> re: show structure when i started watching i was like wait the ground/i-land thing isn’t metaphorical??? the marked difference between these buildings?? this shit is CRAZY. but i do like how grounders were able to have their redemption arcs even if it sucks that they were so limited in how much they could show/when they could perform (sunoo is a genius for learning to appeal to the camera) > “nothing like politics to get people riled up!!” help. it’s true > literally i-land knew that they couldn’t mediaplay with ~shocking bad vocal moments~ à la produce voice cracks because no one on the show can sing ever but it’s just SO…. WHY. LOL. the combination of bighit autotune with not having any vocal coaches with none of the trainees being good singers with the show focusing solely on performance rly kills me
> re: trainees love reading your thoughts on this!! even though heeseung is kind of just in the middle for me in enhypen i do have a lot of respect for him and find him charming and i enjoy how much you like him <3 the mathyung performance of it all despite the fact that he probably wasn’t ready for that when he joined bighit in 2017 and when he came to i-land he was like wait these kids legitimately have no idea what they’re doing? it’s clear that he shoulders a lot of pressure regardless of whether people put it on him but i also like that he doesn’t actually want to be doing most of those things LOL > DANIEL MY SON <3333333 I CANNOT BELIEVE HE IS 8 FUCKING YEARS YOUNGER THAN ME…. he is so sweet and i do hope he can debut soon-ish (hopefully by then i will not be in k-pop fandom anymore. wtheck. i can’t take this) i agree that objectively he’s just like more hard-working/talented than a lot of i-landers? idk i felt like he never let anyone down but he just had a hard time connecting with people because he was so much younger but he wasn’t really the kind of maknae that is easily babied either because he was also tall and actually a threat. lol. once again the politix of teenage boys > sunghoon istj bighit nosejob <3 sunghoon perfect idol who doesn’t actually understand idolhood but just wants to a sustainable job <3 sunghoon who is just there to be pretty and score in the 90th percentile without any fuss <3 park sunghoon <3 > HELP IDK WHY I’M RESPONDING TO YOUR TRAINEE THOUGHTS ONE-BY-ONE LIKE THIS???? okay i just want to say that i love your sunoo reading so much and we’ve discussed him enough that i don’t have to say more but he’s truly just the cutest and most endearing to me x___x him fully owning his idolsona despite the fact that he was just a normal high school kid obsessively watching pd48 a year before??? love that he was like well maybe i am a victim of h*****ia / i-land politix but i will simply repurpose my grounder narrative and appeal to the global producers. yas king <3
okay i have to stop with this comment because you don’t deserve to suffer like this but NIKI PERSONALITY NIKI REDEMPTION ARC <3 also i’m glad you can relate to jay despite my agendas i honestly do understand why he appeals to people asdfhlkfdlh. also i literally forgot about the ej/sunghoon/jake 02line bffery and i remembered that’s what killed me when i was watching T___T i do love ej even if he was VILLAINIZED
> re: dynamix lol i totally agree i was a grounder fan from beginning to end (which is a 3-day time range since i binged the show)… heeseung is the only one from the i-land “clique” i was really rooting for because it did seem to me that he was kind of just being implicated because he was dependable/objectively good LOL. “they’re born after 02/their name isn’t jungwon” is killing me. but yes i love how the ground kidz were genuinely all supportive?? I WAS LIKE YOU GUYS ARE ALL FLOPPING BUT YOU DESERVE BETTER??? btw i was a boombayah team 2 stan during pd48.
> re: shipping ISN’T IT CRAZY HOW JAKE IS ACTUALLY OBJECTIVELY CUTE TO SUNGHOON LIKE THAT’S REAL. the way sunghoon grew up figure skating around like a bunch of teenage girls and is just an istj and then suddenly meets this kind of awkward puppydog from australia during a high-stress survival show and is like. yes <3 the fact that sunghoon is still trying to understand what fanservice is makes me inclined to believe that their bond is #real > jay bringing heeseung on his weird rich boy maldives trip. well > heeseung & jungwon IS interesting to me because you can tell that jungwon is honestly valued as like an “i-lander” the whole time despite his age and i understand how he became leader. like he’s just an assertive person and you can tell heeseung is like oh jungwon is cute but mostly he’s dependable and mature and actually talented so i can lean on him.
> re: TINHATTERY <3333333 WHY DID IT TAKE ME SO LONG TO GET TO THIS PART OF THE COMMENT. ok but it makes me scream how when beomgyu joined he was like “do i need to learn how to dance or like practice singing or something????” and they were like nah dw dude we’ll teach you and then he was like “i felt scammed because the moment i got there they were like YOU’RE DEBUTING.” meanwhile heeseung > > anyway love your beomseung thoughts. > i find it impossible that txt don’t know jay/sunghoon at ALL AND YET???? like i know the 2018 bighit building wasn’t that big. what goes on. it’s so funny how soobin literally is just like “yeah i made a gc with the enhypen babies” and doesn’t seem to acknowledge bighit line at all so i doubt soobin knew them well but hmmm i’m surprised tyunning haven’t spoken about jayhoon. i want the lore to reveal itself. anyway despite the lack of canon material you know i’m just crasy over the taehoon au possibilties so thank u for these thoughts. “why do i feel like taehyun’s straightforwardness would contrast really well with sunghoon x__x” RIGHT. i want the olympics au T___T > sunkai enfp line <3 everything you wrote here <3 you’re amazing to me
screams sorry i accidentally wrote an entire essay???????? this was sooo delightful to read though i’m kind of obsessed. THANK YOU DW USER MARKOHMARK FOR YOUR SERVICE. CRIES.
