#carmen sandiego anon

[lover-of-mine]

carmen sandiego here! not much of an update because i'm just back home from a trip after ignoring fandom drama for a few days (to the point where i just found out about the "contract" thing) but i will say this: they are convinced he's not back for s8 (or at least they were until after that photo was posted) but somehow, for some of them, it's not because of how things got out of control (meaning it's not Lou's fault because of the things he started with the cameos) but because of us.

obviously we're the bad guys. we're toxic and we forced Oliver and Tim (who both wanted to continue the BT storyline) to end it because of the hate. But also somehow Lou was the one tho decided not to come back because of his mental health or whatever. funny how they care about Lou's mental health but use Ryan's against him...

anyway, i'm still laughing with the contract of it all and i'm having the time of my life with all the Kenny/Oliver/Ryan content. hope you have a nice day too 🩷

Hi darling 🩷

Something funny about the idea that Lou would ask you leave/refuse to come back, is that I keep thinking about Megan and the way people absolutely hated her and the way she was even dealing with Oliver posting annoyed emojis while their scenes aired and she stuck around for a whole season anyway. Like, they keep saying we bullied him out of the internet. Where? Because while I don't think he's that great of a person, most people I see are fully capable of separating Lou from Tommy. I am yet to see someone say something about Lou that's half as bad as the shit people said about Megan or Edy. In fact even Oliver talked about the contrast with the way the fandom reacted to him. If he's being written off off-screen or on episode 1 is either because of the fact that he was turning a profit while pretending to have creative power and broke his contract and blew his own career or because they made it absolutely impossible for them to do anything without it becoming a situation. Multiple things that would've just been a normal day in fandom became a pr nightmare because they feel entitled to something the show never promised them. If they had calmed the fuck down instead of acting like hating on everything that moves was the way to get him to stay, then there's a chance he would have stayed in some capacity. They turned him into a risk and he's not worth it because he doesn't bring the numbers to counter the chaos they bring. We're bullying Lou of the internet and he needs to protect himself, because oH PoOr tHiNg tArGeT Of tHe mEaN BuDdIeS, but somehow it's okay for them to say they wish Ryan's suicide attempt had worked? It's okay to go on a platform with their whole face and talk about how they wish the show would make Eddie kill himself because Ryan would make it realistic because of his experiences? But sure, were the ones being detrimental to someone's mental health. Oh fuck off.

Sorry that gets me heated, the day was entertaining as hell, so good all around, hope you have a good night too 🩷

[carmensandiegoconfessions]

the fanbase spends so much time complaining about the fandom being dead. if they spent the time they spent complaining actually interacting with other carmen fans, the fandom wouldnt be dead anymore

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[neopuff]

WADI MEETING CARMEN!!!

im sorry you sent this so long ago and this is all youre getting. its the girlies

[campfam4lyfe]

Got any campfam aus or ideas in the works?

hey anon! I wouldn’t say I have any ideas in the works, because I have what I like to call commitment issues when it comes to writing fic.

This means that while I have an abundance of ideas, outlines, and wips in my Google docs for the fandoms I’ve been in. I’ve never actually finished a fic and posted it.

In fact, the only single time I have, (diff fandom!) I am not counting properly, because it was a collab with a close mutual, and a lot of the legwork was them. I had the initial plot bunny and was going to leave it as a one off tumblr post, but my mutual rlly liked the idea and we bounced drabbles and such back and forth. We wrote a bunch of snippets and put them together in a doc, until we had cohesive chapters, as we filled the empty spaces with more and more work, ending up to a total of 18 chapters. It took us a year and a half to post it, and that was mostly my fault, as where my mutual had finished most of their allotted sections, different hyperfixations kept pulling me to other unfinished works. This is why I won’t promise anything—I don’t want to disappoint anyone.

