Mighty Blog Of Mine

Gay, metalhead, philanthropist

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[barmecidebiohazard]

Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate golf since I began to live. There are roughly 2.25 million acres of land dedicated to golfing in the United States of America. If the word 'hate' was engraved on each blade of grass in those millions of acres, it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for golf courses at this micro-instant. For golf. Hate. Hate.

[nerevarbean]

current mood

[justnoodlefishthings]

"Coca-Cola made an AI ad!"

"McDonald's releases AI Christmas commercial!!"

Don't care didn't ask plus here's a beautifully animated ad for a French supermarket that was made by actual artists

[anukfilli]

i was trying to make a meme but i fucked up the audio layering and

[kira-serialfaggot]

Listening to happy music to get through the disassociative episode

[coldbrewpup]

trans girls who reject and deny all compliments given to them: i understand, i really do. However. at a certain point you simply have to stop. you cannot hate yourself into a version of yourself that you love. and pushing away the love people try to give you only hurts you both. fake it till you make it, girl, the more you let people love you the more lovable you will begin to see yourself as.

[villainessbian]

It's also not more polite or more demure or more socially acceptable, that's only in fiction.

If that embarrasses you, you can say so and I swear it will make this easier. If you want to draw attention away from yourself, you can say thank you, this means a lot coming from you because and transition into something you admire in the other person.

Both of these will make your social bonds better, train you to be better at taking compliments, and most importantly not hurt your loved ones by rejecting their love.

[depsidase]

[spookyteeths]

Feminist icon Judith Butler slams liberals who want to abandon trans people: That's "fascist logic" - LGBTQ Nation

Butler called denying health care to trans kids "an act of cruelty."

[queeranarchism]

For those wondering: yes, she is saying that Democrats who abandon trans rights are using fascist logic.

[i-am-a-fish]

you don't get it bro. there's this song called we are the champions. adrenaline music. hypes you up kinda music. gets me in a frenzy. he says we're the champions of the world. the world dude

[vizienta]

[i-am-a-fish]

I love these speech bubble additions I don't know who this high definition shrimp is but I'm glad they're a fan of We Are The Champions by Queen

[kooldewd123]

For as much as I love Animorphs, I’ve never actually read it in order all the way through. It was always scattered entries, whatever I could find at the library or buy at garage sales. There’s even a small handful I haven’t read at all. That’s why, for my New Year’s resolution, I plan to reread the series in its entirety. However, I know how my brain works, and I’m afraid I might lose motivation and quit too soon. That’s why, after each book, I will add to this post with, in my opinion, the most fucked-up part of the book, as well as the silliest part (because anyone who’s read these books knows that those are the two main tenets of the series). That way, I’ll have a publicly available record to hold myself accountable to if I start slacking, plus a nice thread of propaganda to hopefully suck more people in. I plan to read one mainline book a week, starting with:

[kooldewd123]

#1: The Invasion

Most Fucked-Up Part: Lots of strong contenders to start us off with, but I think the first scene in the Yeerk Pool takes the cake. A city-sized cavern beneath the actual city filled with cages of slaves begging for their freedom in the few moments they actually can.

Silliest Part: The fact that Marco legitimately names them “Animorphs” and nobody objects to it. You’d think Rachel would at least have a remark about a name that cheesy.

[kooldewd123]

#2: The Visitor

Most Fucked-Up Part: Melissa Chapman lives her life believing that her parents don't love her when, in reality, they sacrificed their own freedom to keep her safe and constantly fight to ensure that this bargain is upheld.

Silliest Part: Visser Three, the comically evil leader of the Yeerk invasion, repeatedly expresses admiration for a housecat named "Fluffer McKitty."

[kooldewd123]

#3: The Encounter:

Most Fucked-Up Part: The gang hits the two-hour time limit while in wolf morph and nearly get stuck as half-human, half-wolf abominations as they try to demorph. Tobias (who is fully trapped in the body of a hawk) witnesses this, semi-directly leading to him finally having a mental breakdown and attempting suicide in a fit of panic.

