[pleasedontkickme]

Gonna be more active here so!

• You can call me Alexis!

•AO3 is pearlclutched

-I’m writing a vampire-Ryan AU called “Sins of the Sun”, it’s up on AO3. Any posts related to it will be #sots

-I have a whole gender-bent Rymin AU, I have art and a oneshot for it posted. Any posts will be under #wlw au

(So far my fics are/will be rated Explicit, so minors DNI and all that jazz.)

Thanks!

[temaru]

hello universe!!! random self-indulgent bullshit from my sketchbook GO!!!!!

[oh-cosmia]

i got so excited seeing butch min i blacked out and then scrolled to the next pic and saw db ryan and IM FREAKIN IT!!! YEEEEAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

[scribblenator]

happy valentines day from…kez?

[nowlbowl]

thank you spotify for randomly reminding me of them I miss them

[musicalmelody001]

[oh-cosmia]

can you answer this ask when the next chapter comes out? i want a reminder to read it since your fic is highkey amazing

IT’S OUT!

[princethecurlyart]

Come back.

(please)

Basado en el trend de Tuiterex

Day 235 drawing Infinity Train until I forget or I die

[sonderpoison]

INFINITY TRAIN ― "The Origami Car"

[courtesycalling]

off the train

[starlike-sight]

im so sick influenza style rn so this is incoherent, i apologize in advance lol. but while tagging this post i was thinking abt min-gi and ryan and rymin and how romance stories can be a representation of coming of age, ie the love interest can represent something the main character strives for and wants to become. (think about how katniss choosing peeta over gale indicates that she wants a life of peace and gentleness over harsh and callous necessity.) i mean even if you Don’t want to read this through a shipping lens (boring) the principle still applies.

min starts off the season telling himself he wants a normal successful life, college, finance, presumably eventually a stable career and family. ryan comes in and throws all that into upsets. min says “i can’t be like him”, and partially he means that ryan is a reckless mess who doesn’t plan out his major decisions or anticipate consequences, but also, subtextually, ryan lives a free, artistic, if selfish life without being bound by others’ expectations. min can’t have that. he can’t be like him.

ryan knows the free artistic life comes at a cost which is that its a huge fucking grind and ryan is burning out and lacking balance. but when min looks at ryan, he sees ryan’s initiative and boldness first and foremost… he doesn’t really seem to care that ryan’s not Successful, not really? i got the impression he only cares about success so far as other people might judge them for it, and he lets that go by the end of the story. at his most emotionally open moments he’s jealous of or outright admires ryan. because he sees ryan is actually out there taking risks and Doing real things and Making things. thats the life min wants! and that’s what ryan represents to min, freedom and music and taking his life into his own hands. the purest form of the dream!

that’s why i always felt disdainful about the interpretation that book 4’s ending required min to give up more than ryan did or that min was pushed into ryan’s dream… that’s clearly not the case. (i mean they couldve made min’s state of mind more clear, especially in the last couple of scenes leading up to the decision but) looking at it from the big picture i think it makes perfect sense why min chose to go with ryan… ryan represents the life min wants, and he gives min the courage to pursue that life for himself.

(not to mention if we keep going with the “love interest=self actualization”, ryan knows he needs min (already knows this by the start of the story) because he has the artistic dream and the will to chase it but he’s still failing. even though he’s living his life the way he wants to, hes Lonely. hes burnt out. he needs stability, patience, carefulness… do those qualities sound familiar… remind you of someone…?)

(he also needs love, genuinely. what with all the one-off lines that indicate that ryan doesnt feel like anyone in his life really sees him like min does.)

am i making sense… my temperature is over 100 degrees fahrenheit ngl guys im really fucking out of it and autocorrent is rly careying this essay but i LOOOVEEEYOU MIN-GI I LOVE YOU RYAN

[scribblenator]

slow down man hes not going anywhere!!!

[a-kai202]

the beginning

[faithschaffer]

Sharing my end credit illustrations for Knights of Guinevere to celebrate the premiere! 🥳🥳🥳 The pilot is up now on YouTube, please go check it out. Everyone brought their A game for this and it really shows. ;_;

I'll share some of the background layouts I did for the pilot soon but in the meantime, shhhh…. 🤫 They're dreaming 💙

[ze-link]

GUINEVERE & FRANKIE Knights of Guinevere

[paperandpencilsandskips]

[johannesviii]

Considering the events of Infinity Train Book 4 happen at the same time as Book 5, I think it's fair to assume they would have formed a diptych of sorts. On one hand, that makes the cancellation of the series even more frustrating. On the other hand, we can make some theories purely based on things that feel like they could be meant as intentional parallels. We only have one half of a conversation, but we can try to guess what's missing.

