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<b>Player name:</b> <b>Characters played:</b> Character :: Fandom :: Character LJ <b>Personal concrit link:</b> <b>Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N:</b> <b>Other comments?</b> Please refrain from posting pictures, .gifs, videos, giant text, sparklies, blinking and moving tags, and &c. in top-level comments

To the best of my abilities, I'll keep an ongoing and alphabetical list of everyone's HMD comments here below for your browsing pleasure. (Please note that this weekend is con weekend for the robot, so the table may have some delays.)

A - H	I - P	Q - Z
Alex (Rosella) Alms (Brian, Allison, Neil, Frankie, Tommy) Ary (Raphael) B/k (Demyx, Capt. Hammer, Angua) Caru (Cain, Poncho-kun, Katan) Cella (Sif, Mae, Sophie) Ellie (Ginny) Gadgets (Ariadne, Dr. McCoy)	Jane (Isabela, Tony) Jen (Eagle) Jessi?! (Akito/Agito/Lind) Kat (Hatter) Katya (Karl) Kimmeh! (Ikki) Kristi (Dean, Lucy, Rose) Lee (Huey) Lila (Tyr) Mai (Mercy, Rain) Mallory (Raikov, Raiden) Marion (Stephen, Howl, Turlough) Mici (Saya W., Capt. America, Eden, Mr. Pink, Billy) Molly (Dr. House, Mr. White) Mouse (Charlie, Mindy) Nao (Gazelle) Neko (Ken, Setsuna) Nelly (Eames) Parsnip (Arthur, Liam) Pixy (Chase)	Rae (James, Todd, Doc Brown) Rei/Rey (Kira) Ruxi (Rosiel) Setine (Thor) Starrah (Angela) Thorn (Kazu, Izaya) Tim (Hercules) Tona (Amy, Tessa, Rhodey, Ivy, Saito) Tossino (Merlin) Valya (Raymond, Jack, Robert, Elijah) Veda (Justin, Chekov, Penny) Vee (Carla, Marie, Anna, Jast) Zen (Rita)

Update complete!

Comments

Caru

[misterblackbird]

Player name: Caru
Characters played:
♛ Cain Hargreaves || Godchild || misterblackbird
♞ The Man With No Name || "The Dollars Trilogy" || withloadedguns
♜ Katan || Angel Sanctuary || one_that_leads

Personal concrit link: ♚: anon-enabled, ip-disabled, and screened--in the hopes that you may find it useful and informative.

Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Yes and yes.

Other comments? Ask me questions, tell me things. I'm glad of any comments, questions, remarks, advice, suggestions, thoughts, letters, Morse code, telegrams, or smoke signals regarding my characters. I always get inspired after HMD--for whatever reason, it always makes me want to play more. I'm glad of any feedback at all. Let me know what you think.

Work is kind of cramping my RP style at the moment, but I'm doing my best to adjust and find workarounds. It's a bummer, but I'll make it work.

Also, as ever, any comments, questions, suggestions, confusion, rage, anguish, hate, frustration, death threats, coded letters, bribe money, scientific papers, research proposals, internship applications, or flaming bags of dog poo intended to be directed at one, Prof. Dr. Laszlo Jamf (laszlo_jamf), can also be left here for his attention.

[beyourarmy]

Katan, bb, I still want to take him home and have tea with him. I love your Katan. Always have, probably always will. I want to do MORE with him, period, whether with Sets or Ken, but I always end up with not enough time. Same with the work...but mine looks like it's going to ease up soon.

Also, do want to have Setsuna have a sit down with Cain about some things, because I would love to keep you going with him forever. I love how you play Cain, tl;dr posts and all. I know I lack on actual crit, feel free to smack me for it, but when it comes to you, you're just one of the people I ENJOY RPing with, and I can't think of anything I dislike. =/ I mean, other than the we don't do this enough, but we're both responsible for that, and LIFE HAPPENS. It's not anyone's fault.

[punchedhitler]

Player name: Mici
Characters played: Saya Wallace :: OC :: synanthrope
Steve Rogers :: Captain America :: punchedhitler
Eden Mac Cionaoith :: OC :: eiremagic
Mr. Pink :: Reservoir Dogs :: pinkeffinprofessional
Billy Kaplan :: Young Avengers :: repeatshimself

Personal concrit link: Here!
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: If you like!
Other comments? I will, unless some miracle happens, drop Billy at the end of the month (I've been waiting because I was wrapping up some plot stuff with him!) so that's why my activity with him has been relatively abysmal.