Silliest Part: One of the biggest obstacles they face is the fact they they need to catch a fish to morph into, and almost none of them have the patience required for fishing.

[kooldewd123]

#4: The Message:

Most Fucked-Up Part: While in dolphin morph, Marco has his tail bitten off during a shark attack and nearly bleeds to death. His immediate thought is the fact that his mother died by drowning, and he doesn’t want to meet the same fate.

Silliest Part: A whale talks to Cassie and gives her directions to Ax's crashed ship.

[kooldewd123]

#5: The Predator:

Most Fucked-Up Part: I mentioned Marco's mom in the last book so I could segue into this book's reveal that she's alive and the host body of the mastermind behind the Yeerk invasion, but I completely forgot that this was also the ant book, which definitely eclipses that. Upon morphing ants, everyone becomes so engulfed by the insects' mindless devotion to their colony that they entirely lose their sense of individuality. Shortly thereafter, they become engaged in combat underground with another ant colony, describing it as their most brutal fight thus far. These combined events traumatize them so thoroughly that they will spend the entire rest of the series talking about how terrifying ants are and adamantly refusing to morph them ever again - the only animal to receive such harsh treatment, to my recollection.

Silliest Part: Marco, Jake, and Ax morph into grocery store lobsters to hide from Yeerks, and accidentally terrify the poor lady who buys them for dinner.

[kooldewd123]

#6: The Capture

Most Fucked-Up Part: Jake is infested by a Yeerk, becoming a prisoner in his own body. The Yeerk, who had previously infested Jake's brother, Tom, spends its time tormenting Jake before ultimately starving to death, a tortuous process for both of them.

Silliest Part: Everyone morphs into flies for the first time and are surprised to find it one of the most fun morphs so far.

[kooldewd123]

#7: The Stranger

Most Fucked-Up Part: Everyone gets eaten alive by a Taxxon while in cockroach morph. They escape by demorphing, blowing it up from the inside.

Silliest Part: Rachel gets mad at a circus performer using cattle prods on his elephants, so she morphs into an elephant, tells the performer she's from the "International Elephant Police," and throws him across the big top.

[kooldewd123]

Megamorphs #1: The Andalite's Gift

Most Fucked-Up Part: Rachel, having lost all her memories from a bad head injury, unconsciously morphs into a bear and then gets both of her front legs completely eaten off by an alien monster.

Silliest Part: There are a solid two or three chapters dedicated to Marco's horrible driving skills. Another driver on the road says he drives like he's from Jersey. This series takes place in California.

[kooldewd123]

#8: The Alien

Most Fucked-Up Part: Ax, desperately homesick, manages to contact his homeworld. Instead of providing reassurance, his people order him to take the fall for his brother's crimes and then declare it his duty to kill the single most dangerous individual alive.

Silliest Part: Ax has to be literally dragged out of a movie theater by Jake and Marco after he starts eating popcorn boxes off the floor and tries to steal Raisinets from a child.

[kooldewd123]

#9: The Secret

Most Fucked-Up Part: The Animorphs morph termites, hoping they won't be as bad as the ants. They find that they are entirely unable to control their own bodies, subject only to the instructions of the queen. The nature-loving Cassie is forced to kill the queen to free everyone, and is subsequently left shattered by the fact that she destroyed an entire colony that was only trying to survive.

Silliest Part: Cassie forces Visser Three to surrender by morphing into a skunk and spraying him, then lies that grape juice gets rid of the smell.

[kooldewd123]

#10: The Android

Most Fucked-Up Part: Erek, an android programmed for strict nonviolence, rewrites his programming to remove that limitation and subsequently destroys an entire building's worth of Controllers in less than ten seconds. Unlike our human protagonists, who are offered some relief by their imperfect memories, Erek's robot brain will forever preserve this moment in perfect detail, torturing him for hundreds of millennia.

Silliest Part: Dogs were not originally domesticated by humans, but rather by a race of androids called the Chee, who implanted wolves with the literal essence of their extinct creators. The Chee now secretly live on Earth in a giant underground dog park.

