#90s books

[90s-2000s-barbie]

The Rainbow Fish (1992) 🐠

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Not shaded yet, but as promised I did at least rough color it. I was gonna wait till I was completely done, but a lot of folks weirdly liked the initial rough sketch I did, so I figured I might as well show the work in progress. I’m thinking of maybe offering a line art copy for anyone who’d like to color Ax in their own favorite 90s and 2000s fashion. (The Cinnabon is non-negotiable). What other shenanigans would you like to see these two get up to?

[kinsey3furry300]

I have no ideas what animorph is but I already seen it mentioned on at least 5 different blog which have nothing to do with each other (you being the 5th) what the hell is it???

90s/early 00s young adult sci-fi book series of around 60 short books, published once a month, by K A Applegate.

The books were distributed cheeply by the Scholastic book fair, and could be found in most school libraries thought the Mid 00s.

The plot was 5 normal kids have to stop a secret alien invasion by turning into various animals, and the books were known for starting off with quirky humour and very rapidly decending into utter existential horror with body horror, possession horror, and the ptsd you'd get if you were actually a teen super hero and had to fight an actual war with real stakes aged 13-16, and the fear of never knowing who your real enemy might be. The series ended about a month before 9/11 with a disastrous final battle and a grim warning about how war never really fixes any of the underlying problems between rival nations or peoples, and just destroys good people, so... yeah, ooof.

Due to the content, beloved by horror fans, super hero fans, Sci fi fans, furries (the kids have the power to turn into animals for combat and it gets real weird real fast), and the queer and the trans community, so it turns up on a lot of unrelated blogs.

The audio books are still readily available and are pretty well done, and the cover art of the books was gloriously 90s.

Behold!

There was also a tv show we dont talk about.

The main cast were:

Jake: the leader. There is an evil alien slug living in his brother's head, and this causes issues for him.

Cassie: Jake's crush. The moral center of the books. Also her parents are veterinarians at a zoo, with is very fucking convenient if you need a ready sourse of animals to turn into.

Marco: Jake's best friend, the smart one. Also uses inappropriate humour to cope with trauma (relatable).

Rachel: Jake's cousin. Uses turning into a grizzly bear and committing extreme violence to cope with her trauma (relatable).

Tobias: perminantly turns into a bird to escape his trauma (most relatable) but then has to deal with extreme body and mental dismorphia as a result. Has a star-crossed lovers plot with Rachel. He is my favorite.

Ax: an alien teenager they just adopted and hide in the woods. Is also my favourite. He's a bright blue centar with stalk-eyes and a sythe tail, and he loves Cinabon and warcrimes. Due to his extreme alien mindset, he's been taken as a metaphor for Neurodivergance, but it's unclear if that was the author's original intent.

The books are awesome, and still available as e-books, comics and audio books I'd you want to check them out.

Here is a video essay that does a far better job of explaining:

[oldfangirl81]

Does anyone else remember these books? They are from the '90s by the author of The Vampire Diaries. I always preferred her Night World series.

[random-jot]

(If you liked both, pick which of the two you were more into overall)

[peaceandnature]

huge fan of the smell of those paperback books printed in the ‘80s and ‘90s with slightly brown pages. 💛💛

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Tim Burton and Lisa Marie at the book premiere of The Nightmare Before Christmas in 1993

[kawaii-90s-nostalgia]

Pony Pals 🐴

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[thatretro]

It's almost prom season. Will we get a witness of what proms are like in Shadyside, or just another stock murder mystery? It's R.L. Stine, you know what to expect.

New Stinal Countdown: Fear Street: The Prom Queen.

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Just an uncle bonding with his nephew over these new-fangled video games.

[vraisetzen]

私説三国志 天の華・地の風 | Shisetsu Sangokushi Ten no Hana Chi no Kaze

by Emori Sonae (江森備)

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[arconinternet]

ZAP! (Book, Don Sellers, 1994)

You can digitally borrow it here.