Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: RYTX on June 30, 2008, 10:26:04 PM
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So I've started a summer reread, (thinking about making a tradition of it :P), and it's bringing some things to mind that don't really belong in any particular threads and really don't need to be discussed at length in new threads. So yeah, just stuff
Visser Three really seems enjoy eating his minions
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I just reread the series myself (first time all the way through).
Random thoughts:
I remember hating Cassie seven years ago, but now she's one of my favorite characters.
I also, for some reason, loved the book where Jake had to stop Tom from killing his dad this time.
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#34 had a weird ending. Didn't really conclude.
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I liked the idea of giving morphing ability to Yeerks, but don't like how Cassie just let Tom get away with the device. She's very lucky it turned out kind pf like she hoped.
I wonder if anyone lost trust of Cassie or Ax at any point.
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I mixed up the endings of Megamorphs #1 and #39 (that's what happens when the plots are pretty much the same). then I re-read them.
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Whew, I seriously thought Ax was going to drop the bomb in #46. I was so freaked out. When my Mom called me for dinner, I didn't even hear her.
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I think I'm gonna get all my books from storage and re-read 'em.
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It's amazing how sad the Andalite Chronicles ending was.
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I didn't really understand the ending of #34 until like my 4th re-read. at first I thought aldrea really did try to take control of cassie.
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I like the beginning of 28. It's funny.
"I am young. And I am occasionally restless."
"Ax?"
"Yes, Marco?"
"Put on a shirt."
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How did ax touch marco (the one that gave him stares from erek and marco) anyway? I read it but I can't imagine how...
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I always thought like in a too-caring way.
I thought it was funny at the end of 27 when that kid calls Rachel a "name she's been called before." Haha.
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i loved #28.
hey you know how marco says "how about if we just forget it and don't tell jake and go to the mall and see how many cinnabons ax can eat before he explodes?"
strangely, he could've done just that.
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28 was awesome cuz it was so pointless. They didn't have to do any of it.
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exactly finally someone agrees with me
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Dude, the Underground really confused me the first time I read it. It seemed like a lot was going on or something...
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huh? what are you talking about?
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Why why why did I have to leave book 4 at school that one time..
Don'tcha just love the conversation in book 29, The sickness, where Marco discusses all the words for throwing up :P
haha
Edit: I thought of a random question. How do you guys pronounce Hork-Bajir? like Ba Jar or Ba Jeer? lol, just curious, I think I say the second one
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^^^^^^I just call it Hork-Ba Jeer. Did anyone else get confused over the whole plural vs singular aspect of the word Hork-bajir? So is there such a thing as Hork-BajirS, with an S? I dont remember ever reading it that way.
And another thing, if the Yeerks were so advanced in building stuff, why the hell didn't they have futuristic building machines, as opposed to the earthmovers they kepy using to do every job. And they had storage sheds in the Yeerk Pool. Wtf? Dont they have an imagination?
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Yea that did get confusing.
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Apparently, the Yeerks didn't. They never invented their own. Always, their tech is just an inferior copy of other aliens', like the Skirt Na's and the Andalites' techs.
They didn't even have an elevator in the human entrances of the Yeerk Pool. It was stairs. Not escalators. Stairs!
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Don'tcha just love the conversation in book 29, The sickness, where Marco discusses all the words for throwing up :P
haha
oh yeah that was great.
somebody once told me plural is hork-bajir. no s.
don't you remember ax saying yeerks don't build? everything they have, they steal from other races.
does anybody know how visser three brought back the venber? it was something about programming. I don't remember, and the ebooks skipped those pages explaining.
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I just remembered getting in trouble for laughing at the poop thing in #6...that was funny.
...Wow, I thought about it, and I don't remember that book at all...So, I don't, morfowt.
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I remember my friends and I used to read Animorphs at school in the corner during reading time. We got some weird looks, lol.
One thing I really like about this series is that it blurred the line between good and evil.
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This series had a lot of funny moments, but nothing made me laugh harder than the scene in #49 where Rachel's sisters think Ax is a Pokémon.
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wait they thought he was a pokemon? where was that?
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In Book 49 ("The Diversion"), when they are evacuating Rachel's family.
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I know which book. i know the scene. but i don't remember any sentence or anything referencing pokemon.
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This series had a lot of funny moments, but nothing made me laugh harder than the scene in #49 where Rachel's sisters think Ax is a Pokémon.
Oh my gosh, I just read that book. I started laughing histarically when I read that part.
I can see it now. Yeerk, Hork-Bajir, and Andalites trapped in Pokemon balls, lol. What if the Animorphs really battled like that?
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Man, I don't remember that. I'll have to read that one again.
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I know which book. i know the scene. but i don't remember any sentence or anything referencing pokemon.
Ax says something about Jordan thinking he's a pokeyman.
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...oh...that was reference to pokemon? I thought jordan really said pokey man...oh now she saying needing to train to ax makes sense.
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It's pokey man. That's from Gumby, not Pokemon!
why oatmeal anyways? i mean c'mon. oatmeal?
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why oatmeal anyways? i mean c'mon. oatmeal?
Is it the apple? Or the cinnamin? Or maybe the instant part? Who knows?
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uh, isnt it maple and ginger?
not apple and cinnamon...
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uh, isnt it maple and ginger?
not apple and cinnamon...
I'm fairly sure in the books it's apple and cinnamon. I may be confusing the show with the books, though. One of us, at least.
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it's NOT apple and cinnamon.
the tv show got it right actually. instant maple and ginger oatmeal.
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it's NOT apple and cinnamon.
the tv show got it right actually. instant maple and ginger oatmeal.
The books came out before the show, so if the books say one thing and the show says another I'd say the books are right. Especially since this happens early in the series.
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I'm pretty sure the show had instant maple and ginger.
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it's NOT apple and cinnamon.
the tv show got it right actually. instant maple and ginger oatmeal.
The books came out before the show, so if the books say one thing and the show says another I'd say the books are right. Especially since this happens early in the series.
no I meant the books said what the show said...oh *sigh* what I'm saying is the book said instant maple and ginger and the show said instant maple and ginger. that's what I've been trying to say.
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There were a lot of complaints about it, I guess, but I didn't mind the backtracking thing in MM1 where K.A. had the different people tell the parts from there point of view. The rest of the MM books didn't necessarily need that though...Especially not MM3 since they were already kind of all over the place...
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it's NOT apple and cinnamon.
the tv show got it right actually. instant maple and ginger oatmeal.
The books came out before the show, so if the books say one thing and the show says another I'd say the books are right. Especially since this happens early in the series.
no I meant the books said what the show said...oh *sigh* what I'm saying is the book said instant maple and ginger and the show said instant maple and ginger. that's what I've been trying to say.
Ok, sorry. Maple and ginger it is.
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There were a lot of complaints about it, I guess, but I didn't mind the backtracking thing in MM1 where K.A. had the different people tell the parts from there point of view. The rest of the MM books didn't necessarily need that though...Especially not MM3 since they were already kind of all over the place...
I liked that. it was like showing the same scene from someone else's prespective. I wished all the MM were like that.
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There were a lot of complaints about it, I guess, but I didn't mind the backtracking thing in MM1 where K.A. had the different people tell the parts from there point of view. The rest of the MM books didn't necessarily need that though...Especially not MM3 since they were already kind of all over the place...
I liked that. it was like showing the same scene from someone else's prespective. I wished all the MM were like that.
I especially wished that MM4 were like that. MM3 not so much, cuz that would have been crazy.
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hey, I think MM#2 had something like that. you know how rachel notices the smoke. I'll bet that was from the fire the others managed to make. now in the next chapter, they're still trying to make a fire.
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I think it was...It would've been different in MM2 since they're split up for a lot of it, but...
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MM 2 and # 12 (I think, the Jaguar/Sario Rip one?) are more-or-less the same plot. Ditto with the Ax-Mosquito one. Has anyone noticed that?
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I think you mean #11 and...I guess they were...The Mosquito one (#18) was a little different though.
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actually #11. how are they the same plots? they're completly different.
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They don't have the same plot, actually...more the same concept.
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no #18 didn't have the same concept.
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Yeah. 18 was different. But, MM2 and 11 did have close to the same concepts.
I'm I the only person who thought the cover of #32 looked funky?
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uh...I doubt it. but I don't think it looked funky.
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It just looked...Odd. Rachel turning into the starfish...I laughed when I saw it.
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Had to explain the plot of animorphs to my Mum yet again *sigh*
no one else gets it
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I don't know if I can try with my mom...It's a confusing plot.
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I can't try with my mom. not only do I have to explain it, I have to explain it in japanese.
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haha poor you morfowt.
My Mum gets it, just forgets all the time...
and once, I was on vacation somewhere, we just met this guy and I explained the entire plot of animorphs.. I was about 9 and probably annoyed the crap outta that guy.
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lol.
I can just imagine that scene.
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So can I...That's funny...
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Hmm, my Mom doesn't get Animorphs, but my Dad kinda does. Every now and then, the first time I read the series, he'd ask me what was going on in the book, and would, more or less, understand it. My Mom is not much of a sci-fi person unless it involves Star Trek.
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Pfft...Star Trek.
Every single time I bring an Animorphs book to school, I get asked what it is. Kind of annoying.
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Every single time I bring an Animorphs book to school, I get asked what it is. Kind of annoying.
I had that problem too :P
I miss the good old days, of going to Target and buying a new animorph book, good times.
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um...I'll just settle for the library. besides I have no money, and if I want a book, my mom doesn't let me buy, she says to go find it at the library.
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Pfft...Star Trek.
Every single time I bring an Animorphs book to school, I get asked what it is. Kind of annoying.
i dont get asked that the animorphs books and show was very popular by me some people still read the books at my school
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See, no one at my school knows what Animorphs is...most likely because they came out right after or in the year they'd been born...
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Im the only person in my school who's probably even heard of Animorphs. The only other people I know who now of the books' existance are my next door neighbor(Who got me interested in Animorphs), her younger brother, my cousin, any of my friends who see me reading on of the books
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One person knows what Animorphs is and has read them at my school. Just because she has older sisters, though.
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Haha, there was this boy in my fourth grade class who was an Animorphs fan. There was only one copy of each book, so any time we both wanted the same book, we'd have to bargain and exchange, lol.
One day in fifth grade the teacher was giving a lecture on birds, and he held up a picture of what looked to me like a red-tailed hawk. He said, "What is this bird?" I had the serious urge to shout, "It's Tobias!"
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When I was in fourth grade, one of my best friends started reading Animorphs, so we started trading off. We'd each finish a book at the same time, then I'd give him back the one I'd just read and he'd give me the one he just finished. We normally got to each book within a day.
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The opening of the Megamorphs book with the Time Matrix was probably one of the darkest moments in the series...then again, that whole damn book was dark as hell. Yay for darkness?!
What's weird is, even though Animorphs was pretty popular, I didn't meet any other hardcore fans in person until college. My friends were just the "meh I'll read one, then toss it" type. No matter how much I tried to convince them x3 These days I convinced my boyfriend to read the whole thing (he's Pez001 on here) and yeah, he didn't run screaming for the hills, so that's rather a good thing XD Success, finally!
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Ten years and it still sends a chill down the spine
someone give this series a freakin meddle already
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What medal to you think would fit?
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i was remembering elementary school and i thought back to when one of those animal trainers came to do an assembly when I was in 4th or 5th grade (can't remember which year exactly. but i was only in that school for 4th and 5th lol). She brought out a red-tailed hawk and you could hear all the kids in the auditorium whispering "Tobias!"
and i remember if my mom and i went to the store and i didn't have money to buy the newest book, i would carry it around the store and read it completely while my mom shopped lol.
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Something like that happened at my school. It was funny cuz this guy brought a red-tailed hawk and there were only three people in my school who knew what Animorphs was, so everyone was like "who?" when we said Tobias.
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Aw I wish we had red-tails in Australia. no fairs.
I accused a butterfly of being an Animorph the other day...
so I helped it get to a garden.
and then later, I saw a caterpillar, told Mum to be nice to it and take it to the garden. She ended up throwing it toward the garden, so I apologised to it. I said "sorry Jake, Marco, or whoever, if you're an Animorph!"
yea my Mum thinks I'm nuts by now...
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As for totally random thoughts. My sister and myself were walking this evening and had a whole out discussion about Andalite anatomy. Like how would organs be arranged and how things would work. No idea how that got started, but it lasted a good 15-20 minutes.
We touched briefly on Hork-Bajir and Yeerk anatomy as well. Though not as extensive as our Andalite discussion.
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I finally read #53 a few days ago, and I absolutely loved when Tobias told off Jake at the end. It broke my heart.
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As for totally random thoughts. My sister and myself were walking this evening and had a whole out discussion about Andalite anatomy. Like how would organs be arranged and how things would work. No idea how that got started, but it lasted a good 15-20 minutes.
We touched briefly on Hork-Bajir and Yeerk anatomy as well. Though not as extensive as our Andalite discussion.
Haha yea that'd be a fun conversation, lol.
Like how the heck can they eat with hooves? that just blows my mind, haha
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Like how the heck can they eat with hooves? that just blows my mind, hah
Ya know, I don't think we actually talked about that. We talked about the placement of the hearts, how big their lungs would be. Where would organs be in the first place and would they have doubles of anything since they have the humanoid torso and the deer/horse back? What sort of digestive/elimination system would they have since they don't chew stuff? How big would an andalite baby be? How would their spine work since it has to curve from torso to deer/horse body and the tail.
Do they have double rib cages? I guess they'd have to in order to support everything.
Yeah, like I said we had a good 15 minute discussion. We also briefly wondered how the Yeerks could have a complex brain being as they are. Since I'm pretty sure it's been said that creatures with small structures can't have complex brains...or something like that. Things have to be a certain way in order for a complex brain to be possible. I don't know, gotta look that up.
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Wow...that's...Quite interesting, actually. Something for obsessive nerds like us to ponder.
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Like how the heck can they eat with hooves? that just blows my mind, hah
Ya know, I don't think we actually talked about that. We talked about the placement of the hearts, how big their lungs would be. Where would organs be in the first place and would they have doubles of anything since they have the humanoid torso and the deer/horse back? What sort of digestive/elimination system would they have since they don't chew stuff? How big would an andalite baby be? How would their spine work since it has to curve from torso to deer/horse body and the tail.
Do they have double rib cages? I guess they'd have to in order to support everything.
Yeah, like I said we had a good 15 minute discussion. We also briefly wondered how the Yeerks could have a complex brain being as they are. Since I'm pretty sure it's been said that creatures with small structures can't have complex brains...or something like that. Things have to be a certain way in order for a complex brain to be possible. I don't know, gotta look that up.
I have a few theories on
Andalite anatomy and Yeerk brains.
Andalites might have a kind of bone structure linking the top part with the lower part. This way the spine doesn't really curve like that. Two parts hook to the bone(s). As for the tail, I'm not sure. Scorpions have forward swinging tails, which it why Andalite tails are often compared to scorpions.
As for Yeerk brains, Yeerks tend to be influenced by their hosts. Hork-Bajir controllers tend to have less intelligence and more trouble speaking than Human controllers. Visser Three has a HUGE ego and superiority complex, which may be caused by inhabiting an Andalite.
This makes me think that Yeerks don't really have sophisticated brains. Maybe just memories or something, but a lot of it has to do with the host's. Kind of a mental symbiosis type thing, where the host brain influenced the mental capacity and possibly personality of the Yeerk.
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As for Yeerk brains, Yeerks tend to be influenced by their hosts. Hork-Bajir controllers tend to have less intelligence and more trouble speaking than Human controllers. Visser Three has a HUGE ego and superiority complex, which may be caused by inhabiting an Andalite.
This makes me think that Yeerks don't really have sophisticated brains. Maybe just memories or something, but a lot of it has to do with the host's. Kind of a mental symbiosis type thing, where the host brain influenced the mental capacity and possibly personality of the Yeerk.
Ok, I see what you're saying there. That makes sense. :D
On another random note we loved how the Hork-Bajir aren't bladed for the sake of being scary. How perfectly suited they are for where they live and how each blade has a purpose.
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I think Animorphs was the first series to give me a headache...Stupid Ax and your advanced explanations.
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Stupid Ax and your advanced explanations.
Heh, that just made something pop in my head.
"Ax, explain it again like you would to a child."
*explanation is still way too complex*
"Um...ok...try explaining it like you would to....a Hork-Bajir! Only include simple pictures and sock puppets."
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Hahaha....Hahaha...
I think I actually understood like one or two...But I don't know.
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I'll have to re-read the series. It's been a while since I first read them. I was in grade school, so of course the complex explanations were way above me. Even in a kid's book. Heh. Will have to see if they're still just has confusing and if I really do need pictures and sock puppets to get it.
Of course...then you'd have to explain the concept of sock puppets to Ax. Could end up being to much of a hassle. Just smile, nod and assume he knows what the heck he's talking about.
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As for Yeerk brains, Yeerks tend to be influenced by their hosts. Hork-Bajir controllers tend to have less intelligence and more trouble speaking than Human controllers. Visser Three has a HUGE ego and superiority complex, which may be caused by inhabiting an Andalite.
This makes me think that Yeerks don't really have sophisticated brains. Maybe just memories or something, but a lot of it has to do with the host's. Kind of a mental symbiosis type thing, where the host brain influenced the mental capacity and possibly personality of the Yeerk.
Ok, I see what you're saying there. That makes sense. :D
On another random note we loved how the Hork-Bajir aren't bladed for the sake of being scary. How perfectly suited they are for where they live and how each blade has a purpose.
I don't know if they ever explained the blade on the end of their tail. I think they have one. I imagine it might be a kind of anchor. They hook the blade into a tree so their tails can support them better.
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They evolved as prey animals and that was their defense against their predators.
I think that with regards to eating Andalites have some kind of esophagus in each of their legs that's connected to the stomach. They probably have some kind of sphincter in what would be the soft center of their hooves that rips the grass up and sucks it in.
You know, we should all create a discussion and make a textbook anatomy illustration of an andalite someday! :nerd:
As for yeerks, of course they're sentient creatures; what part of science says they couldn't be?
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My head hurts again...
This is almost as bad as Ax...
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I really don't have any definite theory on how Andalites eat. I think they travel too fast for the grass to be smashed into paste and absorbed through the hoof. They do need to be moving in order to eat, though. Water can be taken while standing still, as far as I can tell.
They might have something that clenches down on whatever grass is stepped in, ground up, and then absorbed.
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Totally off topic probably, but I didn't read through the whole thread.
I have a question. How do you store these books(like best conditions) so that they stay in good condition? I want to know because I have the whole series and want to pass it on to my children, etc. What is the best way to preserve it?
Thanks!
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Totally off topic probably, but I didn't read through the whole thread.
I have a question. How do you store these books(like best conditions) so that they stay in good condition? I want to know because I have the whole series and want to pass it on to my children, etc. What is the best way to preserve it?
Thanks!
this is a totally random thoughts thing so you can say whatever you i want i guess,
id say vacum sealed in plastic bags but i know nothing on how to preserve books, but i do know that the oils in skin damage paper
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They seem to go out of there way to make sure the characters never say "I love you" to each other.
Han Solo's legacy lives on
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Yeah, they do. I know Jake and Cassie did once and said he loved Cassie to Marco another time, but other than that, I don't remember...And I don't remember anything with Tobias and Rachel...
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yeah they all love each other, who wouldnt after going through all of that
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They just weren't able to say it...
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You know, we should all create a discussion and make a textbook anatomy illustration of an andalite someday
heh, theories and diagrams. The whole works. Someone whose really good at drawing Andalites can make the illustrations.
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Thanks Esplin...BTW...NICE sig...if that's what it's called I'm not sure. The picture thing with Esplin written in it.
Also, a question again. I was looking at some of the E-book things, and are they all the original cover pictures? Because I really don't remember Rachel morphing into Super Rachel....can anyone clarify?
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Thanks Esplin...BTW...NICE sig...if that's what it's called I'm not sure. The picture thing with Esplin written in it.
Also, a question again. I was looking at some of the E-book things, and are they all the original cover pictures? Because I really don't remember Rachel morphing into Super Rachel....can anyone clarify?
Yes it's a signature. Also called a sig or siggy.
And yes, that book originally showed her morphing super Rachel.
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Cool thanks daph..I really didn't remember it. I have mine in storage right now, so I couldn't check it out.
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dude if Shaq morphed a Hork-bajir, he'd techniqually shrink.
Unless you count the forehead blades
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dude if Shaq morphed a Hork-bajir, he'd techniqually shrink.
Unless you count the forehead blades
ahahaha! nice, rob.
hmm i feel like reading an animorphs book, right now! must...resist...tem ptation :P
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dude if Shaq morphed a Hork-bajir, he'd techniqually shrink.
Unless you count the forehead blades
Haha...That's funny.
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dude if Shaq morphed a Hork-bajir, he'd techniqually shrink.
Unless you count the forehead blades
Yeah, the tallest Humans would be at or above eye level of Hork-Bajir. They grow anywhere from seven to nine feet tall, but I think seven is average.
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Hmm...you know, one of Cassie's coolest moments was the end of MM1...Yay for Estreen-ness.
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haha i found a roach today at home, i told my mum i needed to acquire it because i didnt have a bug morph yet.
she just gives me a weird look and says "you do that."
honestly i'm surprised i'm not committed yet, haha
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haha...Nice Claire.
I think I'm actually going to try hard to acquire my dog tomorrow...It'll be fun, I haven't done that since like 4th grade.
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haha yays
its just not fair, everytime i try and morph it doesnt work!! :P
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I know! It sucks!
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hey heres a random question.
if you met the animorphs (yes, the animorphs), what would you say to them?
first things first, gimme the power to morph, thats what i'd say, haha
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I'd say the same, probably.
Not much else you can.
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hmm... good question... i'd ask for the morphing power, then i'd ask if i could join... lolz
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If you ask for the morphing power, you'd either have to join or have Ax's tailblade at your throat while you were tied up for three days.
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i'd rather just dissapear for 3 days, but thats just me
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Since this is totally random, although not exactly related to animorphs...I have a question.
Since I came across wrong in my first post, and my words were taken the wrong way, any chance I can get some positive Karma? I hate looking at the negative number knowing it was skewed.
Hehe. :)
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Just to help my cause, I applauded everyone in this thread so far. Lol.
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mmm...do you promise to have good manners from now on? eh what the heck. sure.
and actually, this is talking about animorphs, although there is a totally random thoughts thread in the bored board. you can talk about anything there.
oh, and you didn't applaud me. I have posted in this thread. You don't have to applaud, just saying you did miss me.
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So I was making smores with my sister last night and I was thinking...maybe the animorphs would have been happier all those times they were huddled around the campfire in the hork-bajir valley if they had a constant supplies of smores?
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If you've ever been camping in the high-temperate latitudes at night in autumn, you know that 'huddling around a campfire' is a very LITERAL phrase. You huddle, because the fire's heat only reaches a few feet beyond the Burning Zone (that spot where idiots stand, causing their pants to catch fire). Outside the Warm Zone, the transition to Cold is IMMEDIATE. You can literally get frostbite on the backs of your legs while almost scorching your knees and face. *personal experience*
A few blankets would have been even better than s'mores, but I like the way you think. ;)
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Ooook....I'm never gonna use that phrase again, it now has a whole different meaning for me >.> I actually hate camping so I wouldn't know about any of that.
But I wonder what would've happened if they had blankets and smores...and maybe some indoor plumbing...
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Okay, eww. Huddle and cuddle are NOT the same thing. Huddling can be done ALONE. Cuddling requires another person or person-sized object.
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Lol...Person-sized.
For some reason, I just pictured Ax as Zorro for a second...Haha...Wei rd.
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Haha, Nice, Este.
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Wow. It's amazing how quickly I can get through the Animorphs books now.
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Seriously have you people read these books, my god!
Just finished TAC and I gotta say, damn. I mean I don't cry at much, but after ten years of doing this the eyes still water on the last pages. I still get nauseous when Arbon gets trapped. I still laugh cuz lets face it, Visser Three is just a funny mofo.
Someone give this lady a freakin medal already
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*bows*
Thank you! Thank you! ;D ;D
...oh...wait...you meant K.A....didn't you?
*AWK-ward*
*crickets*
*che-DEET che-DEET che-DEET che-DESTOMP!!!*
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rofl.
I can totally imagine that scene.
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PETA will be at your door protesting your cricket massacre in 3...2...1...
*DING-DONG*
:P
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Crickets are good luck. >:( And PETA is creepy.
Tobias is awesome!
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mmm...do you promise to have good manners from now on? eh what the heck. sure.
and actually, this is talking about animorphs, although there is a totally random thoughts thread in the bored board. you can talk about anything there.
oh, and you didn't applaud me. I have posted in this thread. You don't have to applaud, just saying you did miss me.
I didn't miss you. It says I can't do it more than once in 12 hours when I try now. So I must've got you right? No worries, I'll get you tomorrow just in case. And if I forget, it's probably because I am working all day and studying for an NASD exam. Lol.
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Crickets are good luck. >:( And PETA is creepy.
Tobias is awesome!
so are the rest of the Animorphs! Yay for morphing awesomeness.
