#the animorphs

[moonlightchess]

Bruh it's nearly 2023 and I still haven't recovered from how dirty we did the Animorphs like???? The fictional allegory for a trans teenager literally being "trapped in the wrong body" for the bulk of the series until a cis girl falls in love with him and they heal together? The unflinching portrayal of an interracial love between two characters (Jake, a white cis male and Cassie a black cis woman), and how much they had to endure to stay together? Direct, brutal and unrelenting depictions of PTSD, trauma responses, depression and anxiety? The final moral of the story being "war is hell, good guys die, evil wins all the time and we need to accept this to beat it," like???? THE FUCKING ANIMORPHS?????? WHY THE HELL DID WE MILLENNIALS LATCH ONTO J.R. RAWBOOTY OR WHATEVER HER ASS IS CALLED WHEN THE ANIMORPHS WERE RIGHT THERE????????? THE BOOKS ARE SO BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN I'M GONNA SCREAM?

#animorphs #the animorphs #harry potter #hp #j.k. rowling #jk rowling #k.a. applegate #WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU EVEN READ THE ANIMORPHS THE EMOTIONAL IMPACT ALONE

[auntphibian]

Since y'all really liked my other animorph art, here's one from the Hork Bajir chronicles.

The more I read these books the more I hate the Andalites, which I think is suppose to be the natural progression of the reader.

First off, Seerow's kindness is just tragic all around. If I was super advance and saw intelligent life stuck living in mud puddles or monkies I'd want to help them as well. But at the same time I understand the Yeerks. If my choices were mud puddle/monkey or I could take a host and experience the joys of sight and sound.... i think I'd take a host. It's all around such a tragic situation and it's such an amazing story to hear play out.

And man, the Hork Bajir. Poor Dak, you learn your entire species was specifically made to be less intelligent and now every other species looks down on you for that. I feel bad for Aldrea too of course. Seeing your entire family killed then forcing a war on peacful species because it's that or enslavment.... just... man.

I love these chronicle breaks but it's really not much of a break when it's so much freakin sadder. But I do love Aldrea and Dak, they wefe adorable. Very Tarzan and Jane but with way more war and way more tragedy.

#aldrea #aldrea and dak #dak #the animorphs #animorphs #animorph #the Hork bajir chronicles #hork #bajir #hork bajir #andalites #andalite #yeerks #yeerk #hork bajirs #sketch #art #fantasy books #books #k.a. applegate #k a applegate #seerow #seerow's kindness

[rjalker]

people really need to stop recommending books based purely on the fact that they're "Queer representation" of some kind.

Not only does it do a disservice to the story itself, because I guarentee you the author wanted their story to be remembered for more than having "x characters" and nothing more...

...but if you're going around blithely reccomending tons of random strangers read something like the Xenogenesis trilogy by Octavia E. Butler based purely on the fact that some of the characters use it/its pronouns...

that's.

I'm sorry but that is just so negligent. That's the only word I can think to describe it. Xenogenesis is an adult science fiction story meant to be read by adults who are ready to have an incredibly serious conversation about slavery, eugenics, rape, genocide, and how consent literally cannot exist when you are a slave, and what that means for you and everyone around you.

It's not a fun casual adventure story anyone and everyone should be picking up without knowing what they're getting into. You have no idea how many people you're casually recommending this series to are victims of rape who are going to be triggered by scenes in this series, and you're not giving them any warning!

It's already bad enough for people to be flattening stories down into whether or not they have "X characters" but to not warn people about genuinely triggering content in the books you're flattening this way?? Why would you do that?

Please don't fucking do that. If you know a series deals with triggering topics then you need to warn people about that any time you recommend people read it. The Xenogenesis series requires trigger warnings for rape at the very least, and a whole lot more on top of that too, but that's the bare minimum.

Stop recommending people read things just because "characters use x pronouns in it" or "it has nonbinary characters" or "it has a lesbian in it" without any relevant warnings about triggering content it also contains.

At least the person who did this did specify that the it/its users in Xenogenesis are all aliens, but like, that's the least of things people need to be aware of before reading this trilogy.

Reccommend media by actually summarizing it. There's almost always an official summary you can find somewhere. Warn people about any topics that might be triggering that the content contains.

And, since I see this happen the most: for the love of fuck do not lie to people about Queer characters being in a series, or refuse to explain to people that the Queer characters that do exist are just the same old stereotypes we've all seen a million times, with nothing to balance them out and make them actually progressive.

That is going to accomplish nothing except alienating people who've been tricked into reading something that's not actually what they were told it was. You are not going to get anyone to enjoy a series by betraying them by lying about nonexistant or at best shallow, stereotypical, bioessentialist 'representation'.

The Animorphs does not have a single canon Queer character.