[crowing]

UHM. Can I just say that I personally enjoy following Steve's threads? ♥

ALEX! ♥

[primrosella]

Player Name: Alex! ♥

Characters Played:
☆ Princess Rosella | King's Quest | primrosella

Other Comments?
WELP law school is out for the summer and I am accordingly doing everything in my power to be BACK LIKE WILDFIRE. So first and foremost, thank you to everyone who was so patient with me in the time I was sporadic and not really around! I'm going to do my best to keep up a more active presence around here now that it's summer and my free time is reasonably more copious.

Secondly, I'm feeling fairly rejuvenated with Rosella lately, now that she's got the Blue Light to manage and think about, new friendships to develop, and new potential for CR to explore, and I hope to do my best to follow through on that!

And, as per usual, I love answering questions so please feel free to ask them if you have them!

[dignity_misery]

I always enjoy getting to do different things with Rosella! Hi.

[uprouse]

Player name: Thorn ?
Characters played:
Kazu Mikura ☄ Air Gear ☄ errandry
Izaya Orihara ☄ Durarara!! ☄ uprouse
Personal concrit link: ♬ But people only die from sheer obnoxia. ♩
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Now and foreeeeever.
Other comments? I realise Izaya's literally hours in + last month's hiatus leaves for... very little activity... but I'll be doing tags all day and if you have tips or somesuch I am all ears!

[sympathyforme]

Now, I don't know the canon, though I've got a feeling I should start to, what with having most of the cast on my plurk and wanting all the stuff ever with them, but I can just say that tagging with you is great fun.

Also, thank you for letting me demonstrate the reasons why Kira is an excellent tutor. x) And he'll gladly use Kazu as an actually useful Katou!

[oceantrauma]

Player name: Neko
Characters played:
Ken Ichijouji :: Digimon Adventure 02 :: oceantrauma
Setsuna Mudou :: Angel Sanctuary :: beyourarmy
Personal concrit link: Found here. Feel free to use that for Setsuna, too. Too lazy to hunt his down.
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Yes, far as I remember.
Other comments? Be rough as you need to be. Don't hold back.

My own concerns? I've played Setsuna for a very long time, I worry about becoming stale with him. Ken...I'm just at a loss right now. I know I haven't been very active, but that should be changing soon.

[sympathyforme]

Seeing as I obsessively stalk you am following a lot of your threads because it's IC for my character to do that, I can assure you that you are very, very far from ever becoming stale with Setsuna, in my opinion.

And all the threads ever that we have together, in game or out of, are just wonderful. AS YOU SHOULD KNOW. Hey, there're many reasons I want to join you at Amat and a big reason is, well, you.

You're the my the Setsuna.

Kimmeh!

[crowing]

Player name: Kimmeh!
Characters played: Itsuki "Ikki" Minami :: Air Gear :: stormking
Personal concrit link: Right here. Anon-enbaled, ip-disabled, and screened. Seriously, please drop by here any time!
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Yes, absolutely! Yesssss.
Other comments? Right, so, I am just coming off hiatus, so please forgive my bad activity lately!

If there is anything you guys feel might even be remotely questionable, please let me know! I want to be the best I can be!

[beyourarmy]

Once again, I don't know the canon, but I like how you get involved in stuff. I feel like you branch out, considering you're interacting with players you barely know, from another canon entirely - and I think that's brave, and how multi-fandom RP is supposed to be done.

You're fun and easy to tag with. I don't know if it's just the character, or your amazing RP skills, but I like it.

[blackshadow]

Player name: Lila
Characters played: Tyr McDohl :: Suikoden :: blackshadow
Personal concrit link: Link
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Allowed. (I think?)
Other comments? Meow meow

[indecent_butterfly]

Player name: Kat
Characters played: Mad Hatter :: Angel Sanctuary:: indecent_butterfly
Personal concrit link: here
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Y

Other comments? Considering I'm extremely new playing Hatter, if anyone has anything to say please feel free I'd love to hear any suggestions. Believe me, I'm a big girl and can take it.

[beyourarmy]

I need to see more of your Hatter before developing MUCH in a way of opinion, but I love what I see so far. You have nuances down. I feel like you GET Hatter, which, with AS, is not an easy thing. (I suck at this, by the way. I never said I didn't.) I have no suggestions for now, because, lol, like I would know thing one about playing Hatter, but keep it coming.

I enjoy stalking your threads.

JANE

[ironmanic]

Player name: Jane
Characters played:
Isabela | Dragon Age | sealegs
Tony Stark | Iron Man | ironmanic
Personal concrit link: UH USE THIS ONE FOR NOW
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Yup!
Other comments? I probably won't be responding to comments unless there is something someone would like to discuss! HMD always seems to creep up on me during con weekend... I love you all though!

