#animoprhs

[serenova]

oh gd..... I haven't thought about Animorphs in YEARS

I had the whole series, like, I'm not joking, and probably most of the spin-off books, they're fucking INSANE

like..... some gets stuck as a hawk, someone else beats someone with their own severed arms, the BODY HORROR of the morphing, hell, the drop a FUCKING NUCLEAR BOMB on like..... Seattle (I could be wrong about the city, but I'm 95% sure my memory is telling me the Pacific Northwest.... it definitely was NOT the east coast)

the Hork Bajir who are HERBIVORES like.... this series was fucking crack and idk how Applegate thought of that craziness but fucking hell she created something that was like crack to pre-teens

Animorphs really has a way to turn every scifi trope on its head. "Why do alien invasions always start in America?" Actually the body snatchers first landed in a Middle Eastern farming community where they kidnapped the first guy they saw, read his mind, and concluded that, since he was terrified of the US soldiers who had brutally destroyed everything he knew and loved, the US would be the ideal place to center their invasion. This is revealed in the spin-off "Visser" which is an excellent stand-alone book that can be read without any prior knowledge of Animorphs. And you can read it for free and with the author's blessing right here:

https://files.animorphsfanforum.com/ebooks/pdf/Visser.pdf

[roseunspindle]

Animorphs: The Predator

[tomdelongefuckedmymom]

More Animoprhs thoughts this morning, coming to you live from my Tomark blog

Marco and Tobias have the exact same ACE score. Did y'all know that? Like, let's run through the list together.

Mom's dead ✅

Actively being neglected ✅

Extremely parentified ✅

Poverty ✅

Moving around a lot ��� (Marco moves three times in two years, that'll traumatize a kid)

Alcoholic caretaker ✅

Tobias is exactly what Marco could be if he didn't have Jake, and Marco is extremely aware of that, and I think that's why he's such a dick to Tobias in the early books. He sees way too much of himself in that sad bird boy and that scares the fuck out of him

So instead of being sensitive like Tobias is, Marco leans right in to being the funny man/cold motherfucker we know him as

[horizon-forbidden-memes]

Of course the Sunhawk has to morph into a hawk!

Made with the assistance of the Animoprhs Generator website

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Would any of the Animoprhs and related cast be fans of Doctor Who?

I imagine getting really uncomfortable when the episode where Tegan gets possessed by Mara comes up.

What about Stargate? I think Stargate would be canceled because it's way to close to home.

What about a Stargate crossover with animorphs??

Another crossover idea is that series already have their concept of mind control and body jacking and when a Yeerk tries to possess an already “occupied” vessel the first “guest” goes GTFO or vice versa.

Sorry but this is my meat puppet. See Yugioh

I am not up on my sci fi classics! Any folks with Whovian/Stargate/Yugioh feels willing to weigh in?

[comicaurora]

was that a sneaky Animoprhs reference in the ursa major video, with the angle brackets used to convene a non-standard method of speaking?

holy shit is that where I got it from

[stitchwraith-stingers]

sorry for animoprh posting ive been meaning to get into it for a year now but im so deep into the fop fixation rn so im staring at my bookmark w the books like this

[hannahhook7744]

Who is Mia in ur au ?

Based on hair, eye color, skin color, and partially on the colors of her clothes... Here are my theories:

Katrina Van Tassel and Brom Bones.

Sis Rabbit (assuming she's been turned human/is a animoprh like person who's now old enough to have a teenager during d1-d2.

Michael Darling or his brother, John, perhaps.

Charlotte La Bouff or her cousin, Max, assuming he's now old enough to have a teenage kid.

Eilonwy.

Kristoff and Anna.

Elsa.

Flora or Merryweather.

Queen Clarion, Rani, Fern, or some other fairy from pixie hallow.

One of the lost boys.

Arista or Andrina (Ariel's sisters).

Any blonde character could work again, but I think if you narrowed it down to the characters on here with blonde hair or blue eyes (or both) who like blue or pink (or maybe both) or someone who has one but a partner with the other, you could narrow it down.

You could also use her personality but that's a bit of s toss up because obviously, not every kid is as good or bad as their parents are.

[yalikejazz9]

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[tunashei]

First impressions of Animoprhs!

I'm listening to the Animorphs series while I work, through Animorphs Aloud - a fan made reading of the series. Here are my first impressions/random thoughts about them! Spoilers below if you haven't read them.

Book 7: The Stranger

I often think how you'd REALLY react if you were faced with something paranormal or magical, because it wouldn't just be the monster or ghost or superhero you have to contend with - but your entire knowledge of the universe flipping on it's head. Legit consider how insane you'd go if you found out monsters were *really* real. And they do this to a random person in the start of most books! Ha.

Kind of surprised they consider a human-alien relationship with any sort of seriousness. How progressive. But then there's been a few hints towards Rachel liking Tobias and he's...a bird. Rachel is very open minded.

Somehow I have my doubts Rachel will move away. The clue is the 47 books that come after this.