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Huzzah!!! 8)
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If you've ever been camping in the high-temperate latitudes at night in autumn, you know that 'huddling around a campfire' is a very LITERAL phrase. You huddle, because the fire's heat only reaches a few feet beyond the Burning Zone (that spot where idiots stand, causing their pants to catch fire). Outside the Warm Zone, the transition to Cold is IMMEDIATE. You can literally get frostbite on the backs of your legs while almost scorching your knees and face. *personal experience*
A few blankets would have been even better than s'mores, but I like the way you think. ;)
How weird would it be to have burns on the front of my legs, and frostbite on the back of them? I'd have to do a slow, constant turning motion all night.
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Obviously, someone does not live in an area populated by millions upon millions of LOUD flippin' CRICKETS!!!
AAAAuurghghh!!!! It's enough to drive ye' mad!
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I've gotten used to them. But millions? That would probably drive me insane. Ah, PETA'll probably be after me for killing spiders, too, then.
Know what bugs me? When people write awesome fanfics but take at least three months to update.
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Is that directed at anyone in particular (I take forever to update, but I wouldn't call any of mine awesome, so I'll assume that you mean someone else ^-^)?
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What I miss is DinosuarNothlit's fanfics.
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Obviously, someone does not live in an area populated by millions upon millions of LOUD flippin' CRICKETS!!!
AAAAuurghghh!!!! It's enough to drive ye' mad!
I live out in the country. I'm used to crickets. I've also gotten used to cicidas, since living out on the lake in recent years. It's just nightly background noise to me.
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Anyone ever see this??
http://fitey777.proboards79.com/index.cgi
I found it interesting.. >:D
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yeah. someone posted that in RAF classic. i'm actually a member on that forum...although I don't remember my password.
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I live out in the country. I'm used to crickets. I've also gotten used to cicidas, since living out on the lake in recent years. It's just nightly background noise to me.
I'd be used to them, too, except for three problems:
1. These aren't just crickets. They are city crickets. They are Camel Crickets. BIG HONKIN' CRICKETS, and each and every one of them has a 70 + decibel chirp. For the uninformed, that is a loudness level just below the noise of a washing machine, and well above the loudness of a normal conversation. Five of them together can cause hearing loss over a prolonged time. Millions of them are more than sufficient to drive me completely batty.
2. There are millions of them, and every last one of them wants to get his noisy self indoors (in other words, inside my HOUSE) every time it rains. It rains a LOT, out here.
3. There is a large holly bush below my bedroom window, right next to my bed. Several thousand crickets live in or near it. They are louder than the traffic on the interstate (freeway), which is VERY close to my house. At night, it gets REALLY loud. Painfully loud. Drive-you-up-the-walls-in-agony LOUD.
The only thing that keeps me from going totally bonkers? The walls of my house are almost perfect, acoustically, which means that any sound INSIDE my room STAYS inside my room, and any sound outside it stays outside it, provided that the windows are all closed.
However, my family has a bad habit of opening windows.
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Anyone ever see this??
http://fitey777.proboards79.com/index.cgi
I found it interesting.. >:D
Haha, this is reminding me of the days when my friend and I used to sneak off at recess and tell each other about the weird dude who disappears every three days. Or how we would dare each other to sneak into the janitor's closet, but neither of us ended up doing it. Good times, good times. :P
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I live out in the country. I'm used to crickets. I've also gotten used to cicidas, since living out on the lake in recent years. It's just nightly background noise to me.
I'd be used to them, too, except for three problems:
1. These aren't just crickets. They are city crickets. They are Camel Crickets. BIG HONKIN' CRICKETS, and each and every one of them has a 70 + decibel chirp. For the uninformed, that is a loudness level just below the noise of a washing machine, and well above the loudness of a normal conversation. Five of them together can cause hearing loss over a prolonged time. Millions of them are more than sufficient to drive me completely batty.
2. There are millions of them, and every last one of them wants to get his noisy self indoors (in other words, inside my HOUSE) every time it rains. It rains a LOT, out here.
3. There is a large holly bush below my bedroom window, right next to my bed. Several thousand crickets live in or near it. They are louder than the traffic on the interstate (freeway), which is VERY close to my house. At night, it gets REALLY loud. Painfully loud. Drive-you-up-the-walls-in-agony LOUD.
The only thing that keeps me from going totally bonkers? The walls of my house are almost perfect, acoustically, which means that any sound INSIDE my room STAYS inside my room, and any sound outside it stays outside it, provided that the windows are all closed.
However, my family has a bad habit of opening windows.
I see. Your pain far exceeds my own. Might I suggest ear muffs or plugs? You may have already thought of that before, though. If you really are loosing too much sleep, then it's a serious issue. Not getting enough sleep is a health risk.
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then why don't you just close all the windows in your room? there should be only like 1 or 2 at the most.
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businesses that think they have the right to screw over their employees. >:(
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Going offline for awhile. See ya'!
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Going offline for awhile. See ya'!
Bye. We'll miss you.
I do like her. She's nice.
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Yes. She is...Also a bit too smart...
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Thanks, Daphnes and Ken!
Also, Ken:
"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but it is not half so risky as none at all."
Make what you want of that. ;)
Furthermore...
A BIT??!
Don't get me wrong, but that really is the understatement of the millennium. ;D ^-^
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Some people have told me to try to learn at least one new thing every day.
What did I learn? I learned that a friend of mine doesn't know his own cellphone number yet. I didn't ask him how long he had had the number.
I think this topic is getting off track.
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Indeed.
Bunzzzz. Bun-zah!
What? Was that not RANDOM? Was that not Animorphs-related?
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CINNAMON BUNZZZZZ!!!!!
Okay, that's back on track.
Haha...Weird, Este...
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My Mona Lisa for a cinnamon bun!
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Ax was awesome! ;D
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Ah, the buffet that is the floor of a movie theater.
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Oh, yeah, I remember that scene. :P
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Haha...Good times...Goooood times.
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Some people have told me to try to learn at least one new thing every day.
What did I learn? I learned that a friend of mine doesn't know his own cellphone number yet. I didn't ask him how long he had had the number.
I think this topic is getting off track.
speaking of which, I don't know my home's phone number ;D
anyway, back on topic...
does anybody remember this line?
"yes she is hot. that is why she often wears less artificial skin" -Ax, #28 the Experiment.
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Oh yeah! And then Marco said something about switching those around, right?
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Haha...I have that book right here. He says "Yeah, well I think you may have your cause and effect turned around there."
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That book was a good 'un! I might just reread it.
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I love that book. It never had to happen...Haha...
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Hmm. I re-read it, and now I actually like it. I didn't before, though.
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The end of that was like one of Cassie's best moments.
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I imagine most Ani readers are familiar with the Goosebumps series. Now if you remember those special pick your route books you may recall the reader beware; you chose the scare! motto.
In a tribute to my total lameness I have for about 4 years now randomly burst out with a new (improved) Animorphs version of that
Reader beware; you're gaining more hair.....
*dramatic music*
get it: more hair, in for scare. When you morph an animal with fur and
Ah whatever
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Haha...You're a dork, Rob.
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haha I agree with Ken.
on another note, I really wish I could have a cinnamon bun, why dont we have cinnabon here?
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Cuz, only America is aloud to have crazy Andalites.
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I imagine most Ani readers are familiar with the Goosebumps series. Now if you remember those special pick your route books you may recall the reader beware; you chose the scare! motto.
In a tribute to my total lameness I have for about 4 years now randomly burst out with a new (improved) Animorphs version of that
Reader beware; you're gaining more hair.....
*dramatic music*
get it: more hair, in for scare. When you morph an animal with fur and
Ah whatever
hey that would go really well with the goosebumps book: my hairiest adventure.
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Cuz, only America is aloud to have crazy Andalites.
*whines* well thats not FAIR!
hmm.. i see a fanfic coming along.. the australian animorphs..
lol *rolles eyes* whatever
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I've read some posts ragging on Alternamorphs. I personally didn't mind them, because I've read those kinds of books before. I wonder if there's a common dislike of them?
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they're terrible...in one book, ax says <even cooler than my tail?>
can you actually imagine ax saying that?
I've read those kinds of goosebumps books. the goosebumps kind were great. alternamorphs, not great. why turn to a chapter? how am I supposed to know where a chapter is exactly. it's easy to find a page.
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haha no, Ax wouldnt say that
those alternamorphs... a bit weird.
now i wanna read em for old times sake.
hahaha today, my thoughts... i was wondering how many people at the concert were controllers.. and whether or not we'd get trapped and all of us infested. nice thoughts.. XD
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Those Alternamorphs could have been better written, but I liked the idea and the books themselves. Don't hold a candle to Give Yourself Goosebumps and Choose Your Own Adventure though.
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Those Alternamorphs could have been better written, but I liked the idea and the books themselves. Don't hold a candle to Give Yourself Goosebumps and Choose Your Own Adventure though.
They are fun every now and then.
I don't see why people hated them so much.
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they're terrible...in one book, ax says <even cooler than my tail?>
can you actually imagine ax saying that?
I've read those kinds of goosebumps books. the goosebumps kind were great. alternamorphs, not great. why turn to a chapter? how am I supposed to know where a chapter is exactly. it's easy to find a page.
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In so many of his books Jake wants to punch his friends
That's not healthy
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well they ask him what to do...which is why I never volunteer to be leader.
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Ok...here is a random thought I was just having.
I just watched the movie Jumper and I was contemplating things. Would I rather be able to morph into ANY creature, alien or earth-bound, at any time and fight crime? Or would I rather be able to instantly jump to any point in the world as long as I've seen it before? And, theoretically, anywhere in the Universe, as long as I could live in the environment.
I know I have in the past, and maybe other people too, have thought about what kind of special power you'd want if you were a superhero...
If I could be born a Jumper, and then acquire the Morphing power, I don't think there is anything in the world that could stop you. I mean, in the movie Jumper, only the strongest people could jump the biggest objects(meaning they hold onto a car and jump it with them). It was supposedly impossible to *jump* a building with you, because someone died doing it in the past. However, Hayden Christianson's character does it because he is supposedly stronger.
So, think about it.
I jump to a secret cave, morph into whatever deadly creature I have in my arsenal, then jump right into a fight and kill whatever's in my way, then jump back, morph back, and jump home.
LOL anywho it's all nonsense, but I would LOVE to have both powers at once.
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It'd be awesome to have both powers. And morph like mid jump. One place you're human, another you're like a tiger.
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oh yeah that would be cool. as long as you don't get shocked by electricity. electricity running through your brain can stop you from jumping, or something like that. yeah, I've watched Jumper too. stopped after a while though. it was getting scary.
It'd be awesome to have both powers. And morph like mid jump. One place you're human, another you're like a tiger.
that wouldn't really work. morphing takes about two min. jumping is instant.
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So? None of this is real. We can make up new rules. Like, say jumping speeds up morphing.
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Yeah, and let's say while in morph we can jump as well.....i mean, how easy would it be to have a tiger's instincts and also the power to jump. You'd never get touched. LOL.
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oh man, that'd rock!!
those powers would be so great
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what if you add in invisibility? then even if you're standing still, people can't see you.
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I'm bringing 7 animorphs with me on my trip to darwin.
Just random books I picked out..
One from each point of view, and an extra one of Cassies..
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Just finished The Ultimate the second time. I'm beginning to remember why I hated Cassie so much.
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I have this strange feeling Claire brought 44 with her...
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Lol, Ken.
Aw, now that I'm re-reading The Sacrifice, I'm confused. On one hand, I believe peace is the best way out of any conflict. On the other hand, I don't think the Yeerks like peace very much. Now I don't know who to hate and who to like. Wow, this series gets really dark at the end.
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Now I know their lives are dangerous and all, but seriously, they talk about wetting themselves way too much
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what would you have said then?
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I say I was scared and leave it at that.
They are between 13 and 16.
No peeing self, please
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yeah but wetting your pants is more descriptive. saying you're just scared is kinds vague.
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I think they mentioned puking a couple of times, too...
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you guys remember in book 29 marco listed all the different ways to say puke?
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Yeah. That was kinda funny. :P
Why is it that every time the Animorphs prevail in battle, the Indiana Jones theme starts playing in my head?
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I hear the Star Wars theme.
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I hear the animorphs theme song...
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You mean the one from the TV show?
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yeah that's the one
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No turning back, no backing down
No where to run no solid ground...
No place to hide, no one to trust, no one to help you when you're lost
There's only us.
It's all in your hands...Hold on, hold back the darkness...Gotta take a stand...It's all in your hands...
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I thought it was no turning back, no backing down...
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It is. I was typing too fast.
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you guys remember in book 29 marco listed all the different ways to say puke?
*Ahem*
vomit
puke
up-chuck
toss yer cookies
toss yer tacos
toss yer lunch
kneel before the porcelain throne
pay homage to the porcelain king
gaze into the magic mirror
peristaltic pyrotechnics
rainbow slime
hurl
earp
spew
lose your lunch
yo-yo lunch
eat in reverse
ailimentary humility
be sick
be nauseous
be nauseated
retch
gag
barf
expel
shouting groceries
the technicolor yawn
training to be a supermodel
heave
ralph
yak
blow chunks
emesis
stomach tsunami
throw out
riding the porcelain bus
whistling beef
bark at the ants
call Earl
bob
boot
de-food
hug the porcelain goddess
laugh at the ground
pray to Dionysus
paint the walls
sell the Buick
talk to Ralph on the big white telephone
urp
vurp
yack
yarf
york
*Bows*
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*applauds Estelore*
Very, very nice!
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Thank you! Thank you! I'll be here 'til Thursday.
Oh...wait...I'm leaving today until Saturday. So...yeah. Bye! :sign0203:
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Lol, thank you. Now I have an even better reason to tell Mom I don't want to eat breakfast!
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Haha, awesome, Este.
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i have a question whats kasu mean?
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KA screw up.
basically the term used to describe when K.A. made a mistake in the books.
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oh that makes sense thanks
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I don't see why people get so worked up over KASU's. I mean, with the already large plot, the sub-plots, the twists, AND character development... I don't blame her for messing up every now and then.
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I guess some people are just perfectionists. to be honest, i didn't recognize half of the KASU's there are. the only ones I do notice are the big ones (really obvious ones) and maybe one or two small ones (not so obvious) . Big ones like Jake can thought-speak and such in book 1.
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i just didn't know what the letters meant when i came across them
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Consider them as fanfic opportunities ;)
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I now know what rachels bear morphs feels like
awesome
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...Okay...
I really want to be a tiger.
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which bear? she has both grizzly and polar bear.
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grizzly, duh.
claws too, surprising smooth
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Sounds like lots of fun.
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more interesting then fun
dead animals aren't a whole lot of fun
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.......Um.....Okay. ...?
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well...that was definetly random...
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At the Mounted Animal Nature Trail...
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Every time they talk about the futures for one of characters who isn't gonna make it I can't help but yell.
Dammit Jara!
dammit boy
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Well that's what you get for re-reading it...
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...you'll be sure to see...
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i remember stores around me stopped carrying the series like right before the final countdown (or right in the middle...can't remember exactly lol)
but i remember seeing the final book in a store one day..didn't have money to buy it..so i skipped and read the last page...and was like "wait...wtf!?"
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I was once gonna build me a model blade ship out of this nice box I had
Just found the box.
Not gonna be making anything anytime soon
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wouldn't you first need to know what a blade ship looks like?
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Dude they describe every time it appears "twisted battle ax, triangular shaft, diamond head bridge."
It wouldn't be perfect, but still....o well box is crushed anyways
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yeah, but I've seen pictures, and they look different from how I imagined...
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There was once this notebook that had illustrations of the blade ship and the dome ship
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yeah, but I've seen pictures, and they look different from how I imagined...
well, that's the beauty of a book, you decide how things imagine, it's not really right or wrong.
I mean pictured something pretty different from taxxons that appeared on book 43. I bet no two people here really picture the exact same Rachel, etc, etc
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so you're saying the blade ship you planned to make, can be completely different from how others imagined, and it'd still count?
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Visser Three needs his own evil theme song.
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I always imagine some kind of theme song from a horror movie.
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I always hear the Darth Vader theme, XD.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9L8nsJLCHg[/youtube]
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I always hear the Darth Vader theme, XD.
Yep, the Darth Vader theme would fit any villain like Visser Three. I think Darth Vader even had a habit of killing people that got on his nerves, too. Using the force choke.
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Cut off Tobias' Left Wing lol
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I always hear the Darth Vader theme, XD.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9L8nsJLCHg[/youtube]
That's called the "Imperial March", btw.
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:fighting0040:
Hehe, Star Wars nerdiness!
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Aw, c'm'on, everybody knows that ;)
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I don't
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you know hearing it now, that'd be perfect for the blue man.
I approve
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what blue man?
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V3
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Ha it totally fits him.
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You know, seeing as he's 50000 yrs old Erek is a bit of a prude.
Or maybe he's a prude because he's 50000 yrs old....
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what's a prude?
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lol someone overly prim? I think.
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hey, if KA was trying to show that no species is all this or all that (andalites are not all good, yeerks are not all bad), does that mean there's a helmacron that's not an egomaniac, a taxxon that's not hungry, a pemalite that wasn't happy, a mecora that wasn't...cassie-like (cuz I couldn't think of a better word)?
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I agree.... except the helmacron thingy... the helmacrons are ALL egomaniacs. That, I am pretty sure... =)
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agree? I was asking a question. how do you agree with a question?
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I meant that i answered yes, except for the helmacron thing (possibly the Taxxon thing too)... LOL.... :D
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???
I just thought of something totally random, stupid, and weird.
Animorphs: The Musical
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what is a musical anyway?
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It's a movie or play where the characters break out into song...It's got a lot of musical number and what-not...
Animorphs the musical would be scary...
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It would be
AWESOME!
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Yeah, I can totally picture Ax singing. :P ::)
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Singing: *Cinnamon-BUUUUUUUNZ!!! The greatest human invention!*
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Let's make it! :)
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Alright! Whoo!
Man, that'll be a loooooong musical...
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But Leo! I mean, Ken
"WWeeeeeeee can do iiiiiiiiiittttt, wweeeeeeee can do iiiiiiiiiittttt, we can make it if we TRYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!"
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an Animorphs Musical would be amazing... I would TOTALLY support it
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I can imagine it now...
Guy: *sits down at theatre* Well, this "Animorphs" musical sounded really interesting.
Show starts
Fifteen hours later...
Guy playing Jake: RAM! THE! BLAAAADEEEESHIIIP!!!
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Featuring Rachel's exciting solo-"Let's do it!" :D :P
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Imagine the costumes...
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*raising hand*
I am OFFICIALLY turning this into a Joke-RPG thread!!
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I don't get it, why a zone 91?
Everyone knows area 51, it's referenced in all sorts of things, why change the name and rough location and leave everything else the same.
I think the government was involved in that books, just like south park is involved in the government
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no guys, no! no musical animorphs! *shakes head*
lol. yea it'd be funny. but no.
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too late, claire. it already started. in the animorphs rpg board.
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really? i'm gonna check that out
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I don't know why I've never thought of it before, but Melissa must have been made a controller by the end. Friend of an Animorph, daughter of Chapman, they must of got her once they started doing round up.
How strange not to notice it
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Kind of related, but once I was talking to my brother and I accidentally said "Andalite" instead of "Israeli."
Absolutely no idea why.
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Once in Astro-Physics class a few years back I accidentally said 'Andalite' instead of 'Satellite'.
Ouch.
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Did they laugh at you? ;)
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I'm the top-of-the-class, gets-everything-right, teacher's pet curve-breaker.
Of course, they laughed at me. ::)
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YOu're a curve-breaker?
Ooh, I can't STANd your kind!!! ;)
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Rules of Survival for the curve-breaker:
1. Get every answer correct. Even if you miss one, act like you didn't. Maybe the teacher won't notice the mistake. Better yet, just don't miss any.
2. Know how to defend yourself, because everyone officially hates you now.
3. Find a human shield of sufficient size to protect you from the angry mob. Utilize this human shield when necessary.
4. Feel free to take advantage of the fact that your teachers now adore you, because they no longer have to 'adjust' the grading scale, and they can be as brutal and straightforward as they wish, when it comes to grading. You've just saved them a LOT of homework.
5. Remind your new enemies that someday they will work for YOU, so they'd be wise not to upset you now. Curve-breakers have been known to make pay-cuts and lay-offs. Make sure that they know this.
6. If they REALLY DON'T CARE...run. Run far and fast.
Of course, I don't adhere to ALL of these rules, but that's 'cause I'm generally a nice person. ;)
Anyway, only one person in the class actually knew what an Andalite was, and we had a very interesting conversation...
until the white-coats came in and dragged me away into a padded room, because I was talking to myself. ;D
(Kidding. Sheesh, gullible people!!)
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I didn't believe you. well I didn't at the point when they dragged you.
#1. I haven't been doing that.
#2. does not caring that others hate you count as defending yourself?
#3. I guess I'm doint that fine.
#4. I don't really like doing that.
#5. I didn't know that, so duh I don't do it.
#6. well I'm not really fast but I have pretty good stamina.
so what's my grade on this?
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The only thing I liked about the Alternamorphs books was finding the little words on it...I only own the first one so I like finding <Join Us>
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speaking of which, can anybody imagine ax saying "cooler than my tail?" ?
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Dang it, I really want to make an Animorphs parody, but I don't have any friends who are boys.
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For some reason I've had the This is Sparta techno remix stuck in my head the last few days, except in my mind it always goes like this:
This is madness!
Madness?
THIS
IS
LEERAAAAAAAA
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lmao, Mirienne. Good one! ;D
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We could make, like, a parody of Animorphs based on 300, I guess. Ha.
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wow, that would be really weird.
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I want this sweatshirt (http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/store/product.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302028546&PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524442175037&bmUID=1216835097168).
It's so Animorphs!
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*nods, claps hands with glee*
COOL!!
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i wonder if Shawn Ashmore will ever "escape" Animorphs. my mom was watching some random Lifetime movie...Shawn was in it..and she goes "Isn't that the guy from that Animorphs show you always watched?" lol
she does it anytime she sees him lol. She did it a few weeks ago when i bought The Ruins dvd and watched it...which surprised me because he looks scruffy in that movie and nothing like he did in Animorphs lol
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I wanna make an animorphs video too!
but I don't have any friends who wanna be in videos with me..
I could get maybe two or three people involved.. Todd, Luke and Nick.. thats maybe...
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Homer: "Kids, wanna go to the mall? they're baking new cinnamon buns! which means they're throwing out all the old ones!"
-From the Simpson's Quote thread.
When I saw that I instantly thought of Ax. He would be all over that offer. He really loves those cinnamon buns.bunz,unzzz...I'm going to stop trying that now.
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Maybe it's cuz I'm still tired, but I had a very random thought.
I was thinking: I bet in his spare time, Ax went on to write an Andalite to English phrase book. One of the prominent phrases being "Where is the Cinnabon?" followed by "I want (insert number) Cinnabons!" and finally "Don't eat (insert number) Cinnabons."
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Just want to thank the Applegates for providing me with an endless string of uncrackable Animorphs related passwords.
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What amazes me about the book series is just how realistic it was, despite being fiction.
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re-reading the series...i had forgotten how early in the series that the free Hork-Bajir happened. For some reason, in the years since reading the series as a kid, i had it in my mind that the colony didn't happen until at least the late-teens books lol
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Okay...Who the heck decided Jake/Rachel was a good pairing?
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aren't they cousins?
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Yes. Which is why it is so weird...
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Okay...Who the heck decided Jake/Rachel was a good pairing?
Uck!! Disgusting...
and I can't tell you how many fanfics you can find on ff.net that're Jake/Rachel...sickos
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I saw a Tom/Rachel fic once... :P
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I've found one that somehow involved Tom, Rachel and Jake...
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WHAT. D:
That is so wrong that I have to read it now.
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Did Ax and Tobias live in the same meadow, or separate ones? I'm not sure, but I always assumed they lived in the same place.
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they lived in the same forest, but no. Tobias lived by himself in his own meadow. Ax lives in a different area in his scoop.
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Something about having an andalite around seems like it would make hunting significantly more difficult...
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you know you've read too many animorphs books when you go to the zoo and start thinking "ooh, I can just hop this fence and acquire that sun bear, that'd be great to morph"
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Something about having an andalite around seems like it would make hunting significantly more difficult...
That is one of the things I thought about. It could make hunting more difficult when there's an Andalite running all over the place because he needs to feed too.
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you know you've read too many animorphs books when you go to the zoo and start thinking "ooh, I can just hop this fence and acquire that sun bear, that'd be great to morph"
HAHAHAHAHA! I used to think that back when I was younger and first reading the series. Glad I'm not the only one that crazy. ;)
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you know you've read too many animorphs books when you go to the zoo and start thinking "ooh, I can just hop this fence and acquire that sun bear, that'd be great to morph"
dude i was thinking that with the crocodiles! but then i thought, what if i end up being allergic :P
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you know you've read too many animorphs books when you go to the zoo and start thinking "ooh, I can just hop this fence and acquire that sun bear, that'd be great to morph"
dude i was thinking that with the crocodiles! but then i thought, what if i end up being allergic :P
Haha! yep. Allergies, must watch out for those. Don't want to find out the hard way if you're allergic or not, so ... safer NOT to acquire anything ;)
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Am I the only one here who has random moments where I desperately need to read Animorphs, no matter where I am or what I'm doing?
