#Mm2

[youngtomhardy]

on new year’s eve this psychopathic (ex) fan decided i was gonna be the target of his pent up, year-end anger. he got into my dm’s and proceeded to tell me i “fell off so hard”, called me a loser, desperate, “nothing but a porn account”. called me boring. blocked me on everything. brought up my failed relationship. mind you this loser used to send me unsolicited dick pics for like 2 years… dark spirited and vile. and yes, he is. if you see this, know that your karma is coming. it always comes back around.

girl…. shit was crazy lmao. this isn’t the first time i’ve had extreme reactions to this new era. i’ve been told about myself left right back forward up and down. i knew i was making something different, but i didn’t realize it was gonna be so polarizing for so many. sorry im a f*g that likes to take my clothes off, stick my tongue out & make slutty electronic music? nah, i’m not sorry lmaooo.

“i’m just a rockstar”

from my perspective as the artist, this era is simply walking the path of my favorite icons before me. and i’m not holding back. i’ve never been *less* desperate. i’ve never been *more* myself. i *LOVE* the music i’m making now. and most importantly, i’ve never felt closer with the fans listening to me now. i feel understood on a new level. no walls up, no colorful, sparkly get ups. just me, a drink in my hand and a pretty little speedo holding my cock in. it doesn’t get rawer than that (pun intended).

there’s a conversation to be had about the way gay men will hold other gay men to this insane, impossible standard & their constant need to tear each other down when they see another climbing, but i don’t have time nor do i care to. good fucking riddance dude. you will never put me in box. i will never be someone you can control. i’ve heard every insult in the book. i’ve been told both that everything and nothing is wrong with me. i’m ready for everything the new year brings. YOU CAN’T GET RID OF ME BITCH!!!!

alright. album announcement is actually coming, sry to pull a sza and lie, idk why the pre-save page hasn’t appeared. i’ll see you soon though fr!!!!! love you.

-MM

[raihann1]

PLAYING MM2 WITH THE CREEPS🔪

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Feat: Jeff, Ben, Masky, Toby, Clockwork, Nina.

NINA THE KILLER

Forces you to team with her.

Uses either heartblade or classic knife.

Shares a earbud with you as you listen to Spotify while playing :)

If she dies first she'll spectate for you.

Always yapping.

Gives you free godlys ♡ (your her favorite person)

Match with her!

Definitely hates icewing users.

Does not have voicechat

HATES. HATESS SMALL AVATARS

"Bro my hitbox"

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MASKY/TIM

Deadass does not know how to play.

Actually got addicted.

He's not buying you anything

Accidently broke your ipad once because he didn't know how to shoot.

Yeah no don't play with him. 💀

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JEFF THE KILLER

Classic knife or icewing user.

Camper 🧍‍♂️

LOVES making little kids mad.

Will curse out kids in the loudest fucking voice.

He got banned several times

"FUCK"

"MY HITBOX BRO"

scams little kids aswell.

He gave you a chroma once and said it took 30 minutes because the girl had to ask her mom for permission 😐

Don't team, if you lose he'll blame it on you.

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BEN DROWNED

Definitely a exploiter

Loves fucking up peoples games

He'll only team if he feels like letting someone else win

"EZ"

A "tryhard"

Let me spoil you bbg, with my 300+ godlys of everytype 😼

Definetly kills you when you team and blames it on your hitbox.

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CLOCKWORK

FUCK

Spam jumper

Camper

definitely uses the godly "clockwork" 😐

Like jeff, absoluetly kills little childrens ears when shes screaming curse words at them.

Buys you shit when she feels like it 😼

A rager

Hates icewing users.

Yeah your gonna have to have a timeout for her.

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TICCI TOBY

Is the most lagggiest fuckjng player ever.

Lagged so much he cant even load in the game 🙁

Definitely uses traderie because he wanted to find a knife that looked like his hatchets

Will absolutely have the most terridying mood swings.

Almost broke your computer.

