Beta Post! - Sign up if you're willing to beta

[holmesticemods]

Please consider volunteering to be a beta even if you aren't currently participating in this round of Holmestice. Betas can volunteer by leaving a comment on this post.

If you need a beta, come check the comments of this post to see if someone is right for you. If no one works, please email the mods at holmesticemods@gmail.com and we can set you up with something.

In order to sign up, please comment with the following information:
Email Address: (so people can contact you!)
Types of fanworks you can beta: (fic, art, graphics, etc.)
Fandoms: (BBC, Doyle, Elementary, the one where watson is a robot, etc.)
Pairings: (it's helpful to name what you are AND what you are not willing to work with)
Ratings: (it's helpful to let us know if you will or if you won't beta explicit sex, graphic violence, etc.)

If you have any other limitations, please make a note of them, suggestions include fic length, time restraints, availability limitations, or if you have particular strengths or weaknesses in your beta skills.

Comments

[sanguinity]

Email: sanguinity at gmail
Fanwork types: fic or vids
Fandoms: ACD, Elementary, and a lot of the rarer offers/requests. (pm me!)
Pairings: No Mycroft/Sherlock, otherwise I'm good.
Ratings: No cannibalism, no drug relapses, no graphic violence or rape. I have no skills with editing explicit sex, but am willing to give it a go.

I'm an American, so I can US-pick. (I can't NYC-pick, but I know people whom I can ask nicely for that, if you don't.) I've also got a math background if, say, you're trying to write a professor of mathematics. ;-)

My time availability is tightish coming into the deadline; I can probably do better for you is your piece is shorter or you have a very specific thing that you want.

[pandoras-chaos.livejournal.com]

Email Address: afterimage84 at gmail
Types of fanworks you can beta: fic
Fandoms: BBC, although I might be able to stretch to anything vaguely Victorian
Pairings: I'm a Johnlock-er through-and-through but I'd be willing to beta almost anything besides incest
Ratings: anything and everything! I'm a smut writer myself, and I have personal experience with BDSM, so whatever you've got, I can probably handle.

I should point out that while I've been reliably informed that my accent and vernacular are pretty darn good, I am not actually British, so if that bothers you, please look to someone else for britpicking.

[jolinarjackson.livejournal.com]

Email Address: joja_sgc [at] gmx.de
Types of fanworks you can beta: fic
Fandoms: BBC, Ritchie
Pairings: I can beta for almost everything, just no incest, please
Ratings: all ratings, no bestiality or overly graphic violence or horror, though

I'm not a native speaker but I can do plot and characters as well as continuity.

Beta Volunteer

[red-chapel.livejournal.com]

Email: alphatremain at gmail
Types of fanworks: fic
Fandoms: BBC, Canon
Pairings: Any (I have my faves, but they don't limit my grammar and plot skills)
Ratings: Any; no incest
Additional: very good with grammar; experienced with editing English for non-native speakers; American with passable Brit-picking skills; 20,000 word max.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Email: initial contact by LJ PM please
Type of fanwork: fic
Fandoms: BBC, Doyle, Basil of Baker Street
Pairings: Anything except Holmestice and Moriarty/+
Ratings: Anything except torture, graphic violence, non-com. I'm not particularly keen on explicit sex, but can count limbs and spot contortionist only positions.

Will beta SPAG, content etc and Britpick. Will also Britpick by itself if you have a regular beta.

[tripleransom.livejournal.com]

Email: tripleransom at gmail
Fanwork types: fics
Fandoms: ACD
Pairings: just about any
Ratings: canon-typical violence is fine, but I'm chicken and really kinky stuff squicks me out.

I'm American, so I can't Brit-pick, but I'm pretty good at Victorian language and customs. Also grammar, spelling, plot, and continuity issues.

[camillo1978.livejournal.com]

Email Address: camillo1978fanart AT gmail DOT com
Types of fanworks you can beta: fic or art
Fandoms: BBC, Doyle, Elementary, Granada for ART BBC, Doyle for FIC
Pairings: Anything for ART Sherlock/John, Mycroft/Lestrade, Molly/Lestrade, Molly/Mycroft for FIC
Ratings: Anything for ART and I'll beta pretty much anything for FIC.

"Britpicking" and proofreading with some plot discussion if required for FIC

Discussion of colour, composition, anatomy drawing (basically anything you want) for ART.

[ficklepig.livejournal.com]

Email Address: please PM me on LJ first
Types of fanworks you can beta: fic and art
Fandoms: most famiiar with BBC
Pairings: any
Ratings: anything goes

Fic: disturbing, surreal, fluffy, psychotic, whatever. I might not share your kink but I can read it. SpaG and general reader feedback for any fandom; most familiar with BBC but willing to brush up on ACD. 20K max, please! Feel free to chat first to see if our schedules and styles mesh.

Art: I can give a certain amount of constructive criticism on anatomy, color and composition, and minor feedback on technical problems with traditional media. If you want to send initial sketches for alpha feedback, that's cool.

I'll have some time open at the end of this weekend, Monday 11/15, Tuesday 11/16, and Saturday the 21st. UTC -7. Amurrican English.

[kinkajou.livejournal.com]

Email Address: sam_slash_dean(at)yahoo(dot)com

Types of fanworks you can beta: - art
- - if you want to write something that has to do with anatomy/biology/has medical jargon in it, I can help with that!
(My native language is NOT English though, so I'm unlikely to be any help with any other writing / britpicking issues)
Fandoms: I'm most familiar with BBC, but I will give anything a try :)

Pairings: any

Ratings: any

Notes: My art skills are 100% self taught, so probably don't expect me to give expert tips on coloring and composition - I do know some anatomy though. What I can do is to spot stuff that looks somehow off, and try to help figure out why :)