I am a university student studying journalism and I studied english language for A level so I have a good grasp of grammer and language use, although when betaing I appreciate that my writing style is not the same as other peoples so would need to talk to author to work out how much input they wanted me to give. I would expect to be in contact with the author through email and for the author to realise that sometime RL can take up more time than anticipated and that therefore I might sometimes take a bit longer to check things than at other times. I also expect a writer to understand that I am not there to completely punctuate a story for them, only to correct honest mistakes.

I am good at catching grammer and wording mistakes and continuity errors, although with longer stories I would not want to be the only check point for continuity. I also have a fairly good grasp of canon in the fandoms I beta in.

I can occassionally miss things like smaller continuity errors. I am also not brilliant at catching characterisation flaws (OOC) as I often read stories with OOC characters so tend to accept them as part of the story.

I am willing to beta both slash and het pairings and like humour and romance. I am also willing to beta angst and hurt/comfort but it depends on my mood.

I do not like Mary Sue stories or especially "girly" stories. I also dislike self-harm.

Book » Harry Potter

Tv » Torchwood

Romance Humor

Adventure Angst

Hurt/Comfort