#the cat infinity train

[webaloo]

Finally got around to watching Infinity Train after putting it off for years. Guess who my favorite character is.

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Hi guys!! I’m not really a tumblr user or anything but I wanted to show off my little Infinity Train themed section of my shelf! I have a few more items on the way soon that I’ll add to it, but I just recently (as of today!) got this super cute OOAK LPS of The Cat and One-One!

I’m so so happy to add them to my little collection for a show that holds such a special place in my heart. I could never thank the show enough for what it’s done for me, how it helped me meet one of my closest friends to date, and how much it’s helped me through the years.

Next week I’ll be getting the lyrics from “Train to Nowhere” tattooed on me, as a tribute and a message to keep moving forward every day!

Sappy, I know.

Link to the OOAK LPS Maker! Their work is spectacular so please check it out!

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Some doodles to end the year

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[trojanteapot]

Alrighty folks buckle up because I'm gonna rant

Just feel like some of you out here just don't really understand nuance? And it's like what was I expecting because it's social media nuance is dead.

Anyway so all three of you out there who follow me that aren't bots, or people that I know IRL, know that my favourite character in Infinity Train is Simon Laurent, the French incel bastard man. And yeah I know he's terrible but also I must ask the eternal question: Is he actually though??????

Hear me out. Because look I know dude is a murderer and a hypocrite and a whiny little bitch but also consider the facts:

he's a teenager

he got trapped on some nightmare train when he was only ten. TEN!

his denizen was THE CAT, who from his POV manipulated him and then abandoned him!

Now I know what some of you already saying at this point:

-"uh that doesn't justify all the murdering!!!" -"he's an egotistical jackass!" -"he's not a child he's 18! he would go to adult jail in real life!" -"he died in the narrative thus justifying my hatred!" Okay well consider this: it's pretty much canonical that Grace did exactly the same amount of murdering as Simon but y'all are so ready to embrace and forgive her because she had a change of heart?

And which one of you when you were 18 made completely rational not emotion-driven decisions based on pure facts and logic??? Which one of you are capable of doing this now????

And he didn't have a normal childhood to develop his brain in a normal way, again he boarded the Train at age ten!!!! And finally which one of you was a teenager who wasn't a little egotistical???

If Simon was egotistical then what does that make Grace, the leader of the Apex who made a throne for herself???? What does that make Amelia who rejected the Train's attempts to help her move on and instead tried to recreate her dead fiance to the point that there are just renegade failed clones of that person just running around????

Also, I feel like it's important to mention that Amelia probably did more crimes than both Grace and Simon combined but she just didn't get her face eaten by Ghoms just because she was an adult at the time and could outsmart the Train. You guys are willing to forgive her and all the stuff she did... as an ADULT, but not Simon, a teenager, because... reasons???!!!

And other stuff I feel like should be mentioned here:

I think it's important to consider why episode 4 of season 3, came right before episode 5, you know the one where he kills Tuba. Episode 4 was when we learn a ton of info about Simon. Notably that the Cat was his denizen and we all know how the Cat is!

I'm pretty sure we were supposed to draw several conclusions from that episode namely:

- Cat is a schemey little shit - he was a kid when he knew the Cat - he seems to claim she was fake and manipulating him - that seems believable from what we know of the cat - ep 5 hits, Tuba and Simon have heart to heart - Simon then kills Tuba

So why did Simon kill Tuba? IT'S BECAUSE SIMON THINKS TUBA IS MANIPULATING HIM LIKE THE CAT WAS

And my friend brought up a good point where if you think about it, the Train was using Tuba to manipulate him, and using Hazel to manipulate Grace.

The Train we've seen just runs on pure algorithms and doesn't give a shit about the passengers. The Train just sees them as a number that increases or decreases. It just calculated that if Hazel & Tuba met Grace & Simon then it would have the maximum likelihood that those denizen + passenger combos could get their numbers down the most efficiently. It of course did not account for the fact that the Cat went on vacation and then ran into Simon, thus reminding him to not trust denizens.

