Activity Check Results

[lucetimods]

The results for the Activity Check are in. Please note that the following characters were either inactive, didn't post to the activity check, or failed to speak to a moderator about their activity. Also added were characters who have dropped, for your convenience.

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A number of you passed the activity check, but barely. (You know who you are.) Try to pick things up, as it's no fun to character-squat.

If there are any mistakes here, please let us know! Additionally, if your character was removed and you're still active, feel free to appeal to one of us about keeping your character. However, please remember next time to stay active and post to the Activity Check. Thank you!

And as always:

HMD

How's My Driving?

This is a crit post for both the community and game and for your characters. If you have something you'd like to see us improve upon with the game, PLEASE TELL US HERE! Anon commenting is on, but if anything gets really nasty there will be warnings and thread-freezing. This isn't required but everyone is encouraged to take advantage of the advice of your fellow players!

Just some pointers: no taking cheap shots, no dragging personal issues into things and for the love of all that is wise and great, please double check your replies and comments before posting them. Sometimes a change in phrasing can make all the difference between a helpful tone and a condescending one.

ALSO ALSO: We'd like to clarify that HMD means HMD- which means it's okay to have both good and bad crit. Some people have expressed concerns about posting good/bad crit when a character already has bad/good crit posted. We'd like to encourage you guys to do it anyway! You can drive well or badly, and even good drivers make mistakes. So give it a try \o

Comments

Re: Shira

[no-use-running.livejournal.com]

I've always loved Katara, that's no surprise. I don't know why this popped into my head, but I'd love to see some feminism come from her at some point. I know opportunities don't exactly sprout up constantly for this, but defying the convention that said girls could only learn very restricted bending was something she felt strongly enough about to challenge her culture.

[markofthebrave]

It's true that Katara feels very strongly about equality between men and women (that women are fully capable as men as fighters and in all other aspects), however I would argue that it's not her culture she raged against. In the Southern Watertribe, men and women waterbenders fought side-by-side. But regardless of that - Luceti is a remarkably egalitarian place where even traditionally evil beings like 'demons' are considered equal with others and given a fair shot - let alone women. I don't feel that it would be appropriate for her to address an issue which is a... nonissue, if that makes sense? When things come up in conversation, such as her talk with Sanji some time ago about hitting women, or if someone is able dumb enough to mention something like that in her presence, then there's an opportunity for that to come out. As it is, though, I don't think she'd feel the need to 'preach to the choir,' rather, she's exercising her feminism by enjoying the opportunities offered and taking advantage of the fact that as of right now she is accepted for the warrior that she is without having to shout from the rooftops 'I'm good enough even though I'm a girl!'

[no-use-running.livejournal.com]

No, that totally makes sense; I even said opportunities don't exactly come up here. It was just something that popped into my head about her.

[markofthebrave]

Yeah, when I think about her character that interaction with Pakku is one of the defining moments - lol, for reasons I won't tl;dr here.

[no-use-running.livejournal.com]

But I like tl'dr D: XD /can grab me on AIM or PMs if you want.

[markofthebrave]

Maybe later! I'm about fifteen minutes away from crashing right now, and long tl;dr is long. Bullet points are:

-She should have apologized. The goal was to teach Aang waterbending. Aang is the Avatar. His learning it is more important than her. She knows this.
-She didn't care. Waterbending had been her dream since forever, it was who she is, she wanted to learn how to fight and how dare he stand in her way for something so stupid.
-She knew that Pakku would beat her. She didn't care. She was determined to do everything that she could to prove that he had to take her seriously as a fighter.
-She almost did apologize. But something in her just snapped at the injustice of it all. And she doesn't look back on challenging him with anything other than a sense of rightness. He was wrong, she was right, and she's just glad that he was finally able to see what his stupid commitment to male superiority (or 'his culture) had cost him.
-At the core of who she is, Katara is a fighter