AnimorphsReaction

Reading all the books in the hit 90's series Animorphs while screaming about them here

[gros-chat-fait]

You mentioned Gravity Falls in your post about the planned Animorphs adaptation on Disney+ by the creator of Sinners.

So I wanted to ask you: how would you feel about an Animorphs/Gravity Falls crossover?

Would an Animorphs x Gravity Falls crossover look something like this?

Jokes aside, I'd not wish to put the Pines twins into the Aniverse, though I'm sure morphing and alien tech would be enrichment for them along the way (Mabel would love being a dolphin for real). But it would be fun to see the Anikids run around Oregon solving supernatural mysteries and dealing with Bill Cypher's shtick.

[sarifel-corrisafid-ilxhel]

Bill Cypher and The Drode compete to see who can be the more obnoxious reality warper while The Ellimist and Crayak look on like a pair of embarrassed parents.

[moldymeat]

Inside you are two wolves

[sarifel-corrisafid-ilxhel]

I only have the left side. The right side died of starvation after the umpteenth movie announcement. :C

[hapalopus]

animorphs is a book series

[hapalopus]

[the-clumsywitch]

[algrolo]

[algrolo]

[algrolo]

[blurchur]

Never let this die

[stevishabitat]

[lilacnothlit]

[susiephone]

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, 11x14

[cryptic-forge]

may i offer you a crumb of nostalgia? or a refreshing sip of vinegar?

some friends & i ended up talking about animorphs a while ago. at some point in the conversation i was explaining andalites to my partner who never read the books, stopped & went ".........you know what i'm gonna do?" to which people responded with "make an andalite bjd?" and yes. they were absolutely correct.

this also finally motivated me to sculpt a centaur body with more joints. i'm very happy with the range of motion in this, especially how nicely it lies down. need to work a little bit on stability, but the poseability is where i want it.

[blackheartbiohazards]

"I don't want to read this" is totally valid.

"This is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't want to read this because it is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

[blackheartbiohazards]

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

[spellscarred]

Bro, blocking someone and then using their tag like this is, all offence, weak as fuck. Like all you had to say was, na bro I don't promote pedo protags on this here blog, because I wholly agree with the premise of your argument given contexts (i.e., writing abusive relationships to show the evils, great; writing abusive relationships to show the romance, yikes).

This response is so, so comically shitty within the context of that tag, oh my god.

[blackheartbiohazards]

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

[blackheartbiohazards]

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

[blackheartbiohazards]

"Censorship of some topics in fiction and art is good and I would be happy if it were to be enacted in a way I approved of"

and

"some things should be banned from ever being written or read about in fiction"

are both authoritarian viewpoints to hold and express, even if you don't have the power to enact them.

If you hold these viewpoints you are holding authoritarian viewpoints.

[averageidiotenby]

DUDE IT’S PEDO FICS EVERYBODY THINKS THEY’RE NASTY

[blackheartbiohazards]

Let me explain this to you in simple terms.

Something being nasty is not a good reason to ban fiction about it.

If we accept that "something being nasty is a good reason to bad fiction about it" then we give a foot in the door for all the people who truly, genuinely believe that queer people are nasty to ban all queer literature.

This is not about defending bad people this is about defending the freedom of good people from tyranny, you moron.

[kawaii-pigeon]

I think if you take it to its logical extreme. Say, banning people from writing stories of sexual abuse. That could then be said "well ANY talk about sexual abuse is bad."

And from that, you could ban books that talk about it irl. Or books like how to recover after being abuse. If its not something to be discussed AT ALL.

[plague-of-insomnia]

The fact that I’ve seen this post in some form on my dash like 100x and each time there’s new idiots who do not get that you can’t have *some* censorship.

Either you’re for it or you aren’t.

The moment you agree that something should never, ever exist in fiction is the moment that anything can be banned.

Remember a while back how Tumblr banned a bunch of tags, including many popular innocuous ones that even people who are for censorship used and were upset about?

When censorship happens, stuff YOU like can and will be banned. That’s how it works.

