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duckheyz · 11 months
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ridgehirano · 4 months
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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!
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Shitty Lake aesthetic: when i was a kid i used to really want to polish bald people’s heads with one of those machines where it’s like. a big fluffy circle and it spins super fast. and see if i could see myself in the reflection on their head. the way that i could not spend more than five minutes in lake’s presence without rightfully receiving the mother of all punches to the sternum...
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hibiyapan · 2 years
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This week’s art dump 💖
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lethologick · 9 months
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I am quantum physics, my witness brings me to existence
@mayvimay’s lineart <3 thanks for letting me color this (ps, is anybody else still thinking about Lake or?)
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thepunkmuppet · 1 month
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just a trans boy waiting for a popular athletic cis boy to break from his toxic friends and form a genuine emotional connection with me changing us both for the better in the process (this is about jesslake I want what jesslake have please give me jesslake)
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hirameko · 1 year
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when i look at you, i see me!
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andthebeanstalk · 1 year
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To give credit to the last of us for its queer rep, it’s not just queer characters who have tragic/bittersweet endings. Literally everyone (siblings, parent and child, heterosexual) queer or not, has tragic endings. The older queer couple gets the best one out of all of them.
I guess? I mean, it is certainly much better than if they were the only characters to die in the storyline. But people were on tumblr talking about how theirs was a happy queer story. And I think it is the misleading discussion around these characters that bothers me even more than the writing. Like if I had watched that episode instead of looking up the plot summary, I would have had a meltdown at the end when they both died because I truly had gotten the impression that it was going to be a happy story.
But now that I've mentioned the writing:
It's nice that they live till their 70s. It's nice that they get 20 beautiful years together. And it's a bit fucked that the writers felt the need to end those 20 long years on-screen with a terminal illness and suicide in the same episode they are introduced. It would have been incredibly easy to just say that those men get to live on past the end of the episode. There are a million reasons those men could have continued living in the story.
But that's the thing about a show like this. I think there is a distinct possibility that this show is actually incapable of writing a satisfying happy ending.
Craig Maizin, the show's writer, gained acclaim recently with Chernobyl, proving that he is apparently excellent at writing a long, horrifying tragedy in which character struggle only to find there is no way out.
(His other main credits are The Hangover sequels and the Scary Movie sequels, most of which I haven't personally seen, so make of that what you will.)
But more than the writer's background, the show itself troubles me. It has this repeated mantra in it that goes, "when you're lost in the darkness, look for the light." Which is a cool phrase.
But I have reason to suspect that this writer genuinely doesn't know how to write the light. I have no reason to believe he does. I hope I am wrong.
But when you write episode after episode after episode that is an endless inescapable slog of tragedy and desperation - and then advertise it to me, a sick queer person actually living through a pandemic and trying to escape disease and poverty - well.
I think a better writer would include moments of light and hope beyond just trauma bonding. Moments that don't end in death.
When my wife writes about characters in awful situations, there are still these moments of genuine loveliness and fun and joy between the characters; these moments remind the reader what is worth actually fighting for, living for. Imagine! Entire chapters in a post-apocalyptic novel in which characters don't undergo a "hacking someone to death with a cleaver" level of trauma!
But the fact that Bill and Frank still had to die even after an earnest attempt to tell a beautiful love story....
I fear that the light the story ends with - if there is any - will be as dim and desaturated as the show itself. And personally, I am at a point in my life where I don't care to see a story like that.
It's fine if you do like it. It doesn't matter to me if you find beauty in a tragic queer love story. There are places for that in this world. But it is tragic. I am sure of that. And I wish I hadn't been seeing posts saying otherwise, ya know?
And I hope I am wrong about the writer. But I see cracks in the premise. Like in Stranger Things. There was always a promise of light that kept me watching, but it never seemed to come. Instead, the misery and trauma continued to stack and compound for the lead characters, like in TLOU. But... does the writer know how to make that worth it, for us, for the audience - for me? I don't think he does.
I think it very possible that the light isn't really coming for Ellie and Joel in a way that provides catharsis because I have noticed that on shows with no intermittent joy and hope, this is too often the case.
But I do hope I'm wrong. Because if I am right, then a lot of mentally ill fans will leave the experience more depressed than if they hadn't watched it at all.
But for my own part, I'll just continue to skim through the show for monster design ideas. And also I'll say that everyone should watch Infinity Train - ESPECIALLY season 2 of Infinity Train, if they'd like to see a story in which people actually DO find a light that makes the whole journey feel worth it.
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ROUND 4: QUARTERFINALS: MATCH 3
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Animation Finals (Transing ur Gender VS Having the Tism)
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fleurmarigold · 11 months
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some new Infinity Train book 1 & 2 stickers in the store!! Tulip, Jesse & Lake :3 ✨🍂🦌
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rolaplayor101 · 1 year
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It's Agender Day!!! So I redrew some old art of Lake I did! With a bunch of their pride flags!
Buy as a shirt or sticker!! Oooo you wanna Commission me so badd oooo! Pls don’t ignore my DNI! Reblogs are mandatory!
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ben-talks-art · 2 years
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Why I like Lake
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"If it means I get to be free... Then I'll do it!"
I was kinda debating over whether I should pick Lake or Amelia as my favorite "Infinity Train" character, but I ended up going with the former since Amelia doesn't really have that much screen time and scenes, and most of her personality is kinda left open for speculation.
