In case you were thinking of getting a bubble or fromm subscription:
here's how the idol's I am or was subscribed to text
ateez:
Seonghwa:
seonghwa loml
he usually texts quite often!!
he's a very quick typer, so even though he's not online for long periods of time he still talks A LOT.
he talks very cutesy and slangy so - as a Korean learner - I sometimes have a hard time understanding him, but I feel like I've kinda gotten used to it by now haha I've definitely learned a lot of new words talking to him
sometimes he goes live on toktoq after being online on fromm 🥺
Yunho:
I've only just subscribed to him yesterday but he was online today so... I can give somewhat of a feedback I guess???
yunho talks a lot less cutesy than seonghwa does, so I can understand him quite well lol
was online for a longer period than seonghwa usually is, but he took his time typing his messages, giving me more time to think of a reply
OH
I've been telling him "goodbye" "see you later" "have a nice day" for... idk like 10 minutes until he actually left. HE SEEMED LIKE HE WAS GONNA LEAVE FOR 10 MINUTES STRAIGHT BUT EVERYTIME I SAID GOODBYE HE CAME UP WITH NEW THINGS TO TALK ABOUT LOL
oh
while writing this post he went online again
TO SEND
THIS
San:
I didn't have him for long cause he was always online at inconvenient times (usually around 4 or 5 am where I live) so I kept missing him :(
he's funny though!!! especially when he talks about forcing seonghwa to workout with him lol
I learned some verb endings from him that I didn't know before
can't really say much about the way he talks cause I kept missing him
I do love him 3000 though
Taemin:
lots of selfies!!! and when I say lots I mean LOTS!! mainly gym, taxi and bed selfies
also a lot of cat content!!! (very worth it imo)
doesn't text a lot but he "calls" A LOT (so basically lots of video and voice live streams) sometimes even daily!!!
Xdinary Heroes
Gaon:
usually texts everyday but mostly just 1-3 messages a day
however sometimes he's online for an hour or so!! he's very cute!! (gets shy when he's being complimented haha)
he likes to take photos while taking walks!!! he also sends selfies pretty regularly!!
he barely ever sends voice messages though!! I think he sent like 1 during the last year lol
O.de:
SO MANY SELFIES
daily selfies!!!
doesn't text a lot but he does go online daily!! (maybe it's different now I've only had him for a few months a year ago or so)
Jooyeon:
not online regularly BUT when he's online he sends a lot of voice messages of him singing!!
he also likes to send goofy photos lol
skz
Chan:
barely online BUT he translates everything he says which is very cute!!!
he's as delusional as we are lol
LeeKnow
doesn't talk a lot BUT is online almost everyday!!
CAT CONTENT!!!!! (=^・ω・^=)
likes to send tiny LOUD voice messages
loves to take pictures of his food at very unflattering, unappetizing angles lol
Hyunjin:
phew
I've only had him for a month or so a year ago
sends quite a lot of pictures which is cool!!
online almost everyday but only sends a few messages
Felix:
sometimes online multiple times a day
occasionally won't be online for days or weeks though
BUT WHEN HE'S ONLINE he's online for hours lol
sends his entire camera roll
lots of voice messages (usually in Korean and English)
sometimes does song covers and asmr
lots of good night voice memos with kisses hehe
he's very silly and asks you to do aegyo in exchange for photos
he can be pretty sentimental at times too which is very cute!
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Hiiiiii everyone I’ve become obsessed w Trolls, and by extension, several of the AUs here. In particular, @djmurphy ‘s Hypno Pop AU has had me in its clutches. I couldn’t stop myself so I wrote a lil somethin’ in between working on my Feral!Branch AU.
Bit of a warning, it’s def unreliable narrator, and yes, it’s supposed to be kinda creepy. I hope y’all like, please do not copy or post to another site. Lmk what y’all think!
"Hee, hee, hee, hee, heh, heh, eheh…" It wouldn't stop, no matter what I tried, nothing would make it stop. My face hurt, my entire body hurt if I was being honest. It was getting harder to do that. My voice wasn't my own, instead spewing false, toxic positivity that made me want to scream. It was hard to be honest even inside my own head when the compulsions wouldn't leave me alone either.
Keep Smiling. The compulsions hurt, but it hurt worse to try and resist. Like my nerves were being burnt. The compulsions made it easier to go about my day-to-day. I always knew what I was supposed to be doing, and how to be a good troll like everybody else. It was comforting to have a safety net.