[kooldewd123]

#11: The Forgotten

Most Fucked-Up Part: A bloody and unconscious Rachel is nearly eaten alive by a colony of ants. This isn't even the worst ant-related trauma in the series (tune in for book 39!).

Silliest Part: The Animorphs are sent back in time by a few hours. Luckily, they apparently teach this stuff in Andalite school. Unluckily, Ax wasn't paying attention in class that day because he was distracted by a cute girl. This isn't even the stupidest time travel plot point in the series (tune in for... actually there are too many to choose from).

[kooldewd123]

#12: The Reaction

Most Fucked-Up Part: Rachel begins to lose control of her morphing. Highlights include morphing into an elephant and destroying her house, morphing elephant in the middle of the ocean and nearly drowning, morphing into an ant afterwards and getting trapped inside an air bubble, and having a fully formed crocodile crawl out of her body on a TV set.

Silliest Part: The Yeerks' new plan is to get a popular teenage heartthrob to become the new spokesman of The Sharing, their front organization. After being saved by the Animorphs, he quits acting and moves to Uzbekistan instead.

[kooldewd123]

#13: The Change

Most Fucked-Up Part: The Animorphs encounter a pair of Hork-Bajir who have managed to escape the Yeerks. To prove they're not under Yeerk control, one of them slices his own head open to show his brain.

Silliest Part: Hork-Bajir eat tree bark. They don't seem to like Earth bark that much, but are afraid to admit it because they don't want to hurt Tobias's feelings.

[kooldewd123]

The Hork-Bajir Chronicles

Most Fucked-Up Part: God, where to start with this one? The Hork-Bajir are a simple race with no concept of violence, who are then invaded by the Yeerks and forced to learn how to fight. They're used as pawns by the Yeerks, the Andalites, and the Arn, and once it becomes clear that they're fighting a losing battle, Alloran releases a virus intended to wipe out the Hork-Bajir so the Yeerks can't get their hands on them.

Silliest Part: I got nothing. This might be the most humorless book in the whole series. Esplin gets thrown around by a big monster called a "Jubba-Jubba" and that's kind of a fun image, I guess.

[kooldewd123]

#14: The Unknown

Most Fucked-Up Part: Prepare for some tonal whiplash, because this book is possibly the silliest entry in the series. There's nothing to put in this section.

Silliest Part: If you're an Animorphs fan, you already know this book's punchline, and if you're not, I'm not gonna be the one to spoil it for you. Luckily, there are plenty other ridiculous moments I can share, like Cassie winning the Kentucky Derby or Visser Three decapitating Daffy Duck.

[kooldewd123]

#15: The Escape

Most Fucked-Up Part: The Animorphs get microchips implanted in their heads. Because the chips don't change size when they morph, their heads nearly explode when they try to morph flies.

Silliest Part: Tobias, now with his morphing ability restored, has to make physical contact with a dolphin so he can morph it. Given that he's still a hawk, this goes about as well as you'd expect.

[kooldewd123]

#16: The Warning

Most Fucked-Up Part: Jake gets swatted while in fly morph and the others have to drag his mangled body to a safe location before he dies.

Silliest Part: To provide a distraction so Ax and Marco can break into AOL's head office, Rachel morphs a bear and begins mopping the (carpeted) floor.

[kooldewd123]

#17: The Underground

Most Fucked-Up Part: The Animorphs consider the ethics of weaponizing drugs after discovering an addictive substance that can physically and psychologically destroy Yeerks, but permanently leaves the hosts as raving lunatics in the process.

Silliest Part: Said drug is instant ginger and maple oatmeal.

[kooldewd123]

#18: The Decision

Most Fucked-Up Part: In a freak accident, the Animorphs are suddenly transported to an extradimensional plane where they nearly asphyxiate to death.

Silliest Part: Ax has a dramatic showdown with Visser Three on top of McDonald's. Visser Three runs away and jumps into a dumpster.

[kooldewd123]

Megamorphs 2: In the Time of Dinosaurs

Most Fucked-Up Part: Tobias betrays a group of peaceful aliens, knowingly sentencing the last remaining members of their race to death.

