Beta post

[worldbuildingmod]

Use the comments of this post to offer your beta-ing services.

If you're offering, please specify at least:

• which fandoms (from the tag set) you can help with
  
• the type of beta you can offer
  
• anything you can't beta
  
• how people can best contact you to ask for your help
  

If you wish, you can cut and paste the template below into your comment:
<b>Name:</b> <b>Best way to contact:</b> <b>Types of beta:</b> <b>Can't beta:</b> <b>Fandoms:</b>
If you're a creator needing help finding a beta, and there isn't anyone in the comments here offering what you need, please contact the mod in the first instance. Posting directly in the comments here asking for help may make it too obvious what your assignment is.

Comments

[isis]

Name: Isis (Isis
Best way to contact: Email to isiscolo@gmail.com, or PM through Dreamwidth
Types of beta: You get the whole package - SPAG, structure and flow, plot holes, characterization (though this last is my weak point). I go through your story and flag anything that strikes me in any way, either good or bad. I speak American English; I can check for general consistency with British English, but can't Britpick.
Can't beta: Nothing is a priori off the table, but if I feel I can't beta your story, I'll let you know quickly.
Fandoms:
A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny
Dragon Age (Video Games) (Origins only)
Frontier Wolf - Rosemary Sutcliff
Harry Potter - Wizarding World (No Pottermore)
Jupiter Ascending (2015)
Kittens Game (Video Game)
Old Kingdom - Garth Nix
Original Work (not A/B/O or soulmate marks)
Outcast - Rosemary Sutcliff
Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch (books only)
Spanish Mackerel - Omar Rayyan
The Chrysalids - John Wyndham (if it's not for me!)
The Divine Cities Series - Robert Jackson Bennett
The Eagle | The Eagle of the Ninth (2011)
The Eagle of the Ninth - Rosemary Sutcliff
The Mark of the Horse Lord - Rosemary Sutcliff
The Truce of the Games - Rosemary Sutcliff
Winternight Series - Katherine Arden

Please note: I strongly prefer not to use gdocs; I use LibreOffice and can handle odt, doc(x), and rtf formats.

[somethingdarker]

Name: the_rck

Best way to contact: Either PM on DW or Gmail as theredck. I can be found on the Yuletide Discord but don't always notice PMs there very quickly.

Types of beta: SPaG (willing to work with ESL writers), story flow, characterization (if I know the fandom), brainstorming. I am not worried about spoilers and am willing to work on stories for things I don't know or only know a little about.

Can't beta: Child harm, explicit underage, cancer, embarrassment/humiliation intended as humor. My ability to deal with gore and certain types of kink can vary. Please ask.

I have TextEdit and an old version of Pages. Pages can open most Word documents. I'm willing to work with Gdocs.

Fandoms: I've marked those fandoms which I requested with an asterisk. My ability to access these for review and my memory for details without review will vary wildly.

The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
Andromeda (TV) (first two seasons only)

Babylon 5 (including Crusade and Legend of the Rangers)
Black Jewels - Anne Bishop

*Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny
*Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis

DC Super Hero Girls (Web Series)
Diana Wynne Jones - any of her works
Doctor Who (either old or new)

Firefly

Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

Harry Potter
H.I.V.E. series (have only read the first four books)

Jupiter Ascending

Kingsman (Movies)

*Labyrinth (1986)
Leverage

Marvel Cinematic Universe (limited to what's on DVD)
The Middleman (TV)
Murder She Wrote (TV)
Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells

Naruto (I've read the manga up through about v.53)
Night at the Museum (Movies)

Old Kingdom - Garth Nix (I bounced hard off of Clariel but have read everything else)
Original work

*Phineas and Ferb

Sharing Knife - Lois McMaster Bujold
*Shoujo Kakumei Utena (I know the anime and movie but not the manga)
Skulduggery Pleasant - Derek Landy (have only read the first four books)
*Sky High (2005)
Star Trek Alternate Original Series (Movies)
Star Trek: Original Series
Star Wars - Movies Only
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Steven Universe (Cartoon)