[primrosella]

Your Tony is everything a Tony should be and I will do whatever it takes to keep tagging him for the rest of my days. I mean he really is just. Sometimes I just go read his threads just for the sake of seeing what he's doing and how well you play him, even when they're completely irrelevant to me and Rosella. He's just SO GOOD so please don't ever stop. ♥

ELLIE.

[hexuality]

Player name: Ellie
Characters played:

GINNY WEASLEY | harry potter |hexuality | ∆

Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Allowed, not encouraged. I'd love to talk things out!

Other comments? Ginny's been in the City for a loooong time; in fact, she's turning twenty years old this August and as of December, was in-game for three years. So her perspective on things has grown/shifted and... yeah, idk, just if anyone was wondering after things—that would be a lot of it! Just growing up here than at home. In terms of activity, I know I've been scarce lately and just generally all over the map, but I plan to remedy that this summer. Love you guys. ♥

[candothat]

Ginny is so, so much fun to play off of; I can't believe it took me this long to get any of my characters to interact with her. I'm not actually a Harry Potter fan, but you make Ginny terribly likeable and integrate her knowledge of her own world into her in-City conversations beautifully.

It's hard to keep a character going for years without burning out. I hope you'll be able to keep going strong with Ginny for a while yet.

[sympathyforme]

Player name: Rei/Rey
Characters played: Sakuya Kira :: Angel Sanctuary :: sympathyforme
Personal concrit link: here
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: As you like...
Other comments? I know I'm damn slow sometimes and I don't tag around NEARLY as much as I'd like to, but I'm trying to improve that, slowly!

[beyourarmy]

You're perfect, hush.

You're not slow, actually. And, hey, life.

Aside from that, KIRA. askdjsadkak Let me sob forever. You just have him down. There's all of these little Kira details, and you fill them in and have them, and keep them. And things I wouldn't even consider.

Once again, we've discussed a lot, but not much of how Setsuna and Kira would act/their past together, and it still just meshes without that. I adore RPing with your Kira, and think you get out there tagging and branching out quite a bit. You have good ideas, you're easy-going and not demanding. You're just a joy to RP with all around, a good RPer, and good at playing Kira.

Thank you for joining and sticking it out with us.

[pratful]

Player name: Parsnip
Characters played:

Arthur Pendragon :: BBC Merlin :: pratful
(formerly) Liam Lunettes :: Pandora Hearts :: haring_to_go

Personal concrit link: here.
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Yes, just please remember to track the notifs in case I have questions/want to clarify things!
Other comments? Just want to know if it feels like I'm on the right track for an early S2 Arthur. Activity has been all over the board, but I'm working on lightening my RP load since work is still going strong with no sign of letting up. Things should be more consistent, bit by bit, as i wrap up those plots elsewhere.

[beyourarmy]

I still don't know Liam, so I've got NOTHING.

Can I just say I like how you're willing to backtag with me forever, though? Yes, you might be a little slow, but that's understandable. I don't mind that. What I LOVE is that you see tags through with me, no matter how long it takes between the two of us. I appreciate that.

Ary

[bedsidemanners]

Player name: Ary
Characters played: Raphael :: Angel Sanctuary :: bedsidemanners
Personal concrit link: here
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Y
Other comments? Please don't hesitate to tell me anything! My activity levels could use improving (May is typically a busy month for me, but still). Um. I've played Raphael for years and years, though not always within games, which does make me worry about veering into OOC territory or just getting a little dull.

[beyourarmy]

Pfft. Dull. He's as much an ass as ever. Hardly dull. I still love tagging with you, it's just hard to make Setsuna talk to Raphael for more than five minutes. Which I'm pretty sure means we're doing it right!

I can't think of anything useful at the moment, forgive me that.

(setine.)

[godofabs]

Player name: setine
Characters played: thor ; marvel cinematic universe ; godofabs
Personal concrit link: here!
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: of course! but please do not hesitate to contact me in person.
Other comments? i'm technically on hiatus due to the fact that i totally forgot that i was moving at the end of the week, welp. also, sometimes i get a little insecure about my syntax with thor and his speaking patterns. if you guys have any suggestions or hints, i would definitely love it!

buttface

[mrsnose]

Hello, precious. Hi. First of all, I think it should be stated, I rarely app a character when I'm not sure I'm going to hit it off with their castmates, or I don't think we'll have fun with them. And we are. I love it.

I love Thor. He's a -- YOU KNOW THIS COMMENT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO WRITE WITH THAT FUCKING ICON, I HATE YOU, LIFE RUINER - muscled, manly ball of fluff. Sif is at times absolutely enamoured with him, from a loyal underling + childhood bff's point of view, and absolutely frustrated with him - but they balance each other out nicely, so there is that.