"GET OUT!"

oh, he'll definitely match :)

Hes broke tho.

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[zonydragon]

Faster than memories themselves!! it's funny every time

[baconmayoman]

i hate him

[decaffeinated-heads]

He loves his mangos

[koodless]

FLASHBANG 🗣💣💥

Sketches/ progress underneath! and another WIP I'm working on 👀

[monsterboyblood]

I’ll do individual redesign sheets for each of them eventually but honestly this was way more fun

This is a redraw of this in case anyone didn’t know :)

[electrical-communication]

Wily’s helpful infographic backfires like all his plans

[moonstonecanyon]

MORE !!! feat. Crashman Horse Airlift

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Errors, “Errors,” and Animorphs

So in a different post I ranted about how a tiny non-distracting unfixable difference between two shirts is not an error in Jurassic Park.  IMHO, a continuity gap is only an error if:

It draws attention to itself and distracts the audience

It could’ve been fixed pretty easily in-story

It makes character, plot, or setting nonsensical

Animorphs has continuity gaps of its own.  And I have opinions about what we readers do and do not count as “error.”  First, an example that’s clearly an error:

I wondered if Tobias had heard my thought. I concentrated. Tobias, can     you hear me?

«Yeah,» he said, «I hear you.»

“Did you hear my thoughts before that?” I asked.

«No, I don’t think it works that way.  You have to think at me for me to     hear.»

—#1: The Invasion

Tobias briefly hearing Jake thought-speak in #1 breaks the rules of the setting; several other books (#2, #23, #31, #33, #46) clearly state that it’s impossible to thought-speak if one is human and not in morph.  It’s an easy fix; the re-releases and audiobooks delete this moment, and the graphic novel makes Tobias unable to hear Jake.  It distracts the audience; I’ve gotten 5 or 6 separate asks over the years of people going “I was rereading #1, and the weirdest thing...” It’s an error.  I can’t say what happened behind the scenes — K.A. Applegate toyed with a thread that was later dropped, or decided to introduce a limitation for plot fuel at a later time.  But it’s an error.

Second, an example that I don’t think counts as an error:

I returned to my life, feeling strange and out of place. That night Jake came over. We went outside.

"I tried morphing the Tyrannosaurus," he said. "Nothing. Didn't work."

"You could ask Ax. He may know why."

Jake laughed. "Yeah, but even if he explains it, I still won't understand it."

—MM2: In the Time of the Dinosaurs [Cassie’s narration]

The kids not being able to morph dinosaurs outside of the Cretaceous Era makes a lot of sense in context.  The whole book series would fundamentally change if they could use T. rex — that would become heavily a favored morph for many of them.  It kicks off all kinds of plot questions that demand answers: Where do the controllers think the “andalite bandits” got dino DNA? What anti-dinosaur measures would they be forced to adopt? Would the Animorphs’ whole strategy change around having those morphs? How would Rachel feel about everyone but Tobias suddenly having a much stronger morph than her? Would they even bother with contemporary animal morphs afterward?

If the kids are morphing dinosaurs all the time after ~#18, then the series loses a lot of its uniqueness.  Applegate has said that most of the inspiration for the series was about trying to help kids understand what it would really be like to be inside an animal mind, with as many animals as possible.  That’s part of why so many of the plots hinge on giving the Animorphs an excuse to learn a new morph (e.g. #4, #17, #27, #47, #52) so that we can experience the coolness right along with them.  That’s why the war is explicitly about fighting for Earth, nonhumans and all (#7, #23, #53).  If it’s not a menagerie of six different critters — including one immigrant from space — rolling up to battle, then it’s not Animorphs. No, it makes no dang sense that sario rip morphs stop working once the rip gets unripped.  But the series acknowledges it, and it allows us both to have a unique animal-based story (dinosaurs! Heckin dinosaurs!) without ruining its own premise.

Third, one that I find fascinating because it’s kind of right on the margin:

"What I don't get is why I have to be a girl wolf," Marco grumbled.

