Devils Train - Tumblr Posts
Urghh..
..Currently thinking abt making a devil’s train animatic w/ alastor..
————————- — Song btw! ⬇️ ———————
“Who’s gonna ride the Devil’s Train tonight?”
Inspired by this animatic except instead of dipper it’s ford.
This is my first storyboard I’m working on! Just wanted to try something new and it was fun
Idk why but I like this drawing of ford looking flabbergasted—
Edit: more panels woohoo!
The Blood Is White And Spouting Steam
Have you ever heard the shrill whistle of a train? Like a scream, cutting through the night and making your blood run cold. Ever since their inception, trains and train tracks have been seen as haunted things. Train tracks in particular have the nature of a post-industrial crossroad, in the way it is considered a man-made gateway to the other side or even Hell. And trains themselves have their myths and ghosts, but what about devils? Throughout modern American mythology, the Devil has been said to drive a long black train or a funeral train. In “The Devil’s Train” by Hank Williams the train is a thing of beauty waiting on a crowd of people to get on the cars, but it leads to only misery and is headed by drunken engineers driving it to doom. The whistle in particular is pointed out as a mechanism of temptation, calling and screaming to those who would listen. It is the whistle that calls also in a song that 2010’s animation geeks know and can sing like it’s part of a sleeper agent code. “Devil’s Train” by The Lab Rats tells the story of the narrator’s grandfather who rode the train, and his own encounter with the Devil at the train tracks while tripping on acid. The whistle originally lures his grandfather in by screaming at night, “Follow me, follow me, I have something to show you.” While we don’t see the actual train, we see the Devil convince our narrator to “roll down these train tracks tonight.” The idea of the Devil’s train is such an interesting concept and a uniquely post-industrial and American idea. As we transition into a new industrial area, what will be the new mode of transportation and temptation for the Prince of Evil? My money’s on Facebook.
Williams, Hank. “The Devil's Train.” Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh-_KzLNELk
The Lab Rats. “Devil's Train.” Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JtpHtuWnwQ
Help why am I addicted to this fucking manga.