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@featherquillpen replied to your photoset “Anon, I know you meant Andalites in their natural bodies, but this is...”
Have you read A Closed and Common Orbit? In that book, an alien gets a human crazy about food.
CUTE.... I’ve heard good things about Becky Chambers’ sci-fi; I really should grab The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet and this one for my kindle and read them finally.
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Update I wandered over to the Animorphs tag on AO3...
I love it. We’re enough of a fandom now to have trends and subgenres, at least a little.
I have a Marco/Jake Fake Wedding fic outlined! It includes: A background AU where the Yeerk invasion was centered in D.C. and David was an Animorph who won the war by blowing everything up, B. which allows Ax to be Marco’s deadbeat roommate even in a fairly “mundane” setting, C. Marco needs money because the paychecks from his intense but VERY brief career as a viral spokesperson for Gorilla Glue are running out, D. Rachel's in charge of pulling together a wedding with no budget in under a month and she rises to the challenge like someone with an ancient calling, and E. Rachel and Marco are Bitter But Witty ex-lovers. One day, guys. One day.
Hardison, you are all that I care about. Possibly because I did not have the capacity to care about anything before you. I love you. Also, interesting side note: I think I might hate things now too. So far it’s genocide and leggings as pants.
Parker
December 16, 1998. My Christmas list... 1) a talk girl tape recorder 2) a green game boy 3) a dolly 4) a new Animorphs book 5) a new Goosebumps book 6) a magic kit 7) a book about birds of prey As you can see, I was a nerd even as a little third grader. @featherquillpen
salty asks, 14
14. Unpopular opinion about your fandom.
Oh, I think I have a lot of unpopular opinions. I love the end of Animorphs? There are a few things I would change, but overall, I think it’s almost perfect? I really don’t usually like “everyone lives” or “everything is okay” AUs. I also like Rachel/Tobias as a ship... pretty much exclusively as an exploration of how absolutely unhealthy their dynamic was.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
uhhh I wrote another story guys. It’s an Animorphs/Raven Cycle fusion fic (focused on the Animorphs side of things, so sorry TRC fans). It was written as part of Fandom Trumps Hate as a gift for featherquillpen.
Also, it’s annoyingly long for a story I planned to be 5K words. OTL
Title: Perchance to Dream
Summary:
When Marco was five years old, he dreamt he was a flower and woke up to find his bed covered in earthworms and dirt.
His mother nearly cried laughing, but after she helped him clean everything up, she said, “I think it’s time for me to teach you about dreaming, sweetheart. It’ll be out little secret, okay?”
For a few years, her lessons kept things light.
Then she died.
Word Count: 24K
Top 5 Most Loved Fan Fics
Okay this is an evil ask but you’re great so I’m gonna try anyway.
IN ROUGHLY CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
1) Learn To Fly by ?????( I’m not even totally confident on the name), YYH, Hiei/Kurama: Okay I cannot actually find it anymore, but that may be for the best. I am including it because I loved it as a tiny youth just getting into fanfic and discovering the wider world. My internet time was limited so I printed all 200~ish pages so I could read and reread. This was my jam. Of course, thinking back, it was very…baby just learned about homophobia and decided to write a fic about how bad it is. There was a lot of “my family and friends don’t/might not accept me” and also a lot of “don’t have sex you might get AIDS”. In retrospect, I do not think it was that great a fic. But I loved it, and it was important to me, so it goes on this list. I hope I left a comment.
2) The Whispers Arc by Maldoror. GW, Duo/Heero: Again, it’s been too long since I read it to know if it was actually any good or not, and honestly I am afraid to reread it so that’s not happening now. This was very important to a young Rio for…several reasons, actually. One reason is that, regardless of how it holds up now, Maldoror was one of the best writers in the fandom at the time. Another is that I was just starting to realize both that my sexuality was a little, shall we say, dark, and also that my emotions and emotional attachments weren’t really as….strong as most other pieces. A large part of this is Heero learning to listen to, notice, and value his feelings/emotions/emotional attachments, while also having fraught sex. So that mattered to me. Also I waaaay over identified with Duo, so the ‘has an attraction to danger and death and it is a Problem’ characterization worked for me. Also, I’m pretty sure Maldoror was the one who wrote Duo explaining being bi as “double the chances for a date on Friday night”. Which is problematic and not strictly true yadda yadda, but I’m pretty sure it was the first thing that I felt gave me words/permission to be bi. I am confident I left at least one comment on this one.
…tbh I’m pretty such I’m forgetting some fic between these two because it’s, like, a 9-year gap, but I’m drawing a blank so we’re moving on to…
3)Lamb and Martyr by Dira Sudis ( @dsudis) . MCU, Steve/Bucky: By this point I am/was an old hand at BDSM fic. But this gave me something so rare in such fic: a top- a sadist who struggles with how much he likes it (sidenote: I think sometimes we avoid saying words like that because we’re uncomfortable with the idea of the top genuinely being a person who likes hurting others). Because… it is uncomfortable! It is not an easy thing to say “This person loves hurting others. They get off on it. And that is totally okay and fine and not at all a sign that they are a Bad Person.” It’s harder still when it’s “I love hurting others etc”. It’s taught very young: hurting people is bad. wanting to hurt people is bad. Do as you would have done unto you. And it’s not wrong! Which makes it so hard to believe that you can find a place where it’s okay. A place where someone will, of their own free will, ask you to do things to them. ….Anyway I’ve typed a bunch so moral of the story this story Matters to me because being a sadist is hard and no one understands (joke).
