chan in some way. For the purposes of this fest, I'm defining chan as a relationship between an adult and a minor under the age of 16 (current age of consent in Britain). How young you make the minor beyond that is completely up to your comfort level. Mixed gender threesomes are okay so long as the threesome combination is male/male/female and the male characters are interacting with each other as well as the female. Exceptions made, of course, for the Giant Squid, who can be any gender you'd like as long as you're writing me channish squid porn.


• All ratings are accepted. Please use MPAA rating guidelines (G through NC-17) when posting.


• Fics must be at least 1,500 words; art must be, er, more than a sketch. There is no upper word limit.

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Prompt Suggestions

• A post soliciting prompt suggestions will go up on September 4th. If I don't get much response, I'll likely supplement the list, from the previous fest's unused prompts, so there's a good selection for folks to choose from.


• Anyone can submit prompts/scenarios--participants and lurkers--so even if you don't have the time or inclination to participate, you can still post prompts for other folks to write.


• The prompts should be situations, scenes, or words that you think would be an interesting jumping off point for a participant. They can include characters but they should not include pairings.


• People can post up to 5 suggestions.

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Prompt Claiming

• Prompts will be open for claiming on September 11th (midnight EST) and remain open until September 18th (midnight EST). indefinitely


• All those interested in participating must comment with their preferred prompt and an age statement.


• You may claim your own suggested prompt if you'd like, but you're encouraged to choose something different.


• There is a maximum limit of 2 claims per prompt. I'll try my very best to keep the prompt list updated, but I must sleep sometimes.


• How close you stick to your prompt is entirely up to you.

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Submissions

• Participants may post their submissions to the comm beginning on November 30th and may continue posting until December 25th. On December 26th, the master list will go up.


• Submissions must be posted on the community itself (no links to personal journals) and are exclusive to the community until the fest is complete and the master list is posted. Please don't post your submissions elsewhere on the internet until the fest is over!


• Long fics and art that are in need of off-comm hosting can be emailed to me via the mod account (santas.lap.mod@gmail.com) and will be happily hosted on my website until the fest is over.


• Late submissions are accepted though, of course, not preferred.


• Fics must be beta read. If you are having trouble finding a beta, please let me know and I'll see what I can dig up.


• All fest submissions must be posted with the following header template:

Title:
Author/Artist:
Pairing(s):
Rating:
Warnings (if any):
Summary:
Prompt:
Author/Artist Note (if any):

• In the subject line, please include whether your submission is fic or art, the title, and the pairing. For example: Fic: The Games We Play (SS/HP, SS/RL).


• A chan warning is assumed on all submissions throughout the fest, so you do not need to warn explicitly for it; however, you must still warn for anything else (e.g., non-con, abuse, character death, incest, etc.). Whited-out (i.e., 'highlight to show') warnings are fine if you would like to give readers the option of not looking.


• All submissions should be cut tagged. Only the header should remain outside the cut tag. If you don't know how to do a cut tag, email me for help or read the instructions here.


• Please turn off all weird Microsoft Word auto-format options. This includes Smart Quotes and automatic dash fixes. (Options to turn these off are in the Tools/AutoCorrect Options/Auto Format As You Type tab.) They play havoc on IJ posts and it's just cleaner to have them off.

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General Timeline

September 4th--Prompt suggestions open
September 10th--Final day to make prompt suggestions
September 11th--Prompt claims open (midnight EST)
September 18th--Final day to sign up for fest and claim prompts (midnight EST) Prompt Claiming open indefinitely
November 30th to December 25th--Fest submission posting period
December 26--Master List Posted

I think that's it.
If you have any other questions or concerns, you can comment here or email me at santas.lap.mod@gmail.com !

Your mod,

Shadowess