Dudley Redeemed 2012: TIMELINES AND GUIDELINES!!!
Hello, members (and wannabe members) of Dudley's Gang!
This is the "official announcement" post for the 2012 dudley_redeemed fest. We are keeping most of the rules the same, though this year we are running the fest a couple of weeks earlier than in 2011, requiring anonymity during the prompting AND posting period, and keeping our expanded definition of redemption.
The Nitty-Gritty
dudley_redeemed is an Anonymous, Anything Goes, Prompt-Based Fest. Any media, any pairing (or none), any length, any rating is welcome. As for anonymity, we will be screening prompt submissions and posting the submissions anonymously; we expect creators to keep their identities quiet until the reveals.
Prompting will open on 15th May, 2012.
It will close at midnight GMT on 30th May, 2012. That means at the end of Wednesday in Surrey. Dudley is always forgetting his watch, so it might close later. But try to get them in before we close the post!
Prompt-claiming will open Friday, 1st June. You can only claim one prompt at a time.
Submissions are due 10th September, having been beta'd and coded for html. Please send all works as email attachments to dudley.redeemed@googlemail.com.
Posting will begin 24th September, with length of posting period depending on the number of submissions.
Reveals will take place a week after the final submission is posted.
The dates of first post and big reveal are subject to change based on number of submissions.
For more detailed guidelines, click below:
The Timelines and Guidelines for Dudley_Redeemed 2012
As mentioned before the cut, we are keeping to the basic principles of last year's fest:
Dudley_redeemed will be an anonymous, prompt-based fest.
This is what you wanted, this is what you get! We are making this an "anonymous-prompt" fest, which means that anyone can submit prompts, anyone can claim prompts. However, since people seem to love surprises, we are going to leave the prompters and creators anonymous until the reveals.
Dudley must be redeemed in your creation.
This could mean that he has become self-aware and mended his ways off-screen, that he is redeemed in the eyes of the Wizarding World, that he makes up with Piers after a fight, that he disappoints and then pleases Petunia and Vernon-you name it!
Dudley must be redeemed, but who regards his acts as redemptive is absolutely open. Don't worry about whether the Mods or the audience will agree that he is morally upright, so long as Dudley's a dynamic character who has bettered himself in somebody's eyes.
Otherwise, almost anything goes here.
Seriously, slash, het and gen are all welcome. Any pairing, no pairings at all - go wild!
Prompts can be anything from a single word to a springboard idea. Note that as this is a prompt fest and not a fic exchange, you should try not to make your requests too specific. Allow your fellow creators to have room to play around with the prompt! Folks with very specific ideas can sign up for "own prompt" during the claims period.
Multiple prompt entries are very encouraged, though we do ask people to be sensible: we would like to see a variety of prompts and a variety of prompters represented. So...don't give more prompts than Dudley Dursley can count without getting distracted and having to start over. (That is, if you've run out of room in more than one comment field, it's probably too much for Dudley's poor little brain and songquake's poor little attention span for coding.)
You absolutely may use your own prompt. Just leave a comment saying "own prompt" on the claiming post. Or claim the prompt you've submitted. We're easy that way.
All routes to redemption are acceptable (though we will request that Authors/Artists use appropriate warnings, including several which we will require in order for pieces involving them to be posted): non-con, dub-con, under-18 sex, and graphic violence.
We will not have any minimum or maximum number of words or amount of effort. If you want to write a drabble or three, that's awesome; if you want to produce a 30pp comic book, that's awesome, too. The point is to get more works lovin' on Dudders into the universe. Line drawings are acceptable, but please make sure that the napkin you've drawn upon doesn't have grease stains as well.
Collaboration is permitted, and if you are doing a collaboration, you can also claim a prompt for yourself.
We are multi-media! Or at least we hope to be. If you want to tell your tale with baked goods, crafts (via photo or video), vids, filks, and so on - we are absolutely cool with that.
Mixes, podfic, and other audio files should be uploaded to a file hosting site such as mediafire and the link submitted, or sent as a zipped file (if the file is small enough). Vids should be hosted and a link submitted to the mods, or sent as an .avi, .mpg, .mp4 or .mov
Fic and Art are welcome too, of course!
Finally, if you finish your fanwork early and want to take a crack at another prompt, please select from the updated table of prompts.
What doesn't go here
We did say that almost anything goes. All works must fit within the theme of 'Dudley Redeemed.' This means that even the most fantastically written of Dudley's-an-eternally-abusive-arse stories will be rejected by the mods. Dudley can start out an abusive arse, but he needs to start growing a conscience at some point in your fanwork. Capiche?
Also, it should go without saying that this is a Dudley-centric fest. Dudley should be a major character, if not the major character. Don't do what JKR did and have him show a glimpse of decency only to rip him away from our eyes forever!
As this is an anonymous fest, we do request that fanworks created can stand alone-this is not the place to continue a series or write the sequel to last year's submission.
Your mods request that sexual activity be limited to when characters are over the age of consent in Britain: 16 years of age. If you have questions or concerns regarding this policy, please email the mods at dudley.redeemed@googlemail.com.
