[meme] kudos

[boywhoflew]

Two memes in a row? You betcha.

Given that it is now mid-year and that many of us seem to have been having a rough time of it lately, now seems like an excellent time for a kudos meme. Tag in character, as yourself, or even anonymously if you prefer! Just spread the love, y'all. ♥

Tag in each of your characters, then go around and respond to the others with kudos for their characters. Tell them why you love having them in game, what you enjoy about the character, praise a specific plot or thread, whatever love you have to spread. (If you'd rather just do a block comment of kudos, that's okay, too!) Share your favorite moments, tags, threads, plots, etc.

As with the nature of this meme, there is no time limit so don't feel rushed or like you 'missed it'! Tag in tonight, tomorrow, or next week and leave praise and love as you please. Just try to check back for new tag ins, tag around, and enjoy!

Comments

[deflectere]

I want to just post a hugging GIF because that's all I (and Alec) want to do when I tag against Jack. He's so adorable and so curious yet incredibly world aware after everything he's been through.

Alec's already thinking of Jack as a little brother so be prepared for overly protective Alec who wants to help Jack accomplish whatever he wants to do in Darrow.

[thisfaceismine]

Ugh, this SHITHEAD.

I know Ronan and I give him a lot of grief for being THE WORST, but I genuinely love that you had the guts to bring him in at all and do what you have with him. He's never going to be Ronan's favorite person, but I LOVE that you're taking him from a canon where he's basically only meant as a foil and fleshing him out to be a full-fleshed growing person. You're not afraid to keep him vulgar and abrasive while exploring how fundamentally broken he is and I love that. I'm eager to see how he grows further and where you take him.

[thisfaceismine]

Man, I need to throw Bitty at her again. She is a DELIGHT in every way and he's so so taken with her.

[thisfaceismine]

I've been wanting to thread with Katherine for AGES and I'm so so glad I finally have a good reason to do so. She's so wonderfully terrible and glorious and I'm excited to see where this thread with Freddie goes. :D

[rockabillyboy]

I can't. Can't even convey what Poison means to me. Obviously, there is my aforementioned Gerard Way problem (I used to be immune to that fucker) but playing Girl and Jack of him have led to some of my favourite threads. I was interested in him when I betaed his app, but I didn't expect to fall for him as completely as I have. You do such a great job of him and all of your choices for him make perfect sense.

And then there's the fact that, because of Poison, i get YOU, who has rapidly become one of my closest friends and I will always be so, so grateful for that. I love you!

[jeongbro]

ho boy. HO BOY. I mean. Obviously it's not like I love you and all your characters or anything.

Beca: Kavinsky's big sister/mom friend/the best boss lady. Everything you do with her is so touching and full of potential, just like she is, and every line of her--inline and dialogue--is so very Beca that it makes me want to hurl with joy. Just get out of my face.

Newt: I THINK YOU MIGHT BE AWARE THAT I HAVE SOME FEELINGS ABOUT NEWT AND HOW YOU PLAY NEWT AND HOW AMAZING NEWT IS AND THE SPECTACULAR VOICE NEWT HAS AND ALL THE SENSITIVITY HE EXHIBITS AND ALSO I AM 900% SURE ONE DAY NEWT IS GOING TO KICK HENRY CHENG'S ASS FOR BEING RUDE ABOUT KAVINSKY, IT WILL BE. SO GREAT. This perfect flower child with his garden and his boys uuuugh.

Kaz: I will throw all of my characters at Kaz sporadically until the end times. His adaptation to Darrow has been amazing to watch. I love that he's so different with Inej than he is with Matthais or Jesper, then he is with Alec or Krem, then he is with Sean. I love that Kavinsky and Henry got such totally different reads off him. I love him, and I love how you play him.

Adaline: I don't think I can sing the praises of Adaline Bowman enough, nor how you play her. She's amazing, so soft and tender but with a core of absolute steel convictions. I am so excited to see the progression of her relationship with Ellis in game, and to see how her friendship with Krem evolves from here too.

