Beta post

[worldbuildingmod]

We're just over halfway through the creating period; there are a little under three weeks to go until the deadline for works to be uploaded. (Countdown here.) As such, this seems like an opportune moment for people to offer their services as betas, if they wish; the comments of this post are available for this purpose.

If you're offering, please specify at least:

• which fandoms 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'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

[morbane]

Hello!

I'm Morbane on AO3 and can be reached at morbane@gmail.com.

I can beta fics for spelling and grammar, and also plot, pacing, and characterization. Just let me know what you're looking for. I cannot Britpick or Ameripick.

I'm happy to give feedback on all fandoms.

Additionally -
Fandoms I am very familiar with
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
Black Jewels - Anne Bishop
Drive Angry (2011)
Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
Jupiter Ascending (2015)
Kingsman (Movies)
Labyrinth (1986)
Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena
Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik

Fandoms I am somewhat familiar with
Chalion Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Chess - Rice/Ulvaeus/Andersson
Discworld - Terry Pratchett
Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
Harry Potter - Wizarding World (No Pottermore)
Harry Potter (Books 1-7)
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
Marvel Cinematic Universe
The Middleman (TV)
Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare
Obernewtyn Chronicles - Isobelle Carmody
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold


I have no triggers, but please let me know about potentially disturbing content (graphic violence, rape of minors, etc) before sending me your story.

[lemniskath]

I'm Gammarad on AO3. I can beta read, check spelling / punctuation / grammar / word choice, and am familiar with the following fandoms from the tagset:

Maria-sama ga Miteru
Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena
Romeo x Juliet (Anime)
the Broken Earth series
Chalion Saga
Craft Sequence
The Culture
Dark is Rising sequence
Discworld
Dungeons & Dragons RPG
Earthsea
Founders Trilogy
Flatland
His Dark Materials
Left Hand of Darkness
Lock In
Machineries of Empire
Murderbot Diaries
Murder on the Orient Express
Oxford Time travel Universe
Riddle-Master Trilogy
Vorkosigan Saga
Wayward Children series
Jupiter Ascending
Treasure Planet
Original Work
Midsummer Night's Dream
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Dark Matter
Dollhouse
Forever Knight
Runaways TV 2017
Travelers TV
Westworld
Middleman
Star Wars Old Republic games

I'm familiar with the Jewish religion and practices, with the USA Midwest, New England and Southeast regions, and time periods from the 1970s until now.

I don't want to read about incest or anything explicit with characters under 16.

Probably the fastest way to reach me is on the yuletide discord server, where I am called Gammarad (like on AO3).

[isis]

I am Isis and signed up under that name. You can reach me at isiscolo@gmail.com.

I beta by going through a story and flagging or commenting on everything I notice, good and bad: typos/thinkos, missing words, odd pacing, beautiful phrasing, confusing bits, amusing bits, and so on. I strongly prefer not to use Google Docs but can handle most doc-type formats (odt, doc, docx, rtf). I am fine with all content.

Tagset fandoms I can beta:

The Bedlam Stacks
The Chrysalids
Dragon Age (relating only to Origins, Awakening, and DA2)
The Founders Trilogy
Frontier Wolf
The Mark of the Horse Lord
Old Kingdom
Percy Jackson & related
Realm of the Elderlings
A Song of Ice and Fire
Strange the Dreamer
Hunger Games series/movies
Hadestown - Mitchell
Midsummer Night's Dream
Game of Thrones
Star Trek: Discovery (I've only seen S1)
Westworld
Spanish Mackerel - Omar Rayyan
Kittens Game
The Witcher

I may be willing to beta Original Work stories depending on tag and story length - please ask first.

[weakinteraction]

I'm happy to beta anything for SPAG etc. and can offer what I hope is a useful level of canon familiarity as well for the following fandoms:

The Culture - Iain M. Banks
The Founders Trilogy - Robert Jackson Bennett
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Machineries of Empire Series - Yoon Ha Lee
Marvel 616
Jupiter Ascending
Star Wars (films + new EU comics + KotOR)
Doctor Who (all variants)
Star Trek (all variants)
Harry Potter (not Pottermore)

I can be contacted by email at weakinteraction@hushmail.com or via dreamwidth DM. I *very* occasionally lurk on the EAD and Yuletide Discords but if you see me on, feel free to DM me there too. (If I'm not online, it might be days or weeks before I'm back there, though, so it's not necessarily that reliable.)

No restrictions on content I'm willing to beta; I can usually turn things up to 5k or so round within 48 hrs or so unless I'm horrendously busy IRL.