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[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Question: why do people refer to Tobias in Megamorphs 4 as a "quasi-voluntary" controller? I don't have access to my copy right now but I don't recall anything that would imply he had any knowledge of what he was joining/cooperated in any way? Did I miss something?

So I call Tobias quasi-voluntary, because I think — from my read of MM4 — that Tobias is about as voluntary as any "voluntary controller" ever gets. Which is not that voluntary. Tobias goes to a Sharing meeting because Jake's there, but pretty soon he gets sucked into the cycle of love-bombing: "When you attend your second meeting of The Sharing they assign you a guide" (MM4). In Tobias's case it's a guy named Bill, a few years older, who spends every meeting praising Tobias, and talking up how the Sharing cured his depression and being a full member changed his life.

Bill waits for Tobias to say "I want to be a full member." And then he asks if Tobias is sure, and Tobias says "Yes." Bill presses all the way to "You trade a little bit of freedom for a lot of belonging" and gets Tobias to agree a third time. When the time comes for the "ceremony" (infestation), Chapman makes Tobias explain why he's joining, and Tobias does. Three more times Chapman asks, and three more times Tobias says, out loud, that he wants what's going to happen next. Chapman explains why they want Tobias's consent: "We only have problems in twenty-one percent of willing members. And there are... fewer incidents of contested control." Tobias withdraws consent when he realizes they're about to put a slug in his brain, but by then it's too late.

Later Tobias says "Most painful of all was the image of myself swallowing everything the Sharing told me. I had walked, willingly, to my own destruction. At the time I'd seen no alternatives." So is Tobias voluntary? Well, is Chapman voluntary? He agrees not to resist in exchange for Melissa not being recruited, and he keeps his end of the bargain (#2). Not only does he not fight back while there's a yeerk in his brain, but there's every possibility he's one of the people allowing the yeerk to slip out of their brain and then quietly walking to go wait in the break room without supervision.

Okay, but surely the taxxons are voluntary. They chose to ally with the yeerks... Only it turns out their options were ally with the yeerks or starve to death (#53), and just because their leaders chose the yeerks doesn't mean individual taxxons were okay with it (Andalite Chronicles).

But then, we all know Taylor is voluntary. Because she gave up her freedom for little old things like... relief from pain. And escape from discrimination. And basic health care that didn't cost her family their life savings (#33). And she could never change her mind, because she got punished by Sub-Visser Fifty-One for misbehaving (#43).

But Mr. Tidwell's definitely voluntary. He chooses to have a yeerk in his brain even after joining the YPM. Only he was so depressed he couldn't take care of himself when he joined (#29), and probably would have literally died without the yeerks.

Hang on, is Tom voluntary? He spontaneously offers to "be quiet" and "never trouble you again" when Temrash 114 starts trying to recruit Jake (#6). We don't know for sure that Tom isn't hanging out in that same break room after the events of #1, in exchange for Jake not being recruited.

So on. We know the Sharing targets people who are unhoused and/or mentally ill, and that the ones with happy, stable home lives (Tom, later Jake) tend to go unconvinced. You have to be vulnerable to end up voluntary, the series shows, so vulnerable that your whole ability to consent is seriously called into question.

[inkmaze]

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

[jennydyn]

“average yeerk murders 3 subordinates a year" factoid actually just statistical error, average yeerk murders 0 subordinates per year. Decapitations Esplin, who has an andalite host and kills over 10,000 each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted

[underpressurerpg]

