#Infinity Train Book 2

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transition metals

[jesse-cosay]

This might be obvious, but I feel like it's often misunderstood about Jesse's character.

When confronting the Apex and running away with Lake, his number does not change. They don't get his exit right away, it doesn't appear after this dramatic moment of him standing up for himself and his friend.

"But Yellow! It's about the pacing! It's about the drama of them running away!"

Wrong!

For one, Jesse's problem isn't that he can't stand up for himself. Because he can! And he shows us this!

"It looks like your punching wasn't doing much good either."

"I was yelling! It's still my turn to yell!"

He talks back after Lake mocks his approach. He puts his foot down and defends himself.

"Pft. You would."

He antagonizes Lake after the flecs outted them as a criminal. He doesn't bend to Lake's whims like someone who's spineless.

"You better not tell mom!"

He doesn't grovel for Nate not to tell their parents. Doesn't promise to make it up to him later, doesn't try to lighten this blow at all. The way someone would if they always played both sides.

Defending himself is not his problem, not really. It's not even just people-pleasing.

"Don't tell me what to do!"

"I'm not gonna be a part of anything like this. On or off the train!"

If it was? This would have been the scene Jesse got his exit. There's enough build up for it, we don't need the chase scene before it, we could still have the flex show up after Jesse's exit closed with Lake on the other side.

But it isn't.

"I've got you. We're getting out of here."

It's only after he reassures Lake that his number changes. After he promises to stay with them, to side with them.

Jesse's issues were about standing up for others. For defending other people, even when it wasn't convenient. Not about him.

(Shout out to @elibethqueen for this post, love you bb)

[jaaerieb]

AAA I REALLY MISSED DRAWING THEM

[just-blei]

Drawing them again :b

[elibethqueen]

Everyone pls enjoy the blorbos bc today is their special day!!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO MY FAVORITE SEASON AND SHIP OF ALL TIME!! 5 YEARS SINCE I WATCHED BOOK 2 and I let these two take over my brain💛💙🖤🤍

I couldn’t finish a solid rendered piece this year but I decided to dump my doodles on you! Most of these are stuff I managed to do on when I was scratching the walls for some dopamine on 2024

Hope you can enjoy 😊 have a wonderful book 2 anniversary 🚂 ♾️ and a very cool 2025

[artisticshrimp]

when they put their heads together they share half a brain cell

[canadiancryptid]

I love that the fandom has come to associate Jesse with loving vampires. We have like, one picture of him and his brother dressed as vampires for Halloween, and he frequently names animals Dracula. Thats it.

Yet we have collectively decided he knows ALL the vampire lore

[gatodefresa]

Oops forgot to share these here

[lilryetoast]

FUCK

I can’t believe I never posted this :| happy super late birthday to book 2. The drawing is actually a re-draw of some fanart I made when I first became obsessed with the show. I seriously don’t know who I’d be without this show. Probably someone who doesn’t talk about cartoons like a rabid animal. This show, but specifically book 2 has been so formative for me and I will forever be grateful for the lessons it taught me. The friends I made in this fandom have been some of the coolest people. Anyway, I’m sorry I’m super late

[paperkoifish]

Doodles and art I'm working on

[24-compass-roses]

Something about Lake. Something about how their first chosen name was MT, for Mirror Tulip—but they never intended to keep it. Something about following in someone else’s footsteps all your life with no choice or say in it, to the point that when you finally break out of the cycle even then all you have of your world’s perspective is the world through that person’s eyes—and so you name yourself after them even now, holding onto the pieces even as you shatter them.

Something about how every person who sees you views you as lesser—sliver, null, nothing at all—and how “MT” sounds so very much like “empty.” How you knew from the start that that wasn’t a name you’d be keeping, that there was a better one for you out there. How you planned to be something—no matter what anyone else said.

Something about living your life as someone else’s reflection and constantly being on the run from them even though they are where you came from. Something about choosing to leave the place and person that made you, because you can only be yourself when you are away from what your makers want you to be.

Something about chasing your goals and being so close to reaching them after all this time but having the people at the top look through you like you aren’t even there. Like you’re nothing. Something about that unique sort of frustration where you want someone to CARE, and so you take the nearest uncaring being and make them see you, and you tell them that YOU ARE A PERSON, tears in your eyes because that’s all you’ve ever been, but the world keeps refusing to see it. To see you.

Something about Lake. A reflective surface, something you’ve spent your entire life chained to and then running from the moment you got free. But it’s the first mirror you saw yourself in that didn’t make you afraid.

Something about Lake.

[noonewilleverknowistealkneecaps]

Why everyone so awkward.

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

[quotes-from-the-growth-train]

Tulip: What's it like dating Lake?

Jesse: One time I asked them for a glass of water when they were mad at me and they brought me a glass of ice and said 'wait'

[thepunkmuppet]

I am once again thinking about how lake’s journey in infinity train is such an utterly perfect encapsulation of the trans experience and how it genuinely struck me to my core the first time I watched it and has affected me in such a profound way that just thinking about it makes me want to fall to my knees in the middle of fucking tescos

[just-blei]

A conscious puppet

[elibethqueen]

Made this for valentine’s but I forgot to post here 🤡 I’m sorry