#brit picker

[rockstarlwt28]

Visual Creator / Brit-Picker

Hello wonderful souls!

MOOD-BOARD:

Struggling to make a mood-board? 

Running out of time to make one before a submission date? 

Not sure what vibe fits? 

Have a ton of pictures but not quite sure on placement or vibe?

No problem! 

I love making visuals and as a result I’m more than happy to tweak the board to suit your colour scheme, needs and picture placement. All ideas are thoroughly discussed. Granted, I have no qualifications in graphic designs, but I am merely doing this to help others and because I love doing them. I’d love to help someone out. I’ll attach some examples of the work I’ve produced for my own books and projects below.

BRIT-PICKING:

I am born and bred, British. Therefore, due to hearing that there’s a shortage of brit-pickers in the fandom, I have nominated myself as someone that can help with wording and uncertainty of phrases. 

I will not brit-pick some themes*, but I can help with sentences if you sent one or a wording. But as a complete piece, unfortunately, I cannot for personal reasons.

*Smut / Violence / Abuse (any forms). 

Anything else we can discuss and go from there onwards. 

Acts of Kindness.

Lots of love. x

*Disclaimer: All images are taken from Pinterest. Credit to the owners.

Visionaries:

I create visionaries based upon your telling of either character attributes or scene themes and ideations.

For a wonderful friend, I recently constructed some character profiles to help with their fictional piece, in order to construct a character profile and a personal feel for their creations. It was an honour to do, truly. Thankyou.

[worldcrawlerhp]

Attention all fic writers!

I have put together a working doc with all the things I've picked up from Brit-Picking over the years and some tidbits of British culture that are important to get right when setting your fics in the UK.

If you follow the link you'll be able to read and feel free to also comment on the doc

- let me know if I've got something wrong or said something that strongly does not apply to another part of the UK

- let me know if you'd like to add something to it - let's collab and get your knowledge in there too :)

- let me know if you'd like more info on any part or would like me to include some other part I haven't thought about

Hope this can be helpful!

Worldcrawler's Guide to BritPicking

Welcome Hello! If you’ve landed here please be aware that everything contained is from my head and my experiences as a Brit and a Britpicke

[ Sections currently include: - Vocab differences - Britishisms & Phrases - Cultural differences & quirks - Alcohol & Pubs - TEA (and a note on coffee) - Regional / Class Accents - The Weather & Small Talk ]

[1dmpregficfest]

Beta and Brit Pick Sign Ups

You can now sign up to be a Beta or a Brit Picker for the HL Mpreg fest. Please only sign up if you are comfortable working with Mpreg fics! Please note your tumblr usernames will be listed on a page within the fest’s tumblr for authors to view at any time. Your email address will not be shared with anyone except the mod of the fest. 

Sign up form can be found here.

What is a Beta?

A beta is someone who helps an author with the coherency of their story, whether it’s as simple as grammar and spelling, or with something more complex such as the timeline and/or direction of the story as a whole. The expectations of the author for their beta needs to be discussed between you.

What is a Brit Picker?

A Brit Picker is someone who either lives in the UK or has extensive knowledge about British terms, language, and British lifestyle to help an author make their characters as realistic as possible, especially necessary when writing British characters.

Please do reblog this spread the word!

[hlsummerfest2021]

Just updated the Beta and Brit Picker list for this exchange... we now have 17 wonderful people waiting to help out, so do get in touch with someone if you need the help!

The list can be found right here!

[curiouselfqueen]

Do Brits say “in line” or “on line”??

Like in line at the grocery store. 

...except it’s occurring to me that they use the word “queue”....

help.

[hlkinkexchange]

Beta / Cheerleader List

Here is the list of betas / cheerleaders, signed up as of August 4, 2019. As noted on the page, we have had no sign-ups for britpickers. If you are at all interested, please let me know / sign up HERE! 

Here is the list so far though; please reach out to a beta or cheerleader as soon as possible, to respect their time. As stated on the page, it is suggested that you get to know the person a bit to make sure they are a suitable match for your fic (regarding kink, length, pace, etc). If you have any questions, feel free to reach out!

[1dmpregficfest]

Beta and Brit Picker sign up is now open!

You can now sign up to be a Beta / Brit Picker for one of our authors. Please fill in the form on the link below.

Beta and Brit Picker sign up form here

All of the authors will be sent a list of Beta / Brit Pickers when they are sent their prompts, so please wait to be contacted by one of them.

Thank you! :)

[slytherinbarnes]

I dunno if anybody has helped you yet, but you get free apps that help change American words to British spelling! I speak UK English and use quillbot to help me translate it to USA English

Hope this helps!

ahhhh OMG I've never heard of this, THANK YOU! this is really helpful!!!!!