#simon infinity train

[blorbo-gerrymandering]

Round 2

Baseball has sponsorships, right? If not maybe Blaseball does.

Propaganda Under The Cut

Jaylen Hotdogfingers:

The greatest came-back-wrong character ever. She's the mayor of Seattle. She's was the best pitcher in the league. She was murdered by an umpire in an act of divine retribution for the fanbase's transgression. The fanbase exploited game mechanics to bring her back to life. Immediately she murdered 12 people. She died again and got revived a second time as part of a team of undead players that killed god. She's a really awful batter. She has, like, 16 songs written about her and they're all really good. I thought about her every single day for a period of six consecutive months. I love her.

I'll be real. I'm an outsider to the Blaseball fandom. I don't understand it. I think they've crowdfunded characters from fictionalized fucked-up Baseball stats and a dream. I love seeing what the fuck they're doing in their eldritch sandbox just so much.

Simon Laurent:

I love him so much! Yay! Yippie! he got what he deserved tho

have i submitted him yet? if yes here he is again. what did you do to my French man, now he has anxiety, and maybe 50 other things. i can fix him, but it would require a lot of time travel and a complete lack of trains. as i can't do that, he instead gets his very own tumblr poll submission. one vote for train man is one dollar towards the invention of the simon-specific time machine. (your other guys cant come unless they have the same name sorry) its for a good cause

imagine: youre in the trolley situation. well an oh-so-kind tumblr user decided to give everyone who submits this character a get-out-of-a-train-free ticket! use that ticket, and you're no longer responsible for the death of someone (or you are no longer fated to die)!

[noonewilleverknowistealkneecaps]

Why everyone so awkward.

Slowly but surely pulling myself outta art block with the people from that train show.

[sat-in-a-rat-trap]

[rhi-bread]

infinity train characters as texts posts but I drew them instead-

[squidink18]

If I had a dime for every time a Warner Bros Character in a cartoon named Simon on HBO Max straight up disintegrated when the material itself wasn’t just aimed at kids, I’d have two dimes.

Which ain’t much, but it’s crazy that it happened twice, right?

[noodle-yap-yap]

Grace & Simon

[saltwatersweets]

shoutout to characters who are downright terrible people and are likely unredeemable yet are still very sympathetic, gotta be one of my favorite genders

[ridgehirano]

RESTOCK 2/9/2024! My online store is opening with these #infinitytrain stickers! These are revised stickers from the gallery show that we did a long time ago! Hope you train heads grab them while you can!

[sp00ng00n]

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

same character, one of them is just better written than the other.

[the-soup-specter-sillies]

if i had a nickel for every time a pale-haired guy named simon was initially revealed as a bit of a dork but then slowly grew to be understood as a grade-a asshole who only cared about himself and also he gets FUCKING SKELETON DISINTEGRATED TO DEATH IN A SHOW THAT WAS ONCE ON CARTOON NETWORK.

id have two nickels. which isn’t a lot and honestly i think it needs to happen more.

[the-bitterest-breakups-poll]

Poll: Round1A #6

*Reminder that Break up is being used loosely here and not all relationships may be romantic in nature

propaganda under cut:

Grace and Simon

No propaganda was submitted

Kim and Jimmy

"-basically what happens is theyre lawyers who work together and also pull lots of awful pranks and schemes on their enemies and gradually make each other worse. they get married so they wont have to testify against each other (but they do actually love each other its just not a conventional proposal). however kim realizes how awful shes become AND how awful jimmy has become (and how jimmy has become Saul Goodman, his criminal lawyer persona). they divorce and kim never appears in the breaking bad show. then after the events of breaking bad, once walter white is dead, saul is in hiding but hes caught. kim hears news of this and decides to come forward about the schemes they pulled that got someone killed. they reunite at jimmy's hearing and she visits him in jail."

[jesse-cosay]

Everyone’s favorite clown with blood on his hands/j

Happy birthday Simon!!! I can't wait for another year of fixating on this silly little show!

[mysterygothmoth]

Rip to my favorite ratbastard

[they-call-me-haiku]

i just realized how similar Simon from Infinity Train and Catra from SPOP is.

both of them start at a pretty bad place but only gets worse from there. they have anger issues. they support a cult-like environment that fosters animosity and cruelty towards innocent people. they kill people, they are controlling and possessive of their best friend/love interest, and they refuse to take responsibility for their actions.

both of them have gone through some kind of trauma that left them with abandonment and trust issues. both are powerful villains but horrible people. they violate their best friend/love interest's boundaries. their best friend/love interest tries to get them to snap out of it and stop all their evil bs, but they respond to that with bitterness and toxicity. both of them have a mental breakdown at some point. their best friend/love interest would save them in a heartbeat, and they would kill that person in a heartbeat.

the only difference is that:

1. Simon was at least a better friend to Grace before she started to deflect. he seemed to actually care about her. he also had the potential to be redeemed. I would even argue that he starts out slightly better than Grace, because he wasn't as manipulative as she was in the beginning.

2. Simon doesn't get a lazy and rushed redemption arc. he doesn't get his happy ending with Grace. instead, he gets the ending he deserves, even if it was a little brutal. Simon was a sympathetic and insanely complex character, and that is why the creators chose not to redeem him, because it would have ruined his character.

(also the reason why i love Simon and hate Catra)

[zinxii]

Simon doodle, I hate him hes so cute