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Hee, I'm busy procrastinating on my assignment and doing some online tutoring, but I just had to post about this adorable student. Obviously can't go into specifics, but they logged on to the English category where I do a lot of proofreading of essays and creative writing, except I couldn't help them because it wasn't official homework, just something their teacher suggested they do in their free time. And they said they just wanted someone to read over it because whenever they show it to their friends they just get "it's fine" and I just started giggling because I felt a sudden kinship with that student. You know how you can recognise Someone Like Me at twenty paces sometimes? That's what this felt like, it was like seeing somebody reading Sandman at the library or writing a poem in a notebook on a bus. And haven't we all had trouble finding a good beta at some point or another?

I wanted to help the kid, but rules say only schoolwork gets proofread, so I told them to look for critique-exchange groups online. I wanted to go "get into fandom, heaps of people will want to be your beta!" but I felt that might be inappropriate :P