The Murderbot Diaries is just the exact same nonbinary robot stereotype that was old in the 90s, with no important human nonbinary characters at all despite there being seven whole books at this point. There are exactly 2 human characters who use neopronouns, but they're the epitome of "token characters". They appear for a combined total of maybe 10 pages, have no importance to the plot, and get shoved offscreen as quickly as possible, never to be seen again. All of the robots use it/its pronouns because they don't have genitals and Martha Wells is transmisic and loves biological essentliasm, and still very clearly equates sex with gender with pronouns. Despite the protagonist using it/its pronouns, no one ever asks anyone else for their pronouns, everyone just magically knows, because, again, biological essentialism. Also known as the exact opposite of representation for trans people.

The Xenogenesis trilogy does not have a single canon Queer character in it. All of the characters who use it/its pronouns are part of the third reproductive sex for the alien species.

Start recommending series based on what the plot is actually about, or what good things they have going for them, not just because they have characters who use XYZ pronouns or are the literal stereotype of a nonbinary robot.

#Xenogenesis #sigh #pride #LGBT #MOGAI #Queer #trans #transgender #trans characters #nonbinary characters #representation #media analysis #sorta #Queer characters #lesbian characters #gay characters #bi characters #The Murderbot Diaries #The Animorphs #Animorphs stans LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEE fucking lying and telling everyone there's canon Queer characters in the series

[found-family-tournament]

Found Family Tournament Round 1 Part 4 Group 19

Propaganda and further pictures under the cut

Brave Vesperia: Yuri Lowell, Estellise Sidos Heurassein, Rita Mordio, Karol Capel, Raven, Judith, Patty (& Flynn Scifo)

The Animorphs: Jake, Rachel, Cassie, Tobias, Ax, Marco

Submissions are still open!

Brave Vesperia:

they're so so cute they canonically have no reason to be sticking together as they travel they are actively encouraged to separate but choose to stay together just because they want to. they all play off of each other so well. you have everything in this group you have an embarrassing amount of queer coding you have sibling dynamics you have a weird uncle you have a wine aunt you have everything. there are at least 3 members in this group who definitely smoke together don't even worry about it. LOOK AT THEM!!!! vvvvv

The Animorphs:

Sometimes found families aren't so much "found" as they are "forced together by incredibly traumatizing and harrowing circumstances" and THAT'S VALID

#tumblr polls #poll #polls #tournament poll #found family #found family tournament 2023 #tumblr tournament #tournament #Brave Vesperia #Tales of Vesperia #The Animorphs #Animorphs #Yuri Lowell #Estellise Sidos Heurassein #Rita Mordio #Karol Capel #Raven #Judith #Patty #Flynn Scifo #Jake #Rachel #Cassie #Tobias #Ax #Marco

[tunashei]

First Impressions of Animorphs!

I'm listening to the Animorphs series while I work, through Animorphs Aloud - a fan made reading of the series. Here are my first impressions/random thoughts about them! Spoilers below if you haven't read them.

Book 10: The Andriod

Would a dog enjoy a concert? They're too loud for human ears let alone dogs (always wear earplugs at concerts! Tinnitus is no joke)

'I felt the bones in my legs and arms stretching, changing directions' <_< got my eye on you applegate

Guessing Erek is our android mentioned in the title

These books are so good at describing flying...makes me jealous of birds

I don't know how Jake ever doubted Tom was a controller, he is so unsubtle

Wonder exactly how different they need the vision to be from human vision, cause there's plenty of mammals that can see UV. And lots of birds.

????OK???? Interesting explanation of where their mass goes when they morph. I wasn't expecting this but I do love me some worldbuilding. Question though, where do they get the EXTRA mass for morphing things bigger than them?

Paw...stretched out dog leg...did Marco just find a furry robot?!

I wonder how many times these kids will have gotten eaten by the end of this series. Also RIP crow

Ough...Marco's dad describing his life with newly infected wife as perfect love is legitimately painful and makes me kind of angry. Someone loses their sense of self, agrees with you on everything and never causes any 'fuss' - and that's perfect. I can't imagine wanting a partner who exists just to please and appease you. I feel so bad for Marco's mom

If reincarnation is real I want to come back as a crow. They can fly, they're intelligent enough to be aware but not so intelligent they're burdened with existential horror, and they fuck around all day

How many giant caverns are underneath this city? You'd think they'd always have buildings falling into the ground

Oh my god I was right they're literally furries

So I guess we can check genocide off the list of horrific things that have happened in these books

As a cat person this depiction of dogs are pure souls is a bit eye roll inducing

Ooo we're going mission impossible

Trying to imagine how a race would live for thousands of years without killing is pretty interesting. There would surely be conflict, although maybe less if they don't really need resources. A lot less if they're lacking instinctual fear or anger or all the feelings that lead to violent tendencies. Does their inability to kill also include inability to cause any harm?

