HP Fests List Post

[themostepotente]

[Fests Lists]

ass_carnival is ongoing and running through the summer.

the_ass_fest presents 'ASS Through the Ages.' Posting begins on September 1st.

bigbangblackout is running the penultimate Sirius fest. The archive will go live on September 7th.

hd_career_fair started prompt claiming. You have until June 28th, so there's still plenty of time! Posting begins mid-September.

hd_fanart continues its 'Boys of Summer' fest until July 31st.

hp_cross_fest is running their second annual fest. Prompting has commenced and will run through June 29th.

hp_darkfest will run again this year. Sign-ups begin August 1st, and posting begins October 31st.

hp_rarities has wrapped their fest up. An anonymous masterlist has been posted. The reveal will be posted on June 27th.

hp_sas is running 'Shag a Son(s).' Posting begins on August 1st.

hp_toujours is a House of Black fic/art exchange. Posting begins on November 3rd.

lupin_snape is hosting the first annual 'Snupin Big Bang.' The fest is currently in its art stage.

nextgendarkfest is ongoing. Posting began on June 7th and should continue through the first/second week of July.

ownficfest is an exchange that allows you to blow the dust off your old, unfinished fics and submit them as prompts. Posting begins on October 1st.

percy_ficathon began posting on June 8th and should continue through the first/second week of July.

rs_games is a Remus/Sirius fest in the style of the Snarry Games. Posting begins October 1st.

severusbigbang is a fest to celebrate Snape's 50th birthday. Rules and details can be found on the community's info page.

snarry_games pits Team Cauldron vs. Team Snitch on Insane Journal. The Games begin on August 1st. The pre-games 'Free-For-All' challenge has begun posting.

Looking for more still? Lee has kindly listed a bunch more fests here.

Please feel free to list any fests that I might have missed. Recs tomorrow. Time off to write to follow.

--P

Comments

[catsintheattic.livejournal.com]

Your list is for all fests in 2009, those currently running as well as those finished or yet to come, isn't it?

There are springtime_gen and hd_worldcup. And as far as I know, hp_darkfest will be running again in 2009, too.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

I took the 2009 part out of the post header, partly because I think the SBB starts in January '10. The first two fests have wrapped up a while ago, so I really see no need to mention them. I forgot hp_darkfest, so I will definitely add that. Thanks!

[melusinahp.livejournal.com]

*thwaps you* :P

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

hd_fanart continues its Boys of Summer Art Fest (http://community.livejournal.com/hd_fanart/176646.html) until July 31st.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Ah, thanks for the heads-up, doll!

[potteresque_ire]

Whoa!!!! That's a great compilation. I can never keep track of these myself ♥

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Neither can I. Hence the list!

[vanseedee.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, thanks! That's helpful. *memories*

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Glad you found this helpful :-)

[spacefragments.livejournal.com]

i grin every time i see you using that icon. :D <--- see?

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

I love your fireworks icon ♥

[spacefragments.livejournal.com]

is this list for exchange-style fests only or for competition-style too? bc rs_games begins posting on october 1st.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Newp, it's for both. I will definitely add rs_games.

[celandineb.livejournal.com]

The third percy_ficathon is currently posting, too.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

I will add that to the list, hon. Yay Percy!

[mctabby.livejournal.com]

Oh, what an exquisitely useful post. Thank you! *throws chocolate*

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Glad it was helpful, dear :-)

*catches chocolate in mouth*

[snegurochka_lee]

Oh God, where to start? There are so many fests posting right now that I almost broke down and cried trying to do quibbler_report the past two days. hp_emofest, hp_porninthesun, lm_hgficxchange, pphpficexchange, and rarepair_shorts, off the top of my head without even going back to check them all. :/

handy list, though!

edit: *goes back to check* rd_challenge, malfoy_weasley, hp_summersmut, Big Bang at lupin_snape is in art stage now, weasley_fest, ginnybigbang, hermionebigbang, potter_games, ronpansy_fest, founders_gifts, hghpficexchange, smrw_ficafest...

*gives up* :)

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

You poor soul!

[snegurochka_lee]

Nah, I enjoy it or I wouldn't bother, but some days, yes, there are many millions of posts to go through. Fortunately, everyone at the fests going on right now seems to be very gracious. Occasionally we get fest mods and participants who like to ream us out for "ignoring" the fic/art at their fests. :( Little do they know, it seems, that we do our very best, but invariably news- and recsletter editors are only human. *cues tiny violin* :)

edit: oh, and sorry, I misrepresented: only the first batch I listed are posting right now; the others are coming up or will start in the fall, just if Penny's interested in listing them. :)

[spacefragments.livejournal.com]

damn.

and you have to read *everything*?

[snegurochka_lee]

We try to. :/ And those are just the fests. People also post stuff not-anon at their journals and comms all the time. On average, I'll have 20-30 tabs open to read on a recsletter day, to try to decide on 2-6 or so of them to rec. And we only do rarepairs and gen!

This is why, on occasion, we have been known to make sadfaces when various well-meaning fandom souls announce, "I'm creating a new fest for X!!!" :/ But, like I said above, I generally don't mind, or I wouldn't do it. :)

[spacefragments.livejournal.com]

i assume you don't have to read all of them from beginning to end since in most cases you can tell the quality of the fic from skimming over a few paragraphs, but still, that's a *lot.*

i start making annoyed faces if i have to read more than *five* mid-length fics on recsletter day, and that's only for one pairing. 8] i don't know how you quibbler folks manage, esp. if it's a pairing/character you don't have even the slightest bit of interest in. :p

[snegurochka_lee]

Sometimes we skim 40K masterpieces, yes, although even in one-shots, something that starts out promising has been known to turn to pod-characters halfway through. :/

We have to be pretty open to any character or pairing to do the job, that's for certain. :) We had one kind soul for awhile who just couldn't read any Snapefic objectively, by her own admission. Heh. That's a tough one to get around in this fandom...

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Dayum, Lee. Ahahaha

If you don't mind, I think I'll link to this post with an ETA. I'm with the others, I don't know how you manage to watch all these comms, let alone find good things to read.

[snegurochka_lee]

Sure. I think anyone who wants to start a new comm or fest should be forced to look at our watcher list for a day first. :/

Oh, finding good stuff to read isn't usually the problem. It's finding too many! It's why enticing headers and a good opening sequence are key, though, if you want your fic noticed. We only need half a reason to keep scrolling, when there are 16 other stories to glance at just before lunch. ;)