#but I also think the Elephants Foot is cool and I don’t wanna go near that either

[ceo-of-stealing-ur-fucking-teeth]

How are more people not afraid of the ocean?

Have you seen that shit???

We know more about space than we do like 70% of our own planet

We constantly are discovering new, terrifying things. We thought krakens were myths, and then one day scientists were like “wanna see a giant squid? Look, it’s tentacles have FUCKING TEETH!”

I follow an Australian on YouTube who wanders around the ocean in essentially a clear plastic Tupperware so you can see underneath, and I genuinely don’t know what’s worse; the vast, endless void of NOTHING or when there’s something down there. Like a shark. Or poisonous snake.

Everytime i think we’ve hit our peak of fucked up sea related bullshit, bam! It hits us out of the blue with a fucked up thing. Like a fish with human-looking teeth. Or another fish that looks like a rock and has some of the worst venom imaginable. Or an eel that can eat things bigger than itself so often that a common cause of death for it is that it’s stomach exploded. Or a jelly fish with tendrils longer than a blue whale. Or serial killer orcas. Or dolphins. Just, dolphins. Wanna ruin your day? Learn about dolphins. And that’s just the animals, let’s talk about water pressure and the bends and all that good shit because absolutely not babe. Why are you going down there there’s no need people die horrible deaths in the ocean. You can become water logged while still alive. Drowning in freshwater is bad I can only imagine how much worse it is in a vast salty void filled with crabs and who knows what else.

You couldn’t pay me to go near that shit. The closest I’m getting is sea salt and sushi, I’ll leave the actual ocean exploring to the mad lads who think it’s fun to play chicken with death, thank you.

[thenixkat]

Animorphs notes 3

Book 3

Narrated by Tobias. Getting all of the white kids out of the first I guess

Tobias forgets the color of his eyes after a few weeks as a bird. But he remembers that he had blond hair and was kinda big.

Tobi has also oly been looking at his bird face head on cause otherwise he’d notice how doofy his face looks

Dan’s not holding that hawk prisoner he’s just got shitty animal husbandry. If that 3 ft by 3 ft cage is the only cage he keeps her in. That could just be a travel cage dude uses for the filming for all the info I have and Tobi has already demonstrated that he over anthropomorphises animals

Also Tobi is gonna get that captive bird fucking killed with this Peta shit.

And he does something very unbirdlike infront of multiple people any of whom could be a controller.

And he nearly gets killed doing this.

Tobias is a dumbass that doesnt consider the consequences of shit.

Tobi she’s a fucking bird and there’s a fucking elephant destroying shit and humans causing a ruckus. She’s startled and startled birds fucking fly u numpty!

Rachel chews Tobias out for being a complete idiot and starting that stunt while on fucking air

Ya know what, Tobi’s descriptions of Rachel are starting to make me uncomfortable. And that plus his insistence of talking to Rachel on her solo mission every 5 secs probably means he has some creepy crush on her

Tobi don’t start on that shit you chose to be in morph far more than was safe, was warned multiple times of the time limit and got yerself stuck. Its not a curse if yer fucking responsible.

Applegate skips on the whole redtails also hunt smaller birds and that’s… weird

Tobi assumes that a human smiling when they see a bird means their jealous. Not that like, the person just fucking likes birds and nature and shit and is either going to or going home from a job where they spent hours in a bland cubicle looking at just a computer so hey a cool bird, they must be jelly that they cant fly.

I don’t like Tobias.

Why do the yeerk ships have clocking that hides them in ultraviolet as well when humans can’t see into that range? Wouldn’t it make sense just to cloak along the visible spectrum and save power and also cleaning bills from hitting so many birds and bugs?

Marco is valid.

Also betting that that released hawk is gonna be ded in the next few days.

Also why did Jake not get any info from Cassie on potentially what to feed Tobias? Why isn’t Tobias just fucking living at Cassie’s barn? She could claim that he’s some tame hawk that someone gave to her b/c they couldn’t afford to take care of him any more

Tobias why didn’t you bring up the thing in the sky to the whole group?

Is this brooding angst?

Also if Tobias has been eating random leftovers from Jake for weeks he should be sick as fuck.

Why didn’t anyone call Child Protective Services for Tobias’ case too?

Dead geese

Wolves were recently released in the nearby national parkl/woods

There are mountains nearby, and a coast near by, an abandoned church, a mall next to a construction site

Has Marco been in the mountains before?

