Looking for betas!

[quinara]

I did another sb_fag_ends ficlet - Half-Loop Topstitch, set almost immediately post Sleeper. It's a little bit sad. :(

But, in news of more serious fic, I'm hoping to find some lovely people who could help me get the next three books of my Spikeid (IV-VI) ready for public consumption. Anyone who likes/understands poetry/scansion, I would really like to ask you for help, especially if you've read the Aeneid as well (or any epic really). It's a bit of a tall order: each book is around 4000 words and they're all in iambic pentameter, but I'm really hoping to get opinions on the three as a sequence and then post them quite soon after one another (not least because IV is heavily OC-focussed). So anyone who has a reasonable amount of time on their hands and would like to fill it with slightly awkward pentameter, um, hi! Do you fancy critting something?

(And if you have no idea what I'm talking about, because it's been a long time since I posted about this, I've got the first three books up, starting from here. ;) )

Comments

[evilawyer]

I have absolutely no ability to help you with your work, but...

Loved the ficlet! Poor Buffy, so inept at the sensitive helping but willing in S7 to try. Great capture of that element of her character.

[fulselden]

Hi! UM OMG, as I was just saying on lj, I AM SO HAPPY THE SPIKEID EVEN EXISTS. Plus it is awesome! That helps!

And, well, I think you got a pretty thorough run-down of my (LOL MEAGRE) qualifications wrt epic the other day at my DW (though I'm a bit better on Milton than Virgil!). Plus ... I am (or SHOULD BE) pretty horribly busy atm, and for sure over this coming week, so I couldn't promise 100% reliability.

Oh, and while my love for Buffy is deep, I haven't watched any for a good few months, and I know nothing of the fandom (or, um, indeed of the precise mechanics of beta-ing...), so, yeah.

But nevertheless! Reading through three books of Aeneid!Buffy sounds like good times to me (cave scene?!), and while I have a shamefully tin ear I know the basics. So if that sounds useful, let me know!