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Am I the only one here who has random moments where I desperately need to read Animorphs, no matter where I am or what I'm doing?
oh i've had that before myself :)
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you know you've read too many animorphs books when you go to the zoo and start thinking "ooh, I can just hop this fence and acquire that sun bear, that'd be great to morph"
dude i was thinking that with the crocodiles! but then i thought, what if i end up being allergic :P
Haha! yep. Allergies, must watch out for those. Don't want to find out the hard way if you're allergic or not, so ... safer NOT to acquire anything ;)
So what if you aquire two or more things you are allergic to within a short period?
"We now present, the amazing Mr Magic and the burping Zoo....."
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Ax: We call it Hereth Illint.
Cassie: That sounds poetic.
Ax: It means burping DNA.
Marco: Now that's poetry!
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Oh, man, that scene in the 7-Eleven when Ax was trying to scare Loren made me crack up so hard.
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"I am a delinquent juvenile miscreant...." ;D
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Oh, man, that scene in the 7-Eleven when Ax was trying to scare Loren made me crack up so hard.
I forgot that. Can you tell me how it went?
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"Ah." Ax nodded. "She does not understand how menacing we are." He tapped her on the shoulder. "You do not know me," he said, "but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high
school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous fellow, and I am causing mayhem in this store."
He reached behind her and pulled three jars of baby food from the top shelf. Shoved them behind a box of macaroni. Shuffled the Cheez Whiz in front of the Marshmallow Fluff. Tossed a bag of lady's shavers onto a bag of hamburger buns.
"There. I have now shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of this shelf, undoing hours of labor by underpaid store employees. If you could see me, you would be frightened."
:P
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That is funny. Ax is such a goodie goodie, he doesn't know how to be a real delinquent.
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Thanks for posting that passage. I can't stop laughing!
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:happy30: :happy30: :happy30: :lol:
"...shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of the shelf..."
Is it just me, or does Aximili sound a WEE bit OCD?
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I don't know. I didn't find that, that funny. Personally, I laughed more at the scene with Marco driving in MM#1.
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:happy30: :happy30: :happy30: :lol:
"...shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of the shelf..."
Is it just me, or does Aximili sound a WEE bit OCD?
Ax is amazing. :happy34:
And Im also a touch OCD at times. ;D
My degree of obsessivness depends on any number of variables....
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Lol...That's such a great part...Ax is so awesome.
Marco driving in MM1 was great too...I could not stop laughing with that one either.
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That whole sequence was to DIE for........
Its so sad they couldnt have applied that kind of.... spunk, artfulness, poetic justice, humor, irony, and soul to the last book.
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Oh man, I love Ax in #49. And he's hilarious in #28, even though I don't really like that one.
Recently it seems I've developed this habit of comparing all characters to the Animorphs...when reading Watership Down a few days ago, I kept thinking "Hazel is Jake, Bigwig is Rachel, Fiver is Cass--oh jeez, what is WRONG with me?!!" :P
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Oh man, I love Ax in #49. And he's hilarious in #28, even though I don't really like that one.
Recently it seems I've developed this habit of comparing all characters to the Animorphs...when reading Watership Down a few days ago, I kept thinking "Hazel is Jake, Bigwig is Rachel, Fiver is Cass--oh jeez, what is WRONG with me?!!" :P
AH! The same thing happened to me when I re-read that book last week! :happy30: ^^ #28 He was hilarious in, even that one was so-so.
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Yay! I found the box with my A.C. in it! :)
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I was so happy when my brother handed me A.C. last year...Thank god his teacher had it and he remembered I like Animorphs.
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My friend and I used to huddle in the corner at reading time and take turns reading from Animorphs books. *sigh* Good times, good times.
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I have one friend who ever read Animorphs and whenever I say something about it, she rolls her eyes at me.
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That's how most people are. They just don't understand.
I remember one day the teacher came over and asked us to read for him. He seemed slightly disturbed, very confused, and completely weirded out afterward. I think it was one of the darker scenes.
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I got one person to read MM4 once...After he finished he came up to me and said "I didn't understand that at all, but it was good."
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Yeah. I find it funny that even with the explanations at the beginning of each book, they still don't make sense until you read the first one.
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I have one friend who ever read Animorphs and whenever I say something about it, she rolls her eyes at me.
you mean never read animorphs right?
yeah all of my friends are like that too...or at least the friends that know I read animorphs. It's not that I keep it a secret, it's just that I have no reason to tell most of them.
Yeah. I find it funny that even with the explanations at the beginning of each book, they still don't make sense until you read the first one.
not really. I didn't understand it until I read the first book.
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I have one friend who ever read Animorphs and whenever I say something about it, she rolls her eyes at me.
you mean never read animorphs right?
yeah all of my friends are like that too...or at least the friends that know I read animorphs. It's not that I keep it a secret, it's just that I have no reason to tell most of them.
No, I meant that ever read it. She read them, but isn't really obsessed with them, yet I am...
Yeah, I kept trying to read a random one, but I couldn't cuz it didn't make sense to me and I could never find the first one.
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...oh now I get it.
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I became friends with someone at my highschool mainly because he read Animorphs. We saw each other sitting at separate lunch tables, reading the latest issue, and started hanging out ever since. He knew a guy that worked at a store that got the latest issues about as soon as it was possible to get one, so he was quite up to date.
Sometimes I wonder what he thought of the progressive darkness of the later books, and the ending. Alas, I graduated before then and never saw him again.
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Lol. I knew NOBODY who read animorphs when I was reading them in school, they all sort of looked at me like I was on drugs when I mentioned anything about "oh, this sci-fi series I read, Animorphs..."
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o man, this one time,
at band camp in fourth grade, we had to talk about what we where reading, and someone had read an Animorphs book at random, so when they where done the teacher referred me as an expert, and I gave a little presentation "There are currently about 30 Animorph books including special edition (chronicles). The stories are narrated in order by Jake who....."
Took a got while to shut me up :D
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Lol. I knew NOBODY who read animorphs when I was reading them in school, they all sort of looked at me like I was on drugs when I mentioned anything about "oh, this sci-fi series I read, Animorphs..."
I knew one kid who did, and he was my best friend thru 3rd grade (when I switched schools)
I wasnt reading animorphs, bit we shared a great deal in common.... makes even more sense now...
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Lol. I knew NOBODY who read animorphs when I was reading them in school, they all sort of looked at me like I was on drugs when I mentioned anything about "oh, this sci-fi series I read, Animorphs..."
Ha! Nobody I knew in gradeschool read anything! I was the only one.
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For some reason, when I read Animorphs, it always has the corniest soundtrack.
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I wonder what happens when a Chee accidentally kills someone. Sure they can't purposefully kill anyone, but accidents are bound to happen from time to time.
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the chee will remember it, say sorry, and...just go on with whatever he or she was doing I guess.
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THEY EXPLODE.
Haha, no, if it was an accident it'd probably be okay.
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just a question how old is Ax in the books?
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Around the same age as the other Animorphs, I should think. He always seems older to me for some reason though...
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i thought that to i think its because he uses big words
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Ax is 14 years old in Earth years and 2 years old in Andalite years
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how do you know? i mean i believe you but where are you getting your information
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I heard it somewhere. I just don't know where. maybe one of the closed forums...all I know is I didn't learn that information from the books.
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Morfowt, you never said anything about Ax's age. Why are you trying to take credit?
Anyway, I read it in a book.
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I'm not. Yarin asked where'd you heard it. I heard it too, so I'm trying to answer that question...
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Ax is 14 years old in Earth years and 2 years old in Andalite years
I don't understand those numbers;
HBC gives Andalite year 8561.2 in 1966 and 8563.5 in 1968
That's 2.3 andalite years per 2 earth years: 1.15 Andalite years/year
so how are you getting 14 and 2?
And it wasn't in one of the books, just did a mass reread; won't have missed that one
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I'm pretty sure it wasn't in the books. as for those numbers...we don't know what month (or the andalite equivalent for a month) they were in, but even so, I guess it wouldn't work, so I don't know. I just know I heard somewhere that ax is about 14 earth years and 2 andalite years. The only definite thing is that ax is about the same age as the animorphs.
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Months are irrelevant in terms of the galaxy; months and weeks are because people are to lazy to 365.
Plus Elfangor was "wishing" for a brother 20 some years before he died. Too many misgiving to really now from the books how old he is
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They're everyones hours!!
Hehe
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hours are also irrelevant ;D
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They're everyones hours!!
Hehe
lol, I loved that running joke! Do you think Ax genuinely thought of them as "Earth hours" or was he intentionally provoking a response from Marco? I think it started out as him being serious, but then seeing that Marco was annoyed by it, Ax continued to do it to provoke him. :P
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They're everyones hours!!
Hehe
lol, I loved that running joke! Do you think Ax genuinely thought of them as "Earth hours" or was he intentionally provoking a response from Marco? I think it started out as him being serious, but then seeing that Marco was annoyed by it, Ax continued to do it to provoke him. :P
Indeed it was a long running joke, it persisted for several of your years.
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Indeed it was a long running joke, it persisted for several of your years.
heh, I can't believe I ran into that one! ::)
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Haha...Nice. That was always funny.
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And it wasn't in one of the books, just did a mass reread; won't have missed that one
I said it was in a book alright. Not the regular Animorphs book.
It was called Meet the Animorphs
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Well that book was wrong :-\
Ben Franklin should have a turkey morph.
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No. I'll take it's word for it. It was very official and made sense. Ax is 14 years old.
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He very well may have been 14 in Earth years
but there is no way he was 2 in their years or ours
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its not fair, I can't yell out "do you just hate trash cans?" because we don't have trash cans here, we have wheelie bins.. not fair :P
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its not fair, I can't yell out "do you just hate trash cans?" because we don't have trash cans here, we have wheelie bins.. not fair :P
We have wheelie bins here too, but have other types of bins too. Besides, everybody knows what I mean if I say trash can. :P
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haha ok then.
but its also not fair that i can't see a red-tail fly by or anything like that...
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Whenever I see a big bird flying by I always go "Oh, maybe it's a red-tail!" but it's usually just a crow. D:
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hawks sometimes will glide on the thermals not flapping thier wings if u see that its a hawk
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I just couldn't resist;
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w255/EB_TES/picture001.png (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w255/EB_TES/picture001.png)
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Nice, Whammyman! It's good to see you. I've missed you, man.
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I've still been here, just didn't post because there wasn't anything I wanted to say.
And sadly, no one ever replied to that statement. They just kept going with whatever they were talking about.
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Today when walking to the band room this hawk came flying super low and superfast over the bridge I was walking on, all crazylike. And I thought "OMG TOBIAS!!" But it wasn't a red-talied hawk, sadly...it had a reddish belly and brown and white stripes on its wings and tail. I'mma look up what kind of bird it is when I get home
So yeah, I immediately had to revive this old thread and post about it. xDDD
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i started to wounder if salt would kill a yeerk i think yes but not sure
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i doubt it.
they are slug-like in appearance, but not in any other way really.
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hmmm in that case only few ways to kill them one tie them down with string and starve then, oat meal, animals, boots ;D and guns
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i wonder what would happen if 2 yeerks tried to go in the same controller?
or how about a yeerk morphs a human and gets infested by another yeerk?
that'd be very ironic, them knowing how it feels :)
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i doubt it.
they are slug-like in appearance, but not in any other way really.
however they're body is very moist, so even if it doesn't kill them, it would have some effect.
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i wonder what would happen if 2 yeerks tried to go in the same controller?
or how about a yeerk morphs a human and gets infested by another yeerk?
that'd be very ironic, them knowing how it feels :)
Woah, that'd be crazy. Split personalities, maybe.
In the second case, what would happen to the Yeerk who infested the human-morphed Yeerk if the latter demorphed? ???
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what if a yeerk morphed human and a human morph yeerk
and the human now a yeerk go's into the yeerk now human? REVENGE
so hard to explain
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Woah, that'd be crazy. Split personalities, maybe.
In the second case, what would happen to the Yeerk who infested the human-morphed Yeerk if the latter demorphed? ???
A Yeerk-Controller, duh! :P :)
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who knows, maybe the yeerks are only evil because they have a TINY parasite in them?
i wonder what that would be called.. lol.
i've always wondered what happens to the yeerks (who aren't part of the human, obviously) when they morph fly/something small.
wouldn't they get crushed?
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y would they get crushed?
what if yeerks were all real in there heads?(meteorically)
and they destroyed all this stuff because there nuts
and ax is just part of there imagination (yes multiple people can think the same thing)
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eh for a more realistic answer...
the yeerk gets pushed into zero-space like other extra mass.
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They should have pushed for the Taxxons to permanently morph RANDOM endangered species.
I mean, a thousand ANACONDAS or similar snakes are living in the rainforests as Taxxon nothlits. Wouldn't that upset the natural balance of things?!
And, yeah, it might not fix the actual problem of poaching and environment destruction that some of the endangered species of Earth suffer, but it would help the dying out problem. Once a species is gone, it's gone.
The Taxxons wouldn't have cared less if they were fixed up with a numbat, or a turtle, or a rhino, or an eagle, or a tiger crab or an orangutang as long as they were out of their ravenous psyches.
Why were they only limited to snakes in rainforests???
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Why were they only limited to snakes in rainforests???
Cuz snakes on a plane was taken.
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Hahah!
Here's another one,
Who reckons Andalites CAN'T click their fingers?!
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Not me
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I just don't think they've got the strength with 6 thinny fingers for a hand.
It also beats me how the Yeerk is morphed along with the person who's morphing.
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actually seven fingers on each hand.
and I believe the yeerk goes into z-space like other extra mass in the body.
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Ooooooookay. ONE thumb and FIVE fingers, I think is what I am trying to say.
Really not sure about seven, aquwaigher-dude.
And what I meant with the Yeerk thing is, HOW does Visser Three manage to get taken into Z-space if he's not part of Alloran's DNA??? It's curious to me how the process doesn't expel the Yeerk from the host's body.
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Maybe he is just so into the brain that it morphs just like spandex.
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Ooooooookay. ONE thumb and FIVE fingers, I think is what I am trying to say.
Really not sure about seven, aquwaigher-dude.
And what I meant with the Yeerk thing is, HOW does Visser Three manage to get taken into Z-space if he's not part of Alloran's DNA??? It's curious to me how the process doesn't expel the Yeerk from the host's body.
it's seven. ax even says in #43.
it's like asking how come the process doesn't expel food and waste. it's probably because they're organic.
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My memory MUST be failing me. Why could I swear it was a total of six in each Andalite hand???
Your theory on the organic substances within the morpher does seems logical.
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Gafrash, I know that you get excited over Animorphs, as you should ;), but you could please stop putting so many thing s in bold and caps? It's kinda annoying, no offense.
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I've recently noticed I can get an Animorphs reference out of any situation.
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Do tell. :)
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I've recently noticed I can get an Animorphs reference out of any situation.
we need examples, Kennyboy!
gah, I must know what book it is where Ax talks to Alloran. curse you memory!
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book eight.
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Yep, got it. I'm gonna read it asap! :)
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so yesterday...I was driving up north on a road trip and...and... there's always a lot of roadkill out in the country up there. And I saw a hawk eating some of it. Mom almost didn't slow down in time to miss him XD But I was sitting there thinking "Fly, Tobias, Fly!"
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I totally convinced my step-brother to name his new rat David. ;D
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I wanna get a rat named David, but male rats are kind of gross..
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It bugs me that they didn't do more with Chapman
He's evil, he's an assistant principal, and he pointed the Yeerks in earth's direction.
Why not do more?
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i wonder what would happen if 2 yeerks tried to go into the same host..?
that's be interesting.
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Split personality! xD
Yeah, I also would have liked to see more of Chapman in the story, but especially Melissa.
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Sadly, it got pushed by the wayside :P
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i'm thinking yeerks (well, peaceful ones at least) could be kind of helpful in the real world.
lie detectors only work so well. we wouldn't have to have any kind of major court system. the yeerk could speak the truth (assuming it wasn't biased).
8)
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they are easily bribed so thats a problem
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That's a good idea, but I think it'd bring up all these other issues of privacy and whatnot.
So we're doing The 90's Pop Show in marching band right now, and it just keeps taking me back to Animorphs. Particularly when we play "MMMBop," I remember when they made David an Animorph and Cassie suggested they sing that song. Ha.
Although really, I don't know why we're even playing it. Everyone hated it when it came out, and everyone still hates it today...
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oh, maybe rather than the death sentence, we could establish a controller-sentence?
that'd give a yeerk a nice host to live in, and wouldn't kill the person ;D
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I was reading something to my dad about his work and there was this list of people...
One of the guy's names was Ax. :)
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I found a book review I did in year 5. for The Separation.
lol I was so lame.
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I was reading something to my dad about his work and there was this list of people...
One of the guy's names was Ax. :)
Sweeeet. ;D
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So I was talking to my brother about a Digimorphs crossover, and this came up:
"Jakemon digivolve to...TIGERMON!"
And for Pokemorphs crossover, he said how they would only speak their names just like the Pokemon do.
"JAKEJAKEJAKEJAKE!"
I was laughing so hard I was crying. It wasn't even that funny. xD
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So here I am and there are some people who have been over for like 2 1/2 days. So I thought of Ben Franklin's "Fish and guests smell after three days." Maybe they need Kandrona.
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I can't believe I never made that connection...
I had a dream the other night about Animorphs, it was like I was in a TV show. It was animated and looked kind of like the Magic School Bus show. Heh.
If they did make an animated show, I'd prefer something similar to A:tlA myself. ;)
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An animated show woulda probably gone better. I like the idea of them modeling after WITCH myself, maybe not the guys though. I hate it when cartoons go for the stereotypical buff guy and curvy girls - even when the girls are like twelve
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... I hate it when cartoons go for the stereotypical buff guy and curvy girls - even when the girls are like twelve
You bring up a valid point here, Uza-chan.
On the topic, with superheroes, I find this kind of depiction to be fitting. The protagonists HAVE to look interesting and dynamic in one way or another to make them likeable to the viewer/reader. Even if the characters are in their teens.
But the thing with the Animorphs is that WE KNOW they are meant to be AVERAGE 13 year old American teenagers.
And this is where I, too, struggle to depict them. In a nutshell, my characters NEVER end up looking like they're 13. Nghaaaaaaaaaaarrrrr gh!
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Don't forget about the fact that the bad guys always look butt ugly >:D
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Yeah, it's all stereotypes, I know.
The issue is having the skill to depict average everyday people, exciting enough for the reader to engage in a visual medium.
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So I was going to kill time with a computer game, asked the computer "Shall we immerse?" and then realized I should come here instead.
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So, like on Sunday, my kid brother got sick with God-knows-what and started throwing up every where, very icky! But it didn't take long for whatever the hell it was to spread to the rest of the family. And like, everyone's throwing up except like me and my parents. So, even though I should be all worries and stuff for my siblings, I just keep thinking "wow, I hope I'm like Cassie and end up being the only who's not sick" XD
Coincidentally, I finished reading the book where every one of the animorphs get sick minus Cassie just minutes before my brother started throwing up :P
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don't know why but for some reason I think to myself yesterday
Whatever city the Animorphs live in is ridiculous.
Two teenage boys should not be able to enter, and escape, a tiger exhibit unidentified when there are people around.
simply ridiculous
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don't know why but for some reason I think to myself yesterday
Whatever city the Animorphs live in is ridiculous.
Two teenage boys should not be able to enter, and escape, a tiger exhibit unidentified when there are people around.
simply ridiculous
agreed.
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I also wondered how they can live so close to the city, but still live near a farm. What happened to suburbia?
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I just thought of this.
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awesome. :bestpost:
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It would be cool if we could do a picture of like the Ellimist or Rachel like that.
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(http://i41.tinypic.com/2d3ktl.png)
fix'd
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Thats pretty sweet.
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Having stopped reading the books when I was young around book 50, and having gone back rereading the entire series before finishing, I am now on book 51 which is about where I left off. I really don't want to read that last book, this way I'll have something to look forward to. Perhaps I am insane.
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I say take a shot at it
It's said an depressing, but pay attention and you may be able to pull a happy ending out of it
It took about six years, but I did ;)
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XD Mirrienne . ;D
I wonder what happens to a Yeerk if it's been out of the water for too long. Dries up? :-\
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I wonder waht happens to a yeerk that gets salt on it?
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That would be cool. Grow a yeerk. Just add water.
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haha that woulda been awesome if they had just snuck a giant tub of salt into the yeerk pool and dumped it in.
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Just for curiousity, not even because it has any tactical value.
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BAHAHAHAHA
I HAD TO POST THIS
sorry i'll delete if it's inappropriate or whatev
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I wonder waht happens to a yeerk that gets salt on it?
well hopefully nothing b/c human nerves communicate with Na+ ions!!!!
oh god I have officially thought too hard about this series.
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wth mirriene? that is so random, howd u find it?
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when a yeerk is inside their host... how do they go to the toilet.... ???
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wth mirriene? that is so random, howd u find it?
http://4chanarchive.org
I'm dangerously cheesy bored.
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when a yeerk is inside their host... how do they go to the toilet.... ???
They may go through the whole digestive process in the pool. Or maybe they can hold it for three days.
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Or maybe they don't have to "go to the toilet". They don't eat nutrients, they absorb them from the pool. Similar to how a plant absorbs sunlight. You don't see flowers taking a dump, do you? Perhaps the Yeerk expels a certain chemical or something right after it 'eats', but if it isn't absorbing Kandrona at the time, it probably wouldn't be expelling anything.
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I got a coupon for a free box of Cinnabons the other day.
I finally see why Ax loved them so much. D:
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I wonder why Marco was never hooked up with someone. Or maybe Ax. Might have been interesting to have him fall in love with a Human, but have to hide the fact that he's an alien. Maybe a girl working at the Cinnabon.
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well ax does have the fling with estrid.
marco is the only 1 who never got any
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Oh yeah. Estrid. Another one of those forgotten minor characters.
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exactly my point
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when a yeerk is inside their host... how do they go to the toilet.... ???
i don't think they operate in the same with.. with kadrona rays and all.
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yeah they were filler books. I think there's a stretch of books that are unrealistic, have little effect on the plot, and are almost a waste of paper. They are still entertaining and funny, but I just have a hard time getting over how unrealistic they are. For example in book 28, where at the end Visser 3 gives up too easily and the animorphs somehow manage to escape on foot, followed by a bunch of humans. So what if the visser was locked behind a door, couldn't he phone in a bug fighter to blast them when they came out the other side of the building?
If you notice, there are some books that are just better written and the things the yeerks do to keep the animorphs from getting away are more realistic, ie that they would stop basically at nothing to keep them from getting away.
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the yeerks probably expel their wastes into the the human bloodstream, just like most internal parasites. and fetuses :o
hrmm now i wonder if the yeerks take oxygen and nutrients form the bloodstream too.
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The not-quite-yet-Visser-One-Visser Three noted to have heard of Cryak in The Return...
Could it mean that The Cryak is to the Yeerks what The Ellimists are to the Andalites?! Or could War Prince Alloran have stumbled upon Alloran, prior to infestation?!
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The not-quite-yet-Visser-One-Visser Three noted to have heard of Cryak in The Return...
Could it mean that The Cryak is to the Yeerks what The Ellimists are to the Andalites?! Or could War Prince Alloran have stumbled upon Alloran, prior to infestation?!
I am pretty sure this is actually true. In the Ellimist Chronicles, once the Ellimist and Crayak are in the black holes, they start their 'game'. They choose a race to slightly help. Ellimist chose the Andalites, and Crayak chose the Yeerks.
My random thought: I saw a Red Tail today flying over my house toward a county park. Yes. Even to this day, every time I see a hawk, or any bird of prey for that matter, my first thought is always Animorphs.
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http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/flyleaf/cassie.html
I heard that song, and I know its about Columbine, but I was still pumped thinking of Animorphs
P.S. I met someone the other day who was really sharp and level headed, and I almost said, "You remind me of the governor of California that the Yeerks went after"
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I love this books, I do; but KA high exaggeratted the dodging abilities of roaches.
I've been experimenting; they are way to easy to catch.
I haven't killed any, but I'm pretty sure I could
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robs where are u living that there are enuf roaches you can experiment with? :-X
ax was hilarious
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Ever notice how pre-book I dunno, late twenties, everything was still jolly and fun. And then it all suddenly became serious?
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Yes, the David trilogy was really the turning point for the series, perhaps even 19, if that was the decision with Cassie and I remember right.
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ya i think 19 was
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Hey look, I saw Tobias today...at the zoo. that's where he disappeared to. Mwahaha.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2421/3552538570_819d541779.jpg?v=0)
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i cant believe it! he managede to escape the yeerks all these years, and at the end, it was plain old normal ppl at a zoo that got him. poor little guy :P
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The experienced player can beat the Animorphs playstation game in an hour.
Keep in mind I said experienced, not good. I must have died forty times, but I still beat it in under an hour.
So much wasted potential that game
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When I first read through the series, Visser 3 didn't bother me. I just accepted his behavior as being that of an evil invader. Now it just frustrates me. He is a bad leader, end of story.
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4/5 Animorphs had parents with too cool of jobs.
Two vets, a doctor, a writer, a lawyer, a newcaster, a computer engineer; were was the bank teller, the supermarket mangager, the nameless peon at a mass corporate firm?
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When I first read through the series, Visser 3 didn't bother me. I just accepted his behavior as being that of an evil invader. Now it just frustrates me. He is a bad leader, end of story.
