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Hijacker: Beta List

It has been brought to my attention (thanks

jynx ) that perhaps a list of possible beta readers is in order. With the relative activity we will hopefully have until January next year (and just you wait what panda and I have in store for you*evil laugh*) I think a list of people willing to beta would help everyone.

So, if you want to be a beta-reader, please comment here!
I´ll create a beta list with all of our resources.

Our comm will be bigger, smarter and mor resourceful than ever!

Also, if you have other talents (like...a gazillion foreign languages and a doctor in medicine, martial art skills and profound knowledge of the Norse Gods...or possibly the Skrulls) tell me to add those.

...why do I want a picture of either Steve or Tony (or both) all intellectual with glasses?

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*raises hand* While I wouldn't trust my knowledge of canon, I speak foreign! And by 'foreign' I mean 'French, Latin, some Ancient Greek, and two semesters' worth of Japanese'. Also I am a grammar ninja and would be more than happy to perform the Ritual of the Red Pen as desired. (Also I have a semester's worth of freshman physics, for what that's worth in a sciencebabbley sense.)

I have never beta'd before, but I would like to try my hand at it, and I am totally willing to read up on the Norse Gods or any other gods you would like because mythology is awesome. Especially monsters. I like those.

I have a black belt too, but I haven't taken a martial arts class in years so I'm a little rusty.

I'm avaliable to beta up until March, when Uni starts up again.

I am a nit-picky linguistics/classics/english/ancient greek/latin/psychology/film student.

I also do ballet.

:D yayness~

I can beta. Am recovering English Major with massive knowledge of WW2, greek/norse/celtic/roman mythology, a decent knowledge of the Japanese language and culture. Am also a Comp Sci major (yay computers) so can help there. I'm a veteran beta, so I am very much a grammar stickler.

Can you beta something for me right quick? It's 228 words.

gpo for it. still have my email?

Yup. I sent it. Thanks.

I've been told that I'm a good beta (from erm... HP fandom back in the day) in terms of getting the writer's work to be clear, helping you to iron out stylistic inconsistencies, etc. I do stuff in google docs, so hopefully that won't be problem?

Depending on the fic, turn around can be from six hours to twenty four. Oh, I live in Britain so I'm six hours ahead of y'all, so if it's 9:00pm US EST, I'm in bed.

I can be as harsh as you need me to be, too.

Cheers. My email is on my lj.

I'm an English major, but that was like, over a decade ago. I don't know if it helps somewhat.

Srsly.
I like to edit things. I'll do it pretty fast and will be both harsh and encouraging. I will read and edit pretty much everything, including horrible Mary Sue fics or the darkest angst and horror you can pump out.

I can also help with puns, jokes, and other humor things. I love random trivia and facts.
My 'talents' are pretty useless. I read skeptic blogs for fun, so I know a lot about medical woo and crazy ideas. I also have a fascination for fish and deadly viruses. If I do not know something about it, I'll find the answer. I have a black belt in google-fu.

I'm willing to be a beta-reader. However, I'm pretty (really?)bad at catching grammar mistakes, but I think I can give everyone a good overview of their style and plot.

However, I think I'm really bad about putting out the right amount of criticism. I think I tend to give too much or too little, but that's fixable, right?

For my relevant talents, I can speak Chinese and a little bit of Japanese and Spanish. As for actual English, I've taken it up to the 9th grade, so yeah.

I haven't beta-read before, but I'd be willing to learn on the job. I'm very good with spellings (British, so I can't vouch for spotting Americanisms), and not too shabby with grammar (even if I do forget what the different parts of it are called!).

I'm reasonably fluent in Greco-Roman, Celtic, Norse, and Egyptian mythology.

I've a bachelor's degree in Microbiology, so I've got bits and pieces of theoretical knowledge of microbes (medical and environmental), experimental and biotechnology techniques, marine ecology and general biological stuff... I should probably also mention that as it's been a few years I might be a little rusty - and I haven't yet moved my books into my new house, but I'm sure I can google anything I've forgotten!

Aside from that, I've a somewhat rusty familiarity with A-Level (roughly age 17-18) Physics and Chemistry, and things like music (classical/playing piano/recorder/brass) and ballet.

On the canon side of things, I only own three trade paperbacks at the moment. Mostly due to the fact that while I'm OK with hurt-comfort, I don't deal with full-on angst very well, so I promised myself I'd not get into Civil War or its aftermath unless there looked to be an emotional up-turn in the writing.

I haven't been a beta before either, but I know grammar, and how to string a story along without it being too confusing. I'm not anything special, just a girl that likes comics and has taken comp 2. I do have some free time coming up, and I can read and respond fairly quickly.

I know French and I'm a complete grammar-nerd. *raises hand*

I can beta, as long as you stick a "don't use for the next 3 weeks" warning by me. Finals end on December 19th, and then I'm all good to beta stuff after that date. :)

While I do not have a MD (at least not yet!), I am on a pre-med track of sorts and have been through human physiology, DNA (genetic and forensic applications) sciences, and gross anatomy, if that helps anyone. (I will gladly and happily go on at length about how wrong both the artificial heart and arc reactor are. :D Yay comic book science!)

Edited 2008-12-01 23:52 (UTC)

"[Extremis] hacks the body's repair center -- the part of the brain that keeps a complete blueprint of the human body. When we're injured, we refer to that area of the brain in order to heal properly. Extremis rewrites the repair center." Maya Hansen to Tony Stark, Extremis.

