Summer 2019 Schedule

[holmesticemods]

It's getting to be Holmestice time again!

As always, Holmestice is an anonymous gift exchange for all Holmesian fandoms and all kinds of digitally-hostable fanworks -- fic, art, graphics, fanmixes, and vids!

As with previous rounds, we'll be on Dreamwidth again; furthermore, everyone will have the option to post their work to AO3 instead of having it hosted on Dreamwidth. That is: sign-ups will be on DW; matching will be done by hand behind-the-scenes; works will be announced on DW and made visible a few per day throughout the anonymous posting period. The individual works themselves will be on Dreamwidth, AO3, or both, depending on the creator's preferences.

In an effort to engage more of the fandom, Holmestice has been branching out to various social media sites! This means we are planning on mirroring all announcement posts to Tumblr, Twitter, and Pillowfort. We will also make announcements to the original LJ Holmestice community, for those still following there. We will NOT post works or 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:

Mar 27 Sign-ups open
April 10 Sign-ups close
April 17 Assignments sent out
May 24 Assignments are due
June 1 Posting begins
June 14 Posting ends
June 21 Creators revealed

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

[write_out]

I'm looking forward to another round! Thanks for keeping this going, mods!

[sanguinity]

Hurrah! Lives permitting, we'll keep the summer round going for as long as we get decent turn-out for it!

[trobadora]

Yay! I'm so looking forward to this again. :D

[sanguinity]

While I'm thinking of it, have you ever seen Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon, one of the Rathbone Nazi-fighting films? Because the Holmes/Moriarty energy is strong in that one, especially at the end, and I always think of you.

[trobadora]

No, I haven't seen that! Well, now I know what I'm going to watch next weekend. :D

Thank you so much for thinking of me!

[sanguinity]

I hope you enjoy! I'll be curious to know what you think!

[swissmarg]

I've advertised this on @sherlock_bbc.

[sanguinity]

Thank you so much!

[luthienberen]

Yay! Looking forward to another round. Fortunately, Easter is on the 21st April so after that I can focus on my assignment. *phew*

Thank you for organising another Holmestice round :)

Thank you so much for this ongoing wonder.

[jesse_the_k]

As always, the only thing better than Holmestice is the Solstice itself.

[penaltywaltz]

Sadly I cannot participate in this round because I'm trying to finish 50 fics for WIP Big Bang (four down so far). But I can't wait to see all the goodies flooding my inbox when reveals go live, and then this December I can join in on the fun!

[sanguinity]

Good luck with WIP Big Bang! We'll look for you in the fall, and happy reading and commenting in the meanwhile!