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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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ragdoll
2014-02-01 07:44 am UTC (link)

Additional Likes and Dislikes

I love rare pairs so feel free to surprise me with a combo of Beholderites or someone from my 'regular' character list below. Have fun mixing it up in some new, exciting way (e.g. Trelawney/Moody, Xeno/Andromeda, Tonks/Stan, Dudley/Lavender, Molly/Arthur/Kingsley)

These characters make me happy: Tonks, Bill, Charlie, Luna, Ron, Neville, Ginny, Fred & George, Sirius Black, Kingsley, Pansy, Lavender, so inclusion of one (or more) would be grand.

I also love: assertive female characters, threesomes (if m/m/f please make sure to give equal attention to all the characters involved), bisexuality, angst, humour, banter, a/u, UST, sexual exploration, happy endings, EWE, true love, light bondage/discipline, spanking/strapping/flogging, Consensual BDSM, seduction, romance, kissing, shower/bath!sex, frottage, voyeurism, plotty stories vs. PWP, exploration of the Wizarding world or the use of magic in a sexual setting, first times or courtship – I love to know how and why a relationship ticks vs. a schmoopy established relationship with no explanation.

Molly/Arthur or Andromeda/Ted: if you use them, please don't split them up or have either cheating once they're married. If you feel the need to explore one or both with another character, then consensual polyamoury or a threesome would be just fine.

However, Andromeda/someone else post-war in an canon-ish setting as long as Ted doesn't die in the fic itself. Please keep Ted's memory alive and their previous relationship as something positive. Also feel free to keep Ted and/or Nymphadora alive if you want.

I really dislike: Alpha/Beta/Omega/Whatever It is universe. Non magical or Voldemort Wins a/u -- please stick to the magical Potterverse as we know it. Cross-dressing men(I honestly will be unable to read it/look at it). Character death (see caveat). Cross-gen relationships/major age disparity (see caveat). Unrepentant Infidelity/adultery. Next Gen characters or completely canon compliant stories. Female character bashing so if you can't write someone nicely, then please don't include them. If you need to break up a relationship, have it not work out vs. painful, horrible death or deceit, or just ignore them completely. I also dislike stories with name only characters (like Morag MacDougal or Stephen Cornfoot). Also please avoid the following tropes: "my male partner is secretly gay and that's why he doesn't love me, so I'm free to go with you", "poor scarred, damaged Lavender needs [Person X] to make her feel loved again".

Bestiality (including Animagi forms and humanoids – centaurs, merpeople etc.), Death Eaters, vampires, werewolves (esp. Werewolf!Bill or Lavender), cutsey non-canon nicknames, obsession with Muggle pop culture by Wizards (i.e. listening to current bands, reading American comic books or manga, watching 'Star Wars' etc.), Americanisms, piercings, anachronisms, gender fuck, body/gender swapping and Tonks-with-a-dick are all turn offs too. So are fanon cliches like angsty Lavender-with-scars or Tonks-changing-her-hair/eye colour-uncontrollably. Please stick to canon descriptions of canon characters wherever possible (e.g. Charlie is short and stocky, Millicent is a large woman, Andromeda is the middle Black sister, Tonks' eyes are dark, Viktor is not a male model.)

Caveats:

Character death: basically, I don't want anyone to die or have any reference to it in the story. If it's a canon character who dies in the books (e.g. Moody or Ted), then please don't kill him/her within the story or make it some kind of memorial flashback. That said, if you want to explore Andromeda making a new life for herself after Ted's murder, or Xeno coping as a single dad after his wife's death, then that's fine. I just really love happy endings and positive fics, not doom and gloom, or reminders that person X will be dead by the time the story is over. (I hope that makes sense!) Making it a/u and keeping them alive? Even better.

Cross-gen: I actually have no problem with the concept of adult characters being involved with an older partner as long as there's not a HUGE age disparity (let's say a span of about 10 years or so), particularly with anyone in Harry's age range. The only exception would be Tonks/Moody.

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	ragdoll 2014-02-06 07:53 am UTC (link)
	Somehow I forgot "heavy anal play and fisting" under dislikes. Please don't include these as they are squicks/triggers. Pegging, rimming, and het anal intercourse are perfectly fine. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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