cityarcade | MEME: Kudos

Hello! I’m Carly and I play these idiots:

Bucky Barnes |

semi_stable | The MCU
Klaus Hargreeves |

terriblymisguided | The Umbrella Academy
Elio Perlman |

speakordie | Call Me by Your Name
Rey Skywalker |

strongerthanblood | Star Wars
Steve Harrington |

haplesshairpile | Stranger Things
Rapunzel |

fatesdesign | Tangled

Okay, so, I am mostly going to focus this on Steve because he is the character of yours that I both know best and thread with the most. I obviously had a go at the character myself, but never really felt like I connected with him properly and, honestly, I am so glad that I dropped him because you are SO MUCH better at him than I was, and this eans that I also get to play WITH him, too, which is a joy. I recently went back and read his threads with Alex, and I am so glad that we're threading them more again. The way you write him, and how he's grown into himself in Darrow, is PERFECT, and I love reading his threads with other people. I'm also really glad that we're starting to thread him and Gideon together more, too, as, like I said the other day, it makes sense that they would be friends - they're both sports bros, ultimately, and they both love Maeve XD

On a less game related, more personal note, thank you for all the love over the last few months. I doubt I'd be in so solid a place if it wasn't for you guys not leaving me in it, and I really appreciate it <3

Happy holidays!

I love all of your characters - they've all got such distinct, unique voices, and you play them so well. More than that, though, I love how much you love all your characters. You care about them so much, and you're enthusiastic about them in a way that's so contagious even if I haven't seen the source material, and all of your decisions about them are so thoughtful and made with such love and care and always done in a way that feels true to them, no matter how long they've been in Darrow.

IDK I guess I think you're okay.

A N Y W A Y

I don't even know what to say, at this point. How many ships have we had? A bunch, I guess. Even your characters I'm not all entangled with, I tend to follow like a creeper. Your characters are always so dynamic and so much fun. They're living, breathing people you can imagine outside of your threads, and they're never just a collection of quirks, and your passion and excitement for them always comes across in your writing.

Oliver and Elio have been such a huge fucking deal for YEARS NOW. Like, weirdly, one of my biggest constants, which is wild. And here Bucky and Loki are, coming out of fucking nowhere and consuming my brain. Elio and Bucky are so WILDLY different, sometimes it's fucking baffling that they've both come from the same place, because they're both so fucking good.

I miss the ones we've let go, because they've been some of the most interesting and unexpected ships I've ever played out, but I also always know we'll find an excuse to shove our pups at each other. I don't know that there's been more than a day or so that's gone by where we haven't at least said hello to each other or sent dumb memes or keysmashed about the game or just complained about life in literal YEARS, and I know for sure that I can't say that about anyone I don't live in the same house with.

So, in other words, I love you, you jerk.

happy holidays, folks! Laine here, and I play:

Jyn Erso | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story |

nextchance
Beverly Hopper (née Marsh) | It (2017) |

runtowardsomething
Dani Ardor | Midsommar |

feelheld
S | Sonata of a Flame |

hismelody
Hilde Lisko | Home Before Dark |

ratherbebrave
Jules Vaughn | Euphoria |

astheocean
Chrissy Cunningham | Stranger Things |

queenofhawkinshigh

Okay, so, before I get into the character kudos, I just want to say thank you - for being present for me since August, and for reminding me that I'm loved and here and witnessed. I've really appreciated it. I'm going to say this a lot on this meme, I imagine, but I really wouldn't be doing as well as I am now, relatively speaking, if it wasn't for you guys keeping me going ♥

CHARACTERS! Okay, so, obviously, Beverly is very close to both mine and Bill's hearts, and I love the way you play her. The way she's growing into herself, into her adulthood, is beautiful, and I love threading her with Bill, that delicate balance they have between being friends (and each other's first love) but also now being so far apart in age and experience. It feels very true, and I love that we get to play that.

