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So I was reading the Animorphs books as they came out, I was one of those middle schoolers who read the first few volumes and lost my mind. My friends and I continued to read them, anxiously waiting for the next book and then talking about it in the breaks between classes and squealing about spoilers for whoever was furthest ahead. Around the time after the first multiple choice book came out (I distinctly remember reading that) I came to a realization.
This is a war story. It wasn't going to be pretty, it wasn't going to have a happy ending.
I saw it coming, she was not at all subtle about it. I knew it was going to be long and drawn out, that we were going to watch the good guys (the undeniable good guys, which really doesn't happen in a real war, yes not even with the nazis) get ground down as they bled and were maimed over and over to barely scrape by with half victories. That these kids were going to be ragtag guerilla fighters trying to keep their home from completely succumbing while waiting for backup that was likely to never actually come. I don't know if that's the actual ending because...
I struggled with that for a bit, then dropped the series.
I knew it wasn't for me. I was just a kid back then, I think a freshman in high school? We were watching Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z and Justice League (Unlimited). My friends were starting to get bored of the series too, it was to them a lot of just status quo. The heroes were trying their best but weren't really making any meaningful changes. I'm not sure if I was the only one who had the "there won't be a happy ending" realization, but I think we all felt it.
So I found the letter that the Animorphs author and trans ally K. A. Applegate wrote after the series ended and I’m FLOORED
I mean
#animorphs#her letter isn't at all surprising#the fact a bunch of kids didn't have the experience to see that ending coming is also not surprising
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I ran this poll before, and based on the results and reblogs, I see that I made some mistakes by not including certain series (forgive me, I was ignorant). I looked over the tags from the previous poll, and to get a better gauge of truly what book series people enjoyed the most when they were younger, I offer you an updated poll. Wish I could have included more options, but I'm limited to 12.
#everyone can shout for joy now because i included#warrior cats#animorphs#as well as#lord of the rings#and to those of you that I slighted i did not know of animorphs but i do now and i'm very confused#also added in#tamora pierce#inheritance cycle#so let's try again#percy jackson#harry potter#twilight saga#series of unfortunate events#chronicles of narnia#hunger games#books#book series#novels#ya books#young adult books#mypolls
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ANIMORPHS IN THE BIG 25!? YESSS!!!
I’m currently still working on more DHMIS art, but I have loved Animorphs forever so I wanted to post something related to that on here.
these are a few of my character designs, Rachel, Tobias, Cassie, and Ax!!
(Someone please hire me to make the rest of the Animorphs graphic novel series I’m begging you 😭🙏)
#art#artwork#animorphs#cassie animorphs#rachel berenson#tobias animorphs#ax animorphs#dhmis#digital art#animorphs fanart#yoobeeee
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Animorphs be like
I just found the greatest gif of all time on deviantart
prepare for your mind to be blown
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my trans animorphs headcanon is that elfangor should be a girl, and her humansona would be elle fangor
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Animorphs books be like
Page 1: I am a child soldier. My every waking moment is defined by fear and paranoia. My dreams are full of unprocessed trauma. The fate of the entire world rests on me and my friends. I failed my geography test because I do not know the difference between Equator and Ecuador. Also, I'm really hazy on the difference between geography and geology. Again, the fate of the world rests on my shoulders.
Page 13: <Now THAT is a sexy monkey>
Page 26: *The dopest animal fact you've ever heard*
Page 27: Do you know about thermals? You do? Too bad, I'm going to explain them again.
Page 36: *fart joke fart joke 90's pop culture reference barf joke*
Page 40: Rachel kills someone with her bear hands. Not a typo.
Pages 3,15,16,25,26,30,33,37,40,44,46,50,55,56,57,60: TSEEEEEEEEEEEER!
Page 47: I willed my bones to melt faster. If there was a single bone in my body in the next ten seconds, everyone I ever loved of cared about would die an excruciating death.
Page 50: Funny alien thinks he's people.
Last page: *The gang goes to Burger King to avoid thinking about their war crimes*
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ANIMORPHS
not allowed to say Harry Potter, but what was your book series obsession as a teen
mine was definitely Eragon
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Most sci fi/fantasy: this civil war has been waged for a thousand years. These great houses have ruled the realm for eight thousand years. These two families have been feuding for ten thousand years. This single political institution has stood for twenty-five thousand years.
Animorphs: there is a war waged across the galaxy, waged by countless species. Entire planets have been conquered, entire species have been enslaved. Multiple genocides have been committed, even by the "good guys." It's been going on about, oh, thirty-two years now.
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so like, what if you were the last surviving animorph but it's been canonically established that you still had your best friend's DNA in your body
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The reason Animorphs works as a deconstruction of the kid hero archetype is that it comes at it from a place of respect for the genre, and for the children reading it.
It never denies the kids agency, because it is a book for children, who want to read about children being given agency. Animorphs doesn't treat its child soldiers as victims the way a story aimed at adults would. They are full agents within the story who make moral choices. The fact that they are children is treated as a tragedy, but it's not treated as something that absolves them of any responsibility.
It plays by the rules. These kids are the only people who can save the world. They cannot trust the adults in their lives. It just takes that story—the story it's telling—seriously.
The message of animorphs isn't actually of "isn't it fucked up that this book I read when I was a kid sent a twelve year old on an adventure" it just uses its take on the kid hero genre to get across the actual message, which is War Is Hell
#animorphs#like you know those posts that are like#i as an adult villain would NOT throw hands with a ten year old#it's like. well you see#i think you have maybe missed the point#that ten year old IS in the context of the story. The equal of the adult villain#anyways that's not the animorphs take
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If you want some companion listening, I highly recommend the podcast "Morph Club", which goes through each book one by one and talks about the plots, the themes, and their feelings about them as adults.
There's also "Fandalites", which I have not listened to, but one of the hosts is Jenna Stoeber, so I really should now that it's been a few years since I listened to "Morph Club".
I truly enjoy how much Animorphs is like “here are our young heroes, each with a distinctive trope to fill in the group!” And then it makes you watch how the pressure of each person’s role grinds them to dust. And also they have homework.
#animorphs#THAT'S ANIMORPHS BAYBEEEEE#“What if a bunch of middle schoolers got wartime PTSD”#it's great#morph club#fandalites
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hear me out, everyone in animorphs who is NOT given a last name has the last name berenson
That would be Cassie, Marco, Tobias, arguably Rachel... heck, maybe Ax has extra name(s) we don't know about.
All Berensons.
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the energy here is unparalleled
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Okay I know this isn't the thing that should surprise me here but the ten year old in me is overjoyed because this post just taught me that KA Applegate is a woman.
Can’t believe Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice in the 2000s
And in 2015 Emily Brontë released literary clsssic Wuthering Heights
Thank God someone paved the way for them…
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