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make it have a plot, but it didn’t, and she tried to write sex,
but she’s 15 and a highschooler. At some point or other I
had to tell her about anal sex. She used shampoo as lube
and Vaseline together with a condom. […]
Mel had remarked to me on several occasions on Camy’s pairings, which she
describes as unexplained and arbitrary. At our last session she described the
last fanfic she had beta-ed for Camy up to the point of our conversation:
Unfinished, and it started out with Dom/Elijah [Dominic
Monaghan and Elijah Wood], and Billy/Orly [Billy Boyd
and Orlando Bloom] and then went all over the place in
terms of pairings, because apparently Dom/Elijah made this
agreement that they could be with other people as long as
they didn’t come. When I sent it back to her it was the end
of August, before I came back to school, so I don’t know
where we are right now. She has lots of problems with verb
agreements, and very, very short sentences consisting of
five words…but she’s a high school student.
Though she really only betas in her own fandoms, Mel will accept all kinds of
submissions when it comes to beta-ing, without any restrictions on the kinds
of pairings authors explore. However, when reading for herself, she will read
only specific pairings or is subscribed to Mailing Lists - or MLs - for specific
pairings and themes. She also does not demand a specific level of quality of
the people she betas for her. Consequently, she is often astonished at and
disbelieving of the things she encounters, some of which she sees as plainly
“wrong!” Her enflamed outcry was nearly comical, and I asked her to
elaborate:
SY: So what do you see as “wrong stuff”?
Mel: Comma splices, oh my god! And then there are the
fun split infinitives…Harry/Voldemort [the unlikely
surprise-pairing in a fic she beta-ed]….people’s versions of
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