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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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	Re: MOD QUESTION donnaimmaculata 2014-02-07 12:49 pm UTC (link)
	Hey, sorry for not being clearer: I meant Beholder characters that are name-only appearances, such as Charity Burbage. Would you like me to re-submit? I elaborated this under Likes/Dislikes, though. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: MOD QUESTION atdelphi 2014-02-07 05:46 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, okay! Would you mind actually writing out the full list of Beholder characters you mean, just so things can be absolutely clear for your writer/artist? (For instance, Charity Burbage does have some dialogue and a death scene, so there might be confusion as to what exactly constitutes name-only.) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

New sign-up

donnaimmaculata
2014-02-08 12:40 pm UTC (link)

Contact Info and Background Data
Name: Donna Immaculata
Reliable Email Address: donna_immaculata@yahoo.de
Are you over 18?: Yes
I would be willing to pinch hit: Yes

For the art/fic you will be RECEIVING
I would like to receive Femslash/Het/Slash, or No Preference: No Preference
I can only receive a work rated Teen/PG-13 or below: No
I would like to to receive art/fic featuring one of the following (five characters minimum from the Beholder List, or Any):
1. (adult) Dumbledore
2. Aberforth Dumbledore
3. Aunt Marge
4. Merope Gaunt
5. Morfin Gaunt
6. Mundungus Fletcher
7. Fenrir Greyback
8. Arabella Figg
9. Griphook
10. Marvolo Gaunt
11. Sybill Trelawney
12. Rita Skeeter
13. Dolores Umbridge
14. Xenophilus Lovegood
15. Aunt Muriel
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. Charity Burbage
2. Septima Vector
3. Marcus Flint
4. Millicent Bulstrode
5. Peter Pettigrew
6. Aurora Sinistra
7. Abraxas Malfoy
8. Silvanus Kettleburn
9. Apollyon Pringle
10. Augustus Rookwood
I am unwilling to receive art/fic containing any of the following elements (note: five elements maximum):
1. non-magical AU
2. mpreg
3. complete fluff

For the art/fic you will be GIVING
I would like to give Femslash/Het/Slash, or No Preference: No Preference
I can only provide a work rated Teen/PG-13 or below: No
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. Aunt Marge
2. any of the Gaunts
3. Madam Rosmerta
4. Xenophilus Lovegood
5. Sybill Trelawney
6. Mundungus Fletcher
7. Aberforth Dumbledore
8. Aunt Muriel
9. Griphook
10. any of the Dursleys

Note: They’re not listed in order of preference, so don’t worry about matching me according to my first choices.

I am unwilling to give art/fic featuring one of the following characters (ten characters maximum from the Beholder List):
1. Molly Weasley
2. Elphias Doge
3. Marcus Flint
4. Peter Pettigrew
5. Rabastan Lestrange
6. Charity Burbage
7. Abraxas Malfoy
8. Apollyon Pringle
9. Bane
10. Septima Vector
I am unwilling to give art/fic containing any of the following elements (note: five elements maximum):
1. mpreg
2. any hardcore kinks (hard BDSM, scat etc.)
3. complete fluff

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Re: New sign-up

donnaimmaculata
2014-02-08 12:41 pm UTC (link)

Additional Likes and Dislikes

Characters
I love Minerva, have a very embarrassing crush on Aberforth, have liked Harry since OotP when he finally got to be angry and sulky and teenager-y, and love Sirius, Severus, and Remus. I like several of the canonically attractive, self-confident characters, namely Bill Weasley, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Cho Chang, Fleur Delaceur and Parvati Patil. Bellatrix is always good value in a dark story.

I limited myself in my list of the characters I’d like to receive to 15, but really, if there’s a character that you’re itching to include that’s not on my list and that I haven’t excluded – go ahead. However, I’m not particularly interested in the student generation and in the Death Eaters, with the exception of Bellatrix, who fascinates me.

Relationships and scenarios:
What I like about HP Beholder is that it provides the opportunity to explore truly rare pairings, to take two characters who don’t seem suited to each other in any way and to make it work. So, as long as the scenario created for the characters is believable, I’m happy.

I like first-time scenarios and prefer stories describing the gradual / hesitant / against-all-odds / against-their-better-judgement development of a relationship to established-relationship stories. I like characters learning to grudgingly respect each other and learning to trust, antagonistic characters trapped in power-play scenarios, tension and rivalry. Bittersweet and open endings rather than happily ever after.

Another approach that I like is the exploration of dysfunctional relationships. For example, I like Arthur Weasley and dislike Molly intensely, and nothing can convince me that this is a happy match. A story exploring the dysfunctional character of their relationship would work for me, including infidelity and separation.

I’m fine with most kinks (with the exception of any hard-core body-fluid related ones), as long as they are plausible within the given scenario. I like realism, awkward sex, and hurt/comfort. Incest, interspecies, cross-gen, rape/torture are also fine if backed by plausible motivation and characterisation (e.g. in case of Fenrir Greyback or Bellatrix Lestrange, rape/torture is pretty much a given, and in case of the Gaunts, incest seems inevitable).

Missing scenes are great, and I like stories that explore what the non-Trio characters were doing as the events of the novels unfolded. My preferred eras are OotP and HBP.

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	Re: MOD QUESTION donnaimmaculata 2014-02-08 12:43 pm UTC (link)
	I altered my sign-up form a bit. Sorry for being so imprecise! I've deleted my original sign-up comments to avoid confusion. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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