#beta signups

[invisobang]

Artist sign-ups are open!

Invisobang is a collaborative event for authors and artists run by @kinglazrus and @bibliophilea. Over the course of several months, authors write fanfics and artists create art for those fics. We have over 80 authors this year, so we could use a lot of artists!

Check the Invisobang Info Doc for rules and FAQs. If you have any questions not answered there or in the "answers" tag on the blog, send an ask!

After you fill out the sign-up form, a message will display the link to the Discord server. Joining the server is required. If this link doesn't work, you can send an ask to the blog and a mod will DM you a new invite.

ARTISTS SIGN UP HERE

✩ Artist sign-ups will close June 15th at 11:59 p.m. CDT. ✩ Your goal is to create a wonderful piece of art for one of our fics. ✩ Artists must be able to make visual art or music, although you can make alternative art if your author is interested. ✩ You cannot post or discuss your art outside the server until posting week.

BETAS SIGN UP HERE

✩ Beta sign-ups will close June 15th at 11:59 p.m. CDT. ✩ Your goal is to help our authors polish their fics. ✩ Betas do not get assigned to an author. Instead, you can reach out to an author or an author can reach out to you at any time. ✩ Betas are not subject to check-ins.

Author sign-ups are closed

[onepiecebigbang]

We're happy to announce that our signups are now open! You'll find the links below for each role, as well as the rules of the event. Be sure to check them out before applying!

🚢 First things first, the rules:

🌴 For writers, it's this way!

🌞For artists, it'll be here!

🍹 Betas get their very special section here!

👒 And finally, the space for pinch hitters is here!

If you have any questions about the project or the applications, we're available here, on twitter and on curious cat to help you. We can't wait for you to join the ship and have some fun! ⛵

@opfandombase thanks for any help ~

[authoralexharvey]

Question for those who beta read/have gotten beta readers...

[sonknuxadow]

people who got into the sonic rumble beta if they have werehog as a playable character you have to come show me immediately ok. if you are following me you are legally required to do this

[nightmareonpeachstreet]

I found out about Infinity Nikki 2 hours ago and I have already decided to dedicate my life to it

it's a dress up open world game. literally it is everything I have ever wanted from gaming. humanity has piqued with Infinikki

[supergirlmayhem]

Beta Reminder!

Over the past weeks, we have been interacting with the writers and artists of the Supergirl fandom, but we wanted to take this time to remind you all that we will be seeking betas for the May-Hem event too! Sign-ups will open at the same time and beta contact information will be compiled and distributed to writers so that they can contact their own beta. All participants may sign up for multiple roles if they wish, but you are certainly welcome to only sign up for just a beta/writer/artist role as well. Please reach out with any questions! We look forward to working with all of you!

-The SG May-Hem Team

[thinkingfunnywithrobb]

Robb's Newsletter

Hello all! I’m reworking my newsletter, and I believe this will give readers a better experience and allow me to trim the spam signups that boost costs. Do sign up to get progress reports on my writing, snippets of “legacy stuff,” photos, sneak-peeks of bits and pieces of current projects, and more. You can opt out any time you like, and I won’t be over-sharing or spamming. Do let me know what…

[lbsmith]

Hi all!

I decided to get early beta feedback during this round of edits and rewrites for my debut novel: “In Time For June”. This would be low pressure, with a couple chapters released every couple of weeks as I’m writing them.

I have a good amount of beta readers signed up but I'd like a couple more experienced beta readers who read a lot of fantasy, so if that's you I'd love to have you 🫶🏻

The novel is a fantasy story with a strong romance subplot - full synopsis(which is a WIP) in the signup form.

If you like: unique magic systems, strong women, non-binary rep, disability rep, fae/witches/shifters, magic college, uncovering hidden history and a mysterious evil lurking in the horizon, this is for you 🥰

The romance tropes include a love triangle, he falls first, “touch her and die”, very slow burn, and forbidden attraction.

In Time For June is a WIP, and has no release date at this time.

It is intended to be the first in a series, with a greater cosmic universe that has more stories to tell 😉

[44gamez]

‘Zenless Zone Zero’ New Beta Test Sign-Ups Now Live for Mobile and PC, New Gameplay Trailer Released – TouchArcade

Over the weekend, HoYoverse opened up sign-ups for the brand new Zenless Zone Zero beta titled the Amplifying Check. Zenless Zone Zero, is HoYoverse��s upcoming city fantasy motion RPG that's coming to iOS, Android, PS5, and PC later this 12 months. Along with a brand new beta, Zenless Zone Zero additionally has a brand new gameplay trailer showcasing lots of fight from the sport. This Amplifying Check beta shall be out there on PC and cell solely whereas the complete recreation will even hit PS5. The date for it and schedule for the beta shall be revealed sooner or later. In the event you’d like to join it, you are able to do so here. Watch the brand new Zenless Zone Zero Amplifying Check gameplay trailer beneath: This new Amplifying Check will enable the workforce at HoYoverse to proceed to work on the polish and optimize the gameplay. When it does launch, I assume there shall be a Zenless Zone Zero PS5 digital pre-order bundle like for Honkai Star Rail with some in-game gadgets or forex. It'll possible additionally make use of the PS5 DualSense controller haptics and adaptive triggers as Genshin Impression does. I’m wanting ahead to enjoying Zenless Zone Zero on iPhone 15 Professional, iPad Professional, and PS5 each time it arrives this 12 months. Take a look at extra concerning the recreation on the official web site here. I loved the second closed beta on iPhone 15 Professional fairly a bit, however don’t assume I’ll do this one given the sport is due this 12 months. What do you consider Zenless Zone Zero thus far and can you join the beta? Source link Read the full article

[invisobang]

Sign-ups are open!

