I'm working on a paper that explores fanfiction writing, beta-ing, and reviewing for my Tutoring and Teaching of Writing class, and my professor said it'd be okay for me to ask  the internet community for primary-source material. *grin*

This post is for all the betas (past and present, any age or writing level). There are links to questions for ( Read more... )

1. Have you ever used a beta?

2. What importance do you place on beta-ing?

3. What do you look for from a beta?

4. Do you ask close friends or people you don’t know?

5. Do you find it more useful to have several betas or just one?

6. Do you have people you go to repeatedly?

7. If so do you ever want to try others?

8. Do you have different betas for ( Read more... )

This is just a bunch of graphics. Nothing new here. And some of these are personalized. I'll switch to the neutral ones later......

David Tennant


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“Claude?”

It was Bennet, glancing furtively around the roof in the darkness. Just another shade of black among many.

“I know you’re here. You always head for an unimpeded view of the horizon and this is the closest building with a fire escape.”

However true that may be, you’re still only bluffing. If you really knew you wouldn’t be ( Read more... )

Claude was vaguely surprised to find an all-too-familiar cracked ceiling before his eyes. He wouldn’t have put it past Bennet to leave him out there on the ground until he regained consciousness.

Ah-oh, ow, what a headache.

He sat up slowly, gasping when he tried to support himself on his left wrist. At least the bastard didn’t break it.
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"if a man were to become invisible he would steal left and right, he would enter every house, he would rape women and kill men and open up prisons. In fact he would become like a god among humankind" (from The Republic)

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Claude Raines’ invisible man had been a scientist who discovered invisibility, only to go insane and start ( Read more... )

I just finished watching Elizabeth. I'd seen a lot of it before, for my AP European History class a few years a go, but I had no idea who Eccleston was at the time so I didn't pay to much attention to Norfolk- although part of that might also have been that we didn't see a lot of scenes with him. Plus, it being school, we didn't watch... certain ( Read more... )

Because procrastination is a beautiful thing. I think I'm amazed that there's het on this at all.... and there was a time not so long ago when this would've been entirely books and anime stuff...

Six ships you like:

1. Claude/Bennet [Heroes]
2. Claude/Peter [Heroes]
3. Doctor(preferably 9th)/Rose [Doctor Who]
4. Jack/Ianto [Torchwood]
5. Tezuka/ ( Read more... )

Seriously. I do.

I went to get some ice cream with my roommate and her boyfriend ( they are so cute) and some friends (one of whom looks stunningly like young David Tennat, but we won't go into that), and we hung around at Cold Stone (most expensive domestic ice cream ever). And then we went to Hastings to get 'Idiocracy.'

I was thinking about this ( Read more... )