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imagine if there were an Infinity Train car that had a door that looked just like the red-and-gold door to the car exterior but it was just like an ordinary interior door. would that be fucked up or what

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Lapis in the first su seasons after finally accepting living at the barn with peridot

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Couldn’t Lila compel Nooroo to tell her all about the sentikids? He could name the kids and describe their amoks without technically identifying a previous miraculous wielder. And he must at least know about Adrien. I guess the whole senti-conspiracy squad was just like “uh… I’m sure it’s fine.” I mean, to be fair, it’s not likely to come up… but if Lila pulls the wrong thread, starts asking the wrong questions, all the kids but ESPECIALLY Adrien could be in danger without even knowing it. I truly love, love, love the decision to never ever tell Adrien what is basically critical medical(?) information about himself. Their terrible life choices have captivated me

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The worst thing about piece of children media becoming popular among adults is the fact that adults fucking hate that they are not the part of the audience.

They start to write stupid ass meta how all adults in said piece of media are bad because they allowed children to be in a dangerous situation.

They want big rational worldbuilding.

They want adult characters to have their own sideplots with their own adult problems.

Dudes, there are zero children who after reading a book about their peers saving the world said: "Meh, I wish adults in this book prevented children from going to this dangerous adventure, I would rather read how economics in this world works and also about this adult character's divorce".

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All of the origami cranes flying around Grace after they saved her in Book 3 of Infinity Train were the same color in the show, but I like to imagine a version where they were multicolored

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I watched Danny Phantom not long after it originally aired and I thought some of the concepts and character dynamics were really fun, so I’m glad the fandom has had staying power. I still like checking in on AO3 every now and then and seeing what authors are up to.

The one thing that’s frustrating to me is that barely anyone else seems to really like the Danny + Sam + Tucker ghost hunting trio like I do. I think it’s fun for them to be a team in “case fic” contexts, those three clowns having adventures and night patrols together is a charming friendship dynamic, and some of the best moments in the original show were Sam and Tucker being field agents and active combatants. Remember when they jumped on top of a moving train? Remember when they hit Vlad with a car? Remember when they would come up with alibis by pretending to make out with Danny? Great stuff.

If Danny is getting the shit beaten out of him in ghost fights then I think Sam and Tucker should get beaten up too. Just imagine Sam taking a victory selfie sitting on a curb at 1 AM, proudly showing off a black eye, with Tucker and Danny in the background looking irritated with her as they bandage each other up. This is my beautiful vision.

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“Why should Christmas get all the cool sweaters???” -Mabel Pines probably

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you woke him up

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this post largely comes from a place of irritation that it is challenging to find fanwork about Eda's actual personality or actual character arc or her actual parent/child relationships with King and Luz or the actual canonical Eda & King & Luz household dynamic because people write so much material about Saint Eda latching on to Hunter or just automatically including him in the Owl House family. (people should write whatever they want and I would be truly sad if someone turned away from something that was bringing them joy because I was being a dick online. but I wholeheartedly beg Eda&Hunter enjoyers to consistently use the "Eda Adopts Hunter" tag so I can automatically filter them. there are so god damn many.) anyway people are starting to have darius & hunter discourse in the notes so this is going to become unrebloggable. make your own post.

one of the funniest fanon vs canon things is how Eda gets written in fic sometimes as a really empathetic, insightful, protective figure who is adopting kids left and right. and then you look at Eclipse Lake and Eda is ignoring Hunter and Amity having emotional crises because she’s preoccupied getting her preteen son to attack her with mining equipment

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one of the funniest fanon vs canon things is how Eda gets written in fic sometimes as a really empathetic, insightful, protective figure who is adopting kids left and right. and then you look at Eclipse Lake and Eda is ignoring Hunter and Amity having emotional crises because she’s preoccupied getting her preteen son to attack her with mining equipment

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Nearly every time I've rewatched Infinity Train Book 3 since I first saw it in February, I saw more parallels and narrative echos, and infodumping my friends about them isn't enough anymore

I figured I should do a post about this one because I don't think I've seen a post about that specific thing yet, and I love this show's writing, and. idk. I just need to praise it I guess

So, the most obvious part first:

Grace became everything she hated about her parents

When Grace mentions her mother in the Debutante Ball Car, it's made pretty clear she's trying to distance herself from her mother as much as possible, and at this point, we realise retrospectively that Grace's room in the Mall Car in episode one was full of sports clothes - it seems she tries to avoid things reminding her of her life before the train. And of her mother. And yet-

She tries to control everyone and everything around her, and makes people do what she doesn't want to do