Marco, yall only tried to rescue Tom once. That’s not everything you could do. Yall could just fucking kidnap him and fake his death and also tell Jake’s parents so they don’t do anything… rash

Tobias is kinda taking charge of this mission

Tobias doesnt like Marco

Its 20 miles from Cassie’s barn to the mountains

Cassie apparently dosent consider that female wolves might also fight for dominance

None of these kids practiced this morph beforehand even tho they know morphing something for the first time usually leads to some loss of control

Cassie can morph horse. There’s horses plural at her barn. They could have all become horses in the woods to travel the 20 miles then turned into more normal forest animals to blend in once they got there.

Every Time they morph my comparative anatomy classes start fucking screaming in anguish. The knees reversing is not nearly as bad as fingers shriveling and disappearing b/c somebody doesnt know fucking digitigrade limb anatomy

Morphing took Cassie 2 mins

Tobais is a hawkaboo

Alpha. Ick

Jake can’t control his morph and is triggering wolf shit in the others

They really should just fucking demorph and remorph.

Tobias gets frustrated and flies off to clear his head

Too fucking bad we dont get a first person view of turning into a wolf b/c Tobias got himself stuck as his fursona and had to narrate this book

Fake park rangers

No, I’m not going to believe that hork-bajir have T. rex feet b/c these kids know jack and shit about every kinda animal. Also zygodactyl feet make more sense for a tree climber, and would look lovely while kangaroo hopping

Tobias only notes blades on their heads, wrists, elbows and knees.

Tobi mistakes a random group of 5 wolves for his friends

These dumbasses dont demorph and remorph b/c they want to be wolves for the rest of their life

Taxxons are consistently described as fat centipedes

Tobias finds out his hawk body is horny for a lady bird

More misinformation on how wolf packs work

Idiots don’t display submissive behavior and back away to avoid a conflict. Or just flat out fucking run away.

SO the gang are able to demorph at least 7 mins past the two hours time limit. Cassie was in morph the longest yet is the first to finish and then helps the other morph with her coaching skills. Interesting.

SO how long can they really stay in morph? It takes Cassie 2mins to morph, they were at least 7 mins past the window. Cassie spent 69 mins in morph more or less, could she go longer?

Did lying to them about how much time they had left help? How much of morphing is psychological?

Owls can and would eat hawks. Tobias should be concerned about that.

Marco comes up with the idea to drive the alien tanker uncloaked over the city to alert the citizens

Jakes plan is to enter the ship through the pipes as fish. Why would there be a way to get into the rest of the ship from the water tank?

Rachel’s gymnastics group is doing a show in the mall

It bothers me that the kids and books don’t call Iness 226 by their name. B/c conflating the yeerk with their host is… not a good mentality to have

...birds can walk. Does Tobias think the only way birds can move is by flying? He can fucking run, it’d be a cute little flapping waddle but he can fucking run

Tobias loses control kills a rat, has a freak out and tries to commit suicide in front of Rachel. Is thwarted by Marco

Tobias goes feral to avoid his emotions

Tobias goes to see if the female hawk is still alive/maybe a booty call

Ya know I wanna know whats going on with the other animorphs while Tobias is having this crisis

It took Tobias a surprisingly long time to get past his shit and give a damn that a person was about to be brutally murdered in front of him

… how does Tobi’s eye attack work on the hork-controllers? AT what angle is he going to avoid the foot long horns and still hit the eyes?

You can totally hug a damn bird Applegate. People hug birds all the damn time.

Why don’t the two people with osprey morphs? Catch fish? Hell they could work together driving the fish into a net if they’d thought to bring a net.

These kids are so dumb. Marco? Cassie? Morph fucking ospery and see where the fish are!

Toboas gets distracted by the sexy lady hawk durring an important part of the mission

Andalite description: eyes on antler-like stalks, large main eyes, dainty hooves

Why is Visser 3 here now?

Plan gets 500% more dangerous and Jake and Rachel still push for it

Cassie sides with doing the plan over fucking waiting till security cools off and trying again when there’s less chance of death

The hork-controllers shoot a deer but not a bird going out over the lake multiple times

Hork-controller talking shit to a human-controller

Why is there a grate at the top of the water tank that leads in to the rest of the ship?

Tobias genuinely seems to think that there are voluntary hork-controllers given this and his comment in the first book’

Also I don’t like how Tobi keeps refering to non-human people as creatures. This shit probably happened in the other books but fuck it I’m noting it now

Heh. The kids can’t open the grate to escape and are plotting group suicide to avoid capture and infestation.

Its almost like trying to infiltrate a spaceship/tanker through the water take was a very very bad idea.

Tho is they had like mosquito morphs it might have worked

Taxxons can apparently climb like small bugs do.

