Beta Post 2021

[morbane]

Warm greetings, 2021 participants! This is the Beta Volunteer Post!

Betas are not required for this exchange, but they can be a great asset to your story. A beta can help find bits you missed, tease out the strengths of a story, or offer insights on improvement.

Even if you aren't writing in this exchange, betaing for others is a great way to participate and have fun! Your valuable service is immensely appreciated.

If you're into betaing and want to help out, please reply in a comment to this post. The following information may be helpful:

-a name (especially if you're signed up - give your AO3 name to ensure you aren't asked to beta your own gift)
-how to contact you
-what canons you know, or are willing to familiarise yourself with (see this year's sources spreadsheet and the sign-up summary showing which stories were requested).
-if there is anything you can't beta (by length, content, timing, etc)
-what kind of beta services you offer

Bonus:
-any specific expertise you can offer advice on
-document formats you prefer

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Challenge and FAQ | Tagset | Schedule | Betas: THIS POST | Resources/Sources

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Comments

[littlestclouds]

name: badritual/badrituals (i'm not signed up this year)
contact: notsotragic @ gmail (.) com
what canons you know, or are willing to familiarise yourself with: all of them (i'm familiar with most fairytales and will do a canon review if needed)
anything you can't beta (by length, content, timing, etc): N/A; i'd like a warning for underage and non-con but i'm willing to beta anything
what kind of beta services you offer: SPAG, continuity, themes, and so on. i'm also willing to be a sounding board if you need advice about plot/execution/etc. i tend toward brutal honesty, but can adapt if you need a different approach.

Bonus:
any specific expertise you can offer advice on: sports (specifically, baseball)???
document formats you prefer: Pages (Mac) and Google Docs

[regshoe]

I'm regshoe here and on AO3. Contact me through PM or by email at esmereldamargaretnotespelling@gmail.com.

I'm familiar with all the ballads and many of the shorter tales, and am happy to pick up any other short canons. I don't know the longer mythology-type canons.

I can't beta anything with explicit sex, graphic violence or sexual violence.

I can help with SPAG and word/language choices, pacing and continuity, plot, characterisation, etc. I can also do Britpicking and contribute knowledge about birds and late Victorian settings.

Preferred formats are Pages or Word.

[morbane]

Hello! Morbane here and at AO3.

No squicks/triggers, happy to read all content, though would appreciate a heads-up about generally disturbing content, especially harm to hands. I can also read any length, although obviously may not be able to be thorough on longer works close to reveal.

I generally use Google Docs or Microsoft Word.

I'm only broadly familiar with most of the larger/wider canons - cannot offer expertise on any of: the Eddas, the Odyssey, the Iliad, De nugis curialium, Chrétien de Troyes' and Malory's Arthuriana, the Mabinogion, the Tanakh, the Metamorphoses, and wider Robin Hood lore. So I'm happy to beta for those but may miss some finer details.

Looking forward to reading!

morbane@gmail.com or DW PM or Morbane#2017 on Discord