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Day 62.
Day 72. I took a few days off because I need to buy more thread and needles, an because of our minor heat wave. I do not function well in heat.
“I’m never happy.”
Hope you don’t mind if we don’t believe this :) I’ve tried to collect those moments where we could see his genuine smile (w/o any ulterior motive). But for a special note: check his eyes when he sees Katara’s (& Sokka’s happiness when they reunited w their father :) & when hears June’s remark about Katara being his girlfriend….. Eyes widened… which basically sign of surprise but also happiness (315)… & excitement (319)….
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“I’m never happy.”
Hope you don’t mind if we don’t believe this :) I’ve tried to collect those moments where we could see his genuine smile (w/o any ulterior motive). But for a special note: check his eyes when he sees Katara’s (& Sokka’s happiness when they reunited w their father :) & when hears June’s remark about Katara being his girlfriend….. Eyes widened… which basically sign of surprise but also happiness (315)… & excitement (319)….
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if grace don’t stop saying the people on the train are “not real” or that they’re “nulls” istg
Ohh myy dhdhhdhdhdh
The second hand embarrassment is bad for this one fellas,, I can’t even type. It took me 4 tries just to write the first sentence.
I’m reading kingdom of the cursed
And Wrath is bringing Emilia through the corridor of sin
The ILLUSION, i thought it was a dream but nope,, he heard her say his name. I’m dying of mortification for her.
“While your current illusion sounds wildly interesting” BOI IF U DONT STOPP 😭😭🫣 i’m only 33 pages in, how am i gonna deal with both wrath and pride interacting with Emilia😪
I started Unravel me, lemme tell you…
I spoiled it a little for myself. Luckily, i’m pretty sure what i let myself search up was very small compared to the bigger picture.
Okay so, I already had an inkling about something when in the previous book when Warner touched Juliette. If it had only been Adam, I too would have thought it was a lucky coincidence, but since Warner can too, it means something bigger is at play.
I had a feeling that these two also had powers (I already thought warner did because ik that him and Juliette are endgame and powers are the only explanation,, can’t be ml without being powerful too) so i searched it up and badda bung badda boong…they have powers.
I’m only on chapter 4, and adam is already showing signs of weakness towards Juliette’s touch (another thing i spoiled myself with, but this time it was unwanted info..it was in the little google summary about Adam also having powers). I can’t wait for the reason people hate on Adam,,idk why i feel like it’s going to happen in this book when the next novella is in his pov,,hmm 🤔.
I should stay off of tiktok though, i’m scared there are things regarding the plot, world conflict wise, that might just hit me in the face and suck all the fun out of those specific parts.
NO because we NEED to talk about it..
Aaron is baby girl first of all, back tattoo and one around his hip area?
Juliette’s ‘who did this?’ To his scars had me in a CHOKEHOLD because it’s usually the guy! Juliette about to burn the world for this boy and she doesn’t even know why yet ahhhhh.
I love love love them! He’s so dopey but i was hoping for some sassy moments. (I guess we can include the moment when he’s being escorted around by castle and once he sees Juliette and Adam talking he has his jealous moment. He sounded sassy there.)
Korra’s Growth
Korra’s growth, at least for me, is the highlight of the Legend of Korra. She starts out incredibly brash, over confident, headstrong, and stubborn. She pays for these characteristics time and time again throughout the series and it is through these consequences that Korra is able to grow into the understanding and empathetic avatar of the series finale. “No good deed goes unpunished, no act of charity goes unresented.” This seems to be the template for Korra’s trials and tribulations because no matter how hard she tries to help she is always met with criticism and anger. Time and time again she is told that the world would be better off without her and that balance would be achieved with her gone. She begins to doubt whether being the avatar even matters and she has to discover herself and her place in the world to come to her own conclusion. She must accept the past and learn from it to move forward and become the avatar that the world and the people need and to create true balance within the world.