Discuss. *g*

Oh man, I do love this one. :D Starting with the fact that there is no part of the brain that keeps a 'blueprint' of the body. That's all in the DNA, which happens to be happily existing all over the body. There's a reason we can get DNA from someone by just swabbing the inside of their mouth.

Also, again with the random made up parts of the brain, there's no repair center, either. When the body's injured, the local vascular system and the immune system send immediate and unconscious signals to the correct cellular components that deal with correcting/healing an injury. For example, you get a paper cut. The first thing that you get is your pain receptors telling you that you have a cut, AKA, go wash it out so that it's got less of a risk of getting infected. Next, the body moves onto the three stages in the healing process: inflammation (also called the acute stage, the body's way of trying to remove any foreign bodies or pathogens from the tissue/blood), the proliferative stage (can be called the sub-acute stage, this is when the body starts to regrow cutaneous tissues, connective tissues, capillaries, etc, depending on how deep/bad the cut was) and then the chronic stage, which really deals with scar tissue. This can take anywhere from 4 days to a really long time (very scientific, no?), although on average most of the process lasts about 2 weeks for your basic cut. Obviously, if you pop a broken bone out of your skin, you've got a lot more happening, and for much longer. Also, more pain receptors are triggered, and man are they.

SO! Meaning, that NEITHER of those processes are directly controlled by a 'center of the brain', but rather by DNA and the vascular/immune system. Then again, there's no way for the whole body to be an open wound, the way Extremis is described. You'd be perma-dead, not a whole new human being. While you do slough off the lining of all your organs/hair/top layers of the dermis from time to time (the exact timing differs between each) it takes a while and you're not gonna come out with a computer brain and a new heart. It's just a normal process that the body goes through.

Then again, Ellis is famous for this craziness. He dropped something about 'a triple helix strand of DNA' in his current run on whatever X-men book he's currently on. DNA's a double helix, a triple helix cannot occur, and if it ever did, there's no way you could end up with cellular ANYTHING, so no human outta that one. No nothin'. Then again, they are mutants. Again, oh comic book science. :D

Edited 2008-12-02 04:22 (UTC)

*nerdgasm*

i am a little bit in love with you right now

Edited 2008-12-02 04:45 (UTC)

I've beta-read in three fandoms: Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Highlander and Marvel Comics.

I have a working knowledge of spelling, grammar and the English language. I can readily distinguish between vice and vise, effect and affect, lose and loose, laid and lay, whose and who's, and even hung and hanged (which is more than Marvel Comics can do. I'm looking at you, Bendis). I know that "minuscule" has only one i, and that "for all intensive purposes" is a malapropism.

I'm familiar with Marvel Comics canon of the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. I'm working on filling in the gaps.

yo. i like to beta. and i have ALL MONTH OF DECEMBER OFF! ::is excited::

I have a pretty okay sense of the Marvel 616 in general and uh... I stalk Tony Stark so I know pretty much everything about him. So, there ya go...

^__________^

Can beta an intro for me really quick?

sure just e-mail it to me :D

Sent! Thanks.

I've got an English degree and have four years of undergraduate creative-writing workshops behind me (so, an extensive ammount of time marking up other people's writing), and about half-to-two-thirds of a master degree in American history (I specialized in the 19th century America South, but I also know a decent amount about WWII, for Steve backstory fics). I also have an extensive knowledge of Iron Man and Avengers canon, and a decent knowledge of Captain America canon, though I still have some gaps in my reading of 70s & 80s Steve canon (I like volume 3 and Tales of Suspense better, so I read them first).

I currently live in NYC, though that's a recent development, and so can provide some amount of location beta-ing.

I'll beta anything except Ultimates fic or any fic wherein Steve is dead (because I don't/won't read either of those, and you have to read something to beta it), but I can't promise a swift response.

Forgot to add - decent though not extensive knowledge of Norse mythology, some amount of military knowledge via growing up by a Navy base and having family members in various branches of the armed services.

You don't have an e-mail address or instant message service listed.

I don't? Oh. *headdesks* It's elowry@umd.edu.

Well, my qualifications on the lit side aren't necessarily impressive, but I always got an A in English and Composition classes, I'm awfully good with spelling and vocab, and I'm good with grammar. :D

On the more interesting side, I'm an Aerospace Engineer. Which means I have a background in Physics, Chemistry, Math (You don't want to know how much math. It still hurts to think about some of the classes I took...), Computer Programming, lots of random computer stuff, and, go figure, Engineering Design. I'd also point out that this career has made me uniquely qualified for dealing with ugly, hard to untangle and re-write sentences, as not a one of my coworkers is even remotely competent with the English language.

I'll read ... really anything. Comics and fic-wise. And if it's something I don't know, I'll find out. :) Turnaround would probably be on the scale of 24 hours, obviously pending length of fic.

Hi! I'd love to beta! Umm. I'm a lawyer in RL so if anyone needs any legal stuff checked I can do that [it'd be hilarious]. I've edited for many a magazine. I speak french/italian/spanish and I write latin . . . I mean who speaks it these days??? I have a ton of knowledge of ancient myths specifically greek/norse/asian/american [north and south american]. Let's see what else, ah, english major = grammar nazi. I can techno/science babble with the best of 'em. But most importantly I'm a die hard Cap/Tony fangirl :)

wait there is more --- I live in NYC and have experience working for a government agency and dealing with the military in a "let's plan this together" kinda way if anyone needs help w/that.

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I'll beta

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I've got well grammer.

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The joy of Marvel pseudo-science

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Is there any way I could contact you?

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