Keep Singing. This one was harder to obey, but somehow even more painful to try and ignore. Whether I obeyed or not, it felt like liquid fire in my veins. I watched it happen over and over and over again. Every time I opened my mouth to sing, I saw her push me out of the way instead. It was painful fighting to go grey. My vocal cords always felt shredded, and they had lost a lot of their angelic body, sounding raspy, damaged.
Go To King Peppy. My numb feet carried me to the King's pod that he shared with his youngest daughter. I wasn't supposed to talk about Viva either, which was wrong. Poppy should know about her older sister, even if she never got to meet her. I knew a little about my parents, even if they had been taken before my egg hatched. At least I knew my parents existed. I wonder what my brothers are up to…
Part of me yearned to have them home still, that same part I was scared was getting dependent on the string. I would feel my feet quickening as the power of the string would begin to fade, heading to King Peppy's door, knowing I wouldn't skip. It was horrifying to think part of myself actually liked being like this. I still remembered resisting, or trying to, hating every moment of this prison. I remembered trying to scream, trying to get anyone to help me and I couldn't make myself do anything. Oh after the first close calls King Peppy had made sure to put in the compulsions to 'never alarm anyone'. Now people didn't panic when they saw me, and it was all thanks to King Peppy!
I reached King Peppy's office, knocking politely and entering the room as he bid me. King Peppy helped me when no one else could. He was the only one able to help me get rid of my greyness, the only one willing to do what it took to make me normal. I owed him everything. My smile was blindingly painful.
"Ah, Branch, perfect timing as always." King Peppy smiled broadly, opening his arms for a hug.
I leapt into his arms, the contact feeling like licking flames.
King Peppy held me for a moment, before setting me back down. He reached into his hair, pulling out a nearly-empty lyre, with one glittering pink string on it.
My heartbeat quickened seeing it, eyes tunneling to focus on the horribly beautiful string. It glowed with its own light, drawing me in and re-thickening the haze over everything I saw. I felt my shoulders begin to relax as the haze crept further, like a wild animal with its eyes hooded.
A few plucks of the string, and I felt my mind wash away in a comfortable haze. All of the anxiety and negativity bleeding away to the innermost recesses of myself. It was such a relief to not have to deal with all of those pesky emotions! Now I could just be happy and sing and dance and have fun like everyone else!
I smiled, my face comfortably numb from the fresh effects of the string. "Thank you, King Peppy! I feel much better now!" I chirped, hardly able to see him at all through the haze.
"I'm so glad to hear that, Branch! Now, I've still got some work to finish up, why don't you run along and find someone to play with until you're called for dinner?" King Peppy chuckled as he suggested it, placing the sacred string back in its spot, safely in his hair.
The village was still bustling even at this hour, people skipping about and holding hands and singing and dancing. It was amazing.
My whole body felt like it was floating, like I was only connected to it by a tiny string. I waved and smiled at everyone who greeted me, even if I couldn't tell who had spoken to me. It unnerved me not being able to see more than a couple of troll-lengths away at best. No shadows to see a hand reaching down for–
"Hey, Branch! There you are! I was just looking for you!" Princess Poppy's cheerful voice broke in before a compulsion could correct my thought.
My head whipped around to her voice, my smile still painful, but a little more genuine. Princess Poppy was a sweet girl, even if she was annoying. She was perfect and would make an excellent queen one day.
"Princess! What can I do for you today?" I asked, kneeling down in front of her. She wasn't that much shorter than me, but I would take any excuse to get off of them. I had to stay fresh for more dancing, after all!
She beamed at me, somehow making it look effortless and completely sincere.
"One of the performers for my party tonight had to backout last minute. Would you be able to fill in? I don't need a full set or anything, just a couple of songs." Her voice was pleading, eyes big and pouty. She should know by now I can't say no to her.
"Of course, what's the theme for the party?" My grinning kept up, my lips not allowed to turn down in her presence.
"Thank you so much Branch you have no idea how much this means to me!" Poppy rushed out in one breath, leaping at me and hugging me tightly. I responded automatically, not having to think about hugging back. That was the nice thing about being a puppet in your own body at least.
