Sat, Apr. 27th, 2013, 08:26 am
[info]atdelphi: HP Beholder 2013 Round-Up #3

Hello, HP Beholder fans!

Posting will continue on Sunday morning (Pacific Time), but this is once again an opportunity to catch up on your reading and viewing, and on showing the creators some love.


ART

  • "Strong & Stubborn Love" (Arthur Weasley/Molly Weasley. PG13.) for vlorahp (on LJ)


    FIC

  • "The Vultures of Love" (Argus Filch/Irma Pince, Minerva McGonagall/Severus Snape. PG13.) for lyras (on LJ)
  • "The Waiting Game" (Dudley Dursley/Pansy Parkinson. R.) for gamma_x_orionis (on LJ)
  • "Sunlight in the Garden" (Alice Longbottom/Pomona Sprout. R.) for _hannelore (on LJ)
  • "Hearts Obsession" (Luna Lovegood/Yaxley. NC17.) for selmak (on LJ)
  • "Second Chances" (Amelia Bones/Minerva McGonagall. PG.) for woldy (on LJ)
  • "Love Is a Battlefield" (Dudley Dursley/OC, Dudley Dursley/Firenze. R.) for miss_morland (on LJ)
  • "Days of Cats and Cabbage" (Sirius Black/Arabella Figg. NC17.) for gryffindorj (on LJ)
  • "Save the Last Dance for Me" (Minerva McGonagall/Poppy Pomfrey. PG.) for thisaestus (on LJ)

    ***

    Note: Please leave a comment on this post with links to any [info]hp_beholder recs you've made recently. No coding necessary: links to the posts in which you made the recs will do.

    Thank you!
  • Sat, Apr. 20th, 2013, 09:14 am
    [info]atdelphi: HP Beholder 2013 Round-Up #2

    Hello, HP Beholder fans!

    Posting will continue on Sunday morning (Pacific Time), but this is once again an opportunity to catch up on your reading and viewing, and on showing the creators some love.


    ART

  • "At Peace // Like I Belong Again" (Firenze/Severus Snape. G.) for sealcat (on LJ)


    FIC

  • "Queen of the World" (Millicent Bulstrode/Blaise Zabini. PG.) for redcandle17 (on LJ)
  • "Run With the Pack" (Sirius Black/Aberforth Dumbledore. R.) for torino10154 (on LJ)
  • "Red Dreams" (Antonin Dolohov/Filius Flitwick. PG.) for wwmrsweasleydo (on LJ)
  • "Love and Choice" (Rolanda Hooch/Minerva McGonagall. PG13.) for kelly_chambliss (on LJ)
  • "Flint: Staff Reporter" (Dudley Dursley/Marcus Flint, Harry Potter/Severus Snape. PG.) for katelinmr (on LJ)
  • "Written in the Stars" (Firenze/Parvati. PG.) for lunarcartwheels (on LJ)
  • "Triptych on the Sword of Ragnuk" (Filius Flitwick/Griphook. R.) for smallbrownfrog (on LJ)
  • "Coping" (Regulus Black/Rabastan Lestrange. PG.) for snapesgirl (on LJ)
  • "Better Than Nothing" (Marietta Edgecombe/Pansy Parkinson. PG13.) for didodikali (on LJ)

    ***

    Note: Please leave a comment on this post with links to any [info]hp_beholder recs you've made recently. No coding necessary: links to the posts in which you made the recs will do.

    Thank you!
  • Sat, Apr. 13th, 2013, 07:24 am
    [info]atdelphi: HP Beholder 2013 Round-Up #1

    Hello, HP Beholder fans!

    Posting will continue on Sunday morning (Pacific Time), but this is an opportunity to catch up on your reading and viewing, and on showing the creators some love.


    FIC

  • "A Cliff in July" (Millicent Bulstrode/Marietta Edgecombe. R.) for notearchiver on LJ)
  • "A Life of High Adventure" (Arthur Weasley/Molly Weasley. PG.) for pauraque on LJ)
  • "Cabled Socks and Cognac" (Albus Dumbledore/Horace Slughorn. R.) for purplefluffycat on LJ)
  • "Her Heart's Desire" (Alecto Carrow/Walden Macnair. R.) for writcraft on LJ)
  • "The Muggles Have a Word for Them" (Rolanda Hooch/Aurora Sinistra, Fat Lady/Violet. PG-13.) for lash_larue on LJ)

    ***

    Note: Please leave a comment on this post with links to any [info]hp_beholder recs you've made recently. No coding necessary: links to the posts in which you made the recs will do.

