Anyone who knows anything about women’s figure skating willing to look over a fic for me?

[alias_sqbr]

Yes, this is for Yuri on Ice, specifically a 14K Sara/Mila fic, but I’m way more confident about the characterisation/romance etc than I am about the skating stuff, so you don’t need to have watched the show let alone ship the pairing. If you only know about men’s figure skating that would still be a step up from my “have watched YOI and a few youtube clips and read a little bit on Wikipedia”.

Failing that, someone else in the "all I know about figure skating I learned from Yuri on Ice" boat could be useful, make the story so compelling noone notices that I got my jumps mixed up with my spins etc :D

(My previous YOI fics just concentrated on Feelings so my ignorance was less of a problem, but this one has something resembling plot)

Comments

[flamebyrd]

Alas, my ability to hold the technical terms in my head is limited, much as I enjoy watching figure skating, but I can give it a go... once I've watched the final 2 episodes? /o\

[alias_sqbr]

Thankyou! Clearly you should watch them :D Either here or on your fancy-if-temporary internet, whichever suits. And lack of specific terms is fine, I'm more paranoid about basic procedure etc being laughably wrong.

[flamebyrd]

I almost watched them, but then I thought it wouldn't be as fun to do it on my own so I guess I'll be in touch about meeting up soon. :shrug:

[alias_sqbr]

Ok! Other people have offered to check the skating stuff so I'm not waiting on that. When are you free? Next Wednesday is a good day for me. (I could email you properly but this comment reply is right here)

[flamebyrd]

Wednesday sounds good to me! I'm glad you found a person with skating expertise, hah.

[fred_mouse]

I know Stuff about figure skating - happy to look over/chat about skating. If you have my westnet email address, send me relevant details there? (Including level of desired commentary, because I'm an overdo it type of beta reader).