Tobi steals a gun to kill the ship with

Tobi kills a ship with a gun

Random chance saves the animorphs again and Tobi is the only one to notice the humans falling out of the ship

…. Marco has an osprey morph not bald eagle.

Also! Bald eagles are fish eaters! Why didn’t Rachel morph to make fishing a little easier

Tobi sees the sexy lady hawk die

[kyetalksshit]

dream log: 7/7/2019

hey friends! i’ve had intense nightmares for the past two nights out of nowhere for the first time in ages, so i thought i should maybe record them! it also says a lot because it’s 8pm on 7/9/19 and i still remember the one from last night and the one before! so i’ll start with the previous night and record the one from last night in a new post. i’d write these in my book of shadows but i need to type because it’s SO much information. okay!

so, dream log for 7/7/19 (or however you wanna see it; like the night of the 7th, waking up on the 8th. ...okay. lol)

I remember I was hanging out with my brother for some reason. I was at his house and I guess I had my cat minnie with me, but honestly i don’t remember if i had her then as well, or if she just came in later. 

so timmy and i were hanging out, and i vividly remember him drinking a beer. eventually i had to leave, i believe the next morning, because i think i slept over. so i got up and went to leave, and some girl (was it courtney, his wife? or maybe it was a random person? lol i have no idea) asked me how to get back home to my house, hell maybe it was my little sister but she’s better at directions than me. i THINK i knew who it was in the moment? anyway.

i do remember that it was kind of weird; i had to go out the back door and go all the way around a corner for some reason and then i was right at the intersection that leads directly to my parent’s house. this is not even close to where his house is or what it looks like outside, but whatever. dreams are weird. 

i don’t remember if i drove anywhere, i feel like i got in a car? but then at some point i was talking to my mom and it was like a phone call except i could see her? and i told her that i had to go home and i’d talk to her later. we “hung up” and i walked away. 

next thing i know, i was walking outside and decided to sit in the middle of this field with long ass grass that kind of looked like wheat. it was bright out, literally like midday, and after a moment i started slowly sliding forward. it was like i had sat down on a conveyor belt but again, i was outside in the grass. it didn’t make sense but i wasn’t alarmed in the dream. a little surprised sure, but figured i’d ride along for a bit. i looked up to see what were supposed to be eagles but looked more like 3d renditions of the legal eagle cogs in toontown. one made eye contact with me, but it had two beaks, one facing in each direction. it only had one eye, and it was in the middle. kind of freaky, but again in the dream i was chill about it. 

the further i go along, the more animals i see. at first, they’re all running around wild in this field. i saw minnie at one point and i think she had come with me, so i was like “shit i should probably pick her up now that there are so many wild animals near us” so i stood up and scooped her up in my arms. she was chill, and we came to the end of the field. it was ended by this wooden bridge over the shallowest of creeks. it was a covered bridge, again all dark stained wood, but not like a roof, just boards coming up around and over, for aesthetic i guess. 

so i start walking through this bridge, and i see a baby lion just chilling on the bridge. i hold minnie a little tighter but have no panic in me, just smile and coo at it as i pass. after we exit the bridge is when i see this long sidewalk, starting about 500 feet to the left of in front of me (two cells; see explanation) and continuing so far to the right that i can’t see the end. it’s full mostly of cells, about as large as a bedroom but all metal and covered in bars, but all separated by about a foot. there are also trees covering where it seems to curve to the right. 

i don’t go to the beginning, but i do walk forward. there is an elephant or something similar in that cell, and i see some more animals, some in cells, some in the creek (and the small pond the creek starts turning into), and i can still see a few on the other side of the water playing in the grass. lots of baby lions, some giraffes, elephants, birds, etc. 

after i go down probably 7 or 8, i come to the bend, which is also covered by a weird covered bridge type thing but it’s not actually a bridge? the floor is metal, like those toolboxes on the back of trucks (very loud when you step on it, every step echoes and clanks), with solid white metal walls and a flat metal roof, but open on the other side. there was a raised portion that also looked like truck tool boxes but it ran the whole span of one side, and there was a mama lion and some cubs running around her. she watched me lazily (but also had a mane so? but i was just positive it was a mama in the dream so idk man, like she’d just had these babies) and did the little closing her eyes signal that all cats do, which means i trust you. i did it back, tiny minnie still in hand, squirming and trying to get down and play with the babies. i held her tighter by the chest, struggling to cradle her again, her legs dangling. we exited the metal bridge thing. 