He suffered heavily from villain decay. It's sad, but true. He needed a major non-Human controller flunky that could be challenging enough to fight the Anis, but still lose. Then that guy would suck, and V3 would still rock. This way, on the occassions he did show up, the anis would feel like things were about to get really bad. Instead of not thining much of him being there.
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4/5 Animorphs had parents with too cool of jobs.
Two vets, a doctor, a writer, a lawyer, a newcaster, a computer engineer; were was the bank teller, the supermarket mangager, the nameless peon at a mass corporate firm?
Tobias' uncle was a mechanic or something, right?
Then again his dad was a galactic hero, so I guess your complaint still holds
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Here is a totally random thought. I really like the the way Visser feels in my hand. The cover and the size and thickness just do something for me. And the cover is awesome.
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This series had a lot of funny moments, but nothing made me laugh harder than the scene in #49 where Rachel's sisters think Ax is a Pokémon.
oh my goddess, I JUST GOT THAT. I always wondered what he meant when he said "pokey man"... MAJOR LOL!
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Oh... whoops. I seem to have quoted myself saying that I didn't get the Pokemon reference till then... sorry about that. Plus, how can you say it gets serious after David? What about 28? That is so NOT serious. Here, I'll prove it. I'll draw upon my Best Animorph Quotes word document (yes, it's real - and about 21 pages long :) ) :
Of course! It was just a routine inspection. Only by monumental misfortune had we encountered him. And in two seconds that misfortune would turn fatal. We were caged! Helpless!
<Poop him!> Marco yelled suddenly.
<What?>
Marco swept his hand across the bottom of his dirty cage. He grabbed a handful of... well, of dung.
A swift, overhand throw. The . . . product. . . flew! it hit Visser Three full in his face.
<Poop him!> Marco yelled again.
I swept my big chimpanzee hand across the cage floor and without pause threw the ... items ... as hard as I could, and with as great an accuracy as I could.
The result was that a large glop stuck on Visser Three's right stalk eye.
<Yah HAH!> I cried in sheer glee.
It was an unusual tactic. A desperate tactic. But I must say it was truly satisfying.
The six of us hurled biological waste product. Then the genuine chimpanzees, sensing a game, joined in.
The air filled with product.
Visser Three was covered within seconds. So were his human-Controller assistants. The four of them beat a hasty retreat through the doorway.
<Now that was fun!> Rachel said happily.
Now you CANNOT say that all the books after David were serious. THAT IS NOT SERIOUS PEOPLE!! THAT"S FREAKIN HILARIOUS!
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... I just realised, Marco does seem to get stabbed in the stomach a lot when he's a gorilla.
and soz to morfowt and everyone else bout the triple posting, I'm a noob here
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1. you mind just editing your original post instead of triple posting?
2. I just realized a KASU in that quote. it says "The six of us hurled biological waste product" but cassie was morphing so she shouldn't be able to throw biological waste product, or at least, she shouldn't be throwing and instead should be concentrating on morphing...
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I dislike the way things like Andalites are described each and every book.
I know that makes it so you can start anywhere, but when you do the series through, it's pages and pages of the same thing.
And really, they shouldn't define thermals every book either :P
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Why does Ax use a frolis maneuver on the Animorphs to get a human morph? That always bugged me
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Well, it seems like the best choice to me...Better than ambushing some random guy walking down the street and acquiring him.
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Because he couldn't just acquire a random human. What if said human ran into an identical copy of themselves? That could be problematic. Also, at that point of the series they didn't acquire a person without consent. The easiest way to get consent is with the Ani's.
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I dislike the way things like Andalites are described each and every book.
I know that makes it so you can start anywhere, but when you do the series through, it's pages and pages of the same thing.
And really, they shouldn't define thermals every book either :P
I always said that I hated how everything is explained at the start of every Harry Potter book. I mean, why bother reading it if you haven't read the ones before it? I mean, every Anibook they always state EVERYTHING about the Animorphs, the Yeerks... really time consuming and boring :(
oh! just had a really random thought... they never describe Andalite ears
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they're useless too. I started reading with #3 and even with those descriptions, I had no idea what was going on until I read #1.
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Me as well. I remember being just as confused about some things as I read #8, until I read previous books. I remember being confused about what Jake's battle morph was. It's discribed as liquid steel, or something like that. I was thinking "Wow, that's awesome and mysterious!" then later "Oh wait, it's just a tiger."
Further, why don't they just call it telepathy? Everyone knows what telepathy is. Though thought speak is somewhat self explanatory.
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The target audience was, what, 10-13? Basic writing style, same with newspapers. Don't use a more high-brow word where a simple one will suffice.
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I would expect an ~13 year old to know what telepathy is. But I guess it doesn't matter.
It never bothered me that Ax did the frolis maneuver with his teammates to get a Human morph. That would be the safest and most convenient way, especially with the "No sentient morphs without permission" rule. What I find odd is that he didn't stop with just Jake and Marco. He acquired Rachel and Cassie too.
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I would expect an ~13 year old to know what telepathy is. But I guess it doesn't matter.
Only the reasonably intelligent ones. The others have been raised on MTV Cribs and don't know a book from their butt.
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Maybe you're right. I was raised on X-Men, where two main characters are psychics.
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The target audience was, what, 10-13? Basic writing style, same with newspapers. Don't use a more high-brow word where a simple one will suffice.
Please. I've noticed words like obsequious being used in Animorphs books. If you can get away with friggen obsequious, you can get away with telepathy.
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You'll also notice the "BING BAM BOOM TSEEW TSEEW" and two/three line paragraphs.
Obsequious seems to be the exception rather than the rule.
TSEEW!
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Hey, onomatopoeia's are awesome. :P How ELSE would we know what a Dracon Beam sounds like?
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SCREW imagination!
"Damn TV! You've ruined my imagination, just like you've ruined my ability to...uh..." - Bart.
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idk I always assumed they never called thought-speech telepathy because it's not really telepathy
I mean throughout the series, there are three or four DIFFERENT kinds of telepathy which would get kind of confusing if she had simply referred to them all as "telepathy." There's the way the Ellimist communicates, the way the Leerans communicate, and then the Andalite version, each of which are nonverbal and slightly different.
If anything, I wish she would have been more specific with thought-speech. It's telepathy, but everyone seems to have a "voice," at least, people can tell who is saying what. You could just say this is everyone's *personality* shining through, but the few times it happens, there never seems to be a problem when one Andalite morphs another. Didn't Aldrea sneak into the room with the Quantum Virus by morphing Alloran? Wouldn't the guards have been able to tell that her voice was all high and feminine?
And then at one point in The Andalite Chronicles Elfangor say something like, "that's not really how thought speech works" when referring to specific words, WELL THEN WHY THE HELL ARE THERE SO MANY MADE UP ANDALITE *WORDS* ugh idgi tbh
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Thought speak started as emotional communication. It then evolved to specific words but it goes beyond language. Its complicated and could have been explained better but I think the basic concept works. I never considered it telepathy. Animorphs is science fiction.
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in Andalite Chronicles, Elfangor says something like 'The humans understood us, because thought speech doesn't use words so much as thoughts and ideas'. Well, if that's the way Andalite's speak, is that how the Animorphs speak when in morph?
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I always thought of it as still being able to hear the words of whatever language they were thought-speaking and not understanding those, but beyond that understanding the meaning of what they were saying.
...that made no sense...but I think of it as like subtitles in a movie or something.
On another note, the many many sentence fragments throughout the books are really annoying.
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I've always understood thought-speak to work as such:
There are no actual words, but rather universal concepts. That's why anyone can understand thought-speak. But, when you hear it in your head, you process it as English (or whatever you speak). Then, I figured that words like "Nothlit" and "Shorm" have no human equivalent, so when a human mind "hears" it in thought-speak it processed using English and produce phonetic words like "shorm" and "nothlit", which would sound different in, say, Taxxon language.
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I like that one orca.
*Wonders why the Yeerks didn't infest chuck norrris*
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Because Chuck's a girly-man.
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Can someone here tell me where I can get a Pemalite ship? I kinda need it..
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the pemalite ship resembles a robotic snoopy, so get a snoopy and paint over it?
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the pemalite ship resembles a robotic snoopy, so get a snoopy and paint over it?
I guess thats the closest I'll ever get to getting one anyway.. :( Thanks, Morf.
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Just remember the secret code:
[spoiler]6[/spoiler]
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it's not very secret anymore, is it?
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Just remember the secret code:
[spoiler]6[/spoiler]
That made me lol.
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I wonder why the Yeerks use the word bandit when they see the "Andalites"? A bandit is supposed to be like an outlaw type or something, right? Someone who goes against the laws? I don't get it.
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the "andalites" go against yeerk law?
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Maybe. If the Yeerks consider themselves already the owners of Earth, then it could make sense.
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Of all the things I took from my shattered dreams last night, this is what stands out most clearly to me.
Ax should NOT be teaching Andalites how to roll cigars.
And I'm sorry, but the inside cover of 24 just screams "token black guy to me" Only time, come on. It's just blatant
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I just got my 12 year old niece hooked on reading Animorphs. :)
She was over for the weekend and saw my Andalite chronicle book siting on the counter. She was instantly interested in the cool looking creature on the cover. I loaned her book one and she has been going on and on about how much she loves that book and how cool it is and she can't wait to read the next book. LOL :)
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Of all the things I took from my shattered dreams last night, this is what stands out most clearly to me.
Ax should NOT be teaching Andalites how to roll cigars.
And I'm sorry, but the inside cover of 24 just screams "token black guy to me" Only time, come on. It's just blatant
... what? what does the inside cover of #24 have to do with cigars?
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it doesn't dude
the cigar thing came from a dream I had last night
The picture of 24 is about the token
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what about the token?
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nevermind morf....
onto the new:
I'm now aware of 4 hanson references in the series.
This is unacceptable
MM2 where Marco suggest altering time to remove hanson from history (which if anyone can do, you have my support)
Suggesting they sing MMM-bop at David's initiation
A guy in 27 wearing a Hanson shirt (what GUY wears a Hanson shirt!?)
And of course the appearance in 35
Why Hanson KAA? I just can't understand.
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Maybe she's just a Hanson fan. I don't know who he is, so that's all I've got.
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I love Hanson. I'm glad they referenced Hanson. :P
I don't get the Hanson hating. They were a HUGE group at the time the books were being written, and most teenagers were listening to them.. It makes perfect sense.
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Christopher Ralph is gradually cementing himself as the image of Tobias in my brain :-\
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Christopher Ralph is gradually cementing himself as the image of Tobias in my brain :-\
I thought he made a great Tobias. I like the looks of show Tobias a lot more then the book description of Tobias!
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The show's Tobias doesn't fit the outcast bully magnet that the real Tobias is meant to be. No. I picture him more like my friend Patrick. Short, skinny, and blond.
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What only blonds can be bully magnets? ;)
To me the show Tobias did fit the outcast, socially awkward profile if not totally in looks then in the acting
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His hair was originally somewhat blond. Not to say only blonds can be bully magnets, but he is supposed to be blond. Or dirty blond. Not black haired.
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His hair was originally somewhat blond. Not to say only blonds can be bully magnets, but he is supposed to be blond. Or dirty blond. Not black haired.
I noticed that. It's like in the frickin' Harry Potter movies. Harry is black haired and green eyed, while Daniel Radcliffe if BROWN haired and BLUE eyed.
A random thought popped into my head a while back:
The Ellimist smiled, all gravity and grace.
It's weird. I was just thinking about re reading number 40, and that popped into my head. :P
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there was a thing in the Anibase about Tobias' hair. Apparently they picked the kids for the cover art, and then when he showed up for the photoshoot he'd dyed his hair brown. So she had one of those "well great what do I do now?" kind of crises.
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Why do you think they made Jake and Tobias look so similar sometimes? Sometimes they're both pictured as brown haird and about the same height. That's a big reason why I wish tobias' hair remained blond.
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Someone remind me to rant on how ludicris the opening missions are from 42 and 44 when we get to those in the rereads.
Ridiculous
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Someone remind me to rant on how ludicris the opening missions are from 42 and 44 when we get to those in the rereads.
Ridiculous
I shall do just that. But do explain why. I thought they (well, at least 44) were quite plausible.
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I forget both of those books.
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Dude, #42 had more of a militia feel to it. They were striking an enemy front. A quick in and out mission.
#44, was on a par with the 'crashed-bug-fighter' mission in I think #11. The idea to reveal the enemy's presence/acitivity to the world. I thought it was quite sound.
And yeah, Tobias' model hair-change was a big diff in the books. I half-way think they changed models in general.
I remember getting the Jake/Tobias-look mixed up in the begging also.
For that reason, I opt to think of Tobias as blonde. Not the way he is shown in the first books and even in the tv show.
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Exactly the problem
42 was trying shutting down portable kandrona's for the masses; in effect the same as the mission of 25; that is universal yeerk pools
And the bug fighter thing in 44, they have the blue box, several aliens, the chee all at there disposale, and there is still the alien alloys from the toilet in zone 91. Why would they need a piece of fighter. They've done it before
Both of these opening may have been more, even there own story, but then its just made into random and fairly weak path to the fantastic voyage and a trip round the world :P
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My knee hurts badly right now and the only think i can think of is MAN i wish i could morph so i can get rid of the pain
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Why didn't Marco morph the cobra and eat David? That would have been easy. ::)
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I'm in the middle of a reread and I'm on Megamorphs1
Marco's driving and running over trashcans...
"Do you hate trash cans?" Jake asked. "Is that your problem? Do you just HATE TRASH
CANS?!!"
it makes me laugh every time
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does anybody else wish that they'd not put the 'intro' into all of the books?
i really doubt someone would jump right into the series, and it wasn't fair to us loyal fans (who had to re-read the same thing over and over).
maybe it was just for filler? still, it wasn't needed.
my name is jake would be enough.
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I think by the last 10 or 20 they were unnecessary.
I was more upset that they contradicted each other than anything. And that you could never just SKIP them because sometimes threads of plot were in there.
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Well, the intros average a max of about 2 pages in the large-font small-page Animorph books, which is like 30 seconds of reading and after that it sort of goes into actual plot matters. It might get repetitive, but it's not really horrible in my opinion. For the amount of time it takes to read, I think it's fair for the people who DO jump into the series. It took years to finish, so I expect a new kid to pick a book off the shelf with the prettiest cover sooner or later. I doubt that most people even here at RAF started with book 1 or 2.
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I don't know if this was intentional or not, but I just noticed the Full Member rank on RAF and got a chill.
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i wonder if Elfangor liked cinnamon bunz-zuh.
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Not sure if he ever stated liking a particular food.
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I wonder how long it took Elfangor to get over being able to make mouth words-zuh.
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I wonder how long it took Elfangor to get over being able to make mouth words-zuh.
That is Aximili, not Elfangor.
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Yeah, but Elfangor definitely spent plenty of time as a human. It stands to reason that he would be thoroughly fascinated by having a mouth, just as Ax was (they're both Andalites, and naturally don't have mouths). Elfangor spent several years as a human, though, instead of just 2 hours at a time every once in a while like Ax, so while Ax was still playing with words years after first morphing human, I think Elfangor should definitely have gotten used to the concept of speaking sonically rather than telepathically. I was just wondering how long that would have taken him.
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lol I can imagine him and loren going out to dinner parties and her kicking him under the table every time he'd go like "Yes, the motherboard is nearly complete. Motherrrr. Bor-duh. Mupbbbbbbbter board. Complete. Plete. plllllete. Complete."
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That's a good point.
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if the yeerks were so power hungry and mistrustful of each other why did they allow Visser Three to keep the most powerful host?
why wouldn't a member of the council have taken the only Andalite body?
maybe the emperor should have taken it, or if the emperor was afraid that would blow their cover, give it to one of the other members of the council so other yeerks would guess they were emperor.
Allowing Visser Three to be the most visibly powerful had to undermine their authority.
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actually, now that you say that, it makes a lot of sense for them to leave the Andalite body to Visser Three. It left him the suspicious figurehead of the war while they remained in control and power of it. And, as far as we know, Visser Three was the only Yeerk punished at all once they lost, so it turned out to be a pretty good contingency plan. As far as we know, the Council of Thirteen got off scot free.
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From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Berenson):
Favourite Morphs Green Anole Lizard, Flea, Seagull and Lobster.
oooook... weird... [sarcasm]obviously it would not be the falcon, dolphin, dog, nor tiger...[/sarcasm]
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Whoa... yeah, that's dumb... y'otter edit that. That's just wrong.
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I would if I knew how...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_edit)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_policy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_policy)
Check out the section on "major editing" on the first page. There's a link to click to edit right on the page about Jake. Basically, I think you just make your change, site a reference if necessary (I don't think it would be in this case, especially if you just wanted to remove that "fact") and make note of what you changed and why on the discussion page.
If you don't want to, I'll figure out the editing stuff later, because that kinda bugs me. I figured you might like to, though- you can put "Wikipedia editor" on every resume for the rest of your life ;D
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in book 31, why exactly did Tom throw away the note about taking his Dad to the sharing meeting? he didn't expect anyone except Jake to read it, and if Jake was just what Tom thought he was, Jake wouldn't have suspected anything...
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it would have been a twist if the bomb used to blow up the yeerk poolwas full of oatmeal. :o
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That wouldn't really fit the dark mood of the final arc, but it would be very very funny.
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Who here thinks Andalites have enough finger-strength to snap their fingers?!
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I find myself devoid of a reason as to why, when they morph smaller animals, they only morph one.
Instead of sending excess mass to z-space, would it be possible to just convert it into enough replicable to be of equal mass to your body, then go biblical on Yeerk-butt
Swarm of locust morph!
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Heck, if you're going that far, why not have them draw on the apparent inherent mass in Z-space and become their own army? Form of army ant colony! Go go gadget pride of lions! Power of thirty million swans!
Okay, I admit, that started out sincere, but went to... not as sincere the more I thought about it. If they can morph multiple animals, you just open up another huge can of worms.
This can of worms is named Cassie.
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I wonder why Taxxon mothers don't eat their own children during birth, there has to be fluids of some kind that would attract mom or at least other taxxons? Or a better question, how do taxxons procreate?
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I assume they don't have the "2-sexes" thing going on. Maybe they're produced by a queen or something, similarly to hive insectine creatures on Earth. Or maybe they all go to the sea and produce an explosion of baby-making goo. And maybe (since I'm speculating wildly anyway), when baby Taxxons are born, there are fluids, but these fluids are specially designed to be repulsive to other Taxxons. As the baby grows, the production of those hormones or whatever would wear off.
Maybe they grow in pods! They emerge fully formed! Actually, I kinda like that one...
Hey, here's a question. Why in the world can Taxxons swim so well? I don't remember their world being described with any oceans or seas or much water at all.
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I always did kinda wonder about Taxxon reproduction.
How was Ax able to "suck a snail through his hoof"? I always got the impression that Andalites didn't actually consume their food. I thought they just soaked up the nutrients.
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I kind of figured Taxxons were born independant. Meaning when they come out, they're ready to run and that's what they do. The fluid may be odorless or tasteless or something else.
I also wonder why they are good swimmers, as I kind of thought of the Taxxon world being a desert world like tantooine from Star wars. As unrealistic as that kind of world is.
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I kind of figured Taxxons were born independant. Meaning when they come out, they're ready to run and that's what they do. The fluid may be odorless or tasteless or something else.
I also wonder why they are good swimmers, as I kind of thought of the Taxxon world being a desert world like tantooine from Star wars. As unrealistic as that kind of world is.
They are, and they are adapted for "swimming" through their hive, and through sand. Swimming through water is much easier.
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Y'know... all those things that depict stuff that can "swim" through sand... I'm pretty sure that's not even remotely plausible... kind of like teleportation devices, they're just a standard of the genre...
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Y'know... all those things that depict stuff that can "swim" through sand... I'm pretty sure that's not even remotely plausible... kind of like teleportation devices, they're just a standard of the genre...
Taxxons at the very least are shown to eat the sand in front of them, and then expel it out behind them to simulate the swimming. This process would presumably be more efficient with water.
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I always wondered where Andalites go to meet each other when their home planet has no cities? Also, how much grazing land does each family have? Do some share? I NEED CULTURAL AND OTHER BASIC INFO!
K.A. Didn't tell us enough about her Alien children.
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I completely agree--a third of TAC took place on the Taxxon Homeworld, all of HBC and most of #34 took place on the Hork-Bajir homeworld, half of TEC took place on Ket, and an entire regular series book took place on the Iskoort Homeworld, who we never heard from again, and NOT ONE SCENE TOOK PLACE ON THE ANDALITE HOMEWORLD.
what's up with that
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whats up w/that is that KA sucks at explaining things. she does not have the capability to do that.
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I completely agree--a third of TAC took place on the Taxxon Homeworld, all of HBC and most of #34 took place on the Hork-Bajir homeworld, half of TEC took place on Ket, and an entire regular series book took place on the Iskoort Homeworld, who we never heard from again, and NOT ONE SCENE TOOK PLACE ON THE ANDALITE HOMEWORLD.
what's up with that
There was that weird distorted version of time that Elfangor, Loren and Visser Three created. That included part of the homeworld but it was a weird, time-warpified version. Hey, at least we know what color the sky is.
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yeah with a paragraph summary of how Andalite society works. DOESN'T COUNT.
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There's a part after book 19 when Cassie compares studying Yeerks to studying fatal diseases or something. That always bothered me. She's supposed to be the most sympathetic towards them, so I didn't expect her to say something like that after 19. It may have even happened after 29.
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That brings up an interesting point. I wonder how much of the series most of the ghostwriters actually read...
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In book 19 how exactly did a controller with a small child as a host follow Cassie in wolf form home? Was Cassie really so introverted that she didn't notice? Did Aftran really know tricks like how to always stay downwind, and how to follow wolf tracks? And she did this in the dark, didn't she? That seems like a big case of fridge logic there.
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In book 19 how exactly did a controller with a small child as a host follow Cassie in wolf form home? Was Cassie really so introverted that she didn't notice? Did Aftran really know tricks like how to always stay downwind, and how to follow wolf tracks? And she did this in the dark, didn't she? That seems like a big case of fridge logic there.
To be fair to Cassie (and by extension KA) she was in a massive funk after that battle from what I remember. Its kinda easy not to notice anything when you're feeling upset.
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That's true. She was probably really not paying attention, and likely not traveling as fast as she may have been if she was in a better mood.
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I was in the car today... and I saw not one. Not two. THREE HAWKS.
Three. Flying very close together. I freaked. The F*CK. OUT.
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Wow, they are amateur morphers...they really need to learn how to fly more like natural birds so that it doesn't alert suspicion from all the bird watchers :P
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In book 47 Jake says he doesn't have a brother anymore. Strange, since Eva is still Maro's mother and she was rescued two books prior. I wish I could be there to knock some sense into him. I would think saving Eva would renew his hope in rescuing tom, but it doesn't.
Actually the reread thread for book 47 should be up next, and I was going to mention it then, but I decided not to wait.
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First off, this thread is awesome. I'll need to read through the rest of it at some point.
I remember when the show was on and i watched it, I would have to watch it at my dad's and he stopped letting me because it "gave my brother nightmares". I was so angry about that.
Lately when I'm at work (at Target) I get bored and pretend that I'm morphing something. Usually a bird or something. I wonder if I make an odd face while I'm doing it because sometimes I get weird looks from people walking by? whatever.
Also, last week I was wondering what would happen if instead of "present day" the whole thing happened in, say, Victorian London? (Been watching Sherlock Holmes LOL) How would they deal with that?
I haven't chosen a battle morph yet. this is bothering me.
And I've noticed while re-reading that I'm having trouble keeping the age thing straight. i just automatically assume that they're at least in high school, and then have to remember that they're actually 13-15, which is like my little sister doing this stuff. Which is really weird to think about.
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^ i always have trouble with the ages too. When i first read the series, i always pictured High School, like 10th grade. I just couldn't picture 13 year old kids...which is weird, to me, because when i first read the Harry Potter series i had no trouble picturing those characters their actual ages in the early books.
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This is a completely random topic... hence why it is here on this topic!
Anyone familiar with Stargate? Particularly SG-1? It was my favorite show, and I think one reason I got into it was because of it's similarities to Animorphs. There are the Goaul'd, a parasitic snake that enter into their hosts spinal column and take control of them. Sound a little familiar? Except, unlike the Yeerks, they don't try to enslave the galaxy, at least not as hosts or "controllers". Instead the Goaul'd pose as mythical gods and have humans around the galaxy worship them. There aren't as many Goaul'd, partly because it's hard for them to reproduce. They can be in the same human body for hundreds of years or even millenniums, thanks to their healing and anti-aging capabilities, and they also have technology "sarcophagi" that will heal them from any injury and even restore life.
Also the Air Force are the ones who go through the Stargates to stop the Goaul'd mainly from coming to Earth, which has many potential hosts for them and slave worshipers. It is a top secret branch of the military, so no one knows that the war is going on, just like the Animorphs. The only difference is that the Air Force cannot transform into creatures and animals. Well, there are obviously many differences, but...
So yeah! Yeerks and the Goaul'd would get along real well. Or maybe they would just be enemies competing for the enslavement of humans... Who would win in a war between the two? (For those of you who have seen SG-1.)
PS Pop quiz: Where did KA get the name "Yeerk" from?
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In Lord of the Rings the elven word for Orc is Yrch.
I've seen the Goaul'd mentioned before. Judging from their abilities it would seem like they have a definite advantage over the Yeerks. Yeerks themselves give no advantage to their hosts, while the Goaul'd have a mutualistic relationship with their hosts. there's no control, and the host is practically immortal.
