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[pyrochord]

ok. @azalea-blooming this one’s for you

[pyrochord]

i've started saying "all roads lead to marco animorphs" in casual conversation, and it originally was a joke to explain why i am the way i am. however i do sincerely believe that all roads lead to marco animorphs. in the sense that they lead to marco and edriss and eva, or in the sense that they lead to marco and rachel and cassie, but especially in the sense that they lead to marco and the trolley problem (the trolley problem, of course, is inevitable), and i was talking about this to my english teacher (a marco fan of thirty years; has read baying for blood) and now i will be writing an essay on this subject since he let me pick it as my topic. all roads lead to marco animorphs

[azalea-blooming]

Again it was as if the alien was smiling at us with his eyes. <No. You must save yourselves. Save yourselves and save your planet!>

Suddenly Marco just went ballistic. "We could get killed!" he yelled. "Don't you get it? You saw what happened to the andalite. I mean, this is radical stuff, Jake. This is for real. Real! We could all get killed!"

"Forget about saving your life next time?"

We looked. Through the eyes of the animals of Earth, but with the minds of human beings, we looked down at our planet. Our planet.

It was the whole point. We hurt the innocent in order to stop the evil.

How else to stop the Yeerks? How else to win? No choice, you punk. We did what we had to do.

"Look, here I am, all alive," Marco said, tapping his chest. "Get over it. I didn't have to go. It was my choice."

The sympathy on Marco's face evaporated. "You're not getting me killed to save your father," he snapped.

Animorphs Book #1: The Invasion // post by @/maplepecanpastry // Blood On Your Knees, Suzanne Santo // Animorphs Book #1: The Invasion // post by @/elytrians // Alligator Teeth, Mother Falcon // Animorphs Book #41: The Familiar // Unknown // You're Gonna Go Far, Kid, The Offspring // Animorphs Book #5: The Predator // Unknown // Animorphs Book #30: The Reunion // post by @/jessepinwheel // Portrait of a Capgras, Raffi Joe Wartanian // Animorphs Book #30: The Reunion // Unknown // Animorphs Book #4: The Message // post by @/inkskinned // Animorphs Book #31: The Conspiracy // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area," Last Sext // Unknown

[azalea-blooming]

honestly, you know what, fuck it.

here is a log of every animorphs fic i've ever started and been incapable of completing/scenes that didn't make the cut for fics i will complete/vague drafting slash conceputal scenes for fics i someday hope to begin. there are four different rewrites of the same (scrapped) au in this monstrosity.

i will turn my friends to gold / for the treasury to hold (2795 words) by therealazalea Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill & Jake Berenson & Cassie & Marco & Rachel & Tobias, Jake Berenson & Marco, Cassie & Marco (Animorphs), Eva & Marco (Animorphs) Characters: Marco (Animorphs), Rachel (Animorphs), Tobias (Animorphs), Jake Berenson, Cassie (Animorphs), Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill Additional Tags: to be clear some of them are only mentioned as of now because this is a log of random scenes/snippets/abandoned ideas, and only some appear, but all /will/ appear at some point, Body Horror, (its animorphs), Bisexual Marco (Animorphs), Unreliable Narrator, AND I MEAN A REAL UNRELIABLE NARRATOR, Like a real one, NONE OF THIS "CHARACTER MAKES WRONG ASSUMPTIONS" BULLSHIT, I MEAN A REAL FUCKING UNRELIABLE NARRATOR Summary: Various connected and unconnected bits of fics that I abandoned, cut scenes from fics I didn't, and snippets I felt couldn't stand on their own.

[azalea-blooming]

look I just think it’s Something that of the prominent times Marco does battle, he’s in a morph he can be completely cold separated and detached in. as opposed to his normal battle morph, which is a gorilla, which is as close to a human as he can be, which is intimate and personal with every attack. you have to be up close to kill as a gorilla. meanwhile he turns into a hammerhead shark (taking refuge in the mind of a predator) to see his mom again and a mountain goat (literally physically pushing her away from him) to kill her.

