Ryan Akagi - Blog Posts
For some reason, nothing hits me harder than seeing characters laugh hysterically because of frustration or exhaustion or anger or grief. We always talk about how subversive tears of joy are, but man, laughs of sadness are so much worse. Maybe it's just a me thing, but my chest always gets tight and my breathing shallow whenever a character starts laughing because of a negative emotion. I just. Can't. Handle. It.
And Infinity Train uses this trope two times!
First time with Simon:
You could argue that this is laughter because of insanity, not negative emotions, but it still hits hard. No matter how much you hate him. At least if you're me. Seriously, this was my reaction when I first saw Simon's death/breakdown scene:
The second time Infinity Train pulls this is with Ryan:
This, too, killed me! Emotionally, at least. Why is it always the laughing?!
Anyway, yeah, of course I want Infinity Train to continue, but it might be a good thing that it doesn't if they planned another one of these maniacal laughter scenes in the next season. Not sure I could handle another amazingly animated, amazingly written, amazingly voice-acted breakdown like this.
I can be found in the summation of all the Infinity Train protagonists so far. Simon has my oldest, worst flaws, Min-Gi has my fears and worries, Tulip and Lake have my strengths, Jesse and Ryan have the traits people like most in me, and Grace has the traits I'm developing. Oh, and Ryan has my glasses.
I was practicing piano and hating the metronome, and then I thought of Ryan practicing guitar and hating the metronome (do you use metronomes with guitar? Surely you do (and if not I just might become a guitarist)) and I had to draw this. It's a pretty crappy comic, but eh
He just seems like the kind of person who hates metronomes, you know? They're so annoying. Restrictive. Frustrating. Distracting. Cold. Un-Ryan.
Once again, Infinity Train has proven that apparently Owen Dennis has complete and unfettered access to my journal. Or maybe he's seen my memory tape.
Man, this is such a good show.
It just occurred to me that we've heard all the protagonists of Infinity Train sing:
Tulip sang for nearly half of episode four.
Jesse sang "Travel Friends" and Lake improvised on the same song mockingly.
Simon and Grace's VAs sang two lines each in "When I Look at You, I See Me".
Ryan and Min-Gi basically spent all of season four singing.
. . . I'm adding this to my looooong list of reasons to love this show.
This is totally something post-train them would do.
Heyy
gay gay homosexual gay
Do they know it's legal?
where's my debit card
looks like i can post my contribs to the rymin zine, here's my comic! everything but the screentones was made in my sketchbook- mini zine illustrations w/actual screentone paper under the cut
I love these little freaks
chicken choice judy debut album ♫ !
can be found at the bottom of a stack of records owned by your weird gay uncle near you
(my personal ccj hc is that ryan and min would have a little “business man and rocker” schtick going on 💥💥)
(and their music would be weird as hell dreamy sigh . with ryan and min-gi canonically liking yellow magic orchestra and david bowie and also being little freaks themselves)
(curse tumblrs img resolution, click for better viewing)
here are my illustrations for the rhymin’ zine and the hey judy zine! I’ve been holding onto these for a few years now so i’m excited to get to share them now that copies have been shipped out 💞 thank you to everyone who ordered the zine, i hope you enjoy all our work! these two will always be so special to me
💫⭐️🌟✨💜❤️💙2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣💙❤️💜🎸🎹🎼🌟✨⭐️💫
(i’ll also post the story i wrote a bit later)
HAPPY 3 YEAR ANNIVERSARY TO GAY PEOPLE !!!🚂♾💥💥💥💥
IF YOU WANNA GET IN TUNE BETTER CHANGE YOUR WHOLE PITCH
I was listening to Complicated by Avril Lavigne earlier and I think the song fits Jesse really well. Then I thought about writing a story that’s just canon, but from his perspective. Probably some before and after canon too. Then I thought about doing it for more characters; Tulip definitely, Grace probably, and Ryan and/or Min-Gi. Maybe Simon. Probably not Lake (unfortunately) because she’s the focus of a different one of my stories (We Only Broke The Train A Little Bit (More Than You) ) but I love all these characters and am Not Normal about them.
"WE ARE JUST ROOMMATES. PLATONIC. WE'VE BEEN TELLING YOU THIS FOR THE LAST 33 YEARS!"
(They were actually all the ages they were in their respective series! I guess they learned time travel lol cuz they were all teenagers/young adults.)
Last night, I had a dream where there was a fanfic where all the main characters of Infinity Train only had platonic relationships between them and I was so happy because I'm not particularly invested in any of the common Infinity Train ships. They all held hands and danced in a circle?? I think they were in a band together?? Maybe?? Ryan had his guitar, anyway. He and Min-Gi were roommates and Ryan actually shouted "WE'RE NOT DATING! WE'RE ROOMMATES!" And not like in a "we're in denial" way but in a "we legitimately are platonic friends" way. Now that I think about it, the dream was really weird.
Last night, I had a dream where there was a fanfic where all the main characters of Infinity Train only had platonic relationships between them and I was so happy because I'm not particularly invested in any of the common Infinity Train ships. They all held hands and danced in a circle?? I think they were in a band together?? Maybe?? Ryan had his guitar, anyway. He and Min-Gi were roommates and Ryan actually shouted "WE'RE NOT DATING! WE'RE ROOMMATES!" And not like in a "we're in denial" way but in a "we legitimately are platonic friends" way. Now that I think about it, the dream was really weird.