Remember how a bunch of people had their accounts terminated here only last year for writing about their own sexual abuse?

When you ban “pedo” topics, say, any talk of child sexual abuse in any form, that means people can no longer write about their own experiences. It means people cannot educate others so they can learn how to protect themselves or get help from these situations.

Censorship is authoritarian. Full stop.

Even if “everyone” agrees something is “gross” and “shouldn’t exist,” that does not fucking matter.

Do you know who generally believes queer people are gross and shouldn’t exist??

The same people who are banning books left and right solely because they have queer characters or relationships.

The same people who attack and kill queer folk for simply exisiting.

This is not just some fandom matter or a case of being chronically online.

Protecting freedom of expression is essential, and if you do not get that, I don’t know what to say to you.

[scientia-rex]

And the people who keep bringing up child sex abuse as a reason for censorship are doing it very specifically because everyone feels like then they HAVE to agree with the person in favor of censorship.

It’s not that there isn’t widespread societal agreement on this. It’s that they want you backed into a rhetorical corner where you feel compelled to agree with them.

[ruffboi-mags]

Also, like, we KNOW how this shit shakes out in fandom because it's happened before.

In 2007, Livejournal capitulated to the "pedophilia and sex crimes!" cries of (hate group) Warriors 4 Innocence, and you know what communities got shut down? Slashfic communities. Sexual assault survivor support communities. Authors who'd written non-smut m/m fic even got caught up in it. It was DEVASTATING to fandom spaces. I think pretty much everyone knew at least one person whose account was literally DELETED, or were a member of a community that was wiped off the map because they were considerate enough to include topics like "sexual assault" or "BDSM" in the profiles under the badly-named category of "interests" to indicate that posts on said blogs or communities may include discussion of things like that. Even if it was for a SUPPORT group. And it was because a group of religious bigots came to LJ and said essentially "EVERYONE thinks it's gross and that it's promoting CSA, we should ban it."

Like, strikethrough and boldthrough were a large part of what propelled AO3 out of a more unfocused conversation on one person's blog about hosting a site INTENDED for fandom content, into being an actual archive and nonprofit. And it's a large part of why you won't find AO3 banning topics that you find "gross".

Censorship is authoritarian and it will ALWAYS have more collateral damage than you can imagine.

[nyxelestia]

Going to add that fiction which had sexual abuse and communities which played around with it as a writing topic are the very things that protected me from irl sexual abuse when I was a teenager. I was in a dicey situation, and realized that while my situation did not match up to any of the superficial or textbook cases mentioned in passing (if at all) through school, it matched up a LOT to what I'd learned about irl sexual abuse through works of fiction and the rhetoric of my communities. I got out of that situation and dodged what was, in retrospect, one hell of a nasty bullet. If it hadn't been for that "nasty" fiction and those "nasty" communities, I would very likely have been abused, and subject to further violence spiraling out from that abuse.

[benjis-house-boat]

you can’t have *some* censorship.

[fourcornersofcreation]

Censorship is authoritarian.

[carolofthebell]

I’m going to chime in from a fundamentalist Christian background where censorship had been the norm for decades.

Sexual abuse was widespread, usually marital, but not always.

Abuse THRIVES in silence, it is a key element.

When you have banished all depictions of abuse you hand the abuser free reign to control the narrative around the abuse and frame it however they like and the victim is left with no language to describe what’s being done to them EXCEPT what they’ve been told by their abuser.

[siriosa]

you cannot have "some" censorship.

censorship is authoritarian.

full stop. you want nazis? that's how you get nazis.

[sandmandaddy69]

[amnhnyc]

Do you ever feel like a wattle-necked softshell turtle (Palea steindachneri)? You are not alone. Found in parts of Southeastern China and Vietnam, this rare reptile’s carapace, or shell, can grow up to 17 in (43.2 cm) long. It inhabits freshwater pools and feeds on fish, insects, and small invertebrates. Unfortunately, this species is critically endangered and is threatened due in part to habitat degradation and being hunted for the food trade.