And honestly, when it's all said and done, I feel the themes and topics around Lake's character just pack a bigger punch even though her character is a lot simpler to discuss.
(Spoilers for infinity Train)
For those who never saw Infinity Train (first of all, what the hell is wrong with you, go watch it right now!!), all you need to know for now is that each season of the show follows a different protagonist with their own journey to make and lessons to learn, and season 2's main lead, that being Lake, is a mirror reflection of season 1's main lead.
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Her entire thing is that she wants to defy fate. She starts the show trapped in a mirror and wants to scape the mirror, then she's trapped in a car and wants to escape that car, then she realizes she's trapped in a train and wants to get out of the train. Basically, anytime she feels like she's free for good some sort of new wall appears in front of her to remind her that true freedom is still a long way to go.
From that alone, you can already take away 10 or 20 different messages depending on how you look at it.
Maybe the idea is to say that true freedom may never happen, or that true freedom will only come after you truly work hard to earn it, or maybe true freedom is when you stop fighting the walls that appear in front of you, or that these walls are something that you yourself make to continuously feel trapped so that your thrill for fighting for freedom may never go out...
It could also draw parallels to any sort of real-life situation revolving around feeling trapped. The feeling of always feeling trapped by your job, or your family, your dreams, your school, your relationship, your body, your sexual preferences, anything that makes you feel uncomfortable or unhappy with your current state.
Or maybe it's meant to show the effects it has on you, how this feeling of entrapment makes you more aggressive, more hostile, how it makes you put walls between you and others when in reality you probably need them more than ever.
Or just the simple theme of trying to get away from the image you have of yourself!
Lake is a character that you could basically write a whole book about. There are so many ways you could look at her and interpret what she means depending from what angle you try to do it.
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For my personal angle, like I said Lake feels like someone trying to defy fate. All she wants is to not feel trapped anymore but the more she tries to fight this feeling, the more the world around her tries to convince her to stop. Be it the train, the cops, the passengers, the conductor, everyone just keeps trying to get in her way and convince her that she needs to give up her dream, and yet she never does!
Lake is awesome because she refuses to take a "no" for an answer in her quest to find happiness. She isn't afraid of changing, or afraid of fighting for that change, all she wants is to do what feels right for her, even if it doesn't feel right for anyone else, and I love how her story ends with her coming up with a completely new solution for her problem that nobody ever considered before, as if to say "You only have to stop when you yourself feel like you can stop" and she never does!
Lake never doubts that she's allowed to be happy just as much as everyone.
And make no mistake, this show tries very hard to convince her of that. You really feel like everyone is desperately trying to break her spirit and make her give up and you also see how that's slowly starting to hurt her on the inside.
She doesn't just have to fight fate, she has to fight her desire to stop trying to fight fate. She just looks so tired by the time we get to the season finale from all the struggles she keeps facing in order to not abandon her dream.
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I think the most powerful scene for me is when she finally snaps and starts going over every label everyone tried to put on her, showing that even though she acts strong on the outside she has actually been holding it in how much she hates that everyone looks at her and see what they want to see instead of who she really is, and the worst part is she can't even correct them because even her doesn't know who she is or what she wants for the most part.
Lake is so simple and yet so complex, someone running away from what she doesn't want but with no clue as to where she's going. All she wants is to be at peace but she doesn't know how to get said peace, but she's so determined to get there that she keeps pushing forward anyway.
I just get so curious thinking about her and also thinking about what different people take away from watching her. The more you analyze this girl the more interesting she gets and ugh!! She's just such a good character!
Freaking love Lake. She's just awesome!
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Favorite character list>>
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Wanted to kinda loose up with the way I use digital art so I did some one layer sketches with these two as my guinea pigs~ outfits are from here!!
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hibiyapan · 2 years
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Some quick sketches
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nirvanox182 · 2 years
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Lake from Infinity Train.
Original Drawing Date: October 12 2022.
I'm back uploading my october drawings! :)
I drew Tulip back in february, I am planning to eventually draw every Infinity Train protagonist, at first I didn't know to draw Lake on her book one or book two outfit, I decided on her book one since it was easier to shade due to the clothes and I needed it to be easy because the drawtober challenger is very tiring haha, but I will draw her on her book two outfit on the future and I will talk about her on her book two arc; but for now I will talk about her story arc on book one.
Lake's first appearance on "The Chrome Car" was a horrible existential crisis, the more I think about it the more it hits me, she was brought into a society she didn't want to belong, forced to follow a way of life that made her feel miserable, and she was trapped in a world with basically no freedom! That's pretty much how society works nowadays, we are basically a bunch of people mimicking what others do because that's supposedly how "life works" just follow the rules, get a miserable job and be a productive part of this society, some people like Mace and Sieve are okay with it, but others like Lake know there is more in life than that. So she tricks Tulip to escape, and her heart to heart with Tulip is amazing! When she tells Tulip that she always hides in her room refusing to talk to others and keeping herself busy to evade her emotional problems, that was a fantastic scene! Tulip learns her lesson and commiserates with Lake about wanting to find her own voice and her own way of life and then helps her escape to be her own person.
Lake's journey in book one is about not being what people tell you to be, but to be what you want to be or at least to try and find what you want, this theme is touched on more detail on book two, but I’ll talk about that in a future drawing.
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Why everyone so awkward.
Slowly but surely pulling myself outta art block with the people from that train show.
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