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Hey guys! Long time no see! I'm sorry for disappearing, but i started a new tumblr with the intent of deleting this one, but there's so much stuff here too.
I currently use @ryvern as my tumblr main! It's a general Fandom one but I'm cultivating a new Animorphs sideblog as we speak. Hope to see yall soon! I'll post my new Animorphs blog both here and on my main above.
I am now @aftran-take-the-wheel !
Hey guys! Long time no see! I'm sorry for disappearing, but i started a new tumblr with the intent of deleting this one, but there's so much stuff here too.
I currently use @ryvern as my tumblr main! It's a general Fandom one but I'm cultivating a new Animorphs sideblog as we speak. Hope to see yall soon! I'll post my new Animorphs blog both here and on my main above.
Official: I’m sorry, Mr. Berenson, I can’t let you apply for a marriage license. The record states you’re already married.
Jake: That’s impossible! To who?
—
Marco: Okay, here’s the thing; they had just legalized gay marriage and all of the sudden I was really worried that they wouldn’t let me see you if you were in the hospital because we’re not related—
Jake: So you forged my signature on a marriage certificate???
Marco: Is it technically forging if it was genetically your hand?
Jake: We’re getting divorced right now.
Marco: Funny thing about that… they forgot to legalize gay divorce.
Jake: Marco. You can morph. Are there any situations, AT ALL, where hospital staff could keep you out of my room?
Marco: Dude, of course not.
Jake: Marco.
Marco: It was funny?
Jake: Marco.
Marco: Fine, I also used it to do a bunch of wedding cake tastings. Are you happy?
Jake: NO. I want to eat a bunch of free cake!
He was applying to marry Marco ANYWAY
I’ve been rereading Animorphs, and a friend made me this meme when I was commenting “more than anyone these kids need so badly to be able to say fuck”
I love how Avatar perfectly balances "the kids are going to save the world!" with "which is pretty fucked up, actually."
Wisdom in the tags.
Just saying, you guys would eat up Animorphs
Andalite 1: How many noses do humans have again?
Andalite 2: Uhhh. They've got two ears and two arms, like normal, but only two eyes and two legs... so I think probably two?
Andalite, emerging from changing room with three and a half noses: So this is too many?
Andalite 2: Well, now I don't know, that looks pretty normal for a human, too.
The Changing Room is, as you may have guessed, where they keep the DNA cocktails that you can use to morph a unique human.
One thing I’ve never exactly understood. Why did the victory on Earth in books 53/54 correspond to a total victory over the Yeerk Empire? Most clearly, we never see the Council of 13 get defeated.
Short answer: Eva.
Long answer:
This is all kind of background to the main plots of the books, but. What we know happens is something like this.
The yeerks try to take Leera, under Visser One's leadership. They meet andalite resistance, leeran resistance, and Animorph resistance — ultimately they fail (#15 - #18).
V1 gets reassigned to Sleegab Five. Not many details, but it doesn't go well. Doesn't help that Marco has been actively discrediting her within the Empire (#30).
V1 gets rereassigned to Anati (#30).
Toby et al. launch a resistance on the Hork-Bajir Homeworld (#34).
V1 gets tried as a traitor (thanks, Marco) and slated for execution (Visser). V3 becomes V1. This corresponds with the Empire withdrawing from some failed attempts to take other planets.
Eva (after being rescued; thanks Marco) points out that the Yeerk Empire has few territories outside of Earth that aren't being occupied by andalite counter-invasions (#45).
Andalites have occupied Yeerk Homeworld, Taxxon Homeworld, and Sleegab Five, taking them back from Yeerk Empire (#46). Eva knows that the yeerks are trying to convince the andalites that their focus is on Anati, and that their actual focus is on Earth.
Ax persuades Andalite War Council that yeerks are concentrating on Earth, which is a mixed blessing — it gets the andalites to head for Earth, but they plan to annihilate it when they arrive (#46).
Yeerk forces further concentrate on Earth (#51). Eva speculates that they now have 0 other planets, if they've lost Anati.
Jake, Toby, and Eva plan to blow the biggest yeerk pool on Earth to convince the yeerks "Earth isn't worth their time". They know they're making the yeerks some other planet's problem, but need to prevent the andalites from wiping out humanity (#52).
The yeerks are so overcommitted to Earth that blowing the yeerk pool has the opposite effect. New!V1 instead lands the Pool Ship on Earth and throws everything at an open Earth invasion (#53).
