Beta Post

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<strong>Fandoms:</strong> <strong>Contact info:</strong> <strong>Special interests:</strong> <strong>Will not beta:</strong> <strong>Other:</strong>

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let's kick this off!

[hebethen]

(Obviously these are in the context of what I'm willing to beta for, but it was giving me the heebies not to specify that out loud, so here's that disclaimer out loud.)

Fandoms:
- original works, five-minute fandoms
- comics: HERO (Hwei Lin Lim)
- games: TF2, Crypt of the Necrodancer, Transistor (Supergiant Games), Webbed (Sbug Games), Indigo (Emily Short), Metamorphoses (Emily Short), The Dreamhold (Andrew Plotkin), The Shade Under the Window (Andrew Plotkin)
- books: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Piranesi (Susanna Clarke); Locked Tomb series (Tamsyn Muir); Chrestomanci series, Magids series (Diana Wynne Jones); Clocktaur Wars/Paladins of Steel series, fairytale retelling series beginning with The Seventh Bride (Ursula Vernon/T. Kingfisher); Discworld [main series up to Making Money] (Terry Pratchett); all separately-published Zen Cho works (Sorcerer Royal series, Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, Black Water Sister, Spirited Away [expanded edition])

Contact info: DM me on Dreamwidth or leave a comment on my contact post [anon enabled]

Special interests: linguistics, spiders, interactive fiction [particularly parser-based]

Will not beta: detailed descriptions of gore, illness/infection, waste/excretion, or animal abuse

Other:
- as usual, I am willing to SPAG regardless of fandom
- I may not be the best beta for a primarily smut-focused fic, since I don't write it myself
- I may not be the best art-beta, since I have no art training and don't make much visual art myself
- if anyone wildly decides to do interactive stuff, I can beta things based on HTML, TADS, or Inform; other things I may have to double check

Offering Beta services

[lonelyaura]

Hello! I'm Oyyo - if you want an example of my work, you can peer through this journal or look at my AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Oyyo/profile

Fandoms: Original Work, Harry Potter, Stranger Things, Greek Mythology, The Sandman (TV), The Untamed, Welcome to Nightvale, Naruto, Undertale, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Adventure Zone, The Last of Us, Dragon Age Inquisition, Deltarune, Leverage, Kushiel's Dart, and any work that you feel doesn't need familiarity with the canon to beta, or if you aren't worried about characterization.
Contact info: this journal, please, and I can send you my discord from there. Or if you see this in the discord channel you can poke me!
Special interests: Plot driven, drama, character focused, heavy themes, smut and/or BDSM (both realistic and for fantasy), violence, intense descriptions, and I have a smorgasbord of medical knowledge.

Will not beta:
-Works specifically focused on Alphys/Undyne from Undertale (mentions and both appearing are fine).
-Non-harkness test passing bestiality with real world animals. (Aliens, non-harkness test passing monsters, etc, are fine.)
-Give me a heads up about the archive warnings of underage, and walk me through by message if you have underage sex scenes so I can decide if it's too much - a work with a lot of erotisized prepubescent sex is probably a no, but even a lurid description of assault is okay. Very little is a flat out "no" for me. :)

Other: I'm best for continuity, catching phrasing mistakes/typos, and offering suggestions to plot points you're stuck on! I generally do a minimum of two read throughs - one to get the plot overall, phrasing/typos/etc, general questions, and then a second for continuity/second thoughts!

I won't say no to art/comics, but I'm really not someone who knows about either medium in detail. I can give impressions, but that's about it