Finally, un-beta'd work and un-formatted work is NOT NICE and will be sent back to you for correction and html coding. Livejournal has some really nice instructions on how to create basic html tags. If you haven't been able to figure out how to code, now you can.
Similarly, we encourage anyone who doesn't yet have a beta to search at hp_betas and/or hp_betas_wanted for one. We'll also open a post for folks to request and offer beta services sometime this summer.
Timeline
15th May: prompting opens! Prompts may be submitted as comments to the "Prompts Post." Multiple prompt entries are encouraged! You can submit them all in one comment, or in multiple comments. Comments on the Prompts Post will be screened to keep the process as mysterious as possible.
30th May: Prompt submission closes. Persons who have missed this deadline may email Dudley.redeemed@googlemail.com to offer any that came to mind after that date; late prompts will be posted at the Mods' discretion.
1st June: Prompt claiming opens at noon GMT (noon in Surrey!). Each prompt may be claimed once; in the case that two people claim the same prompt, the mods will contact the second claimant to request a second choice. We will not close the prompt claiming, though you ought to bear in mind that the longer you wait, the more likely it is your favourite prompt would be already claimed by someone else.
23rd June: Dudley's Birthday! Be prepared to shower him with gifts! Your mods will come up with a party game or two to celebrate!
10th September: Submissions are due, having been beta'd and coded. Mods reserve the right to send entries back for correction if there are major problems (like misspellings, unintelligible grammar, or lack of html tags). We will accept works in pretty much any form: .doc, .docx, .rtf, .odt, .txt. PDF's, of course, aren't good for us, and .xml is not acceptable.
Regardless of what file type it is, please title the document in a way similar to this: username dudleyfest 2012.file. So, for example, my own submission (when I email it to the mod account for aigooism's moderation) would be titled, "songquake_dudleyfest_2012.doc". This will allow us to keep track of which files have come in, from whom, and which year it is for.
Your header is as follows:
Title:
Author/Artist:
Prompt:
Pairing, or gen:
Rating:
Warning(s):
Word count/medium:
Summary/Excerpt:
Author's or Artist's notes:
Disclaimer: Harry Potter and all associated characters and settings remain the intellectual property of JK Rowling and her associates. We are very grateful for permission to play with them.
24th September: Posting of the 2012 dudley_redeemed fest begins!
So there you have it! Your mods (songquake and aigooism) are excited to get this fest up and running for its third year. Please spread the word!
And we'll be looking forward to seeing your prompts in a couple of weeks!!
(Banner to be added very soon!)
This is the "official announcement" post for the 2012 dudley_redeemed fest. We are keeping most of the rules the same, though this year we are running the fest a couple of weeks earlier than in 2011, requiring anonymity during the prompting AND posting period, and keeping our expanded definition of redemption.
The Nitty-Gritty
dudley_redeemed is an Anonymous, Anything Goes, Prompt-Based Fest. Any media, any pairing (or none), any length, any rating is welcome. As for anonymity, we will be screening prompt submissions and posting the submissions anonymously; we expect creators to keep their identities quiet until the reveals.
Prompting will open on 15th May, 2012.
It will close at midnight GMT on 30th May, 2012. That means at the end of Wednesday in Surrey. Dudley is always forgetting his watch, so it might close later. But try to get them in before we close the post!
Prompt-claiming will open Friday, 1st June. You can only claim one prompt at a time.
Submissions are due 10th September, having been beta'd and coded for html. Please send all works as email attachments to dudley.redeemed@googlemail.com.
Posting will begin 24th September, with length of posting period depending on the number of submissions.
Reveals will take place a week after the final submission is posted.
The dates of first post and big reveal are subject to change based on number of submissions.
For more detailed guidelines, click below:
The Timelines and Guidelines for Dudley_Redeemed 2012
As mentioned before the cut, we are keeping to the basic principles of last year's fest:
Dudley_redeemed will be an anonymous, prompt-based fest.
This is what you wanted, this is what you get! We are making this an "anonymous-prompt" fest, which means that anyone can submit prompts, anyone can claim prompts. However, since people seem to love surprises, we are going to leave the prompters and creators anonymous until the reveals.
Dudley must be redeemed in your creation.
This could mean that he has become self-aware and mended his ways off-screen, that he is redeemed in the eyes of the Wizarding World, that he makes up with Piers after a fight, that he disappoints and then pleases Petunia and Vernon-you name it!
Dudley must be redeemed, but who regards his acts as redemptive is absolutely open. Don't worry about whether the Mods or the audience will agree that he is morally upright, so long as Dudley's a dynamic character who has bettered himself in somebody's eyes.
Otherwise, almost anything goes here.
Seriously, slash, het and gen are all welcome. Any pairing, no pairings at all - go wild!
Prompts can be anything from a single word to a springboard idea. Note that as this is a prompt fest and not a fic exchange, you should try not to make your requests too specific. Allow your fellow creators to have room to play around with the prompt! Folks with very specific ideas can sign up for "own prompt" during the claims period.