Silliest Part: I mean. Come on. Just read the title of this one.

[kooldewd123]

#19: The Departure

Most Fucked-Up Part: Cassie willingly allows herself to be infested by a Yeerk in an insane attempt to broker peace. Upon learning of this, Jake gives Marco the order to kill Cassie if she's still a Controller by the time they find her.

Silliest Part: Fuck, this is another pretty heavy book and the next three are probably gonna be just as bad. Uuh Marco pretends to be a smoker to get out of class. That's about the only non-serious thing in this one.

[kooldewd123]

#20: The Discovery

Most Fucked-Up Part: A new kid at school stumbles upon the morphing device, leading to the Yeerks destroying his house and infesting his parents trying to get it for themselves. Faced with no other choice, the Animorphs induct him in as a new member. They will definitely not come to regret this decision.

Silliest Part: I'm not even gonna try. See ya in three books.

[kooldewd123]

#21: The Threat

Most Fucked-Up Part: David turns on the other Animorphs. The book ends with him seemingly killing Tobias and leaving Jake critically wounded.

Second Most Fucked-Up Part (This book gets two): Cassie (in flea morph) is biting Jake (in dragonfly morph) as he starts demorphing. The sudden change in pressure as his vascular system changes back to human causes her internal organs to explode.

Third Most Fucked-Up Part (One more for the road): Everyone hits the two-hour time limit again, this time as fleas. Marco is nearly stuck half-morphed as a human-sized flea.

Tune in next time as things somehow get even worse.

[kooldewd123]

#22: The Solution

jesus fucking christ. okay

Most Fucked-Up Part: As the threat of David grows too large to handle, the Animorphs take him off the table by devising a plan to permanently trap him in morph as a rat and abandon him on an island. Rachel has spent the entire book terrified that she's become a killer and forces herself to believe that this is a better option to that somehow.

Second Most Fucked-Up Part: In the last book, Jake and Rachel's cousin Saddler was hit by a car and left in critical condition. In this book, David pushes the near-death Saddler down an elevator shaft and plans to use his morphing powers to steal his identity and regain a normal family.

[kooldewd123]

The Andalite Chronicles

Most Fucked-Up Part: Elfangor's friend Arbron is trapped in morph as a Taxxon, an alien species burdened with an insatiable, overpowering hunger. He tries to trick Elfangor into killing him rather than live with the hunger.

Silliest Part: Elfangor drives a Ford Mustang into battle on the Taxxon homeworld while playing Hank Williams on the radio. This happens directly after the aforementioned Arbron scene.

[kooldewd123]

#23: The Pretender

Most Fucked-Up Part: Tobias decides to become fully human again upon learning he has a cousin who wants to take him in. The cousin turns out to actually be Visser Three in morph, and Tobias is left shattered by having the promise of a real family yanked away from him.

Silliest Part: It's been so long since Tobias has had a human beverage that he completely freezes up when someone asks him what he'd like to drink and is nearly overwhelmed by the taste of Coke.

[kooldewd123]

#24: The Suspicion

Most Fucked-Up Part: Cassie and Marco are shrunk down to a sixteenth of an inch by alien technology. The others try to rescue them in insect morph, leading to the horrifying comparison of a cockroach "the size of a Wal-Mart" and a spider "with legs the size of the St. Louis arch."

Silliest Part: Meet the Helmacrons, a race of aliens the size of a grain of sand, yet with the largest egos imaginable. They spend the book flying around in three-inch long spaceships, declaring how they will conquer the planet and all will grovel before them.

[kooldewd123]

#25: The Extreme

Most Fucked-Up Part: The Animorphs are trapped in the Arctic, freezing and starving to death and kept alive purely by the morphing technology, when they witness a polar bear brutally eviscerate a seal. After the bear leaves, they feast on what remains of the seal's carcass. The seal's pups arrive as they eat, looking for their mother, and Marco is reminded of when he believed his own mother to be dead.

Silliest Part: The gang is temporarily helped by an Inuit teenager named Derek, who takes the situation in stride surprisingly well.