Man I feel for Tobias, having to spend the rest of his life as a hawk while potentially watching his friends move on. It's not like he can make new friends. Also how long does he even live? Does he have a hawk lifespan now of 10-15 years?

Rachel wants more firepower and she skips the POLAR BEARS? GIRL. Those things are fucking terrifying! Though I did do a bit of research and turns out when Polar Bears and Grizzlies compete for food it's usually the Polar Bears that leave.

Also I have a hard time believing a bear has more 'firepower' than an elephant. Bit easier to move around and get into places as a bear though.

Still can't get over the frequent use of the slang 'hooked up' to mean meeting. Very different meaning nowadays.

The mental image of them fitting pretty much a centaur into a dressing room is very funny.

Wow. Stopping time definitely blindsided me. This Ellimist is like a god?? Was not expecting that.

The descriptions when the Ellimist is showing off the beauty of earth make me very sad I will likely not get to experience it. It's so sad to know coral reefs exist out there, beauty unparalleled, and you can't simply go and see them. Not without money. It's a cruel joke that we're placed on such an amazing planet and yet how little of it we'll see.

Man this is a genuinely tough decision. I really like Cassie's perspective, that humans are now the endangered animals potentially rejecting the one thing that could save them. Honestly if what seemed like a literal god told me the fight is unwinnable I'd probably give in and tell them to take me to a new planet.

Aaaand now the kids are getting eaten alive. I LOVE the amount of traumatising scenarios in these books. Main reason I started em. Feel a bit bad for the Taxon, imagine eating some innocuous snack and it swells up and bursts you from the inside.

Ax has a thing for cutting off people's arms.

You're the second largest carnivore on land Rachel, Polar Bears got you beat.

Also Rachel totally just murdered a bunch of human people.

Now...time travel? Hm not a big fan of time travel.

Damn the Yeerks invested in free, superfast and wide-covering public transport? I'd vote for them.

This is why I don't like time travel. Is it deterministic? Can it be changed? Boggles the mind. The implication is they refuse the Ellimist's offer and stay and fight, and lose, and Rachel becomes a controller. But why would Ax being there mean the future has changed? Did future-Rachel lie about there being six humans to Visser-Three? Why?

PFFFF I'm sorry but as horrifying as the idea of them killing and consuming Tobias after being infected and turned into controllers is, it's also like Disney-level villainy.

If this is the future and it can be changed, why can't Visser-Three kill them? Sure he wouldn't have controller Rachel so the future would be different but the goal of invading would work?

Well this is looking bleak.

I wonder who is keeping Ellimists in check that they even need rules.

Surprisingly quick and efficient mission! And that's the end of that one. A bit confusing, but I wonder if the Ellimist stuff will get clearer later on.

[hostilemuppet]

sure, animoprhs had fucked up shit in it, but written depictions of violence are a lot different from actual drawn blood and gore. homestuck is NOT for children at ALL and they shouldn't be reading it

genuinely 😭😭😭 like im pretty sure theyre joking around but. i dont think its really that funny. i wouldnt want my children watching south park either and no amount of "animorphs also has violence" can change that

[sarifel-corrisafid-ilxhel]

The autism has gripped my BRAIN like a SPIDER MONKEY so yeah I'm gonna do a rewrite for animoprhs. I'm here because I have a question. Did they cut it from the first book that you could share emotions or something?

Hello! Elfangor's ability to share emotions and images was never retconned. He can still do that. We still don't know if Ax can, or if it's an Old Wise Andalite Trick that Ax is too young to understand. However, the scene where Jake is able to thought-speak out of morph was retconned and did not appear in later reprints. The only time the Animorphs can thought-speak as Humans is when they are in morph.

Good luck on your rewrite!

[horizon-forbidden-memes]

I know Seyka's cape is meant to be fish shaped but I can't unsee the moth wings

Made with the assistance of the Animoprhs Generator website

[novelconcepts]

Between Yellowjackets and Animoprhs you’ve been spending a lot of quality time with traumatized morally ambiguous 90s kids, huh? I’ve gotta give that series a read!

Morally ambiguous 90s trauma is my bag! Apparently. I do not know what this says about me, and I will not be looking closer.

For real, though, the 90s is such an interesting time to design these situations around cuz like. You have to work so much harder at communication, you can't just lean easily on phones or even the internet being what it is today, there was more of a sense of like...wilderness just to BEING a teenager out and about dealing with crisis. I think my youthful obsession with Buffy falls in a very similar vein. Just like. What if you were young, and horrible things were happening, and you've got the early vestiges of technology, but not in a way that can actually save you? (I also, y'know, am a 90s kid, so that's probably some of it.)

[cursedgaysuit]

I really want buttons to come back in the crews hour of need and turn briefly into his human form, animoprh style

[stitchwraith-stingers]

cupid the only time ive encountered animorphs was thru an old neil cicierega sketch video where hes in an interrogation room and the interrogator is explaining the animorphs lore to him. what do you mean this series is about the horrors of war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivQ9OU2B5so&t=8s also its aGood video i think you should watch it

WHAT do you mean niel had a skit where he discussed animoprhs lore . next im going to find out this man is also toby fox