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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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evensong14
2014-02-06 03:52 am 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.)

Likes: Ambiguity and complexity are my catnip, so feel free to explore regrets, heartaches, and desperate modes of survival as well as autumnal recoveries, rebuilt lives, buried desires, last or second chances, forgiveness, and fresh starts. Secrets carried too long, burdens laid down, families found or rescued. Misfits who are brilliant at getting on with it, leopards who change their spots. Backstories, long perspectives, human fragility. I'm not particularly sentimental, but I do root for romance, so you can go for poignant or joyful or both. Beauty in the shadow of death. I also don't mind infidelity. But please don't assume you have to write angst. Write whatever strikes your fancy, short of the unbelievably saccharine. Cross-gen and teacher/student dynamics interest me; ditto underage relationships. Muggle/magical or cross-species romance presents endless possibilities. I also enjoy tales of Hogwarts professors in love, and I've never met an older witch I didn't like (all right, that's a lie – mustn't forget Umbridge). I'm here for the characters, so I won't be disappointed if the fic's not plotty. Wartime is one of my favorite settings, with its exhaustion and personal risk and the shock of friends dying; also postwar, with its slow healing and its sense that nothing will ever be the same. If you can add magical touches, that would be a bonus. It can be as simple as housekeeping charms or as complex as a theory of the Dark Arts.

I'm a fan of description and take pleasure in language, so if you want to write (or for that matter, draw) elaborate paeans to imperfect bodies, I'm your audience. I love eroticism. I especially love when it permeates a story, whether or not there's smut. So go to town with the UST.

I also love Snape and will always welcome his appearance, but I understand if you don't feel the same way.

Dislikes: Voldemort wins scenarios. PWP. Next gen and essentially empty characters. I'm not all that interested in the Weasleys except perhaps for Percy. I'm not all that keen on Death Eaters, either, but if you choose to write about them, I'd prefer them to be dysfunctional and beset with personal motivations—in other words, not idealized—and by the same token not stupid, depraved, or gorgeously aristocratic. I don't much care for Pottermore, but if it inspires you, I won't object. Just, please, portray the characters with respect and affection whatever their size or age, and we'll get on wonderfully together.

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