#animorphs

[i-assign-you-animorphs]

And if I said Elfangor…

is THIS your man? [shows an image of a malnourished injured exhausted man with big sad eyes looking up at the camera with blood smeared all over his face and mouth. and he is visibly trembling]

[pencilnewt]

nobody stopped me from doing this when they had the chance (in fact i was encouraged) and now i’ve created something terrifying

[kooldewd123]

the animorphs: well, we don't really know what this ellimist guy's deal is, but it seems like he knows what he's doing so i guess we just gotta trust him

meanwhile, the ellimist in fuck-off black hole land:

[fanonical]

if i was an animorph i'd totally be tempted to sneakily acquire my friend and morph them. not to be creepy, just to, like, impersonate them to their parents or something for fun

[i-assign-you-animorphs]

Do I even have to say it?

1. A dog is full of joy

[tomberensonsghost]

Marco: Heeey, I got that cool new bug morph that everyone's been talking about. *morphs*

Cassie: That's a spotted lantern fly. They're invasive.

Marco: What's that mean?

Rachel: It means it's going to be even harder to resist squishing you.

[victusinveritas]

[brothermouse-skeleton]

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*

[benevolentfalcon]

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.

[cobaltegg]

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

[carlandrea]

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

[i-assign-you-animorphs]

Tobias & the Ellimist

[wickedlittlecritta]

the energy here is unparalleled

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Related note, it's my personal onion that whenever anyone morphs they get a bit plural. It's them and the animal. There's two identities piloting one body!

That is so valid. Marco says in MM1 that the gorilla mind has never fallen out of a spaceship before, "so this was a new experience for 'both' of us." So yeah, makes sense to me.

[jessbeingjessie]

Honker Chronicles

so...what if I started a tag list...for once...

MINES THE DOCUMENT GAY I'M CRYINGGGGG 😭😭

anyways @choppedsouldreamer @x-minxyyy-x @prometheus2007 @cookiecat-7388 @colatheartz69

I refuse to suffer alone.