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HP Beholder 2014 Sign-Ups!
SIGN-UPS ARE NOW CLOSED

Welcome to the seventh round of hp_beholder! Once again, we're here to bring a little love (or lust) into the lives of our favourite Harry Potter characters who are otherwise often overlooked.

Sign-ups are now open and will remain so until 6:00PM (Pacific Time) on Thursday, February 6th. Assignments will go out on the following weekend. Completed, edited stories and artwork are due by 11:59PM (Pacific Time) on Thursday, March 27th.

If you have not already done so, please read the updated community information here, which includes general guidelines, additional tips for writing your request, and this year's schedule.


Sign-up Template - PLEASE NOTE, THE TEMPLATE HAS BEEN UPDATED SINCE LAST YEAR
<strong>Contact Info and Background Data</strong> <strong>Name:</strong> <strong>Reliable Email Address:</strong> <strong>Are you over 18? (<small>Note: You may participate even if you're under 18, but you cannot request or create a Mature/R or Explicit/NC17 work.</small>):</strong> <strong>I would be willing to pinch hit:</strong> <strong>For the art/fic you will be RECEIVING</strong> <strong>I would like to receive Femslash/Het/Slash, or No Preference:</strong> <strong>I can only receive a work rated Teen/PG-13 or below:</strong> <strong>I would like to to receive art/fic featuring one of the following (five characters <em>minimum</em> from the Beholder List, or Any):</strong> <strong>1.</strong> <strong>2.</strong> <strong>3.</strong> <strong>4.</strong> <strong>5.</strong> <strong>I am unwilling to receive art/fic featuring any of the following (ten characters <em>maximum</em>, including characters which don't appear on the Beholder List above):</strong> <strong>1.</strong> <strong>2.</strong> <strong>3.</strong> <strong>4.</strong> <strong>5.</strong> <strong>6.</strong> <strong>7.</strong> <strong>8.</strong> <strong>9.</strong> <strong>10.</strong> <strong>I am unwilling to receive art/fic containing any of the following elements (note: five elements <em>maximum</em>):</strong> <strong>1.</strong> <strong>2.</strong> <strong>3.</strong> <strong>4.</strong> <strong>5.</strong> <strong>For the art/fic you will be GIVING</strong> <strong>I would like to give Femslash/Het/Slash, or No Preference:</strong> <strong>I can only provide a work rated Teen/PG-13 or below:</strong> <strong>I am willing to write or draw one of the following characters (10 characters <em>minimum</em> from the Beholder List, or Any) {Mod Note: I'll make every effort to match people according to their first few choices, unless they indicate otherwise}:</strong> <strong>1.</strong> <strong>2.</strong> <strong>3.</strong> <strong>4.</strong> <strong>5.</strong> <strong>6.</strong> <strong>7.</strong> <strong>8.</strong> <strong>9.</strong> <strong>10.</strong> <strong>I am unwilling to give art/fic featuring one of the following characters (ten characters <em>maximum</em> from the Beholder List):</strong> <strong>1.</strong> <strong>2.</strong> <strong>3.</strong> <strong>4.</strong> <strong>5.</strong> <strong>6.</strong> <strong>7.</strong> <strong>8.</strong> <strong>9.</strong> <strong>10.</strong> <strong>I am unwilling to give art/fic containing any of the following elements (note: five elements <em>maximum</em>):</strong> <strong>1.</strong> <strong>2.</strong> <strong>3.</strong> <strong>4.</strong> <strong>5.</strong> <strong>Additional Likes and Dislikes</strong> (Important Note: your artist or author <em>is not required</em> 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 as you like. This is not the space for hard and fast triggers or squicks; those should be placed in the list of elements that you are unwilling to receive above.)

List of Qualifying Characters

Below is the list of characters from which at least one member of the pairing/threesome/moresome in each fanwork must be selected.

(adult) 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	Arabella. 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	Abraxas Malfoy	Antonin Dolohov
Aunt Muriel	Andromeda Tonks	Amelia Bones
Griselda Marchbanks	John Dawlish	Septima Vector
Apollyon Pringle	Silvanus Kettleburn	Augustus Rookwood
Bane	Ted Tonks	Yaxley

Things to Keep in Mind:
1. Please do some research before creating fic or art about places and peoples with which you're only vaguely familiar, and ensure that your work and your sign-up don't perpetuate oppressive, discriminatory tropes and attitudes. The Beholder community has been pretty good so far in these areas, and it would be great if we could keep it that way. If you have any questions about whether your work might be problematic in its conception or execution, write to the Mod.

2. This exchange is anonymous. I will be posting all completed works to the community to preserve the authors' and artists' anonymity until the end of the exchange. To that end, please make sure that your work is free of any identifying markers (such as a signature or watermark on art and the appearance of established OCs in stories) and that you remain discreet in your journals.

3. All completed work—1500-word minimum files (.txt or .rtf or .doc) with html coding on stories, please—and all questions should be sent to me at: beholder.mod [at] gmail [dot] com. Please use appropriate content notes when submitting your work. Warnings for non-consensual or dubiously consensual activity, or for sexual activity involving any character under the age of 18, are mandatory.

If you defaulted last year, or had to be contacted after missing deadlines, you are welcome to take part again. However, I would ask that you commit to meeting this year's set deadline.