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Tweak says, "Whats Your Beef?"

MarinaNova Mods (marinanova_mod) wrote in marinanova_ooc,
@ 2013-07-01 19:36:00

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mod: hmd, mod: plotting

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matter
2013-07-02 01:42 am UTC (link)

player name: crystal

character: elena gilbert | the vampire diaries |

matter | ☑
comments: mmm, elena's been going through her usual whirlwind of drama involving secrets about home and her love life, although it's been less than it has in the past. \o/ i guess i'm concerned about not branching out more beyond her cast at times. any suggestions and/or crit welcome!

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friendly_fire
2013-07-02 02:29 am UTC (link)

Elena...with drama? Craziness! But kidding aside...

You have a big and active cast. It's definitely a challenge to both keep up with it and manage to branch out from it. I've definitely been in a similar situation. That's not really crit or advice. Just...yeah man! It's a good thing to keep an eye on and work at for sure.

Your Elena is amazing. She always feels so perfectly Elena even as she learns all this shocking news from home and deals with new developments, people, events in Marina. I need to keep up with tagging better. My Sam tags are always the first to psych me out and often sit the longest and as I do them I always kick myself for that because of all his amazing CR and Elena is a big part of that amazing CR! I look forward to every "risks" that appears in my inbox.

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	matter 2013-07-03 03:36 am UTC (link)
	INSANE, I KNOW!! Usually her life is so calm and collected. Guh, thank you so much. I needed to hear that last night, and the understanding is also very much appreciated. ♥ And don't worry okay, I would wait a thousand years for a tag from you! I cherish all our CR; especially Sam and Elena's. He's come to mean a lot to her. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	notamasochist 2013-07-03 06:43 pm UTC (link)
	I agree with Haunt. TVD cast here is large and Elena is such a central part of it that it is difficult to get outside of it without overwhelming yourself. :) That being said, you do a great job with her and I love when I do get the opportunity to tag with you. So just keep it up. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	matter 2013-07-08 10:22 pm UTC (link)
	:) Thanks! I know I'm horrid sometimes with dropping threads too. I'm working on it. We should definitely tag soon and I will definitely not drop it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

thisiscalm
2013-07-08 09:41 pm UTC (link)

I've finally watched some TVD and can say without a doubt that you really got Elena's voice down! I can hear her clearly in every tag I read and I do get that... Elena sense about her, so good job on that!

I do have one thing to bring up: thread dropping. It's been a trend for a while now where I feel like some threads never get the chance to come to a conclusion before they're dropped? (I also know I have one thread with Elena and Reid right now that never got tagged back at all but shit happens). Maybe I've just had bad luck and I can certainly understand feeling overwhelmed and wanting to nuke the inbox, but I'm wondering if it could be an idea to try and wrap threads up instead? Especially when they can be concluded in two or three tags.

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matter
2013-07-08 10:19 pm UTC (link)

Yes, you're entirely right. Thread-dropping is something I'm really terrible at (or awesome at, depending on how you look at ) and I've been trying to work on it and know I need to be more conscious of it. Last month I set up a system in my mailbox where I flag the threads I haven't replied to yet and therefore I can't lose them. (I don't like to delete emails. I can find anything just by simply searching! Including threads! Ironically. I just didn't remember I still had a few to reply to.) I know what thread you're talking about; last month was killer for me, time- and cr-wise and I totally dropped the ball on it because I felt so behind and thought I'd eventually get to it, as I did with a lot of threads.

It really is either bad luck (I might have just forgot in the past or more recently forgotten to flag the comment) and poor time-management and sometimes even laziness on my part, especially when a thread is reaching a natural conclusion. I really do need to get into the habit of not thread-dropping and wrapping things up, and I'm sorry if it's ever negatively impacted you or anyone else.

So, yeah. Thank you for bringing it to my attention because I'm definitely going to work on it. I really enjoy our cr and I've been unreliable at times in seeing it through.

And thanks. :3 I'm so excited you're watching TVD!! What do you think?

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	thisiscalm 2013-07-08 10:46 pm UTC (link)
	No problem! It's not a huge deal but I figured I should at least bring it up since that's what HMD's are for! So far I really like TVD! I probably would've gotten a lot further (I finished the first season) if I didn't have other things to catch up on, but I'm sure I'll pick it back up again soon. The TVD cast here is definitely to blame for that so take some credit! (Reply to this) (Parent)

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