Snarry Holidays

snarry_holidays weekly wrap-up – week two!

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snarry_holidays Weekly Wrap-up! - First Week

( First Week Wrap-up )

Can you believe it? Little under a month left before assignments are due (Oct. 10th)! Already we've started to see submissions coming in, so we felt it time to post submission guidelines!

When submitting your fic or art piece please include this header with the document.

Fic:
<b>Title:</b> <b>Author:</b> <b>Giftee:</b> <b>Word Count:</b> <b>Rating:</b> <b>Pairing:</b> <b>Warnings:</b> <b>Disclaimer:</b> All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. <b>Summary:</b> <b>Author's Notes:</b>

Art:
<b>Title:</b> <b>Artist:</b> <b>Giftee:</b> <b>Media/Medium:</b> <b>Rating:</b> <b>Pairing:</b> <b>Warnings:</b> <b>Disclaimer:</b> All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. <b>Summary:</b> <b>Artist's Notes:</b>

If you have any questions, email us at snarryholiday@gmail.com or comment below.

Your assignments are due on October 10th, one month from today! If you are going to need an extension, or if you have any questions for your recipient or need help with anything else, please contact us at snarryholiday@gmail.com

In the meantime, please remember that your work must be betaed - no exceptions!

If you are a beta and would like to volunteer your services for our lovely participants, this is the place to do it - please fill out the following form to indicate your availability and what you are willing to beta. If you're a participant in search of a beta, please pay attention to the betas' specifications and choose one appropriate for your work - and give them plenty of notice, too!

Name: E-mail: Willing to help with: (plot, characterization, SPAG, canon, Brit-pick?) Squicks: (chan, incest, non-con, bestiality, whatever you don't want to have to read/view) Availability: (when will you be out of town, busy, desperately working on an important project, etc.?) Other notes: (preferred format for fics, anything else an author/artist should know)

All assignments have now been sent! Please check your e-mail accounts, if you have not done so already, and if you have not received an e-mail from us, please let us know so that we can resend it. If you have already received your assignment and are willing to accept it, please reply to the e-mail and let us know.

If you have any questions about your assignment or about the fest in general, feel free to e-mail us at snarryholiday@gmail.com (or check out our Rules and FAQ first).

In a few weeks, we'll be posting the header templates for your submissions, and will also make a beta post, for those who wish to offer their services as betas and those who are in need of betas ... so stay tuned for those. In the meantime, have fun with your assignments!

Sign-ups are coming soon! We'll be running them from August 5th through August 12th (or until we reach our participant cap, which will be 80 this year), so it's time to get ready! Here's the sign-up template so that you can start thinking about your sign-ups, and pleaseremember that your work will be due October 10th. Refer to the Rules and FAQs or e-mail us at snarryholiday@gmail.com if you have any questions!


<b>Name:</b> <b>E-mail:</b> <b>Age statement:</b> <b>Have you participated in Snarry Holidays before?</b> <b>If so, who was your recipient?</b> <u>For the gift that you will <b>receive</b></u> <b>Slash, pre-slash or gen:</b> <b>Genres, kinks, requests:</b> <b>Squicks, dislikes, cautions:</b> <b>Optional Prompt/s (up to three):</b> <b>Maximum rating:</b> <b>Other info:</b> <u>For the gift that you will <b>give</b></u> <b>Slash, pre-slash, or gen:</b> <b>Strengths:</b> <b>Squicks:</b> <b>Maximum rating:</b>

To help you out, here are a few examples. If you need any other help - again, don't hesitate to e-mail us!

( Examples of sign-ups )

This is NOT the sign-up post. We'll open sign-ups at midnight EST on August 5th!

As promised, here are the rules and FAQs for our next round. Please read them carefully - by signing up, you're agreeing to follow them. :)

Just one quick announcement - we've started a mirror comm on LJ, here, so feel free to join and/or watch that comm if you prefer to follow Snarry Holidays on LJ. We haven't got the layout sorted yet, but we'll have it up and running by the time we start!

Remember, we're starting sign-ups on August 5th, and we're capping the participants at 80 this year ... so sign up early! :)

Then without any further ado, let us present ...

The Rules and FAQs for Snarry Holidays 2008:

Rules

1. Fic must be at least 2000 words in length; for art, there is no limit but please spend an comparable amount of time, giving thought to what your recipient wants - i.e. a quick doodle will not be sufficient.

2. To receive a gift, you must submit a gift. If you drop out, your gift will be reassigned and (barring any extenuating circumstances) you will not be allowed to participate in future Snarry Holidays fests.

