#ani 12

[pyrochord]

in #12, she was called it. "falling girl". rachel fell and there was no one to catch her.

[emeraldmew]

"Well, today we have an update. Jeremy Jason McCole is out of the hospital. Doctors say he'll be fine. But in an amazing development, his agent says Jeremy Jason is quitting Power House and leaving the country. McCole's agent refuses to divulge the young actor's whereabouts, but sources say he as been spotted in Uzbekistan, a small central Asian nation."

Gotta agree with @thejakeformerlyknownasprince on this one. Jeremy Jason McCole is dead, isn't he?

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[初音ミク/Miku] - Love Love Nightmare (PV)

[bluefox4]

"We like to think we offer some help to kids who may be going through a bad time," Chapman said. "We have an awful lot of fun. Campouts. Bonfire barbecues on the beach. Just a month or so back we had a big waterskiing trip up to a mountain lake." I could have said, "Yes, I know. We were there, too, but not exactly in human shapes." p. 63

Hey, some timeline information. So, the events of The Android was about a month or so ago. So maybe a month and a half? Something like that. Not quite two months but more than month ago.

[emeraldmew]

When she's having the allergic reaction Rachel's morphing doesn't just break the standard rule of not having to return to her base form between morphs. Her allergy morphs are also faster.

My guess is the morph sneezing is overriding some sort of built-in safety limitations in the morphing tech meant to protect the morpher. In a short-term thing like this reaction the speed and directly morphing from one thing to another is probably fine (uncontrollability aside). In the longer term my guess is it would wear her out more or cause other types of long-term harm.

I wonder if there are ways to break the normal morphing rules on purpose? We'll see another time where the morphing rules break down due to issues outside the morpher's control later in the series, but I wonder what the consequences might be for bypassing the failsafes on purpose?

[emeraldmew]

I'd say The Reaction feels a lot like what I imagine most people would expect from an Animorphs book given the target audience. It doesn't have the quandaries about what makes right and wrong in a world where it's kill or be killed like The Secret or the realization that fighting the yeerks is a lot messier than the kids hoped like in The Alien. Heck, while it introduces morphing allergies I don't believe those ever really come up again. It even ends with plausible deniability that JJM just decided to retire to Uzbekistan!

It's a fun breather book (as far as Animorphs goes, anyway). Arguably, it's more skippable than The Forgotten which literally doesn't happen for anyone but Jake.

Still I do love any book that highlights Rachel and Cassie's friendship and that does take the front seat here. And it's fun to see them being teenagers as much as they are soldiers.

Definitely not crying about that time where Rachel and Cassie are talking about how Rachel would make a great rich person when she grows up while indulging in all of the room service.

[bluefox4]

"Marco?" I hissed. <Who else would be this cute? Check out this fur. Check out this little llama smile on my little llama face.> "What are you doing?" <Jake's somewhere here in cockroach morph. Ax is here in fly morph. I came that way, too. But then I saw this llama wandering around loose. So I thought, hey, why be a bug?> p. 118-119

Did you know that the Emperor's New Groove came out in 2000? The Reaction came out in 1997.