Round 3 Beta Post + Check-In Week Warning

[modzilla]

This is the beta post for the 2022-2023 round of fffx.

Please comment below if you can offer brainstorming, critique, canon-checking, fact-checking, or tips on visual effects for art or stories in this exchange! Thank you to all volunteers.

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Check-in week

is coming soon. It will run 20-27 November. Please look out for that post, and confirm at that time that you are still working on any assignment(s) you have not yet completed.

We also have outstanding pinch hits available.

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I'll help you figure out how to make a too-short draft longer!

[fencesit]

AO3 name: fencesit
How to contact you: via discord at frolic#2209 or via email at sitfence@gmail.com
Fandoms: For this beta offer, I'm willing to beta any fandom except for Critical Role Campaign 1 (because I am avoiding spoilers for it) as long as you're alright with me potentially not knowing your fandom. In my experience, this kind of betaing doesn't really require canon knowledge as long as you can put up with questions like "Does [character from popular media who famously has a twin] have any siblings?"
Specific topics of expertise: I'm really good at big-picture editing and I am willing to use my powers to help you figure out how to make a short fic longer. I may suggest substantial edits, rather than simply adding on to the end. I'm also good at helping with stuff like "am I writing this in the right POV?" and "why doesn't this 1,500 word argument between these two characters feel like it's finished?"
What can you beta and when?: Ideally, you should already have a finished fic, but a nearly finished draft is also fine! The fic should be under 10k because you don't need my help making it longer if it's 10,000 words lol. Google docs or pdf files preferred. Turn around time probably ~a week, but nearer to the deadline I might be able to be quicker if you ask.

Content restrictions: I can't help with RPF. I won't read suicide, car crashes, or gore/graphic violence, but if these things aren't the backbone of your whole fic then I'm willing to work with a lightly censored draft. I also can't help with PWP works (because there's no plot, lol) but I am willing to read sex scenes of basically all kinds.

Also, I can't promise SPAG help or really any sentence-level editing beyond pointing out if something is confusing.

(Oh, and, this offer is open for Heart Attack works, too, when it comes time for that. Hit me up!)

[svgurl]

AO3 name: svgurl410
How to contact you: email at svgurl410@gmail.com or Discord @ svgurl#6385
Fandoms: Captain America Movies, DCEU (Man of Steel, ZS's Justice League, Wonder Woman, Aquaman), Gilmore Girls, Jane Austen novels, Smallville, Star Trek: AOS, Ted Lasso, The Avengers, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Specific topics of expertise: SPAG, cheerleading, brain storming
What can you beta and when? (Media, content, length, doc types, availability by calendar): I can beta about any length. Mid to late December and later is probably the best time for me. I need about a week for every 10k. Anything outside of watersports (and focus on other bodily fluids/functions)/graphic violence or torture/rape/sexual assault/bigotry/horror themes works

[seal_nonnie]

AO3 name: Brachylagus_fandom
How to contact you: Discord (tiredandcold#8865) or email (bakingfiasco@gmail.com)
Fandoms: I'm familiar with Murdle, Fullmetal Alchemist (Brotherhood & Manga), Red vs Blue, Criminal Minds, Percy Jackson, Hunger Games Trilogy, Mysterious Benedict Society (TV), Leverage, Harry Potter; I am also willing to read canon-blind
Specific topics of expertise: SPAG and some pacing critique, canon-checking for canons I am familiar with, brainstorming/cheerleading
What can you beta and when? (Media, content, length, doc types, availability by calendar): Fic, preferably in a Google Docs or Word file. Will not beta explicit sex scenes. December to mid-January is the best time for me, and I'll need about a week per 10K

[(Anonymous)]

AO3 name: I'm not signed up to FFFX
How to contact me: fic.sock@gmx.com
Fandoms: I'm unlikely to know your canon, but am happy to beta canon-blind if that is something you are okay with, and I will at least go over the Wikipedia page before starting. If you specifically need canon checking, I'm happy to consume up to a Heart Attack safety fandom equivalent (about 5 hours) - let me know.

Exceptions: I can't do canons with horror or extreme gore.

Specific areas I can help with:

SPAG and general flow/coherence/sensemaking: I can read about 5K/day. (If you need it back sooner, let me know and I'll see what I can do.)

Cheerleading: If an accountability buddy or cheerleader would help, I'm happy to give encouragement or check in regularly.

