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Ratings I'll beta: •PG  •PG-13  •R  •NC-17  •Adult Only
I can help with: •American English  •Grammar  •Plot Suggestions  •Punctuation 
Turnaround for an average length chapter: 4-7 days
Beta experience: New to beta experience but willing to help anyone out if anyone needs it. 
Story types/topics I will not beta: Angst, or Buffy hate. Or them not being together. Or no hea. 
Additional Comments: I need a beta as well. And will do the best I can to be a good beta to others. 
Ratings I'll beta: •PG  •PG-13  •R  •NC-17 
I can help with: •American English  •British English  •Grammar  •Plot Suggestions 
Turnaround for an average length chapter: 1-2 weeks
Beta experience: I’ve helped few people with editing some works. Nothing professional at all. Though I can help with some small betaing, but nothing special. I have no qualifications.
Story types/topics I will not beta:  I will not beta any fanfics that contain pregnancy, human!Spike, vampire!Buffy or rape. 
Additional Comments: By the way, English isn’t my first language, so sometimes I might be wrong, but I can speak fluently three languages and I am learning another two or three languages.
Ratings I'll beta: •G  •PG  •PG-13  •R  •NC-17 
I can help with: •American English  •British English  •Canon Elements  •Grammar  •Plot Suggestions  •Punctuation 
Turnaround for an average length chapter: 1-3 days
Beta experience: I'm a great cook... in theory. I've eaten a lot.
I've done some beta work in another fandom under  a different name, but mainly I read a lot. You can also take a look at my writing here, such as it is. I have a good eye for grammar as well as flow, and a fairly good knowledge of canon.
Story types/topics I will not beta:
Additional Comments:
Ratings I'll beta: •NC-17  •Adult Only
I can help with: •American English  •Canon Elements  •Plot Suggestions 
Turnaround for an average length chapter: 1-2 weeks
Beta experience: I don't have any beta experience 
Story types/topics I will not beta:
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Additional Comments:
Ratings I'll beta: •G  •PG  •PG-13  •R  •NC-17 
I can help with: •American English  •British English  •Canon Elements  •Plot Suggestions 
Turnaround for an average length chapter: 4-7 days
Beta experience: I have beta'd for fanfic for about 5 years and have experience helping fellow authors in a university creative writing degree program. 
Story types/topics I will not beta:
Additional Comments: BA in English - Creative Writing; experience editing both in the US and the UK. 
Ratings I'll beta: •G  •PG  •PG-13  •R  •NC-17  •Adult Only
I can help with: •American English  •Canon Elements  •Plot Suggestions 
Turnaround for an average length chapter: 4-7 days
Beta experience: I have beta experience for different fandoms and original content for the past 3 years. Would love to help a Spuffy author! 
Story types/topics I will not beta: - Claim fics need a great reason behind the claim. Not for the sole reason of just getting them together, because it’s too much of an easy cop-out. 
-Buffy and Spike raising a child. I don’t have much children experience. 
That’s it. 
Additional Comments: I was a writing tutor for 4 years. Granted it wasn’t just for grammar, but I can help with pacing, ideas, and characterization.
Ratings I'll beta: •G  •PG  •PG-13  •R  •NC-17 
I can help with: •American English  •Canon Elements  •Grammar  •Plot Suggestions  •Punctuation 
Turnaround for an average length chapter: 1-3 days
Beta experience: None so far!
Story types/topics I will not beta: I will basically beta anything that does not include drawn out scenes of rape, incest, underage sex, etc--you get the gist. If these things are mentioned briefly and necessary for the plot, that's ok. Happy to do all kinds of AUs, especially historical!

I also have not read the comics and haven't yet seen the last few seasons of Angel, so while I'm still happy to beta things that include these, I won't be much help with accuracy to canon there.
Additional Comments: I have experience copy-editing when I was in high school and college. I wasn't an English major, but I was in a writing-heavy discipline. I am an especially good option for historical AUs as I have a lot of random history knowledge and I love researching! I'm applying to grad school for fashion history so I can definitely make sure you get the outfits right :)
Ratings I'll beta: •G  •PG  •PG-13 
I can help with: •British English  •Canon Elements  •Plot Suggestions 
Turnaround for an average length chapter: 1-3 days
Beta experience: I haven't beta'd before but I want to start. 
Story types/topics I will not beta: All human, character bashing (especially Buffy) and anything pornographic.
Additional Comments:
Ratings I'll beta: •PG-13  •R  •NC-17 
I can help with: •American English  •Canon Elements  •Plot Suggestions  •Punctuation 
Turnaround for an average length chapter: 4-7 days
Beta experience: No beta experience. 
Story types/topics I will not beta: I really like cannon compliant stories, or at least ones that are cannon compliant up until the fan fic takes place. 
Additional Comments: I went to film school so I had to take classes on plot development! 
Ratings I'll beta: •G  •PG  •PG-13  •R  •NC-17  •Adult Only
I can help with: •American English  •Canon Elements  •Grammar  •Plot Suggestions  •Punctuation 
Turnaround for an average length chapter: 1-3 days
Beta experience: Hi! I am currently beta'ing for both lex_hex and violettathepiratequeen, but as we enter summer, I'm always eager to work with some new writers! I served as a literary journal editor for 3 years and currently work as a writing counselor for a University Admissions Department. I am an experienced writer with an obsessive knowledge of BTVS/ATS canon!
Story types/topics I will not beta:
Additional Comments: I have a degree in music, so if you're working on any songfics or music-inspired works, I'm your girl!
I have conversational French skills, and some Hebrew/Yiddish knowledge, if those are things you need.
I also have an uncanny ability to recall specific lines, scenes, and details from both Buffy and Angel (trust me, ask Lizzy lex_hex, it's kinda freaky!). If you're working out plot points, or want to emphasize foreshadowing with dialogue, I won't let you down.
I'm a 22-year old college grad starting a MA in Gender Studies, so I'm "hip with the times," as they say. American pop culture/music/media references are kinda my thing.
I prefer to use Google Docs, and I use both the Comment and Suggestion features in that software. I can also edit with Word docs, whatever works best for you!