The most obvious thing is that Min and Ryan knew each other since childhood, like Amelia and Alrick, and seem just as inseparable. They had planned their future lives thinking the other person would be there forever. We already know what that did to Amelia when disaster struck.

We don't know when Amelia found the Engine when we see her at the end of episode 1. She seems to be about the same age as she is in the part of her tape where she boards the Train, so we can assume it hasn't been very long (?). There's no way of knowing how she got there, but in any case, she's no longer wearing the standard passenger uniform at that point.

Several days (at least) later, we hear her explain to One that returning all the passengers' belongings is a good thing, because it will allow them to individualize themselves. She clearly has a problem with the way the Train operates and how it treats passengers, but for now, she is still trying to influence One to see things her way rather than antagonizing him. Perhaps they were already working together like that before episode 1?

We can't completely trust what Owen Dennis says because he loves to shitpost during Q&As, and also because he strongly believes in the concept of death of the author, but I'm still sharing something he said on the subject that seems sincere.

Next, I'd like to talk about something that I never see mentioned as potentially related to the Train itself, and that's the green substance in that pipe in The Astro Queue Car. Obviously, given the rather ridiculous depth at which it is located, this is not something that is meant to be found by passengers (also I find it hard to believe that Ryan dug all that out with his bare hands, but whatever lol).

At one point, I thought that one clue that it was part of how the Train worked (and that it would be relevant later on) was that it was the same color as the orbs. When you put the two side by side, however, it turns out that the colors are different. So... maybe it's something else. Who knows?

There is a very thin theme that also links Amelia and Book 4, and that's music. We already know from contextual clues in Book 1 that Amelia controls the Steward using specific tones (also used by One-one on several occasions), and that this is a variation of the phreaking she uses to connect the payphone call without paying in the flashback in her tape.

That said, I can't help but notice that Amelia's takeover took place relatively soon after all the passengers retrieved their belongings. And those belongings include Min-Gi's stylophone. I wonder if the two events are related; for example, could she have noticed a glitch on a screen when Min was using his synthesizer and deduced that it was possible to phreak the Train's systems like phones? For now, it remains a headcanon, but I find the idea very appealing.

One of the most obvious patterns throughout the series is that something that will reappear in a Book (Lake, the Apex, Amelia) is always introduced or reintroduced in episode 7 of the previous Book. And, of course, the Docent is introduced in episode 7 of Book 4 - perhaps it (or maybe one of its victims) would have been important in Book 5?

(Incidentally, the headphones found by Kez clearly have no business being in that car and probably belonged to one of the Docent's victims, and a recent one at that, considering everyone just got their belongings back…)

Usually, when something isn't important, Owen Dennis shitposts about it, but his responses about the Docent are quite sincere and cautious. I don't know if that means anything, but it's worth considering.

Obviously we see when Amelia takes over the Train, how everything glitches when she controls every Steward at the same time, how she fumbles with the controls-

-and how she seemingly destroys most Stewards. Maybe it's all the Stewards that weren't the one that One-one was using in the Engine? We don't know. In any case, whatever she's doing resets Min and Ryan's numbers to 202 yet again. Did the same thing happen to every other passenger? Maybe including her?

Finally, we don't know exactly how Alrick died (aside from Owen Dennis's shitposts about a dirt bike accident, which I give about as much credence to as anything he says about non-canon character deaths lol. bless him), but we can assume that a hospital was involved, because we see bits of hospital rooms in several places in the background of Amelia's failed Cars. And Jeremy's backstory also involved an accident. Now I'm not saying that the two are directly related, mainly because I would be very surprised if Alrick had been dead for five years at this point, but there is an interesting parallel there as well... especially considering the fact that Jeremy also refused to move on and is also stuck in one place on the Train.

There's a lot more things we know about Book 5 from the various Q&As, but I was trying to focus on parallels we can theorize based on Book 4 specifically!

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just girl and her evil twink