Favorite Friendship Dynamic Has Got To Be, “Villain Grows To Respect Hero Causing Their Worldview To

CAN I WRITE ONE TOO? And then we'd have multiple feral Stan twins MREHing at each other!

we love the idea of feral ford but even moreso we love the idea that stan mimics him sometimes

like

stan: sorry bud i gotta go through your stuff real quick

ford: *angry cat noise* D:<

stan: don’t ‘mreh’ me

ford: mreh

stan: MrEh

Didn't Petra say she's a nervous crafter in s1ep6?😂

Now I posted this, I'm going back to sleep...

Oh dear

Ohhhhh dear

GF/Avatar crossover where maybe there’s another portal or something, and Dipper and Mabel get taken in by Iroh while Zuko gets taken in by Stan

Iroh: helps Dipper handle his anxiety, teaches him and Mabel meditation techniques and tea, patiently indulges Mabel when she wants to put flowered braids in his hair

Stan: ABSOLUTE CHAOS, totally cool with Zuko stealing stuff, tricks him into turning himself into an attraction with his fire bending, probably teaches him some boxing techniques to become even more dangerous

. . . I'm gonna do another poll and put it for just one day

I have too many projects.

To the anon/gravity falls comparaison, I can totally see it. I imagine meeting Ivor to finally fight the Wither would go like this

Ivor : I have extra weapons from the Old order so take anything you want

Make Jesse : *grab a diamond sword*

Female Jesse : and I’ll have a…. CROSSBOW

Ivor : … wouldn’t you rather like, a sword or something ?

Female Jesse : C R O S S B O W

Ivor : fair enough

~~~

*writes two chapters*

I could have a buffer!

*thinks about it*

Mmm nah.

*double update*

*slides in the link to my weird apocalypse crossover story: https://archiveofourown.org/works/65027080/chapters/167198482*

bestie introduced me to mcsm and I really liked it :)

Nearly every time I've rewatched Infinity Train Book 3 since I first saw it in February, I saw more parallels and narrative echos, and infodumping my friends about them isn't enough anymore

I figured I should do a post about this one because I don't think I've seen a post about that specific thing yet, and I love this show's writing, and. idk. I just need to praise it I guess

So, the most obvious part first:

Grace became everything she hated about her parents

When Grace mentions her mother in the Debutante Ball Car, it's made pretty clear she's trying to distance herself from her mother as much as possible, and at this point, we realise retrospectively that Grace's room in the Mall Car in episode one was full of sports clothes - it seems she tries to avoid things reminding her of her life before the train. And of her mother. And yet-

She tries to control everyone and everything around her, and makes people do what she doesn't want to do

And she decides what's cool and what isn't

She makes people kneel in her presence, like her mother towers over her in her mind's eye

Obviously she constantly lies to get what she wants, and her dad does that in her tape

When her younger self looks up, she looks right through adult Grace, and it's actually her parents she's looking at! Her younger self is metaphorically seeing her parents where her adult self is standing!! I still can't get over this shot

Also I feel the need to mention her mother has the same voice actor as her in her tape and even if it might be to cut corners in the budget, that feels significant (and to be fair, sometimes you can cut corners while making meaningful choices at the same time)

Now you might think I'd have nothing to say about Simon on that matter, since we don't see any flashback of his life before the Train, and we know next to nothing about his parents. But I think it's very telling that the only actual backstory we get for him is his backstory with The Cat.

Because-

Simon became everything he hated about The Cat

Ok I never see anyone mentioning this, but hear me out

First, we have no idea if Simon knew The Cat was routinely invading people's privacy through their memory tapes, but he sure has no issue doing the exact same thing

But that doesn't stop there. He also collects things obsessively

And makes kids collect things for him as well, by the way

He thinks he's above others, but he immediately switches to victim mode when it comes back to bite him

HE. ABANDONS. A CHILD. WHO WAS UNDER HIS CARE!!

And. Uh. They both dig their heels instead of trying to change, too

Don't get me wrong, on some level I would have liked to know what Simon's parents were like too. I would have liked that a lot. But there's a good chance it wouldn't change anything, because everything we need to know about his background to understand why he's Like That™ is already in the show

But yeah, Grace and Simon both pretend they found freedom on the Train, and both distance themselves from parental figures who are at the source of their trauma, claiming they're different and better than them - and yet they are both subconsciously repeating patterns that caused at least part of their problems and/or trauma in the first place

And since they decided that making numbers go up was good, as long as they stick to that idea, they are bound to never escape from that self-perpetuating loop of harm and trauma

And I love it

And I hate it

Guys….how about….Stan & Ford on the Infinity Train ?!?!! I’m going to make a fic istg-

This links to a wheel with nearly a hundred fic tropes for plots, settings, and more. Spin it twice.

This could also work with art inspiration, but the buttons only allow for so many characters on them. And please do ramble in the tags! I'm going to have no idea what most of you are talking about, and it's going to be great.