#rust rambles

[rusted-fairy-wings]

Why does ninjago give everyone a hat vaguely shaped like this every single time they’re going through absolute hell

Hunted Lloyd

Rogue Jay

Monstrosity Kai

SERIOUSLY ALL 3 OF YOU???

[left-lateral-incisor]

Sometimes I make really good posts and they get like 5 notes. Sometimes I make posts that are also very good and get like 90.

It's all a dice game on this hellsite.

[intersexbel]

I love Kristen Schaal's voice acting as Mabel so much. Every delivery is beautiful. I love the whimsy, the emotion, it all feels so real. Alex Hirsch said he didn't know who would play Mabel if they couldn't get her to do it, and I can't really imagine it either.

He also said that a big part of the choice to cast her was that she was so genuine. She doesn't treat the character's emotions as trivial or a joke, she doesn't wink at you while in the booth, she takes everything seriously. (I like to think that some of that bled over into Mabel.)

Gravity Falls was a kids show that took the character's emotions seriously and treated them as important to the plot. It's easy to see how that's fitting. Thank you Kristen Schaal for helping bring such a wonderful character to life.

[somethingterrifying]

(ID in alt text)

Hey I didn't notice his hand was there

[rusted-fairy-wings]

It’s you!

Despite everything, it’s still you.

“It’s impossible to survive in a land of monsters without becoming a monster yourself.”

[rusted-fairy-wings]

I think part of the inherent horror of the train is that it truly does not care the age of its passengers. It will literally take anyone.

We see lots of teens, of course, like Jesse and Tulip

We see young adults like Ryan and Min

But we also see the show repeatedly hammer in the fact that the train isn’t afraid to take extremely young children, children who could (and do!) spend the bulk of their formative years on the train. Which is genuinely horrific if you think about it more than 5 seconds. These kids likely have families desperately searching for them and are going to be forever altered by having some of their most critical years on the train. Book 3 perfectly shows how terribly wrong that can go.

But it doesn’t even stop there!! We see snippets that the train will take parents and the elderly too. Like I wouldn't be surprised if some of the on train deaths were old age or more "natural" causes than something like Simon's death.

I just think part of what makes the train so inherently terrifying is how little it matters how old you are, what you're doing, who you are. If the train deems you need to get it together, it'll come for you regardless.

[rusted-fairy-wings]

Every time you hc a character that was not purposefully written to be aroace as aroace, an angel gains its wings

[rusted-fairy-wings]

Infinity Train Book 1 is so funny because Tulip spends almost the entire season hanging out with little guys.

Like most of the characters she’s on screen with are relatively small denizens. She’s very rarely shown with other humans. So I feel like you just really don’t think much about her height.

Then you watch Book 2, and you come to realize and appreciate that Tulip and Lake are so short. Like???

Like I get that Grace and Simon are several years older than them but also???? THEYRE SO SMALL??? even Jesse is noticeably taller than Lake???

anyways TLDR Lake is short, so is Tulip, and I think that’s silly and whimsical