Beta wanted
Jan. 14th, 2018 04:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI'm in need of a beta reader for a 3200 word fic set in the same world as The Very Self of the Storm.
It's DC comics adjacent with a large helping of early Smallville in the backstory, Clark/Lex, post-apocalyptic. I'm pretty sure that it doesn't need a lot of detailed knowledge of any particular bit of the DC related fandoms. Mostly because I don't have that detailed knowledge myself because that network is vast and convoluted and contradictory.
My first concern is the overwhelmingly large heaps of handwavium involved in the worldbuilding. This is set up for a time travel fix-it that I am not going to write. (Because saying I won't always works, right?) The handwavium is mostly there to explain why they haven't discussed it as a possibility sooner.
I suspect, too, that there are bits where I need more description because that's a perpetual problem for me. I'm also not sure that I've got the balance of things between the two characters right yet.
It's Lex alone in the Fortress of Solitude and talking to the Jor-El based AI there. I'm not sure that AI is plausible as any version of Jor-El, but 'any version of Jor-El' takes in such a broad swathe of characterization that I figure I can assume some version of him would be like that.
My main content warning is that Lex consistently refers to the AI as 'it' in his thoughts. Within the story, it's not clear how the AI might identify, but I'm pretty sure that this is Lex dehumanizing the AI to make himself feel better. I'm not sure that Lex actually knows (or has ever asked) what pronouns the AI would prefer.
It's DC comics adjacent with a large helping of early Smallville in the backstory, Clark/Lex, post-apocalyptic. I'm pretty sure that it doesn't need a lot of detailed knowledge of any particular bit of the DC related fandoms. Mostly because I don't have that detailed knowledge myself because that network is vast and convoluted and contradictory.
My first concern is the overwhelmingly large heaps of handwavium involved in the worldbuilding. This is set up for a time travel fix-it that I am not going to write. (Because saying I won't always works, right?) The handwavium is mostly there to explain why they haven't discussed it as a possibility sooner.
I suspect, too, that there are bits where I need more description because that's a perpetual problem for me. I'm also not sure that I've got the balance of things between the two characters right yet.
It's Lex alone in the Fortress of Solitude and talking to the Jor-El based AI there. I'm not sure that AI is plausible as any version of Jor-El, but 'any version of Jor-El' takes in such a broad swathe of characterization that I figure I can assume some version of him would be like that.
My main content warning is that Lex consistently refers to the AI as 'it' in his thoughts. Within the story, it's not clear how the AI might identify, but I'm pretty sure that this is Lex dehumanizing the AI to make himself feel better. I'm not sure that Lex actually knows (or has ever asked) what pronouns the AI would prefer.