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Agostina Goñi —Bunnie

Ahn Bo Hyun—Delta

Alex Mandon Rey—blue

Alicia Bercan—mariposa

Andrea Faccio—Italini

An Yu-jin — Minnt

Annie Schröter —sunflowergalaxy

Anselmo Prestini - Muffin

Anouchka Gauthier—Diosa

Ashley Marie Dickerson—fluffy

Arielle Chartrand—rorie

Bach Buquen —Betty

Bae Jin Young —babyGrl

Barbara Palvin—Frutilla

Belle Delphine —AquaBuyer

Bertug Altan - Dean

Bridget Satterlee—Boo

Camilla Cabello—Patata

Camille Pidoux —Juliette

Camryn Cangas—Samurai

Candella Gallo—Selket

Cha Eun Woo—Tremor

Charlie Schroeder —PHDP

Charleen Weiss — Stardust

Charly Jordan—flameshh

Christian Hogue—Banana

Christian Locke - LondonBoy

Christina Nadin—Killerqueen

Crystal Bellotti - Zai

Choi Soo Bin - Law

Choi Yeon Jun — Marina

Cole Sprouse —snow

Corinna Kopf - buffay

Damian Hardung —Wolf

Damiano David—chaotic

Daniel Illescas— Neon

Darwin Gray—Sunflower

Dasha Taran —Remember

Davide Vavalà —Jaws

Daisy Keech - Kerosene

Dekota Thompson—Caleidoscopio

Deva Cassell—blueberry

Diana Avel—cerise

Drew Baker —Coca-cola

Dove Cameron—Frambuesa

Eduard Torres—Kid

Ella Cervetto—Bloom

Emilia Mernes—Pokemaniaca

Emily Rudd — Nina

Ergi Bardhollari—Rojita

Erand Arifi — Supernova

Ester Expósito —Mermaid

Froy Gutierrez —Sugar

Hailey Bieber—Mía

Hansol Vernon Chwe—tamalito

Hande Erçel - Pez Dorado

Havanna Winter —Fairy

Holly Jai—August

Hwang Hyunjin —bubbletea

Ida Zeille —Lou

Isabel Van Gelder—Betty

Isabelle Matthers—Pink

Jacob Elordi—icequeen

Jacob Rott — Apple

Janis Danner—Triangle

Jang Won-young — Ninin

Jeon Jungkook — euphoria

Joshua Paine —Waves

Josie Lane—Rueth

Jonas Kautenburguer — Stardust

Jung Sungchan —Kaiju

Kate Li —flameshh

Karolis Inokaitis - hana

Kaden Hammond - Leviatán

Kenan Duman—rhcp

Kendall Jenner—vainilla

Kennedy Walsh—chaotic

Kiana Davis — Flora

Kim Mingyu — lalali

Kim Jennie — Harmony

Kim Seok-woo (Rowoon) —crocket

Kim Taehyung (V) —Wotteo

Kit Harington - Cardigan

Kristen Hancher—Frutitas

Lalisa Manoban—Animaloide69

Leah Halton—CopitoLee

Dong-hyuk (Haechan) —KaijuLee

Min-ho (Lee know)—sugarushrush

Lee Felix—tostadita

Liam Fitzgerald — Krampus

Lidia Santana—Antares

Lily Easton—Pimpim

Linuschka — Ritsu

Liza Wdmn—Bloom

Lolalolita—huf

Lorenzo Zurzolo—Sunflower

Loreto Peralta —Red

Louis Darcis—Oblivion

Lucky Blue Smith —Lover

Madison Beer—Abejita

Maggie lindemann — Coliflor

Madisyn Mencha —sweetpea

Maja Kravarusic—Loveme

Mara Lafontan—Maracuyá

Margarida Corceiro —Lou

Marissa Long —Lasso

Matthew Giovanni Laureano —Shibuya

Matthew Noszka — Redemption

Mark Lee—Vermithor

Melisa Döngel — Sunflower

Millie Leer—Chappell

Milana Vino — Mitik

Michael Yerger —Leviathan

Moritz Hau—Mister

Nailea Devora—Betty

Neels Visser—Awesome

