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Looking for a Babylon 5 Beta Reader
Dec. 8th, 2014 07:13 pmA friend of mine is looking for a beta-reader for a fanwork involving Babylon 5--long story short, had one but life happens, so needs another. Rather than me try to describe it, here it is in their own words, and with their contact info at the bottom:
Basics:
1. Pen name: Pallasite
2. Fandom: Babylon 5 (not AU)
3. Rating of the story: PG-13 (some harsh language, mild sexuality in
some of the sub-fics, probably rated R for violence for some of the
sub-fics, some triggering topics may be covered). Gen, mostly but not
entirely OC.
4. Spoilers/Time Line: Late 2220s through 2281.
5. Pairing: None.
6. Beta Type: See project description below.
7. Harshness (of feedback): If you're interested in working on this
project, email me to discuss this directly.
8. Knowledge of canon preferred by not required. This project is
intended to stand alone, and to be equally readable by those familiar
with canon as by those entirely new to it.
Looking for help with Babylon 5 Fan Project
The following is a request for help with a fan work. I am not
financially benefiting from this project in any way. The work is mostly
original character (OC), and is transformative: it is a response to
canon, rather than a substitution for canon.
Large portions of this project have already been written and edited, but
there still remains work to be done, and so I am reaching out to the fan
community in hope of finding a kindred spirit to work on this with me,
to bring this work to completion.
In Book 3 of the Psi Corps Trilogy (Final Reckoning), Bester reflects,
as he thinks about what book he might write, "It wasn't his story he
wanted to tell, but the story of his people. Of all his people, even
those who had betrayed him, or worse, their own kind."
My project is, in essence, that book, though it comes about in a
somewhat different way. In the aftermath of the Telepath War (known in
the community as the Crisis), the main character (herself a telepath) is
collecting stories from other telepaths, chronicling through their
varied personal narratives the collective history of her people. Her
work aims to preserve these stories for future generations of telepaths,
who don't (directly) remember life before the war, so they can find
answers to the questions they will ask themselves one day when they grow
up: *Who are we? Who were we? And what happened to us?*
This is a project that aims to fundamentally reframe and refocus canon:
not to parrot the same old normal-centered narratives "about" telepaths
(e.g. as victims needing to be rescued by normals), but to present
telepaths' narratives of their own lives, especially the perspective of
telepaths in Psi Corps (who are the vast majority). The project centers
this marginalized, insular and culturally distinct (though itself quite
heterogeneous) telepath community -- a community both mysterious and
frightening to normals -- taking the reader "behind the gloves" and
challenging, and at times subverting, the limited presentation of
telepath lives as presented in canon.
This project covers many of the same events as canon, through from a
different point of view. It is METICULOUSLY canon-consistent -- some
individual fics have well over one hundred footnotes to canon.
The truths of a people, however, live in the stories they tell, not in
"facts" alone. Facts only tell part of the story.
I am looking for people who can beta read my work and help with the
project in a variety of ways. (I am an experienced writer, so I
don't need much help with spelling/punctuation/grammar -- I am
looking for help ensuring that different fics work together
smoothly, that my writing is clear and well-paced, etc.) When the
work is completed, I will give credit and HUGE THANKS to everyone
who has helped out! I may also be able to help you with your own
work in some capacity, in exchange.
The completed project will be posted, in serial, to Archive of Our Own.
There is no "deadline": my goal is quality, not speed. This project is
already over two and a half years in the making, and will continue until
it is completed.
If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them. Please also
feel free to pass this along to anyone you may know who may be
interested in my work, or in helping out.
Thank you!
Pallasite
Contact info: pallasite @ mymacmail.com
Basics:
1. Pen name: Pallasite
2. Fandom: Babylon 5 (not AU)
3. Rating of the story: PG-13 (some harsh language, mild sexuality in
some of the sub-fics, probably rated R for violence for some of the
sub-fics, some triggering topics may be covered). Gen, mostly but not
entirely OC.
4. Spoilers/Time Line: Late 2220s through 2281.
5. Pairing: None.
6. Beta Type: See project description below.
7. Harshness (of feedback): If you're interested in working on this
project, email me to discuss this directly.
8. Knowledge of canon preferred by not required. This project is
intended to stand alone, and to be equally readable by those familiar
with canon as by those entirely new to it.
Looking for help with Babylon 5 Fan Project
The following is a request for help with a fan work. I am not
financially benefiting from this project in any way. The work is mostly
original character (OC), and is transformative: it is a response to
canon, rather than a substitution for canon.
Large portions of this project have already been written and edited, but
there still remains work to be done, and so I am reaching out to the fan
community in hope of finding a kindred spirit to work on this with me,
to bring this work to completion.
In Book 3 of the Psi Corps Trilogy (Final Reckoning), Bester reflects,
as he thinks about what book he might write, "It wasn't his story he
wanted to tell, but the story of his people. Of all his people, even
those who had betrayed him, or worse, their own kind."
My project is, in essence, that book, though it comes about in a
somewhat different way. In the aftermath of the Telepath War (known in
the community as the Crisis), the main character (herself a telepath) is
collecting stories from other telepaths, chronicling through their
varied personal narratives the collective history of her people. Her
work aims to preserve these stories for future generations of telepaths,
who don't (directly) remember life before the war, so they can find
answers to the questions they will ask themselves one day when they grow
up: *Who are we? Who were we? And what happened to us?*
This is a project that aims to fundamentally reframe and refocus canon:
not to parrot the same old normal-centered narratives "about" telepaths
(e.g. as victims needing to be rescued by normals), but to present
telepaths' narratives of their own lives, especially the perspective of
telepaths in Psi Corps (who are the vast majority). The project centers
this marginalized, insular and culturally distinct (though itself quite
heterogeneous) telepath community -- a community both mysterious and
frightening to normals -- taking the reader "behind the gloves" and
challenging, and at times subverting, the limited presentation of
telepath lives as presented in canon.
This project covers many of the same events as canon, through from a
different point of view. It is METICULOUSLY canon-consistent -- some
individual fics have well over one hundred footnotes to canon.
The truths of a people, however, live in the stories they tell, not in
"facts" alone. Facts only tell part of the story.
I am looking for people who can beta read my work and help with the
project in a variety of ways. (I am an experienced writer, so I
don't need much help with spelling/punctuation/grammar -- I am
looking for help ensuring that different fics work together
smoothly, that my writing is clear and well-paced, etc.) When the
work is completed, I will give credit and HUGE THANKS to everyone
who has helped out! I may also be able to help you with your own
work in some capacity, in exchange.
The completed project will be posted, in serial, to Archive of Our Own.
There is no "deadline": my goal is quality, not speed. This project is
already over two and a half years in the making, and will continue until
it is completed.
If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them. Please also
feel free to pass this along to anyone you may know who may be
interested in my work, or in helping out.
Thank you!
Pallasite
Contact info: pallasite @ mymacmail.com
