Holmestice is getting geared up for Winter 2018!
As with the last three rounds, we'll be on Dreamwidth again, and we WILL be keeping the option to post your work to AO3 instead of having it hosted on Dreamwidth. (The same as this summer)
Sign-ups will be on DW; matching will be done by hand behind-the-scenes; works will be announced on DW and made anonymously visible a few per day throughout the posting period; the individual works themselves will be on Dreamwidth, AO3, or both, depending on the creator's preferences.
NEW! Holmestice is branching out to various social media sites in an attempt to engage more of fandom! This means we are planning on mirroring all announcement posts to Tumblr and Twitter. We will also make announcements to the original LJ Holmestice community (for those of you who watch that). Oh and for you on Pillowfort (both mods are), here's a BRAND NEW community/fort: Pillowfort Holmestice We will NOT post works or direct links to works on those sites and communities, but instead will simply link back to DW with entreaties to come read and access the works here and on AO3. We are happy to reblog/retweet though so just shoot us an email or message if you'd like us to do so.
Please let us know what questions you have!
The schedule for this next round:
September 17 - sign-ups open
October 1 - sign-ups close
October 8 - matches sent
November 21 - assignments due
December 1 - posting begins
December 14 - posting ends
December 21 - creator reveals
As usual, any help in advertising the community would be wonderful! Here are two existing banners you can use:
![Holmestice Fanworks Exchange (detail of "Westminster," de Nittis, 1878)](<a href="https://holmesticemods.dreamwidth.org/file/72959.jpg" class="external">https://holmesticemods.dreamwidth.org/file/72959.jpg</a> "Holmestice Fanworks Exchange")
![Holmestice Fanworks Exchange (detail of "Westminster," de Nittis, 1878)](<a href="https://holmesticemods.dreamwidth.org/file/73130.jpg" class="external">https://holmesticemods.dreamwidth.org/file/73130.jpg</a> "Holmestice Fanworks Exchange")
And of course if you would like to make your own promotional graphic for the exchange, we welcome that!
Sign-ups will be on DW; matching will be done by hand behind-the-scenes; works will be announced on DW and made anonymously visible a few per day throughout the posting period; the individual works themselves will be on Dreamwidth, AO3, or both, depending on the creator's preferences.
NEW! Holmestice is branching out to various social media sites in an attempt to engage more of fandom! This means we are planning on mirroring all announcement posts to Tumblr and Twitter. We will also make announcements to the original LJ Holmestice community (for those of you who watch that). Oh and for you on Pillowfort (both mods are), here's a BRAND NEW community/fort: Pillowfort Holmestice We will NOT post works or direct links to works on those sites and communities, but instead will simply link back to DW with entreaties to come read and access the works here and on AO3. We are happy to reblog/retweet though so just shoot us an email or message if you'd like us to do so.
Please let us know what questions you have!
The schedule for this next round:
September 17 - sign-ups open
October 1 - sign-ups close
October 8 - matches sent
November 21 - assignments due
December 1 - posting begins
December 14 - posting ends
December 21 - creator reveals
As usual, any help in advertising the community would be wonderful! Here are two existing banners you can use:
And of course if you would like to make your own promotional graphic for the exchange, we welcome that!