[azalea-blooming]

the thing about gorilla morph is that the whole point of it is to be as close to human as it is possible for marco to be (clinging to prewar life and normalcy) while still enabling him to do violent and horrific acts. but this means that the only way the gorilla morph can effectively kill someone is with its bare hands, closely, face-to-face and an arms length apart, and it can only be brutal. a snapped neck is the most merciful death that gorilla morph can provide. everything else requires brutality, more brutality than even cold calculating marco is comfortable with

[autoraton]

Excerpt from Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

[succulentul]

havent properly drawn these guys in a while so heres my first animorphs art of the year! ive missed them so much （；＿；）

[cometcrystal]

animorphs book covers sorted by whether their outfit is morph capable or not

[pyrochord]

great news!!! the new reprint of animorphs #1 has NOT been 2020s-ified!!!! there were zero mentions of iphones or texting or anything and all the references were period-accurate. i think it’s exactly the same as the 2011 reprint actually, since the thought-speak plothole remained fixed and they failed to mention that dead zone 5 is a cd game.

[pyrochord]

CHECK IT OUTTTT

[emeraldmew]

The choice to never name Tom's second yeerk is such a fascinating move. There were plenty of points in 53 where Applegate could have dropped it. The deal with Jake. Have Visser One address him by name.

But she never names him. He's always "Tom's Yeerk." Or, more horrifyingly, just shortened to "Tom" for the sake of brevity.

We even know that Jake knows the yeerk's name:

Nervous, toadying laughter all around. Someone reported that Tom had reached the Blade ship. The Blade ship was reporting readiness to join the attack.

Whoever reported this definitely didn't call him Tom.

But Jake never uses it. Neither does Rachel.

There is no separating Jake's trapped brother from the yeerk controlling him by using his name as a euphemism for the person Rachel is sent to kill.

[notbynary]

this is maybe the thesis of Animorphs i think

[azalea-blooming]

ohhhhh oh oh oh. thoughts on. thoughts on the marco-edriss phone call in visser.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love the phone call you have no idea how much i love the phone call !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

because it’s. marco has always been the best of them at separating yeerk from human (because he condemns the yeerks) and in this conversation he is speaking to an enemy. and he does not lose sight of that even as he slips in a message for his mother whom he loves and he knows loves him back!!!

he. knows. she. loves. him. back. it has been two years and he’s still certain of it the amount of trust and love and devotion he has for his mother.

so when edriss dares to intrude upon that love, after intruding upon everything, he snaps “i know my mother loves me” and he is saying it with complete confidence because he is right. and then he vows to destroy edriss for what she has done to his family. it’s. i.

it’s the complete switch “i love you mom” to “i will destroy you” in seconds because marco will always separate eva from edriss they are never the same to him despite the fact that in many ways they are

also. fun for me personally because jake is never able to separate tom from tom’s yeerk

[pyrochord]

i totally forgot how fun it is to make webweaves. marco stay right where you are, i have MORE quotes and literature to apply to you. marco webweave (the sequel) is coming soon to a pyrochord near you

[pyrochord]

When/How/Why did you first read Animorphs?

oh!! well. long story. i was first introduced to animorphs back when i was 8 via the school's library, which had virtually all of them. mind you i did not read all of them. in fact, i didn't read a single one. but the covers really fascinated me. i'd stare at the covers and be like "wow....those covers look so interesting....if only i knew what happened in the book..." and it never once occurred to me that there was a very easy way to find out what was happening in the book

anyway! fast-forward to january 2025! i'm on tumblr, and one of the people i'm following has reblogged a post discussing The Horrors of Animorphs. i probably wouldn't have given the post a second glance, but then i remembered. oh!! animorphs!! the ones with those cool covers that i stared at all the time!!! maybe i should read them!! so i downloaded the first book and began reading. i had a steady pace of a book a week until february, when i was halfway into #8 and just. uh. forgot about it. i didn't think of animorphs again until months later, when i saw my sister reading the graphic novel of #1 and went "OH HOLY SHIT THEY HAVE GRAPHIC NOVELS???" and then i remembered i had not finished #8 and i should probably get on that. and from then on i read a few books a day until i finished the main series!!

(shoutout to the time i read nearly twenty books in one day. that was insane. lmao.)

[kaitoleen]

Animorphs fanart (again)!

It's Marco and his mom, Eva. Inspired by book 15, The Escape. Yeah, the one with the hammerhead sharks. :P

edit: added some close-ups 😆

[jesperr-fahey]

[ID: fanart of Marco and Visser One, in the body of Eva, from Animorphs. they're standing up to their waists in water, hammerhead sharks circling around them. Marco wears his morphing clothes (a tight black tshirt and biker shorts), and strides forward, fists clenched at his sides and an angry expression on his face. Visser One wears a navy blue and white suit, and has one hand on her hip and the other on her chin, a confident smirk on her face. the next two images are close-ups on Marco and Visser One. END ID]