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Canonically, every planet has experienced an extinction event - or several - and Earth is just riding high on the crest of "the anthropocene hasn't kicked in and killed everything." It's way scarier than an empty universe, it's a universe of graveyards and we're looking at the future of ourselves.

Also, the absence of most fauna - Ax at one point observes that they no longer have animals the size of fleas - is part of why the morphing ability is so overpowered. The Andalites intended it for espionage, it's implied, but it's just Esplin and Aldrea and the Kids who figured out "wait, I can turn into multiple species, that includes the big scary ones, I can be the weapon." Because Earth has species and Andal doesn't.

Earth is the space Amazon rainforest in another way, too - density. Six billion humans on earth in the year 2000 is absurd by galactic standards, and it's the biggest reason we're an asset to the Yeerks.

You've heard of Earth is space australia now get ready for: Earth is the space Amazon Rainforest. Aliens land on Earth and they are losing their goddamn minds because every square inch of the ground is absolutely PACKED with life like there are hundreds of species just in this one site, there are winged animals flying through the sky and multiple colonies of sophisticated social insects just in the shadow of their ship, this ONE ROCK is covered in MULTIPLE SPECIES OF ORGANISMS that are themselves MULTIPLE ORGANISMS LIVING SYMBIOTICALLY, the tall, woody autotrophs look so different from each other because they're...holy shit that's like 5, 6, 7???? different species on this one site???

they start talking to a human and the human is like "haha yeah that's a crow!" and the alien researcher is like "you called it a 'bird' earlier, is that a different name?" and the human is like "oh a crow is just one species of bird, there's like, 10 others out there"

"On this planet?"

"No, in the back yard right now."

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my writing fundamentally changed forever ten years ago when i realized you could use sentence structure to control people’s heart rates. is this still forbidden knowledge or does everyone know it now

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Things fanfic is reputed for inserting into the source material:

Sex

Things fanfic actually inserts into the source material:

Sex

Holding hands

Bizarre misunderstandings

Meticulous descriptions of food and clothing

The author’s unaddressed traumas

Found family

Plausible explanations for existing plot holes

Additional plot holes

Exciting new frontiers in speculative physics, economics, chemistry, biology, zoology, psychology, theology, and/or ontology

Tax evasion

Gender

Very bad puns

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Remnants (2001)

I just woke up from a dream that there was a 90′s horror movie simply called, for some reason, “International Waters.” The plot of the movie was three people trying to escape a partially flooded, capsized cruise ship as they’re chased by a murderous, swimming newborn baby because according to this film if a baby is born directly into seawater it unlocks ancient prehistoric survival instincts. One of the three people had actually given birth to the baby like right when the boat flipped over but she was really nonchalant about the whole thing like “well of course he’s going to kill us he’s a baby in seawater” looking at the other 2 like they were idiots for not knowing. I don’t know how it could kill people but the baby had black voids for a mouth and eyes, it was lightning fast in the water and it could speak full sentences in a child voice though I couldn’t make out anything it said.

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if you like a piece of media that is good eventually youll more or less run out of things to say about how good it is but if you like a piece of media that is objectively pretty mediocre but also somehow deeply compelling thats how the demons get you

#sometimes it can be both

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Alternate Social Media

I've got this list in other places on my blog but here's a more rebloggable version, since tbh I don't have a lot of faith tumblr will exist five years from now

Also find me at:

Microblogging sites:

Cohost

Pillowfort

Patreon

Twitter-alikes:

Bluesky

Twitter

Mastodon

Gallery Sites:

Fur Affinity

DeviantArt

Oddballs:

Neocities Webpage (user portal side)

Twitch

Reddit

Non-honorary mention:

Instagram (I hate them and their cropping system)

Of the alternative microblogging sites, Cohost is my favorite. In my experience Pillowfort has been extremely empty.

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Animorphs books be like

Page 1: I am a child soldier. My every waking moment is defined by fear and paranoia. My dreams are full of unprocessed trauma. The fate of the entire world rests on me and my friends. I failed my geography test because I do not know the difference between Equator and Ecuador. Also, I'm really hazy on the difference between geography and geology. Again, the fate of the world rests on my shoulders.

Page 13: <Now THAT is a sexy monkey>

Page 26: *The dopest animal fact you've ever heard*

Page 27: Do you know about thermals? You do? Too bad, I'm going to explain them again.

Page 36: *fart joke fart joke 90's pop culture reference barf joke*

Page 40: Rachel kills someone with her bear hands. Not a typo.

Pages 3,15,16,25,26,30,33,37,40,44,46,50,55,56,57,60: TSEEEEEEEEEEEER!