"We had one male and one female," Cassie explained for the tenth time. "If two of us morphed into the male, we'd have two males. Two male wolves might decide they had to fight for dominance."

"I could control it," Marco said.

"Marco, you and Jake already fight for dominance, and you're just ordinary guys," Rachel pointed out.

—#3: The Encounter

Later, Tobias’s narration uses the word “alpha” to describe Jake’s morphed behavior — howling and peeing to mark territory, challenging another wolf pack to protect his own.

There is scientific consensus right now, as of the 2020s, that the term “alpha” is an inaccurate descriptor of pack-lead behavior, and that dominance fights between adult males are almost nonexistent.  That although wolves usually run in a phalanx-like shape with one middle-aged male and female at the point, this isn’t the result of dominance fights but rather an effort to have the physically strongest wolves absorb blows from rogue prey animals or rival predators.  That the dominance fights observed in captive wolves in the 1970s were the result of an ecology error, putting wolves from rival packs into single enclosures.  Fox (1972, 1973) gave a reasonably accurate description of how wolves behave if you put a bunch of adult strangers in a zoo together: the young adult males fight, the winner of that fight wins first access to food, and the mate of the winner gets the most resources for her puppies.

However, time rolls forward, and advances like hidden cameras (and the resurgence of wild wolf populations) allow us to watch wolves without needing to capture them first.  Mech (1999) follows some such wolves around, and quickly realizes that dominance and submission aren’t nearly as important among wolves who chose to make a pack.  Stahler et al. (2002) figure out a better way to introduce stranger wolves in captivity, and get full cooperation among young adult males.  Nowadays drones and radio collars get 1000s of times the wolf data Fox had to work with, and reveal intense cooperation with little more than play-fighting among puppies.

The Encounter comes out 1997.  Mech publishes the first big takedown of the alpha concept 1999.

Did an error occur anywhere in this process?

No, in that Applegate presumably doesn’t own a Time Matrix and published a book based on the scientific consensus at the time about how wolf social dynamics worked.

Yes, in that the error is pretty distracting — I get drawn up short by it every time I reread #3, and I know others have too.

No, in that the error was corrected in the graphic novel adaptation.

Yes, in that the error is still present in the audiobook, and Michael Crouch delivers the moment about Jake being backed into a dominance fight with all of Tobias’s exasperated humor.

No, in that the error allows for some character moments, both silly (Jake peeing on trees) and sweet (Jake being ready to take on an entire rival pack alone, over a rabbit he doesn’t want).

Yes, in that the error takes away from one of the series’ most fundamental purposes, to educate kids about animals.

Anyway, books are great, science is imperfect, and I think the more we all engage with amateur criticism the more we’re all going to learn about what counts as an error in fiction writing with inspiration in scientific reality.

[gamzees-bignaturals]

johndave angst idea dave fucking kills john

[mr-crybaby]

I don’t know why but I have an attachment to the K-12 era

[billdenbrough]

microfic monday

KEVIN/AARON • aftg • STUCK, for @naturecalls111

this was a speedrun to make up for the thing i sent her that made her yell @ me ZHFKSHDJ anyway mina wanted kevaaron stuck & i hopped around like six different vibes before we ended up with this [gestures vaguely] au. and now she's yelling at me, again, as i cross-post this. life is so hard

[zonydragon]

This is literally me though cos school hallways are literally a goldmine for ppl being slow as shit and completely blocking the way through. And idc if you're old, please move aside :((

[decaffeinated-heads]

CRASH MAAAAAAAN!!!!

[koodless]

Mm2 bots scribbles! They're v cool to think about

I don't have many solidified headcanons for them rn, mostly just looks and some personality (like Quick either being both a funny guy or straight-up scary ("haha, I was just acting...or was I?" /ref), crash having bird features/ long hair (I love those headcanons/ drawings I see ough they're so good), and them just being curious or crazy bots as intended <3)

Maybe one day I'll write out all my headcanons/ draw stuff for some of the robots we shall see