Photo: randall_f, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

[talesfromtreatment]

*very suspicious squinting*

Skepticism activated

So it's not a dire wolf (which are not very related to gray wolves at all), it's a gray wolf with 14 modified genes.

Like yes, the technology is cool and the advances impressive, but these claims of de-extinction are so fucking overhyped and in this case an outright lie that it makes me want to bite something

[talesfromtreatment]

From their own comments on reddit, they consider phenotype alterations to be the same as recreating a species. So their gray wolf with 14 modified genes out of tens of thousands "is" a direwolf because it looks a little different from a typical gray wolf.

"Recent" being 1.3 to 1.6 million years ago, with many specialized adaptations on the part of polar bears...

But also, how do they *know* they act like dire wolves????

So yeah, they've lost all my respect at this time.

[jordanlafordan]

[hapalopus]

In book #8 Ax says that "Humans have very odd tastes. They think their music is beautiful. They are wrong. It is awful. All of it." But we must keep in mind that Ax's human friends listen to Nine Inch Nails. However, in Megamorphs #4: Back to Before, Ax refers to Heartbreak Hotel as "an awful musical composition," so he dislikes rock n roll as much as he dislikes industrial.

In The Andalite Chronicles, Elfangor describes Honky Tonk Women and (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction as "screaming sounds" and "weird human moaning that passed for music" but he also says that "with the wind in my face, and the music in my ears mingling with the loud roar of the engine, I didn't feel so badly." So Elfangor clearly enjoys The Rolling Stones, to some degree, right off the bat.

Clearly Andalites don't inherently dislike human music, and they do know what "music" is. Neither Ax nor Elfangor say that music in general is bad, only that human music is bad. They may be particularly put off by human music because of how many mouth sounds it includes, which would naturally be foreign to a species that doesn't have a mouth.

[sarifel-corrisafid-ilxhel]

This reminds me of the time Ax says something to the effect of <I know you were joking, I just didn't think it was funny>, and how that (and his continuous use of dry humor and sarcasm) contrasts with the Animorphs thinking Ax has no idea what humor is.

I think Ax needs to listen to "Popcorn" from Music to Moog By.

[todaysbird]

it’s crazy how much diversity there can be in one species…these are all pictures of the same bird species (red-tailed hawk)

[todaysbird]

what they all have in common:

[misssquirrel]

The look of annoyance and utter disdain at the human exposing their wing pit.

[utah-mountain-drifter-deactivat]

Yes.

[weirdnaturalscience]

UNHAND ME FEATHERLESS BIPED

[inquissien]

Eel... with feet...

[inquissien]

Thank you all for liking the feel (feet eel) so much. I'm gifting you some more legged friends

[lilietsblog]

@elodieunderglass

[elodieunderglass]

They’re all perfect, I love them, tailor-made just for me!

[fryologyy]

i have tried posting this like three times now and every time the formatting has been horrendous so lets see if this one bites!

i redrew an Animorphs cover! it didn't take as long as i thought it would and i think it turned out super well! i had a lot of fun doing it and i think there may be more in my future :))

[mctreeleth]

I keep seeing the leather/pleather vs denim jacket poll over and over again with all different sorts of discourse about how there is no plastic-free pleather and like, that's TRUE, there isn't, but honestly I DO think people who don't want to use animal products* also deserve to look cool

and so my suggestion is that y'all google "waxed cotton jacket" or "waxed canvas jacket" plus like, "motorcycle" or whatever style you think is cool, because there's a plastic free leather-look material that is strong and durable and waterproof and doesn't use animal products** AND is plastic free already out there and some of the clothes that you can get made out of it look sick as hell.

*ignoring the fact that most leather is meat by-product that would be going to waste anyway

**except beeswax but if you're going to object to that then honestly there's no helping you

[mctreeleth]

waxed cotton looks so good and wears-in to a gorgeous patina and when it loses its finish you can re-wax it and that just makes it look even better and more patinaed instead of flaking off in horrible bits of microplastic leaving you with a ruined piece of clothing