But, that being said. I do have ideas, hcs, and aus! One that is currently consuming me, was actually inspired by this one other post I saw recently. (When I find the post ima link it dw!) OP of the post was saying that there should be a Carmen Sandiego au for CC and I jumped on that SO fucking fast anon. I LOVE Carmen Sandiego, and have since it first aired when I was in HS.

So. Here’s some of the Carmen Sandiego au thoughts copy/pasted from my Google docs. (Yes I do always write out my outlines as if I’m taking to someone but that’s bc i sometimes end up sharing the doc link with some friends)

JWCC Carmen Sandiego AU:

Y’all know Kenlynn is my JAM and so is RedCrackle. So obvi I thought of mixing the two right? But here’s the thing. While I love Carmen/Gray, I am also in love with Carmen/Ivy and Carmen/Julia.

So with that in mind. Kenlynn is going to take a backseat for a second (meaning tho they'll become a thing and obvi they will bc they are a constant to me, theyre not the center of this), and my fave girls YASAMMY will be at the forefront of this au.

I’m thinking. Carmen Sammy. But I’m not entirely sure about whether or not that’s what I want? It could be argued that Sammy’s love for her family is a core driving force in her character, and Carmen doesn’t KNOW her family. But also—a huge plot point is that she’s looking for her mom. So. Tentative Carmen Sammy.

MANTAH CORP AS VILE MANTAH CORP AS V.I.L.E MANTAH CORP AS V.I.L.E

So I figure not everything is going to be one-to-one. This means I am placing Kenji in the role of Gray/Crackle. His story is going to be different tho, bc whereas Gray was a recruit, with MANTAH CORP AS V.I.L.E that means Daniel is already on the board. So kenji trying to make his dad proud? More likely than you think.

(I just wanted my Sammy&Kenji besties. Bestie betrayal can be just as good as romantic betrayal)

I’m sure you know where I’m going with this if we’re not going the redcrackle route. Thats right. YASMINA JULIA.

I considered at first, YASMINA CARMEN and SAMMY IVY, but in the end the need for Sammy Carmen was too great.

So I also considered Dave and Roxxie as Chase and Julia but, I decided to scrap that idea for now. You know me, at some point I might revamp most of the au anyways lol, now is not a time for fine tuning it’s just a tentative starting point.

Torn between DARIUS as Player or Brooklynn as Player. I considered Ben of course, but I think we need to put him on an island at some point—he needs a Bumpy, no matter the universe.

WAIT. REVISITING BEN AS PLAYER. BECAUSE DARIUS AND BRAND AS ZACK AND IVY. This means no Carmen/Ivy vibes but since we ditched the Gray/Carmen as well in this au I think it’s fine.

Ben still has to end up with Bumpy somehow tho? Original Ben plan, when Darius was a Player candidate, was Ben is also a V.I.L.E recruit.

V.I.L.E having a faction that deals with genetics and cloning (in addition to like. Kash and his robots) and ending up with a dinosaur—Bumpy! And that being Ben’s flip to the other side/Team Sammy. He defects and steals Bumpy on his way out.

Okay I’m a little too attached to that, so yeah. V.I.L.E recruit Ben, so Brooklynn as player??

Oh! She doesn’t have!!! IRL friends!! Brooklynn being an Internet famous vlogger as in canon. So we get that running gag of Sammy and Brooklynn always being in contact and Brooklynn being a big part of the heists through investigative work and such, yet she’s constantly on the other side of the globe? Sammy needs to be in Sydney but Brooklynn is in New Orleans. That kinda stuff.

Works with Brooklynn having traveled all over the world, she can also do those factoids player does—she’s got the deets.

Oh!???? THATS HOW WE GET MY FAVE DUO OF DINOSTAR BESTIES!!! They both love their facts. They’re nerds.

Mae as shadowsan? Tentatively?

Okay. Player Brooklynn. Except instead of being home most of the time, she’s usually on the go. She’s talked to kenji a few times during Sammy and Kenji’s V.I.L.E recruit era.

