Hello? I Need Help...

It's been two whole ass years since this dropped.

I'm still in awe at how many people found this vid and continue to find it to this day.

So glad I could convince so many of you to either watch Clone High or to warm up to the odd pairing of Joan and JFK.

It's been an absolute treat seeing all your comments, and all the fan works that came out of this. Super fucking cool. Y'all are neat <33 Thanks for sticking with me through this painful painful wait for season 2!! :')

FUNGUARY IS STILL HAPPENING YALL! The drawing event where I invite you all to draw mushrooms with me every day during February🍄

I have a solution to the problem (a beta reader) but that brings another problem with it; I am extremely shy and socially awkward and don't know how to find someone, who is familiar enough with the language, to correct me if something isn't as it should be.

So what I ask is, how do I approach someone with a request like that? Do I even approach someone with something like that or is it socially not acceptable? And if I do how do I phrase it?

I really need help with these questions (as pathetic as it might sound) because I do not trust myself or have the confidence to post something that isn't "up" for posting because the phrasings is wired or my programs didn't find a word that doesn't belong where it is because it is written right but it doesn't mean what it should be (thing, think etc.)

Thanks in advance for you help! And I am sorry if I don't make to much sense, like I said stuff like asking or talking to others is very nerve wracking for me ^^;

*hugs* I'm glad you got the courage to reach out for help, anon!

First of all, let me reassure you that everyone has typos that don't get picked up as typos. Read any post I've put out there and you've got decent odds that I've used a wrong word or spelled something wrong somewhere. I fix them when I notice them, but I don't always notice them. People still seem to reblog or respond to them anyway?

As for the beta question, there are a few things you can do.

Put out a tumblr post asking for a beta

Post on r/AO3 or r/Fanfiction if you have a reddit account

Join a fandom discord server - a lot of those have channels for authors looking for feedback or beta help

Join a writer's community - it doesn't have to be fandom related. You could still get help on your writing from someone who isn't conversant in your preferred canon.

Use the FanFiction.net beta service

When I wrote this I was at a big low point, so low that I deleted most of my social media/works (German and English), sadly.

Well, shortly after it came to light that my problem wasn't nesserealy the lack of social skills (though they are still abysmal) but also the lack of enjoyment/satisfaction that I had with everything I worked on, in the moment I worte this.

I took a, long, looooong brake from social media and creative writing/creating in general. Self discovery, improvement in my language skills, and all that.

I am at a point where I have reworked/outlined some of the WIPs I have deleted. Not posted, not even at the stage where I can honestly say they will ever see the light of day ever again, but they exist in a small file on my PC if I ever should feel the need to revisit. Creative hit hard after that and I am currently working on... much. (Maybe even to much, but I can be creative with a friend now so that's grate!)

I still don't have a beta--as what I wrote here might have been an indication--and I still didn't look through the comments (that I have seen this ask is a pretty big wonder as it is), though I will after I have posted this.

So, what is the conclusion in all of this? Thank you very much for the advice and everybody who commented with more advice and or the offer to beta read for me. Even though I have wrongly evaluated my problem the advice is still much aprishiaded!

Oh and, if you are at a point where you are afraid to write, it might not be the first explanation you latched onto in order to feel better. Breath, reevaluate, maybe take a brake, come back or don't, it's up to you and sometimes letting go what makes you unhappy is a better than clinging on it.

One whole minute of a deaf Kitty getting excited that her owner is home 

I did a thing… I’ve broken every Snape fan art down to its bare essentials!

PS; No shade though… just nose.