#animorphs read through

[rays-animorphs]

Coming back to #37 after a long hiatus.

I like some of the Rachel books but some are just really unpleasant for me. This is one of the unpleasant ones. Things are going to go Badly, I know they are going to go badly, I don't really like hanging around waiting for it to happen.

[rabbitsonthemoon]

You've got me reading the Animorph books, Tumblr. I hope you're satisfied. I hope you're happy. I hope you're moisturized and hydrated. You lil' shits. (affectionate)

[inkmaze]

animorphs will just drop a passage in a volume that will rotate in your thoughts for decades to come

[booty-uprooter]

cassie's moralizing would probably be less annoying if she didn't have a thirteen-year-old's conception of morality

[itstimeforstarwars]

I have not managed to get into any of these highly recommended Discworld books yet but every once in a while I pick a new one to abandon 30% of the way in just in the hopes that this will be the one that clicks with me.

[transingthoseformers]

You talked about SG quintessons being like the pemalites, and i want to hear more

This post might not go through because my wifi is absolutely fragged right now, but let me go bring down one of my Animorphs books, fuck I haven't touched these suckers (affectionate) in years

Now I'm gonna be using books 10: the android and the Ellimist Chronicals as references, as again it's been years, fuck it's been so long I missed the smell of these books.

Our first excerpt sets up our initial situation: the pemalites (and likely the SG quintessons) were a quite long lived race, just... loving life. Loving their own lives, and the lives of others. Just... a sweet race, imo the pemalites were the closest damn thing to an objectively morally good race. page 102 (10: the android)

Here's our explanation for why they made the chee (and, possibly a similar line of thinking for the SG quintessons?), page 103 (10: the android)

This just says what we've established again but i just wanted to show it. page 104 (10: the android)

Now this is also a part that majorly reminded me of what i can see the SG Quintessons having done, spreading life throughout the galaxy (carefully of course as to not cause invasive species. I suspect that, respectively in the cases of Ellimist and Quintus, they were taught quite well to avoid that.) page 181 (the ellimist chronicles)

Now i admit i still have a lot to learn about the baseline quintessons, but i feel like the SG quintessons in general would have valued peace and freedom, and that the self arguing we see in canon in SG can be depicted as far more constructive criticism rather than destructive. I'm ultimately fascinated by the setup the Quintessons have between their faces, and how they're ultimately parts of a whole.

... now, you can fully argue that the majority of their species went through an event/attack like the Howlers' attack on the pemalites (though, unlike the pemalites, i believe the sg Quintessons would be only pushed to the brink of extinction rather than fully succumbing to it).

[swan2swan]

I haven’t read animorphs in over 20 years, since I was 8. So genuinely don’t remember anything about it. What do you like about it?

My absolute favorite element of it is that it's a Time Capsule.

It's contemporarily-set sci fi adventure on a domestic scale set in the end of the nineties and the last years before 9/11 and the subsequent warmongering, xenophobia, mass surveillance, and economic collapse crushed everything. It's a book series, so corporations and studios can do a lot less watering-down than they would if it were someting like a cartoon, movie, comic book, or television series.

It's not just fiction, it's an actual window of history.

[rxttenfish]

its so so so so cool but a bit scary ironic wise that you’re reblogging animorphs fanart right after i got super into it and been telling everyone around me about it, cosmic animorphs sign LOL

COSMIC ANIMORPHS SIGN!!!!! this is an omen that everyone should Read/Re-Read Animorphs Now, Literally Now, This Is A Direct Order, Make 2024 The Year Of Animorphs

[chiropteracupola]

[sneaking back to animorphs to read another of the auxiliary books now]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE ANIMORPHS WENT TO THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT, WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME THAT THE ANIMORPHS WENT TO THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT

[lumi-lyn]

i think the moment the people in my life should have realized there was something desperately wrong and I needed help was when I wrote a 20 page term paper on the brutality of war as it was presented in Animorphs in senior year.

[curiosityschild]

Chapter one of book two of Animorphs - The Visitor - really left some uh permanent and visible changes on my psyche I think.

[rays-animorphs]

I think it’s not the end of the world that I read the hork-bajir chronicles kinda late and after having been introduced to Toby Hamee in idk 28 or whatever. But it’s definitely good that I read it before 34.

[hiimcanadia]

When I first changed my name to Tobias my mom was like "oh like the character from animorphs who got stuck as a hawk" which at the time led me (who hasn't read any of the animorphs) to believe that she had read the entirety of the animorphs. However I'm currently reading this amazing fic (which I highly recommend and which you do not actually need to know/ research animorphs lore for) and I was talking to my mom about all of the animorphs lore I had researched because of it and at some point she stopped me and went "apparently I did not read enough of the animorphs to get to the important parts"

[paksenarrion-dorthansdotter]

bunzzzzzzzzz

Bun-zah.

[itstimeforstarwars]

I have no idea where you're supposed to start with Terry Pratchett books but I'm halfway through Going Postal which is the only book that's managed to keep me reading so I guess I'm starting there.

[swan2swan]

“Somebody grab me a Laa-Laa doll when we’re inside, okay?” Marco said. “I really like that little yellow one.”

.....the...the Teletubby?