I'm going to group Dani and Chrissy together here for a moment, just to say that I really love your talent at playing these lovely, fragile girls who deserve a better ending that they got. I LOVE Midsommar, and, since I dropped Marianne, I'm sorry that I haven't had a chance to thread with Dani as much. You KNOW how much I love playing out Alex and Chrissy's growing friendship, and like, them finding their feet with that. I also take GREAT joy in the way that you and Leah are playing out Eddie and Chrissy's mutual crush; it's delightful, and I will absolutely continue to stalk their threads XD.

Merry Christmas! <3

Okay so first of all I am obsessed with both Maedhros and Hilde and Lup and Jules, they are both truly the weirdest friendships and yet I am delighted with them.

Second: I am familiar with precisely one of your characters, but I feel like I know all of them, and that's entirely down to you and how damn good you are at conveying who these characters are both inside and outside of their respective contexts. You've got such a knack for zeroing in on exactly what's important about a character and making that shine and it's always so, so impressive.

Also I just think you're really great, like, as a person, and I do in fact want to personally fight anything that makes you think otherwise. <33333

I can't get used to your journal name change. Who ARE you?

Anyway, hi. GOSH, I love your girls (AND S) so fucking much, man. You have such a deep understanding of each one of your characters-- not just the wider brush strokes, but the minute, inner works of their heads, in a way that I've always been a little jealous of. You've never been afraid to play quieter characters, who have these very complicated, nuanced inner lives, and while I can definitely pick out certain patterns in the types of characters you choose to play, they all feel so uniquely themselves.

But more importantly, I MISS YOUR FUCKING FACE A LOT. LOL We existed just outside each other's orbits for a WHILE, but I felt pretty immediately comfortable with you after we met, which isn't something I can say about a lot of people. The RP is fucking fun and everything and clearly we never would've met without it, but it's just a bonus.

I love you and stuff, LIKE A LOT.

Hello and happy holidays! It's Stef with my current only dumbass, J~

Edited 2022-12-25 00:37 (UTC)

I don't know J at all, so I'm going to have to resort to personal kudos. Thank you, Stef, for being so kind to me in the months since Bea died. It's been the worst year of my life, but I have come through without too much trauma, and at least part of that is down to this community, and how kind and loving you have all been towards me. I can't actually convey how much I appeciate everything you've done and said, all the times you've been so sweet to me or validated what I was feeling in that moment. I'm really grateful for this opportunity to tell you (and everyone else) how much it has meant to me.

Merry Christmas!

STEF, I haven't played off of J really, despite Oliver's friendship with S, WHICH WE SHOULD FIX.

Anyway, on a personal note, you're just such a sweet, genuine person, and I've always really admired your passion and dedication to the things you love, and what a loyal and supportive friend you are.

When I think of you, I think of your adorable style, tarot, and MURDER, which is... just fucking great, honestly.

J is fucking delightful and I definitely want to thread with him more, either with Maedhros in non-fraught circumstances for fucking once, or with any of my other pups.

You are also delightful, and I love how excited you get about the things you love, and how much you want to share those things with everyone around you, and also your frankly impeccable taste. You're such a good friend and you're always so much fun to chat with, whether it's being enthusiastic about something or being judgy bitches together. <33333333

I'm Suzi!

He's Viktor Hargreeves |

fifthbeatle | The Umbrella Academy (TV)

Merry Christmas, yall. ♥

I really enjoy what I've seen of Viktor - he's such a great, complex character in canon, and I think you do a great job of working with that in the context of the game, as well as letting him grow into himself. I love it! ♥

I FUCKING LOVE YOU, YOU FREAK.

Sam and Viktor was such a stroke of genius on our part. They are the best odd couple ever, I have been just so happy to watch their weird, awkward, perfect friendship grow over the last couple years. And man, watching Viktor find himself in Darrow, as an extension of what we got in the last season, has been so perfect. I know you were uncertain at first, and working it into the game was a challenge, but he's blossomed so beautifully in the game, and your writing of him has become so much more assured, if that makes sense.