Korra’s journey is the exact opposite of Aang’s in that his was about coming to identify himself as the avatar whereas Korra’s is about learning to identify herself separate from the avatar. Aang was allowed to be a child and person first before he discovered he was the avatar which lead to his ability to connect with other people, including his enemies even at the beginning of the series. Korra, on the other hand, was immediately thrust into the identity of the avatar so she based her entire being and self worth on being the avatar. She was put on this pedestal right away and didn’t have the chance to develop as a person outside of that identity which lead to her struggle to connect with other people, especially her enemies.
Korra starts out overconfident in her still developing abilities, but actually grows to underestimate her abilities after being torn down by her enemies. This leads to humbling her and causes her to rebuild her self-esteem based on who she is and not what she is to the world. This mirrors her growth from trying to force change to mediating and refraining from fighting until necessary and being a conduit for change, which leads to balance. She goes through a pacifistic maturation. Korra’s confidence is broken down over the course of the first three seasons and is built back up through her self actualization making her confidence non-toxic to social, societal, and confrontational situations. Because Korra understands herself and her powers she is able to use them to be an effective force for change and balance.
Korra’s Growth (Book 2: Spirits)
After the fallout of book 1 Korra is even more arrogant about her abilities, but now her confidence isn’t as easily swayed. In book 1 Korra had yet to prove herself against a threat and it caused her confidence to wane because she doubted that she really could accomplish her role as the avatar. Now she has stopped a movement that threatened the balance of society and she is even more powerful than ever with the avatar state and airbending. Her inferiority superiority complex is still in full swing and causes her to stand her ground even without the backing of her friends and allies in many large scale situations. This isn’t helped by the civil war within the water tribe which splits her loyalties. Korra’s confidence in her decisions wanes, but she is unable to outwardly admit to it and ask for help. She doesn’t want to admit to not knowing the answer, so she separates herself from people who doubt her decisions and leans toward people who support them. Unalaq picks up on this character trait and uses it to get her to open the spirit portal and begin his plan.
Korra is again faced with the consequences for her attitude and subsequent mindset. Her impatience and stubbornness thwart her at every turn and it culminates with her being attacked by a spirit and left on the precipice floating between life and death. She is forced to reconnect with rava and experience the story of avatar Wan. From this point Korra is markedly less brash, but still isn’t able to connect with people to an extent to truly help them change their ways. Seeing Wan’s humble beginnings and how he ultimately viewed his inability to bring about peace within the world as his failure caused Korra to realize that the avatar isn’t that different from other people, the avatar started out as someone who decided to step up to a situation that through their impulsive actions they caused. She comes to realize that the fact that you made a mistake isn’t what defines you, but how you deal with the mistake. She then decides to reconcile with Tenzin and his family and enter the spirit world.
Up until this point she had always struggled spiritually and had defined herself by her bending and with this challenge she is forced to face both of these shortcomings. Her entrance into the spirit world marks Korra’s turning point when it comes to facing her weaknesses and fears. From this point on she stops avoiding her problems and starts actively trying to change and become a better, more understanding avatar. When her connection to the past avatars is severed it makes it so that korra feels like she has destroyed the avatar legacy, but it also forces her to create her own instead of defining and comparing herself to her past lives and their actions. Instead of breaking down she resolves herself to see her fight with Unalaq and Vaatu through to the end. Instead of giving up like she did after Amon took her bending she instead faces the consequences of the loss, resolves to move forward, and announces to the world her decision to keep the portals open. Showing that she did learn something from her enemy this time around and it marks a turning point in her character as a whole.
Infinity Train Book 2 Thought/Review
I wasn’t sure what to think when I saw Infinity Train will return at the end of the first season. I felt that it was a really good self contained story that didn’t really need a continuation to feel satisfying to me and I was nervous that they would try and churn out more and more episodes and seasons and maybe lose what I initially loved so much about the show, but I have never been so happy to be wrong. Infinity train book 2 managed to, in my opinion, be even better than the first season. Lake’s journey was one of the most real, emotional, and heartfelt I’ve seen in the past year. They took what worked with the first season and expanded on it. They took the heart and willingness to explore real and painful emotions as well as expand on the world of the infinity train.