What can I beta and when?:
Non-fic mediums: For art/comics, vids, and podfic, I am happy to be a second pair of eyes/ears but probably cannot offer technical feedback. I can beta CYOA and interactive fiction.
I'm fine with any content, length, and doc types, and am available up until the last minute.

[(Anonymous)]

AO3 name: lazyfish
How to contact you: lazyfish#5556 on Discord
Fandoms: 9-1-1 & 9-1-1 LS, Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Marvel movies & television, Motherland: Fort Salem, Star Wars movies (most familiar with ST), The Old Guard; I'm also willing to beta canon-blind
Specific topics of expertise: SPAG, brainstorming, cheerleading, characterization (depending on characters and ship); I'm also in the mental health field so if you have content questions specific to that field I'm happy to help!
What can you beta and when?: Can beta any length or content, but if your story contains vomit please let me know beforehand! I'll still gladly read and beta it, just need to make sure I'm in the right headspace. I prefer Google docs or Word document. Only time I'm busy is the week of December 12th, otherwise every week between now and the reveal date is equally good for me.

[modzilla]

Thanks for offering! Do you have an alternate contact, other than Discord? I'd like to put someone in touch with you - if you can, please reach out to mod.modzilla@gmail.com.

[peaked]

AO3 name: buries

How to contact you: PM this account or discord jaded#0421 (I'm always invisible). I'm happy to give my email out. I'm on AEST.

Fandoms:

* MCU
— The Avengers (Movies)
— Black Widow
— Captain America (Movies)
— Doctor Strange (Movies)
— Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies)
— Thor (Movies)
— Hawkeye
— WandaVision

* X-Men (Alternate and Original Movies)

* DCEU
— (The) Suicide Squad

* Avatar: The Last Airbender
* The Boys
* Bridgerton (TV)
* Gilmore Girls
* The Hunger Games (books/movie)
* Ready or Not
* Schitt's Creek
* Shadow and Bone
* Six of Crows
* Smallville
* The Vampire Diaries/The Originals

* DCU and Marvel 616 comics (see this list of the comics I'm familiar with). I read comics via the DC and Marvel apps, so as long as the comic is available, I can read the relevant issues.

* Original works.

What can you beta and when? (Media, content, length, doc types, availability by calendar):

* SPAG, plot/flow, characterisation, structure, whether something is working or not working, etc.

* Happy to beta smut as well!

* Happy to give text in comics a review. I'm not an artist by any means but am happy to see if I can help with any concerns about the visuals.

* Preference is Gdocs and Word. I can mark up a PDF via Adobe as well.

* I'm mostly available at the end of December and early January (work should be slow at the beginning of January so I have time). Availability might be sketchy from mid-January onwards. I'd need a week per 10k due to offline obligations (I suspect I'll be quick, but this is just in case!). I'm happy to beta up to 20k-25k. Feel free to get in touch at any time!

* I won't beta A/B/O, mpreg, mutilation, animal abuse and extremely graphic violence and extremely violent rape.

[beatrice_otter]

AO3 name: Beatrice Otter
How to contact you: message me on DW or the Yuletide discord
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Wars,
Specific topics of expertise: Fashion history, Europe and America
Christian history
Christian theology
autism
What can you beta and when?: SPaG, any story without explicit sex or etxreme violence, up to the deadline

[kanadka]

AO3 name: kanadka, I'm not signed up to FFFX tho so no worries that I'm your recip.

How to contact you: sarageneris [at] gmail [dot] com, or find me here on DW via PM, or on discord: kanadka#1329