Why are we webbing down? You guys have fly morphs. Just fly down. Y'all would have easily avoided the furnace issue too if you could fly. And cockroaches CAN fly so I don't know what the excuse is there

Couldn't Erek just...program himself to be able to forget?

Ah the age old question, how culpable are you if you see atrocities going on and choose not to act...

#animorphs #animorphs aloud #the animorphs #book #books #audio books #audio book #first impressions #first impression

[theoppositeofprofound]

girl i don’t know how to say this. that’s not a found family that’s a platoon of child soldiers.

#scholars call this the animorph problem

[wickedlittlecritta]

the energy here is unparalleled

#healing is becoming a hawk #animorphs

[exigencelost]

It's just that what you have to understand about animorphs is that the most important thing about animorphs barely happens in animorphs. The most important moment in animorphs is when marco's dad says that in the year before his wife died he and his wife stopped fighting, their relationship became smooth sailing, it was like all the little things that any couple has trouble with just disappeared, and marco (maybe 14? 15? at this point?) listens to him say this and understands with cold certainty that what actually disappeared a year before his mother's ''death'' was his mother. This declaration from his father gives Marco a timeline for a familial trauma he had never before been able to fully parse, which is the precise moment in his life when his mother's body was taken over by a brain controlling slug from outer space--hey. hey. stay with me. look at me. look at my eyes. don't worry about the alien slug. just keep reading. this is a chilling and deeply compelling statement about patriarchy and colonialism and you have to not worry about the slug--anyway Eva Animorphs (an immigrant woman of color) lost all control of her life and voice and body and that was, in reality, the moment that Marco lost his mother to a colonial power, the moment he lost his childhood, the moment he and his mother lost their home, which even after winning the war they will never return to, but his father never understood that moment as anything but a mysterious sudden increase in harmony in his household. Because his wife stopped arguing with him.

#animorphs #visser #eva animorphs #marco animorphs

[deejay]

#Twitter #posts #animorphs

[benevolentfalcon]

Most sci fi/fantasy: this civil war has been waged for a thousand years. These great houses have ruled the realm for eight thousand years. These two families have been feuding for ten thousand years. This single political institution has stood for twenty-five thousand years.

Animorphs: there is a war waged across the galaxy, waged by countless species. Entire planets have been conquered, entire species have been enslaved. Multiple genocides have been committed, even by the "good guys." It's been going on about, oh, thirty-two years now.

#animorphs #also a shout out to doctor who asoiaf dune and star wars

[auntphibian]

I'm reading The Animorphs and it's SUCH a sad book series.

Spoilers below.

In The Departure, one of the animorphs is done fighting the war. She's gone numb and wants out. Well as she decides this she get's followed by a human girl (pictured above) that is being controlled by a Yeerk. Through some occurances they end up lost in the woods together. The girl controlled by the Yeerk is injured and the yeerk outside her host would just be a normal slug looking creature. The animorph girl helps get them back to civilization dispite the fact this yeerk living would mean the animorph's identities are revealed. The animorph girl tries to befriend the yeerk and kinda succeeds. We learn yeerks just want to experience the good things in life, like nature and bright colors. But to do that they must take a host. The yeerk compares this to humans eating domesticated animals but according to the yeerk their hosts atleast get to live. The yeerk describes earth as paradise so why wouldn't they want to experience it. However taking a host enslaves the host so both the animorphs and the Andalites (aliens that made the animorphs the animorphs) arevtrying to stop the yeerks. At this point the yeerks can only keep expanding or return to a mud pit home to live their exsistance as sightless lowly slugs. The Andalites won't let them have a middle ground since the Andalites gave them the ability to get off their mud planet.

The book ends with the yeerk telling the animorph she'll forever live her life as a sightless lowly slug if the animorph girl does the same, handing her a catapillar. She morphs into the bug and stays there long enough that she could never return to human. When the other animorphs find them the yeerk girl is holding the bug on a leaf crying, saying she told her last minute to morph back but she didn't listen. The yeerk promises to forever live in the mud puddle yeerks come from, never taking a host again.

Ultinately the animorph turns into a butterfly which allows her to morph back, but the book messed me up man. I just spent the last 19 books hating these things now I feel bad for them.

#animorphs #animorph #the animorphs #andalites #andalite #yeerk #yeerks #books #k.a. applegate #the departure

[rjalker]

I know people who don't actually know anything about media anaylsis don't want to hear this, but framing is, in fact, a thing, and it is, in fact, a key feature of storytelling. How something is framed does in fact drastically change its meaning. It is not just about whether X thing is in the story. It's about how it's framed. It's about how it's handled.