Kenji as the Gray of this au. he’s a V.I.L.E legacy. he became friends with sammy his recruitment year, and he'd talked to brooklynn a few times, due to sammy introducing them because kenji was curious about whether or not sammy has friends in the outside world, and sammy noticing brooklynn feeling a little left out/jealous that sammy had friends she was hanging with in person rather than over a phone call.

kenlynn kenlynn kenlynn

does he recognize her voice from her vlogs? does he even watch them? i dont think hed be a brooklander, guys got a lot on his plate and thats impressing his dad

ben is a V.I.L.E. recruit. maybe a bit of mime bomb, in that he was. not as close? with the other recruits. i do think having ben come in as a recruit the year sammy defects would be cool tho. so he doesn't know her as "black sheep" or whatever code name V.I.L.E refers to her as. he'll first meet her as Sammy.

yaz as JULIA!!!!! a junior agent? a former athlete. trying to make it make sense, but i think it fits.

omg. yaz. is alex rider basically holy shit

was thinking of dave as chase, and decided that i was going to keep it.

roxxie as the Chief.

mae as shadowsan.

yes. it IS because i want a roxxie/mae/dave love triangle and that need's final form was ot3

DARIUS AND BRAND AS ZACK AND IVY. i dont want their mom to be dead. but i dont know WHAT happened to her and why theyre involved in this life of crime? i love the og carmen&ivy&zack meeting. and i love that they were involved with racing. trying to find a way to incorporate it and make it make sense

important question.....is darius and his dad's great shared love still dinosaurs?

OR IS IT CARS? RACING?????? BRAND BEING INVOLVED IN THE RACES BC IT WAS IMPORTANT TO DARIUS AND THEIR DAD AND DARIUS CANT DRIVE YET

AND. SAMMY. AS CARMEN!!!!!!

okay so carmen's dad was a former V.I.L.E. agent who left it all behind for the woman he fell in love with right? well. obvi this au isnt a one to one. like there clearly have been changes in characters and dynamics. but i think involving elements from this could work. lemme map it out to make sense

okay so in cc sammy spies for mantah corp despite her parents not wanting her to. meanwhie carmen's dad defects from V.I.L.E., i think shadowsan was there and so was the chief and he dies.

okay so--sammy's dad was a V.I.L.E. agent, fell in love, defected. V.I.L.E. catches up with him, and does A.C.M.E. and in the fallout, the house collapses. A fire? an explosion? they think sammy died. (im not killing off sammy's dad bc damnit she needs a happy ending)

yaz losing faith in the system and having her hot girl summer being romanced by the pretty thief she's supposed to be catching

ben ditches VILE/Mantah Corp with Bumpy and meets Darius at some point--oh!!!

mae/shadowsan joins Team Sammy at the end of s1 i think? okay, so, when she joins, she brings ben, a fresh defector with her.

obvi ben left after he stole bumpy from them

at some point during their occasional talks, kenlynn became friendly with each other. then The Train scene happens. and kenji is promptly deemed a disappointment and dealt with the way gray is.

brooklynn ends up coming across a memory-wiped kenji during one of her vlogs. he doesnt know he knows her, just that something about her voice seems familiar.

brooklynn brings it up and the other are Concerned but also have a lot on their plate rn/dont truly trust him again or are unclear on whether or not they should. darius/brand bc their experiences havent been good so far, and sammy doesnt want to risk them. but he was still one of her first friends. shes torn

brooklynn making contact with him. smth smth she ends up needing a camera man for one of her vlogs and kenji volunteers. they grow closer during her sporadic visits. he asks her out.

DANIEL KON HAS ENTERED THE CHAT. SAMMY NEEDS BROOKLYNN TO DO HER THING. SHE MISSES THE DATE.

