Fannish needs in the time of quarantine

[pipisafoat]

Has anyone started a community yet pairing fans in need of expertise with fans who have that expertise? I’m just thinking that now is a good time to build those connections and make more fannish content. I'm happy to have a post (or regularly scheduled recurring posts) here do the work, or I'm happy to start a comm, or I'm happiest to find a comm that already exists and just slot myself in there. Anyone know of any comms?

But in the meantime, maybe let's get started here. Leave a comment with your wish list and offerings, browse the comments for wishes you can fulfill, and check to see if someone offers something you need!

***please be ENCOURAGED to offer and request things that aren't standard written fic. I'm offering awful doodles and probably-awful podfic. Let's get creative, though! Someone want to crochet or sew me a dog based on an OC in a series I'm writing? (ooh i'm absolutely putting that on my wish list now.)

Comments

[passingbuzzards]

My wish list:

• a person who is sufficiently fluent in american sign language to tell me whether phrases in a section of ASL dialogue are improbable/impossible due to ASL syntax!

My offerings:

• language-checking: fluent in russian, able to review: dialogue where russian speech is being represented in english (for realistic phrasing/syntax); dialogue where the speaker is russian and speaking english as a second language (for realistic error/difficulty); russian words/phrases (for accuracy); etc.


• slang-checking: western U.S. regional


• realism-checking: big law firms; deserts in the western U.S. (utah, the mojave)