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infinity train book 1 did things to me when i was a kid...

like wdym my dad wanted me to watch this show with him that had a girl with her dog going on the fantasy train. i liked it ok but something about tulip's parents never sat right with me. but then little me saw atticus get ghom'ed and was just straight up crying. could not watch it. my parents divorced a couple months later and i decided to watch the show with my mom because i wanted something familiar. i felt like i fell apart by the cat's car. i felt seen by how tulip tries to rewrite her memories, how she was stuck in the middle of her parents arguing. like i know people say that representation in kids shows is important but i had never seen parenting portrayed like this:

anxiety portrayed like this:

or a kid going through emotional denial like this:

infinity train felt like a kids show that took kids seriously. i wanted to be taken seriously then and i felt like this was the one thing that did that. i could write about how lake is such a good trans allegory, something that absolutely made me question gender more. i could write about how the way simon's downwards character arc made me get people like simon out of my life. but book 1 broke me because i had never seen divorce portrayed this accurately.

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Ouuuuu giving this to cartoon network/ Warner bros was the BIGGEST mistake possible, keep in mind that this was posted on August 20th of THIS YEAR! yeah infinity train has definitely not been forgotten about or dissapeared not in the SLIGHTEST! Bruh we need this to come back like no tomorrow it's been 6 YEARS already and the fact that Warner bros or CN is actively trying to erase this show from existence is just INSANE to me, because it's just like why this one out ALL shows it doesn't make sense >_< I swear Owen Dennis's talents are being WASTED on this Among us show rn, like he does not deserve this one bit #KeepInfinityTrainAlive

Truly horrific to think about Infinity Train Book 1 from the perspective of Tulip’s parents.

They screwed up. Straight up. They communicated poorly, and Tulip wound up bearing the brunt of the consequences of it. Nobody was perfect in the situation. All three of them are just clearly going through it. Divorce is hard on everyone involved, and it’s clearly shown to be a fresh wound. It’s just a shit situation all around.

And I’m confident in saying I’m sure both her parents felt bad over the ordeal. It’s not fair. It sucks. Yeah, they’re trying, but they’re still learning to navigate these brand new dynamics. At the end of the day, they still screwed up because Tulip has to miss something she really cares about.

But then Tulip runs away. And she doesn’t come back for months. Can we imagine the panic, the guilt they must have felt? Tulip packed a bag; surely they noticed stuff was missing when someone checked her room. As far as they know Tulip actively ran away (true). But they had no way of knowing she was prevented from coming home. Just horrifying to think of the implications of that. They don’t know where she is. She’s disappeared without a trace. Even if authorities tracked her well, she’d still appear to have vanished into thin air upon boarding the train. Tulip is just. Missing. They don’t know if she’s even alive.

And with the added weight of what happened immediately before Tulip disappeared, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to assume they both held a lot of guilt. That they both felt Tulip disappearing was their fault. That they wondered if things had just been different maybe they’d still have their daughter. We see Tulip has the tendency to take on things outside of her control—maybe that’s a tendency she picked up from one or both of her parents.

I just can’t stop thinking about how scared and distraught they must have been. I can only imagine the relief they felt when Tulip finally came home. All the questions they must have had. How many more questions they must have had seeing how fundamentally Tulip has changed. Like imagine your only daughter who you’d been arguing with last time you saw her comes back after being missing for months and she’s changed and improved that much. It’s just sickening. It’s all off-screen and it still fucks me up.

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The relationship between Tulip and Lake is everything to me.

Lake knows everything about her. They were there for every moment of her life, forced to mimic every movement. They never had the chance to make their own decisions, just learning what they could through her. They quite literally know her life better than their own.

Tulip knows next to nothing about them. They've been there her whole life, and she had no idea they had their own thoughts and feelings. How could she? The day they first spoke was the day they said their goodbyes. Hell, Tulip doesn't even know their name.

Yet despite not knowing them at all, despite having every reason not to, Tulip still chose to help them. They were only meant to be an extension of her, yet she was still the first person to look beyond that, to see them for the individual they are. Nobody would have blamed her for not wanting to help the person who just tried to leave her trapped in another world with no way back, but she still found a way for both of them both to walk free.

When they escape, side by side, Tulip wants to keep moving. Traveling the Train together, not as Reflection and Prime, but as friends. As equals. It doesn't even occur to her that Lake might not want that right now. There's no bad blood between them as they say their goodbyes, but there is a long, complicated history, and good reason for them to want to strike out on their own.