If you must drop out, please notify us as soon as possible. We need to know in order to arrange for pinch hitters.

If you dropped out last year, please contact us regarding your eligibility. Contact us if you are unsure of your eligibility.

3. All submissions must be beta-read -- NO EXCEPTIONS. We reserve the right to return your work to you for further editing if there are spelling and grammar errors.

4. Your submission must include all HTML formatting: bold, italics, and so on. The mods cannot go through and fix your HTML tags for you - if the formatting is incorrect, your submission will be returned to you for corrections. If you are unfamiliar with HTML tags, the mods would be happy to answer questions.

For fic longer than 10,000 words, we will be hosting your submission on our own site. Please make sure that your work appears exactly as you want it WITHOUT HTML formatting, and send it to us so that we can upload it.

5. This is an anonymous fest - you may not prematurely reveal your identity! Your work cannot be part of a pre-existing series, and cannot be posted elsewhere until after the fest is over and the masterlist is posted.

6. All submissions are due October 10, 2008. In order to receive a two-week extension on the deadline, you must let us know that you need one and send in proof of progress at the time of asking for an extension. Further extensions cannot be guaranteed - depending on the amount of submissions received and the amount of time needed to finish a submission, additional time may be granted.

7. Your gift must fit your recipient's request, within reason. It is not always possible to include every element in a request, but this is a gift exchange: if your recipient does not wish to receive x, y or z, then do not include them in the gift. The mods reserve the right to return submissions for revisions if they do not fulfill the request.

If for whatever reason, you find yourself unable to complete the assignment that you are given, you MUST let the mods know within 24 hours in order to be receive a different assignment.

If you ask to switch assignments for spurious reasons, or because you did not submit a clear and complete sign-up form specifying what you are willing to write, your request for a different assignment is highly likely to be denied.

( and please read the FAQs, for more information )

Let us know if you have any further questions about our next round, by commenting here or e-mailing us at snarryholiday@gmail.com. Other than that ... start getting ready for a very Snarry Holiday this year! We hope that you're just as excited as we are. :)

Hey guys! We're thrilled to announce that the second round of the Snarry Holidays anonymous gift exchange will be starting soon ... we had a great time last year, and we're looking forward to another holiday filled with great art and fic!

To minimize fest burn-out this year, we're going to try to keep it short and sweet! We're going to have a participant cap of 80 this year, and keep the posting down to just a little over a month. Hopefully that will be a happy medium - enough Snarry to satisfy us all, but not so much that we go crazy from all the holiday fests. :)

Without any further ado, here is the schedule. We'll be back in a week or so to post the official rules and give you more details!

Schedule for Snarry Holidays Round Two:

Sign-ups: Aug 5 - Aug 12
Assignments out: Aug 15
Assignments due: Oct 10
Posting: Nov 1 - Dec 7

Before Lyv went on her trip to Europe I AM NOT JEALOUS! I'M NOT! we were sitting down, trying to figure out what to do with the next round of Snarry Holidays. We both plan to have the fest run again (and much better this year, we actually made a list of things we HAVE to do at the end of the fest in order to make this years so much better) but our biggest sticking point was when to hold it.

As everyone knows, December is a huge months for pretty much all fests of any size, shape and flavor to be posting. 3/4 of my personal flist was solely devoted to fests and I maybe, personally, ended up reading 4 fics that weren't from my fest. It was mildly disheartening, but I, like most others, experienced fic burnout.

Now, the question comes, well why are you sharing that with us? The reason for that is Lyv and I wish to move the posting to an earlier month. As the fest stands right now, we barely finished posting before Snarry Smut Swap started. That's just not on. Not on at all. I like our fest, Lyv loves our fest, and we both loved everyone who participated and enjoyed themselves, but as you can see, two Snarry fests back to back just won't fly.

So guys, here's what we need from you. We need a better month. I do believe when we last talked we said we were going to post from the middle of October to mid-November, but that would conflict with all you lovelies who like to do NaNo. That's what we need though. A new month to spread our fest over.

Any suggestions for a better month?

~faynia

Thank you to everyone who participated. We'd like to hear your thoughts on how to make this fest run smoother next time, and what we can do to encourage more participation in commenting.

So, here, as promised, is our ( Masterlist )

We posted the last entry for the fest yesterday, and now we'll be giving you about a week to catch up with everything before we post the masterlist. All of the authors and artists involved in the fest worked very hard on their submissions, so please take the time to leave comments on the fic and art that you enjoyed.