Eva, Jake, Arbron, and V17* conspire to both draw andalite forces to Earth and conceal that fact from new!V1. Now all the andalites' and all the yeerks' eggs are in the Earth basket (#53).
Jake corners V1 and forces him to surrender. V17 reveals to the Empire that the andalites are here, and plans to use that chaos to escape with a splinter group. The andalites accept Jake's handing over the Yeerk Empire (#54).
Rachel kills Tom, preventing V17's escape.
Ax and Alloran manage to negotiate Earth remaining independent, even as the andalites take control of the Yeerk Empire.
@andalitebonsai #I've always thought the so-called yeerk empire-- a presumably smallish breakaway group from the occupied homeworld-- was always shaky#they overextended in what feels like desperation#they never had a homeworld to go back to they never had a safe base they were kind of planet hopping in an attempt to find one#and they really never did. Love seeing all of this laid out
Yessssss there's this whole other question — that I wish had been explored in the nonexistent Yeerk Chronicles — of whether the yeerks have the option to stop fighting and go home. Because it might be the case that the andalites rule the Yeerk Homeworld, and the yeerks have literally nowhere to go but Earth.
Like, if the Empire is just a militant faction of a much bigger society, then Jake is right that "They could have just stayed home. No one had asked them to come to Earth... Not my fault, theirs" (#53). If the Homeworld is occupied and/or uninhabitable, then that doesn't take away Earth's right to defend itself but it does mean that the 17,000 yeerks he murdered were innocent and might have been not soldiers but refugees.
One thing I’ve never exactly understood. Why did the victory on Earth in books 53/54 correspond to a total victory over the Yeerk Empire? Most clearly, we never see the Council of 13 get defeated.
Short answer: Eva.
Long answer:
This is all kind of background to the main plots of the books, but. What we know happens is something like this.
The yeerks try to take Leera, under Visser One's leadership. They meet andalite resistance, leeran resistance, and Animorph resistance — ultimately they fail (#15 - #18).
V1 gets reassigned to Sleegab Five. Not many details, but it doesn't go well. Doesn't help that Marco has been actively discrediting her within the Empire (#30).
V1 gets rereassigned to Anati (#30).
Toby et al. launch a resistance on the Hork-Bajir Homeworld (#34).
V1 gets tried as a traitor (thanks, Marco) and slated for execution (Visser). V3 becomes V1. This corresponds with the Empire withdrawing from some failed attempts to take other planets.
Eva (after being rescued; thanks Marco) points out that the Yeerk Empire has few territories outside of Earth that aren't being occupied by andalite counter-invasions (#45).
Andalites have occupied Yeerk Homeworld, Taxxon Homeworld, and Sleegab Five, taking them back from Yeerk Empire (#46). Eva knows that the yeerks are trying to convince the andalites that their focus is on Anati, and that their actual focus is on Earth.
Ax persuades Andalite War Council that yeerks are concentrating on Earth, which is a mixed blessing — it gets the andalites to head for Earth, but they plan to annihilate it when they arrive (#46).
Yeerk forces further concentrate on Earth (#51). Eva speculates that they now have 0 other planets, if they've lost Anati.
Jake, Toby, and Eva plan to blow the biggest yeerk pool on Earth to convince the yeerks "Earth isn't worth their time". They know they're making the yeerks some other planet's problem, but need to prevent the andalites from wiping out humanity (#52).
The yeerks are so overcommitted to Earth that blowing the yeerk pool has the opposite effect. New!V1 instead lands the Pool Ship on Earth and throws everything at an open Earth invasion (#53).
Eva, Jake, Arbron, and V17* conspire to both draw andalite forces to Earth and conceal that fact from new!V1. Now all the andalites' and all the yeerks' eggs are in the Earth basket (#53).
Jake corners V1 and forces him to surrender. V17 reveals to the Empire that the andalites are here, and plans to use that chaos to escape with a splinter group. The andalites accept Jake's handing over the Yeerk Empire (#54).
Rachel kills Tom, preventing V17's escape.
Ax and Alloran manage to negotiate Earth remaining independent, even as the andalites take control of the Yeerk Empire.