Lake was such a strong character that I haven’t been able to get her out of my head since watching the season. The way the show portrayed her journey and existential dread over not being her own person just a reflection was phenomenal. The last few episodes of the season where she is left to struggle to find her own way out and growing despair were the strongest of the season. They were, in essence, a character study. My personal favorite episode was “The Tape Car”. The scene where Lake fails to get her own number and grabs onto the robot begging it to look at her, that she is a real person, and then breaks the robots in the midst of a breakdown was so full of raw emotion and desperation. I couldn’t help but feel sad for her situation and want her to escape the train just as badly as she did. The whole scene felt like an emotional gut punch and I had to rewatch the scene quite a few times afterwards because I couldn’t get how it made me feel out of my head. And that’s what I like the most about shows, having a character, episode, plot point, or scene that blows me away and sticks with me after the show is over. I like it when a show is able to evoke strong emotions from me and make me look back on it positively and this season managed to do that with Lake. Her question about whether she needs a story like the dead lizard struck me because she has suffered and struggled and grown. Her struggle has been real and just because the robots couldn’t see it and she doesn’t have a number doesn’t make it any less true. She’s had to fight to experience even the simple things that people take for granted and yet she wasn’t allowed a number or a way off despite working to grow unlike many others on the train like the people on the mall car. When she is finally free after all her struggling and finally able to look at her reflection without fear it felt validating in a way. She is finally free of the constant fear for her life and freedom and she can finally embrace her initial identity as a reflection and make it her own.
Lake’s relationship to Jesse was another strong part of the show’s season. I really liked the dynamic that they had with each other and how it made them grow as people. Lake made Jesse stop giving into peer pressure and do what he wants and what he thinks is right despite the fact that other people may not like it. This is a characteristic that Lake starts out with, alibi a bit to the extreme, and she is able to teach Jesse this lesson because of it. Jesse is more open to people and get Lake to first open up to him and the possibility that she doesn’t have to be alone, that connections are another part of life that she has the right to experience. They both had to find a way to define themselves outside of the expectations and pressures of others. It’s hard not to be devastated when they get separated and be happy when they finally both get off the train together.
This season just seemed to hit more emotional beats for me than the first. And that’s saying something because I thought the first season was really good at addressing the problems that it dealt with and conveying the frustration and denial that Tulip was going through. This season spoke more to me personally. Both Jesse’s struggle to not give into peer pressure and be who he wants to be not who others will like and Lake’s struggle to find validation in her identity and carve out a path of her own outside of expectations that were forced upon her.
This season was also darker than the first, especially when it comes to Lake’s story. Lake has the mirror feds chasing her and actively trying to kill her, she experiences existential dread over being her own person, and goes through what could be considered psychological torture at times. A show doesn’t have to be dark to be great, but this show handled these dark themes well and made them compelling by attaching them to a strong main character like Lake. Jesse is a strong supporting character/part main character. He does take a backseat to Lake in the latter half of the series and Lake is introduced as our perspective character. I really liked this choice because it keeps the initial concept of the infinity train while attaching it to deeper themes like what it means to be “human”/ be your own person.
I also want to give props to everyone who worked on the show. From the fantastic performances of Ashley Johnson and Robbie Daymond to the writers of the show like Owen Dennis and Alex Horab to the animation which seems to improve with each episode of the show.
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this show since the finale. I really hope it gets a third season and gets to explore more of the train and the deeper themes it likes to tackle. The setting is rife for potential and the showrunners clearly like to push boundaries. They constantly push the envelope on what they can show and cover in a cartoon that is aired with a rating of TV-PG. I’m really glad that shows like infinity train exist that are willing to try and one up itself and keep growing and expanding instead of playing it safe.