Multiple prompt entries are very encouraged, though we do ask people to be sensible: we would like to see a variety of prompts and a variety of prompters represented. So...don't give more prompts than Dudley Dursley can count without getting distracted and having to start over. (That is, if you've run out of room in more than one comment field, it's probably too much for Dudley's poor little brain and songquake's poor little attention span for coding.)
You absolutely may use your own prompt. Just leave a comment saying "own prompt" on the claiming post. Or claim the prompt you've submitted. We're easy that way.
All routes to redemption are acceptable (though we will request that Authors/Artists use appropriate warnings, including several which we will require in order for pieces involving them to be posted): non-con, dub-con, under-18 sex, and graphic violence.
We will not have any minimum or maximum number of words or amount of effort. If you want to write a drabble or three, that's awesome; if you want to produce a 30pp comic book, that's awesome, too. The point is to get more works lovin' on Dudders into the universe. Line drawings are acceptable, but please make sure that the napkin you've drawn upon doesn't have grease stains as well.
Collaboration is permitted, and if you are doing a collaboration, you can also claim a prompt for yourself.
We are multi-media! Or at least we hope to be. If you want to tell your tale with baked goods, crafts (via photo or video), vids, filks, and so on - we are absolutely cool with that.
Mixes, podfic, and other audio files should be uploaded to a file hosting site such as mediafire and the link submitted, or sent as a zipped file (if the file is small enough). Vids should be hosted and a link submitted to the mods, or sent as an .avi, .mpg, .mp4 or .mov
Fic and Art are welcome too, of course!
Finally, if you finish your fanwork early and want to take a crack at another prompt, please select from the updated table of prompts.
What doesn't go here
We did say that almost anything goes. All works must fit within the theme of 'Dudley Redeemed.' This means that even the most fantastically written of Dudley's-an-eternally-abusive-arse stories will be rejected by the mods. Dudley can start out an abusive arse, but he needs to start growing a conscience at some point in your fanwork. Capiche?
Also, it should go without saying that this is a Dudley-centric fest. Dudley should be a major character, if not the major character. Don't do what JKR did and have him show a glimpse of decency only to rip him away from our eyes forever!
As this is an anonymous fest, we do request that fanworks created can stand alone-this is not the place to continue a series or write the sequel to last year's submission.
Your mods request that sexual activity be limited to when characters are over the age of consent in Britain: 16 years of age. If you have questions or concerns regarding this policy, please email the mods at dudley.redeemed@googlemail.com.
Finally, un-beta'd work and un-formatted work is NOT NICE and will be sent back to you for correction and html coding. Livejournal has some really nice instructions on how to create basic html tags. If you haven't been able to figure out how to code, now you can.
Similarly, we encourage anyone who doesn't yet have a beta to search at hp_betas and/or hp_betas_wanted for one. We'll also open a post for folks to request and offer beta services sometime this summer.
Timeline
15th May: prompting opens! Prompts may be submitted as comments to the "Prompts Post." Multiple prompt entries are encouraged! You can submit them all in one comment, or in multiple comments. Comments on the Prompts Post will be screened to keep the process as mysterious as possible.
30th May: Prompt submission closes. Persons who have missed this deadline may email Dudley.redeemed@googlemail.com to offer any that came to mind after that date; late prompts will be posted at the Mods' discretion.
1st June: Prompt claiming opens at noon GMT (noon in Surrey!). Each prompt may be claimed once; in the case that two people claim the same prompt, the mods will contact the second claimant to request a second choice. We will not close the prompt claiming, though you ought to bear in mind that the longer you wait, the more likely it is your favourite prompt would be already claimed by someone else.
23rd June: Dudley's Birthday! Be prepared to shower him with gifts! Your mods will come up with a party game or two to celebrate!
10th September: Submissions are due, having been beta'd and coded. Mods reserve the right to send entries back for correction if there are major problems (like misspellings, unintelligible grammar, or lack of html tags). We will accept works in pretty much any form: .doc, .docx, .rtf, .odt, .txt. PDF's, of course, aren't good for us, and .xml is not acceptable.
Regardless of what file type it is, please title the document in a way similar to this: username dudleyfest 2012.file. So, for example, my own submission (when I email it to the mod account for aigooism's moderation) would be titled, "songquake_dudleyfest_2012.doc". This will allow us to keep track of which files have come in, from whom, and which year it is for.
Your header is as follows:
Title:
Author/Artist:
Prompt:
Pairing, or gen:
Rating:
Warning(s):
Word count/medium:
Summary/Excerpt:
Author's or Artist's notes:
Disclaimer: Harry Potter and all associated characters and settings remain the intellectual property of JK Rowling and her associates. We are very grateful for permission to play with them.
24th September: Posting of the 2012 dudley_redeemed fest begins!
So there you have it! Your mods (songquake and aigooism) are excited to get this fest up and running for its third year. Please spread the word!
And we'll be looking forward to seeing your prompts in a couple of weeks!!
(Banner to be added very soon!)