It's That Time of Year Again!

[holmesticemods]

It's time to start ramping up for the summer round of Holmestice! As always, Holmestice is an anonymous gift exchange for all Holmesian fandoms and all kinds of digitally-hostable fanworks.

As with the last two rounds, we'll be on Dreamwidth again, but with one small change: if you wish, you may now post your work to AO3 instead of having it hosted on Dreamwidth. (For those who were around then, this is the same as how we ran the Summer 2015 round.) 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.

Please let us know what questions you have!

The schedule for this next round:

April 8 - sign-ups open
April 22 - sign-ups close
April 30 - matches sent
May 31 - assignments due
June 7 - posting begins
June 21 - posting ends
June 28 - creator reveals

Keen eyes may notice this is a week later than our usual schedule -- we had to shift things around a bit because of the mods' personal calendars.

As usual, any help in advertising the community would be wonderful! Here are two existing banners you can use:


<img src='https://holmesticemods.dreamwidth.org/file/72959.jpg' alt='Holmestice Fanworks Exchange (detail of "Westminster," de Nittis, 1878)' title='Holmestice Fanworks Exchange' />


<img src='https://holmesticemods.dreamwidth.org/file/73130.jpg' alt='Holmestice Fanworks Exchange (detail of "Westminster," de Nittis, 1878)' title='Holmestice Fanworks Exchange' />


And of course if you would like to make your own promotional graphic for the exchange, we welcome that!

Please feel free to comment here on this post with your thoughts, hopes, dreams, and wishes. We're looking forward to this coming round and hope you are, too!

Comments

[trobadora]

Woohoo! I can't wait. :)

[magnetic_pole]

Hurrah! M.

[starfishstar]

Aaaaaaaaah, EXCITEMENT!

Once again, I really shouldn't sign up because that's exactly I have a massive pileup of coursework deadlines...but once again, there's a very high likelihood I will sign up. :-)

[write_out]

I had so much fun in the last round (my first), that I'm excited to do it all again!

[ancientreader]

Oh, God. I don't have time. I absolutely positively don't have time ...

Really. I swear.

...

...

*sighs*
*contemplates sign-up post*

[oldshrewsburyian]

Hooray! I... probably shouldn't have time, but when has that ever stopped me?

I've put out the message over on Tumblr at teaformrholmes. :)

[sanguinity]

Thank you! And I had no idea that tumblr was yours -- it's a really lovely one. :-)

[oldshrewsburyian]

Thank you! I can't take credit for creating it, but I've been running it for the last year or two. :)

[ghislainem70]

So looking forward to this round!! So many brilliant fics in Holmestice.

This summer's Holmestice

[(Anonymous)]

Would it be OK if I signed up?
I'm Stavia Scott Grayson.

Re: This summer's Holmestice

[sanguinity( as admin)]

Of course you may! We'd be very pleased to have you join us.

On April 8th we'll post all the instructions for signing up, but it's basically a form you copy and and fill in, and then paste either to a new post or as a comment on the sign-up post. Having a DW logon makes that process slightly easier, because then you can edit your sign-up if you have errors or corrections, but many people manage just fine without the logon. When sign-ups are over we'll pick someone for you to create for (their list of requests will overlap with your list of offers), and we'll email you their name and sign-up. By the time you finish making their gift (May 31), we'll post instructions here at the comm about how to post/send-in your gift. After that, it's just a matter of enjoying all the gifts, continuing to keep yours secret, and taking a shot at guessing other people's secrets. If you have any questions about the details, please do ask: things always go more smoothly when people ask questions early enough to let us solve problems. :-)

If you'd like to start thinking about your sign-up now, here are the sign-up instructions for last round; this round will be mostly the same as that. You'll see that there are some people's sign-ups in the comments of that post, but there are also many more here and here, in case you have questions about what kinds of thing people offer or request. You'll see sign-ups range from ones that focus on a single fandom and pairing to those that offer/request a hodgepodge of miscellaneous things -- both ways of doing it are fine.

And I hope that isn't too much of an information deluge! As I said, please do ask questions if you have them. :-)

Welcome, and I hope you have a lovely time!

[penaltywaltz]

I really shouldn't sign up as I'm in the middle of a Big Bang trying to finish 25 fics, but I'm gonna anyway.

[discordantwords]

Yay!

I really shouldn't sign up, because I've got not one but two FTH fics that I'm working on at the moment, but I have too much fun with this exchange to pass it up.

[colebaltblue]

I have one FTH to do still and told myself I wouldn't sign up because of it, but inevitably, someone else's sign up is just too good and I can't not.

[sanguinity]

I have semi-officially decided that my FTH needs more time to brew, and will have to happen after this round.

[dogandmonkeyshow]

Yay!

I'm really looking forward to participating again.