I am a currently a beta-reader for Pokemon, although I can also do Sonic the Hedgehog if I'm familiar with the characters.
When I betaread a story, I look at grammar, spelling, sentence structure and overall enjoyment of the story. This, from my point of view, provides a very good idea of how good the story is.

Grammar and spelling are my best areas, and also sentence structure. I'm very spelling and grammar minded, so I guess that's where I excel in beta-reading.

I suppose that I sometimes let my prejudice over the type of story get in the way, but usually it's not that bad. I also might get so involved in the story that I lose track of the task, but again, that's quite rare. I'm young. My vocabulary and grammar points aren't fully developed yet, though I am aiming to learn as much as possible about it in order to become better!

My favourite type of stories to beta are where either the characters are in character, or crack!fics. I love humour and romance, especially mixed together, and especially pokeshipping or gymshipping. I prefer to beta stories with the canon characters, not OCs.
Ratings K to T suit me just fine.

I don't want to beta any M rated fics. Violence and lemons really aren't my thing.
I don't want to beta AdvanceShipping or PearlShipping fics. I just can't stand them.
I would also prefer not to beta the kind of fics where the canon characters are in school and such, and I also don't like fics where the characters are older etc.
Mary-Sues bug me. A lot.

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