The Dork-Bajir Chronicles

We’re a group of three friends talking about the YA series, Animorphs. If you want to know more about how the series holds up or just some gross animal facts, you’ve come to the right place. We've finished the series! All episodes available on Spotify.

[succulentul]

a comic about nothing in particular. happy pride. if you are trans i love you ❣️❣️❣️

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Been thinking about the animorphs series (been getting back into the audiobooks too), specifically how much would change or not change if Tobias has been trapped in the body of a female red tailed hawk all those years. I think Tobias would have at least become genderfluid, definitely genderqueer in some aspect.

As a fellow animorphs enthusiast, do you have any thoughts? Do you think it would have changed much?

Not really. I don't think Tobias cares much about the sex of his hawk body, and I don't think the other kids would talk about him as a girl if he was in a girl hawk, if that's what you mean -- they morph across sexes all the time and never have much to say about it except for that one time really early on that Marco complained about being a "girl wolf". Being a hawk is a radically different experience than being a human already, and I don't think that female hawkitude is any closer physiologically or socially to female humanity than male hawkitude is. I think the main difference, if Tobias had a female hawk body, would be slightly different teasing from Marco.

More illuminating re: Tobias' gender is his reaction to being in a female human body, which he finds to be an incredibly positive experience in a very pointed way. Also, his discomfort with his own human body, which can have a lot of causes (his shitty home life and the bullying will cause this regardless), but in combination with his reluctance to be a human boy when he has the option even in safe and supported circumstances and his reaction to morphing Taylor, is extremely telling. Tobias has a lot of indicators of being trans (I personally think of him as trans), but I don't think being a female hawk would have changed much.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I think a more interesting conversation re: morphing as gender fluidity is Rachel's tendency, when given the option to pick her own morphs, to target male morphs. She explains this as wanting the biggest animals and working from species where those happen to be male, but it's interesting that the Cheerleader Popular Girl who learns to react to stress with physical violence, a response somewhat acceptable in teenage boys but utterly unacceptable in teen girls in her culture, always indulges this stress reaction by turning into something male first.

[druidshollow]

happy 30th anniversary to animorphs <3

[cometcrystal]

the term "child soldiers" gets used a lot in regards to animorphs and they are soldiers that are children but i don't know if elfangor breaking the law and telling them to protect their planet before getting eaten counts as officially being enlisted by the andalites. if you wanna be technical about it, they're not child soldiers, they're children engaging in covert guerilla warfare without any official orders and they're better at this than the majority of the actual army that's allegedly fighting the yeerks because they're driven by soul-crushing pressure, responsibility, and guilt. which is immeasurably tragic for them and incredibly embarrassing for the andalites

[ozempicofficial]

[i-assign-you-animorphs]

Tags by @hydrado . I’m stealing this

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

when will they establish that "james bond" is like an intergalactic slug that possesses random british men every 5 to 15 years and uses its collected life experiences to go on spy adventures

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Iconic sexy spy dude looks like this

[sukimas]

"you should be at the club" i should be in the woods. performing the ritual.

[dragonfly-fandoms]

@i-assign-you-animorphs

[i-assign-you-animorphs]

Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill. And perhaps Tobias

[lakesbian]

i genuinely love that the way k.a applegate resolves the issue of needing the alien on the team to be able to drop plot crumbs without totally solving everything for the human kids is by making aximili-esgarrouth-isthill a jock who only tangentially paid attention to when his teachers were explaining, like, the andalite equivalent of how to find the cosine of a triangle, and now he's in an astronomically rare circumstance where the fate of an entire species depends on him remembering how to do that. and he's cold sweating trying to recall the answers to homework problems he didn't do. and also he's always lying.

[lakesbian]

ax is literally experiencing like if you got teleported back several hundred years and everyone was expecting you to explain the precise mechanisms of how cell phones work to them and if you don't come up with a sufficient explanation they're all going to die. And he's not enjoying it.

[lakesbian]

every day this happens to ax

[cometcrystal]

rachel coded text posts from pinch rest

[kaftan]

animorphs does not get enough credit for its innovation in the field of platonic willing-manipulation dynamics… making peace with being used, using your friends right back, doing it because it’s the only way, doing it because you’re desperate, doing it because you love them, accepting it when and because you trust them, accepting it when and because you don’t trust yourself… strengthening your connection through it like a really disturbing friendship bracelet… loving each other fiercely in and between these moments, caring so, so much for each other, seeking each other’s company to laugh and play and rest... ignoring the weight of it when you can, feeling it full force when you can’t, wearing you down, wearing you down all the time, just another pane of plexiglass separating you from notions of normal, living in that violent dissonance, your whole adolescence in it.

