tiltedsyllogism - Auction #2 - FTH 2025 Contributor Page

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tiltedsyllogism is offering:

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Organizations this auction benefits: Bellingcat *, Fight for the Future Education Fund, Freedom to Read Foundation *, Global Project Against Hate and Extremism *, In Our Own Voice *, Never Again Action, News Literacy Project *, Any/all listed LGBT orgs (See full list. * denotes an organization that accepts international donations.)

Type of fanwork: Fan labor
Subtype(s): Betaing, Culture picking, Specialist expertise
Fandom(s): For All Mankind
Highest rating: E
Minimum Bid: $10
Audience: All ages
Length/scope: 10 - 20k words
Special interests (what is this?): Ambiguous endings, F/F ships, Gen (no ship) or platonic works, Rarepairs, Unhappy endings

Fanwork Details:
Yankpicking (both language and culture); Russia-picking (both language and culture); Beta reading (anything from developmental beta to SPaG)

Relevant experience/background:
⁃ I can of course do a basic beta read of a completed draft for story structure, canon resonance, &c: I am a very experienced beta reader: I’ve only been involved in the FAM ficsphere since fall of 22, but I have been beta reading for friends for 10+ years across multiple fandoms. BUT ALSO:

⁃ if you want help developing your ideas for given characters or relationships, I am happy to talk them through with you! (Especially if you’re interested in telling a canon-compliant or canon-compatible story, but even if you want to do something else.)

⁃ If you’re non-American and looking for someone to Yankpick your fic, I can do that! (I should note that I’ve only very briefly been to Texas and never to Houston; I am probably better positioned than a non-American to know how to research local-color details about Houston in whatever decade, but I can only offer secondhand knowledge.)

⁃ If you are writing a story set in Russia or with significant Russian plotlines, I can offer some limited expertise here too! My knowledge of the Russian language is pretty stale, but I can do some basic translation for you in either direction. I also lived in Moscow for several months in the late 90s, which means that I have a strange little capsule of first-hand experience in a highly FAM-relevant window of time.

Additional notes about labor offered:
In addition to the above: if you are under 30 and looking to write a story set in S2 or S3: I am very much not under 30 and can draw on my own memories of those periods to help you thicken up the realism of your setting.

Characters/pairings of interest:
I am pretty open here -- I am deeply intrigued by just about everyone on this show.

Subjects/theme/tropes of interest:
I'm like Karen Baldwin: I live in the grey. And I like stories that live in the grey! (I am in fact happy to help you figure out how to entangle your story more deeply in various kinds of ambiguity, but I'm equally happy reading stories that are already there.)

Unwilling to address:
No character hate. Very happy to work on a story in which one character hates another -- and that can be for very good reasons! But if you want to write a story about how someone is just bad, I can't help you with that.

Other notes:
I'd love it if we can have a conversation relatively early in your writing process (though if the story you want help on is already far along that is of course also fine.) I'm happy to go 2 or 3 rounds with you if that would be helpful.

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