Jack: THIS HIPSTER PAIN IN MY ASS. I keep getting distracted from doing my tags by reading all of your threads and you need to stop it. He needs to stop it. This is just a serious problem.

Dee: I am so, so glad that Kavinsky? has all these strong women? to kick his ass. Sorry he threatened your boyfriend, Dee.

[thisfaceismine]

Oh, precious Derek. Such a staple of Darrow now, man. I love how far he and Bitty have come in their friendship and working relationship. Bitty is so happy to see HIM happy and will always be there if Derek ever needs anything at all.

Also, sorry about Sirius, lol.

[latterdaysaint]

I mean, I'm not saying he'd suggest it himself, but if Jessica wanted to adopt Kevin, we'd be cool with it. He knows how difficult it is to be the best and I think he gets bonus points for knowing Mandarin. Even if he only opted to learn it because he thought it would come in handy in China at Epcot World Showcase.

tl;dr she's pure magic and I can't wait to see what you do with her.

[jeongbro]

As we all know, I know next to nothing about this canon, but will gladly let you and Lys ramble at/around me about it for about 800 years. Biffy is probably one of Krem's best friends here in Darrow, and I wouldn't have it any other way. These weird children. So great.

[jeongbro]

I! adore! everything you've done with Aggie!

Her transformation from canon is so subtle and nuanced, she's so obviously still AGATHA PRENDERGHAST from Paranorman, and I love that! because it's such a cute movie and her story is so sad in it. I love everything that you do with her, and all the awful things you decide to put her through, and how she's grown, and I'm so! happy! that Krem gets to be a part of that aaaaah SO GOOD.

[jeongbro]

I think we all know exactly all of my feelings about the fellow TRC canonmates, which boils down to a bunch of button smashing and quiet groaning and happy sighs because you're all so amazing and you've all done such good jobs in keeping the core of canon true in these characters while letting them grow and change and be real, dynamic people in this new place.

It's so good that Adam's happy and! it's so much fun looking at the difference between how he acts around certain characters uuuuuugh it's so good IT'S SO GOOD.

[jeongbro]

If HCheng has to mediate some damn family counseling sessions between Wanda and Tony, he fucking will, man.

Okay, but seriously. You've known since we've been privately dicking around with Wanda and Bucky, and Wanda and Pietro, how much I fucking adore your Wanda. And while I'm unlikely to ever have an MCU pup in game, I am more than willing to dump my pups at your feet and roll over until you love me.

[jeongbro]

My summer child.

I will freely admit that I prefer the movie canon at times to the book canon on Divergent et al, but between you and Terra's Al, you guys actually got me to look at these books and movies seriously (and while I know it was the right decision, I am genuinely sad that I dropped Peter, for that reason; you guys are just SO GOOD). Tris is so densely characterized, and while I disagree with a lot of her motives, I absolutely adore her and where you've taken her in game. She's grown so much from who she was at 16/17, while not losing the silhouette of Beatrice Prior.

Krem is just gonna keep treating her like a badass little sister, it's so good and so pure.

[pylades_drunk]

Jack is just. A beautiful curious darling. You've taken an amazingly difficult (and yet, extremely particular) voice and narration and story and translated it wonderfully to RP, with Jack, and I love reading his tags. I've definitely got to throw more of mine in with him. <3

(Having recently had Gavroche disappear may be a good, or a terrible prompt to thread him again with R. Hmmm. /ponders.)

[formicine]

Hild is awesome, and though I haven't played with her much - just a few times between my characters - she always manages to say something right on the ball that hits right at the heart of matters. Certainly for Blue.

Which I think probably makes your Hild very in canon ;) I don't know her story at all, except here, and I'm slightly afraid I'll be disappointed because I love reading about Hild so much through lurking threads, but I'm going to have to do it because she's such an interesting character.

[thebloodtraitor]

UGH. Jack. My precious hockey prince. I love the point at which you chose to bring him in and how you've handled him dealing with losing SO much. It hasn't been easy for him, but you don't drown him in melancholy either, I don't think. You're giving him the chance now to find out what he likes outside of hockey and I'm so so excited to see him doing the camp thing.