But if a Yeerk got into the host's head, could the Goaul'd do anything about it?
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Yes! Yrch. That's right! I always thought that was so cool.
About the Goaul'd, they definitely do control their hosts. And yeah, there not really scavengers like the Yeerks with technology. They've also been around a lot longer than them. And they do give their hosts almost super strength and they have awesome hand device weapons that fry your brain slowly, or something like that. If a yeerk went inside the host of a Goaul'd, hmm, that would be interesting... It would probably be very bad for the human, three beings fighting for control over his consciousness, it would be like three split personalities in a schizophrenic trying to gain control at the same time. But maybe the yeerk would dominate over the Goaul'd. I think the brain is a better way to control than the spinal cord.
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Actually isn't the spinal chord needed to send signals from the brain? If the Goauld can intercept the signals, the Yeerk wouldn't be able to do anything. Like being paralyzed from the neck down because the spinal chord is broken.
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(i know nothing about SG-1, but anyway)
sounds like it would make a silent invasion near-impossible, if both species were fighting over the same host. i mean, can you imagine the poor, constipated look on the host's face? yeerk in the brain, goald in the spine (limbs)? HAH. mental institution, stat.
also, i would just like to add:
i cannot read through a whole book without reading large portions aloud. D: and i always, always read the marco's driving shenanigans aloud... and... crap. i forget the book (i believe it is a jake book), but there's something about shooting and running down stairs? or a POP! POP! POP! of some sort. anyway. i'll look it up. D: greatest ever.
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I read books aloud, too! Usually, I'll pick one character and say all of his or her lines aloud as I read; this makes me sympathize with the character and try to get into his or her head in a more meaningful way.
I don't remember which book is the "POP! POP! POP!" but I do remember one of the Animorphs talking at some point about how gunfire doesn't sound anything in reality like the cute little explosive whizzy sounds you hear on television. That has always stuck with me when I watch the news or movies, and it serves for me as a kind of litmus test for whether or not movie and tv actors are convincing terrified.
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I already have the entire Ani collection. I saw a yard sale which had some cute children's chairs I was thinking of purchasing for Jack.
It turnes out her now-adult son didn't want his ani books anymore.. so now I have 20 extras.. I only had 9 dollars and could not afford the rest of the books there. :(
I must have looked like a total nerd. I was grabbing up all the books and was like "Oh this was a GOOD one!"
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hahaha, that is EPIC. I would have run home, gotten all my money and bought every single one off the shelf. :D
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I read books aloud, too! Usually, I'll pick one character and say all of his or her lines aloud as I read; this makes me sympathize with the character and try to get into his or her head in a more meaningful way.
I don't remember which book is the "POP! POP! POP!" but I do remember one of the Animorphs talking at some point about how gunfire doesn't sound anything in reality like the cute little explosive whizzy sounds you hear on television. That has always stuck with me when I watch the news or movies, and it serves for me as a kind of litmus test for whether or not movie and tv actors are convincing terrified.
haha- nice. sounds like something an actress would do. =O me, i know i don't sound like any of the 'morphs, so it actually throws me off a little to read anything aloud. :P but then i have an excuse to reread parts i like. >:]
and i'm pretty sure animorphs ingrained that bit of information into me, too. x'D i never trust gunfire when i hear it on tv or in movies, etc.
awwww, lucky patty.... i kinda want extras, too. >_____> i have a few books that are in terrible shape... *cough* all the manufacturer's fault, i swear.
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I got 1 thru 9, megamorphs 1 and 2. Andalite, HB and Visser. I got number 46 and the rest were lower.
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My AC is in pieces. Every time I go to half-price books I look for copies to add to my set.
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I have 3 of AC. I can send you one
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Did anybody else wind up getting AC when it was actually three separate books? I feel like I should be able to find extras, but maybe I only got those when they put them out through the Scholastic book club thing or whatever...
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I don't remember this 3 book thing.
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Did anybody else wind up getting AC when it was actually three separate books? I feel like I should be able to find extras, but maybe I only got those when they put them out through the Scholastic book club thing or whatever...
No, but I got MM1 in two books.
Really bugs me honestly, no in cover pick, and divided they are each really small.
But, stories still the same so it's okay I guess
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I have two copies of MM2, just because they have different step-backs. I wanted all of them, but my mom said no to twelve-year-old me. :(
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I always wanted the different MM2s, but I never saw more than one. D:
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i have see crayak. and his eye isn't as big as i thought it would be. behold, the mighty crayak! discovered chilling in our oceans!!!!
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Haha, awesome, estrid. :P
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o.O Creepy
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The only MM2's I can seem to find these days are the one with all of them and the one with Ax on the inside cover. Coincidentally, those are the two I already have >.<
And yeah, AC was originally released as three books. It's still divided that way in the single-book version (Elfangor's Journey, Alloran's Choice, and An Alien Dies), and they took all three covers and crammed them into the fold-out thingy (First book was the regular cover, second book was the close-up of Elfangor, and the third book was the Animorphs reflected in his eye).
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I always thought it was cool in #19 (?) when Cassie was in battle with that leopard (and totally screwed BTW), and she was facing defeat. Then Marco in Hawk morph straight dive bombs it......
So I guess my thought is:Few things are cooler in life than a Bird dive bombing a big cat.
(sorry if i got the details wrong, It's been a long time since I read that one :-\ )
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haha- yeah; nice role reversal. ^^
for some reason, that reminded me of their first ant experience. O____o
the image of those kids popping out of the sand/dirt with crazy horror is intense.
also makes me wonder how, again, they managed to convince themselves that termite morph would be a good idea. Dx
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I think they rationalized that it would be better if they morphed something from the same colony, and wouldn't immediately get attacked. Unfortunately they still got swept away by the one track instincts.
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Yeah, I can imagine how that mission briefing went down: "alright, guys,I know when we morphed ants it was a complete disaster and we almost died and everything...But We got a new plan; this time we will morph termites to accomplish pretty much what we failed at doing in our ant morphs. What could go wrong? Y'know because termites are completely different than ants. Who's with me?!?" :)
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The termite thing freaked me out. It was also kind of cool though. Is it for real that the queen controls them like that?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization
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One of several reasons I dislike Cassie: Why couldn't she get over killing the fricking TERMITE QUEEN?? It's an insect for crying out loud! Does she try to avoid stomping ants too? Though she did do a pretty good job of annihilating that weird ant-Cassie (which was an absolute impossibility).
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I started writing a post but I just kept adding and adding and adding. I C&P'ed into Word and it was a page and a half long. It was all the things I've been wanting to say for nine years but never had a place to do it. So I guess I'll start with one or two.
99% of it had to do with Elfangor, Tobias, and Ellimist. They both got so screwed over by Ellimist. Elfangor and Tobias both lost the woman they love. They both lose their families (well, Tobias did get his mother back). Elfangor should've stayed on Earth and started a computer company with "Bill" and "Steve". Please tell me I wasn't the only one who got that when they read Andalite Chronicles? Please tell me it's an old topic. :) I just wonder if Elfangor would have been a PC or a mac...
I was also thinking that this series is kinda like LOST for kids. They both fill me with the same feelings of intrigue and mystery. Also, how all the kids had special connections that made them well-suited for the job. The feeling that there is something going on behind the scenes like the game that Ellimist and Crayak are playing. It feels an awful lot like the situation with Jacob and the Man In Black. Also, they both have ties to Egypt. The Time Matrix was in Egypt before the Skrit Na absconded with it, along with Loren and Chapman. How else would you find a polar bear in Africa? Some confused animorph/andalite? 15+16+23 = 54 books = 108/2 :o j/k There is also the theme of being separated from your one true love. Sun an Jin, Penny and Desmond, Hurley and Libby, etc...
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haha omg keep going
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OMG, and the biggest LOST connection of all. Smoke Monster = Veleek, I think that's the name of that swarm cloud thing in MM1.
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Chanting: 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42
Over and over again. Round and round.
Yup. I'm crazy alright.
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Another random thought:
1st Helmacron book: 24
2nd Helmacron book: 42
42 is 24 backwards, haha.
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lol i never even noticed that! do you think it was deliberate?
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Apparently in Ancient India, whenever they'd want to stich somebody up, they'd pinch the two sides of the incision together, get a soldier ant to bite it, and then cut off its head, so you have a line of soldier ant heads holding your skin together.
All I could think of when I heard this was Marco in #5 when after the ant fiasco he found an ant still attached to him.
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Most of my random Animorph thoughts relate Animorphs to other Science Fiction books, tv shows, or movies, such as LOST. The other show that reminds me of Animorphs was Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles. John in Terminator 2 and the show always reminded me of Tobias. In the show, he is introduced to Cameron, a feminine terminator, who is gorgeous and gets his hormones flowing. She kinda reminds me of Rachel in her ruthlessness. Also, Sarah kinda reminded me of Loren (you know, if the Ellimist hadn't screwed with her). And the terminators are like anti-Chee. Dogs hate terminators but love Chee.
And another, totally unrelated thought: Did anyone else hate the fact Tobias and Ax had to "share spots" so to speak? Why didn't KA put Ax's book right after Marco's? It would've fit since Marco's first story was largely centered around Ax. It pisses me off because Tobias was my favorite character and, while every one of his stories was moving, I would have loved to see more of him.
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I guess KA thought there was more limited potential with stories surrounding Ax and Tobias because they live off in the woods. I would prefer if they just put Ax's books after Marco's and revolved everyone around normally.
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The Anibase implies that Scholastic decided to have Tobias and Ax share spots because they didn't think they would be as popular as the other Animorphs. It doesn't say why, but I would guess that it was because they thought readers wouldn't be able to relate to them as much, since they aren't human. Like the Anibase says, "boy, were they ever mistaken!"
Starting with 41, they changed the order to have Ax go after Marco and cycled everyone around. But since the final story arc started 4 books after that, they didn't benefit all that much.
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I remember thinking at the time that she should've ended the series at the end of a "cycle" which, by that point, would've been an Ax book, and ended with a 5th megamorph book.
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I've heard a lot of people say that the ending should have been like a megamorphs, which would have been excellent, but KA was too tired of the series to do a proper one.
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You know, my school is the only university in the country with a gorilla for a mascot. And you know what our library is called? Axe Library. My high school mascot was the tigers. I was born at KU medical center whose mascot is the jayhawk. Hawks, tigers, and gorillas...
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Okay, that's really cool. Aarea, it seems maybe Animorphs and you are destined to be ;)
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Actually isn't the spinal chord needed to send signals from the brain? If the Goauld can intercept the signals, the Yeerk wouldn't be able to do anything. Like being paralyzed from the neck down because the spinal chord is broken.
Yes good point. Go Goaul'd! It's hard to tell which one is tougher and commands more presence between the two, but the Goaul'd do pose as gods, so..
Also another similarity is the Tokra, a Goaul'd peace movement where the hosts were in union with their parasites, just like the Yeerk peace movement.
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when i was a kid, i was so convinced that a yeerk pool was located underneath my school -_-' i remember one weekend, running around in the woods around the school trying to figure out the best place to dig into the pool lol
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I just figured this out today, lol. I used to think it was awfully convenient that the Animorphs could use thought-speech while in morph. But, today it made sense. Andalites would need a way of preserving their ability to use thought-speech while in morph so it was built-in.
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There's something that people call a KASU that I don't think is. Okay in one book Jake is sprayed with roach killer while in roach morph. When he demorphs, he's ok. In book 11 when he's poisoned by a snake in tiger morph and he wonders if demorphing would help. People call this a KASU.
I don't think people get it. The first case is roach killer. Now if you go get a can of roach killer and spray it o n someone's arm, they won't have to go to the emergency room. They'll just punch you for spraying them and go wash it off. If you hand him a poisonous snake and it bites him, he's in serious trouble.
The point is that we're talking about two totally different poisons, the latter of which can quickly kill a Human. That's not a KASU. That's a valid concern.
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That, and it's relatively early in the series. He wouldn't necessarily know how everything works.
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waaah
curious george is mean
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waaah
curious george is mean
*tries to find the Animorphs connection* :shrug:
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Hey, everything can be connected to Animorphs if you look hard enough!
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True. I did connect Ancient Indian medicine with Animorphs a page or two ago.
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wow, i haven't checked this thread in a while.
its been too long since i've fully read the andalite chronicles.
i understood bill gates' windows, but completely missed the steve reference that KA made.
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waaah
curious george is mean
*tries to find the Animorphs connection* :shrug:
It was something a little kid said when Marco morphed gorilla. It was in book 37, I believe, where they were attacking known places that were run by Controllers.
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Ohh. The book I never reread. 'Course.
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I just finished the series this year with book 51. I started 5 years ago.
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I started rereading again on Thursday. I'm all the way up through #12 (plus MM1) and am now reading Andalite Chronicles. These books are still good, even though I'm 24. I've found myself crying at some points and I know I'm going to cry all through AC.
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I started rereading again on Thursday. I'm all the way up through #12 (plus MM1) and am now reading Andalite Chronicles. These books are still good, even though I'm 24. I've found myself crying at some points and I know I'm going to cry all through AC.
QFT.
except for the thursday part and #12. i'm on..... what. thirty.......eight? ish? no. i can't remember. but every book is still as amazing now as it was back then.
even these ghost-written books..... mostly. >____>
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thank you zero,
jeez genies, I had half a mind to smite you for that.
That is a line you should know even if you've never read the book far as I"m concerned
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Maybe it could go in the "Sentences you'll never forget" thread. Though I have a hard time placing it as well. I know it's there somewhere, but I forget where.
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thank you zero,
jeez genies, I had half a mind to smite you for that.
That is a line you should know even if you've never read the book far as I"m concerned
:eyebrow: I have half a mind to smite you for being ridiculous.
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so, i was just glancing around another forum (DON'T KILL ME. D:<) and double-checking my use of commas.
i do tend to overuse them...... a lot. let's just say.
and someone's using this quote to explain commas before names (something one of our self-proclaimed grammar nazis is unaware of, so i've been debating pointing that one out to him. since he seems to care. O___o) and it goes like so:
I’ve considered in general considered names parenthetical elements, but, unless I’m mistake, there are times when it’s not needed, such as:
"My boyfriend Tobias called me today."
In that case we can put commas in before and after “Tobias” but it’s not necessary because the phrase can be considered one unit, but if we reword it:
"Tobias, my boyfriend, called me today."
In this second example the sentence makes sense without the title “my boyfriend” so we treat it as a parenthetical element and the commas are necessary.
and because of the particular subject of the sentence, i thought- in my deluded mind- that i was still on RAF somewhere. the significance that this name had been used instead of just about any OTHER name didn't hit me until a few minutes later. D:
fail.
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So I've learned recently that the Northern Harrier has probably the best hearing of any of the groups (really any period) bird of prey move. I'm not sure about sensitivity to soft sounds, but apparently they hear acutely enough to locate a target by sound alone, even better than an owl.
Always interesting to learn something about a signature morph that wasn't in the books
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That's interesting.
Did KA not know what most of their bird of prey morphs are fishing morphs in book 3?
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haha; i don't blame katmike for not doing extensive homework on all of those morphs... there were a LOT, if i recall.
still.....
i watched bats this evening and couldn't help but think of the animorphs. they get subconscious contextual priority in my head, apparently. and not only for bats- more for any animal i'm not really familiar with. O____o
'oh, a zebra? must be an animorph.'
'raccoon? animorph.'
'squid? animorph.'
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Here's one for you all: Do you think Andalites use a base 12 number system, having 12 fingers and all? :D
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Most likely.
My friend brought this up awhile ago.
"Animorphs, the story of kids in tights touching animals. He's not an animorphs critic, he likes them. but he has a weird mind.
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LOL, canada. your friend definitely has a...... a unique mind. O____o
i can't stand beneath a bird without hearing marco's line: "caution: falling objects". one too many tobias-poo jokes in animorphs; now i don't trust a single bird out there.
it gets really bad in the city. stupid pigeons. >___<;
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something else I learned recently: Green anole, not found in California outside pet stores, so it probably wouldn't turn up in Cassie's barn.
Learning is fun
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when marie was drawing the cover of book one on isketch... i wanted to type "GREEN ANOLE!!" rather than just 'lizard'. D: most random lizard name to remember. ever. but that's #1 for you....
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something else I learned recently: Green anole, not found in California outside pet stores, so it probably wouldn't turn up in Cassie's barn.
Learning is fun
you would be surprised how many ppl think it is a good idea to "set their pets free" when they are tired of it ::)
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true enough, but still, probability of a single one ending up way the hell out on Cassie's farm when there still isn't a population in the region, just one wandering out there on it's lonesome...
I call KASU.
Can't find that list to confirm though
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i don't wonder that katmike took a dictionary of north american lizards, flipped a few pages and, with their eyes closed, pointed to the one they used.
this maybe might help possibly? (http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/greenanole.htm#2)
^^; not the first KASU, not the last.
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I like it how Jake practically proposes to Cassie when he's 16 years old - too bad it never worked out
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That scene made me happy. XD
I'm reading the Andalite Chronicles again, and keep thinking of about a million what ifs.
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When I read that book, I always think about how different Tobias' life could've been. If Elfangor had followed his friends "Bill" and "Steve" into business, then Tobias would have been raised by one of the richest men in the world. But he ends up being raised in poverty where no one wants him.
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When I read that book, I always think about how different Tobias' life could've been. If Elfangor had followed his friends "Bill" and "Steve" into business, then Tobias would have been raised by one of the richest men in the world. But he ends up being raised in poverty where no one wants him.
But then would Ax exist???? I just read the Andalite Chronicles and I understood that with Elfangor fixing what he had caused within the time matrix, then Ax would be born. . . .
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This series had a lot of funny moments, but nothing made me laugh harder than the scene in #49 where Rachel's sisters think Ax is a Pokémon.
I never understood what K A meant until now -LOL, cute
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Umm... Ax's birth had nothing to do with Elfangor coming back. He was born while Elfangor was gone.
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ya i dont think elfangor stayin on earth woulda stopped ax from being born
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You'd think so, but in TAC the Ellimist say's to him in the timeline he had loren make (the one he would have stayed in) Elfangor didn't have a brother.
Don't understand why, but I do believe that is what was said
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I remember Ax saying he was alive and grew up some while Elfangor was gone. what I'm guessing is that if Elfangor disappeared, his mother may have become depressed and decided not to have another child. Thus explaining why Ax wasn't born.
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I remember Ax saying he was alive and grew up some while Elfangor was gone. what I'm guessing is that if Elfangor disappeared, his mother may have become depressed and decided not to have another child. Thus explaining why Ax wasn't born.
Anything is possible at this point, maybe she developed a habit of screaming at the top of her lungs for every day of the year that she knew that Elfangor was alive and this drove her husband into a mating frenzy. This might not have happened if she thought elfangor was dead while staying on earth.
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Elfangor's mom?
Don't you mean scream at the top of head or something then? :P
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I don't know if anyone around here has ever played Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask, but I can imagine the phrase "Dawn of a New Day: 72 Hours Remain" going through a Yeerk's head after playing that game.
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thinking over my new signature, i need to make a list of 150 "things i should not do to the animorphs".
i can put a lot of money on how many awesome ones RAF can invent.
....maybe i should start a thread.
maybe a thread already exists.
...........maybe.
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DO IT! That'd make an awesome thread! Although maybe not "things not to do TO the Animorphs," more like "things not to do AS an Animorph." I feel like RAF could come up with some awesome ones.
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we had a thread like that a while back.
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DO IT! That'd make an awesome thread! Although maybe not "things not to do TO the Animorphs," more like "things not to do AS an Animorph." I feel like RAF could come up with some awesome ones.
Start up a thread, sounds like fun!!!!
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biblical tobias? yeah, that's where my mind went. D: genesis to animorphs.
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I met a nurse named Lourdes yesterday. I immediately thought of the Chee from #27. ::)
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LOL thats awesome! you shoulda asked if she knew erek ;D
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if she had, i would have done more than laughed; i would have demanded that she drop the hologram. right there. ;P
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25 was the first ghostwritten book, and also the first book where the Chee covered for the Anis during missions. Meaning it was a ghostwriter that first came up with that idea. Would KA have even thought of that if she never had her books ghostwritten?
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Actually, a ghostwritten book that early, I'd bet it actually was KA's idea. From what I can gather, they gave the GW's very in-depth summaries of what they wanted early on, and kind of relaxed their hold on the series later.
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Marco's the only one who didnt get a proper girlfriend - poor guy
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Actually with his celebrity life, he probably got tons of women. I'm not sure if he's the kind of person who prefers a one on one intimate relationship to having dozens of female fans willing to take their shirts off for him.
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kinda agreeing with chad... but then, i never understood marco's strain of ego.
D: i think it's more male-oriented. i don't get it.
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Here's something really random for you, though Myitt knows about it. Ever since people started muttering about how cool it would be to have an Animorphs movie, I started recalling this bizarre fantasy I had as a child.
It was basically the back of the first book spoken as a movie trailer, complete with the "In a world..." guy's voice and random trailer scenes. When the cover says something like, "Strange things happen to people. Just ask Jake" it shows him staring up at a landing Andalite spacecraft. And when it says "greatest evil the world has ever seen" the music is building and you see Visser Three stepping gracefully out of the ship. (For some reason. Evil is always dignified in my head, even though Visser Three wasn't.)
And then that Johnny Quest music from the 90's show's opening starts playing. .....hey, it was my frame of reference when I was eight! XD I'm so screwed up. ; )
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Sweet. I wonder how the series would've shaped up if Tobias was completely eliminated...
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I was at the store and saw Cinnabon cereal bars. It made me smile
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saw post 54 Cassie while hiking in the mountains last weekend. with hot new boyfriend in tow. i was really, really tempted to make conversation, but i stopped myself before i revealed just how nerdy (and potentially psychotic) i am.
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I scored a hardcover version of Visser in perfect condition at a thrift store Memorial Day sale. The cashier took one look at it and said, "Are you kidding me?" I couldn't tell if she was a fan, or thought I was stupid. Hmmmm.
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I got the same look from the guy at Half Price Books a few weeks ago. I was too excited to be taking home a new Visser, Hork-Bajir Chronicles, two copies of #1, and one copy of #10 to care, though!
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I bought hella Animorphs books at a used bookstore the other day (probably like half their stock), and the cashier looks at my huge stack and says "ooookay..."
I guess this kind of thing happens a lot. xD
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I've never had a Cinnabon. I didn't even know they were real until a couple of years ago. Same with Krispy Kreme. They were mentioned a couple of times in a cheesy YA SF book series (not animorphs) and I thought the name was so ridiculous that it couldn't possibly be real. That is, until one opened an hour away and I realized they've been around forever... I've never had those either.
I just looked them up. They are both a couple of hours away. :(
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I think I saw Rachel yesterday.
I was volunteering at my local library, signing up kids for a summer reading program. A mom brought in a couple of kids, got the necessary paperwork, then told one of her kids "Rachel, you can fill out your own form." Yep, this Rachel was blond & pretty tall... :o
I nearly said "Hi", but it occurred to me that #1 Rachel never really liked boys, and #2 with both a grizzly morph and an African elephant morph, she could kill me in around 17 different ways in 30 seconds. I decided to keep my mouth shut. :P
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D: funny thing~ i know i saw a rachel lookalike around the same time. D:< NEAR A LIBRARY. (more like, 5 min from, but anyway...)
anyhoo~ mine was the "right" height/weight/coloring- except older. wearing slim jeans and a tucked-in, slightly oversized tshirt. like she'd just stepped out of the fashionable mid 90's. D:
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Yay awesome ^_^ Now I need to go out and meet all the Animorphs...
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You know what's annoying? :P I got my friend to read the first two books, and last time she was over we were talking about them. One of her other friends (who needs to join RAF, btw, because she sounds awesome. :-X) already ruined the beginning of #54 for her, so I'm trying very hard not to spoil things.
Do you know how hard that is to do? Because I wanted to talk about Tom. D: And I couldn't figure out how to bring it up without her getting suspicious. And she keeps asking questions that I can't answer. -_-
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Yeah, but starting a series this late, she's got to expect a certain amount of spoiling... though, yeah, hopefully not too much.
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:P Well, she doesn't really hang around people who read the books (besides me and Spoiler McSpoily Pants over there -_-) so she's fairly safe. It's not so much that she's adamant about not having things spoiled (I mean, besides really big things) it's just... I want to relive the experience of reading the books for the first time! XD I've been amazingly tight-lipped about Elfangor, for instance.
But yeah. -_- I said "So... what do you think about Tom?" and there was a pause where you can bet she was thinking "Oh, crap. What happens?"
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That feeling of reading the series for the first time? That's actually a lot of the reason I'm excited about getting my parents' friends' kids into the rerelease, so I sympathize ;)
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When I buy the rerelease of the books, I may try to get my neices into it. I'll let the parents decide how old they should be before introducing them to the series, though. They're 4 and 2 right now, btw, so it will still be a while.
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Edit: I thought of a random question. How do you guys pronounce Hork-Bajir? like Ba Jar or Ba Jeer? lol, just curious, I think I say the second one
I pronounce it Bah-zheer, like the sound of the Russian 'ZH' (As in Zhivago)
One thing I thought of today reading 24- When Cassie mentions Visser Three as being the only yeerk that has ever had the power to morph, she is apparently forgetting in 6 when Jake became a Controller and 19 when she herself took on Karen's yeerk. Weird, huh?
