#animorphs

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Keeping this around for the next time someone questions why the last Animorphs book is Like That.

by Laerte Coutinho

[dirtyhecker]

Animorphs might be the greatest book series ever written, tbh

[church-of-crayak]

like a year ago i made a concept for animorphs magical girls and last night i briefly picked it up again just to doodle princess jake. cassie is also here! sans magical girl uniform for now

[whiteratnothlit]

being a Tobias fan and an artist probably fucking sucks how do you draw hawks

[moonfrost-614-queen-of-darkness]

Warrior and Animorphs

not allowed to say Harry Potter, but what was your book series obsession as a teen

mine was definitely Eragon

[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

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Do you think Jake and/or Tom would like Captain America Winter Soldier?

Jake: On the plus side, there was a lot of really interesting commentary in that movie. All the stuff with the U.S. trying to justify itself by presenting the Soviets as inhuman monsters, while also hiring Nazi intelligence officers to teach them Nazi science, was so cool. And upsetting, but also cool!

On the minus side, they didn't show Falcon flying nearly enough. Also they should've stuck closer to the comics with Bucky's story. Like, I get why the movie makes the Red Room German and has them zap Bucky to change his personality. But the comic book story is so much more on theme! Bucky is this ultra-patriotic American soldier, then he loses his memory in an explosion, and then the Red Room tells him he's a Soviet soldier... and he immediately flips to being ultra-patriotic for the USSR, without his personality or ideals changing at all. It's creepy and nifty and way more interesting than him getting his brains fried with what some stupid Hollywood director thinks electro-shock therapy is.

Tom: So look. I may have missed some things while texting during the boring parts. But. Bucky came back from the dead? Then Zola came back from the dead? Then Nick Fury came back from the dead? Then Crossbones came back from the dead? I know this was a superhero movie, but for fuck's sake. At some point I was expecting the guys Cap shot to start popping back up 10 seconds later like nothing happened.

Also, was it just me or were parts of it, like, super homoerotic?

[slowburnhawk]

Okay, but this is so Animorphs/Rachel Berenson coded.

I don't think I could be trusted with shapeshifting powers bc I would just turn into a bear and attack things with my claws at any minor inconvenience. it would be my go-to solution for everything

[wickedlittlecritta]

the energy here is unparalleled

[zarohk]

Yeah, it’s clearly Animorphs.

magical girl transformation but theres no pretty lights or sparkles just grotesque and blood curling body mutation layered by the sounds of joints cracking bones snapping and muscles twisting unnaturally and she looks like a normal magical girl at the end

[hapalopus]

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