#K A Applegate

[kinsey3furry300]

Which episodic YA series fucked you up?

as In, what's the first one you can remember genuinely frightening or upsetting you?

There will be a second bracket for series I could not fit in this poll (Percy Jackson, Noughts and Crosses, Maximum Ride, Cherub, Mortal Engines, Artimis Fowl, Shapeshifter, Deptford Mice, Mistborn ect.)

[a-book-of-creatures]

And since I just reposted something about Animorphs, here's more required reading - K. A. Applegate's letter to the fans after the series ended. Removing spoilers just in case because you need to go out there and read every one of the 60 or so books.

Dear Animorphs Readers: Quite a number of people seem to be annoyed by the final chapter in the Animorphs story. There are a lot of complaints that [spoilers]. That there was no grand, final fight-to-end-all-fights. That there was no happy celebration. And everyone is mad about the cliffhanger ending. So I thought I'd respond. Animorphs was always a war story. Wars don't end happily. Not ever. Often relationships that were central during war, dissolve during peace. Some people who were brave and fearless in war are unable to handle peace, feel disconnected and confused. Other times people in war make the move to peace very easily. Always people die in wars. And always people are left shattered by the loss of loved ones. That's what happens, so that's what I wrote. [spoilers] That doesn't by any means cover everything that happens in a war, but it's a start. Here's what doesn't happen in war: there are no wondrous, climactic battles that leave the good guys standing tall and the bad guys lying in the dirt. Life isn't a World Wrestling Federation Smackdown. Even the people who win a war, who survive and come out the other side with the conviction that they have done something brave and necessary, don't do a lot of celebrating. There's very little chanting of 'we're number one' among people who've personally experienced war. I'm just a writer, and my main goal was always to entertain. But I've never let Animorphs turn into just another painless video game version of war, and I wasn't going to do it at the end. I've spent 60 books telling a strange, fanciful war story, sometimes very seriously, sometimes more tongue-in-cheek. I've written a lot of action and a lot of humor and a lot of sheer nonsense. But I have also, again and again, challenged readers to think about what they were reading. To think about the right and wrong, not just the who-beat-who. And to tell you the truth I'm a little shocked that so many readers seemed to believe I'd wrap it all up with a lot of high-fiving and backslapping. Wars very often end, sad to say, just as ours did: with a nearly seamless transition to another war. So, you don't like the way our little fictional war came out? You don't like [spoilers]? You don't like that one war simply led to another? Fine. Pretty soon you'll all be of voting age, and of draft age. So when someone proposes a war, remember that even the most necessary wars, even the rare wars where the lines of good and evil are clear and clean, end with a lot of people dead, a lot of people crippled, and a lot of orphans, widows and grieving parents. If you're mad at me because that's what you have to take away from Animorphs, too bad. I couldn't have written it any other way and remained true to the respect I have always felt for Animorphs readers. K.A. Applegate

[90s-2000s-barbie]

Animorphs by K.A. Applegate (1998 - 2001)

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Second Competition FINAL: Animorphs vs A Series of Unfortunate Events

[toshitophchan]

I think this might be my best animorphs fan art ever

[aliendeity]

revelation i had while listening to animorphs

[starwolf999]

Yo the animorphs books are batshit fucking crazy.

Why the fuck is this dude explaining higher dimensions in a childrens book??

And it makes sense?! Holy shit!?

[enthusispastic]

Considering every animal that you have either touched, or had the opportunity to touch in the last month (allowing the acquisition trance to overrule safety measures aside from trespassing).

Of course, in the tags or replies, share what animals you're using for each!

[strawbebehmod]

He loves this world so much

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[hydropyro]

If I had a nickel for every time I became obsessed with a ragtag group of underdog heroes fighting against a cult of brain controlling worm-like alien parasites I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s strange that it’s happened twice

[kinsey3furry300]

A quick guide to who your favourite Animorph would be, for people who have never read Animorphs.

More Queer than you are Neurodivergent: Tobias.

More Neurodivergent than you are Queer: Ax.

Coping with trauma….

Healthily: Cassie.

Poorly: Jake.

With extreme sarcasm: Marco.

With extreme violence: Rachel.

Thank you for attending my TED talk, now If you’ll excuse me, I have a thermal to catch *Jumps out window*

[aceof-wands]

me when i realize all the animorphs girlies are on tumblr

anyway here’s all my gang doodles from the last bit

[andaliteful]

When you make it to the fictional bird hall of fame word search

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Round 4, Poll 1: The Hunger Games vs Animorphs

[bone-soup-explosion]

Hi I’d like to thank the animorphs series for helping me get back into reading it’s helped me reclaim a skill and hobby I used to enjoy a lot