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can't get over the fact that scratch was basically just canonically depressed. like bro.
most ppl were like "he's traumatized" (i was one of em, go figure) but seeing scratch in that song oh my FUCKIN god. bro did nothing interesting, worked till he literally died inside (the "till i went numb" lyric hits hard. by the way.)
and then learned to slowly live because of molly. molly basically changed him fundamentally i'm- holds back tears
and even if scratch remembers all of his time with molly or none of it (or maybe some of it...), he certainly took the enhappifying lesson home with him, in his heart.
the more i think about this finale i cry bc this is it. scratch goes full circle in his development. no wonder bill and bob wanted to end the show this way. it's an excellent end to his arc that's been since season 1, that he was essentially closing himself off to the world like molly said. he literally trapped himself in the attic of adia's childhood home and slipped deeper into depression. he REFUSED to connect with other people until molly's desperation for a forever friend + silly curse made them be together, at first by force but then by choice. they CHOSE to be together after Out Of House and Home/Home Is Where The Heart Is. man. their friendship <33333
even the ghost world didn't like his ass. it was genuinely heartbreaking. but now he's grown. become a better person, a happier person, willing to live his life to the fullest every fuckin day
molly rubbed off on scratch in the best way, being the optimist she is and she didn't give up on him. adia also didn't give up to a certain point, and i think the fact that molly stuck thru scratch's personality until he opened up and got better is so wonderful to watch. at first it's like "damn he sucks kinda" but then you watch scratch grow into this person with a heart of gold.
and that's honestly one of my favorite parts about this show. we get true character development like this and it's SO FUCKING well written that it feels real. to everyone. we could all end up like scratch was, and that is scary. but you gotta change your life, learn to live it to the fullest.
"if you don't know what you're set out here to do, then do some good."
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We’ve talked in the past about Julia’s red shirt (in her season 1/season 4 outfit) showing her sympathy towards Carmen. What about other parts of her outfits?
First, to contrast with the red shirt peeking through her dark pantsuit, we have Julia’s ACME suit.
[ID : two cropped screenshots from the 2019 show Carmen Sandiego. The first one shows Julia Argent on the train in India, in her dark suit with red shirt outfit. The second one shows Julia in Rio de Janeiro, in her ACME suit. End ID]
The ACME suits, being uniforms, are all the same (the biggest difference being skirts for the women vs pants for the men), the same way the agents are asked for uniformity, conformity and following orders.
The suits have no color apart from a navy so dark it’s close to black - in fact, depending on the lighting they look almost black and white. Quite like their way of thinking.
[ID : a screenshot from the 2019 show Carmen Sandiego. Agent Zari and Random White Agent stand on either side of a door. They are in the shadows and their uniforms look dark and desaturated. End ID]
As I noted on a previous post, at the same time Julia receives her suit and as such lets go of her red shirt, she is asked to renounce her feelings that Carmen is innocent. Season 2, where she almost exclusively wears the ACME uniform, is the one where Julia briefly doubts Carmen and struggles to reconcile following her superior’s orders with her convictions. Ultimately, when she does not manage it, she resigns (season 3) and as such goes back to her red shirt outfit. It is in that outfit that she teams up with Carmen in a substantial way in season 4.
Other agents (and, notably, agent Zari, the most featured ACME agent apart from Julia and Chase) tend to wear black gloves. In line with their behavior, this suggests keeping a distance with their environment, refusing to feel things too deeply. Julia doesn’t wear gloves, however, not even in Stockholm where the weather would definitely justify it. Despite Chief's insistance, Julia keeps paying attention to her feelings.
Then, Julia’s glasses. Her glasses in seasons 2-3 are ACME regulation eyewear : once again, they’re part of the uniform, so the same model as the other ACME agents. Big, bulky, they’re almost rectangle in shape, all sharp angles : this suggests rigidity and an absence of flexibility in ACME’s mentality. Also note the dark lenses : they symbolically obscure the vision.
[ID : a screenshot from the 2019 show Carmen Sandiego. In Indonesia, Zari and Random White Agent stand against the sky. Their glasses' lenses are noticeably very dark. End ID]
And what about Julia’s original glasses, the ones she wears before joining ACME and those she returns to as she leaves ? They are the exact opposite of the ACME glasses : round and clear, what you need to look at the world as it is.
[ID : a cropped screenshot from the 2019 show Carmen Sandiego. In San Francisco, Julia wears her red shirt outfit with her round glasses. End ID]
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