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generally focus on the movie productions and how they affected the
relationships and bonds between the actors. As the Lord of the Rings actors
had extremely well-functioning interpersonal relationships throughout the
duration of the filming, slashers invariably find much material and subtext for
RPS – and whether this subtext is imagined or not, is, after all, a very
subjective matter.
There are several ways in which the specific authors found out that
Mel was willing to beta fanfic: when she joined several lists in the summer,
and had nothing else to do for a couple of months, Mel emailed the list that
she would beta. Sometimes people will send out a request for a beta-reader to
the lists, sometimes word-of-mouth works as well, such as in Mel’s case,
where one girl she used to beta for told another girl, who then approached her
about beta-ing. Mel is also on a Spander (Spike/Xander in BtVS) mailing list,
where they have a list of people willing to beta.
Talking about this process brought up the infamous Camy, of whom I
had heard several times already, when Mel vented on Instant Messenger to
me. Apparently a young LOTRIPS writer Camy’s descriptions were so offbase,
Mel had to send her to Minotaur’s Slash Guide to read up on the
mechanics of sexual intercourse between two men. Minotaur’s website was
created precisely for the purpose of answering questions about male
homosexual intercourse slash and yaoi writers may have.
I have NO IDEA how I ended up beta-ing with Camy […]
[She wrote a fic] with very wrong pairings, and she tried to
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