Hello, doers of darkness -- with assignments sent out, many of us are thinking about whom we can contact to beta our fanwork submission (in addition to general feels about our assignment).

If you can offer beta services for any of the nominated fandoms or cultures, ethnicities, languages, religions or other identities with which these sources deal, please leave a comment with the following information:

AO3 username: if any.
Contact information: e-mail address, Dreamwidth/LiveJournal/etc. account, IM account and/or other kind of communication tools.
Type of fanworks you can beta: artworks, graphics, mixes, podfics, stories and/or vids.
Relevant information: fandoms, cultures, ethnicities, languages, religions or other identities for which you can beta and any other information you think may be relevant, e.g. content you can't beta or for which would like to be warned.

If you have specific needs, feel free to comment anonymously with your beta request and, hopefully, a beta will reply to your comment with their contact information. We are also happy to act as a go-between if you email us your request to darkadmn AT gmail DOT com.

We also maintain Chromatic Beta, a general mailing list centering around chromatic sources where you can offer or request beta services for a particular fandom or culture, ethnicity, language, religion or other identity, which you can utilize and of which you can find more information at our announcement of the mailing list. In addition, chromatic_podfic maintains their own pronunciation/language beta list, and our past beta resource posts are available for additional reference.

( List of Kaleidoscope 2012 Beta Offers )

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Hello doers of darkness! We're excited to announce Chromatic Beta, a mailing list centering around chromatic sources where you can offer or request beta services for a particular fandom or culture, ethnicity, language, religion or other identity. Our goal is to promote responsible portrayal of chromatic characters among others in fanworks.

We use the term "chromatic" as an umbrella definition for "person of color", "non-white", "multiracial", "indigenous", "sourcelander", "hyphenate", "diasporian", etc.; while we acknowledge that it has shortcomings. Similarly, we accept that there is a certain flattening in our "white/Western/other" terminology.

The mailing list is open to anyone who is looking for a beta or interested in offering beta services. You can join the list here. ( To request a specific beta service... )

For Authors:
This post is where you can request for a beta with familiarity with a specific culture, race or ethnicity. Please remember that no beta, no matter how informed in their area of expertise, speaks for the entire range of people with that identity. They can help you spot some problems in your story, but their opinion of it does not equate to how everyone else should react to it. In addition, please do not dump the entire burden of accuracy on your beta; most people are far more willing to assist you when you can prove you have been proactive with your own research and self-education.

You can also look over the beta resource list generated for yuletide, although we cannot promise that the people who volunteered then might still be available or willing.

If you are unsure of what you need, it might help to summarise the context of your story and what you are looking for help with, along with a way that a beta can contact you (email, private message etc).

For Betas:
Please consider leaving a comment with a little information about your background, identity or area of study as you feel it might pertain to the someone's need of your input, along with the preferred way you would like an author to get in touch with you (email, private message, etc).

If anyone has beta requests or offers that they would prefer to keep quiet, you can contact the mods for go-between assistance by emailing us at darkadmn AT gmail DOT com.