Offer to beta for round one!

[casemod]

If you need a little help in fine-tuning your gift, this is the post to find the Watson to your Holmes (or the Holmes to your Watson—who wouldn't want to be Lucy Liu?)!

This is the beta post for the 2025 round of Casefic where those interested in providing support can pin their details to our metaphorical noticeboard. Support can include brainstorming, offering critique, canon-checking, fact-checking, tips on structure, language issues, looking for specialised knowledge of various kinds, sense checking that something makes sense, visual effects for comics, audio effects for podfic, and some casefic solving.

Participants and non-participants are welcome to volunteer to beta.

Quick links: Tagset · AO3 app · Sign-up summary of requested fandoms

I've provided an optional template to fill out below, which you're welcome to add and subtract details from:

AO3 name:
Best contact method(s): Please only include details that you are happy to have public.

Fandoms:

Specific topics of expertise:

Mediums: We allow comics, fic, and podfic in this exchange, so please specify which medium(s) you're comfortable working with.

What can you beta?: This is a good opportunity to include content (smut, graphic violence, etc.), length (the minimum is 3k for fic, 10 panels for comics, and various lengths of time for podfic).

What will you not beta?:

Preferred file formats: Would you prefer to beta in Google docs or PDFs? How would you like audio files to be sent, if you have any preference?

Availability: This is a good place to mention if you're okay with being contacted five days out from the assignment deadline, your turnaround times, i.e. will it take you a week to review? Is it dependent on the size?

<B>AO3 name:</b> <B>Best contact method(s):</b> <B>Fandoms:</b> <B>Specific topics of expertise:</b> <B>Mediums:</b> <B>What can you beta?:</b> <B>What will you not beta?:</b> <B>Preferred file formats:</b> <B>Availability:</b>

If you're interested in contacting someone offering to beta, please do so at their contact methods to preserve anonymity. Please email gumshoeagency@gmail.com if you need to get in touch with me to ask any questions.

I stole the base of this from fffx and yuletide ♥.

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[smallhobbit]

AO3 name: Small_Hobbit
Best contact method(s): initially by DM on Dreamwidth

Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes (ACD); Cadfael; Agatha Christie; Discworld; Inspector Alleyn; Jeeves & Wooster

Specific topics of expertise: SPAG, Britpick (will specifically Britpick if you have another regular beta if needed), continuity

Mediums: fic

What can you beta?: most levels in my given fandoms

What will you not beta?: I'm not keen on graphic sex or violence, but will consider. No incest

Preferred file formats: word doc, gdocs

Availability: By the end of June since I never know how my weeks will work out. Basic 'one run through' britpick one week before deadline.