Beta Sign Ups!

[merlin-hols.livejournal.com]

If you would like to offer your services as a beta, please fill out this form and leave it as a comment to this post. Participants, if you don't already have a beta, or suddenly find yourself in need of one, check this post at any time. Please remember that having your work beta'd is required!

Name:
Email:
Fic or Art?
Preferred Pairings:
Your strengths: (SPaG only, Brit picking, characterization, consistency, etc.)
Pairings/Squicks you refuse to beta:
Turn-around time:
Anything else?

<b>Name:</b> <b>Email:</b> <b>Fic or Art?</b> <b>Preferred Pairings:</b> <b>Your strengths:</b> (SPaG only, Brit picking, characterization, consistency, etc.) <b>Pairings/Squicks you refuse to beta:</b> <b>Turn-around time:</b> <b>Anything else?</b>

Comments

[casualtheatrics.livejournal.com]

Name: Casualtheatrics
Email: Erm, PM me first to check availability!
Fic or Art? Fic
Preferred Pairings: Anything except het pairings.
Your strengths: SPaG, Britpick, plot, dialogue...look, I have an MA in Literature: if you want it, I can probably do it!!
Pairings/Squicks you refuse to beta: As mentioned above, no het pairings. I won't beta incest, non-con or child abuse. Sorry, not my thing.
Turn-around time: Can usually manage a week for less-than-5,000-word fics. Longer fics are not a problem, but I will need a bit of a heads-up!
Anything else? I'm pretty thorough when it comes to beta-reading, so will go through fics closely if needed. I can also be quite blunt, and will tell you if something isn't working for me.

[reiya-wakayama.livejournal.com]

are you still accepting works to beta?

~reiya

[casualtheatrics.livejournal.com]

What were you looking for? If I can help, then I'd be happy to! :)

- Caz

[reiya-wakayama.livejournal.com]

Just a SPAGing, some britpicking, someone to check the flow of the story. I'm not finished with it, but I've got nearly 10k and will try to be finished with it by the end of the week. If you could help me with it, I would be forever happy. XD

~reiya

[casualtheatrics.livejournal.com]

That all sounds fine. What's your date for submission? Just to make sure I can manage it! I'll pm you my email address.

Caz

[reiya-wakayama.livejournal.com]

Nov. 21st since I was on time last year. So about 3 weeks. Thanks for betaing this. I can do it myself somewhat if I need to, but I always miss some big obvious glaring mistake that I should have seen. XD

~reiya

[hells-samaritan.livejournal.com]

Name: Hells_Samaritan
Email: rem71090@gmail.com
Fic or Art? fic
Preferred Pairings: Merlin/Arthur Merlin/Anyone but Gwen
Your strengths: SPaG, Consistency, Characterization
Pairings/Squicks you refuse to beta: MPREG, Incest
Turn-around time: Usually within two days?

[ella-bane.livejournal.com]

Thank you for signing up!

[slantedknitting.livejournal.com]

Name: slantedknitting
Email: slantedknitting@gmail.com or PM me
Fic or Art? Fic
Preferred Pairings: Slash (Arthur/Merlin or any knights, basically)
Your strengths: SPaG, style, consistency, logic flow, possibly characterization
Pairings/Squicks you refuse to beta: Pairings: Anything with Uther or Gaius. Squicks: Heavy BDSM, mpreg, violence.
Turn-around time: Absolutely under a week unless it's a 50,000+ monster or something.
Anything else? Please tell me what sort of beta you are looking for - do you want someone to check for grammar, someone to critique the style and flow, someone to beat characters and plot into submission? Tell me what you want and I will do my best to help. My strengths are absolutely detail-oriented, but I can be big-picture minded if you tell me to be!

[ella-bane.livejournal.com]

Thank you for offering your services!

[itachitachi.livejournal.com]

Name: itachitachi
Email: itachiplease[AT]gmail[DOT]com, or via PM
Fic or Art? Fic
Preferred Pairings: Anything without a large age-difference in canon.
Your strengths: I'm good with SPaG, characterization, internal consistency, pacing... tell me what you need and I can focus on it. I'm not British, though, so I can't do a reliable Britpick.
Pairings/Squicks you refuse to beta: I'm generally fine with anything. If you are working on something that you think may be extreme in some way (hardcore non-con, child abuse, etc) then just have a chat with me first and I'll let you know if I can do it.
Turn-around time: Inside 3 days or so until we start hitting the 7k mark. If you have something significantly longer, I'll obviously need more time! Just let me know what kind of schedule you're on.
Anything else? Just communicate with me! Let me know what YOU want from me as a beta (attitude, areas of focus, etc), and I will do my best to provide it. :)

[ella-bane.livejournal.com]

<3 <3 <3

[waltzing-mice.livejournal.com]

Name: waltzing_mice
Email: prickly.pincushion@gmail.com
Fic or Art? Art
Preferred Pairings: Don't have preferences while beta'ing
Your strengths: Good for quick anatomy and proportion checks.
Pairings/Squicks you refuse to beta: as long as no animals are being harmed I'm OK.
Turn-around time: Usually 24 hours, though I'll not be able to look at anything Nov 4-6.