Meanwhile, that entire interactive ep??? of carmen sandiego with the julia/carmen??? THAT. THAT HAPPENS. YASAMMY DANCE AND WE GET THAT SCENE YOU KNOW THE ONE

[2deadkat]

ever thought about some sheena angst in the fantastic fox au? 😩 like her drinking cider thinking about the life she could've had with carmen if she stopped her life of crime all those years ago.

sheena isn't really a family girl and i doubt she ever thought about having kids, but it's the fact that she could be resting with carmen every night and she could be safe within their own house.

Oh hohoho you don’t even know the half of it brother…in fact YOU GOT IT.

You see the Fox Wives Universe, is an alternate timeline of what-ifs and our soppy little meow meow (forcefully) lives with the foxes after having her days outnumbered and having nowhere to go…now she spends the rest of those days being a disheveled wine stepmom to her ex’s kid…<3

At least she can bother Carmen about the good ol’ days.

She’s extremely petty to say the least, maybe that’s why the foxes stick around…

In conclusion: Sheena is a house cat

[cs-oc-blank-random-posts]

Hey Blank, based on your posts i see that you end up joining Team Red. looking at everyone's history (especially Shadow-san and Blank), what would happen if you guys had an argument?

CRYING

here's a lineup of all 3 of them, no one asked but i'm putting it here anyway

[howdoyoudothedew]

Ivy teaches Carmen to drive date?

“Alright, so you want to take it slow-” Ivy starts, cutting off as Carmen touches the accelerator too hard too quickly and they jolt forward a few inches before Carmen panics and slams on the brake. It’s good Ivy remembered to put on her seatbelt. That combo almost put her through the windshield.

“I’m so sorry,” Carmen says. She’s all scrunched now so her shoulders come up to her ears, but at least her legs are still loose and stretched out for the pedals.

“It’s fine.” Ivy waves it away. “You should’ve seen it when Zack started.

“Really?” Carmen asks.

“Yeah. Nearly sent us into the harbor.”  Though it was also because they were starting off with plans to race, old games of Hard Drivin’ dancing in their heads. Zack drifted when he should’ve braked, and they had to spend that summer working for Old Man Murray to make up for the shop window. Carmen smiles, unscrunching just a bit. Ivy looks back at the asphalt in front of them as Carmen slowly lets off the brake. They’re in a parking lot, Zack and Ivy’s own first attempts at driving making her think teaching Carmen in an empty lot would be for the best. So far, she’s pretty sure she was right.

“Okay, so touch the pedals lightly. This car’s a smart gal, she’ll know what you want without you forcing her,” Ivy says and Carmen snorts a little as she does what Ivy told her, making Ivy look over at her with a raised brow. “What?”

“You sound like Zack,” Carmen says.

“Eugh. If anything, Zack sounds like me,” Ivy says, making a face, and Carmen shakes her head. She’s calmer than she was a few seconds ago. It makes Ivy smile despite herself.

“Turn here,” Ivy says, pointing right, away from the shops. Carmen hesitates a moment before she turns, yanking the wheel slightly too hard and running the wheel slightly over a curb. She grimaces as all four tires touch asphalt again. “It’s fine,” Ivy assures. Carmen gives an unsteady laugh and Ivy puts a hand on her shoulder. “Do you want to take a break?”

“Yeah,” Carmen sighs. She breaks, then throws the car in park so she can hang her head.

“You’ll get there,” Ivy says with a smile. Carmen turns to her, her own smile wry.

“Thanks for being willing to teach me,” Carmen says.

“Of course! It was a pretty awesome date idea,” Ivy says, reaching over to punch Carmen’s shoulder, and Carmen’s cheeks turn a soft pink.

“Player suggested it.” Carmen says with a shrug.

“Smart kid,” Ivy says. “Now what about we swap seats and I take us to get ice cream?”Carmen pushes herself from the wheel. “That sounds great.”

[vileacademyofficial]

ur fucking adorable

Like

Everything you do is

So fucking endearing

Ur like a blorbo

[omg a non sarcastic response from intern?? how did you pull that off]

[redxcrackle]

🏴‍☠️RedCrackle Aesthetic🐚

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Requested by: anonymous

[falcon-jewels]

Trauma? On a scale of "Ow, i got a papercut" to "Even if i die and be reborn, a hundred times. I still feel it."

