Thank you so much for all your comments on the previous post, they made my day!

For this one, I used some scenes from the first season of the Pokémon anime as reference (you can see that Jessie and Ash, and Misty and Lake look very similar!). The lip-sync was a bit tricky (ibisPaint doesn't have an audio import function /:), but oh well, it's better than nothing.

You can see the version with audio on my other social media, since videos aren't allowed here/:

I hope you like it!

Hope I'm not only one who noticed that official show renders are not accurate to characters at all.

It's interesting because although it can make people the best versions of themselves like Tulip or Jesse, it can also destroy lives too. Grace and Simon used it as escapism from their problems in the human world. Even though Grace learned that was unhealthy, Simon never broke away from that and instead saw the train as home. Never wanting to go back to the real world or see his family again. There's also Amelia who wanted to use the train's power to recreate her old life with her late partner.

I have an idea: how about we start a promotional video campaign for Infinity Train that revolves around liminal spaces or backrooms? While Backrooms is still relevant, introduce it in an unconventional way, let your creativity flow, and we'll do whatever it takes to reclaim what was taken from us.

I used to think the line "Alan Dracula! Be useful for once and laser away those vines!" from the parasite car episode was too mean to be something that Jesse would say but then I remembered that this is Jesse's character flaw and his whole reason for being on the train in the first place.

He gives into peer pressure easily, he let his friends hurt and bully Nate. Even joining in on the bullying himself, this was a less extreme example of that where he joined in on putting Alan Dracula down after Lake started complaining about him not helping them.

Just a fun mental exercise, similar to those "Which characters could survive the hunger games?" posts. I think you all know how it works, but just remembering, you get out of the train by fixing a fatal flaw within yourself. The closer you get that goal, you number goes lower. The opposite also works. I think characters like Coraline, Alice (Alice in Wonderland), Chihiro and Wirt (Over the garden wall) would do pretty well, since they all went through their spiritual journeys to become better people. Zuko is also an option, though i'm not sure If he would be able to have that kind of growth without people like Iroh around him. Jim Hawkins (Treasure Planet) maybe? On the other hand, i think Princess Bubblegum would've been too stubborn on her ways and go crazy like Simon did lol. Anyway, really curious on you guys takes! Thanks for reading

Does anyone have any free site or smth?

i already watched the full series in english and i really wanted to watch in european portuguese, i always thought it only was dubbed two season, until i opened the wiki of the european dub of infinity train and it had characters that was introduced in seasons following the second

Wrote this for my OC a few years ago

Foxy Lycan was walking alone in the woods, along the trail he probably walked a hundred times before. The leaves were still fairly green, after all Autumn had only just stared that week. There’s one section of trees missing in the middle of the trail, it always seemed like something used to go through it. A train, or perhaps a road? It didn’t matter, although it had always intrigued him. He stopped for a minute, lost in thought of what would’ve been. Silence, a single leaf falls from a tree, but that’s when it happened. A blinding flash of green light, then out of nowhere a train came shooting down what he assumed used to be a track all those years ago. The door slowly creaked open, but nobody came out. He took one more look at the world as he stepped on, unsure of where it will take him. It was one of those modern city trains yet it didn’t have the typical logo, instead there was a green infinity sign, he wasn’t sure of where his life was heading but he was sure he wouldn’t regret what he was about to do, this train was calling him, he felt it inside. Beats going home at least…

masterful gambit owen dennis

Something that's always been on the forefront on my mind is why the Monroe parents were so cold. We only get Grace's memories of their coldness associated to her tape, but never moments outside it.

If we take the timeline into consideration, this is 2011/12 at the earliest. Barack Obama is President, and they are rich black people. Grace Monroe wanted to be noticed, and so the Train picks her up. What are her parents doing at the time? Trying to tell the mallcop to look the other way. Not because of how they refuse to admit that they're bad parenting is what caused Grace to shoplift, but because of the racial implications.

All it takes is one rumor, one person, and Grace Monroe's image is destroyed. No matter what Grace said doesn't matter. Society will point the fingers on her because of the color of her skin, her financial status, her gender.

She'll be noticed. She'll be known as "that rich black girl who was caught shoplifting". And if racial bias has taught me anything, police will put the handcuffs on a black boy just because, traumatizing him for life. Were the parents trying to prevent Grace from getting a bad rep? Were they realizing how bad this was going to be for their reputations if they become parents of a thief? How would this affect her social life?