[storm-of-feathers]

story? what story? this is a slug domestication simulator

[dragonfly-fandoms]

@i-assign-you-animorphs

[i-assign-you-animorphs]

Lol Yeerks

[church-of-crayak]

andalite homeworld panorama that started as a warmup and ended up serious

[mercifulmother]

– Animorphs: The Reunion, K.A. Applegate

[dyk-tv-theme-song]

Visit Original Link

Do you recognize this TV theme song? #560

I know this and can name the series

I know this but can't name the series

I might know this

I've never heard this

Voting ended onMay 10

[dyk-tv-theme-song]

Series: Animorphs (1998-2000)

Composers: Craig Hazen, Julie Dansky, David Wolfert

[chromatographic]

Opinion time!

The TV show sucked, especially in comparison to the books. Middle School me was *devastated*.

However, this theme song *fucks*.

About 3 mins after this dropped a friend sent it to a discord and pinged me ✨️Specifically✨️, and I cackled

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Being an Animorphs fan has made me so critical of the Phantom Thieves' opsec. What do you MEAN you're doing whole-group meetings in public that included a victim of your first target for the first incident and then added a victim of your second target for the second incident. What do you MEAN you're carrying the cat to school every day. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE OPENLY COMMUNICATING ABOUT YOUR CRIMES VIA TEXT MESSAGE.

[uniquecrash5]

What I'm hearing is that the Animorphs kids had great opsec

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Not really but they did a million times better than these idiots. They obeyed strange and esoteric principles like "never say anything suspicious over the phone or in writing" and "don't immediately form a tightknit friend group with your fellow child soldiers in public immediately after becoming a group of child soldiers, enemies could be watching anywhere" and "do not ever, in any circumstances, at all, discuss the war in a location where you might be overheard".

Admittedly they did occasionally do stuff like "claw our way out of a predator's stomach in the middle of an enemy base/event", but usually they were too covered in alien guts to be identifiable, and the one time they were clearly identifiable the enemy who saw them turned out to be a pacifist alien dog robot who was on their side, so like. Not too bad for fourteen year olds.

[andhumanslovedstories]

I truly enjoy how much Animorphs is like “here are our young heroes, each with a distinctive trope to fill in the group!” And then it makes you watch how the pressure of each person’s role grinds them to dust. And also they have homework.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#IM SORRY THEY DO HOME FUCKING WORK IN ANIMORPHS??????

Yeah they're students. If they don't keep their grades up or if they miss too many classes (or miss classes at suspicious times) then they risk drawing the attention of the faculty and/or their parents, some of whom are the enemy and some of whom can just make future espionage a whole lot harder. There are multiple missions where they're like "okay, this is incredibly time sensitive but it'll take a full day or longer so it has to wait for the weekend and we'll have to all lie to our parents about sleeping over at each others' houses. It's gonna have to be done at the last minute because we've gotta go to class. Also, remember to get that English paper finished, we can NOT afford to have you grounded right now."

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

They also get disembowelled and/or eaten a lot

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#animorphs#its actually devastating i bever got into these#they wouldve been a million times more up my alley wtf was i reading harry potter for

It's not too late. You can still read them.

[cheerfulomelette]

These have been out of print for an age, and the authors have given their blessings to share the PDFs. Here's everything, including companion/side books and the non-canon Alternamorphs books, in reading order:

Animorphs PDFs : K. A. Applegate : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

All of the Animorphs books by K. A. Applegate, as well as the other books set in that universe. I got them here. I am not the one who collec

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#Im sorry can we circle back to the disembowelment for a second im not over that

Oh they get disembowelled so so often. Especially Marco. Marco gets diesembowelled, Jake dies in alternate timelines, and Rachel blacks out for ten minutes or so only to come back to herself surrounded by the torn-apart corpses of her enemies with her teammates screaming at her to retreat before the building explodes or collapses or whatever. They have their niches. They all get eaten alive often enough that you can't really pin that one to a specific animorph.

Jake did get crushed as a fly that one time and his organs got smeared everywhere and all his friends (also flies) had to carry him somewhere safe to demorph before his brain died but it was hard because the legs they were holding kept getting torn off his mangled body, making him very difficult to carry, which personally I think is Marco injury territory. But like. They've all gotta take occasional actions to avoid tight typecasting so Jake can have a little Fly Dismemberment as a treat.

[cloudabserk]

WARNING do NOT start reading books and comics or watching movies or looking at art!!! you will start wanting to create art yourself. or god forbid. writing.

[cambriancrew]

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

I haven’t read animorphs but everything I see about k.a applegate makes her seem like the coolest person alive