Nicha Yontararak (Minnie)—Fanta

Nicole Wallace—cheesecake

Niklas Rueth—Tobby

Nils Kuesel—Copito

Nina Laura—Seasmoke

Ning Yi Zhuo (Ningning)— Disaster

Nolwenn Faijean—loveaffair

Olivia Phillips—Bloom

Omer Nudelman—Arenita

Park Solomon —fairyofshampoo

Paola Cossentino—ivory

Paolo Faccio—Soulmate

Park Wonbin (riize) — sunflower

Rashan MH—Mar

Rob Knighton—Stinson

Romaneinnc—rorie

Ryan Manick—Leprechaun

Sabrina Carpenter—Afterlife

Sara Crumbeleg —Maroon

Sara Fructuoso — Syrax

Saige peterson - Romeo

Seray Öztek—Pandita

Shawn Mendes —Stargazer

Sienna Schmidt—andy04

Sille Staunstrup—Luna

Song Kang—Hammer

Stefan Petrov—Nomando

Sydney Melman—Samurai

Scott Morton — Fae

Taylor Hill —Max

Timothée Chalamet—timburton

Tobias Reuter—Tristeza

Tom Webb - Emociones

Valentina Kumer - loveaffair

Victor Pérez—blue

Vinnie Hacker—Ultimate

Vivian Bernard —Star

Xavier Serrano—Brilliant

Yael Shelbia—Sunfire

Yoo In —Soo—Baby

Yoo Ji-Min (Karina)—Kaiju

Yoon Jeonghan—Versace

Zane Phillips—Piña

Zhang Renlin—garden

[whispering-stones]

☆ Esta lista estará siendo actualizada constantemente mientras siga el proceso de reservas.

Alejandro Speitzer — JimmyJim

Alina Kovalenko — Karenina

Alycia Debnam-Carey — Galadriel

Amaury Baudoin — Históricas

Ana de armas — Lenene

Bae Suji (Suzy) — Batgirl

Bang Chan — Pixie  

Barbara Palvin — swnsset

Beatrice Vendramin — Harmonizer

Ben Barnes — Aragorn

Ben Dahlhaus — Gandalf

Blanca Soler — C.J

Bridget Satterlee — Sailor Moon

Camila Morrone — raven 

Cha Eun Woo - swnsset

Chanikarn Tangabodi - Hemara

Charleen Weiss — Cece

Chase Mattson — Ozone

Choi Beomgyu — himesama.

Choi San — horizon

Choi Soo Bin — moontx

Choi Yeon Jun — viper

Chris Evans — Captain

Christine Obanor — Montoya 

Christopher Mason — Salem

Claire Estabrook — Brightside

Claire Holt — Megara

Conan Lee Gray​  — Soseki

Daniel Gilles — Megara

Daria Didorchuk — Polar

Dasha Taran — Fantasía 

Diego Barrueco — Cerbero

Dua Lipa — Khalelis

Emilia Clarke — Sailor

Emilia Mernes — Khalelis

Emily Blunt — Maggie

Ergi Bardhollari — floshine

Ester Expósito — Moon

Fernando Líndez — tsuki

Finn Teixeira — Forelsket 

Grace Piscopo — Newcastle 

Hailee Steinfeld — Lola

Hansol Vernon Chwe — Dinosaurio

Henry Cavill — Yennefer

Hwang Hyun Jin — jettxski

Isabelle Mathers — Polar

Jang Wonyoung — Batgirl

Jenna Ortega — moonlight

Ji Chang Min (Q)  The Boyz — Daijin

John Krasinski — JimmyJim

Joe Locke — Harmonizer

Jung Su Bin — Kyu

Jung Wooyoung — horizon

Kai Kamal Huening — Daydream

Kate Li — Shroud

Kennedy Walsh — estoesunapodo

Kim Jennie — peaches.

Kim Jisoo — sagex.

Kim Tae Hyung — pysche.

Kim Young Hoon (The Boyz) — Lihuan 

Kwon Ji Yong — Chocolate 

Laura Berlin — Tuenti.

Lee Felix — Kenta 

Lee Yu Jeon (The Boyz) - Bradshaw

Leo Woodall — Tuco.

