#the reaction

[pyrochord]

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

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Animorphs #12: The Reaction thoughts (pt. 1):

"There are six of us... The five of us, minus Ax, were minding our own business, heading home from the mall" (p.2). FINALLY we have the opening narration specifying that, of course, Ax is an Animorph. The back-of-book summaries will go on being weird forever, but from here on out the actual text lists the entire team.

Love that Rachel just ignores the fact that she's feverish and nauseated after acquiring, because gosh dang it, she has crocodiles to wrestle bare-handed!

Jake: So this alligator— Cassie: Crocodile. Jake: The alligators' pen— Cassie: Crocodiles. Jake: And you're allergic to alligator— Cassie: Crocodile. Jake: Alli— Cassie: I :) will :) put :) a :) live :) skunk :) in :) your :) bed :) Top 10 Causes of Divorce

"Jake laughed. 'I don't yell,' he said. 'I'm not anyone's parent.' 'You tell 'em, Dad,' Marco said." (p. 28) I should start a counter for number of times Marco sarcastically/pointedly calls Jake "Dad."

Tobias declaring that Wayne Gretzky is the celebrity who could get him to join the Sharing is one of those details that lives rent-free in my head. What does it meeaaan?

Related: I want to read the scene where "Tom" hangs out with Jeremy Jason McCole to beguile him into joining the Sharing. It sounds fascinatingly odd.

Animorphs books can be read here | Book Club schedule is here

[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?

[goodold-fashionedloverblog]

Welcome back to another episode of Roger Taylor’s Bad Luck With Cars

Summer, 1968. “Queen In Cornwall”

[princeseerow]

yknow, upon reflection, one thing i really appreciate about the reaction is how real it makes cassie look. jake has a tendency to sort of "mysticize" cassie. he often talks about how she knows more than she lets on or how she seems to just "get" people and animals in a way he can't or how she's incredibly wise. and that's not an un-valid interpretation of her character, to be fair. but rachel doesn't do a lot of that in her books. she says that cassie likes animals more than people, but also talks about how embarrassed cassie is over her mom being cringe and how giggly she gets over boys. these aren't bad things, but it's clear that rachel does not view cassie as some mystic sage, even if she is more in touch with her emotions.

[fartsy-artsy]

I don't think I'm going to end up lining this so...here you go

[trashbagcommunist]

I'm really behind on Animorphs, but I'm catching up. Just got through 12 this weekend, and since the last time I read, I've gotten really into paleontology, so the pedant in me had to come out lmao. Crocodiles are not that old. They're certainly not older than birds. Crocodilians don't appear until the Cretaceous actually (birds start appearing in the Jurassic), and it's kind of a misnomer to call them living fossils and imagine them as unchanged by time, not a dynamic evolving animal.

The clade that crocodilians nest within, pseudosuchia, has a diverse history with a lot of different kinds of animals filled various niches, and some of them were likely even endothermic. Crocodilians are a relatively recent member of the clade, but before that, diverse pseudosuchians were a dominant lifeform of the Triassic, when dinosaurs were just starting to evolve. But those animals weren't crocodiles. In fact, many of them look more like the 80s/90s portrayals of dinosaurs than modern crocodiles. While the book emphasizes their cold, uncaring nature, crocodiles have an interesting position amongst reptiles. Being archosaurs (the group of reptiles that birds also belong to), they are more attentive parents than non-archosaur reptiles. That by no means makes them cuddly, but it's still interesting imo. They also have a respiratory system similar to birds and are their closest living relative. It's kind of funny to think a crocodile and a red tailed hawk are closely related and have some shared features. Just fun pseudosuchian facts lol.