You've never been afraid to take risks with your pups, which is fucking hard, and I've always envied.

Plus, you're one of the most fun, funny, weird, genuinely cool people I know.

You are, as far as I can tell, fucking killing it with Viktor. You took on a hell of a task with that canon and you absolutely rose to the occasion and it's been a delight to see.

Also I think you are rad as hell and I love you.

Hi everyone, it's Caitlin, infrequently here with:

Darlington |

more_magic | Ninth House
Harrowhark Nonagesimus |

undonewithout | The Locked Tomb

I don't really know where to begin, so I'll start with them, and build myself up.

You are, I know, very aware of how much I love Darlington, and how you play him. From my first reading of Ninth House, I knew he was a character you would love, and I was really gratified to be right when you read it. The way you play him is perfect; his voice is so true to the novel, and I love the way he's developed and grown over his time in Darrow, though I do really miss threading him and Alex arguing like they used to in the early days. They are very much the ship of my heart, and I'm always SO happy when we're threading them. I can't wait for new canon in a few weeks, and I selfishly hope that it gives us some real opportunities to fuck with them, because that's always so much fun.

HARROWHARK NONAGESIMUS. Playing Harrow is a really big ask, because she's got such a particular voice, and she's not very likeable a lot of the time, and you do such a wonderful job of playing her, her sharp edges and her soft places, and how she feels about the frankly mortifying ordeal of being known. I love how much she loves Griddle, and how much she resents that she loves her, and I love how outraged she is by Darrow a lot of the time. It's perfect. I love threading her and Gideon, and, honestly, Gideon wouldn't be nearly so much fun without her.

Right, on top the soppy stuff. You know, by now, I think, how important you are to me. You have been right there for me for so much and, particularly during this last few hard months, I don't know if you know how much that has mattered to me. I cherish that time that I spent with you and Becca in London, even though I was pregnant and a bit sick and very hot and miserable for parts of it. I love that we went to see Much Ado About Nothing together. I love that I have those Beatrice shaped memories and that you are in them. The card that you and Becca sent when Bea died made me cry when I opened it, because what you said was so perfect and I know you would have loved her such a lot. You are deeply, extremely important to me, and I am so glad that this game, and the characters we play, allow me to be so close to you. I love you so, so much. Forever. Like you said to my small girl, the world is a kinder place with you in it.

I love you so, so much. Forever. Thank you for being my friend. I will continue to gently pester you for tags for as long as it takes ♥

I do not interact with your characters but I do stalk their threads and I just want to say that you write them beautifully. You have such a clear grasp of their voices and what their canons sound like and it's always so nice to read.

EH.

Christ, how long have we known each other? I can't figure out if I've been playing longer with you or with Leah, so I guess we'll just say a long fucking time. A shared history is a good way to put it, because you're right, we were KIDS, and we've had ups and downs and long gaps where we weren't in each other's lives, but I'm just really grateful we found our way back. I am so glad I got to be there for you, in what little way I could be, over the last year, and that you trusted me and shared so much about Bea with me from the very start.

Man, am I glad you took a chance on apping Bill as an adult, despite the challenges it heaped on you right from the start, because it sure has paid off for me. Neil thanks you, too. He's such a great fucking character, but we see so little of him being like, a fully formed adult with a history he can actually remember, and it's been so great to get to watch that happen for him in Darrow. Despite the little kernel in my brain when you first started talking about apping him— that he and Neil would be interesting to throw at each other, I did not anticipate what their relationship would become, and how natural it would feel.

And hey, thanks for accepting my gentle and not at all pushy encouragement to app Joyce. She's just so fucking pitch-perfect, and having that relationship has made everything I've done with Will so much more rewarding.