    Thank you!
  • Tue, Apr. 9th, 2013, 08:18 am
    [info]atdelphi: Posting Begins Tomorrow

    In approximately 24 hours, posting will begin for the 2013 round of HP Beholder. Two works (or one larger work) will be posted each morning, Pacific Time, with a break on Saturdays for everyone to catch up and show the creators some love.

    I look forward to seeing you there!

    Fri, Feb. 8th, 2013, 05:42 pm
    [info]atdelphi: 2013 HP Beholder Participant List

    Thank you to everybody who signed up for this year's exchange, or who helped spread the word. We have 54 wonderful authors and artists taking part this year!

    The Participants )

    (If I've left someone off the list, please let me know!)

    Assignments will be going out this weekend. If you missed the sign-up deadline but are still interested in potentially helping out as a pinch-hitter, please email me at beholder.mod at gmail dot com for the fuzzy warm feeling of being appreciated from afar.

    Wed, Feb. 6th, 2013, 01:10 pm
    [info]atdelphi: Sign-Up Difficulties

    I've had some reports of people having difficulties leaving comments on the sign-up post. If anyone is trying to sign up but can't, they can email their information to me at beholder.mod at gmail dot com and I'll make sure it's included.

    Tue, Feb. 5th, 2013, 07:08 pm
    [info]atdelphi: Two Days Left for Sign-Ups!

    Just a reminder that the sign-up post will be closing at 6:00PM Pacific Time on Thursday, February 7th, so there's still time to get in on the fun!

    Note: If you have not already done so, please read the updated community information here, which includes general information, the list of eligible characters, additional tips for writing your request, and this year's deadlines.

    Thu, Jan. 31st, 2013, 06:20 am
    [info]atdelphi: HP Beholder 2013: The Sign-Up Post!

    SIGN-UPS ARE NOW CLOSED

    Welcome to the sixth round of [info]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 overlooked.

    Sign-ups are now open, and will remain so until 6:00PM (Pacific Time) on Thursday, February 7th. Assignments will go out on the following weekend.

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

    Please copy/paste the sign-up template hidden below the cut… )

    (For those of you who are interested in the background to the creation of this fest, you can read about it here.)

    Thu, Jan. 17th, 2013, 06:36 am
    [info]atdelphi: Two Weeks to HP Beholder!

    Welcome to the sixth round of [info]hp_beholder!

    I am super pleased to be modding the exchange this year. The sign-up post will go up on January 31st, so you have two weeks to start thinking about your requests, and to spread the word!

    While you're waiting for the sign-up post, please feel free to review the rules below.

    General Information )

    List of Qualifying Characters )

    Sign-Up Template and Sample Sign-Up )

    Questions and Answers )

    Additional points 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 doesn't perpetuate oppressive, discriminatory tropes and attitudes. The Beholder community has been fantastic 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—1000-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

    For the 2013 edition, the timeline is as follows:

  • Sign-ups begin January 31st
  • Sign-ups end February 7th
  • Assignments sent out February 10th
  • Submission deadline March 28th
  • Posting starts April 10th

    Hope to see you all in two weeks!
  • Fri, May. 18th, 2012, 12:48 pm
    [info]bethbethbeth: And that's a wrap!

    With today's entries - "Tasting Party" (ART, Igor Karkaroff/Viktor Krum, R, NWS) and "Professor C. Binns: A Personal History" (FIC, Cuthbert Binns/Walburga Black, PG.) - we have reached the end of the 2012 HP Beholder exchange posting.

    Tomorrow, I'll be posting the (anonymous) Fic and Art Master List, and next Sunday (May 27) will be the Author and Artist Reveals.

    Please take advantage of the time before the reveals to catch up on your reading/viewing...and your feedback!

    Fri, Apr. 20th, 2012, 05:04 pm
    [info]bethbethbeth: HP Beholder 2012 FIC/ART Round-up #1

    Greetings, HP Beholder fans,

    Here's the links round-up from the first week of fic and art posting. Due in part to the fact that one of today's wonderful offerings is so long, our next posting will be Monday afternoon (NY time), so take advantage of the hiatus to catch up with your reading/viewing …and your feedback!