And she decides what's cool and what isn't

She makes people kneel in her presence, like her mother towers over her in her mind's eye

Obviously she constantly lies to get what she wants, and her dad does that in her tape

When her younger self looks up, she looks right through adult Grace, and it's actually her parents she's looking at! Her younger self is metaphorically seeing her parents where her adult self is standing!! I still can't get over this shot

Also I feel the need to mention her mother has the same voice actor as her in her tape and even if it might be to cut corners in the budget, that feels significant (and to be fair, sometimes you can cut corners while making meaningful choices at the same time)

Now you might think I'd have nothing to say about Simon on that matter, since we don't see any flashback of his life before the Train, and we know next to nothing about his parents. But I think it's very telling that the only actual backstory we get for him is his backstory with The Cat.

Because-

Simon became everything he hated about The Cat

Ok I never see anyone mentioning this, but hear me out

First, we have no idea if Simon knew The Cat was routinely invading people's privacy through their memory tapes, but he sure has no issue doing the exact same thing

But that doesn't stop there. He also collects things obsessively

And makes kids collect things for him as well, by the way

He thinks he's above others, but he immediately switches to victim mode when it comes back to bite him

HE. ABANDONS. A CHILD. WHO WAS UNDER HIS CARE!!

And. Uh. They both dig their heels instead of trying to change, too

Don't get me wrong, on some level I would have liked to know what Simon's parents were like too. I would have liked that a lot. But there's a good chance it wouldn't change anything, because everything we need to know about his background to understand why he's Like That™ is already in the show

But yeah, Grace and Simon both pretend they found freedom on the Train, and both distance themselves from parental figures who are at the source of their trauma, claiming they're different and better than them - and yet they are both subconsciously repeating patterns that caused at least part of their problems and/or trauma in the first place

And since they decided that making numbers go up was good, as long as they stick to that idea, they are bound to never escape from that self-perpetuating loop of harm and trauma

And I love it

And I hate it

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In the good timeline, people bring up Grace Monroe as a prototype of a well written redemption arc even more often than they bring up Zuko.

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I watched it last year and I had less trouble than you keeping the plot + characters straight, but iirc I had a fandom wiki or TV Tropes or something open through most of it. I definitely had a similar experience, and am also way older than the target audience.

I felt like a lot of the issue was that the direction of the plot either isn’t signposted/foreshadowed, or is done so in a way that I was completely missing. Like, the official synopsis of the show and a lot of the plot elements emphasized in the first episode are basically relating to a completely different series.

It was also unclear for a while how the relationship between the Absolute Solver and characters affected by it worked (like, that sometimes they’re puppeteered by it, sometimes they have feral instincts(?) because of it, sometimes they’re still just themselves but understandably acting differently because of their circumstances, if I’m remembering correctly…?). Which was made way worse by me taking forever to realize the Absolute Solver existed, because it’s not discussed in the show synopsis and is initially introduced through a series of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameos, and I kept blinking. This element, to me, makes me lean more towards thinking it’s easier to follow Murder Drones if you have a fandom presence - if you and your friends are combing through screen caps and hashing it out together, I think it’s way easier to watch the first two eps and be like “oh there’s some kind of malicious program that took over that dead murder drone and turned it into a monster with quasi-supernatural powers, and the same thing is affecting the main character.” Whereas I watched them like “wait what? I thought this show was about trying to kill humans?”

I think it’s possible there’s clearer narrative clues if you’re watching as a young person who’s much more familiar with online animation and web video.

Murder Drones is objectively a very well made, cool and ambitious indie cartoon but I gotta say I cannot follow its storytelling at all. I feel bad that I instantly forget who's who and what's going on and why they've gone from this place to this next place and why a given thing is happening. Is that normal or does its rabid fandom easily track whatever's supposedly going on? This isn't criticism like I said it's undeniably polished but I feel like it was made for a type of attention span that is alien to me. Also it feels made for people about half my age, that too. Is there just a clear concise summary of the story arc somewhere actually or is it like Homestuck where if I don't grasp it I simply never will

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My grandma used to show me how to string up bells to scare off the gnomes.

Was talking to @browniefox about how Gravity Falls probably had a whole culture and understanding and stuff, coexisting with the supernatural, until SOMEONE started a cult

Not super happy with this but posting it anyway before I can chicken out haha

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im still never forgiving hbomax for taking her away from me

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It’s easy to imagine Kagami being really into Super Hero Hour with Kamen Rider and Super Sentai when she was growing up. Félix is, lmao, clearly open to acting that doesn’t rely on facial expressions. They should watch tokusatsu together. Specifically they should watch Kamen Rider OOO so Félix can stan Ankh.