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Oct. 12th, 2016 02:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckWell, no nap. They started breaking up sidewalk in front of the driveway next door right as I was ready to lie down. It’s quiet now, but I’ve also got less than an hour before there will be kids in the house.
The butter finally softened, so the cake’s in the oven. I put away the laundry I washed yesterday, and the dishwasher is running. I still very much want a nap.
I spent a while going through the list of fandoms actually requested for Yuletide to see which ones I might be able to beta. I’m not a great beta reader, but I’ve got time. I found 97 fandoms that were requested, that I have ready access to and know well, and feel confident I could manage a canon beta for. I just sort of feel like that might be too many to offer. I have time, but I don’t have time to beta more than a story a day (depending on length). I eliminated the eight fandoms that I’d consider five minute fandoms (songs and videos). I think I might eliminate things that are widely known and requested. That is, will anyone actually have trouble finding a beta reader for, say, The Librarians? Or Bujold’s Vorkosigan series?
86 still seems like too many, but I really can’t guess which fandoms people would have trouble finding beta readers for. There are eight TV and anime fandoms and four fandoms that didn’t fit neatly into other categories. Everything else is book and movie fandoms.
The butter finally softened, so the cake’s in the oven. I put away the laundry I washed yesterday, and the dishwasher is running. I still very much want a nap.
I spent a while going through the list of fandoms actually requested for Yuletide to see which ones I might be able to beta. I’m not a great beta reader, but I’ve got time. I found 97 fandoms that were requested, that I have ready access to and know well, and feel confident I could manage a canon beta for. I just sort of feel like that might be too many to offer. I have time, but I don’t have time to beta more than a story a day (depending on length). I eliminated the eight fandoms that I’d consider five minute fandoms (songs and videos). I think I might eliminate things that are widely known and requested. That is, will anyone actually have trouble finding a beta reader for, say, The Librarians? Or Bujold’s Vorkosigan series?
86 still seems like too many, but I really can’t guess which fandoms people would have trouble finding beta readers for. There are eight TV and anime fandoms and four fandoms that didn’t fit neatly into other categories. Everything else is book and movie fandoms.
