the deep moans round with many voices

I finished my Ladystuck fic last night and got it posted with six minutes to spare! Victory is mine! (...And then I edited it extensively a couple hours thereafter, where 'edited' is defined as 'added another thousand words,' since the original version had an abrupt cut-off as opposed to a proper ending. *sigh*)

The stories, however, do not go live until New Year's, and having written this in such a rush, I am somewhat doubtful of how well it hangs together. So.

I come to the internet with my (metaphorical) hat in hand to ask if anyone is willing to beta-read between 2,000 and 5,000 words of Homestuck fanfiction, centered on some of the many awesome female characters in the comic. Knowledge of canon would be appreciated, since canon is fiddly and complicated in the extreme and I want to be sure I'm not actively contradicting anything we've seen or been told, but even a basic check for general story flow and mechanical issues would be helpful!

Unlike a lot of my fanfiction, this story is... um... less than accessible if you are unfamiliar with canon, due to extensive discussion of esoteric aspects of canon, but I think I can summarize any necessary background information in a paragraph or less. Also the emotional throughline should be clear without any real need for context. (In fact, if the emotional throughline isn't clear, I screwed up and need to fix it, so any comments on that aspect would be extremely welcome.)

If you are willing and able to look over the fic, please tell me so I can send it to you. (And if not, well, my quirks and flaws will just be a bit less curtained. Which is not exactly a new experience for me. *wry*)

Joy and happiness!

My recipient provided five prompts, of which three would be fairly easy to write, the fourth would be trickier but still doable, and the fifth is... frankly not something I'd ever thought about, but which is now giving me all kinds of ideas. Not a single one is a thing I would never and/or could never write. So yay for that!

Now I am off to stalk the Dear Ladystuck letters spreadsheet in search of more information. *steeples fingers, plots evilly*

So I signed up, and even got in on the first round despite the participation cap. Yay! (Ladystuck was popular enough last year that, in recognition of their own time and energy limits, the mods have capped participation at 300 this year. The first signup window -- which just closed -- was for 100 people. The second will open on Sunday and run until the cap is reached.)

This was probably an unwise life choice, but I don't care. I made prompts for some stories that I want to read very badly, and have offered a bunch of stuff that may hit me exactly in my writing comfort zone, or may stretch me in interesting ways. Both of which are fine outcomes!

So yeah, assignments go out on Oct. 25th, and between this and Yuletide I guess I will have my fandom marching orders through the end of the year. :-)