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

[epigrammatical]

Karin
Character Name: Lord Henry Wotton
Canon: Confessions of / Picture of Dorian Gray
User Name: epigrammatical
Focus: So how badly am I sucking?

...I kid. Mostly. I feel bad about not getting him out more, but I blame February and March for having been a pile of bugshit insanity (this applies to Una as well). Sometimes I also feel kind of flat with him—again, the drain on my brain that was March didn't really help. Am I being consistent? I know I can't quite match Wildean heights of wit, but is he at least plausible? That sort of thing.

Character Name: Una Persson
Canon: Michael Moorcock's Multiverse
User Name: una_persson
Focus: Still feel like I'm only just getting off the ground with her, thanks to the clusterfuck that was March for me, so I don't have specific concerns. (Yet.) Anything you've got for her, come at me; I'd be glad to hear it.

And just. Any comments you have about my RPing and thread management and response time in general. Like I said, RL was really chewing on me hard there, and my hope is that the next few months (at least until the next thing blows up at work) will be a lot better, and I will definitely be working to improve my response time and whatnot. Fire away.

ETA - A PSA-Thing: If it's IC for your character to get Henry's title and mode of address right (i.e. if they're knowledgeable about British nobility ranks AND/OR have read The Picture of Dorian Gray), please take a look at this quick explanation of how it all works. I am a terrible pedant and I'm sorry. I don't mean to be a bore about it, but there have been questions, so there you go. And of course if it's IC for your character to not have a clue, that's totally legit and get it as wrong as you want to.