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[taxonmods]

Yes indeed, it has been a while since April. ...two months, in fact. So here we are with another HMD. It would be awesome if everyone participates!

Please comment here with the names of the characters you play and others will reply with their feedback- and it's obviously a given that this feedback will be helpful, constructive and respectful. Also, as amazing as getting ILU comments is, it's nice to hear why and what we're doing right just as much as criticism needs to be constructive.

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i am never first

[likeajoan.livejournal.com]

likeajoan
fogdar
deserveadeath

plz have at! Also, apologies re: my recent slowfail. I just graduated and full-time employment is kicking my ass. I SHALL ADJUST.

[aworldenchanted]

Your Buffy makes playing Tara better in all the best canon-mate ways. She will be clinging a little now that half her friends have abruptly disappeared, fair warning. But in all seriousness, your Buffy really feels incredibly genuine.

Also, Annie is cute as can be, and I swear I will watch her canon any day now. The first season is just sitting there on my hard drive.

[greenballadeer.livejournal.com]

Your wordplay with Buffy is amazing, might I say. How do you come up with that many adorable puns per tag?!

[bigbad]

I love your Buffy! I love every interaction she and Spike have, even though some of them are oh my god so angsty. But I feel like you really capture her character. I just... look forward to your tags whenever they come. I also liked how she and William bickered just like she and Spike sometimes do. It just... made me giggle.

I don't know Eric's canon or Annie's, but I loved Annie's thread with Kon, and I still think Eric and Spike should meet.

[biverbam.livejournal.com]

I love you Buffy. You've done an incredible job of balancing the Buffyness with the really wtf developments in the comics. DON'T LET JOSS' CRACK GET YOU DOWN!

MY KINGDOM FOR AN EDIT BUTTON

[biverbam.livejournal.com]

I WAS GONNA SAY STUFF ABOUT HOW GREAT ERIC IS SINCE I'M WATCHING S2 NOW THAT WE HAVE HBO AGAIN

AND THEN THAT I'M TRYING TO FIND S1 OF BEING HUMAN BECAUSE ANNIE IS ADORBS

But then I failed.

[aintnoconvict]

ALL YOUR CHARACTERS ARE BELONG TO ME.

I love Buffy, I do, and you have her captured perfectly. She's grown up but still not done baking yet (lol oh dear writers), and I enjoy her playfulness. Which I seem to get a lot of :D

...I am so anticipating further horrors with Eric. He is a suave, amoral bastard (or, you know, ancient vampire) and although I still have seen precisely none of TB I must say I enjoy him thoroughly. /stalks

Speaking of canons I haven't seen (yet) ANNIE OH ANNIE she is a balm and a joy and, appropriately, very very human. For a ghost. Yeah.

[supercompacted.livejournal.com]

Your Buffy is the only Buffy I've seen on Livejournal that's executed perfectly, in my opinion. You balance all her traits, recognize her flaws, and have a spot-on voice. This has always been true and looks like it will just continue on being true.

Eric is great, too, although I haven't gotten to reading as many of his threads. Every time I read him, though, his voice is perfect. And Annie, I do not know and have managed to almost completely miss, so I can't say anything about her. >_>; But somehow I imagine she's pretty darn good, too.

[bigbad]

killed2slayers
ihavettk

LAY IT ON ME.

[likeajoan.livejournal.com]

Alas I know tragically little of Kon's canon, but your Spike is fabulous. You've got the swagger and the attitude, as well as the more noble aspects of his character absolutely down, and his voice is spot on. I always really enjoy our threads, and it's awesome to play with you! That's all.

[biverbam.livejournal.com]

Just this one!

Honestly, I've been feeling really off/ooc for a while in addition to my epic slowfail, so if you have anything at all let me know. Even just "you used to do this there should be more" kinds of things, I'm all ears.

[likeajoan.livejournal.com]

You may be feeling off, but I honestly haven't noticed any difference in the high quality of the way you play River. Not that I threadstalk or anything. >_> I must have said this a zillion times, but I think you have a wonderful grasp on her way of thinking and her manner of speech and I still have no idea how you manage it.

[tamitha]

★ undoing
★ sneersgenetic
★ tiberiuskirk

Slowfail will cease once we get past June, the month of family visiting and making trips home to visit them in turn. x-x;

[likeajoan.livejournal.com]

It pains me to admit this, but I think I'm starting to love Connor. x_x I don't know when this happened, but it has happened. You bring a great sense of depth to a character that I think basically got... shafted by canon (well, in the TV series, anyway). There's a lot of post-Hell stuff that I haven't gotten around to reading still, but from what I have read, I think you have him down very very well. Which is no small feat, considering all his various memories and the complexity of his character.

Angel is awesome as always. It's kind of difficult to elaborate on that in a constructive way, because you're just... brilliant. That's it, haha. Again, you bring all sorts of headcanon and depth to him that makes reading all his stuff really enjoyable.

I have sung Kirk's praises many times before, so I can only reiterate previous statements of 'wow you make this character so layered and interesting', which you absolutely do. SOB, KIFFY. I think Buffy's in a permanent ice-cream coma, just for the record.

[faderbroderson]

faderbroderson

Even I am slowfail this month. Everyone stop apologizing for the slowfail or I'll have to apologize too. ;;

[fogdar.livejournal.com]

I am pretty certain I have said this a lot before, but I love your Godric. The fact that you can bring so much depth to a character with so little screen-time continues to amaze and astound me. His strength, his quiet authority, his compassion, his sadness, his wit... these are all things you get across brilliantly, and I can hear his voice in your tags.

