it's such bs that the whole guilt-ridden stoic self-sacrificing martyr thing doesn't work outside of fiction. repressing all your emotions and neglecting your physical wellbeing should make you god's most tragically beautiful morally unassailable little soldier of righteousness but all it does is give you bad skin and gastrointestinal problems
like what do you MEAN the number 1 sexiest character trait of all time is just kind of offputting and bad for you in real life. next you'll tell me smoking has consequences other than looking like a mysterious badass
important reminder that most people you follow online are significantly lamer than you think they are including me. and if you feel insecure comparing yourself to someone online: DON'T. theyre probably also lame and weird. most people on the internet are
saw this on Insta and the idea that people who are anti-AI are just using it anyway like... willing to give it up? I ACTIVELY AVOID THAT SHIT BUD! WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT?
ALSO
It's not as if this shit has been around SOOO LONG. We all existed JUST FINE before this shit became THE THING someone decided to shove in our face like...
Hm. Rachel is morphing elephant but that doesn't really narrow things down much. The tag line, however... Is this the rabies book? (scrolls down to table of contents, sees Marco chapters) Yep, rabies book.
Ooh, yeah, mass production of portable Kandrona would be a problem.
Why disguise the factory as a Dunkin' Donuts?
Does anyone ever react to the Helmacrons with anything other than an eye roll and exasperation? No one seems to consider these guys a serious threat at all even with some very impressive shrinking tech and the ability to track morphing energy.
Did we know that a deal was made to let the little cretins use the cube then get off planet? I mean yeah I didn't assume Cassie ate all of them but I figured it was "go or I will".
"This is so Magic School Bus." Yes. Yes it is.
"I may be more useful up Marco's nose." A sentence I'm sure Ax never thought he'd say.
"But shrinking... I couldn't undo this on my own. In a very real and spooky way, my life was in Marco's hands." Her fears tend to have a lot more to do with loss of control, I've noticed.
"Telling Rachel about the dream where she begged me to marry her." Yeah better to save that for when you're too dead for her to murder you.
"Each one of us had had at least one major close call." Try a thousand.
"Something about being inside Marco makes me feel like a Yeerk."
"Soon I was exhausted from flapping my wings, up and down." Y'all have seagull morphs stop doing birds of prey when you're gonna be doing a lot of flapping.
"Get in the snot!" Another one for the list of things they never thought they'd say.
"I felt strangely abandoned. Weird when you consider three people, a Bird-boy, an Andalite, and a bunch of Helmacrons were holding a convention in my sinuses."
"And, like Rachel, sitting tight was not my thing." You certainly give her grief for it enough.
How fast does it take for rabies to become symptomatic? Cuz this feels awful fast. (checks) Yeah this is pretty fast.
"The insipid aliens fell into our crafty trap!" These guys are so dramatic.
"Four had already entered Marco's bloodstream as calmly as I would step onto an escalator at the mall." Yeah, these guys are categorically nuts.
Probably should've wondered about this way back when it happened, but we know that the kids' morph sizes change with their base size. So does Cassie now have a GIANT giant anteater morph, since she went from miniscule to normal while it had normal size?
"For all we know, Visser Three put the Helmacrons up to this foolish scheme." Your worry is understandable, kiddies, but then V3 would know you're human already. So they're most likely not already working with him.
"Imagine a drug addict awash in a sea of drugs. Ax anywhere near a Cinnabon." Having fun with those shark instincts, clearly.
"I'm not much of a sightseer. Generally, sightseeing put me in a tedium-induced rage. This was different. I was happy to be a tourist, especially if it would keep me from going cannibal."
You guys should probably worry a bit about the spiky germ thing.
Another for the weird things they never expected to say: "Follow that red blood cell!"
"Marco was often annoying but never stupid." Awwww.
"Please tell me you're not going to be imitating the Helmacrons for the next two months."
Figuring out why he did the crazy thing and sitting on the information is a little mean. But I get it.
I've read this one twice, I think. Both times I found it a very confused read and, especially with having just done Megamorphs 4, a strange spot in the series.
"Lose everyone, or lose two?" Chapter 1 and Jake already in the horrifying trolley problem nightmare.
The lot of them need like 10k hours a piece of EMDR.
"Just how long would it hold?" Yeah it's pretty clear the team is going to fracture at this point, isn't it?
"I'd gone crazy. And this was my padded cell."
"Hey, Essak-Twenty-Four-Twelve-Seven-Five!" I don't think we've ever seen a string of numbers 6 digits long on a Yeerk name, before, have we? Gives a horrifying idea of just how many of them there are in this particular hellscape.
Why would you give Jake's body to a hotshot scientist?
"When a Yeerk slug slithers through your ear canal, when it melds and flattens into every crevice of your brain, you know it's happening." You didn't, but in fairness, that was mostly the concussion.
"A world with Andalite-Controllers is no world at all."
Imagine the place for refugees being in Taxxon-infested tunnels.
"The cuffs, somehow, vanished." Yeah so weird wonder how that happened.
Interesting that Cassie is speaking with her own voice while infested. Niss must hold quite lightly.
"The Yeerks want the moon." Don't we usually consider that to be asking too much?
"There was a time when I'd encouraged her recklessness." What's with the past tense? You still expect her to do that.
"I'd been too ready to use the others, especially Rachel." Yeeeeep.
Shouldn't Cassie be unmooring this bad timeline? Like we were told she could do literally a book ago?
Esplin as the emperor sounds like a nightmare for everyone, not just the free races.
"How could I obliterate the chance that Kandrona would forever taint Earth's surface with its malignant rays?" Gonna be real, shooting an energizing beam at the moon to make it a mini sun sounds like a bigger problem. Planets near suns aren't habitable.
"My host used to work for the ACLU and he just won't shut up about how I'm infringing on his rights."
"You have to understand that I really didn't think what I was seeing was real." It's not. Probably. I don't know, this book is very confusing.
"Too much convergence. Too many life lines intersecting."
"I focused... And the impossible began to happen." Why would having your morphing power be impossible?
"He's not Andalite! It's impossible!" Dude, hearing that should absolutely prove something is very Wrong here, because if catching the Animorphs was the turning point, they would know about the Animorphs.
"Dream? Reality? Can you tell the difference?" Apparently not for it to take this obvious an error to clue him in.
"And in my mind, her wounds chronicled my failures as a leader."
Whoops, morphing gone again.
This sunny place sounds very similar to the basement of Erek's house.
"The Yeerks raise children in large warehouses back in the city." Factory farming at its worst.
"I'd decided a while back to give up analyzing what was happening to me and why." Since it's all as disjointed as a dream that's understandable.
Not really sure what there is to say about Tobias-as-Ax/Elfangor.
Yeah thought speak out of morph is weird. I say as though anything in this book makes a lick of sense.
On reread, gonna have to stick with my original assessment. It makes no sense and having it right after Megamorphs 4 was a bad choice. If they wanted it to count for anything, we'd need to know something about that mystery voice before the timeline was repaired.
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