We want to thank you all for participating with us in Snarry Holidays - watchers and participants alike. Special thanks go to bewarethesmirk, who helped us out with posting, and to all of our pinch hitters, who made the completion of this fest possible ... we couldn't have done it without all of you! Due to all of your help and hard work, there's been a lot of Snarry love this season ... and that makes the holidays merrier!

Hey everybody!

We're going to take the day off from posting today to let everyone catch up on any fics you may have missed! With all the fests that started this week, we know there is a sudden overload of fiction to read, but don't forget we still have another week or so of posting left here with many great fics to come!

Have a nice weekend!

~The Mods

We need to hear from the following people ASAP!

angelicfruicake
amusette
aragon_san
nidaba
elke_tanzer

We haven't received any responses to our e-mails, and we do not have submissions from you. As we said in our last e-mails to you, if we do not hear from you by midnight EST on the 29th, we'll be forced to drop you from the fest and reassign your gifts. We definitely don't want to do this to anyone, but we really have no choice if we're to arrange for pinch hitters in time. (Speaking of which, please send us an e-mail or leave a comment here if you're interested in being a pinch hitter and have the time to commit to it.)

... to remind you that all submissions are due tomorrow, November 20th. Please e-mail your completed and betaed fic or art to us as snarryholiday@gmail.com by midnight EST at the very latest!

Now, please continue to enjoy all of the fabulous Snarry. :)

Title: Red Windmill
Author: Secret Author 007
Giftee: cnary_crem_dght
Word Count: 3,875
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Harry/Severus
Warnings: Slash, bottom!Snape, Prostitution, elements of DH, basically PWP
Disclaimer: If I owned it, Harry and Snape would have killed Voldemort, enslaved Dumbledore, and had many, many black-haired babies (no redheads in sight).
Summary: Six years after the final battle, Harry can't get Snape out of his mind. Hearing a tip about a man that fits Severus's description, he leaves behind his friends to find what he's missed all along.
Author’s Notes: Written for snarry_holidays fic exchange. Many thanks to the two ladies—M and J—who helped me get this fic in ship shape. I don’t know what I would have done without you two!

Happy Holidays, cnary_crem_dght! I hope you enjoy the story.

( Red Windmill )

Just a reminder that sign-ups will close on Tuesday (midnight EST) - so you have about two and a half days left to sign up! We have eight slots remaining - remember, we're capping the fest at 100, so it's closing at either Tuesday at noon EST or 100 participants, whichever comes first. For those of you who have already signed up, you have two and a half days left to modify your request ... feel free to send us an e-mail or leave a comment if you've decided that you're absolutely dying to see a Christmassy Snarry with mistletoe, eggnog and blow-jobs. :D

After Tuesday, we'll be making assignments based on the information that you've given us, and will only change assignments immediately after they've been received, and only in dire circumstances ... so please make sure that your request and the list of things that you're willing or unwilling to write is as accurate as possible.

For those of you who have signed up, or are thinking about it - it would be helpful if you had an IJ account, as we're running the fest on this site. We're not requiring that you sign up for an account here, by any means, but we do suggest it - it will make it much for you to watch the fest, and read and comment on all the wonderful Snarry that we'll be seeing this holiday.

Don't want to participate or you are going to participate and still want to help more? You can still help us by pimping out the comm!


A Severus Snape/Harry Potter Anonymous Holiday Exchange

What is the Snarry Holidays Fest?

Snarry Holidays is an anonymous holiday gift exchange fest for Snape/Harry fans on InsaneJournal. Participants will give and receive art or fic centered around the Snarry pairing (slash, pre-slash, or gen).

Please feel free to friend or join the community!

Sign-ups begin August 21st!

snarry_holidays



Pimp it on your own journal!
<Center><a href="http://asylums.insanejournal.com/snarry_holidays/profile"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/Faynia/snarryholidays.jpg" border="0" /></a> A Severus Snape/Harry Potter Anonymous Holiday Exchange <b>What is the Snarry Holidays Fest?</b> Snarry Holidays is an anonymous holiday gift exchange fest for Snape/Harry fans on <a href="http://asylums.insanejournal.com/snarry_holidays/profile">InsaneJournal</a>. Participants will give and receive art or fic centered around the Snarry pairing (slash, pre-slash, or gen). Please feel free to friend or join the community! Sign-ups begin <b>August 21st</b>! <lj comm="snarry_holidays"> </center>

Welcome to the first ever Snarry Holidays exchange! We're always excited to see more Snape/Harry here, and we're hoping that you will join us in making the holidays Snarrier. Please feel free to join, watch, or pimp this community, and get ready to sign up on August 21st!


( You must read all of the rules before signing up )