    ART

  • "The Language of Birds" (Marcus Flint/Ginny Weasley. NC-17) for o_k_go (on LJ)
  • "Triptych: Seduction - Vows - Conception" (Merope Gaunt/Tom Riddle. NC-17) for albalark (on LJ)


    FIC

  • "The Celestial Code" (Snape/Sinistra, Remus/Harry implied. NC-17.) for snapesgirl (on LJ)
  • "Bookworms and Broomsticks" (Hermione/Andromeda. NC-17) for merenwen (on LJ)
  • "Unexpected Heart" (Augusta Longbottom/Alastor Moody, Neville Longbottom/Hannah Abbott. PG.) for didodikali (on LJ)
  • "Irma's Library" (Irma Pince/Minerva McGonagall, Irma Pince/Horace Slughorn, Irma Pince/Rolanda Hooch, Irma Pince/Severus Snape, Irma Pince/Madam Rosmerta, Irma Pince/Filius Flitwick, Irma Pince/Argus Filch. PG-13) for therealsnape (on LJ)
  • "As Yeast for Bread" (Goyle/Bulstrode. R.) for katmarajade (on LJ)
  • "Old Fashioned Love Song" (Abraxas/Severus. PG.) for alisanne (on LJ)
  • "Great Romances" (Dolohov/Pansy. PG.) for alley_skywalker (on LJ)
  • "Adamantine" (Millicent/Hooch. PG-13) for dexstarr (on LJ)
  • "A Story of Warnings and the Ignoring Thereof" (Pince/Slughorn. PG-13.) for cardigrl (on LJ)
  • "The Garage" (Arthur/Kingsley. NC-17) for hannelore (on LJ)
  • "As You Say" (Petunia/Severus. PG-13/R.) for pale_moonlite (on LJ)
  • "Smiles of a Summer Night" (Minerva McGonagall/Alastor Moody. R. ) for inspired_ideas (on LJ)
  • "Under the Surface" (Abraxas Malfoy/Orion Black. PG.) for musamihi (on LJ)
  • "Smudge" (Dean Thomas/Millicent Bulstrode. R. ) for lash_larue (on LJ)

    ***

    Note: Please do me and your fellow community members a favor and leave a comment to this post with links to any [info]hp_beholder ART or FIC recs you've made recently. No coding necessary: simple links to the posts in which you made the recs will do (and I'll sort out the recs later)

    Thanks so much!
  • Wed, Apr. 11th, 2012, 06:15 pm
    [info]bethbethbeth: Posting for HP Beholder Begins Tomorrow

    In less than 24 hours, posting starts for the 2012 edition of HP Beholder!

    Read, view, give the artists and authors your love (or at least your feedback)

    ***

    Note: On days when stories of 6,000 words or greater are posted, there will only be one work posted. On other days, two works will be posted, sometime in the afternoon, New York time.

    Saturdays (apart from this first week) will be no-posting, catch up days.

    Wed, Feb. 8th, 2012, 05:37 am
    [info]bethbethbeth: Check your inboxes!

    Greetings, Beholder Participants-

    All assignments for HP Beholder 2012 have now been sent out. Please check your email and confirm receipt of your assignment as soon as possible.

    Thanks so much!

    Fri, Feb. 3rd, 2012, 08:23 pm
    [info]bethbethbeth: Sign-ups for HP Beholder 2012 are Closed!

    If you're interested in possibly helping out as a pinch hitter, please email me at beholder(dot)mod [at] gmail [dot] com, and I'll add you to the list.

    And if you'd like to see the 58 amazing authors and artists who'll be participating in this year's exchange, just take a look under the cut )

    Assignments will be going out by Monday at the latest!

    Thu, Jan. 12th, 2012, 06:35 pm
    [info]bethbethbeth: 2 Weeks Until Sign-Ups for HP Beholder 2012 Begin!

    Hello!

    The fifth round of [info]hp_beholder will be getting underway soon. Sign-ups start Thursday, January 26th, and I'd love to have as many of you participate as possible.

    Feel free to share this information with your own f'lists. In fact, please do...the more, the merrier!

    Note: For background information relating to the creation of this Fic/Art Exchange, please see the original general information post, but don't trust that post for dates and updated rules

    This is NOT the sign-up post: Again...sign-ups begin Thursday, January 26th, so you have plenty of time to read the instructions in this post and decide what you're going to request.

    General Information )

    Deadlines )

    The List of characters from which at least one member of your primary pairing must be selected )

    Sign-up Template )

    Sample Sign-up )

    Which Characters Can Be Excluded? )

    Questions and Answers )

    Sun, May. 29th, 2011, 01:59 pm
    [info]beholder_mod: HP Beholder 2011 Fic & Art Master List

    And here we have it, the 60 stories and works of art from this year's [info]hp_beholder exchange, now with names attached. Authors and Artist: you're at liberty to post your work wherever you want!