As far as syntax, well think of Asgard as a pompous city full of pompous assholes who think women shouldn't fight and also probably don't have showers, and everything is kind of amplified in size, since the men are all huge. I don't know. Take a little hint from Tony Stark - something out of a Shakespeare play, only a little more modern. Rewatch Thor maybe, note down if he sounds like he's abbreviating his words or not, if he speaks in this manner, or if he talks like this. Does that help?

Nao

[virginwings]

Player name: Nao
Characters played: Gazelle :: Air Gear :: virginwings
Personal concrit link: ~HERE~
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Yes and double yes.
Other comments? So I believe I was told to be more active with her last time and I believe I've done just that. However, if that's just my mind playing tricks on me, just say so and I'll try to put three times the effort into it! And please also feel free to speak of anything else if I should need to work on it. I want to be the best for you guys~

o7

[beyourarmy]

Sooo...like I told Kimmeh, I don't know the canon, but I can say this: I love the fact you're willing to deal with my slow tag backs. That is so nice of you. I know, useless comment void of crit, but I got nothing. We've only done one thread, anyway.

[sitaronthewater]

Player name: B/k

Characters played:
Demyx :: Kingdom Hearts :: sitaronthewater
Captain Hammer :: Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog :: amansgottadowhat
Angua :: Discworld :: badhairlifetime

Personal concrit link: At the tops of their journals.

Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Should be allowed, yes! Assuming that I'm doing DW correctly. Just make sure that if you anon comment, you check back for a response, because I will be responding.
Other comments? I have slowly, slowly been inching myself towards a more normal activity rate. I still backtag like no one else, but hopefully I've made enough of an impression for you to comment on my playing? Only, don't expect an answer until, like, Monday-ish. I'm currently busy with kittens, and tomorrow night is Shabbat, going into Shavuot. The holiday of cheesecake, oh yes, you can be jealous now.

Anyway, crit is good, I like crit, gimme.

[signatures]

Angua is my forever love u_u I WILL CONTINUE TO BACKTAG YOU FOREVER

[destinedtobeunpopular]

Player name: Tossino
Characters played: Merlin :: Merlin (BBC) :: destinedtobeunpopular

Personal concrit link: Here!
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Allowed, not engouraged

Other comments? I'm mainly concerned about Merlin's possibly been a little too open about his problems? It's always seemed like something that made sense while I wrote it, but he's a very private person even if he has been relaxing a lot, despite everything, and he's worked through the fact that he actually doesn't have to hide as much here. So it sort of makes sense to me, but I'm still unsure.

So if you have any opinion or anything on that, I'd appreciate it?

[flensing]

My opinion on that would be if you feel comfortable that he feels comfortable with his reasons for opening up, which seem rather valid coming from a world where MAGIC WAS BANNED to a world where MAGIC IS EVERYWHERE. Then. The rest of us are probably fine with it too.

There are other ways to express his ingrained circumspection without having him be a clam at all times, methinks. 8V

Also hi. -feeds sandwiches.-

Lee

[child_radical]

Player name: Lee
Characters played: Huey Freeman:: The Boondocks:: child_radical
Personal concrit link: Yo.
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Yeah.
Other comments? Yeah I know I've been missing but still, like I always ask. Hit me. If not here or on the concrit link then find me on AIM people.

[dignity_misery]

I'm glad you came back in time to make Huey and Carla's lives so awkward o3o

Gadgets

[boutant]

Player name: Gadgets
Characters played: Ariadne :: Inception :: boutant & Dr. McCoy :: Star Trek XI :: mintjulep
Personal concrit link: Both can be found on their journals.
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Allowed, not encouraged. I like having conversations. c:
Other comments? (:3= that is a walrus and he loves you

Gadgets

[totallyinaband]

/falls on Gadgets and rubs

I feel like we haven't had as much CR lately and this is a crime because I love you deeply as a human being as well as your fabulous characters who I need to keep in my pocket forever and always.

That was constructive, right?

Molly

[whitetwoguns]

Player Name: Molly
Characters Played:
Doctor Feel's Good (to be Bad) :: vicodincrutch :: Dr. Gregory House, M.D :: House, M.D
White Here White Now :: whitetwoguns Mr. White Lawrence "Larry" Dimick :: Reservoir Dogs
Personal LJ Concrit: Heeere. Anon is allowed.
Other comments? This has not been a good month. In retrospect I should have called hiatus. I am a loving ghost! Truly!
For the love of goodness will someone watch Monster High with me?

