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atdelphi (atdelphi) wrote in hp_beholder,
@ 2014-01-30 08:10:00

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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
Contact Info and Background Data Name: Reliable Email Address: Are you over 18? (Note: You may participate even if you're under 18, but you cannot request or create a Mature/R or Explicit/NC17 work.): I would be willing to pinch hit: For the art/fic you will be RECEIVING I would like to receive Femslash/Het/Slash, or No Preference: I can only receive a work rated Teen/PG-13 or below: I would like to to receive art/fic featuring one of the following (five characters minimum from the Beholder List, or Any): 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. I am unwilling to receive art/fic featuring any of the following (ten characters maximum, including characters which don't appear on the Beholder List above): 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. I am unwilling to receive art/fic containing any of the following elements (note: five elements maximum): 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. For the art/fic you will be GIVING I would like to give Femslash/Het/Slash, or No Preference: I can only provide a work rated Teen/PG-13 or below: I am willing to write or draw one of the following characters (10 characters minimum 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}: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. I am unwilling to give art/fic featuring one of the following characters (ten characters maximum from the Beholder List): 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. I am unwilling to give art/fic containing any of the following elements (note: five elements maximum): 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Additional Likes and Dislikes (Important Note: your artist or author is not required 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.

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notearchiver
2014-01-30 11:37 pm UTC (link)

Additional Likes and Dislikes
(Important Note: your artist or author is not required 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.)
Characters/Pairings
Severus Snape is my favourite character (to both read and write) and I will be eternally happy if he is one side of a pairing. I especially adore Aberforth/Snape, Filch/Snape, Kettleburn/Snape, and Ollivander/Snape, but anything is fine. Aberforth/Filch is another love of mine, as is Krum/Aberforth and Krum/Harry Potter. In terms of femslash, Muriel/August is a favourite. But really, any pairing I receive is wonderful! :D

If you choose to write Snape (*crosses fingers*), I adore ambiguous, disillusioned, guarded, and/or damaged Snape. I adore Aberforth in all his bitter, grumpy glory and an uncannily perceptive Filch.

As you can tell from my favourite pairings, cross-gen is fine. However, I don't like next-gen characters as much (or Remus Lupin, to be honest).

Era/Setting
I particularly enjoy fics set during the First Voldemort War or during OotP and beyond era. In general, I don't like anything to do with Horcruxes or DH. In fact, I prefer to ignore DH if at all possible, though DH with EWE is fine.

I don't much care for non-magic AUs.

Tone
I adore angst and ambiguity almost as much as I adore Snape. I like wartime fics that focus on the emotional fallout war causes. Bittersweet endings are fine, but I prefer no character death.

I do not like fluff and happiness (although flangst is perfectly acceptable). I do not like flat-out humour.

Miscellany
I like missing moments and/or created moments (the former being things that obviously happened according to JK but were not shown, the latter being things that could have happened but we don't know about [such as during the First War]) and I favour plot over porn (although plot with porn is perfectly fine). Any rating is perfectly acceptable. G is just as good as NC-17. It's all about the emotions for me. Emotions > sex.

Overall, just look at the characters on my list and go with your gut. Ignore this section if nothing screams *write/draw me!*

Thank you!

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