I love you like crazy, man. <333

♥ ♥ ♥

I completely agree with you that Gideon and Lup are hilarious and I always have such a good time threading them. I've only read bits and pieces of Gideon's canon but I feel like I know her as a character, just through how you write her, to the point that when I see fanworks go by I'm like "ah, yes, that seems in-character" very authoritatively based on your characterization.

Also I think you are lovely <33333

I'm Ashley, and I'm being held captive by:

Spike |

bloodyanimal | Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel
Neil McCormick |

myfavoritedream | Mysterious Skin
Sam Winchester |

greatest_sin | Supernatural
Eddie Kaspbrak |

eddie_spaghetti | It
Daryl Dixon |

lastmanstandin | The Walking Dead
Oliver |

latermaybe | Call Me By Your Name
Loki Laufeyson |

thewrongpath | Loki (TV)
Will Byers |

zombie_boy | Stranger Things

God, man. Where to start? We have known each other for so long and has so much shared history at this point. I know I mention it often, but I still so fondly remember that time that I stayed at your house and hung out with you and your mom and the dog. When we were CHILDREN, it feels like. Obviously, you were the first IG person I told about Bea, and it meant a lot that I could trust you with that, and know that you would take care of telling people I needed to know for me. Thank you for that; I don't think I can really convey how important it was, and how loved it made me feel to just be able to hand that weight to you. I know we drifted for a bit, but I'm so glad that we're close again now. I missed it, when we weren't.

ANYWAY. Characters. I'm going to stick to the ones I play with most, otherwise I'll be here all day. I LOVE threading Eddie and Bill, the way their relationship has both changed and stayed the same, and I love that Bill kind of gets to be both his best friend and a father figure and everything that means. You've let him grow into himself really beautifully, and I love how organically that's happened.

Obviously, I've only just started having the opportunity to play with Will, but I LOVE IT SO MUCH. Our most recent thread, with him coming out to Joyce, has been really perfect, and I love that I get the opportunity to play how much Joyce loves her son, and how she just wants the best for him. It's a real joy.

I don't even really know where to start with how I feel about Neil; I've said so much of it before, over the years. I love him, and I love what you've done with him how, even after all these years, you're still finding ways to let him grow and change beyond his canon. I LOVE his relationship with Bill, which grew in a really organic way and now just feels very solid and lovely and perfect. I have been in love with Neil for, like, more than fifteen years at this point so, yes. Thank you for him.

Basically, I love them, man, but not as much as I love you ♥

MERRY CHRISTMAS/HAPPY HOLIDAYS/HAPPY WEEKEND EVERYONE

I'm Angel, and I play:

Richie Tozier | It (2017/2019) |

the_trashmouth
Rue Bennet | Euphoria |

selfishdreamer
Anakin Skywalker | Star Wars |

bring_balance
Number Five | Umbrella Academy |

number_five

I know that it's been difficult, finding time to RP, but I wanted to tell you how much I love your characters - how precise your characterisation is, how clear their voices really are. Obviously, Richie is where I've actually got skin in the game, because of Bill, but I always loved threading Rue and Alex, too, and Five is SUCH a complex voice that you completely nail. Hopefully, you're getting to a point where you can find your way back into it, and I look forward to us being able to thread more.

On a personal note, thank you so much for your kindness, when I was pregnant and you were so reassuring and then after Bea died, too. I really appreciated every time you took the time to reassure me; I can't really convey to you now how much it mattered at the time. ALSO, I know I've said this to you before but, during the really difficult bit, photos of Autumn really did make a little bit of a difference to me. Your small girl is SO beautiful, and her personality comes across so distinctly in photographs and videos, and I love that I get to see that. Thank you so much for sharing that.

Merry Christmas! ♥

I really enjoy threading Lup and Gideon; I don't know the canon at all, but their threads are always hilarious. Maedhros seems like a really interesting character, too, and I'm going to make sure that I tag him in the future, so that I've got a chance to thread with him more.

