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I betaed this one so I don't have a lot to say. But it's great.

It’s just something random I give out to newbies and returnbies. Plus snakes wearing hats are adorable.

Dance until you feet give out and then...
Shouldn’t this be "your feet"?

I’m infamous for being a sentient spell checker who can’t not see these things.

HG

What’s a – oh, it’s a small snake with a hat, apparently from a word world I don’t know. But is it a spelling Mini?

HG

Not having to go to public places to get my weekly dose of literature is quite convenient these days.

I don’t remember whether Ben Aaronovitch’s Peter Grant series was ever mentioned on the Board. Detective Chief Magician Inspector Nightingale and his apprentice, PC (and PoC) Peter Grant, are the weird-stuff-department of the London Metropolitan Police. They investigate cases which should not happen in a world as we know it, involving ghosts, fae, river gods, unregistered practitioners of magic … (there are agreements dating back to the seventeenth century to keep all this hidden from the mundane public). I don’t feel compelled to do the deep analysis I did (and may still be doing) for Harry Potter, but these are probably books I’ll want to read more than once.

HG

Also, hi! Welcome! :)

Anyway, that's lovely, that your dad has been betaing for you and may continue. It's a bit unclear to me what you're actually asking here, though--are you trying to find more beta readers in advance? To see how many people might be interested in the future? Something else?

Betaing is rather dependent on people having time and energy and so on for it (as well as relevant canon knowledge/interest). LotR has always been a significant fandom here, though, so you're in luck on the latter front. As for time and energy, well, people have generally been managing to find a couple of betas even during the past year and a half, despite RL being more (and differently) draining and demanding. Especially for LotR, you should be able to find people. Just remember to have a mind toward patience and understanding, since there's a higher than usual chance that people will be busy or things will come up.

As an example, I'm pretty sure I've done almost no beta reading during this time, and most or all of it was either for something I was cowriting a follow-up to (upcoming :D) or something involving characters closely linked to some of mine (I think? I can't place the exact story, but I remember something like that). On the other hand, even before that I'd been busier than usual and was generally not betaing anything unless it was pretty short (~15 pages max), so I may not be the best/most usual example here. Ah well.

Anyway, welcome, enjoy yourself, hope some of this was helpful :)

~Z

Books are certainly worth being in an extended frenzy for.

There's a disclaimer that goes here to the tune of gender not being a binary, and so the idea of a single divide with a bridge across it is perhaps not the best model thereof, but it is a lovely mental image nonetheless. :)

... that I'm now picturing the two of you high-fiving as you cross the bridge over the Gender Divide? {= )

~Neshomeh

I have previously written some fanfiction, which my dad beta'd for me. He knows a lot about writing, and he also knows a lot about Lord of the Rings, which is my main fandom. He is nerdy (in a very good way) and I am hoping to have him for my Beta reader when I write my Permission Request prompts and when I actually get to write missions. I would like input on this. If you are in the LOTR fandom and are interested in helping, maybe we can talk. I like having multiple of opinions before I actually publish things.

Look, if you know anything about Cats Twenty Nineteen, you know what this is. If you don't, IGNORANCE. IS. BLISS. I'm serious. You do not want this knowledge. No great deed is commemorated here. This is not a place of glory.

Have an origami boat :)

offers a mini snek They come with hats!

I'm so happy M'rrahr has a successor! There should always be a kitchen cat, I think.

I never managed to write a full story, just a kitchen interlude, and some DCPS things that are lost to LJ purges, so I am most impressed.

I have so much PPC content to catch up on, it feels like I'm reading eight things at once, but I am definitely looking forward to the next bit of this! They have such great chemistry. It's really nice seeing them flirt and you build anticipation very well!

/Ekwy

I read, I enjoyed, and I will certainly be going back for more when the next part is done. If you are at all intrigued by the phrase "uncontrollable chaos farts," you should read this story. ^_^

~Neshomeh is (still) very mature.