And, of course, excited to see where his and Bitty's relationship goes from here. Bitty is SO happy and he and I both hope to make Jack just as happy, too.

[thebloodtraitor]

SWEET PRECIOUS PUNZ. She's a little ray of delightful sunshine and so wonderful to have in game. I'm excited to see how she develops as she learns more and more!

[pylades_drunk]

What. A freaking. Delight.

Ugh, I adore having multiple Amis about, and how different Combeferre and Courfeyrac are. I always feel like I'm writing Grantaire better around yours, like I'm pushed to a higher and more accurate standard with your writing of his canonmates, and I very much hope that we'll see lots more of them together.

It's also been delightful to meet you through all this and someday by hook or by crook, we will have an enormous geeky party together.

The idea of Grantaire and Courfeyrac working for the city together is both hilarious and amazing and we should do it.

(All this love goes to Combeferre too, naturally. And Athos! I really enjoy that you don't shy away from playing studious/quiet/broody characters, to be honest. It's hard to keep that up in a game and still have CR, but both of your other two are lovely.)

[formicine]

I think it's extremely brave, honestly, to bring Amalthea in and I think you've done a beautiful job with her. She's compelling and realistically other around humans and just feels right. I'd love to have more of her and Blue, though I know I've done a bad job at being around for it.

<3

[formicine]

I only know Gannicus through his (um, extremely nice *_*) interactions with Krem, but I am just a little bit in love with him. I have no idea about his canon but I am HAPPY to read lots and lots of threads with him. You have a gift for very different voices and his is endearing and boisterous and I love it.

You know me, I want to tag with all of yours, but I do think Blue and Gannicus should meet, if only because she's so fond of Krem and Gannicus is doing a good job making him happy.

[formicine]

Y E S.

Poison is perfect, and I'm so glad he's here, and I'm so glad I excitedly asked whose he was in Test Drive so that now I can count you among my friends. <333

I want more of him with EVERYONE. I also enjoy that you've fleshed out a somewhat liminal figure from mixed-media canon so well that, though I wouldn't play him how you play him, necessarily, I can absolutely agree whole-heartedly with all of your choices. Also, I mean, bandom nostalgia? Yes? MFY.

[formicine]

Your voice for him is so on the spot. I'm having a hard time with Blue being a bit wary on behalf of Krem (and possibly, Biffy? I need a calendar of what the hell is going on with everyone). Hopefully everyone resolves their shit because SOMEONE of mine needs to be friends with him.

Or I can just throw Grantaire at him? IDK.

[formicine]

Hiii <333

Firstly, I'm just going to live some player love here, because I think you deserve it: I am so, so glad that some TD antics brought us together, because you've quickly become one of my closest friends and I'm very glad to know you and that you can put up with my ~me~ness so well.

I don't do this part well! SNUGGLES AND RUNS

Anyway, I really ought to thread with Peter more, but Gansey is -- so, so perfect. You took a weird, tough situation and waited it out and persisted, and now I apologize that that is probably exactly what your Gansey is going to have to do but oh, the feels. I honestly feel like my Blue writing polishes right up in the presence of a good Gansey, and both you and Lys have brought that in different ways, with different Ganseys, and it's beautiful.

AND THERE ARE SO MANY FEELINGS ALWAYS.

[pylades_drunk]

Oh, I'm so glad that Julie is here, and that you're here with her. You know I love her! I'd love to plot something bigger-scale with her and Grantaire, and I ship the HELL out of her and Solo. They're going to have a ring of beautiful spy kids someday or something.

I constantly wish you had a twitter so I could just bug you with feelings about this girl, tbh. Or plot ideas I don't think merit an email. It's just always, always a joy.

[marthastewart]

I think you play a really INTERESTING take on Hedwig (and that's not "interesting" like "hmm, this soup is...interesting") and I always like poking about. I think partly I'm so intrigued because, well, Hedwig, but also because I just couldn't play them; Hedwig's a character I adore but don't have a grip on the personality of.

You do it marvelously, anyway, and I'm looking forward to throwing at least Arthur back in her path.

I have no idea what pronoun I'm using anymore. Crap.