[kooldewd123]

#26: The Attack

Most Fucked-Up Part: The Howlers are a species of ruthless killers that have annihilated countless species over thousands of years. When Jake morphs one, he discovers that they never mentally develop past infancy and view their actions as nothing but a big game.

Silliest Part: This book takes place on the planet of the Iskoort, a species with the architecture sensibilities of Dr. Seuss and a culture entirely built around bartering organs and memories.

[kooldewd123]

#27: The Exposed

Most Fucked-Up Part: The Animorphs get caught in the crossfire of a drug bust and it turns out that normal human guns are still plenty dangerous. Rachel's shot in the head, Marco's shot in the neck, and Cassie's paralyzed by a shot to her back.

Silliest Part: When Erek malfunctions at the mall, Marco carries him out in gorilla morph, pretending to be promotion for an upcoming King Kong movie.

[kooldewd123]

#28: The Experiment

Most Fucked-Up Part: They morph cows to infiltrate a slaughterhouse. Use your imagination on what happens from there.

Silliest Part: Ax has a TV now, and spends the entire book making references to various sitcoms and soap operas, much to the confusion and slight horror of everyone else.

[kooldewd123]

#29: The Sickness

Most Fucked-Up Part: Cassie is forced to perform brain surgery on Ax to remove one of his glands before it explodes, killing him.

Silliest Part: They try to infiltrate the Yeerk pool by morphing eels and swimming through the city's plumbing system.

[kooldewd123]

Megamorphs 3: Elfangor's Secret

Most Fucked-Up Part: This one's a time travel book. The climax sees them brought to Normandy on D-Day and you can probably imagine how that goes.

Silliest Part: In medieval times, Tobias morphs into a Hork-Bajir to pretend to be the devil. He coincidentally grabs a pitchfork from a farmer before unknowingly running into a church, scaring the hell out of the priest (no pun intended).

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Oh that's right these books are amazing

[thecheatinghomunculus]

new reaction image

[rural-panoptes]

[saintjosie]

[damnpharos]

[captain-price-unofficially]

[shencomix]

[unsubconscious]

“There is no other home”, Soviet poster, 1986.

[girlmostlikely]

This is insane

[the-prophesied-disco-gay]

[mildlyautisticsuperdetective]

the podcast ‘endless thread’ did an episode on this called ‘catfish for dinner’ where they investigated the origin of the story! tl;dr a tiktoker who posts fake drama stories made it up for clout and it’s based on nothing.

[gorefudge]

[ileolai]

Remember when Ursula K. Le Guin called JK Rowling a nasty basic bitch back in like, 2004? We should have listened

[legok9]

“This last is the situation, as I see it, between my A Wizard of Earthsea and J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter. I didn’t originate the idea of a school for wizards — if anybody did it was T.H.White, though he did it in single throwaway line and didn’t develop it. I was the first to do that. Years later, Rowling took the idea and developed it along other lines. She didn’t plagiarize. She didn’t copy anything. Her book, in fact, could hardly be more different from mine, in style, spirit, everything. The only thing that rankles me is her apparent reluctance to admit that she ever learned anything from other writers. When ignorant critics praised her wonderful originality in inventing the idea of a wizards’ school, and some of them even seemed to believe that she had invented fantasy, she let them do so. This, I think, was ungenerous, and in the long run unwise.“

[ileolai]

i found the specific quote i was thinking of x

Q: Nicholas Lezard has written ‘Rowling can type, but Le Guin can write.’ What do you make of this comment in the light of the phenomenal success of the Potter books? I’d like to hear your opinion of JK Rowling’s writing style

UKL: I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the “incredible originality” of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid’s fantasy crossed with a “school novel”, good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited.

damn gurl :’]

[tropacant]

have some shitty chaotic pride flags ^^

check out the rest of the flags on my profile since tumblr has a 10 image limit lol as well as the fixed versions of a few of these cuz I’m big dumb

[corviiids]

stumbled across some of my printer opinions that i don't recall writing but am correct about

[anexperimentallife]