[archivy]

Player name: Tona

Characters played:
☈ Amy Pond ☇ Doctor Who ☇ waitedforyears
☈ Tessa Gray ☇ The Infernal Devices ☇ likeboudica
☈ James Rhodes ☇ Marvel Cinematic ☇ warmachine
☈ The Archive ☇ The Dresden Files ☇ archivy
☈ Saito ☇ Inception ☇ notourist

Personal concrit link: n/a
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: n/a

Other comments?
I've not been as active as I would've liked this month. Maybe to be expected with graduation coming up but eh.

Also, Saito— he's not exactly the loudest and I'm not sure yet I have the time and energy to invest into him as I should, so, uh. Not sure yet I'll keep him, but we'll see?

[totallyinaband]

TONA. What can I say?

The fact that you now play FIVE characters here, and they all still have such strong and brilliant and separate personalities is impressive in itself. But you are also always up for plotting, srs and cracky. and you share my desire to smash all our characters together like naked barbies

Stay in my CR forever, please. I require it. :-D

Vee

[dignity_misery]

Player name: Vee
Characters played:

◢ Carla Morir - Original Character - dignity_misery
◢ Marie Delacroix - System Shock 2 - prosopopoeia
◢ Anna Assaoui - Martyrs - flensing
◢ Jast Albrin - Original Character - auguria

Personal concrit link: I think... some of them have them...
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Yes? I can't ssstop you.
Other comments? Too much despair for Carla, not enough activity for Anna. Both were kind of unintentional. Personally bothered by Jast's habit of calling people honorifics over and over and over but that's a thing he does, the ridiculous brown-noser.

Vee

[totallyinaband]

I've had pretty minimal interaction with your guys (mostly my fault, I know), but I seriously love reading everything with them, particularly Jast and Carla. You do these amazingly 3D and complex OCs and they're a joy to watch and play with. You're also tons of fun to talk to and plot with OOC. And you post naked people on your plurk! Which is a good enough reason to keep your around right there. :-P

Veda

[othersdie]

Player name: Veda

Characters played:
Justin Pendleton :: Murder by godawful movies Numbers :: othersdie
Pavel Chekov :: Star Trek XI/Reboot/whatever :: candothat
Penny :: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog :: anunluckypenny

Personal concrit link: There's one in every journal. ♥
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Not so much encouraged, but allowed!
Other comments? What am I doing wrong? What am I doing right? What is mediocre? Is there anything I ought to be doing that I'm not? Am I boring you yet? I was having trouble finding Penny's voice for a bit and now that issue has transferred over to Justin. Is it noticeable? Is it awful? What did I mess up with Chekov? Is the implied accent enough/too much/annoying/other? I want to know your feels.
Apologies in advance for any HMD fail on my part!

[dignity_misery]

I enjoyed making Justin literally run away from Carla. It was a theme the whole event long.

And I thought Chekov and Delacroix were super sweet during Daydreams and I need to follow up like a real RPer, because not having to watch him die certainly endeared her to him quite a lot. Sob.

I have not noticed anything wrong/unpleasant?! I also know nothing about any of your canons, though. Aha...

Cella

[brobeforehos]

Player name: Cella
Characters played:

Sif :: Thor (movie) :: asofwar
Mae Crawford :: The Demon's Lexicon :: brobeforehos
Sophie Hatter :: Howl's Moving Castle :: mrsnose

Personal concrit link: Generally at the top of each journal.
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: If you want, yes.
Other comments? Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks. - Ancient Savant

[conesoldstober]

When I apped Howl I was sort of set of being a Lone Canon Ranger, since I'm pretty used to it with all my tiny fandoms I play from. I never thought he'd ever get anyone from home, because I seriously don't know anyone who plays from book canon.

And then your Sophie showed up. And I basically squeed for an HOUR because she is so flawless and perfect and sometimes I can't cope with her. I couldn't dream of a better castmate, especially to play out a canon ship with. It's always a gambit because you never know if you're going to get along properly or have the same vision for the ship, but so far we've lined up magnificently. I only wish I could be around MORE for you, because you are such a prolific tagger and it makes me feel ashamed for taking breaks with Howl.

SO KEEP BEING FUCKING FABULOUS BABY. You make Howl a JOY to play. You prod me in all the right ways to come up with new plots and ideas when I'm feeling apathetic and I can't thank you enough for that.

<3

Pixy

[intheblanks]

Player name: Pixy Stixy
Characters played:

☤ Robert Chase | House M.D. | intheblanks

Personal concrit link: it starts out easy, something simple, something sleazy.
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Y
Other comments? something inching past the edge of reserve.

[blizzardseason]

Eh. You're alright.