Invisobang is a collaborative event for authors and artists run by @kinglazrus and @bibliophilea. Over the course of several months, authors write fanfics and artists create art for those fics!

Check the Invisobang info doc for rules and FAQs. If you have any questions not answered there or in the ‘answers’ tag on the blog, send an ask!

After you fill out the sign-up form, a message will display the link to the Discord server. Joining the server is required. If this link doesn't work, you can send an ask to the blog and a mod will DM you a new invite.

AUTHORS SIGN UP HERE

Author sign-ups close March 31st at 11:59 p.m. CST. Late sign-ups are permitted within reason.

Your goal is to write a fic that is 5000 words minimum (there is no maximum) over the next five months.

All material must be new for the bang.

You cannot post or discuss your story outside the server until posting week.

BETAS SIGN UP HERE

Beta sign-ups close Jun 15th at 11:59 p.m. CST.

Your goal is to help our authors polish their fics!

Betas do not get assigned to an author. Instead you can reach out to an author or an author can reach out to you at any time.

Betas are not subject to check-ins.

Artist sign-ups will open halfway through the event, on June 2nd.

[onepiecebigbang]

Artists and beta readers wanted!

Our applications close in 4 weeks! Want to work with amazing writers on One Piece stories? This is the place for you! Join our ship and meet the rest of the crew, to get ready for our wonderful trip ⛵

All the details are below the cut, and as always we're available for any questions you might have!

First things first, the rules, so you know everything there is to know about the event and the dates!

First for artists, you can head this way to register ~

For betas, it's here! Our writers can't wait to exchange with you about their stories ~

And if you also want to be a pinch hitter in case someone drops out, it's here!

We can't wait to see you all in the discord, and to have fun with you during this journey we'll be taking together ~

[anim-ttrpgs]

A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club: Triangle Ageny

We are gearing up to play Triangle Agency in the A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club! If you have ever wanted to check out Triangle Agency but haven't had the time or a group to do it with, join our book club! Signups are running from now until September 30th. Target date for the first session is around October 17th, 2024, but scheduling is super flexible, and also you don't have to buy the game to join, even though we encourage you to support the developers (we have made them an estimated $180 in sales already at the time of writing this)

If you want to support us and our mission to save the TTRPG hobby from total monopoly domination, you can join the book club through the link above even if you aren't signing up to play, you can support us on patreon, buy (or just freely download) the beta of our debute TTRPG Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy, or just send us a tip on ko-fi!

[nightmareonpeachstreet]

pictured: me when I found out there's gonna be another playtest for Infinity Nikki and signups are RIGHT NOW

(here's the link to the tweet, and the link to the actual signup is available in said tweet, in case anyone needs it)

[montereybayaquarium]

If you like...

✅  The Ocean™️  ✅  Neat animals ✅  Learning about neat animals ✅  Chill games ✅  Participating in community science ✅  Participating in community science by playing a chill game while looking at and learning about neat animals that live in the ocean so we can train artificial intelligence to help us find and identify more neat animals in the ocean 

...then wowee do we have some good news for you!

We've been hard at work on a new mobile game with our fronds @mbari-blog and Ocean Vision AI to do just that—but we need YOUR kelp help!

Head on over to FathomVerse to join our mer-ry band of o-fish-al beta testers—the last round of signups ends this week. Thanks for your con-sea-der-ocean, fronds!

[kaiasky]

Complete-ish Guide To Settings You Might Want to Change

These instructions will be for desktop, because the settings are easier to find there. You can do the same on mobile, but it might be in different places.

Dash settings

Your dashboard is broken down into several feeds, including "Following" and "For You".

"Following" is primarily the posts of people you follow, "For You" is algorithmic.

If you just joined, "For You" is default, if you're a longtime user it's "Following". You can change this in the settings on the right

A lot of longtime users will tell you that the Following feed is where we spend most of our time. But try out all the feeds, and see what you like most.

The settings that are settings:

To start, click the settings gear under the account icon (the abstract person head).

This should take you to the General tab. Key settings:

Community Labels: By default anything NSFW is silently hidden. You can change how each subtype is handled.

Hide Additional Mature Content: If you have an iPhone disable this or it'll hide every post from you on the off-chance it contains porn.