...also we should do our bear hunting before shit hits the fan at the end of the month. >_>

[oppositeofhero.livejournal.com]

oppositeofhero

Anything anyone has to say, I'm all ears. I'm really unsure about my portrayal of Tony, since this is my first time playing him and all. Concerns, suggestions, etc. are very, very much appreciated!

[aworldenchanted]

I really like your Tony so far. His curiosity, and his outward devil-may-care factor make him very interesting, especially in his reactions to Taxon. I'll be waiting to see how you deal with his physical issues here, but on the whole, so far so good? :D

[lionofolympus.livejournal.com]

Herc. I would do the fancy coding if I knew how.

[likeajoan.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I haven't read any of Herc's canon at all, but you make me want to so much. He's absolutely hilarious and a joy to play with. I love reading everything you do with him. So yes, not much constructive anything here, but there we go.

[aintnoconvict]

justaddmarbles
fortunate_fitz

While we are on the apology tour OH MY GOD I have no idea what my eternal block with Fitz is. Although I do have theories and these theories have zippers on their heads and are attention whores. Um. He's a work in progress?

[aworldenchanted]

I don't know Fitz from canon at all, but yours is adorable, and I enjoy him a lot. I hope the kinks come out in your experience of writing him, because seeing him thread is lovely when he does.

I love your Glitch. Seriously, he's just... lovely, and quirky, and every now and then has the barest flash of Ambrose. I really admire how well you balance all that.

[aworldenchanted]

beenthroughhell
mancalledspade
ironshodboots

Known issues: Spade needs to meet MANY MORE PEOPLE and talk to the ones he already knows. Nazca needs to actually open her bar, and not just troll people. Tara still needs to get her item from the aliens at some point.

Fire away.

[supercompacted.livejournal.com]

I haven't paid nearly enough attention lately, but your Tara? She is wonderful. Just the right amount of shy and wise and assertive when she really needs to be. It's been great fun to read scenes with her in them.

Lorne

[greenballadeer.livejournal.com]

Lay it on me. I've never done a LJ RP before, much less this particular character.

Re: Lorne

[supercompacted.livejournal.com]

Your Lorne is great! I really hear his voice when you're writing him, and I love his dynamic with everyone else. All the tension with Angel was especially true to form, and I liked seeing the more serious side to him.

I think I'll probably be back soon, and perhaps I can poke at him more with both Mohinder and Fred. :D

[sonofsarek.livejournal.com]

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[skort]

SPOCK. Ugh. Lauren, I love your Spock. He's so logical and serious, but then he's got the curious, scientist mind and the whole wishing Extras were hamsters things and. Ugh. He's great, bb, seriously. I just wish I could see more of him around!

I... haven't been stalking Gwen as much, otherwise I'd have some comment here. >_>

[supercompacted.livejournal.com]

notifs, where are you?

supercompacted
chase_evolution

And apologies for my lack of tagging, resulting in some character!fail with stuff like socializing and plans. I will hopefully get better with that soon. But please let me know your thoughts!

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

FREEEEEED.

ADSGFHGJHKJLL YOUR FRED IS FANTASTIC. I so extremely highly very muchly enjoyed the Fred/Illyria aspect of the glitch because.... god. There are no words to describe how wonderful you were able to convey her anguish at having a doppelganger right here in Taxon. I WILL TREASURE THAT THREAD FOREVER.

[skort]

supertorso

She's still a really new muse for me, so any and all criticism/advice would be very helpful!

[sonofsarek.livejournal.com]

My DC knowledge is lacking a lot, specifically with the Supergirl end of things, but I really love Kara. I also like that she's not put off by how uptight Spock is lol. Some people get burnt out super early and Kara is just amused. (He'll never admit it but he's actually concerned at how well she's settling. He might be even more concerned if he meets Kon lol).

Can't really offer much advice except they clearly need to talk more~

[a-pretty-fire.livejournal.com]

DG [tothelightshown]
Drusilla [a_pretty_fire]
Martha Jones [allthatlife]

Martha is very new and Dru is ... well, Dru, so I'm particularly interested in hearing what you think about them.

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

Your Dru is just perfectly Dru. It actually breaks my heart that I can't app Darla because SFGHJOKM their dynamic would have been awesome, but nevertheless I am highly entertained by her ongoing rivalry with Cordelia.

It also delights me that, on the other hand, DG and Piper are getting along swimmingly :3 And Martha is fantastic!

late forever and ever and ever

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

glowingseer
revivedqueen
freezecharm

go go go!

Cordy love!

[greenballadeer.livejournal.com]

I love the balance of playful and serious you have going with Cordelia. I mean, she's Cordy and she's funny and sparkling, but she cares and she fights.

[riddler-gump.livejournal.com]

Honeythorn Gump (this account), from Legend.

[rereremembered.livejournal.com]

I'm one of those fail!children of the 80s who never saw Legend (stop looking at me like that) so I don't know his canon. HOWEVER. Can I just say that your writing is absolutely beautiful? Because it is, I'm watching your threads just for that.

Aside from that, Gump is an increidbly unique character and I can't wait to see how he adapts to an environtment so foreign from his own. I'll be throwing one of my guys at him soon enough!

[demonologist]

These things make me nervous but...

that_wasbracing Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
notabuymoron John Casey

Excuse me while I wander in four days late.

[gotcouplings.livejournal.com]

Cheryle here, with Kaylee, constructive crit is always always always appreciated. :D