4. Putting Down Roots by Poetry ( @featherquillpen) Animorphs, Rachel/Tobias: okay so this was written for me so of course I love it. And honestly? I feel like you can see what I asked/why I wanted it pretty easily if you know me my weird alien sex/intimacy kink is showing. It is always showing. I am literally writing this as a break from composing a new alien LARP. Also the gender stuff was a pleasant surprise I didn’t even ask for! (also Rachel and Tobias have always been important to me individually and as a couple) ALSO POETRY IS A GREAT WRITER END PARAGRAPH
5. Things We’d Held in Secret by Dira Sudis ( @dsudis ) AGAIN, BECAUSE I LOVE HER WORK, UNRELATEDLY I AM A DEEPLY EMBARRASSING PERSON THE END. MCU, Steve/Bucky: This one was also written for me; and again, you I feel like an explanation of why I love it is unnecessary if you know me at all and also read the fic. Hell, even just the tags. But ASIDE from my weird narrative kinks, I’m fond of this because of all the talking about it we did together. I kinda feel like we became friends, and I really like her so that makes me happy. Also I cherish the awkward
(“so how do you feel about writing cannibalism?”
“UH.”
“I mean you don’t have to!”
“…how much cannibalism are we talking here?” )
interaction we had before we got on the same page because I collect awkward memories.
featherquillpen replied to your post: Moran Rereads the Animorphs
I can’t say I agree that broiling those Yeerks was tactically necessary. The Animorphs ended operations like the hospital all the time without slaughtering the unarmed.
First of all, since I’m realizing that it is, in fact, NOT immediately obvious, all of my backlogged Animorphs commentary was written on total sleep deprivation and thesis-powered anxiety, so my rhetoric is not always as clear as maybe it should be. That said, let me add real quick that ‘necessary’ in this context =/= morally or ethically ‘good’ in any way, nor does necessary mean...like, the best available outcome? If that makes sense? It just means ‘the action that the characters believed to be needed in order to both survive and accomplish their goal.’ I should have been clearer about this in the original post and that’s on me, but, again, sleep deprivation is one hell of a drug.
But like hear me out here. Because the potential for this hospital is...frankly horrific, in this book. If the Animorphs didn’t take steps to definitively end the plan, if they had just run for it (because let’s be real...by this point in the series they really haven’t had a definitive win, they’ve mostly just lived through some battles), they would have felt complicit in the massive enslavement potential for the hospital. The hospital is a revolving door of war crimes and human rights (beings’ rights?) violations. Whether or not they would be right to feel that complicity is a different conversation (and a short one because they’re six people, everything else aside they’re only six people against an army, they’re not complicit just because they couldn’t perform a miracle), but they would absolutely feel it. So in the moment, they have to do something more than run, because they can’t face the idea of just bailing on this mission. And in the moment, under the gun, this is all Jake can think to do. They don’t have the materials to destroy the hospital to any respectable degree (even an elephant could only do so much and they don’t have any other big wrecking-ball morphs yet, like the rhino), they don’t have the materials to stop the closing through any tangentially proper channels (like they stop the logging venture in the woods with the superpowers of Skunks And Bureaucracy), and even if they did just wreck the hospital...that would kill a lot of people. It would probably kill all the Yeerks in the pool, too. The casualty count of this was always going to be high, and Jake...this is the thing that establishes Jake’s stance most viscerally.
Jake is ultimately a utilitarian general to the fucking bone, I think I talk about this in a later book, but that means that he takes a very specific viewpoint on casualty count. Lowest casualties of ‘his side,’ highest casualties of ‘their side,’ and this is a rare opportunity to have all the casualties be Yeerks, rather than a potentially innocent host. He sees this as the only available way to both accomplish their goal (he knows they’re all high ranking Yeerks who presumably can’t just be magically replaced, meaning it will get them a better delay on the Hell Hospital) and get all of his people out alive--as brutal as it sounds...it’s a distraction. Jake could have made it really quick, electrocuted the pool or something similar that would kill all the Yeerks cleanly, but he’s gambling that the staff will be in such a desperate rush to try to save the Yeerks in the pool that the Animorphs will be able to get out, so he drags it out. He makes similar plays throughout the books, and again, they’re not morally or ethically ‘good’ nor are they the best available outcome...but that’s not really the point.
So like...yeah, that’s my logic. They absolutely do get out of situations like that without similarly atrocious acts on other occasions...but it’s a loss. It always means they lose that round. Their wins are awful. Hell, right in the next book, they literally take steps to starve every Yeerk in the vicinity to death. Destroying the Kandrona is the equivalent of poisoning every water supply for a human army (removing a critical substance without which survival is impossible), which is prohibited under the Geneva Convention. If a guerrilla squad did something like that in an Earth war they would IMMEDIATELY be slated as war criminals--not soldiers. And yet...the destruction of the Kandrona is necessary, because it’s all the Animorphs can think to do to buy themselves that critical bit of extra time, to strike even a tiny blow against their enemy. It’s not the morally sound play. This is why Cassie struggles so much throughout the war--she’s the only Lawful Good player on an entire Chaotic Neutral team. The Animorphs more often than not don’t have a morally sound option available to them, which is...frankly sort of the point.
