#The Invasion

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Évariste Vital Luminais (French, 1821-1896) The Invasion, n.d. Museum of Fine Arts Boston

[syntax-forest]

Reading Animorphs like:

[reality-detective]

"The Invasion" and it's NOT just in America 🤔

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Animorphs #1: The Invasion thoughts:

I love the voice. The hesitations, the repeats, the "Tobias was... I mean I guess he still is kind of a strange guy" (p. 3). I get why AniTV opened on Jake turning on a video camera and rambling into it. Doesn't work in context, but. That is what this opening narration feels like: a scared kid grabbing you by the arm and talking to you peer-to-peer.

Jake telling us like 8 times in a row that him getting cut from the basketball team is "no big deal"... Aw. Kid. Sure you don't really care, and that's why you keep bringing it up.

A+ for the exchange like Elfangor: I'm dying. Jake: Don't worry, Cassie will solve this!

Interesting that Elfangor tells the kids not to fight the yeerks, but to warn the human authorities. So to give the dude credit, he does try to avoid involving children in the war.

Again I love the hints of characterization starting right away — Cassie's the first one to volunteer to morph, Marco's the last, and Jake's the one insisting they all decide together.

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[maggothaven]

not sure why anyone would bother making complicated plans to kill/kidnap two and jamie when these are two guys who will enter a room, see a plate of unattended sandwiches, think “ooo a a treat for me, mayhap” and take a bite. Do you have any idea how easy it would be to just poison them?

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[local-hellhound-steals-spaghetti]

I really felt Tobias’ story was a trans allegory from the start but this panel in the graphic novel hit hard, especially after knowing what happens later with the Elemist.

[corgi-nub]

drew a green anole as I listen to the animorphs audiobooks yet again

[trashbagcommunist]

”It’s a member of the iguana family actually – like you care” Jake, if I didn’t care, I probably wouldn’t be the kind of person to read animorphs

[marv-el-spot]

FILMS WATCHED IN 2024 The invasion (2007) Dir.  Oliver Hirschbiegel, James McTeigue

[bluefox4]

Thermal Count

So, having knowledge about Animorphs without reading it before, I know that the word thermal is a thing in the fandom. I figured that I'd track every time the word is said.

In The Invasion, the word thermal is said a total of 4 times. Three times in chapter 12 on page 87; and one time in chapter 13 on page 95.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905) Le Guêpier, 1892

[nkp1981]

BTS Of "The Invasion"

[thekinglemingle]

Book 1, part 2/?

There is no way Im keeping up with the proposed schedule with 2 small kids in my house. Damn.

Where did the name come from though? It will later be established that biodiversity in the Animorphs universe is incredibly low (I have strong thoughts on why), so what world have the Yeerks encountered with bugs to model their ships on?

<The Taxxons are evil>

I get that he's trying to simplify a complex political situation to 13 year olds in a hurry, but this is Hella judgy for someone who owes their life to a Living Hive

30 pages in and we're already getting some trademark Animorphs realness

34 pages to the first Salad Shooter reference. I still don't really know what they are. Someone tried to explain it to me on the previous post (thank you), but I'm 35 and too old to learn

Cannot believe they had us read this in school aged 7

Where's that post (I think by @thejakeformerlyknownasprince ?) about how similar the Berenson cousins are before the War forces them into roles?

Rachel angsts for ages about that old man she inadvertently kills in book 37, but Jake never seems to stress about this homeless guy.

Tom in youth pastor voice: let's rap about the Sharing. You know who's real rad? Mr Visser.