[ella-bane.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[reni-m.livejournal.com]

Name: reni_m
Email: ssemina at gmail dot com (put something in the subject line about merlin_holidays!)
Fic or Art? Art
Preferred Pairings: Any and all.
Your strengths: Composition, anatomy, and color (if applicable).
Pairings/Squicks you refuse to beta: I'm able to handle almost everything.
Turn-around time: Usually under 24 hours

[ella-bane.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[inspiredlife.livejournal.com]

Name: inspiredlife
Email: inspiredlife01@gmail.com or PM
Fic or Art? Fic
Preferred Pairings: M/A preferably but in a pinch i could probably help with other pairings.
Your strengths: SPaG, characterization, consistency, dialogue, lots of experience with all of it!
Pairings/Squicks you refuse to beta: non-con, incest, child-abuse
Turn-around time: Depends on the length of the fic but I have a pretty quick turn-around time.
Anything else? I like to do a thorough job so before I start, I'd want to know exactly what you'd like me to focus on, etc.

[ella-bane.livejournal.com]

Thank you for offering your services!

[kajmere.livejournal.com]

Name: Kajmere
Email: likwid_tekno at hotmail dot com
Fic or Art? fic
Preferred Pairings: Any variation of Merlin/Arthur/Gwaine, Gwaine/Elena
Your strengths: SPaG, Characterization, flow, plot etc, bouncing ideas.
Pairings/Squicks you refuse to beta: I'm pretty open to just about anything except mpreg, child abuse, hardcore non-con/torture.
Turn-around time: depends on the size. but I'm always great with a deadline. you tell me when you need it by and I shall deliver.
I won't be around much between nov 9-13 I'll be around during the day only i should say.

[ella-bane.livejournal.com]

Thank you for offering your services!

[hardticket.livejournal.com]

Name:hardticket
Email:hardticket1@yahoo.ca
Fic or Art?fic
Preferred Pairings:Merlin/Arthur, Merlin/Arthur/Gwaine, Merlin/Gwaine, Arthur/Gwaine, Morgana/Me, Knights/Knight. Basically mix n match knights. :)
Your strengths: (SPaG only, Brit picking, characterization, consistency, etc.) A little bit of everything. I have a BA in English/History so I'm probably good to go for whatever you need done.
Pairings/Squicks you refuse to beta:Character death, non-con, scat,bdsm, bloodplay. I am not an Arthur/Gwen shipper.
Turn-around time: Depending on the length of the piece and the degree of work involved. Hopefully fairly quickly.
Anything else? I am completely up to date on all episodes if that is an issue for some. Squee s4 is awesome.

[ella-bane.livejournal.com]

Thank you for offering your services!

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Name:Jela is fine
Email:jelazakazone1@gmail.com
Fic or Art?fic
Preferred Pairings:any, although I feel I know Merlin best
Your strengths: SPaG, characterization, consistency, plot holes, big picture
Pairings/Squicks you refuse to beta:non-con, breathplay, incest, child abuse. I might be missing something, but think this should cover it.
Turn-around time: Depending on the length can probably do it in a couple days.
Anything else?Talk to me and let me know what you want/need. I can be a brutal beta or light or something in between.

[ravyn-ashling.livejournal.com]

Name: ravyn_ashling
Email: helicopter_sky@yahoo.com
Fic or Art? Fic
Preferred Pairings: Arthur/Merlin, but i'm not terribly picky.
Your strengths: SPaG, consistency, characterization, plot holes--probably the only thing you can't count on me for is Britpicking.
Pairings/Squicks you refuse to beta:
Turn-around time: 2-3 days, depending on the length and degree of work involved.
Anything else? signing up because ella_bane called for SPaG betas, so i'll be expecting works that need special attention on that. however, if you need me to check on other things a bit as well, please let me know. :)

[treacle-tartlet.livejournal.com]

Name: treacle_tarlet
Email: ormoluclock@gmail.com
Fic or Art? Fic
Preferred Pairings: Oh, I'll beta-read anything
Your strengths: SPaG, as well as characterisation, continuity, general sense-making, that sort of thing ;)
Pairings/Squicks you refuse to beta: Scat play and child sexual abuse.
Turn-around time: Well, that depends on the length of the fic, doesn't it? I work faster during the week when one of my kids is at school, and can get through a <5k word fic in a couple of hours.
Anything else? I've actually got quite a bit of writing on my plate at the moment, and would sort of prefer to beta shorter fics (shorter than, say, 10k words) if that's possible?

[sophinisba]

Name: sophinisba
Email: sophinisba at gmail.com
Fic or Art? fic
Preferred Pairings: anything with ladies, Merlin/Uther, Arthur/Merlin, or any other ship really
Your strengths: SPaG, consistency/flow (cannot Britpick)
Pairings/Squicks you refuse to beta: electricity play
Turn-around time: Usually a day or two. If the timing works out I can be very fast, so don't be shy about emailing me.
Anything else? Prefer fics of less than 5000 words.