Fandoms: I'll SPAG anything canon-blind, and if it's a short canon (standalone book or movie) I'm happy to pick it up. Here's the series I am more familiar with, if you want characterisation or deeper concrit:
- Anime & Manga: Free!, Hetalia: Axis Powers, Puella Magi Madoka Magica (only the original anime), Sailor Moon (1992, Crystal, or manga), Yuri!!! on Ice
- Books & Literature: Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat, Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, Faded Sun - C. J. Cherryh, Hannibal Lecter Tetralogy - Thomas Harris, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling (also movies), His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (also TV version), Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb.
- Cartoons & Comics & Graphic Novels: Arcane: League of Legends, Avatar: Legend of Korra & The Last Airbender, Miraculous Ladybug (S1-2), Star Trek: Lower Decks, Star Wars: Bad Batch & Clone Wars & Rebels.
- Movie series: Blade Runner & Blade Runner 2049, James Bond (w/ Daniel Craig), John Wick, MCU (incl Venom, Deadpool, X-Men/X-Men alternate timeline, Defenders, the Disney+ series), Mad Max (all), The Matrix, Mission: Impossible, The Mummy Series, Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit (dir. Jackson), Star Trek: TOS movies & AOS movies, Star Wars (all movies)
- Music & Bands: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS, The Protomen
- TV Shows: Agatha Christie's Poirot, Almost Human, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica (2003), Black Sails, Blake's 7, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Community, Dark (Netflix), Dark Matter, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Expanse, Farscape, Firefly, Game of Thrones (TV only; note that for ASOIAF I have read only the first two books), Hannibal, Heroes, His Dark Materials, Letterkenny, Leverage, Lucifer, Lupin (Netflix), Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Our Flag Means Death, Penny Dreadful, Russian Doll, Sanctuary, Sapphire and Steel, Sense8, Sex Education, Sherlock, Squid Game, Spooks | MI-5, Star Treks: TOS & DS9 & Discovery (excl. S4), Stargates: SG-1 & Atlantis, Star Warses: The Mandalorian, Book of Boba Fett, Kenobi, Andor; Starsky & Hutch, Stranger Things, Ted Lasso, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Twin Peaks, Westworld, The Wheel of Time (TV version only), The Witcher (Netflix TV version only)
- Video Games: Bastion, Bioshock, Borderlands, Detroit: Become Human, Deus Ex, Dishonored, Final Fantasy XV, Hitman, Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect Andromeda, Portal, Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order, Stray, Team Fortress 2, Transistor, XCOM

Specific topics of expertise: Doing some STEM/conlang type worldbuilding? Particularly happy to help :D I'm also available just for regular ordinary cheerleading/accountability.

What can you beta and when? (Media, content, length, doc types, availability by calendar): Any doc types, any media (though I imagine I'm less useful for art beta, not being an artist), any content and any warnings is OK, any length. I'm available anytime up to the deadline; please expect about 5k/day for turnaround, but let me know if you need something faster.

[lets_call_me_lily]

AO3 name: Lets_call_me_Lily (Not signed up to fffx :) )
How to contact you: betula.arbore [at] gmail or DM here on Dreamwidth
Fandoms: I am happy to beta canon-blind for SPaG/copyediting, dialogue, internal continuity and sentence flow, as well as leave cheer-reading comments and feedback if requested.

Whether I can check for canon-compliance and characterisation will depend on my familiarity with the source material; if it's a movie that's available on Disney+ or Netflix then I'm also willing to pick it up.

Some canons I'm familiar with (though it's been a while for some):
Artemis Fowl
Cabin Pressure
Check, Please!
Discworld
Doctor Who (New Who)
Elementary
Firefly
Harry Potter
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Howl's Moving Castle
Killjoys
Leverage
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Marvel Cinematic Universe (including some Netflix shows)
Mulan
Neil Gaiman novels (e.g. Stardust, Anansi Boys, American Gods, anthologies)
Our Flag Means Death
Pacific Rim
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (and Heroes of Olympus)
Sherlock Homes (ACD, BBC, RDJ)
Tamora Pierce novels (Tortall and Emelan)
The Imperial Radch trilogy
The Martian
The Mummy (1999 film and sequel)
The Murderbot Diaries
The Princess Bride
Vorkosigan saga
White Collar

I've also seen all the Star Wars films and read some DC and Marvel comics.

What can you beta and when? (Media, content, length, doc types, availability by calendar): Can beta all media and length up to 50K, word/openoffice/libreoffice will be converted to googledoc but I can download and send back in word as well, and I can beta up till the deadline (or beyond).

If any of the following are large components of your fic, sorry, I can't help:
RPF, reader-insert, noncon, A/B/O, ageplay, infidelity, pregnancy or mpreg as a major theme, underage sex, mentor/mentee romantic relationship, incest, disrespectful treatment/permanent disempowerment of marginalised characters, character bashing/demonising (critical is fine, though!), glorified *isms, high school AU, horror (the genre).

I don’t mind sex being part of your fic, but I can't offer advice on writing it beyond "there are 3 arms here?".