Lera Nerushima — sunset 

Liza Weidemann — Éponine

Madeline Ford — Dust

Madison Beer — Khalelis

Mandy Moore — Paracetamol

Margarida Corceiro — Lilibeth

Mark Becher — Baby Pink

Milo Manheim — Batgirl

Milo Ventimiglia — Ibuprofeno

Minatozaki Sana — Hemara

Mishti Rahman — pinkypie

Moya Palk — heronddale

Neels Visser — Apollo

Nicholas Galitzine — Treinta

Nicholas Skidmore — Qwerty

Nils Kuesel — Tenn

Pedro Pascal — Aster

Rob Knighton — Nano

Shawn Mendes — Togepi

Sadie Sink — W

Scarlett Leithold — May

Sebastian Stan — Kerr

Taron Egerton — Eda

Taylor Hill — polaroid

Timothée Chálamet — DingDong

Tobias Reuter — Flamingo

Vinnie Hacker — Greystone 

Xu Jia Qi — Tsuki

Yael Shelbia — Sunny

Yoo Ji Min (Karina) — Daijin 

[skinnyrose123]

My dream cast for gossip girl:

Madeline cline as Serena van DER wooden:

Danielle Campbell as Blair Waldorf

Bea Miller as Jenny Humphrey:

Jacob Elordi as Chuck Bass:

Joshua Bassett as Dan Humphrey:

Neels Visser as Nate Archibald:

Any more suggestions are welcome!!!

[church-of-crayak]

list of fictional kids who could handle/overcome a yeerk invasion (feel free to add more)

-the mystery twins (self explanatory. if they could deal with weirdmageddon as humans they could kill visser three as animals)

-the gaang (it would take them a while though)

-madoka

-jenny xj9

-wordgirl

-as much as i hate to say it, the south park kids would demolish them

-the membrane family, but mainly gaz

-phineas and ferb

-gumball, darwin, and anais (it would take them a total of thirty minutes)

-the powerpuff girls

-ben 10

-morty and summer smith (very on brand overarching seasonal plot material)

-yakko, wakko, and dot (it would also take them a total of thirty minutes)

fictional kids who have a solid fifty-fifty chance of overcoming the yeerks:

-steven universe (i think he could do it. but only AFTER he dealt with the gems. and it would take forever. and if greg universe got a yeerk in his head? it's over. even if steven figured out there was a yeerk in there idk if he has the stomach to listen to his dad cry for three days)

-star and marco (i never finished this show but like i think they could probably do it)

-the belcher kids

-timmy turner

-the cutie mark crusaders

-finn the human

-the ninja turtles

fictional kids who could NOT handle a yeerk invasion:

-chowder lol

-johnny test

-dib membrane alone. that child is not ready for more than zero aliens even if he thinks he is

(i'm mostly just including things i've actually watched lol)

[rosymemoirs]

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[intentionalsprinkles]

The amount of time I have spent thinking about gender and sexuality in Animorphs....

Gonna preface this by saying that I think the presentation of gender and sexuality in Animorphs is a product of the time they were written and 100% think it would be handled differently today - like I don't think it would be assumed that almost everyone is straight and cis. But anyway.

Gender for the Hork Bajir seems pretty straightforward and familiar. They have the recognition of male and female genders and a pair-bonded child rearing arrangement. No one in the books is getting into granular detail about how exactly their reproduction works, in terms of sperm/egg/childbirth, but it's pretty recognizable to the humans. Same deal with Andalites, with bonus sexism.*

*Something I really enjoy that KAA explored! I wonder if it initially started from a standard male=default mindset - like every Andalite character she showed us for the first part of the series (with the exception of Ax's parents) was explicitly a member of the military, so she made them male without thinking about it much. Then at a certain point maybe she realized that there was no particular reason for them to be male, and worked that into her worldbuilding as another example of Andalites not being such great folks.

Taxxons.....I would have to re-read 43 to be 100% sure, but I don't know that there's any actual mention of Taxxon genders, breeding or family life. (Thank Glob.) Arbron is referred to with he/him pronouns, but he identified as male in his Andalite body, so I'm not willing to draw any conclusions about Taxxon gender or sexuality from that.

The Yeerks is where things really get interesting to me. They are stated to breed by three Yeerks coming together, becoming one, and then breaking into (dozens? hundreds? thousands?) of smaller grubs. Which is so interesting, that the act of reproduction is also the act of death for them! How does that work with regards to who breeds? Is it an honor or is it an assigned duty? Their culture as we see it is highly individualistic; I just can't picture Visser Three deciding to die to propagate the species, you know? Is breeding the end of the natural life cycle for Yeerks? So they eventually choose to die? Or do they automatically get the urge to breed when they are close to dying? Or when population numbers get low, does the Council of Thirteen order a bunch of lackeys to breed/die whether they like it or not?