Also, thank you for the times that you've reached out, the times that you've been supportive. I've appreciated every single one.

♥

HAPPY HOLIDAYSSSSS

I'm Leah, with the following:

Marcus Keane |

pushbackthedarkness | The Exorcist (TV)
Mad Sweeney |

onlythebranch | American Gods (TV)
Jim Hopper |

something_incredible | Stranger Things
Jamie |

lost_boy | Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
Maeve Wiley |

complexfemalecharacter | Sex Education
Obi-Wan Kenobi |

larger_world | Star Wars
Sylvie Laufeydottir |

the_variant | Loki
Eddie Munson |

didntrun | Stranger Things

And I will be back with kudos over the course of the next few days between more holiday social obligations ;__;

You know what I still think about a lot? Lily and Lennox. We go SO FAR BACK, man. Obviously, my characters have a tonne of connections with yours, so I'm going to focus on those characters but, like, I love your whole roster. For example, I don't play with Marcus anymore, much, but I LOVED playing Kaz off him; their relationship was SO perfect, and it became really integral to who Kax was in Darrow, versus who he'd always been in Ketterdam.

ANYWAY. You know how I feel about Hopper. I LOVE Hopper. I have always loved how you play Hopper. I love that he's the closest thing to a dad that Alex has ever had, and how they've both settled into that relationship. They're still relatively new, but I LOVE Joyce and Hopper. I love the way that they're figuring out this relationship that's been a long time coming, and how just...utterly into each other they are, and it's just...It's an utter joy to play them together and if your Hopper wasn't so, so good, there's absolutely no way I would have ever thought to play Joyce.

On the subject of pseudo-parental relationships, I really love Bill and Jamie's relationship, and the way that they're growing into being friends - it makes me really happy.

MAEVE. Gideon and Maeve makes me SO HAPPY. Gideon just adores her, and she's different with Maeve than she is with a lot of people, because she's never quite figured out how to get her defenses up with her. Gideon honest to Jod adores her, everything about her, and I love those threads that we've played out where they've really needed each other for support, because Gideon's never really had that, and I love that she has Maeve to give it to her now. Maeve is such a great character in canon, and you do a great job of keeping her sharp edges and her vulnerability and all of the things that make her so lovely.

I have made no secret about the fact that I'm in love with Eddie Munson. I was so excited whenyou apped him, because I knew you were going to do an amazing job, and you DO. He's so lovely, and so well observed, and I LOVE his growing friendship with Alex, because he is definitely someone that teenage Alex would have been REALLY into, but he's nice, which is lovely. I just...yeah. I love playing them off each other, and I sincerely hope that it's as much fun for you.

On a personal note, I just wanted to thank you for how kind you always are to me, and how supportive you've been since Bea died. Tagging with you is one of the things that's made life bearable, because it's given me something to enjoy, something to focus on, and I don't know if I can ever convey to you how much that's really meant ♥

I don't think a single soul is going to see this, and that's fine -- I am resolved not to feel bad if no one does -- but I'm having a sad night and you know what, fuck it? And I'm reminding myself with it to tell people that I love them.

I'm Faye and I ~~theoretically and hopefully more next year~~ play:
Grantaire |

pylades_drunk | Les Misérables
Eponine Thénardier |

daughterofawolf | Les Misérables
Camilla Hect |

go_loud | The Locked Tomb

Edited (I CAN SPELL) 2023-01-02 03:49 (UTC)

We have known each other for such a long time, and you have always treated me with such kindness and love. I have appreciated that particularly during the last few months, when I have felt very supported ,and very loved.

I know that you give yourself a tough time, but I did want to take a moment to congratulate you on the level to which you know your characters, the care that you take with the details, and how well realised they are all. Camilla is a DIFFICULT character, and you write her so very, very well. Grantaire has always been deeply lovely, too and I like the way you give your characters room to grow and develop. Basically, it's lovely to watch, and I hope you go easy on yourself this year ♥

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