after that, we’re on a dirt path. lighting is dim even though it’s daytime, threats of rain it seems like? this was just supposed to be a detour but i’ve been having such a good time that i want to keep going, see how many cool animals i can see, and maybe i can cut through here anyway, like when i exit i’ll be closer to home. i have a small feeling of dread but i ignore it, excited. there are bits of trash on the ground, like paper water cups ripped in half, old receipts covered in mud, that kind of thing. it’s ugly but i don’t think much of it. i keep going, see a few monkeys, nothing too crazy. i walk under another wooden bridge, much like the first one that led me here from that bright field. thinking about the first one is what makes me realize just how dark it’s gotten, even though again, it should still be about noon or so. certainly no later than 3pm. now i’m struggling very hard to keep minnie in my arms. i can’t let her go because there are lions around and things, you know? she could get killed or eaten, or i could get bitten trying to grab her, because after that inital row of cells, all of these animals are just roaming about. 

i walk through this wooden bridge and notice another young lion. not a baby, probably about a kid. it’s incredibly playful, pawing at my jeans, claws slightly out but again, playful. i’m gripping minnie because she’s scared. this thing is like up to my knee sitting down, and it’s jumping up on me, swinging at her tail. i’m trying to gather her together and hold her up a little out of its way, when i put one foot outside of this bridge. up ahead it’s bright again, but it’s still dirt and no more grass or flooring or anything, and there’s a very flimsy fence on either side of the path that is supposed to serve as cells. so like a square of fence, another foot down is another, and so on, on both ends. there’s a skinny tree to the right so i can’t see what’s in the right fence except that it’s massive. but to the left is a lion that...

picture aslan, like movie aslan from narnia. got it? okay, now multiply his size by 1000. motherfucker was literally big chilling, just standing there, lazily waving his tail outside of this flimsy, poorly built fence that was so small for him it was almost cutting into his skin, and literally not even his head, his BUTT was hundreds of feet taller than ANY building, ANY tree, ANYTHING IN SIGHT. Like god-level boss fight, you know? like the kind of boss fight that you only win with cheat codes and years of patience. 

it didn’t look at me thank god, but i immediately got scared and ducked back under the bridge, at which point that playful little lion started growling at me and hissing, jumping up the same way but no longer playful, claws out. i managed to swerve, holding minnie up like the lion king, and i booked it the hell out of that bridge. it didn’t leave the bridge which was odd, but i was panicked. i felt eyes on me and a sense of danger and minnie was FREAKING OUT. so i clutched her to my chest and started running. animals looked at me, puffing up their chests but mostly not moving to attack me or anything, and when i got back to the muddy area where there was trash, looking at the ground the whole time so i didn’t meet any animal’s eyes and accidentally challenge them, i saw a disturbingly realistic and gory baby’s head. just fucking severed and bloody and staring up at me, no body to be found. just a goddamn head. i started like scream-crying and ran faster, alarming the mama lion and causing her to hiss and bare her teeth and claws, standing on the raised platform with all her babies behind her. i stopped and fell back a few steps, but when she didn’t charge me and i felt like i heard another set of feet running up behind me, i pressed myself against the wall, ducked my head but kept my eyes up, and slid all the way out. she watched me intently but never attacked. 

i was stumbling over my feet, gripping my cat for her life and for mine because we couldn’t afford to slow down it felt like (although every animal seemed to stop at the end of their section, like video game enemies), and it took me AGES to finally, FINALLY get all the way out and through that first wooden bridge. my panic halted as soon as i was back in the field, but there were still like wild ostriches and lions and shit so we kept it safe and stopped running but kept speed walking all the way back up to where i’d been to start with. i made eye contact with the double beaked bald eagle again, but i don’t think it ever made a noise at me. once i was past that conveyor belt point (which again, never looked like anything was even there), i loosened my grip on minnie, held her up a little and kissed her, smoothed down her fur, and made my way back to my mom’s house, which was fairly close. i couldn’t go home after that. 

again, it was like we were on a phone call but in person, and i remember telling her everything that happened while i let minnie walk around the room since she had been squeezed in my arms for so long, and when i got to the baby head part, she just casually was like “that sounds gross.” and i was like “no mom, i mean it was literally...” and made a face and nodded at her, and she made a horrified face but suddenly one of her eyes was cocked to my right, and the other looked right at me and she like leaned in really closely. she didn’t say anything, she just leaned in and looked at me and her eyes got really... like vivid? like not like “oh weird dream eyes” like suddenly they looked REAL and like deep blue which is not what color her eyes are, and i woke up out of nowhere. 

fuckin spooked me too, even now remembering those eyes, i feel like they’re real. 

so yeah! nuts. if you even bothered to read all this, because again this was mostly for my records, holy shit how did you sit through it, and also what are your thoughts?