How's My Driving | April 2013

[ironwood]

Spring has been sprung! All over the Western hemisphere, flowers are blooming, bunnies are bounding, and the little clickity-clack of rper fingers at keyboards is in the air! To kick off the season in style, it's time for our third HMD here at Tu Shanshu.

How's My Driving?
While each and every character must have an HMD page available, we offer a gamewide HMD once every calendar quarter. This is an opportunity to get together and discuss IC interpretations and portrayals in a respectful, beneficial fashion. In a nutshell, it's a chance to see how we're doing in the grand scheme of things.

There are a few ground rules to cover off before we can start:

• Participation in the quarterly HMD is 100% optional.
  
• Be respectful, anon or not. It's a lot easier to give and receive crit if all parties are making it a discussion of it rather than an argument.
  
• IP logging is off and anonymous commenting is on. You can offer crit signed-in if you like, but the option's there.
  

That's it, that's all!

And, to make things easier, here's a handy-dandy codeset:

<big><b><i>Player Name</i></b></big> <i>Character Name:</i> <i>Canon:</i> <i>User Name:</i> <I>Focus:</i> Optional. Do you have particular concerns about your portrayal that you'd like to be the focus of crit? You can link any threads you'd like a second opinion on here. If you're looking for structural feedback, or would prefer things like grammar not be mentioned, put it here.

Comments

roy

[cowled]

Roy
Character Name: Bruce Wayne
Canon: DCU
User Name: cowled ✘ thread tracking ✘ anon-enabled/ip off HMD
Focus: I'm always concerned as to whether or not Bruce seems not only IC but canon-congruent. He's been in the game for eight months now and he's been through a lot of stuff in that time, and I'm constantly on tenterhooks worrying if I've pushed his personality too far in one direction or another. Any thoughts anyone would like to share would be awesome! Also totally up for anything related to prose/grammar/overall writing related crit.


Character Name: Aisha al-Fadhil
Canon: The Losers
User Name: emasculates ✘ thread tracking ✘ anon-enabled/ip off HMD
Focus: Aisha is a tricky one because I think I can count on one hand the amount of people who've actually read The Losers. Mostly with her I'm looking for overall consistency. Does she come off as an engaging character? Is there anything I could do to make her more interesting to thread with? If you've threaded with her, do you feel I'm pulling my weight in threads and not being too reactive? That sort of thing would be super appreciated.


Character Name: Spencer Reid
Canon: Criminal Minds
User Name: polyhistor ✘ thread tracking ✘ anon-enabled/ip off HMD
Focus: Overall, Reid is probably the character I'm most concerned about right now. Some problems I've acknowledged are the fact that he seems to be more from the fifth season than the seventh (his current canonpoint) and I think I'm maybe making him too young-seeming? I totally dropped the ball with Reid in March because I got myself in over my head with threads in February and I'm currently suffering a bit of burn-out with his character so any crit at all to help me get on the right track with him would be massively appreciated.


In more general terms, I'm curious as to whether or not anyone has any thoughts or comments about my overall activity levels and/or if I'm coming off as cliquish or exclusive in my interactions. I've received some great feedback in regards to focusing on fewer threads at a time and I've been trying to incorporate that a little bit into my overall tagging schedule and I'm curious to see if anyone's noticed a difference. ... But on that note, I was hiatused for almost the entire month of March, so yeah I basically fell off the face of the planet for the duration, whoops.

If anyone has any thoughts in regards to my writing on a more technical side I'd also love to hear that!

I also play The Emperor and Eva and would welcome any feedback on them as well.

Re: roy

[lostundercover]

Sometimes I feel like you're so caught up in being factually accurate with Reid that you forget to play him.. Like he becomes this projection from the show rather than a character in TSS, if that makes sense?

idk. It's not a criticism of the way he's played, per say, because his voice is great and all. I guess he just seems like less fun for you.

[cowled]

Hilariously, a comment in my write-up that I had and then erased was 'he feels more like a caricature than a character'. That's pretty spot on with how I'm feeling about him, too, but I'm not sure how to fix it besides maybe not making him Do Science so much? :|a

Because good god, I've read so many research papers in my Pursuit of Reidisms that I think I should theoretically have a degree in all the same shit he does oh my god /drags hands down face

[lostundercover]

I wouldn't call him a caricature, per say. He just seems less human and more wikipedia.

I know this is contrary to everything you believe in, but I feel like if you researched less and just.. played him more, that that might solve the problem? I'm not sure though.

[cowled]

Yeah. I think it might be a side effect of not having any of his team here? Reid does default to 'walking encyclopedia' when he doesn't have a deep human connection with people and it's sort of a hard balance to find.

You definitely make a good point. I'll give that a try. Ty, Kateling. <33