[BETA APPLICATION] xcarex
Basics
Name: Care, Caro, Caroline
Tumblr/Twitter: Tumblr/Twitter
Email address: cielgee at gmail.com
How to best contact you: Email or twitter.
Experience
Have you written fic?: Most definitely. Not all of it gets finished (or posted), but I do write quite a lot.
Have you beta-ed fic before?: Oh, have I ever! I probably beta more than I finish fic.
What are your strengths?
Characters/pairings: I've spent the most time with Liam and Zayn and Louis, fic-wise, and I feel like I know them best. I've also got a pretty good handle on Grimmy and Ed Sheeran. And I am BEGGING people to write more 5SOS fic (there are no bad combinations! OT9!) so give me all your Niall/Michael, your Liam/Ashton, omfggg.
Types of plots/tropes: I want to read your genre AU! I am a big nerd so if you feel like getting a little bit sci-fi or fantasy or horror, I am 100% on board. Oh sure, I'll also read normal stuff, like the usual university AU or "what if this girlfriend didn't exist"... but I also really love canon-compliant stuff?
Kinks: Voyeurism/public/getting caught goes to the top of my list. Cross-dressing/lingerie, particularly where Louis's ass is involved. I'm also big on first times (either ever or with that partner). Ooh, and threesomes/moresomes!
Can you Britpick? Kind of? I'm Canadian & watch a shitload of TV, so I'm a suitable third party to pointing out glaring Americanisms and helping you figure out the British alternative. I keep a text doc on my desktop of useful and unexpected British terms. I'm at a loss when it comes to Irish stuff though so I'm not the girl for you if you're going deep-Niall.
Other: I'm your gal for fun, sexy, idiot-boys-in-love type stuff. In addition to SPAG and characterization, I am also a stickler for realism and whether or not something makes sense when I imagine it. I watch your fic like a movie in my head, so if continuity is off (say, suddenly someone is described on being on the other side of someone without the reader being told he'd moved, for instance), I'll call you out on it. Very helpful in orgies! Can't keep track of all the dicks and limbs? Let me help.
What you will not do
Characters/pairings: I'm not your best choice if your fic or pairing is Harry-centric or if anyone is always-a-cisgirl genderswapped (but omg-woke-up-a-girl is fine, and so is het!) I just don't feel like I can help with the characterization? And I do NOT read self-insert stuff. Actually, let's just say no OCs of any kind.
Types of plots/tropes: I don't like a lot of tortured angst, character death, hurt-comfort stuff. I don't like the melodramatic sad stuff, basically. And definitely nothing with age play/children.
Squicks: Drugs, dubious or non-consensual sex, anything involving piss/shit/blood.
Triggers: None.
Other: I reserve the right to be quite blunt. Yeah, I will try to say nice things when there are things that stand out, but I'm most likely going to just point out all the bad stuff. It doesn't mean that I don't like your work! It just means I'm trying to be concise.
Googledocs is my preferred method to beta fic, but I am open to other suggestions.
Name: Care, Caro, Caroline
Tumblr/Twitter: Tumblr/Twitter
Email address: cielgee at gmail.com
How to best contact you: Email or twitter.
Experience
Have you written fic?: Most definitely. Not all of it gets finished (or posted), but I do write quite a lot.
Have you beta-ed fic before?: Oh, have I ever! I probably beta more than I finish fic.
What are your strengths?
Characters/pairings: I've spent the most time with Liam and Zayn and Louis, fic-wise, and I feel like I know them best. I've also got a pretty good handle on Grimmy and Ed Sheeran. And I am BEGGING people to write more 5SOS fic (there are no bad combinations! OT9!) so give me all your Niall/Michael, your Liam/Ashton, omfggg.
Types of plots/tropes: I want to read your genre AU! I am a big nerd so if you feel like getting a little bit sci-fi or fantasy or horror, I am 100% on board. Oh sure, I'll also read normal stuff, like the usual university AU or "what if this girlfriend didn't exist"... but I also really love canon-compliant stuff?
Kinks: Voyeurism/public/getting caught goes to the top of my list. Cross-dressing/lingerie, particularly where Louis's ass is involved. I'm also big on first times (either ever or with that partner). Ooh, and threesomes/moresomes!
Can you Britpick? Kind of? I'm Canadian & watch a shitload of TV, so I'm a suitable third party to pointing out glaring Americanisms and helping you figure out the British alternative. I keep a text doc on my desktop of useful and unexpected British terms. I'm at a loss when it comes to Irish stuff though so I'm not the girl for you if you're going deep-Niall.
Other: I'm your gal for fun, sexy, idiot-boys-in-love type stuff. In addition to SPAG and characterization, I am also a stickler for realism and whether or not something makes sense when I imagine it. I watch your fic like a movie in my head, so if continuity is off (say, suddenly someone is described on being on the other side of someone without the reader being told he'd moved, for instance), I'll call you out on it. Very helpful in orgies! Can't keep track of all the dicks and limbs? Let me help.
What you will not do
Characters/pairings: I'm not your best choice if your fic or pairing is Harry-centric or if anyone is always-a-cisgirl genderswapped (but omg-woke-up-a-girl is fine, and so is het!) I just don't feel like I can help with the characterization? And I do NOT read self-insert stuff. Actually, let's just say no OCs of any kind.
Types of plots/tropes: I don't like a lot of tortured angst, character death, hurt-comfort stuff. I don't like the melodramatic sad stuff, basically. And definitely nothing with age play/children.
Squicks: Drugs, dubious or non-consensual sex, anything involving piss/shit/blood.
Triggers: None.
Other: I reserve the right to be quite blunt. Yeah, I will try to say nice things when there are things that stand out, but I'm most likely going to just point out all the bad stuff. It doesn't mean that I don't like your work! It just means I'm trying to be concise.
Googledocs is my preferred method to beta fic, but I am open to other suggestions.