Is your science fiction story actually framing slavery as horrific and something that no one should be subjected to? Or is it only a bad thing when it happens to the protagonist? Does the story frame murdering and torturing a slave to death as horrific and unforgivable, or is it just there to show how cool and badass your heroes are because slavery and torture are only bad when it's happening to a protagonist? Should slaves always have the chance to fight for their freedom, or is slave rebellions too much of a cliche for you to write about?

#The Animorphs #The Murderbot Diaries #Stargate #Supernatural #Stargate SG1 #And in the other corner #Xenogenesis

[hapalopus]

Animorphs really has a way to turn every scifi trope on its head. "Why do alien invasions always start in America?" Actually the body snatchers first landed in a Middle Eastern farming community where they kidnapped the first guy they saw, read his mind, and concluded that, since he was terrified of the US soldiers who had brutally destroyed everything he knew and loved, the US would be the ideal place to center their invasion. This is revealed in the spin-off "Visser" which is an excellent stand-alone book that can be read without any prior knowledge of Animorphs. And you can read it for free and with the author's blessing right here:

https://files.animorphsfanforum.com/ebooks/pdf/Visser.pdf

#animorphs #edit: i hadn't read the book in 4 years when i wrote this post and upon further reading i misremembered a lot of details #but this is SORTA what happens #10k

[tunashei]

First Impressions of Animorphs!

I'm listening to the Animorphs series while I work, through Animorphs Aloud - a fan made reading of the series. Here are my first impressions/random thoughts about them! Spoilers below if you haven't read them.

Book 9: The Secret

You know how we have the mirror test for animals to test their self awareness? How do you reckon they'd react to a clone test. My cat Sadie hates all other cats, would she hate herself if I morphed her?

BITE HIS BALLS CASSIE

Oh my gosh Tobias hangs out at Rachel's watching tv or reading books? That's adorable

Sigh. I wish I lived near untouched wilderness. Not very common on our island

(Morphing a wolf) 'The rest of the morph continued. My knees reversed direction' APPLEGATE. Why. Why do you do this to me?

One of the things that got me into Animorphs was seeing someone's take on an Andalite. They mentioned that Andalite's are never described as having a humanoid torso, so their design lacked that. It was a really nice design. This book does mention Ax having a humanoid torso however. Shame

Not another Eusocial animal! Why wouldn't the exact same loss of identity happen like it did with ants?

I wonder if anyone has animated a morph. That'd be cool to see, the images on the books are freaky enough so in motion would be even cooler

This is a pretty shitty forcefield if it just stops at the ground. You could literally dig under it, no termite form needed. If the Yeerks had made this forcefield a sphere they would have been fine

Uh oh we definitely getting hypnotised by the termite queen

I always felt bad for queens of insect colonies, spending your entire life in a hole secreting eggs sounds like hell to me. But this passage is making me reconsider the idea, if the soldiers really were like slaves and controlled by the queen then it's as if the entire colony is actually the queen. One organism. Hmm

In this book, Cassie commits regicide!

One of these days you guys are going to get yourselves crushed by demorphing in an area too small that you can't destroy

Well that was a easy escape

'The colour of nature wasn't green. It was red. Blood red' damn that's hard

Oh god damn Tobias ate one of those baby skunks. That's surprisingly dark.

Think I've discovered how I'd fail as an Animorph. I would totally morph a cat and end up dozing off in a sunbeam past the two hour limit and being trapped as a cat forever. Not the worst way to live though

Cassie is apologizing to Jake but honestly Tobias deserves one too. You can't blame him for acting on his nature especially when he didn't know these were 'special' kits. And he just saved Cassie's butt. And is offering to help raise the skunk babies.

Has a suspicion Homer would get skunked this book. Someone had to, and he was mentioned earlier. Also weird to me that someone would just trust their dog to go home on their own

My first thought upon hearing this was Cassie was gonna straight up murder Farrand 😭

I mean I guess this Yeerk plan was pretty low stakes to begin with, just them trying to hunt the bandits, but this was a pretty pathetic fight. They give up because smell bad and would have to refit ship. I guess I've never smelt skunk spray though so I don't know how bad it is

Visser Three has lost pretty much all his menace by now

#animorphs #animorphs aloud #audio book #book #reading #books #the animorphs #first impressions

[entertainment]

#halloween #someone who can art please create an animorph käärijä human centipede transforming into a long furby #cursed poll

[lifeattomsdiner]

I was gonna make a jokey post about how Rachel Animorphs is a great character because "what if the most fashionable it girl at your school discovered a passion for war crimes" is just inherently interesting to watch, and you know, that's true

But I think the real thing that makes her interesting is that while the other Animorphs have the "what if you were in a situation where you had to do violence and it was hard" thing covered from a variety of angles, Rachel's arc is "what if you were in a situation where you had to do violence and it was entirely too easy?"

#marco has a bit of that too but rachel is the absolute queen of it #animorphs