Beta & Cheerleader Call

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Do you want to help and participate more by being a beta or cheerleader? Yays, we'd love to have you!
Please post a comment with the following information:

I will cheerlead!
1. Fic, art, vid, podfic?
2. Any characters or genres about which you're particularly enthusiastic.
3. Things outside your comfort zone (triggers, squicks).
4. How you can be reached directly off-comm so seekrit things stay seekrit.

I can volunteer to beta!
1. Fic, art, vid, podfic?
2. Areas of expertise (characters, pairings, areas of special knowledge: i.e., Northern Canada, Chicago, RCMP, wolves, particular kinks, et cetera).
3. The kinds of betas you can do: FIC: plot beta, spelling and grammar, story edit, line edit; ART: proportion/scale/color beta; VID: clip or throughline beta; PODFIC: pronunciation, pacing beta.
4. Things outside your comfort zone (triggers, squicks).
5. How you can be reached directly off-comm so seekrit things stay seekrit.

For participants:

We want you to have all the support you need! Please make use of cheerleaders and betas to help keep your creative process on track and make sure your gift is the best it can be. If you find you need a beta with specialized knowledge and none of the volunteers in the comments below are a good fit, please email the mods and we'll post a SEEKRIT beta request on your behalf.

Remember: DON'T ASK YOUR RECIPIENT TO BE YOUR BETA OR CHEERLEADER! Keep seekrit things seekrit!

If you are a participant whose AO3 username is different from your DW username, please clarify who you are in your comment so no one mistakenly asks you to cheerlead or beta for your own gift!

Any questions? Email the mods at dsss.admin(at)gmail(dot)com.

All About Betas

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It looks like all of this year’s participants are fen already familiar with the beta process, but if you would like a review of that, see verushka70’s excellent “all about betas” post from last year’s dSSSS. All About Betas.

(Note that links in that post may have been updated in 2021 posts.)