Simon had as much of a likelihood to do a change of heart like Grace did! But hey, spanner in the works and all that.

Some of you just like hating on him because he's a white guy and coded cishet and it really shows.

I'm sure y'all are gonna say I'm defending the patriarchy or whatever for defending cishet white guy colonizer man Simon Laurent as a queer femme POC but also fuck off with that bullshit and just look at the actual text of the narrative presented to us instead of reading bad takes on Twitter.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

[randall-daily]

[dontwear-itout]

you'd better not be a cvnty cat when i get there...

[yardsards]

you ever think about how kez is actually pretty knowledgeable compared to most other denizens we've seen? she's not good at *explaining* but she knew about how numbers were supposed to work and what the train was

meanwhile, atticus and any other denizen that tulip might've thought to bring the number thing up to (except for the cat) were just like "idk bruh, fuck if i know" and presumably tuba didn't really know either

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side B, match 4 (round 3!)

Slugcats (RainWorld): "Slugcats are both the primary protagonists and the main playable characters of Rain World. They are small creatures that can come in various colors, and with black or white eyes, thin arms, broad legs with small feet, broad-ended ears, and a thick tail that tapers at its end. The player must keep the Slugcat alive as they explore the world, confront strange Creatures, and work towards challenging Achievements."

The Cat (Infinity Train): "The Cat is a traveling con artist and self-proclaimed entrepreneur. She is able to travel across the train cars in her personal shuttlecraft, attempting to sell seemingly useless items to the unsuspecting inhabitants in each car."

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ermmm is this what they call old woman yuri or something . . .

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Happy birthday Owen Dennis

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Decided to drop another character ask. This time about Samantha the Cat

1, 2, 12, 25

1. Why do you like or dislike this character?

I love her because she truly is insufferable and I love that.

2. Favorite canon thing about this character?

I just love that Ryan's was willing to try and flirt his way out of a situation with the cat. The cat.

Also she may or may not have a relationship with a bear named Frank who turned up once.

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

All the French she knows she learned from Simon

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

At first I didn't like her for getting Tulip to betray One-One, but then I realised she's just a very proper True Neutral chaos gremlin and she's funny

[trojanteapot]

Keep thinking back to how the Train in IF really does represent the systems that society puts in place IRL.

Because the question as to why did Grace and Simon misunderstand the train so much? Well it's simple, they kinda didn't to some extent. they were just picking up what the train was putting down.

For example in episode 6 of season 2, in the lucky cat car, when Lake and Jesse were in the Cat's amusement park, Lake pointed out that their score wasn't increasing as much as Jesse's despite them winning most of the carnival games. And I believe another example of this inequality is in season 3: killing denizens increases your number a lot, but not as much as trying to kill a passenger (compare how much Simon's number increases when he kills Tuba vs when he tries to kill Grace)

Telling people to figure out the Train for themselves seems to kind of be disastrous more often than we think. It's just like how telling people to "figure it out" in real life leads to the same thing. People will notice certain things about your system, like who gets treated what way, but instead of coming to the conclusion that it's unethical or broken, they might just think "well that's how the world just works" i.e. with racism, poor people, any sort of marginalized group who are at a disadvantage

So that's why even if you do start to point out the systemic injustices and try to fix it and make the system more equitable, it's not always enough to convince everyone. One such example is how after Tulip returned One-One to the engine, and he made some videos to explain how the train works to new passengers, it's still not enough to convince Grace and Simon that they were wrong, and they were just like "that ball robot thing isn't the real conductor lol nice try."

Look I know Contrapoints made a whole new video recently about how you need to defeat people who are stuck at the bottom of the hate whirlpool instead of try to convince them to come to your side and I know that at the end of season 3, Simon is supposed to be there, which is why he had to be "defeated" by getting his face eaten by the leopards eating people's faces party a ghom (Grace saving him from falling wasn't enough) but i still feel bad for him and no one can make me not feel bad for him.

and BTW i don't sympathize with or try to convince IRL conservatives or bigots okay? i can separate fiction from reality. please stop haranguing me and other Simon fans about that lmao