Any betas about?

SORTED! Thank you! (Leaving the post up so J will know how much she is missed when she finally has a chance to read her flist. HEAPS!)


The fabbo jadzialove  who usually suffers through beta-ing my fics is holidaying in the wilds where the internets come and they go. I do have a brilliant local back-up beta-ette, but she is up to her nose in late fics of her own and her mind is hiding behind the water heater and refusing to come out. Meanwhile, I have a super-secret fic mission that has a very short deadline. I would love to give details at this point, but if I told you, I would have to kill you. Also, I am still writing, so there are no actual details.

Is anyone available to beta over the next week? I am happy to send bits as they are done, or the whole thing when there is one. It's going to have some jokes, probably some politics, pretty much squick- and sex-free, likely one or two hideously shameful puns, very likely to sail as close to the wind as humanly possible when it comes to the actual deadline. Almost certainly a couple of outrageous simple typos in the middle of some beautifully spelled tricky bits, because that's what I do. As to length, er, more than 9000, fewer than 30,000 words. Probably.

If you're snowed in and looking for something that's more of a challenge than your 47th game of Solitaire for the week, this could be something diverting! Even if you only feel comfortable proofreading, that's what I need most and I will just wear the blame for any dodgy structure (which is always my own fault, anyway). As to what's in it for you, it's really just a warm inner glow, but there's the possibility I will one day get my act together enough to post you Violet Crumble. Thank you! And feel free to email me if you would like to hide the fact you read fanfic. Yes, you know who you are. blamebrampton@gmail.com 

Any betas about?

SORTED! Thank you! (Leaving the post up so J will know how much she is missed when she finally has a chance to read her flist. HEAPS!)


The fabbo jadzialove  who usually suffers through beta-ing my fics is holidaying in the wilds where the internets come and they go. I do have a brilliant local back-up beta-ette, but she is up to her nose in late fics of her own and her mind is hiding behind the water heater and refusing to come out. Meanwhile, I have a super-secret fic mission that has a very short deadline. I would love to give details at this point, but if I told you, I would have to kill you. Also, I am still writing, so there are no actual details.

Is anyone available to beta over the next week? I am happy to send bits as they are done, or the whole thing when there is one. It's going to have some jokes, probably some politics, pretty much squick- and sex-free, likely one or two hideously shameful puns, very likely to sail as close to the wind as humanly possible when it comes to the actual deadline. Almost certainly a couple of outrageous simple typos in the middle of some beautifully spelled tricky bits, because that's what I do. As to length, er, more than 9000, fewer than 30,000 words. Probably.

If you're snowed in and looking for something that's more of a challenge than your 47th game of Solitaire for the week, this could be something diverting! Even if you only feel comfortable proofreading, that's what I need most and I will just wear the blame for any dodgy structure (which is always my own fault, anyway). As to what's in it for you, it's really just a warm inner glow, but there's the possibility I will one day get my act together enough to post you Violet Crumble. Thank you! And feel free to email me if you would like to hide the fact you read fanfic. Yes, you know who you are. blamebrampton@gmail.com 

Advent-ures in fanfic planning

Right ... a confession. This year I have read about four fan fics I have not beta-ed or written. In fact, I'm not sure I read all the ones I wrote. I am hopelessly behind and will never catch up, but will, in a week or three, have space again to do some reading as I run out of Agatha Christies. Therefore, I come requesting recs.

I really only read Potter, though I suppose a spot of Merlin or some incarnation of Sherlock Holmes would be fine, too. A few criteria:

* Reasonably British -- I can live wholly with American English spelling and even gotten, but if people have therapists and want to talk about their feelings at length, it sends me on a hideous flashback to the time my mother was going out with a Californian psychologist and I will have to hide with a blanket over my head (no -- the blanket was NOT a repressed desire to return to the womb, it was the first convenient and effective hiding place, as I explained at the time.) Similarly, proms, obsessions with going on a date and the urgent need to be married and with child scare me and are likely to see a spot of blanky-reaching.

* PG is fine. I am not a big reader of smut, I tend to sort of skim it with my eyes semi-closed. Fully closed in the case of some art works. Just call me Sister Brammers ...

* Plot is lovely! As are any or all of the following: comedy, drama, politics, thrills, mystery, character studies, classic romance of the minimally mushy kind, adventure and even stories that spend oodles of time talking interestingly about something else, whether it be a country, cat or catamaran.

* Dark themes are fine, but preferably no sexual violence, unless it is something that is integral to a non-exploitative plot. I know that I am probably safe with my flist, but just in case, sexual violence as an expression of true love sends me into a frothing rant, as does sexual exploitation of children (obviously consensual sex with added pain or chain is a different kettle of fish entirely, as are fictional 15-year olds with each other). Incest themes just force me me make wholly inappropriate jokes about Tasmania, which causes treacle_tartlet  to thump me, and since she is an old RL friend, this is not to be encouraged. Before I learned about fandom, I would never have imagined writing the last two sentences ...

* Creature-fics and mpregs will be treated with suspicion, as will AUs, but you could convince me.

* Feel free to self-promote!

Advent-ures in fanfic planning

Right ... a confession. This year I have read about four fan fics I have not beta-ed or written. In fact, I'm not sure I read all the ones I wrote. I am hopelessly behind and will never catch up, but will, in a week or three, have space again to do some reading as I run out of Agatha Christies. Therefore, I come requesting recs.

I really only read Potter, though I suppose a spot of Merlin or some incarnation of Sherlock Holmes would be fine, too. A few criteria:

* Reasonably British -- I can live wholly with American English spelling and even gotten, but if people have therapists and want to talk about their feelings at length, it sends me on a hideous flashback to the time my mother was going out with a Californian psychologist and I will have to hide with a blanket over my head (no -- the blanket was NOT a repressed desire to return to the womb, it was the first convenient and effective hiding place, as I explained at the time.) Similarly, proms, obsessions with going on a date and the urgent need to be married and with child scare me and are likely to see a spot of blanky-reaching.

* PG is fine. I am not a big reader of smut, I tend to sort of skim it with my eyes semi-closed. Fully closed in the case of some art works. Just call me Sister Brammers ...

* Plot is lovely! As are any or all of the following: comedy, drama, politics, thrills, mystery, character studies, classic romance of the minimally mushy kind, adventure and even stories that spend oodles of time talking interestingly about something else, whether it be a country, cat or catamaran.

* Dark themes are fine, but preferably no sexual violence, unless it is something that is integral to a non-exploitative plot. I know that I am probably safe with my flist, but just in case, sexual violence as an expression of true love sends me into a frothing rant, as does sexual exploitation of children (obviously consensual sex with added pain or chain is a different kettle of fish entirely, as are fictional 15-year olds with each other). Incest themes just force me me make wholly inappropriate jokes about Tasmania, which causes treacle_tartlet  to thump me, and since she is an old RL friend, this is not to be encouraged. Before I learned about fandom, I would never have imagined writing the last two sentences ...

* Creature-fics and mpregs will be treated with suspicion, as will AUs, but you could convince me.

* Feel free to self-promote!