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honestly the series didn't pay enough attention to the fact that rachel is exclusively responsible for tobias and ax's wardrobes and they go along with her choices. (she instinctively buys designer underwear for erek, so i assume that she also buys designer underwear for the boys and thinks nothing of it.) this means that when the gang's out and about tobias and ax are wearing absolutely slammin' outfits and jake and marco are just...there

Dheixjwodjekfn the juxtaposition when you see them in the mall food court...

Rachel tobias and ax look like they came from prep school

Cassie is wearing her comfy farmer core with the big galoshes

Marco has like a star trek graphic tee and khakis on probably

and Jake obviously sporting the matching neon nike shirt and basketball shorts combo

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applegate (author of animorphs) just retweeted this article and its a good read and also a commentary on book bans and also mentions literary genius le guin so would recommend - https://lithub.com/let-the-kids-get-weird-the-adult-problem-with-childrens-books/

a few excerpts below:

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Animorphs is fun because there will be sentences like “I felt my willpower evaporating from my body. I could no longer control who lived or died by my hand.” and also sentences like “ ‘Whoa, I’ve never deboned my own chicken before,’ he meowed.” and the second one will have significantly more impact on your soul.

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every couple months i think about the unnamed marketing guy who i can only assume glanced briefly at the subject line of an email before telling someone to put a big blue alien with rippling evil-coded pecs on the cover of Visser and in so doing unwittingly completed god's most unselfaware metatextual masterpiece of spec fic gender commentary

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this blog is a safe space for people who think jake berenson is funny

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there they all are

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Race down the hill!

They’re all just kids. What kid wouldn’t immediately start playing around in the woods with their magic space powers. 

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could not even begin to tell you if i posted about book #6 WOWWOWWOW WHAT AN ADVENTURE jake and tommmmm </3 the besties teaming up to help jake i do love them

fully need a bonus chapter/fic of ax pretending to be jake for literally 3 days straight pls omg

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Hey, so the author of Animorphs fully approves you downloading her books for free.

I’m here to give you a link to those books that you may have read some of in childhood, but didn’t realize were building to an antigovernment antimilitary anticapitalist stance…. anywhere here’s the books. They won’t radicalize you. They’re just fucking books. You take from them whatever the fuck you take from them. But I wouldn’t be lying saying that these are the books that set me on the path to where I am now.

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“‘You know what was strange about yesterday?’ Marco said.

‘What?’

‘The sharks. They were so totally deadly. I mean, we worry about Hork-Bajir and Taxxons and Visser Three. You kind of forget that right here on little old planet Earth there are creatures just as tough and dangerous. It would be funny if it wasn’t some alien that ended up getting us, but some normal Earth creature.’

I didn’t think it was funny at all.

Marco grinned at my stone face. ‘Okay, not funny ha-ha. More like funny weird.’”

- Book #4: The Message (Cassie), pg. 84 (by K.A. Applegate)

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gonna potentially finish book 6 on this thanksgiving day, wish me luck

btw really loved marco’s first POV book, can’t remember if i said that yet but !!! love you sm marco animorphs and your seriousness and the gross morphs and everything in between

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every animorphs book

chapter 1: my name is jake. I can’t tell you my real name, because I’m the leader of a special group of kids… we’re called the Animorphs. Because we morph into animals and fight aliens.

chapter 16: ‘god, please don’t do this,’ i begged on my knees. Visser Three had all of my loved ones hanging from his claws in his multi-armed alien morph and was slowly squeezing the life out of them. ‘you must either choose them, jake, or the rest of your planet.’ i couldn’t take it. i started to morph into a cockroach.

chapter 23: as i felt my own brain slither down my throat and into my torso to reform into my digestive system, my bones also began to dissolve into dust inside my skin. my eyes shrunk back into my skull and i could see into eternity- i could see my own mind, taken over by the yeerk. i had already taken my last breath as a free creature, now i saw my last vision as a being of this dimension. suddenly, i was gone. and my parents would never even know i had died. was saving the world worth this? i wondered, if anyone on this planet could be forced to prioritize one life over another, what choice would they make? how can any decision be right, or wrong? i closed my mind off, and fell into eternal sleep, my last echoes of thought being of how humanity continued to live on, but not truly alive.

chapter 26: ‘hey, bro, wanna go to mc d’s and grab some fries?’ marco asked, riding by on his skateboard. ‘yeah, that’d be totally radical!’ i answered, whipping out my own razor scooter. as i pulled a nasty kickflip, i felt eyes watching me. turning around, i saw my own dog, and thought of the horrible truth only i knew. we went to the mall to get big macs. it was a good day to not be dead.

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bird boy and xena warrior princess

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finished book 5 so so quickly like in a day basically. marco animorphs……… </3 my heart breaks for you sweet “using humor as a defense mechanism” kid. i want you to have one (1) good day please? is that too much to ask?

also LOVE you ax animorphs and your obsession with mall food court nonsense

ALSO also am a jake defender until i die idc he might be boring to some but you just don’t understand him like i do

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let’s do it

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bird boy and wolf girl

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THESE ARE SO CUTE PLS ARTHUR

My epub of animorphs has something called Vegemorphs at the end of the books. Question if anyone would like to answer: what is that