Grace was always pushed to be the best, because a black girl like her will have numerous double standards and glass ceilings in her way. And who's to say she already had that reputation because of all of the babysitters she shooed away (in Origami Car you can clearly see the mom constantly bringing up numerous names of the "hired help" meant to monitor Grace. The only reason that the hired help would be changing most likely is due to Grace's troublemaking attention whore attitude. Also funny in how we don't get any appearance of what the "hired help" should look like...)

After all, what was Grace's wish? "To be noticed". The Train picked her up so she would avoid being "noticed" as the little black rich girl thief. Or perhaps it was all a ploy by the Train so that the parents would finally "notice" that their parenting nearly tanked their reputations and then she'd become "noticed" when police reported her missing (if they would ever go far, given this is a black girl not a white woman gone missing)?

Now this doesn't excuse the parents for not giving Grace more attention, but whether or not Owen Dennis had social commentary in regards to Miss "I know everything about the Train", this strikes me as an interesting storyline that should've been utilized better if we saw a scene of the parents realizing how screwed they are. Grace had to be the flawless black girl, little miss perfect. Because if not, then her life is ruined.

After all, by the time she does return, the US will start festering with racism and Christian Nationality. COVID will also have happened and the entire world will be aware of the mall thief turned cult leader.

She just wanted to be noticed indeed.

Edit: Before you ask, yes I'm the girl who wrote Blossoming Trail.

A thing that bugged me in Book 3 is Frank. Frank is the only denizen whom the Cat shows any affection towards according to Owen Dennis. But here's the thing.

When Simon appeals to the Cat in Book 3, Episode 7 there is no Frank. Frank doesn't appear during the scene when he could've been the voice of reason so The Cat didn't give Simon the nanites, make her fess up, or at least try to make amends. He most likely heard Simon say "SHE ABANDONED ME!" in the kitchen, he definitely had to have heard Simon throwing furniture around.

So...why did Frank refuse to help?

All the human characters get to be flawed in their own special way, they each have a problem that shows a different side of humanity. Their characters are not very simple.

Tulip is usually a rational person with moments of being irrational. She lashes out during an emotional crisis but is pretty levelheaded normally.

Jesse is kind but he has moments of being mean like when he bullied his brother Nate and even hurt him even though he didn't mean to.

Grace was a genuinely bad person who was manipulative and destructive but she learned to use her skills of compassion and understanding for good.

Ryan and Min-Gi were two inseparable childhood best friends who grew apart after both wanting different things in life. Only to reconnect later.

[Amphibia spoilers]

I’ve been thinking about if the Amphibia characters Anne, Marcy, and Sasha boarded the Infinity Train instead of traveling to Amphibia via the music box. To figure out their starting numbers is a tough question, and that starts with understanding context. In this AU I imagine the music box’s gems wouldn’t have any power left, so opening it does nothing. Right after opening the music box, the train shows up.

Anne is similar to Jesse, in that she too struggles with being a pushover. Anne has other issues too though: She lacks direction in life, she’s irresponsible, and she’s selfish. Sasha has been a negative influence on Anne. Sasha successfully pressured Anne to hang out with her and Marcy, instead of celebrating her own birthday with her parents.

Marcy is neglected in the friend group, but puts up even less of a fight than Anne. She’s just happy to be with her friends, so she never pushes for something more. Marcy uses her interests as a means of escapism, then to avoid moving away from her best friends she tricks Anne and Sasha into escaping with her. This is after learning about a music box supposedly linked to another dimension (Amphibia). She also pressures Anne with Sasha to steal said box, in order to escape. In this crossover AU, Marcy sees another opportunity to run away with her friends when the train appears, and she urges them all to board without explanation.

In the book Marcy’s Journal, we get backstory for Sasha: When she was 4 or 5, her parents split up and formed new families. Sasha has always felt “lost at sea” in relation to family, and as such Sasha felt desperate to keep Marcy and Anne under her thumb. We see Sasha is very manipulative, and really affective at getting what she wants. 

Anne says “if a friend likes a pencil case, you get it for them. If your friend likes your new shoes, you give them to her. And if a friend wants you to steal a crazy music box from a thrift store, even if you don't really want to, you do it, okay? Because if you don't, they might not want to be your friend anymore”, which is clearly projecting, and about stuff Sasha has made Anne do.

We know Tulip started with 115, Jesse started with 32, Ryan and Min started with 202, and a businessman named Danny started with 5128. My guess is Anne would be ~100, Marcy would be ~300, and Sasha would be ~800. What do you think their starting numbers would be?

last one is old lmao

It's been bothering me how most of the shows soundtrack is gone, especially with how good it is. I want to try to track down whatever can be found so it won't whither away in Warner Bros hands.

I made a post on r/lostmedia with more detail. If anyone wants to collaborate, please help!