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Well those instances were a bit different from V3. They didn't keep their morphing hosts for very long. He's had his for decades.
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Well those instances were a bit different from V3. They didn't keep their morphing hosts for very long. He's had his for decades.
Okay. I thought that the author meant that literally.
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I've never had a Cinnabon. I didn't even know they were real until a couple of years ago. Same with Krispy Kreme. They were mentioned a couple of times in a cheesy YA SF book series (not animorphs) and I thought the name was so ridiculous that it couldn't possibly be real. That is, until one opened an hour away and I realized they've been around forever... I've never had those either.
I just looked them up. They are both a couple of hours away. :(
That's just... so sad. Go buy one, now :).
:P Well, she doesn't really hang around people who read the books (besides me and Spoiler McSpoily Pants over there -_-) so she's fairly safe. It's not so much that she's adamant about not having things spoiled (I mean, besides really big things) it's just... I want to relive the experience of reading the books for the first time! XD I've been amazingly tight-lipped about Elfangor, for instance.
But yeah. -_- I said "So... what do you think about Tom?" and there was a pause where you can bet she was thinking "Oh, crap. What happens?"
I wouldn't worry about that type of spoiler too much. I mean, with the Tom example the "Brother against brother in a war" scenario was set up in book #1, and every time that conflict was relevant to a storyline but it didn't get resolved they only made it more clear that something had to happen. So all that asking about what she thinks about various characters early on only confirms for her that that they do develop and are relevant. I would rather know early on that the author wasn't completely blindly throwing stuff in but was instead prepared to take these characters somewhere, so something like that would only build suspense and anticipation as far as I'm concerned.
My random thought: I found it hilarious that the Nartec queen of book #38, The Mutation scoffed when Animorphs asked her if she spoke English, because it was obviously the "international language of commerce and intellectual discourse," But for some reason while they talked amongst themselves in English she thought it logical to try Chinese, Scandinavian, German and French first to communicate with them. One of the more endearing KASUs, because it is not so much a screw up as it is a kinda "Figure out which language you speak by trying them at random" trope.
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I'm the worst friend ever. My friend was reading #3 and I called and interrupted. D:
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I'm the worst friend ever. My friend was reading #3 and I called and interrupted. D:
Never interrupt a Tobias book!
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I know! I should know better! And she's reading my copy! What if the sound of her phone going off surprises her and she... DROPS IT?
...This actually is a worry. XD That book is falling apart.
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The really bad Animorph books also often seem to have the best quotes. I don't care how irritated other people get at filler material.
"Calamari"
"Snails?"
‹I am not in favor of snails.›
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‹Let's just stick to speaking English.›
"Squid!"
‹Uh uh. Calamari is octopus, not squid.›
The Exposed page 65 onward.
And that doesn't include the Voyage/Journey/20,000 Leagues Under the Sea debate.
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How is #27 "really bad"? O.o That's one of my favorite books.
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How is #27 "really bad"? O.o That's one of my favorite books.
It's a filler book. It's really unnecessary to the overall plot of saving the world from Yeerks. The only thing that would really ever need to happen again was meeting the Drode, and that could have easily been done during any of their encounters with Crayak. The Pemalite Ship only ever gets mentioned again with The Mutation which was another completely useless book (And, though I debate this with other people on the LiveJournal forum, is in my opinion the worst Animorphs book ever with the exception of the Altermorphs.)
Don't get me wrong - I love a lot of filler books for the sake of their humorous quotes. But I'm not going to act like they were relevant to the series, the general plotline, or necessary for character development. Hence, not great books. We already got all of Rachel's claustrophobia in The Underground. We know the Chee back-story. The Pemalite Ship is never used through the series except as an excuse for them to need to morph orcas and meet the Nartec, who are also utterly irrelevant.
It really pains me to say, but even though there were three books where morphing cetaceans were utterly necessary (The Message, The Exposed, The Mutation - the only book I thought was actually any good was The Message. As a hobbyist cetologist, that was a very disappointing thing for me in the series.
I could go on, but other than the laughs I just do not find The Exposed at all relevant. Even if it is a million times better than The Mutation.
My favorite book is The Sickness and I hear people insulting it all the time as being a filler book, a Cassie-superhero book, etc., etc. Let's face it - it's a matter of taste, and there's always two sides of the spectrum.
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It's funny, because now that I understand what you mean by "filler book" I realize that I saw it completely differently. Your 'unnecessary' deals with how relevant it was to ongoing story-lines and character development; a good way to classify a book as 'unnecessary' or 'filler' as you're using it (correct me if you think this is inaccurate) would be along the lines of "Can I skip this book and miss nothing important for the rest of the series?"
For me, as I read the series, the ones I thought of as 'unnecessary and filler' were literary issues of story lines and character development, but in-story issues of necessity from the Anis' perspective to the ongoing conflict. For example, from my perspective The Experiment and The Unknown were unnecessary because even a victory on the Anis' part could accomplish nothing, while I considered The Exposed and The Mutation as necessary because if the Anis choose to sit those missions out they would have allowed the Yeerks to further their cause in some (theoretically) significant way.
(BTW, How do you consider The Message unnecessary though? I mean, they meet Ax and he joins their cause; it is relevant to the entire remainder of the series?)
(Also BTW, is you're interest in cetology purely personal interest or have you worked in it or other forms of mammal marine biology?)
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I don't think The Message is irrelevant - I listed it as the only cetacean-oriented book that was relevant. Don't tell anyone, but I have an enormous crush on the Ax-man.
I think The Experiment and quite a few others count as "filler" by many people. And that's fine. But I think it's important to note that some of the missions mentioned above are things that could have never graced the series and none would have been the wiser. If no one ever read The Exposed or The Mutation they wouldn't miss out on anything in the series, anymore than The Experiment. The whole plots of those books were created simply to give a Yeerk-vs-Animorph story, but didn't find any way to tie that story in with the bigger picture, or make it relevant later on. Which really is no different from The Experiment. After all, without Crayak's interference the Yeerks would never be able to detect the Pemalite ship, theoretically - it was because the systems were down that it was detected. Going from there, The Mutation was even more pointless because there was no reason they should be able to detect the ship even if they had known where it was hidden (and they didn't). Essentially, they were stories just so that there would be stories - and what point did they make, really?
As far as cetology - I read a lot of literature on cetacean societies, books on anatomy, etc., etc. I used to know and interact with a zoologist that studied humpback whales in Maui. However, I'm horrible at calculus and calculus is necessary to pursue biology as a major. I ended up becoming a cultural anthropologist that also studies cetaceans in a hobbyist fashion, including SCUBA diving and watching them ravenously from boats while getting to diving destinations :3
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I don't think The Message is irrelevant - I listed it as the only cetacean-oriented book that was relevant.
Ah, my bad. I just misunderstood your statement before.
And though I was quite fine with The Exposed as being necessary in my terms (once the situation was set up, the Anis definitely had to go about the mission set before them), I was really skeptical when The Mutation started. I mean, since the Pemalite ship was fully functioning, then the Yeerks wouldn't have been able to detect it and would have literally had to comb the entire ocean looking for it, the Anis really could have said "Let's just sit this one out and let them waste their time and energy on this one while we rest and start coming up with another way to hurt them." That and it is annoying when Exposed ended with the ship being put deep enough that "only an android could reach it" and then Mutation starts with "Nevermind, the Yeerks are capable of building a good enough marine-craft... in fact we aren't even going to remember the idea that it was intended to be unreachable at this point, now it's still nearby and 'deep, but not that deep, we won't even need to go Calamari this time'"
Sorry to hear about calculus getting in your way, I imagine it is probably often the bane of people interested in similar biology careers; I didn't realize that it was even necessary for biology. I saw chemistry drive out plenty of people away from similar majors when I was in college, and as far as I'm concerned it was necessary because chemistry is very relevant in that respect; but I would think that that high a level of pure mathematics wouldn't be necessary for biology; odd, that.
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The odder part is that a lot of people in these fields aren't studying the animal's biochemistry at all, they're studying behavior. I mean, you may get a team to investigate the point if you think there may be some chemical base for something, but it's not that often.
Don't feel sorry for me though - I love cultural anthropology. I love biological anthropology too, but I want to teach someday and I feel cultural anthropology is definitely going to be more useful for that, especially if I want to work with ESL students.
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True, I meant to end my last post by noting that it wasn't such a bad thing after all because cultural anthropology is a totally awesome way to go as well. As far as I'm concerned, you can't go wrong with anthropology, studying life in general is really cool; but digging into what makes a human a human is amazing. Heck, a huge part of what captured me with Animorphs was the biological and meta-cognitive views of the animal experience and the human/extra-human (alien) perspectives; it just sent my adolescent imagination reeling (OK, it still does, and maybe my mind is still too adolescent in some ways :)).
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I think that the Suspicion was pretty irrelevant. I thought that it was pretty lame, really. I mean, a lot of the story of Animorphs is somewhat believable and most of the aliens are pretty cool, but the Helamacrons were about the dumbest thing in the series so far.
And that really sucks about calculus. My friend really liked marine biology and wanted to study that, but then she found out that you had to take lots of math courses for it.
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Its weird how the elimist is all, oh, we dont interfere, but they do :-]
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Its weird how the elimist is all, oh, we dont interfere, but they do :-]
Have you read The Ellimist Chronicles? His whole story is laid out as entirely as possible at that point, though he gives enough of a general idea of his motivations throughout his other appearances in the main series. Personally, I would have almost prefered TEC to be its own separate piece of sci-fi and not the central character not be tied in as the Ellimist, because it was a really amazing story that could stand alone anyways and the Ellimist of the Animorphs books was at his coolest when he was at his most mysterious, clever and indirect enough that he could still actually claim 'non-interference' (#7, The Stranger).
I think that the Suspicion was pretty irrelevant. I thought that it was pretty lame, really. I mean, a lot of the story of Animorphs is somewhat believable and most of the aliens are pretty cool, but the Helamacrons were about the dumbest thing in the series so far.
Well, yes it and the Helmacron followup (# 42, The Journey) are pretty irrelevant to the main story-line, but I was OK just because I did enjoy the seamless way the series did manage to integrate and explore other sci-fi/fantasy premises (beyond its own animal shape-shifters premise). Suspicion's exploration of scale changing perspectives is by no means original (Gulliver's Travels, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Honey I Shrunk the Kids are the most popular examples) but manages to bring its own new take on it while still fitting into the Aniverse.
Journey went so far as to have the characters mention what sci-fi it was drawing its inspiration from; again it was pointless to the main story, but it was certainly a neat one as well.
I was amused enough too in the laughable, supreme overconfidence of the ridiculously non-threatening threats of the Helmacrons; yet another trope that isn't original, but managed to take on its own fitting shape in the Ani-verse. Nothing completely new under the sun I suppose.
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I was amused enough too in the laughable, supreme overconfidence of the ridiculously non-threatening threats of the Helmacrons
I'm not quite sure the were so "ridiculously non-threatening". Sure, most of the time they were just annoying, but their shrink ray had some unpleasant potential. It was also disturbing how close a dozen of the little egotists came to taking out Marco; if he hadn't been in ****roach morph, he probably would have gotten killed.
The Helmacrons' morphing-energy detector was a pretty good weapon, too, particularly when the Yeerks got it. The Animorphs were nearly uncovered then.
The Helmacrons were definitely supremely overconfident and arrogant, but IMHO they did have some ability to threaten the Animorphs.
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The Helmacrons were definitely supremely overconfident and arrogant, but IMHO they did have some ability to threaten the Animorphs.
True, but in the right situations a kitten can threaten the animorphs :). Anyways, you are correct that they could threaten the Animorphs. I was referring to their plans of galactic dominance, something that isn't as easily bought about by annoying one individual at a time.
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The Helmacrons were definitely supremely overconfident and arrogant, but IMHO they did have some ability to threaten the Animorphs.
True, but in the right situations a kitten can threaten the animorphs :).
The Helmacrons were able to threaten the Animorphs even when the Anis were out of morph. I don't recall any kittens doing that... ;)
I was referring to their plans of galactic dominance, something that isn't as easily bought about by annoying one individual at a time.
Oh, OK. I misunderstood you.
Yeah, I seriously doubt they could dominate even a couple of large planets, let alone an entire galaxy.
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I just had a thought. How different do you think things would be if V3 hadn't assigned Tom to the Blade Ship at the end? He and Rachel wouldn't be on the ship at all.
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Yeah...their plan was dependent on that, wasn't it? idk, I haven't read the last books in quite a while. Been rereading from the first books.
Speaking of which, I finally got my brother to start reading Animorphs, but he only made it up to the middle of #3 before deciding it was "dumb." I'm trying to get him to read #4 now. :P
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How old's your brother? Tell him he's my new hero if he keeps going.
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He's 12, so definitely in the right age range to be reading the books...
Yeah, I'll tell him he'll be Aluminator's new hero, and see what he thinks of that. Heheh.
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He will also be my hero!
Another random thought- I love the sentences on the front of each book. My favorite is "Some people never change. Some do." from the Invasion. I also like all the titles (My favorite is The Forgotten).
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i saw one girl at the museum of natural history ogling over animal skeletons and thought, "OMGOMG, IT'S A YOUNG CASSIE AND I WANT ONE."
a few days ago.... i noticed my reflection in a metro car window and wondered how the hell andalites could ever handle all of those fingers when MY hands look weird enough with only five. >>
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Hehehe. Nice, Court :P
I swear this one hawk by my house has been shadowing me for the last few days. I've seen it so many times, and each time it's staring right at me. Maybe trying to see if I'm a Controller?
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I was reading the entry for silicon based lifeforms at TV tropes. It mentions that the Venber in Animorphs may be made of ammonia, because it's speculated that ammonia based lifeforms could exist on extremely cold planets.
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Eh, maybe, but unlikely if you ask me. They had to reach a temperature above the freezing point of water to melt, right? Ammonia boils around 28 below zero Fahrenheit, so the Venber would probably have to exist in temperatures well below that. Getting that kind of temperature consistently is a stretch, even in the arctic, and if it was that cold, the Animorphs wouldn't have been anywhere near as well off in their morphing outfits, even for the short periods of time that they were in them. That, alone, leads me to believe that any liquid on which their form is based would probably have to have a boiling point over the melting point of water. It sounds as though at least part of their structure would have to be based on water ice, though.
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Tvtropes is often not a good source to get an encyclopedic report on what's really in the story, or anything impartial if the work has any kind of fan(boys/girls), and that's not even mentioning their reading sex (especially homosexuality) into everything.
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In the movie Accepted one of the people on the collegiate review board is named "Dr. A. Visser"
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My copy of #30 has two...inside illustration things...
(http://i31.tinypic.com/2aj8ehs.jpg)
o_o
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My copy of #30 has two...inside illustration things...
(http://i31.tinypic.com/2aj8ehs.jpg)
o_o
Double the pleasure, Double the fun...
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Tvtropes is often not a good source to get an encyclopedic report on what's really in the story, or anything impartial if the work has any kind of fan(boys/girls), and that's not even mentioning their reading sex (especially homosexuality) into everything.
This is true. I just wanted to throw it out there.
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My copy of #30 has two...inside illustration things...
(http://i31.tinypic.com/2aj8ehs.jpg)
o_o
Stepbacks!
And... that's weird. :P Your book is a freak! :D
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I find it oddly fitting that it's the roach one that has a backup ready ::)
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that made me laugh. Yeah, there's never just one roach in the house.
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on the thought of the reprints, they mentioned they have someone combing for outdated references,
I really hope someone's gonna clean up the KASU's this time- pick a rule for thought speak and stick with it
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on the thought of the reprints, they mentioned they have someone combing for outdated references,
I really hope someone's gonna clean up the KASU's this time- pick a rule for thought speak and stick with it
I'm also interested in what degree of editing will be done on the reprints, and how much changing is going to be involved to clear up KASUs or if they will be preserved. What thought-speak rule contradictions are you referring to?
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well there is the later switching between being incapable or capable of using it in human morph, notably in Ax, but I'm thinking specifically since we know they're doing book 1 Jake being able to send thoughts to someone in morph even when not morphed himself. Want that gone
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well there is the later switching between being incapable or capable of using it in human morph, notably in Ax, but I'm thinking specifically since we know they're doing book 1 Jake being able to send thoughts to someone in morph even when not morphed himself. Want that gone
OK, fair enough. I'm not so interested in the way that they treat the obvious stuff like ret-conned canon (the things that functioned one way, but then were later decided to function another way), but more in how closely they examine and change the material that simply doesn't make sense within its own accepted canon and needs tweaking to actually function. Thought-speak has examples of both types of KASU, yours being more the type that were originally one way then ret-conned later (although I don't thing that there was ever an instance of being explicitly incapable of using thought-speech in human morph, it was simply never done for a while, then when it was done they behaved as if it had always been possible, which it logically should have; on the other hand, your primary example of being able to send thought-messages to someone in morph, then later ret-conning it out is the best and most obvious example of that type of KASU).
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zomg it's Rachel
And Rachel!
http://www.xmwallpapers.com/wallpaper/animals/misc/images/Grizzly%20Bear%20and%20Bald%20Eagle.jpg (http://www.xmwallpapers.com/wallpaper/animals/misc/images/Grizzly%20Bear%20and%20Bald%20Eagle.jpg)
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zomg it's Rachel
And Rachel!
http://www.xmwallpapers.com/wallpaper/animals/misc/images/Grizzly%20Bear%20and%20Bald%20Eagle.jpg (http://www.xmwallpapers.com/wallpaper/animals/misc/images/Grizzly%20Bear%20and%20Bald%20Eagle.jpg)
Nice and Mean Rachel? :P
Does anyone still go on Gaia? I've just been made mod of the Animorphs guild on there...and it's so dead. I'm trying to think of how I can get more people to post.
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Something just now crossed my mind. A wolf, grizzly bear, tiger, and gorilla. They're all endangered species. Was KA trying to send some kind of message with that, or is it just coincidence because zoos stock endangered animals to preserve the species?
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My first thought upon waking up this morning: When a Yeerk accidentally enters the ear canal of an already-infested host, is that their equivalent of walking in on someone in the bathroom?
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My first thought upon waking up this morning: When a Yeerk accidentally enters the ear canal of an already-infested host, is that their equivalent of walking in on someone in the bathroom?
:rofl:
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"Room's occupied! Out!"
And of course we must ask what would happen if one Yeerk controlled the right half of the brain, and another controlled the other half.
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Um, about your signature, Chad. How did it end with three? :huh:
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Rachel died, Tobias exiled himself, and Ax got assimilated. Jake Tobias and Marco may or may not have died after ramming the Bladeship. That's left up to fanfic writers, and I think they all like to have the group survive.
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Erm... you forgot about Cassie. :P
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She's easy to forget
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Ummm... you can't really make that argument. :P I understand that she's the least liked character, but she's in every bloody book, and narrates in 15 (counting megamorphs and #54)
...And furthermore, she's the only one we know for sure survived the end of the series.
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She's easy to forget
Ummm... you can't really make that argument. :P
No, but it was definitely very funny reasoning.
The way I took Chad's sig to mean, though I knew it wasn't necessarily actually his thoughts, was this: Rachel died, Tobias in spirit because of her death, and Jake never really moved on; leaving the other three.
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I didn't forget Cassie. She's there. The three it ended with were Jake, Cassie, and Marco. It took Jake a while, but he did start coming around and coping with things. He took the job dealing with the terrorists, which is a step up from before.
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Rachel died, Tobias exiled himself, and Ax got assimilated. Jake Tobias and Marco may or may not have died after ramming the Bladeship. That's left up to fanfic writers, and I think they all like to have the group survive.
You didn't mention Cassie anywhere in there. ::)
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You know Cassie didn't go with them on the Bladeship, right? She's fine on Earth. I didn't need to mention Cassie.
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But... that doesn't make any sense. You made a point of saying that Tobias didn't count as one of the three, and then you said he was. Are you not listening to yourself?
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I must be confusing myself. I had a train of thought when I wrote it in my signature, but I may have lost it since then.
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I always took your sig to refer to the only three that went on the final mission: Jake, Marco and Tobias. Rachel's gone, Cassie's left behind, and Ax is....something else now-those are the only three I see really doing anything at the end :P
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I should probably get rid of it if I no longer understand exactly what I meant, but I'm lazy.
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Marco's driving style mimics his thought processes - gets you from Point A to point B with a big old mess in the middle.
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Marco's driving style mimics his thought processes - gets you from Point A to point B with a big old mess in the middle.
Heh, that made me giggle. XD
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I've just finished the entire series, well, except the Alternamorphs, and it just occured to me that these stuff isn't quite suitable for kids. I mean, the last book I read was Ellimist Chronicles, and I'm pretty sure it's a bit too complex for an average kid. Who's the target reader for Animorphs actually? Is it really kids? I'd think older teens/young adults would fit better, but then again the main characters are in their early teenage years, so I'm not sure :P
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The target age is 9-12. And I don't really agree. :P Kids get it. People who read it when it first came out were that age, mostly, and... well, now we're here, aren't we? Kids that age and a little older are reading it and get it.
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Not about getting it or not, but getting bored with it or not. Especially the chronicles books. Unlike the main books, they're pretty boring to me, and they lack the suspense. Except the Andalite chronicles (it's one of my favorite!) Hork bajir chronicles being the most boring in the entire series, I could barely stay awake when I read that one, and it actually took me days to finish because I kept getting bored. But hey, it's Animorphs, I just HAD to read it! ;) But honestly if it weren't Animorphs or if I weren't so obsessed with Animorphs I would've put it down :-\
I was 11 too when I first read the series, and I loved it ;D but if I were to read the chronicles (and perhaps megamorphs) back then, I don't think my 11-year-old self would be interested at all.
But then again maybe that's just me.
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::) Umm... I stand by what I already said. Most people who read it when it came out read the chronicles.
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At least no one should accuse Applegate of talking down to her readers.
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I imagine he touched him really softly, gently, slowly, and left his hand on Marco's shoulder or elbow or wherever he touched longer than normal.
Y'know, like they do in dramatic soap moments.
Dang I love Ax. I hope the reprint survives long enough to put out Ax books, but starting with the first two of the series seems risky to me.
Also, I know second graders who read these books nowadays and get it. The material's kinda stuff we find questionable as adults, but let's face it - the vocabulary's pretty simple and redundant and you can understand what is technically happening in each scene. My cousins have been reading this stuff since third grade, the people at my synagogue have donated books and the common age group for picking them up is second/third grade.
The nice thing about the series is that while you can go pretty deep into it, kids from a lot of ages can at least understand the story. At least, that's my opinion based on the kids I know now reading it. Though I think getting the deeper messages aren't realistic for the younger grades... Even though I know I could and did in elementary school when it was coming out. (4th/5th/6th grade, not 2nd/3rd of course.)
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The prologue of the Andalite Chronicles makes me want to cry.
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That's normal. That and the ending, even though I knew how it would end.
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Yeah, lots of sad and tough moments in these books.
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My friend's reading #5 and yesterday, when she was toward the beginning, and she kept asking me questions about Eva.
Me: Umm... *shifty eyes* What are you doing asking questions? Go back to reading!
She called me after work today, after she'd gotten to the part of Visser One:
Me: So...
Her: Oh my God!
Me: See why I wouldn't talk about it??
Trying not to spoil anything takes so much effort. *sigh*
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:( I kept trying to convince my cousins to read from 1 onward, but it was hard to give them access to all the books.
Now their mother won't let them read non-fiction unless it's a "classic" in the way that Alice in Wonderland is a classic. D:
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She has NO idea about the magnitude of her folly. Save them, Alex!
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Yeah it's just not gonna happen. Disappointing.
I get a copy of The Weakness today. Not my favorite book but it's one I didn't have.
I never got MM#1 back to the person I loaned it to, lol.
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I love #37 because Marco's just so spot-on during it, and runs the gamut of his many hats. Group sense of humor who watches kids' TV? Uncooperative, immature, petulant, brutally honest jerk? Paranoid and hesitant strategist? Pain in the neck? BAMF with a cobra morph? It's all in there! It tickles my fangirlishness in all the right places.
Also, HAWKS DROPPING SNAKES. That has to be the most terrifying thing to be a victim of, besides maybe jumping sharks.
Personally, I felt that Rachel was alright in #37 if you read it as "I resent authority and don't want to take orders from Marco" instead of "I wanna be leader!".
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Ax you always had the funniest quotes.
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Reason to get friends to read Animorphs: So someone else gets why random things make you smile.
That's what I told my friend who's on #6. :P I need someone to practically trip over random references with me! XD Like yesterday: Reading The Week magazine, and discovered Airplane! is going to be on AMC on Saturday.
My first thought: Marco watched that in #54!
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Red Tail Beer. I wonder if they're Animorph fans.
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Does the Animorphs remind you guys of the Power Rangers? I dunno. With the Morphing and all. I can imagine the scene. The Animorphs and Ax(the White Ranger) cornered by Hork Bajir and Jake says
"It's Morphing time!"
;D
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I'm actually really disappointed that KA never had Marco or someone else reference Power rangers. Maybe she never watched it, or didn't like it. It's possible. I definitely would have put that one in, if not make it a catch phrase for someone.