Page 47: I willed my bones to melt faster. If there was a single bone in my body in the next ten seconds, everyone I ever loved of cared about would die an excruciating death.

Page 50: Funny alien thinks he's people.

Last page: *The gang goes to Burger King to avoid thinking about their war crimes*

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Shipping fictional characters isn’t representative of your moral values. It’s representative of your particular psychic damage and the themes and motifs that haunt you. Hope this helps.

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i have such a love for characters who descend into madness or villainy out of deep, deep empathy. characters who fundamentally cannot cope with the cruel realities they find themselves in and blow up about it in spectacular fashion. fallen angel type characters with tears of outrage in their eyes. characters who break before they bend, and break so badly they splatter blood all over their noble ideals. every variation on it gets me so good

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i can't lie to you i loveee bad endings sometimes. what if nothing worked out. what if the characters gave into their worst instincts. what if they became worse. what if there's truly no hope left. what will they do out of desperation? who will they become as their worst selves?

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ax animorphs is very funny because he's like. Extremely textually a shitty generic jock boy who says slurs and condescends women. and yet when he's in human morph he's physiologically and psychologically incapable of not looking gay and acting autistic

#My boy is a straight andaIite and a gay human what's not to Iove #Marco meanwhiIe had so much growth it was wiId

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unfinished piece I drew around book 12 when I thought it'd be funny for the gang to watch a horror movie together,,, now I know these children have suffered enough

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i read The Attack yesterday it is my favorite book i love erek i love the iskoort i love the howlers i love jake and cassie

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Tobias getting stuck in baby morph may be my favorite implication of this chart. (Even better if the baby can fIy.)

one difference between the undersiders and the animorphs is that the undersider height chart is "average undersider is not absurdly tall. Height Georgs brian laborn and taylor hebert were outliers and should not have been counted" and the animorph heart chart is "average animorph is not absurdly short. Lack Of Height Georgs cassie and marco were outliers and should not have been counted"

#When I draw them I had Marco and RacheI be the extremes #it was more fun to stage them that way #It made the Berenson family stand apart in crowd scenes and made her be imposing #And it meant jake was no Ionger assumed to be the taII kid and therefore the Ieader #Aside from which I based Marco on a peruvian friend of mine #and he's four foot ten and not even the shortest in the famiIy #EspeciaIIy since Eva being short aIso heIped emphasize the expIoitation of her and the fear of Visser 1 #And in the animated staging I made jake be constantIy trying to crouch to see things at cassie's IeveI #and Marco constantIy waIking in high pIaces to try to make his points #It gave us BUSINESS during the diaIogue scenes #I staged Tobias meeting Marco with Tobias under a baIcony so Marco couId Iook down on him with a unique reIish #VisuaI diaIectics are important. Height is power in animation as it is speed in fIying

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super awesome part of animorphs is that you can tell exactly when k.a. applegate decides to really start going off the rails with her plot concepts. the first ten books are all at a pretty baseline level of weirdness as we get all our important worldbuilding and character dynamics established, then once that's all done it goes straight into "The Animorphs Get Stranded In The Amazon Rainforest," "Rachel Sneezes Out A Crocodile," actual important tobias stuff because he hasn't had a second book yet, and then "Alien Toilet Hidden At Knock-Off Area 51."

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you know how sometimes a character will mention a food they like and then the fandom will turn that into like 60% of their personality?

ax animorphs is the best character because he genuinely is just Like That in canon. he has repeatedly called the cinnamon bun one of humanity's greatest inventions. he gave a cinnamon bun to a girl he liked as a present. he keeps a framed picture of a cinnamon bun in his otherwise sparsely-decorated room. one time he ate an entire tray of cinnamon buns so quickly that he horrified bystanders and had to have the paramedics called. he later admitted to practicing eating cinnamon buns to prevent himself from going ballistic again. he begins promoting cinnabon as an andalite tourist destination after the war. literally all of these sound like silly headcanons you would read in a tumblr post but they're all real. the cinnamon bun lover of all time.

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They should let me write and direct a Woke season of Family Guy. I don't give a fuck about the existing lore. Hey Petah, you forgot to take your testosterone last night. I went ahead and prepared your syringe for you, sweetheart. Hey Lois this reminds me of the time I got kicked off of RuPaul's Drag Race. [flashback] Man, I can't believe you guys are kicking me off the show just for being a transmasculine drag queen. No, we're kicking you out because these anarchist pamphlets you made proved that you organized contestants to blow up RuPaul's oil rigs and distribute his riches to the masses. After which you literally killed him. That's just called serving Peter realness hehhehhehhehheh *Peter dance of some sort*