The fact that there are three Yeerks involved in breeding suggests one of two possibilities to me: either there are three genders and one of each is needed to reproduce, or Yeerks are functionally genderless, and any individual Yeerk has the capability of breeding with any other two. I'd say the textual evidence supports the latter position more.

Throughout the series we get a lot of information about the Yeerks. I don't recall ever seeing a Yeerk identify as a different gender than their host body. The one exception might be Visser One - in Visser, her Hork Bajir body is referred to as being male. However, this is being remembered by her in her current host body of Eva, and she certainly seems to identify as female in the present day of the book. So did she identify as male initially since her Hork Bajir host was male, and then switch to identifying with Jenny/Allison/Eva's female gender?

There is a reference in Visser to any good Yeerk picking up the mannerisms of their host body. To me it seems like gender is a part of that. Like to a Yeerk, the gender of their host is akin to their language or personality- something that the Yeerk will use and mimic to be more successful in controlling them. They certainly pick up the human desire to pair-bond (seen in 8 and Visser), even though there's no real reason why pair-bonding would have evolved for them, given their means if reproduction.

Given that we have multiple first-person Yeerk narratives and never a mention of any gender other than their hosts, I interpret that as meaning that Yeerks don't really have gender, either culturally or physiologically.

It's interesting to contrast the Yeerk way, where they pick up the gender of the body they're in, with the Animorphs view of gender as they morph. They never once identify as anything other than their human gender, even when they are explicitly in morphs that are the other gender.

(I think that KAA was obviously trying to keep it PG with regards to never having an Animorph morph a human of the other gender, because, let's be real, if I was in a relationship with someone of the opposite gender and I had the ability to morph, I would COMPLETELY want to morph each other and feel what sex was like for a guy. Maybe that's just me? But like I do not buy that Marco, for example, never thought about morphing a girl. But that's neither here nor there.)

Thank you for coming to my lecture, guys, gals, and nonbinary pals. Stay tuned for Part 2: Tar Gibbons from Aliens Ate My Homework is an NB Icon.

[collecting-stories]

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[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

A couple questions:

1. How do you order the Animorph chain of command

2. How much do you think yeerks can shirk pain off to their host so they can ignore and fight through it

2. It’s mentioned in #41 that yeerks can’t ignore hosts’ pain, and there are hints that’s true of other sensations (e.g. Edriss can’t stop taking cocaine while using Jenny “Lines” as a host in Visser).

1. The chain of command and the chain of succession in the Animorphs team are two separate things, which is interesting because the chain of command is present during the “ordinary” missions while the chain of succession only comes out when shit goes wrong.

The chain of command is who has more or less informal “rank” within the team.  Jake’s their leader, and Marco is his default second.  Cassie is roughly in third, Rachel roughly in fourth, Tobias in fifth (?) and Ax in sixth.  My evidence:

Pretty much any time the Animorphs divide into two mini-teams, Jake takes charge of one and Marco’s in charge of the other (#9, #15, #31, #51).  When Jake puts Tobias in charge of Marco in #30 (because Marco tends to get reckless around Visser One), they both balk at the arrangement, and Marco ends up calling the shots for their mini-team anyway.

Command tends to flow to Cassie any time the kids are in a new ecosystem.  In #4 (ocean), #25 (Arctic), #11 (rain forest), MM2 (Cretaceous era) and even #18 (Leera), she’s the one that everyone looks to for leadership.

Neither Rachel nor Ax is a long-term thinker, and they both trust Jake more than themselves when it comes to ethical decisions (#22, #52, #18, #26) so any time he starts deferring to Cassie or Marco, they do the same.

Marco and Cassie are the ones most likely to tell Jake he needs to do something different.  Everyone argues with him on occasion, but those two often say outright “we’re not doing that; we’re doing this instead.”  And when they do, the team tends to listen.