    Once again, stories that were too long for a single IJ post were hosted on the HP Beholder Dreamwidth community. If anybody would like a Dreamwidth invite, email me at beholder.mod at gmail and let me know. Art, however, I still hosted on my own website, so Artists: please give me the new links for your art as soon as you re-upload, so that I can update the coding. And Authors: if you'd like me to add a preferred redirect for your stories, just let me know!

    ART )

    ART/ILLUSTRATIONS & FIC )

    FIC )

    Statistics )

    I'd like to close with a few thanks…first to all the participants and watchers who offered to pinch hit (and especially to the wonderful [info]florahart who actually did write a pinch hit - and did a brilliant job of it). I'd also like to thank the authors who graciously agreed to behind-the-scenes re-assignments when…issues arose. :D

    And for the fourth year, many thanks to all our wonderful participants and all the folks who read stories and admired art and left feedback and made recs in their journals and who were so positive and supportive about the uncommon pairings that are at the heart of [info]hp_beholder.

    Sat, May. 7th, 2011, 04:11 pm
    [info]beholder_mod: HP Beholder FIC/ART Round-up #3

    Greetings, HP Beholder fans,

    Here's the links round-up from the third/fourth weeks of fic and art posting. Our next posting will be Sunday afternoon, so take advantage of the short hiatus to catch up with your reading/viewing …and your feedback!

    ART

    "At the local watering hole" On LJ (Arthur/Molly. "Arthur showing off his terrible lion tattoo to a very amused Molly" G. )
    "Skeleton in the Cupboard" On LJ (Abraxas Malfoy/Walburga Black. "Abraxas continues to court Walburga, even after death." PG.)


    FIC

    "Face On by Daylight" On LJ (Minerva McGonagall / Poppy Pomfrey. "It takes more than four Stunners to the chest to take down Minerva McGonagall." PG . )
    "Walking Shadow" On LJ (Hagrid/Draco, with a side of unresolved Snape/Draco. "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow…" R/NC-17. )
    "From Half to Whole" On LJ (Viktor/George. "Viktor is coach of a community-league Quidditch team. George is half a person without his brother. When Ron and his friends take George to a Quidditch game. George begins to understand what’s really missing in his life" . )
    "Meant to Be" On LJ (Millicent/Ron. "Millie hasn't forgotten the past." PG-13.)
    "The Cat's Claws" On LJ (Umbridge/McGonagall (unrequited), McGonagall/Hooch. "You will make her pay, at last, for your flushing cheeks and sleepless nights and dreams that came to naught." R. )
    "Triptych" On LJ (Eileen Prince/Tobias Snape; Eileen Prince/Sybill Trelawney. " He hadn't married the girl for love, Tobias was the first to admit it. " R. )
    " Fair Is Fair, and Life Is Not (Though Tea Helps an Awful Lot)" On LJ (Filius Flitwick/Pomona Sprout. " Although their students might sometimes be oblivious to it, teachers have lives, too. Fertilized with dung and watered with tea, Filius Flitwick and Pomona Sprout cultivate a love slowly bubbling along behind the scenes. " R. )
    "Time On His Side" On LJ (Viktor Krum/ Minerva McGonagall. " Minerva met Viktor when she was six and he was thirty-three. Viktor met Minerva when he was seventeen and she was sixty-nine. Somehow they make it work " R. )
    "Experimental Potions" On LJ (Poppy Pomfrey/Severus Snape. "Two students are petrified and the mandrakes are months away from maturity. In the interim, Poppy and Severus work together, attempting to create an alternative draught to re-awaken them. " PG. )
    "Rebuilding" On LJ (Hagrid/Aberforth, Snape/Hooch. " Two couples are brought together during the time of Hogwarts' rebuilding.. " NC-17. )
    "Natural Law" On LJ (Barty Crouch Sr., Winky, Minerva/Amelia. " Winky the House-Elf ponders the nature of relationships as she observes her Master and Minerva debate the law. " PG. )
    "Inauspicious" On LJ (heavily implied Regulus/Rabastan. " The Death Eaters celebrate the last Halloween before things start to go wrong. " PG . )
    "The Ladies of Godric's Hollow" On LJ (Griselda Marchbanks/Bathilda Bagshot, implied background Albus Dumbledore/Gellert Grindelwald. "Griselda Marchbanks and Bathilda Bagshot are two women with a dream and sound principles. However, when Bathilda's nephew pays them a visit in the summer of 1899, the question arises how to stay true to them." R. )


    ***

    Note: Please do me and your fellow community members a favor and leave a comment to this post with links to any [info]hp_beholder ART or FIC recs you've made recently. No coding necessary: simple links to the posts in which you made the recs will do (and I'll sort out the recs later)

    Thanks so much!

