Dysfuncentine

Dysfuncentine was an annual Harry Potter prompt-based fest for fanfiction, fanart & vids founded in 2011 by featherxquill. It focuses on dysfunctional relationships including het, slash, femslash, threesomes, moresomes, asexual relationships and anything in between.Dysfuncentine: Livejournal profile (accessed 15 February 2014) The tagline is A Harry Potter Dysfunctional Relationships Ficathon. It starts posting on 14 February, intentionally coinciding with Valentine's Day. From the profile:
Kelly Chambliss describes the fest:
==History==
Featherxquill founded the fest in 2011, and continued to moderate it until 2013; sassy_cat took over for the 2014 round.Dysfuncentine: Dysfuncentine 2014! (accessed 15 February 2014)
==Guidelines and Timetable==
Prompting occurs in early January. Prompts may optionally include the requested pairing or character. Prompt claiming occurs in early to mid January. Prompts are only assigned once, on a first-come-first-served basis; self-claims are permitted. Non-participants are encouraged to leave prompts.Dysfuncentine: How Prompting/Claiming Works (accessed 15 February 2014)
All lengths and ratings of work are permitted. Warnings (or notice of choosing not to warn) are required for potentially triggery subjects.Dysfuncentine: Welcome! (accessed 15 February 2014) Posting commences on 14 February. Works are initially posted anonymously and are exclusive until reveals, which occur early in March.
==2011==
A total of 23 works were posted; all were fanfiction or poetry. They featured 38 major characters with only a single repeated pairing (Snape/McGonagall).
Participants included albalark, alley_skywalker, cranky__crocus, featherxquill, incapability87, kellychambliss, lash_larue, ldymusyc, megacurious, ncp, rebecca_selene, redcandle17, scarletladyy, shyath, snegurochka_lee, themirrorofsin, therealsnape, thinkxpink, vane_nt and xxx_angelin_xxx.
* 2011 masterlist
==2012==
A total of 30 works were posted, including one piece of fanart with the remainder being fanfiction. There were no repeated pairings among those works featuring a single pairing.
Participants included alley_skywalker, ashiiblack, cabepfir, cerberusia, coffee_n_cocoa, cranky__crocus, crazyparakiss, dexstarr, entrenous88, featherxquill, florahart, icicle33, igrockspock, jean_doe_27, kellychambliss, kerplankia, lash_larue, lyras, natt, queen_bellatrix, scarletladyy, squibstress, themirrorofsin, therealsnape, twisted_twister, wintervixen86 and xylodemon.
* 2012 masterlist
==2013==
A total of 26 works were posted, including one piece of fanart with the remainder being fanfiction.
Participants included alley_skywalker, aliciadances, anassa_anemou, bluemermaid, cabepfir, dexstarr, downjune, feuerfunke, flyingharmony, gamma_x_orionis, gehayi, gryffindorj, hamimifk, incapability87, pavlablack, pretend_mulling, redcandle17, sabethea, sapphoatsunset, squibstress, themessrs, thusspakekate, vlorahp, writcraft, xylodemon and y3llowdaisi3s.
* 2013 masterlist
Severus Snape prompts were reused for the Deeply Horrible Snape fest in March 2013.Deeply Horrible: Deeply Horrible Does Dysfuncentine's Sloppy Seconds! (accessed 15 February 2014)
==Recs==
* 2012 recs by cabepfir
* 2012, 2013 recs by Kelly Chambliss
* 2013 recs by Magnetic Pole
==Example Works==
Widely recommended works include:
* Half-Term Saturday by therealsnape. Enid Blyton AU (2012)
* The Sin in Your Grin (and the Shape of Your Mouth) by xylodemon. Sirius Black (2012)
* Alone and Palely Loitering by squibstress. The Flamels (2013)
* Not Your Average Love Story by gehayi. Asexual Cassiopeia Black (2013)
==References==
Category:2011 Challenges
Category:2010s Challenges