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So, I was watching VH1 the other night, and they sometimes have a "new singles" spot during the commercials where they show like ten seconds of a video. The Goo Goo Dolls have a new song out, and I remembered that Tobias and Rachel dance to a Goo Goo Dolls song in #33. Then I spent an inordinate amount of time wondering which song it was. Probably Iris.
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Definitely Iris. ;)
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Tobias totally would be a Goo Goo Dolls fan. I'm surprised they made it through the whole series without a single mention of Green Day or No Doubt, both of whom would have been popular in middle/high school then.
What music do they each like? Off the top of my head.
Tobias likes Goo Goo Dolls. Jake likes The Offspring. Cassie doesn't really like Nine Inch Nails. Marco likes Offspring, Alanis Morissette, Nine Inch Nails, The Ramones (enough to list them!) and Bob Marley and dislikes The Spice Girls and Hanson. I don't think we ever hear from Rachel. Ax dislikes all human music.
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Living with human teens we don't know if he really experienced all types of music.
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I could see Rachel having Britney Spears and NSync CDs in her room for her mom and sisters to see, but secretly enjoying speed metal. She could hide the Slayer, Metallica and Megadeth CDs under her mattress.
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Going to the zoo is kind anti-climactic when the one around here doesn't have a roller coaster. :-\
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Attacking someone while they are getting dressed is just like attacking someone in mid-morph.
...My annoying seven-year old brother did that to me. ::)
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I could see Rachel having Britney Spears and NSync CDs in her room for her mom and sisters to see, but secretly enjoying speed metal. She could hide the Slayer, Metallica and Megadeth CDs under her mattress.
Yes!
Cassie would totally listen to music that her parents like. Phil Collins, anyone?
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I was listening to my iPod earlier, and the thought popped into my head that this was what hearing thought speak must be like. XD
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That is a cool thought, Steph. :D
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As for totally random thoughts. My sister and myself were walking this evening and had a whole out discussion about Andalite anatomy. Like how would organs be arranged and how things would work. No idea how that got started, but it lasted a good 15-20 minutes.
We touched briefly on Hork-Bajir and Yeerk anatomy as well. Though not as extensive as our Andalite discussion.
Somehow, I think Andalites give birth like horses. Front hooves first, followed by the head/upper body, a pause, and then the horse-like half slips out second, and the baby is up and walking on all four legs just a short time after birth.
Mothers would probably lay on their sides like horses, or they'd have tilted delivery tables they could rear up onto with bars to grab for balance so gravity can assist.
And somehow, I imagine Andalites would have midwives or go off alone and have their children in private. I just can't see them making birth a medical event like we do here on Earth--barring an emergency such as a baby presenting only one foreleg instead of two--then the mom would need help just like farmers help their horses.
:)
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i actually always imagined andalite births the same way!
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I wonder if they sleep standing up, or if they kneel down and rest their upper body on/against something. I kind of imagine Andalites stand like horses when they sleep. (I have one old fic I'm updating where I describe Elfangor as sleeping upright with his arms crossed. Hehe ^^)
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I thought of some lyrics the other day.
I wanna be the very best
Like no one ever was
Acquiring them is my real test
To morph them is my cause
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Animorphs!
Gotta morph 'em all
etc.
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I thought of some lyrics the other day.
I wanna be the very best
Like no one ever was
Acquiring them is my real test
To morph them is my cause
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Animorphs!
Gotta morph 'em all
etc.
Awesome!! +1 for that. :D
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Alcohol does go right to the bloodstream when you drink it. (Hence why you get drunk fast and a lot worse on less if you drink on an empty stomach vs a full one).
Since it appears that Andalites absorb nutrients pretty directly, I imagine they'd be really easy to waste. Pour beer into a bowl and give it to Ax, and he'd probably be tipsy in a few minutes! He probably wouldn't know what's wrong, either! Lulz would ensue.
ETA:
I wouldn't mind seeing a bunch of Andalites or Hork-Bajir suddenly break out and dance the Thriller dance from the Michael Jackson video. :P
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...Oh my God. That would be freaking AWESOME.
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When I see someone get injured (like at a football game or whatever) I always think "omg demorph! demorph!" Then I feel sad because morphing hasn't been invented yet.
I wouldn't mind seeing a bunch of Andalites or Hork-Bajir suddenly break out and dance the Thriller dance from the Michael Jackson video. :P
YESSSSSSSS
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When I see someone get injured (like at a football game or whatever) I always think "omg demorph! demorph!" Then I feel sad because morphing hasn't been invented yet.
"Yet." I like your optimism. :D
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In #34 Cassie and Rachel broke into Cassie's math teachers' house. Was it Nora's house? Oh, Nora, you never had any idea what was going on. ;D
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Since I can't see that anyone else has mentioned this yet.... from my very brief glance through... It made me very happy when Monday's episode of Castle included the red-tailed hawks ^_^
I mean, they did conclude that they hawks weren't actually responsible for murder pretty early on, but they did that solely on the basis of "hawks can't shoot guns", which they could if they morphed/demorphed.
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Yesterday, my friend and I were playing "Six Degrees of (Insert things we're obsessed with here)." So, we were doing Animorphs, and after several rather long and obscure connections...
My friend: "Congratulations."
Me: #13.
My friend: O.O That was fast!
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Which book is #13? I don't recall.
EDIT: just looked it up, and I don't get the connection. I'm probably missing something obvious here...
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Since I can't see that anyone else has mentioned this yet.... from my very brief glance through... It made me very happy when Monday's episode of Castle included the red-tailed hawks ^_^
I mean, they did conclude that they hawks weren't actually responsible for murder pretty early on, but they did that solely on the basis of "hawks can't shoot guns", which they could if they morphed/demorphed.
I'm glad someone else caught that and had the same thoughts I did! :D
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Which book is #13? I don't recall.
EDIT: just looked it up, and I don't get the connection. I'm probably missing something obvious here...
::) Rachel's award thing? The last scene?
...How do you forget #13? O.o
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Which book is #13? I don't recall.
EDIT: just looked it up, and I don't get the connection. I'm probably missing something obvious here...
::) Rachel's award thing? The last scene?
...How do you forget #13? O.o
Oh, I remember that.
And I frequently have trouble tying a book number or book title to what happens in the book, but I don't think I've actually forgotten any of the books.
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When I go to the zoo lately, I always end up looking around for the doors to get in behind the exhibits, in case I even needed to aquire something.
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I like to speculate about Andalite anatomy. They have two hearts, right? I think they have one in the upper half and the other is down in the horse part. It wouldn't make sense for both hearts to be in their chest. The secondary heart is probably just there to help the blood circulate to the horse part of their body.
Thoughts?
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I thought they had three...? That placement would make sense, though.
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No, they have two.
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I like to speculate about Andalite anatomy. They have two hearts, right? I think they have one in the upper half and the other is down in the horse part. It wouldn't make sense for both hearts to be in their chest. The secondary heart is probably just there to help the blood circulate to the horse part of their body.
Thoughts?
That's actually kind of what I always thought. Two hearts in the same area is pointless- you want the second one farther along to give it the extra boost it needs to get all the way through the circulatory system. I always pictured one as being where a human heart is, and the other down where a horse or deer heart would be.
What's interesting to me is that Andalites would have no digestive system... so what's filling the rest of that space?
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They have a digestive system, It's just drastically different than ours. Who know how much or little that takes up? Maybe they have really big or long lungs to provide oxygen to all that pumping blood....
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Their digestion is always described as "their hooves directly absorbing the nutrients." That means that their hooves are the equivalent of our small intestine, the endpoint of our digestion. That means that there's no need for any sort of digestive system inside of the torso, since the hooves are sending nutrients (presumably) directly into the bloodstream. That means that there is nothing close to our digestive system in Andalite anatomy. No need to take food in, break it down, or remove the waste.
Thing is, that probably also means Andalite immune systems are fairly lacking. Our immune systems are always working overtime to kill whatever happens to be in our food. Andalites would typically only take in diseases that are airborne.
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huh... good point(s).
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Females probably have a lot of room to carry baby Andalites. I'm guessing they'd have uh...happy fun time...like horses. (HOLY CRAP GAFINILAN COULD KILL SOMEBODY WITH HIS DOOHICKY).
A long long LONG time ago I saw somebody suggesting their equipment was in the front, but that doesn't make sense. A female Andalite sporting a human-like pregnant belly would be totally thrown off balance, plus the pelvis wouldn't allow for the baby to have a safe delivery. Safer to assume it's all in the back and they give birth like horses. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU63NmsOdc8)
Since Andalites were prey animals, birth would happen fast. Just a couple hours for cervical dilation, then you have the water break splatter and the front hooves come out. The head/upper body next and the rest is easy. Mommy would probably lay on her side and push like crazy.
I do think Andalites have some form of digestive system. Somewhere, Ax mentions accidentally digesting a snail and I think he was cut off while trying to say the shell wasn't fun to poop out. LOL Plus one book did involve an Andalite toilet.
It could be the act of grazing means they stomp the grass so it breaks into small pieces that are forced up into their hooves to be digested as it goes. If you put Ax's hoof in a bowl of water, you'd probably see the water go down like his hoof was a straw sucking it up.
If Andalites drink, they probably pee, and they probably do that just like horses do. Albeit with more dignity--behind bushes, etc. I'd hate to think of the problems Ax had figuring out the bathroom while in human morph. >>; For some reason, I imagine him being initially scared of a flushing toilet.
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I still giggle like a 7th grade boy when I think of Loren teaching Elfangor about sex in his human morph :P
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*facesmack* Oi... Well, I guess someone's gotta say it...
Don't you think that might come with the basic instincts? I mean, that isn't exactly something mom and dad have to teach you...
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To a degree, they do. Otherwise they wouldn't try to come up with so many weird tales on how you were born. :P
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I doubt Andalites are as crazy and open about "happy time" with each other. They just aren't smex-driven like us. They might not even do that unless they want to have children.
And it wouldn't surprise me at all if Andalites frowned on same-sex couples. I have a fic about that already. It's ten years old, but it's a bit of a poke at our own society and how we treat those who prefer the same gender.
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I know this has come up before...
What the heck happened with the Nartec? It has bugged me for years :/
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I doubt Andalites are as crazy and open about "happy time" with each other. They just aren't smex-driven like us. They might not even do that unless they want to have children.
And it wouldn't surprise me at all if Andalites frowned on same-sex couples. I have a fic about that already. It's ten years old, but it's a bit of a poke at our own society and how we treat those who prefer the same gender.
I would disagree; andalites have a version of kissing, which provides them with pleasure. If kissing provides them with pleasure then why shouldn't sex? Their are alot of animals that enjou doing it, why wouldn't andalites? Also, out of curiosity, why do you think andalites frown on homosexual relationships?
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Well, we've taken this thread new places...
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Me and Lumy picked up Animorphs for PS at the game store today lol
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I doubt Andalites are as crazy and open about "happy time" with each other. They just aren't smex-driven like us. They might not even do that unless they want to have children.
And it wouldn't surprise me at all if Andalites frowned on same-sex couples. I have a fic about that already. It's ten years old, but it's a bit of a poke at our own society and how we treat those who prefer the same gender.
I would disagree; andalites have a version of kissing, which provides them with pleasure. If kissing provides them with pleasure then why shouldn't sex? Their are alot of animals that enjou doing it, why wouldn't andalites? Also, out of curiosity, why do you think andalites frown on homosexual relationships?
I think they frown on homosexuality because they certainly don't like the disabled and ostracize them a bit. So anything that goes against society seems like it'd be a problem to stamp out and sweep under the proverbial rug.
Also, I think they seem to take ritual so seriously that they might have one for mating when they want to have children. If there is a cap on how many children a household can have, then Andalites either learn how to "close their legs" or they have efficient birth control.
I've seen how horses make babies, and it's very awkward. Andalites would probably do it the same way, with the male rearing up behind the female and...yeah...the poor male's hind legs would get awfully tired lol
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I don't know about that...there have been a lot of military cultures in the past that ostracized the disabled but welcomed homosexuality, or at least turned a blind eye to it (Greeks, I believe?). I'm not sure if the mentality behind Andalite ableism was so much 'it goes against society' as the fact that the Andalites are a hugely militaristic and form-focused culture. They pride themselves in their bodies and physical capabilities. I don't think we ever really see an indication of what their views on homosexuality are.
Nor do I think we can really extrapolate how they have sex based on their similarities to horses. I mean, they eat through their feet. For all we know, they don't breathe through their nose but through their eye stalks. Maybe they keep their sexual organs in their tails? Their physiology is so radically different than Earth animals already that who knows who knows.
Just my two cents because it's late and I'm babbly.
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*facesmack* Oi... Well, I guess someone's gotta say it...
Don't you think that might come with the basic instincts? I mean, that isn't exactly something mom and dad have to teach you...
I didn't mean mean "teaching" as in, insert Rod A into Slot B, just....the idea of these two aliens learning how to express love together...sorry, i'm really weird and probabty not making any sense, but I understand it in my head :disgrace:
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BABY ANDALITE...or how one might act, anyway.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XQtd9cTGFM[/youtube]
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That is an amazingly cute video!
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I betcha Andalites can get spooked just like horses. It's just they have the brain power to assess what they see and realize they don't have to freak out over it.
But maybe the babies can't, so they just take off to mommy or daddy when they spook. :P
I wonder if poor Gafinilan had to deal with his own instinctive tendency to spook when the Soola's disease made his vision worse. :(
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I had a dream this morning that involved animal-morphing. :)
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My friend had a dream about that awhile ago. We're pretty sure it's my fault.
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I had an animorphs dream once, Ax was going to preform brain surgery on me in Cassie's Barn. kind of a reveres of The sickness.
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I enjoy telling my friend, who's at the beginning of the series, random things and then saying "Remember this. You'll need to know it later."
Just told her a random historical fact about Washington crossing the Delaware. Was going to say "Wait for MM3"... but then I thought, nah. :P Make her wonder.
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I remember I had an Animorph type dream a while back. Well, in the sense that Ax was in it apparently. I remember coming across this guy who didn't act quite right. We were running from something and then he told me he had to "change" and I shouldn't be worried.
When he was himself again, I don't remember being surprised at all I was just like "um....ok".
In the end I remember giving him a hug, he was confused and I was like "you're fuzzy!"
I really need to re-read the series.
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Okay, so I've posted in the Embarrassing Animorphs Thoughts about the kids I babysit. Today, I went a bit further in introducing them to Ani fandom.
While we were playing with my Pokemon and X-Men toys (because I am totally a responsible, reasonable adult), I pulled out the Animorphs board game so we could use the gameboard as a 'battle stage'. The kids were immediately intrigued by the little lenticular cards that came with it. So my friend Jackie and I explained the basics of each of the main characters (although S seemed convinced that they were morphing crickets instead of ants) and played a simplified version of the board game. S chose Jake, because Jake was apparently the coolest looking, and Bean chose Cassie because Cassie turns into a wolf.
After that we looked at my collection of the books, them going through and being all "oh man, Marco looks so FUNNY turning into a poodle!" and "ooh, which alien is that?" and doing the little morph flip thing in the back. Despite having the books in their hands, they seemed to think Animorphs started as a movie.
Best moment:
Lisa: "And then Rachel died at the end, and I cried like a baby."
Bean: "Why did you cry? It was only a movie."
Lisa: "You can feel sad when pretend characters die."
S: "It would have been sadder if she died in 3-D."
Then I told them that when they're old enough I'm giving them some of my books, and they got all excited. We talked about the Anis all the way home.
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I now own a hardcover copy of #31.
...Yeah. No idea that existed. :P
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Three cheers for Lisa, for insipiring the future Animorphs Generations.
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Watching this thing on UFOs on the History Channel. They're talking about alien abductions right now.
Me: ::) Duh, it's the Skrit Na.
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I had a complete braincell-explosion in my car yesterday. I was in crazy traffic, on the way to the mall (which is insane; the mall two days before Christmas is a madhouse on steroids), when I suddenly thought, "If Cassie gave Tom the blue cube, then that means she handed over the ability to morph. If she hadn't done that, then would have Rachel still died? If the two are connected, then doesn't that mean Cassie murdered her best friend? Also, doesn't that make her responsible, in a small way, to what happens to Ax? He would never have had to go after the blade ship if Rachel successfully took it, what with her not having to fight anyone who morphs. Does that thought never occur to her? How do Jake (incredibly depressed and full of regret Jake) and the others die but Cassie gets to have a happily ever after without having any emotional/mental problems that we can see?"
My mind went blank, I was filled with this overwhelming sense of unfairness, and I sort of stared at the traffic light in front of me for a second until the dust sort of cleared and I thought, "Surely, there's a detail I'm missing." And I focused on traffic because I didn't want to DIE on my way to Bath and Body and Barnes and Noble.
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I was thinking the other day, and I decided that if there was an auxiliary Animorphs team in the UK, I'd want them to be like the kids on Misfits. Even though that means they'd end up shagging each other and hiding Hork Bajir bodies in giant coolers instead of saving the world, but it'd be fantastic anyways.
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I had a complete braincell-explosion in my car yesterday. I was in crazy traffic, on the way to the mall (which is insane; the mall two days before Christmas is a madhouse on steroids), when I suddenly thought, "If Cassie gave Tom the blue cube, then that means she handed over the ability to morph. If she hadn't done that, then would have Rachel still died? If the two are connected, then doesn't that mean Cassie murdered her best friend? Also, doesn't that make her responsible, in a small way, to what happens to Ax? He would never have had to go after the blade ship if Rachel successfully took it, what with her not having to fight anyone who morphs. Does that thought never occur to her? How do Jake (incredibly depressed and full of regret Jake) and the others die but Cassie gets to have a happily ever after without having any emotional/mental problems that we can see?"
My mind went blank, I was filled with this overwhelming sense of unfairness, and I sort of stared at the traffic light in front of me for a second until the dust sort of cleared and I thought, "Surely, there's a detail I'm missing." And I focused on traffic because I didn't want to DIE on my way to Bath and Body and Barnes and Noble.
And THAT is way we have fanfction
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I saw a red-tailed hawk this morning!
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Oh my gosh.
I just realized this. I'm sure plenty of people know this, but;
Maximilian.
Maximilian.
I always wondered how K. A. Applegate came up with Ax's name. Now I know.
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Oh my gosh.
I just realized this. I'm sure plenty of people know this, but;
Maximilian.
Maximilian.
I always wondered how K. A. Applegate came up with Ax's name. Now I know.
Holy crap, really? Is that something you just noticed or do you know for sure that she used that? It could just be a coincidence, albeit a freaky one...
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I happened across it by pure luck. My friend is writing a short story and named the protagonist Max. Then once she was pretty much done with it, she realized that Max was a nickname (or at least in her opinion) and that she wanted to have the first name be something that begins with Max. So she asked me to find a name, even after I suggested three other good Max-related names. (Maxwell, Maxfeld, Maxavier [not sure if it a real name or not]) I googled "Max names"
and came up with Maximilian. As I was typing it to email to her, I went to fast for my slow computer and forgot the "M" and the "N" in Maximilian, and capitalized the first "A". IT came out like, Aximilia. Then as I was verbally checking grammar in the email, as I had written a lot of other stuff in there to, I read Aximilia out loud. Then I thought, "Hey that sounds familiar! And it looks similar to something I've read before" but I didn't realize what it was until a few days later when I read a fanfiction were someone called Ax by his real name. Then I spent the next fifteen minutes double checking to verify that my thoughts were correct.
And to answer your question, I cannot claim positively that K.A. for sure meant to do that. But, seriously, what are the chances that Maximilian had absolutely no influence what's so ever upon the making of the name Aximili?
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Anyone else find it hilarious whenever one of the Animorphs yells "It's a trap?"
I am by no means a Star Wars fan, but for some reason, the joke makes me laugh. I still don't entirely understand why the statement was so funny...maybe I find the parodies funny. I don't know.
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Well, "Visser" was a coincidence according to something I read by her in an interview where she talks about mixing names or corrupting words. (Visser is apparently a common name in another language.) But I can't imagine it happened too many times. I used to entertain naming a kid "Maximilian" so I could make Aximili a nickname, hahaha.
Apparently his middle name is a corrupted LoTR town name, Esgaroth.
Oh my god, I never told anyone here about the time a red-tailed hawk was hovering against the window of my synagogue and making noise against the window. WELL NOW YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING. Which was "Tobias wants to convert!"
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Seeing red-tails doing funny things is the best! I remember seeing a red-tail air-battle what looked like an osprey once, and totally thinking "this is why you need to stop hitting on Rachel, Marco".
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I've actually found a new respect for seagulls after reading the Animorphs series again.
Sure, Tobias hates them--and, since Tobias is my favourite character I should hate them as well--but whenever I see a seagull eating trash, or doing something irritating--which is approximately 90% of the time--I think, "Will those kids ever learn how to control those morphs?"
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Pg. 1 Book 5:
"Marco McCain. Has kind of a nice sound, doesn't it?"
Lol forever and ever in retrospect.
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I don't know if anyone else noticed it, but David wasn't in the group for very long. I mean, they find out about David getting the box and the summit meeting around the same time--give or take a day-- and after talking to Erek, they head over to David's place to steal the box. The next day, David talks to Marco and tells him about the email, and Marco ditches school to steal the box. David becomes an Animorph later the next day, and they pretty much leap into the attack on the resort the summit is taking place. They escape the very same day and the next day, David is outed as a traitor and seemingly kills Tobias. The rest of the trilogy takes place over the course of a few days and nights. So David is really only part of the group for about a week, give or take a few days.
I don't know about you, but it seems like the whole ordeal should have taken a little longer.
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I loved that it took place so quickly, actually. By #22, you very much felt the exhaustion and witlessness the Anis were running on, and the fact that David could nearly bring them to their knees that fast made him seem way more dangerous. When reading it, I really never felt like there was time to breathe, which worked for the story. It was one disastrous week for them.
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It was one disastrous week for them.
A week that spanned over three months :D
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I think the quick pace also helped explain David's quick downturn - the other Anis were partially used to insane missions with huge implications, but David was not. The psychological strain of facing Visser 3, losing his parents and home, learning about the war, becoming an Animorph, and having to go on such a huge mission all in such a small timespan would have been enough to drive almost anyone to look for an escape, and his chosen escape (unfortunately) was to attempt destroying the other Animorphs. If he had had more time to settle into his new role, perhaps he would have turned out better.
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Well, "Visser" was a coincidence according to something I read by her in an interview where she talks about mixing names or corrupting words. (Visser is apparently a common name in another language.) But I can't imagine it happened too many times.
+karma. I googled visser, and yes, Visser is a last name. In what language, I do not know. But with out that post, I would have never thought of that.
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But it also implied that David knew how to use their powers better than they did.
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O.o It's not implied at all. Maybe that he thought he knew how.
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Yeah, TMP, I didn't get that. David was ****y, and he had the benefit of not having any other obligations besides stalking them, but I wouldn't say he knew how to use his powers better. Maybe he had a bit of a fast learning curve, but he didn't seem objectively better than them.
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He seemed to know how to control his morphs faster than the others. He was able to morph from Marco to himself without getting too much attention, and he beat Jake's tiger.
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Controlling morphs never take that long. O.o And it's mostly only a problem the first time. And obviously he had no trouble with morphing Marco--there are no unfamiliar instincts there. ::)
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He beat the tiger because of terrain and luck. Jake mentioned that the mane was a problem and he made a mistake of standing on the skylight. He couldn't control the golden eagle instincts the first time either.
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I assumed that was intentional. Even Marco said he could tell David was lying, but that might have been about David claiming to feel remorse.
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No, I mean earlier, the first time he morphs the goldie and they have to restrain him from attacking Tobias.
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I had a random Animorphs thought the other day for sure. Don't if any of you watch Glee...? ;D Yes, I know it's cheesy and over the top, but its my guilty pleasure these days!!!
Anyway, if anyone out here does watch it, doesn't Finn kinda sorta remind you of a real life Jake?? Kinda big and doofy, a little unsure of himself, and always trying to be the nice guy and do the right thing?
I don't know, ever since I thought that, when I watch the show I'm like "It's Jake!" hahah
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Sorta, but I never took Jake for being a dorky/doofy/goofy guy. I always saw him as being calm, cool and collected, unles a member of his family was involved. But I'm not exactly Einstein when it comes to characterization.
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Yeah, Finn seems a little too childish and silly to me to make a good Jake. I can see it in the look a bit, maybe.
Glee/Animorphs rocks though. My new fave crossover!
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Jake's at least a little bit of a doof. See: any time someone mentions he's crushing on Cassie. Also any time he tries to make a joke.
But as a whole he's pretty collected.
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So I was watching Fringe, and this guy showed up.
(http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dec_8585.png)
Visser 3 hasn't changed at all!
Here's his imdb page. (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0513468/)
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What was really weird was seeing Christopher Ralph on Instant Star.
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Eugene Lipinski is my favorite person. He responded to my facebook fanmail, too!
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I'm just now installing Windows on another computer. When it said "Setup will complete in approximately 39 minutes"
my mind just filled in the words "39 of your minutes"
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I was listening to the radio today. There was a commercial for McDonald's. They were talking about... oatmeal? I swear it was oatmeal.
Somebody at McDonald's had to have read #17. XD
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I think the least likely place for a Yeerk Pool entrance right now is Starbucks. They serve oatmeal. Who knows what goes into that.
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We were taking a tour of the Navy yesterday, and they didn't want us to take pictures. So when I saw some birds flying around, I couldn't help but think that those might be people in morph spying on them.