    Fri, Apr. 29th, 2011, 08:43 am
    [info]bethbethbeth: Beholder Mod Update

    Hello all!

    So.

    Due to the fact that the internet connection here at Aeternitas is apparently powered by one tired hamster jogging slowly around a rather battered, rusty wheel in the middle of an electrical storm, the odds of my being able to actually post a new story today are...small (almost to the point of non-existence).

    Do take advantage of this slightly-longer-than-planned hiatus to catch up on the fic and art you haven't yet had time to enjoy.

    HP Beholder posting will resume on Monday!

    Thu, Apr. 28th, 2011, 08:19 am
    [info]beholder_mod: From the Beholder Mod

    Happy Thursday!

    Clever observers will already have noted that today's postings were early. This is because your Mod is setting off for the wilds of New Hampshire to spend the weekend at Aeternitas!

    There will be a post - as always - on Friday (sometime), but this weekend there will be two days posting-free, in part to give you all a chance to catch up on your reading/viewing/commenting and in part because I'll be in transit much of Sunday.

    Sat, Apr. 23rd, 2011, 10:25 am
    [info]beholder_mod: HP Beholder FIC/ART Round-up: Week #2

    Greetings, HP Beholder fans,

    Here's the links round-up from the second week of fic and art posting. Our next posting will be Sunday afternoon, so take advantage of the short hiatus to catch up with your reading/viewing …and your feedback!

    ART

    "Give Him the Good News" (on LJ) (Albus Dumbledore/Argus Filch. "Like many of his generation, there’s a lot more to Argus Filtch than meets the eye. Albus Dumbledore discovers that he isn’t the only man in London with a heavy conscience." G for the Art; R for the Fic. )
    "Beholder" (on LJ) ( Severus Snape/Argus Filch . G. )

    FIC

    "Give Him the Good News" (on LJ) (Albus Dumbledore/Argus Filch. "Like many of his generation, there’s a lot more to Argus Filtch than meets the eye. Albus Dumbledore discovers that he isn’t the only man in London with a heavy conscience." G for the Art; R for the Fic. )
    "What's Cooking?" (on LJ) (Millicent Bulstrode/Dudley Dursley. "Dudley’s gone a lot of places and done a lot of things that nobody expected him to do, but there are still surprises out there." R.)
    "Principles Before Personalities" (on LJ) (Dudley Dursley/Harry Potter. "After being arrested and sentenced to a Community Order, Dudley finds help in unexpected places." PG-13.)
    "Woman in a Green Dress" (on LJ) (Viktor Krum/Charlie Weasley. "Late in the war, two informants rendezvous in Bucharest. " NC-17. )
    "Between Prospects" (on LJ) (Rita Skeeter/Mrs. Zabini; background mentions of Mrs. Zabini/Mr. Zabini and Rita/others "Rita Skeeter and Thérèsa (Thea) Zabini are the sole constants in each others' lives. No matter how much Rita sometimes wishes things were otherwise." R.)
    "Black Knight Moves Forward" (on LJ) (Minerva McGonagall/Severus Snape. "Harry The Giant Wizard Chess is meant to protect the Philosopher’s Stone. But, as Severus finds out, there’s more to it than meets the eye.." PG-13.)
    "Bulgarian Wooing Practices." (on LJ) (Millicent Bulstrode/Viktor Krum. "Millicent Bulstrode isn't your average Auror. She manipulated her way into the Academy and now she's been sent to Bulgaria on a secret mission where she runs into a man she remembers well from fourth year at Hogwarts.." R.)
    "A Very Bad Thing Indeed." (on LJ) (Aunt Marge/Umbridge Millicent Bulstrode/Moaning Myrtle " Just because a woman does not meet contemporary standards of beauty does not mean that she doesn’t have needs and longings. Strong women find a way to satisfy them. " R. )

    ***

    Note: Please do me and your fellow community members a favor and leave a comment to this post with links to any [info]hp_beholder ART or FIC recs you've made recently. No coding necessary: simple links to the posts in which you made the recs will do (and I'll sort out the recs later)

    Thanks so much!

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