Twelfth Night Tales: Rules and Guidelines
The holidays are fast approaching, which must mean it’s time to bring a little more Remus/Tonks fic and art into the world again? We hope you’ll join us in creating some more Twelfth Night Tales.
If you’ve been here before, it’s going to be remarkably similar to last year, and if you haven’t, we hope we’ve made it as straightforward as possible. But please make sure you impress Professor Lupin enough to earn fifty House points (with optional chocolate) by reading the guidelines behind the cut.
Guidelines & Rules
1. Content
We’re sure it’s fairly obvious from the name, but this is a community for fans of Remus and Tonks and their relationship, whether they’re involved romantically together or not. So the one and only golden rule when it comes to content, is that while you can certainly mention/use other imagined relationships, whether past or present, the R/T one should be the main focus of your fic or art. For example, if your story is all about Remus/Someone Else, and Tonks only appears fleetingly for a paragraph, then we’d respectfully suggest this isn’t the best place for it.
Other than that, we’d be very happy to see AU, death denial fic (what deaths?!), gen fic, use of the information from Remus’s bio and JKR's thoughts at Pottermore (or ignoring it), and ideas such as time travel where Tonks could bump into a young Remus in the Marauder-era (or vice versa). We’d love to see Teddy-centric stories/art here as well, perhaps where he learns something about his parents, and we get the chance to see how he or any other characters are affected by it. Fun as well to see Remus and Tonks through the eyes of other characters - the list of possibilities is endless and up to you.
2. Ratings
At the moment, we’re only accepting fics, graphics and art up to and including R rating. Please ensure that appropriate warnings are given outside the LJ cut, and that any art is work-safe to view.
3. Plagiarism
We won’t tolerate anyone taking anyone else’s work and claiming it as their own. Please don’t - it spoils the fun for everyone.
Now onto the main event: Twelfth Night Tales
Above this post will be another entitled Prompt List. There you will find a list of 40 prompts to choose from which we hope will inspire you. They are a real mixed bag of words, pictures, lyrics, styles and quotes.
Here’s how to get started:
Step 1 To join the event, simply go to the Prompt List and leave a comment with the word ‘Wotcher!’. That’s all you have to do. You haven't committed to anything, so don't worry, it's simply registering your interest so that we know to give you posting access when it opens on Saturday, and then you'll have it for the duration of the event. You can join the event at any time, but you'll need to be a member of the community to gain posting access.
Step 2 It’s entirely up to you what prompt you pick from the list, and how many of them you pick. You can use one, two, three or all fourty (we may think you’re a genius if it is all fourty). We don’t need to know what you’ve claimed until you come to post your work. So if you change your mind or fall out of love with your prompt halfway through, and end up using another instead, we’ll never know what hair-tearing anguish you may have been through. You can post as many fics/art as you want, and even reuse the same prompt(s) if you want to do a different take on one you've already used.
Step 3 With regard to fics, you can submit anything from drabbles (100 words minimum) to chapter-length epics. Short fics to big-bang length, it’s up to you. The same goes for art: one picture or several graphics, whatever you wish. You can submit as many fic/art pieces as you want to during the event.
You can also submit chapters or art from an ongoing work in progress, as long as you include and use one of the prompts on our list. Even previously started fics and art - again, we'll never know if you don't tell us - as long as you incorporate one of the prompts. The only restriction is that they should not have already been posted somewhere else first, please.
Although it’s called Twelfth Night Tales and many of us in the northern hemisphere are feeling distinctly chilly right now, your work does not have to reflect this in any way. On a beach in the middle of August, with Remus or Tonks piling on the sun-tan lotion, is absolutely fine!
• Posting will open on Saturday, December 17th, and the event is due to run until midnight Pacific time, on Friday, 6th January 2017. Full details of how to post will be provided when posting does open.
• Any questions? Leave them below in the comments on this post. And may you find much R/T inspiration over the coming weeks!
If you’ve been here before, it’s going to be remarkably similar to last year, and if you haven’t, we hope we’ve made it as straightforward as possible. But please make sure you impress Professor Lupin enough to earn fifty House points (with optional chocolate) by reading the guidelines behind the cut.
Guidelines & Rules
1. Content
We’re sure it’s fairly obvious from the name, but this is a community for fans of Remus and Tonks and their relationship, whether they’re involved romantically together or not. So the one and only golden rule when it comes to content, is that while you can certainly mention/use other imagined relationships, whether past or present, the R/T one should be the main focus of your fic or art. For example, if your story is all about Remus/Someone Else, and Tonks only appears fleetingly for a paragraph, then we’d respectfully suggest this isn’t the best place for it.
Other than that, we’d be very happy to see AU, death denial fic (what deaths?!), gen fic, use of the information from Remus’s bio and JKR's thoughts at Pottermore (or ignoring it), and ideas such as time travel where Tonks could bump into a young Remus in the Marauder-era (or vice versa). We’d love to see Teddy-centric stories/art here as well, perhaps where he learns something about his parents, and we get the chance to see how he or any other characters are affected by it. Fun as well to see Remus and Tonks through the eyes of other characters - the list of possibilities is endless and up to you.
2. Ratings
At the moment, we’re only accepting fics, graphics and art up to and including R rating. Please ensure that appropriate warnings are given outside the LJ cut, and that any art is work-safe to view.
3. Plagiarism
We won’t tolerate anyone taking anyone else’s work and claiming it as their own. Please don’t - it spoils the fun for everyone.
Now onto the main event: Twelfth Night Tales
Above this post will be another entitled Prompt List. There you will find a list of 40 prompts to choose from which we hope will inspire you. They are a real mixed bag of words, pictures, lyrics, styles and quotes.
Here’s how to get started:
Step 1 To join the event, simply go to the Prompt List and leave a comment with the word ‘Wotcher!’. That’s all you have to do. You haven't committed to anything, so don't worry, it's simply registering your interest so that we know to give you posting access when it opens on Saturday, and then you'll have it for the duration of the event. You can join the event at any time, but you'll need to be a member of the community to gain posting access.
Step 2 It’s entirely up to you what prompt you pick from the list, and how many of them you pick. You can use one, two, three or all fourty (we may think you’re a genius if it is all fourty). We don’t need to know what you’ve claimed until you come to post your work. So if you change your mind or fall out of love with your prompt halfway through, and end up using another instead, we’ll never know what hair-tearing anguish you may have been through. You can post as many fics/art as you want, and even reuse the same prompt(s) if you want to do a different take on one you've already used.
Step 3 With regard to fics, you can submit anything from drabbles (100 words minimum) to chapter-length epics. Short fics to big-bang length, it’s up to you. The same goes for art: one picture or several graphics, whatever you wish. You can submit as many fic/art pieces as you want to during the event.
You can also submit chapters or art from an ongoing work in progress, as long as you include and use one of the prompts on our list. Even previously started fics and art - again, we'll never know if you don't tell us - as long as you incorporate one of the prompts. The only restriction is that they should not have already been posted somewhere else first, please.
Although it’s called Twelfth Night Tales and many of us in the northern hemisphere are feeling distinctly chilly right now, your work does not have to reflect this in any way. On a beach in the middle of August, with Remus or Tonks piling on the sun-tan lotion, is absolutely fine!
• Posting will open on Saturday, December 17th, and the event is due to run until midnight Pacific time, on Friday, 6th January 2017. Full details of how to post will be provided when posting does open.
• Any questions? Leave them below in the comments on this post. And may you find much R/T inspiration over the coming weeks!