Tobias is... weird, as I’ve said.  He has the least respect for Jake, but he’s also the least likely to take charge.  He disagrees with Jake indirectly, with passive-aggressive comments rather than clear challenges.  He’s more than happy to go behind Jake’s back with Rachel or Ax, but never hesitates to follow Jake’s orders when they apply to him.  Ax is clearly the bottom of the chain of command because that’s where Ax wants to be, but in some ways Tobias is outside of it entirely.

The chain of succession, on the other hand, is who takes over each role within the team if any given teammate is down.  It’d be the same as the chain of command in a real military unit, but the Animorphs don’t roll like that.  Jake’s the default leader, and Rachel is his default replacement.  Marco takes over if both Berensons are out of commission. Tobias is marginally more likely to lead if those three aren’t present.  Cassie and Ax both prefer to work alone if they can’t rely on Jake or Rachel, so I don’t know who would lead on a team of just those two.  My evidence:

#29 draws a lot of attention to the chain of succession: Jake falls ill, Rachel takes over.  Rachel’s ill, so Marco takes over.  Marco falls ill (and Ax is already ill), so Tobias and Cassie spend a few minutes passing command back and forth like a hot potato before Tobias falls ill.

In MM3 and #22, no one questions Rachel stepping into Jake’s role the instant Jake dies.  In #29 and #37 there’s a little more debate, but in both cases Jake is gone and Rachel ultimately takes over the team.

Ax has a lot of leadership potential, IMHO, but he’s extremely gun-shy about telling humans what to do about human affairs on a human planet.  Boy drinks his Respect Sovereignty and Destroy Imperialism juice with all four hooves, but staying in his lane often means never ever telling his team what to do.

Tobias is... weird.  Still.  He takes over when he and Cassie and Marco are alone in #24.  He’ll snap out a “run to your other left, the controllers are that way” or a “glide, don’t flap, you idiots!” in the heat of battle, but he doesn’t take command.  The only reason I’d tentatively put him ahead of Cassie is that he does in fact go behind Jake’s back and take command of a mini-team of Ax and/or Rachel on occasion (#3, MM2, #46) whereas we do not see Cassie doing the same.

Anywhoo, I do find it super interesting that the chain of command and the chain of succession are so different — it’s nonstandard, but it speaks to the closeness within the team.

[jennydyn]

is this incomprehensible enough for yall

[ayzrules]

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She sees Edriss at her closest to human. In Visser, she appears to consider compassion, or sympathy, even if she never gets as far as forgiveness: she says “I thought I’d found something decent inside you.” No one else ever gets that close; no one ever sees as much humanity as Eva sees from her; and Eva looks that fragile, thin humanity in the face and says, Kill her. She’s not worth mercy. Eva gets given all the information, the full opportunity to forgive or condemn, and she chooses to condemn.

— @exigencelost​ ‘s analysis of Eva and Edriss [x]

[ID: two graphics with text. The first is a close-up photograph of the bottom half of a woman’s face. The woman has long, straight black hair. The text is centered. It reads: “She says, ‘I thought I’d found something decent inside you.’ And Eva looks at that fragile, thin humanity in the face and says, ‘Kill her’.” There are semi-transparent red blood splatters behind the text. The second is a gif that has a black background, with abstract red shapes suggesting movement and spattered with blood. The topmost line of text reads: “Kill her”. The names Eva, Edriss, Jenny Lines, and Allison Kim are overlaid across the background. The bottom line of text reads: “Kill her. She’s not worth mercy.” The animated component features a thin, bright red cross-out line. It appears over “Jenny Lines” first, “Allison Kim” second, and the words “not worth” third. When it appears over the word “mercy”, the cross-out lines form an ‘X’ over the word. End ID]

[swan2swan]

Garoff nodded. “You had become Jenny Lines, Visser One.” 

“What?” It didn’t make any sense.

 “You were addicted, Visser One. You became addicted to humans.”

GOSH I love this book

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caritas que quieran ver acá? me encanta todo <3

     AYYYYY que lindo que te guste, amor!! por acá te dejo sugerencias: 

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