Beta Post 2017

[morbane]

Betas are not mandatory for this exchange. However, your OUaF mods feel that getting or offering a second opinion on a story is a) a great way to improve your work and also b) a neat way to engage with other people taking part in this gift exchange. Consider a beta today! (Well, consider being a beta today; we realise most people won't have written their story(/ies) for a while yet.)

If you can volunteer to look at someone's story, please fill out the following details in a comment to this post:

<strong>Name:</strong> <strong>How to contact me:</strong> <strong>Canons I will beta for:</strong> <strong>I will check spelling and grammar for any canons:</strong> Yes / No [delete one] <strong>Content I won't read, or require warnings for:</strong> <strong>Other notes:</strong>

Your AO3 name is particularly important if you are signed up to this challenge! And if you aren't, thanks extra for helping out. Hope you enjoy your advance viewing of the stories!

Some other things that might be worth mentioning: what formats, like google docs or .rtf, you can read/annotate; how long you need for what lengths of story; any specific periods of time during which you are or aren't available.

See the sources spreadsheet for what the canons are, and the sign-up summary for which canons were requested.

Comments

[rosefox]

Name: rosefox on DW, LJ, AO3.
How to contact me: DW or LJ message.
Canons I will beta for: Any; I don't have in-depth knowledge of any of the canons, but I'm moderately familiar with most of them.
I will check spelling and grammar for any canons: Yes. I'm a professional copy editor, so even if you only want me to do a structural beta I will SPAG because I can't help it.
Content I won't read, or require warnings for: Please warn for sexual assault; harm to children or pregnant people; noncon and dubcon; extended descriptions of arm/hand injuries or dizziness/vertigo.
Other notes: I can provide sensitivity reads for FAAB nonbinary people (including genderqueer and agender), late-blooming trans folks, and polyamory (from promiscuity to polyfidelity). I can fact-check for knitting, embroidery, origami, big band jazz, secular Judaism, 19th-century England and America, NYC and environs (historical and present day), San Francisco (21st century), professional kitchen practices and food safety, and medical practice and science. I'm fine with both Google Docs and Word files.

[foxinthestars]

Name: foxinthestars at DW, LJ, Ao3 (note, I am not participating in the exchange)
How to contact me: DW or LJ PM
Canons I will beta for: Anything I can review within a couple of hours.
I will check spelling and grammar for any canons: Yes
Content I won't read, or require warnings for: Explicit sexual content, humiliation/embarrassment, bullying
Other notes: GDocs preferred; I don't use MS Word.

[morbane]

Name: Morbane
How to contact me: morbane@gmail.com
Canons I will beta for: Anything that can be reviewed quickly and does not require historical knowledge or wide knowledge of related canons.
I will check spelling and grammar for any canons: Yes (and also general flow/plot - just not necessarily context/characterization/background)
Content I won't read, or require warnings for: Wlll beta all content. Please include warnings for potentially disturbing material, such as sexual coercion, extreme underage, gore and injuries, etc.
Other notes: I can be a bit slow - at least 1 day per 1k.