I can never escape it. I shall never escape it, they're always hunting me down. Mentally, physically, it doesn't matter. If I were to be caught for the sins I committed, death would be too good, and jail would be too easy. I would come back again just to feel it from another perspective. I've already experienced jail, on a small island. Nobody knows me, I truly don't know anybody. I'm alone, so it doesn't matter how many times I die inside or out, comfort is something I shall never feel again.

I'm breaking, Anon, I'm breaking. I truly don't know how much time I've got left.

[acmeofficial]

Hey hey hey I think I saw Carmen in Florence this morning?

i dont know a florence and it is none of our business which women carmen sandiego decides to have intercourse with but thank you for letting us know

[lover-of-mine]

it's carmen sandiego again, sorry, they just don't stop 😭

some of them insist on this "Ryan was shading buddie shippers" thing (referencing the voodoo doll joke) which HAS to be ragebait because how??? why?? where???? i have many questions

[carmensandiegoconfessions]

i always feel like an ass when i think this and its not that big a deal, just a pet peeve that i find hard to overlook.

Some fic writers don't understand how VILE or criminal organizations in general work. VILE Isle isn't a home base everyone returns to when they don't have missions or a place where they have parties or whatever because that would create too much traffic authorities can trace. And they definitely wouldn't bring outsiders there unless they're not going to remember being there. Basically after they graduate, all the operatives would become remote workers and have safe houses in other locations that seem normal, like Cleo's chateau or her apartment.

Presumably they get paid for their missions and can live wherever, then when needed, are assigned to a location for an assignment. They don't even all do the same missions. Some are probably spies or double agents or scientists in their own right (i.e. Dash Haber).

speaking of Dash... some of them don't know what a courier is or does and think he's just Cleo's pet or something and it's both hilarious and frustrating. A courier is basically a messenger or someone who oversees the delivery of something. In both episodes he's in it shows basically that. He works with outside criminal groups to trade or negotiate trades or deals for VILE.

In the show it was over chocolate... in the real world it would probably be drugs lmao

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[worldsbiggestnerd101]

Favorite Carmen Sandiego ship not including Carmen

cleobellum for suresies, they’re so gay for each other and their old-married-couple-type dynamic in the show is peak to me

[disfordevineaux]

Hey! do you have a specific gif- of like, chase in that one scene in the Italian masks episode, where he leans on a mask stand, only for it to topple over and he split second catches it? All his expressions in that short scene were GOLD

Of course I do it lives rent-free in my mind and have the whole scene for being such a special lil anon :)

Ugh I love him xx

[jackie-shitposts]

a-spec dyke here. I think it goes without saying that all ships are valid, but I think, for just a beautiful moment, everyone should stop simping and hear me out as I have a public meltdown about player. okay. here goes.

y'all PLEASE please PLEASE we have to start hyping up our little guy. our meow meow. our dude. the man of the hour. the quirked up canadian boy. goated with the sauce. THE cyber criminal. the most guy of all time. the baby boy. the literal definition of t-boy swag. he's just so dndnapqoeuebebjdjd you know? I want to clasp him in my hands and snsndnejwkjw you know? the icon. the moment. the man of the hour. the only member of team red with more than one functional brain cell. everyday I wake up and I start crying about player bc he's so real. just the realest. just a dude. just a guy. just a baby. lil baby man. again, most guy of all time. the bestest friend that any highly-alluring internationally wanted super-thief could ask for. my bbygirl. I want to put him in a snow globe and SHAKESHAKESHAKESHAKESHAKESHAKESHAKE you know?

thank you for your time, everyone.

UAGH YES ALL OF THIS HES THE BESTTTTT

He was threatened by Shadowsan when he joined Team Red because he was worried about the prospects of having a second person with multiple braincells on the team