#beta requests

What are treats?

A treat is an optional work created for the collection. People who are not signed up for the exchange are welcome to create treats, as are participants.

Treats do not need to meet the same criteria as assignments. For example, the minimum word count for fic assignments is 1,000 words, but a treat can be fewer than 1,000 words. However, treats must still respect the recipient’s DNWs (Do Not Wants) and the mods will be checking each and every fanwork submitted to ensure that recipients’ DNWs are respected.

How do I post a treat?

While signed in on Ao3, go to Post->New Work.

From there, you can fill out the information as follows for your work down to this category: Post to Collections / Challenges? When you hit that, go ahead and type in the following: exchange_of_interest_2021.

If you are creating for a specific person’s prompts, be sure to gift them the work!

What are pinch hits?

Pinch hits are any assignments that are not able to be matched by the mods during the initial matching phase, or any assignments where the creator is unable to finish before the deadline.

For all pinch hits, the mods are using a Google Group. When a pinch hit becomes available, the mods will send an email to the group with the request details. To claim the pinch hit, reply to the mod email ([email protected]) with your Ao3 username. Once it has been claimed, we will send out another email to update its status.

Unless we are past the deadline, pinch hits will be due at the same time as assignments.

How can I get the services of a beta?

We have a Google Group for people to post requests for assistance, as well as for those interested in offering their services.

If you are seeking a beta, please provide the following information:

Relationship category (F/F, Het, M/M, Multi, Other, Gen)

Rating (use the Ao3 system)

Any applicable warnings (Non-con, etc)

What you are looking for in a beta

What medium you are working in (Fic, Art, Remix, Podfic, Fanvid)

For Fic/Remix: Please provide a word count of your draft.

Please double check that your recipient is not the person offering to be your beta! If you are not sure, please ask the mods and we will check for you!

If you would like to offer your beta services, please provide the following information:

Relationship categories you prefer (F/F, Het, M/M, Multi, Other, Gen)

Ratings you will read (use the Ao3 system)

Any Squicks/triggers/Do Not Wants

Any beta-ing strengths you possess

What medium you are able to assist with (Fic, Art, Remix, Podfic, Fanvid)

Yo yo yo, 

As we go into 2020 I’m going to put out an open offer that I’m a pretty good person to come to with all your ass class fic questions and queries, beta requests, anything. 

I:

Have almost creepy encyclopedic knowledge on the facts of ass class. If there’s something I don’t know, I also own the original language manga and side books and can easily look it up 

Speak Japanese (not 100% fluently yet but we’re getting there, it’s my literal university degree) 

Live in Tokyo, have easy access to the actual town Kunugigaoka is based from, a good cultural understanding, and way too many historical references 

Have university level creative writing classes under my belt, but just generally have a good understanding of grammar, and how well written stories work

Have only 10 hours of class a week, four days completely off, and way too much time on my hands

Can be pretty unbiased when it comes to ships/characters 

But mostly the facts part. Without coming across as untitled, it does break my immersion a little when I see something that’s inaccurate to the story/Japan itself. Of course some writers don’t care about this, and that’s valid, but hey in case you do... 

But anyway, open offer. Don’t hesitate to message me with a question even if we’ve never spoken before. 

People often comment on my own writing, so I guess next year I want to try and direct some of that positive energy into helping others.

You’re all doing great! Thanks to everyone who has checked in already and don’t forget to do it by the end of the day if you haven’t!

Beta Requests (and Sign-ups!) are open until January 13th, 8:08am KST

The instructions for requesting a Beta will be sent by email, along with the Beta Archive

Beta Request Form