@andalitebonsai #I've always thought the so-called yeerk empire-- a presumably smallish breakaway group from the occupied homeworld-- was always shaky#they overextended in what feels like desperation#they never had a homeworld to go back to they never had a safe base they were kind of planet hopping in an attempt to find one#and they really never did. Love seeing all of this laid out
Yessssss there's this whole other question — that I wish had been explored in the nonexistent Yeerk Chronicles — of whether the yeerks have the option to stop fighting and go home. Because it might be the case that the andalites rule the Yeerk Homeworld, and the yeerks have literally nowhere to go but Earth.
Like, if the Empire is just a militant faction of a much bigger society, then Jake is right that "They could have just stayed home. No one had asked them to come to Earth... Not my fault, theirs" (#53). If the Homeworld is occupied and/or uninhabitable, then that doesn't take away Earth's right to defend itself but it does mean that the 17,000 yeerks he murdered were innocent and might have been not soldiers but refugees.
SPACE TOILET
“that character is a war criminal” that character is from a fictional fantasy world and did not attend the geneva convention
Another W for Animorphs! The series ends with them actually being tried at the Hague for breaching the Geneva Convention. The Animorphs are found not guilty because they won the war. They resent the court for not punishing their numerous human rights violations and mass murders.
It's funny the disconnect between things that actually fucking happened in 'Animorphs' versus what people who've never read them think they're about
Honestly we need more series this scathing in their critique of the Hague, but I also get that not everything (or literally anything) can go as hard as Animorphs.
The war crime accusation is during a yeerk Visser’s trial, to spread blame around, and the Animorphs never even get put on trial (which they think is so messed up!)
There also remains the question of whether a civilian resistance against foreign invaders is even capable of committing war crimes. As far as I know, that's never been decided for two reasons:
1.) The universal right to self-defense grants significant leeway to fending off foreign invasions. Just how far that goes has never been formally determined.
2.) Civilian status. The Geneva Conventions only apply to professional militaries that are signatories of the Conventions. The Animorphs are most certainly not military, and they weren't operating on behalf of the US government, so the US government's signature on the Conventions doesn't apply here.
However, I'm almost certain the fallout from the Yeerk invasion of Earth would lead to a Fifth Geneva Convention, so things the Animorphs got away with might be illegal going forward. As the saying goes: It's not a war crime the first time.
Andalite design for a tattoo 👽
Andalite design for a tattoo 👽
i’m re-reading animorphs, a series i loved when i was a closeted young child, as a queer adult and feeling a little insane over it actually. like ok so. imagine you are just a normal regular kid until one day, a chance encounter with an adult unlike any adult you've ever met before abruptly changes who you are as a person, and suddenly you are not like other kids at all. and now you have to fight a secret battle for survival, but you cannot tell anyone around you about it, because many of the people around you harbor a secret violent hatred for who you are, and if you tell someone without realizing the person you're talking to is one of the people who hates you, that person will either put you through horrific harm to make you like them or just outright kill you. this is true of every single person around you—your parents, your siblings, your friends, your teachers—except for a few other kids who you know share your same secret.
and now you have to try to maintain close relationships with the people you love even though you cannot tell them who you really are, who you spend your time with, who you go to when you're not with them. when you see your secret companions in public, you have to try to pretend you barely know them, because being seen together too often could lead to suspicion. you are enduring consistent ongoing trauma that you cannot talk to anyone about because anyone whose job is to help people through trauma may also be one of the people who wants to kill you. also you're a shapeshifter. like yeah ok i wonder why so many people who were obsessed with animorphs as a kid turned out to be queer
the weird matrix world that elfangor, loren, and visser three make together is one of my favorite concepts in all of sci-fi. i mean come on, it's just such a good story prompt on its own: three different aliens are trapped in a mish-mash dimension made from their own imperfect memories of home. it looks familiar on the surface, but when they give in to that familiarity, they find that some pieces of it are missing and other pieces are just wrong. there may or may not be some greater power responsible for creating this world, and the only chance they have at escaping it is through a time vortex at the world's center, which would displace them from home temporally as well as physically. you could make an entire story out of unraveling this place. it feels like an scp horror story and i mean that in the best way possible.
which of david's potential fates would have been the least horrible outcome:
trapped as a rat and abandoned on an island
left behind and captured by the yeerks
the animorphs bite the bullet and actually kill him instead of the rat thing
(i'm not factoring book 48 into this but you can if you want)
I love when friends that know you’re into animorphs send you one of those parody book covers with random shit on it. It’s like… oh honey… I appreciate you thinking of me. This is not relevent to the series and therefore holds 0 interest for me but I love you
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