If you're under 18 as determined by the birthdate you entered on signup, you can't change these. (If you want them on, you'll have to make a new account and lie)

Under the "Dashboard" tab, you can enable timestamps, which is mostly just nice information to have. sometimes a post is from 2010 and you can be like wow.

The next four probably have the biggest impact on your tumblr experience, so I'm gonna do a breakdown.

Best Stuff First reorders your "Following" to have popular posts at the top. Disabling it makes your feed chronological. I like it off, but up to you.

Include Stuff In Your Orbit and Based On Your Likes put various content from "For You" into "Following". Personally, I disable them to keep "Following" purely posts by people I follow, and then switch between feeds to get what I want.

Followed Tag Posts will put content from the "Your Tags" feed into your "Following" feed. Since you can go to the separate tags feed, I usually turn this off (it tends to show me a lot of duplicate posts), but up to you.

Under the "Notifications" tab you can tell Tumblr to stop sending you emails.

I'd recommend disabling all the emails--if you get a bunch of replies, Tumblr will happily send you dozens of emails, and you don't need that.

Notifications is the push-notifications in-app/in-website. The mobile app, for some reason, has a much better interface for controlling these, including the option to only get activity-notifications for mutuals. You can leave these on, or turn them off if you find the flood of notifications is distracting.

Tumblr News is a newsletter, it usually just has content from @fandom and the other staff-run recap blogs.

Conversational notifications sends you more emails.

Under the "Tumblr Labs" tab you can enable a bunch of cool beta tests.

I particularly suggest Reblog Graphs, What you Missed tab, & Popular Reblogs tab, but they're all fun to try out. A lot of these are honestly better than the For You dashboard.

For each blog you have, you can customize it's Blog Settings. Beyond things like setting an avatar or description, there's a few settings that are fun.

Custom Theme gives you your own subdomain at [blogurl].tumblr.com.

This makes your blog easier to search, and a lot of 3rd party tools depend on you enabling it. It also makes it easier to link your posts to people who don't have tumblr accounts.

You can completely customize the CSS/HTML/Javascript. you can go legitimately crazy. It's not a requirement, but if you want unlimited flexibility, go wild.

On the contrary, if you wanna run a more private blog, you can disable this and then hide your blog from search results/non-registered users.

Likes and Following are public by default. I like to turn these off so I don't have to worry about like, "what will people think if they see i'm following [...] or liking [...]". But it's also fair to keep them public if you'd like.

The other Blog Settings are important but pretty self-explanatory I think.

Finally, there's some useful tools I like:

XKit Rewritten - A bunch of scripts (like RES for Reddit). The one I really like is "mutual checker", which shows at a glance which blogs you are in mutuals with. Which is such a good feature it's included in the mobile apps by default i think.

siikr.tumblr.com - Tumblr search is bad, and google's indexing of tumblr blogs is worse. Siikr will find any post you've made on your blog. Because disk space is limited, only use it to search your blog, and if you're tech savvy consider running a local copy from source.

[hanleiacelebration]

🎆 Han x Leia Holiday Exchange 2024 🎆

Hope, creativity, and love are more important than ever in these times, and we hope this event can do a little something to help brighten up the coming months. Welcome to the 2024 edition of our classic Han x Leia Holiday Exchange!

This is an anonymous exchange where each participant will write and receive a Han/Leia fanfic (min.: 500 words, max.: ~5k words).

Who can participate? Anyone and everyone who loves Han and Leia! Whether you prefer Legends, Disney canon, or AUs; whether you've written 100 fics, 5 or zero; whether you’re a new fan or an older fan; whether you even celebrate any holidays or not... if you enjoy writing, presents, and Han and Leia, this event is for you!

Schedule:

Signups open: November 8, 2024

Signups close: November 22, 2024

Assignments go out: November 23-24, 2024

Half-point check in: Week of December 16, 2024

Deadline to request a beta: January 9, 2025

Submission deadline: January 18, 2025

Works revealed: January 19, 2025

Authors revealed: January 31, 2025

How does it work?

This exchange will take place both on Tumblr and on Archive of Our Own (Ao3), which means having an account on both sites is required to participate. (If you don’t have an Ao3 account, please contact the mods — they can send you an invite and help with any questions!)

You will need to sign up via the link to Ao3 below and will upload your work to the collection there whenever you’re finished. We will post it for you on January 19, and it will remain anonymous until January 31.

You’ll use Tumblr to receive communications from the mods and to send/receive anonymous messages to/from your recipients/writers, so make sure your Tumblr has anonymous messaging turned on. We do ask you to please reach out to your recipient at least once: not only is it a great way to find out more about what kind of gift they would enjoy, but it’s also a really fun part of the exchange!

🎆SIGN UP HERE!

🎆READ THE FULL RULES HERE (mobile version here) AND THE FAQ HERE (mobile version here)

🎆ASK US A QUESTION HERE

Please make sure to read the rules and the instructions on the sign-up page carefully, and please feel free to reach out to blog or one of us individually if you have any questions (or if you could use a little encouragement).

Your mods: @otterandterrier @lajulie24 @hanorganaas