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> “nothing like politics to get people riled up!!” help. it’s true
> literally i-land knew that they couldn’t mediaplay with ~shocking bad vocal moments~ à la produce voice cracks because no one on the show can sing ever but it’s just SO…. WHY. LOL. the combination of bighit autotune with not having any vocal coaches with none of the trainees being good singers with the show focusing solely on performance rly kills me
> re: trainees love reading your thoughts on this!! even though heeseung is kind of just in the middle for me in enhypen i do have a lot of respect for him and find him charming and i enjoy how much you like him <3 the mathyung performance of it all despite the fact that he probably wasn’t ready for that when he joined bighit in 2017 and when he came to i-land he was like wait these kids legitimately have no idea what they’re doing? it’s clear that he shoulders a lot of pressure regardless of whether people put it on him but i also like that he doesn’t actually want to be doing most of those things LOL
> DANIEL MY SON <3333333 I CANNOT BELIEVE HE IS 8 FUCKING YEARS YOUNGER THAN ME…. he is so sweet and i do hope he can debut soon-ish (hopefully by then i will not be in k-pop fandom anymore. wtheck. i can’t take this) i agree that objectively he’s just like more hard-working/talented than a lot of i-landers? idk i felt like he never let anyone down but he just had a hard time connecting with people because he was so much younger but he wasn’t really the kind of maknae that is easily babied either because he was also tall and actually a threat. lol. once again the politix of teenage boys
> sunghoon istj bighit nosejob <3 sunghoon perfect idol who doesn’t actually understand idolhood but just wants to a sustainable job <3 sunghoon who is just there to be pretty and score in the 90th percentile without any fuss <3 park sunghoon <3
> HELP IDK WHY I’M RESPONDING TO YOUR TRAINEE THOUGHTS ONE-BY-ONE LIKE THIS???? okay i just want to say that i love your sunoo reading so much and we’ve discussed him enough that i don’t have to say more but he’s truly just the cutest and most endearing to me x___x him fully owning his idolsona despite the fact that he was just a normal high school kid obsessively watching pd48 a year before??? love that he was like well maybe i am a victim of h*****ia / i-land politix but i will simply repurpose my grounder narrative and appeal to the global producers. yas king <3
okay i have to stop with this comment because you don’t deserve to suffer like this but NIKI PERSONALITY NIKI REDEMPTION ARC <3 also i’m glad you can relate to jay despite my agendas i honestly do understand why he appeals to people asdfhlkfdlh. also i literally forgot about the ej/sunghoon/jake 02line bffery and i remembered that’s what killed me when i was watching T___T i do love ej even if he was VILLAINIZED
> re: dynamix lol i totally agree i was a grounder fan from beginning to end (which is a 3-day time range since i binged the show)… heeseung is the only one from the i-land “clique” i was really rooting for because it did seem to me that he was kind of just being implicated because he was dependable/objectively good LOL. “they’re born after 02/their name isn’t jungwon” is killing me. but yes i love how the ground kidz were genuinely all supportive?? I WAS LIKE YOU GUYS ARE ALL FLOPPING BUT YOU DESERVE BETTER??? btw i was a boombayah team 2 stan during pd48.
> re: shipping ISN’T IT CRAZY HOW JAKE IS ACTUALLY OBJECTIVELY CUTE TO SUNGHOON LIKE THAT’S REAL. the way sunghoon grew up figure skating around like a bunch of teenage girls and is just an istj and then suddenly meets this kind of awkward puppydog from australia during a high-stress survival show and is like. yes <3 the fact that sunghoon is still trying to understand what fanservice is makes me inclined to believe that their bond is #real
> jay bringing heeseung on his weird rich boy maldives trip. well
> heeseung & jungwon IS interesting to me because you can tell that jungwon is honestly valued as like an “i-lander” the whole time despite his age and i understand how he became leader. like he’s just an assertive person and you can tell heeseung is like oh jungwon is cute but mostly he’s dependable and mature and actually talented so i can lean on him.
> re: TINHATTERY <3333333 WHY DID IT TAKE ME SO LONG TO GET TO THIS PART OF THE COMMENT. ok but it makes me scream how when beomgyu joined he was like “do i need to learn how to dance or like practice singing or something????” and they were like nah dw dude we’ll teach you and then he was like “i felt scammed because the moment i got there they were like YOU’RE DEBUTING.” meanwhile heeseung >
> anyway love your beomseung thoughts.
> i find it impossible that txt don’t know jay/sunghoon at ALL AND YET???? like i know the 2018 bighit building wasn’t that big. what goes on. it’s so funny how soobin literally is just like “yeah i made a gc with the enhypen babies” and doesn’t seem to acknowledge bighit line at all so i doubt soobin knew them well but hmmm i’m surprised tyunning haven’t spoken about jayhoon. i want the lore to reveal itself. anyway despite the lack of canon material you know i’m just crasy over the taehoon au possibilties so thank u for these thoughts. “why do i feel like taehyun’s straightforwardness would contrast really well with sunghoon x__x” RIGHT. i want the olympics au T___T
> sunkai enfp line <3 everything you wrote here <3 you’re amazing to me
screams sorry i accidentally wrote an entire essay???????? this was sooo delightful to read though i’m kind of obsessed. THANK YOU DW USER MARKOHMARK FOR YOUR SERVICE. CRIES.