Tokyo Babylon
Tortall - Tamora Pierce

Valdemar series - Mercedes Lackey (have read some series and not others)
Vorkosigan series - Lois McMaster Bujold (bounced off of Captain Vorpatril's Alliance but have read everything else)

*Weiss Kreuz (Kapital, OAVs, and Gluhen)
Werewolf the Apocalypse (I played and GMed the 1st edition)

X-Men (Marvel Comics) (mostly know late 80s/early 90s continuity)
X-Men (Movieverse)

[meatball42.livejournal.com]

Name: Meatball42
Best way to contact: Message me, or email jillybeanxmeatball@gmail.com
Types of beta: SPaG, sentence fluency, characterization, canon check
Can't beta: Graphic torture. If it's over 4k I might be too busy, depending on when you finish.
Fandoms: MCU, Person of Interest, Tortall, Emelan, Bartimaeus

[(Anonymous)]

Name: l_cloudy
Best way to contact: email, cloudydream@live.com
Types of beta: SPaG, structure, plot flow (all fandoms); characterization and story ideas (listed fandoms). I can also help with brainstorming, although I'll be a lot more helpful in that for the fandoms I'm familiar with.
Can't beta: I can do pretty much anything. Strong preference for Google Docs.
Fandoms: I can do anything that doesn't require familiarity with the source material, or original works. If you need something more in-depth, these are the fandoms I'm most familiar with:
A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny
Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter - Books 1-7
Harry Potter - Wizarding World
Harry Potter - Wizarding World (No Pottermore)
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
Interstellar (2014)
Kingsman (Movies)
Labyrinth (1986)
Le città invisibili | Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Sky High (2005)
Star Wars Sequel Trilogy (Movies and EU)
Star Wars: Rebellion Era - Movies + EU
Stranger Things (TV 2016)

[morbane]

Name: Morbane
Best way to contact: morbane@gmail.com
Types of beta: SPAG, characterization & flow, plotting
Can't beta: Can beta all content but please warn me for things of a generally upsetting nature, and harm to hands. Probably can't beta a story over 10k for this exchange. Can't beta art.

Fandoms:

Good fandom knowledge
Bad Blood - Taylor Swift (Music Video)
Black Jewels - Anne Bishop
Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Kingsman (Movies)
Labyrinth (1986)
Sky High (2005)


Some fandom knowledge
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
Harry Potter - Books 1-7
Harry Potter - Wizarding World (No Pottermore)
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
Jupiter Ascending (2015)
Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Marvel Cinematic Universe
The Middleman (TV)
Obernewtyn Chronicles - Isobelle Carmody
Person of Interest (TV)
Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series)
Sharing Knife - Lois McMaster Bujold
Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena
Star Wars - Movies Only
Star Wars Sequel Trilogy (Movies and EU)


I am happy to beta fandoms I don't know for general flow, sense, and SPAG.

[weakinteraction]

Name: weakinteraction
Best way to contact: Email (weakinteraction@hushmail.com) or DW direct message
Types of beta: SPAG/flow/etc. for any fandom, canon-picking for the fandoms listed below
Can't beta: I haven't come across anything yet that fits this category. (My brain seems to compartmentalise beta-ing differently to reading for pleasure, so I'm fine reading things for beta purposes that I definitely wouldn't request/seek out in other circumstances.)
Fandoms:

The Culture - Iain M. Banks
Doctor Who
The Wicked + The Divine
Star Trek (any)
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

[thinkatory]

Name: thinkatory
Best way to contact: Email. dynamitewithalaserbeam [at] gmail [dot] com
Types of beta: SPAG, style, canon (if I know your canon, which there's a good chance I will), plotting
Can't beta: If you manage to find something I won't beta, I'll be impressed (there really isn't much).
Fandoms: Too many to list. Just contact me if you need quick turnaround and a polish on your fic. 3 days turnaround at the longest.