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Driving north along the mississippi river today, and couldn't help but notice.....if I were an animorph, it'd totally be easy to go out as a bald eagle in winter and just lose myself ....
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It's like 40 degrees in this house. And of course I just had to read the book with the polar bear on the cover.
/shivers
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I got groceries for the first time since coming back to school, an in anticipation of a real meal I thought to myself "Oh, I can hardly wait. I will put the food in my mouth and chew it with strong grinding teeth, and oh the sweet rapture to taste the array of favors. The sweet sensations that comes from the consumption of eating delicious food items-"
And then I realized: I'm Ax :facepalm:
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I have always had a soft spot for hawks since reading this series as a kid, and I every time I see one I immediately think of Tobias. Actually, it doesn't even have to be a hawk sometimes, just a smart-looking bird will do it.
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I do a double-take every time I see someone on Livejournal talk about "memming" a post...
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OH MY GOD I TOTALLY FORGOT TO POST THIS.
I was eating at a restaurant in my city last week and there is this meal called The Rachel.
Probably coincidence, but oh my God.
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OH MY GOD I TOTALLY FORGOT TO POST THIS.
I was eating at a restaurant in my city last week and there is this meal called The Rachel.
Probably coincidence, but oh my God.
You should have ordered it and checked to see if three humans and a hawk were sitting inside.
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I'll have to order it sometime, but I'm trying to go vegetarian, lol.
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I'm taking a trivia quiz on goodreads.com. The last question I got:
What animals do the crew of the Nautilus take on in 20,000 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne?
Duh. Giant Squid. Thank you #27.
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Hilarious--my brother is going to a friends house, and that friend lives about ten minutes away. And guess what my mother told him, just now?
"Don't take that short cut!"
I'm serious, my ears perked up right then. And I was not ashamed to ask, "Is there a construction site?"
To which my brother replied, "Yea..." Sarcastically.
"Go, little buddy. Go through the construction site..."
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"Go, little buddy. Go through the construction site..."
How about, "Hey, how about I go through the construction site????"
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Because I'm about three years older than my brother, so it would look a little weird if an adult was walking around a construction site with some kids.
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Today in my GDIII class we had a debate whether or not garlic had a square taste or a round taste. Reminded me of Jake and Marco's cheese debate.
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I'm trying to sort through my books to figure out what to keep and what to give away. Good Lord, but I have a lot of those.
What's making this more difficult is that I have to work around the fact that I'm taking all my Animorphs books with me. It's greatly limiting what else I can take.
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Take where?
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New apartment. :)
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Nice. Lots of work, but change is good sometimes ^_^
My random animorphs thought is... my apartment would look very inviting if all of my guests morphed insects, but then I might have to squash them >.<
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Hey, you bring the morphing tech, I'll bring the insects for acquisition :P
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Deal!
Wait.... now I have to share morphing :(
Oh well, once you are all bug-ified you will just get squished.
Now I'm really sad that this is what I decided to do with morphing >.<
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jeez: in a move of epic lameness I ran across a line of Cassie's about telling male and female mosquitoes apart.
Which is exactly what I did in my entomology class this week!
Fun fact: for most any mosquito of notable size you don't need a magnifying glass: "fuzzy" antennae=male, you can see that most right away
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At the moment me and a friend are doing an epic re-read, re-watch and re-write (fanfic) of Animorphs that is providing endless and amusing opportunities for Animorphs references and thoughts.
The other day we had an entire discussion about what happens to a Yeerk when it's host body morphs. Coming to the conclusion that it must get counted as 'excess mass' and end up in Z-Space but remaining in control of the host.
Then we had a conversation about what would happen if you infested a baby... would it ever have a sense of individuality? But we also decided this topic was irrelevant since an infant would be a poor choice of host and never chosen.
And then another discussion about the use of thought-speech in human morph. Ax states in #8 that he can't which to us makes no sense... since any animal (including humans) has the capacity for communication, regardless of language. Which means that thought-speech should be a natural element in any morph, even if it is sentient and has a more sophisticated level of communication.
As you can see a lot of our time is spent talking about bizarre Ani thoughts... =P
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You know what's a funny mental picture? Sloppy Andalite kisses.
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Marco stood up, but even standing he was only a little taller than me, sitting.
Holy crap Marco's short! I'd like to believe that Eva was sitting at a higher elevation than he was standing, especially considering Visser takes place later in the series and he'd have to be around, what? Fourteen or fifteen?
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Anyone know why the heck Rachel didn't turn into an elephant at the end instead of a grizzly? I mean yeah the author had to have SOMEONE die, but why wouldn't she have turned into her elephant, it was bigger and she was bigger that the buffalo at the end.
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Rachel rarely used the Elephant in the series.
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The Grizzly was Rachel's true battle morph and the one she had the most experience with.
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There is an on-campus apartment complex at A&M... named The Gardens... no animals included.
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Forgive me:
Last night the Miracle on Ice was mentioned
That got me thinking about the time Tobias mentioned Wayne Gretzky (Cuz that's the only hockey player I know)
And I recalled that was in book 12
in response to the gals fandom of the t.v. kid
who was a spin on I think Johnathan taylor thomas
Who I realized is now forgotten and too old to be relevant.
So I realized an updated animorphs would need a different teen idol
and that brought to mind justin bieber
And that made me ill :(
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I wonder what happened to the chick in book one that cassie freed?
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There's also the guy in book 3 that Tobias helped escape- that's two people very early on in the series who were aware of the invasion, and potential allies.
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So, I was just watching an episode of Star Trek. The plot involved a
Sario rip hole in time being opened by the collective explosion of weapons firing, which took the crew into an alternate timeline until Cassie the crew's resident black-female-moral-compass noticed that something didn't feel right because she can sense messed-up timelines.
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There's also the guy in book 3 that Tobias helped escape- that's two people very early on in the series who were aware of the invasion, and potential allies.
Yes and remember Tobias had told the guy to bascially forget it ever happened and to just go about life normally.
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wELl_xs3lNs&feature=related[/youtube]
....Animorphs?
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argh.
The kratt brothers used to be awesome (i.e. Kratt's Creatures).
Then came zoobomafu
And now this
argh
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LOL Wow the Kratt Brothers have come a long way...and Zoobomafu was good..for the first five minutes.
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Erm... I am both intrigued and frightened by that.
I agree, they used to do some pretty awesome stuff. Is this an animated show? 'Cause I might actually watch that and then tell no one about it ever.
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LOL Wow how the mighty haven fallen ::)
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Alright, so there I was, sitting on a very comfortable couch at the library. When all of a sudden, I notice a tiny asian boy--around the age of ten-- holding Animorphs 18: the Decision.
I wasn't sure if it was an Animorphs book at first. So, I got up from the couch and started peaking around the corner of the bookshelf for a closer look; fully expecting his mother or older sibling to come up to me and say, "Dude, what are you doing?"
Anyways, it was the Animorphs book.
I just felt...I don't know, pride? Just looking at this kid, born about ten years or longer after the Animorphs were finished and out of print, holding a book that meant so much to me when I was his age. It was sort of like a father, watching his kid drive for the first time...But not nearly as close :P
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I have decided that I need something very important before I go to college.... an Animorphs Shirt. I can't decide which one yet... maybe a black, skin-tight one that say "This is my morphing suit" in white print. Or maybe just a hat that says "VETERAN: The Only Great Battle to Ever Involve Oatmeal". This will be a hard choice....
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Talking about synesthesia in class today, and the topic moved to taste.
And I had to put my head down for a minute cause I couldn't stop the laughter as the thought violently assaulted my brain
Cheese taste yellow
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I was going to comiserate with how that thought occasionally pops into my head, but then you had to go and say something so obviously false.
Cheese tastes orange, man, what are you thinking?
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Guys, I think it's actually somewhere in between, but then you have to go into all of those funky color names.
Cheese tastes tangerine.
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:-\
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O.o ...Yeah. I don't know where you get that from at all. I always thought romano had a hint of red-orange, or maybe orange-red, but I definitely never tasted any that tasted tangerine.
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I wonder whether there would be a way to trick a yeerk into short term one or two week contracts when assignments/exams come up so that they can force you to study during that time? (and then how would you get rid of them after that and resume your normal life?)
These things I ponder....
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Back in school I think I was going to write an paper on Tobias from Animorphs but I didn't think the teacher would like it so I sort of backed out of it.It probably would have sucked anyway I was never good in any grade.
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WHats really interesting is that applegate only wrote about half the books and the rest were written by people named on wikipedia yet they all seem relatively similiar except for the fact that some books seem to slip in alot more wisecracks then others.
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Is it just me or did the books that K.A. write seem to have a buttload more discription on the actual morphing, and they also seemed to be funnier, from a fan standpoint.
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Heh either way,wither it was written by one or more people,it was still an amazing book series.
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Not everyone is capable of around a book series. K.A had heart.
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i think thier doing something new like a book or a movie. Cause last time i typed in animorphs.com i got a poorly made website with a list of books and a couple bad games. Now i got page with a quiz and character profiles. I dont think they would completely redo that just for the new covers.
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It's not just that they've got new covers. It's that they're rereleasing the series. So they're marketing it. Part of that involves... updating the website.
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I still want a movie incorporate about 10 books a movie and people will watch it. They watched saw anyway.
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Yea, but I think Animorph fans are smarter than Saw fans...No offense to any of them.
Besides, Animorphans are picky. ESPECIALLY the ones here on RAF :p
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*Marco morphing rachel for mission*
Marco: ARGH....girl....ins tincts......taking. ....over........
Jake: *scared* Marco are you ok!?
Marco: Better than ok! Im going shopping then for some gymnastics!
Post Merged: March 29, 2011, 10:42:57 PM
oops wrong board
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i'm really intrigued by that last post now and want to know where it was supposed to be posted.
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On the things the Animorphs (and other characters) would never say.
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Tobias is right.
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This girl's name is Cassie and she loves animals...hmm..
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What are you typing about?
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Someone I know who's name is Cassie and loves animals, which reminded me of another Cassie :P
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well in irony i know a guy named Jake who's kind of a jerk.
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I know a David who isn't a sociopath...Loud, but not a sociopath.
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lol
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I realized on the way to school that andalite plants are weird.
Blues, and purples and reds? For the bulk of that plant? won't that impair photosynthesis in some way?
There's a reason earth plants are green: can't remember what-but I know it has to do with that
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Chlorophyll.
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Yes, but I mean the importance of green light being reflected (i.e. not used) as opposed to other colors
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yes but an andalite digestive system also defies everything we know so tough nubs
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Haha... that's actually a really good point. Right now, you've got me thinking, and it's raising more questions than it's answering.
With Earth's sun and current knowledge of photosynthesis, green plants don't make a ton of sense. Red or blue would seemingly take in more energy, since green is right near the middle of the sun's average yellow light output.
I've got to assume that the Andalite sun(s) put out light on similar wavelengths to Earth's sun, since Andalite vision does not seem to vary appreciably from human version in terms of frequency range (the vision of every animal on the planet is centered around the light patterns our sun outputs most strongly- what we see as 'visible light').
Basically, I think Earth plants really are just green because the chemical composition of chlorophyll makes it
a) the most efficient method on Earth of synthesizing energy from sunlight and
b) green
If plants are able to evolve to include a photosynthetic chemical aside from chlorophyll (and there are some species of 'photosynthetic' microorganism that are purplish in color), it makes total sense for them to be able to become the dominant species.
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see I am capable of more than just randomness. Now excuse me the voices are telling me I need to clean the guns.
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Yes, plants could be different colors. It can't quite remember how it works, but trees on earth contain pigments of different colors.
I got a B- in Plant Biology in college, so I'm not exactly an authority on the subject.
I don't think they could be blue.
There are all sorts of words I can't really remember that relate to this.
Anthocyanin, xanthophyll, carotenoid pigments, others...
If you are really interested, I still have all of my lab work from that class. I can dig it out and see what I remember.
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please dont, if im reduced to studying plants I would probably throw myself off a building.
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Yes, plants could be different colors. It can't quite remember how it works, but trees on earth contain pigments of different colors.
I got a B- in Plant Biology in college, so I'm not exactly an authority on the subject.
I don't think they could be blue.
There are all sorts of words I can't really remember that relate to this.
Anthocyanin, xanthophyll, carotenoid pigments, others...
If you are really interested, I still have all of my lab work from that class. I can dig it out and see what I remember.
Thing is, if you color the entire plant, it doesn't change the fact that chlorophyll can't absorb green light very well- if a plant ends up, say, red in color, you're blocking both the green and the red from being used by the plant, and leaving it to try to scrape out a living on nothing but the bluer end of the spectrum. Your red plant will be easily overtaken by more-efficient green plants, and die off- hence the reason the majority of the plants on Earth have continued to evolve with green leaves.
There are photosynthetic microorganisms that are blue or reddish or brown or whatever in color, but most of them use slightly different process for photosynthesis than plants. Plants evolved from green ones. Even here on Earth, it's totally reasonable to assume that red or blue plants could have evolved under different circumstances. It just doesn't work particularly well when you try to apply it to Earth plants of today. Gotta take a different evolutionary branch.
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^Well said
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science....thinky.. ..brain hurt!
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So... apparently owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.
Now I'm trying to remember if there was reference to the color blue while the Animorphs morphed birds? :P
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You know chapman was never really described. In the besrt picture i saw of him he was a skinny Europian with blonde hair. I always pictured him as a 5 8" african american dude with no hair.
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I'm pretty sure his daughter was described as having pale skin.
Not sure where you got the idea that Chapman was anything but white.
I actually thought the show got Chapman's image right. I just didn't think he was a good actor.
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Also, Elfangor describes him in the Andalite Chronicles.
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That's just what instantly came to mind when I first read his name. Anyway what if the mother had light skin.
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Deffinitely possible.
But it's stated that the Chapman family is white.
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I just realized it was 10 years ago today that I finished #54.
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sweet
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My brother's friend called his music teacher a yeerk. :rofl:
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the worst insult of all
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I know some perfectly kind Yeerks who might take offense to that... ;)
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Just statin' the facts.
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oh really?
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I'm not kidding! I was there helping with his school concert!
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I was talking to kitsune
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My brother's friend called his music teacher a yeerk. :rofl:
why did he do that?
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He didn't like her, and he was mad.
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about???????
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He was punished for stealing something he didn't.
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harsh
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oh really?
Yup! Myitt, Corliss, Illim, Reven, Temrash, and maybe even Terenia (yay for Galaxy's Edge Space Bar!).
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They keep putting "The Young and the Restless" on at the place I go to for lunch sometimes. :D
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Oh heck no.
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Yeah, I know, it just makes me want pull my hair out. But still! Yey! Animorphs references to be made! :D
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It would be an even deeper reference if their was someone in a towel on.
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I was very proud: my friend, who's slowly reading Animorphs, made her first reference in conversation. :D Someone said they were surprised that her cats don't have totally ridiculously cutesy names. Her response:
"Do I seem like the sort of person who'd name their cat 'Fluffer McKitty??'"
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She deserves an award
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(A little rudery in this one...0-o) The Animorphs fight...naked...0-0
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They pretty much do that anyway.
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They'd look kind of funny in clothes when they're in morph...
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my point exactly. Especially when rachel was still using elephant
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marco woulda looked good in a fedora. fits perfectly on gorilla heads
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But what would he have done to get a shirt around that beer belly?!
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What gorilla would ever need a shirt when it has a fedora?
Answer: None.
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What gorilla would need a fedora in the first place?
Answer: None
Although I admit their the most stylish hat ever made.
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Well, sure, they don't need fedoras. That doesn't mean they wouldn't be better off with them, though.
Animorphs: Would've been better with fedoras. End of story.
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I was talking about the matter of NEED, you said what gorilla would NEED a shirt so they don't need it. But yes fedoras should have improved everything
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:facepalm:
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Mew just summed up my life
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wo wo wo, fedora do not call for facepalms. only those who cannot pull off the fedora would do such a thing
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Agreed. There's nothing sadder than a person who can't pull off a fedora... Oh, God. Does that imply that Marco can't?
(See that? That was me trying to keep this Animorphs related. 8) )
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it would depend on his hair. but as a gorilla, for sure
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:o that at the same time scares and offends me
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Really? I think it's the coolest thing ever.
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Somehow I ended up typing offend. I meant to type impresses
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i like how he's killing the ant
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seems a little cruel
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marco is not pleased with the way the queen once treated him. he's only doing it in a "green" and environmentally friendly way
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Yeah Marco supports the enviroment
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cassie convinced him to switch to solar energy instead of harsh petroleum based chemicals
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well as the face of the animorphs after the war he needed to keep up a good image
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which is exactly why he never got one prius. hideous buggahs
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Marco can't drive remember
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i can't drive either, but that doesn't stop me - and at one point i had two trucks
i wonder if you could have one prius limo made
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The guy can change into a gorilla, if he wants one he gets one
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that just seems so ridiculous. there's no way that tiny little engine could pull a gorilla around. he'd hafta swap the engine for something with some real torque. which would destroy his mileage and environmental image. lol, a supercharged v8 prius limo! that's be something to see
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I meant that turning into a gorilla allows him to "persuade" people into certain things
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oh, i could see how that might not work for him. there are a lot of trigger happy people that i associate with that would not find morphing acceptable
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The dude has multiple morphs that can take bullets
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maybe he could morph into captain planet or something. that would make cassie happy
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lol
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Captian planet: hey kids, you want some rings? I have some in my van.
Later on: Hey you stop polluting or ill blast you with the heart ring! *everyone looks at him* and if that doesn't work my monkey will scratch him.Heart is weak but comebined with the monkey it equals the fire ring!
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i have no idea how to respond since i never actually watched that show...
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Captain planet. A bunch of kids get these magic rings from the spirit of earth to stop the polluters. They ran out of elements to put in the rings and gave a black dude a heart ring and a monkey. Later on they battle polluters, like a reject ghost buster, the thing with a mohawk, and a massive rat, like splinter but not as cool. Then they cruise around threatening people with the fire ring. Then they go out for sushi and realize that their supposed to be saving the sushi.
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I just went to Barnes & Noble and bought the reprint of #3. :D I was more excited than when I bought the first two books. XD
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so instead of :D you were ;D or mabey you were :pwease:
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lol, my friend's giving me #3 as a bday present :P
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Oooh, I got another one, when they had to tie Jake up for three days in 'the capture' what did they do when he needed to go...as in go?? :o :o :o :o
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Marco probably took him outside and watched as a bird so he would only have to see his head.
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bad phrasing for someone with a dirty inclined mind... like me...
what you think happens to all the morph blubber in zspace after you die?
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It stays there floating around.
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gross. cassie should get on that - after cleaning up earth's environment she can clean up z-space
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But they're moving at super speed
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if they (someone with a ship cruising through z-space) accidentally ran into the morph blubber like in #18, do their ships have windshield wipers to get it off?
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ew
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My insane, random thoughts as an adult Ani-fan:
When male Andalites go through puberty, do their thought-speak voices change?
I would guess yes, since most we saw we're written as loud (Visser 3) or intimidating
sounding (some captains) Couldn't really do that when sounding like a kid.
Err...I think I even wrote this in a review for a fan-fic, so I'll just say it: I wonder
if Andalite mating is like horses or other four legged animals mating?
(Usually I'd never write anything like that, but they're fictional, so no biggie.)
Probably. Speaking of which, I wonder how the babies are born and all that?
Female andalites look abnormal with no breasts to me, even though they're a grazing
species (for the most part, considering Ax was known to eat meat, and on
one occasion, a snail.) Edit: Eh, being a lady myself, I guess that's why
it looks strange.
That's all I got.
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wow
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um um um no comment because i have no idea
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Tree + bald eagle @ 60 mph= Spam
in regards to what was said though
1) The voice idk. Some (very few) kids have powerful voices, and in may be more manner of speaking than the voice itself.
2)As for birth, it seems like it would be live simply based on how the Andalites live.
But we must keep in mind: Andalites are not mammals. Since we have no reason to believe otherwise, Earth and Andalite world life arose independently from one another: A person would be more closely related to cabbage than an Andalite. So and Andalite shouldn't need breast, what without mammalary glands and all. Plus no mouth=no suckling anyway
But the relation thing draws up a whole nother issue to me-you can morph animals. Not plants
But there's a greater difference between a presumably morphable Mercora and non morphable brocoli than a person and a Mercora. WTF
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I think andalites have some way of telling children from adults if they cant see the speaker. Probably just the way they speak, probably being taught that they are children and should give respect.
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Tree + bald eagle @ 60 mph= Spam
in regards to what was said though
1) The voice idk. Some (very few) kids have powerful voices, and in may be more manner of speaking than the voice itself.
2)As for birth, it seems like it would be live simply based on how the Andalites live.
But we must keep in mind: Andalites are not mammals. Since we have no reason to believe otherwise, Earth and Andalite world life arose independently from one another: A person would be more closely related to cabbage than an Andalite. So and Andalite shouldn't need breast, what without mammalary glands and all. Plus no mouth=no suckling anyway
But the relation thing draws up a whole nother issue to me-you can morph animals. Not plants
But there's a greater difference between a presumably morphable Mercora and non morphable brocoli than a person and a Mercora. WTF
To be fair, they never actually tried morphing plants in the series, so for all we know, it'd be fully possible. Elfangor may have just told them about the ability to morph animals because he realized that morphing a spruce tree would be... less than optimal, in most ways. If you go back and look at Elfangor's words when he's telling the kids about the morphing power (and I don't remember the exact quote), he says something like "It allows you to become any life-form," then amends it to "Any animal." Since we know he wasn't giving the kids all the information about the power anyway (he says so himself, and demonstrates this same sort of simplification of the power by telling the kids that it works via DNA, when that can quite obviously only be a small part of how it works), I'm actually willing to believe that it's a power that could, in fact, be used to morph into broccoli. Or e. coli. Or whatever.
The only real canon refutation I can think of for that at the moment is the buffahuman book- the buffalo and the ant that got the power would probably have been more likely to morph plants than humans, but there's no way to say definitively based on that one incident.
If it turns out that the power can, in fact, only be used to change into animals, my guess is that it's some sort of failsafe in the technology itself- if the thing you're acquiring doesn't have enough of a nervous system, it won't let you morph it, presumably to keep you from being trapped in morph thanks to a complete mental disconnect from the form of life morphed.
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how do taxxons breed? they are a hive creature so could this mean their queen just spews all of them out?
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Animorphs is on Scholastic's Summer Challenge Book List for kids ages 8=10.
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And yet, 18-30 year olds are the ones reading them :P
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how do taxxons breed? they are a hive creature so could this mean their queen just spews all of them out?
Well considering that theirs no building in they yeerk pool labeled "Taxoon breeding chamber" to stop the new guys from accidently walking in on it. Either that or female taxons all live on the yeerk home planet safe from harm (considering they can be killed if you puncture the skin with a needle or just poke it hard with a sharpened fingernail.)
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like jello! if taxxons tasted like raspberries then i would soak all of them in vodka and turn them into jello shots
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Man you really are from los vegas
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you've never met anyone from hawaii have you? all we do is party at the beach drinking and jumping off rocks - which is how i broke my ankle last may - although i was actually sober since i was supposed to be driving
how high would you have to drop a taxxon from in order for it to go SPLAT
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depends on how sharp the ground is. If theirs a few pointy pebbles all you need to do is make sure it doesn't land on it's feet
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well we know that taxxon skin is highly susceptible to sharp points but that they are good swimmers and can go deep, so they can deal with water pressure. if we had a perfectly flat and smooth surface for experimental purposes, would the taxxon bounce or go splat and how high until it does go splat? how stretchy exactly is their skin?
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I'd think very rubbery. as in tightly stretched balloon skin rubbery.
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taxxon vs porcupine! i'd pay to watch
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.I dlouw oS
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we could film it and sell it to animal planet. then they could put it on "wild animal encounters"
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?onxat a teg ot erehw
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we make a giant one out of jello, then coat it in powdered sugar and place it in the center of one chalk drawn star pentagon. then the raf ancients must gather in a circle and chant the magic lines as indicated by connecting the last word of each of the books into a long and nonsensical sentence 8 times frontwards and 9 times backwards and 5 times sideways. then the jello taxxon will begin to glow and just when it starts to melt from the light heat energy, the eye of a newt must be placed at the top of the star and stepped on by richard.
and that's all there is to it.
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yzarc uoy
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you're backwards
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!era uoy oN
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nope, i'm pretty sure i'm just drunk right now... i love the goose that is grey and the olive that comes in threes :D
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OK i may be drunk but after that sentence I'm sure your on Shrooms
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uh, no, not hallucinating. three olives is a brand of vodka. you know those magic mushrooms grow naturally... but not where i'm at right now. mushrooms do not like the nevada desert
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Cant wait for football season.
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how much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck was really ax in morph?
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No wood axe would be busy studying it
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i thought wood chucks ate wood. wouldn't he go ballistic trying to eat it?
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Hey all you dang woodchucks, stop chucking all my wood!
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i always thought that commercial was wrong...
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It's a commercial? My friend just said it to me a couple times,
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Woodchucks - GEICO Commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjGwusHrOtk#)
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Oatmeal is pretty flippin' fantastic, just sayin'.
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Spam=Wolf + net
and I've no scouted book stores on 2 continents and not found a print of the rerelease- Scholastic is shooting itself in the foot letting it ride like this
Why am I surprised ::)
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yep
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i wonder if ax would like spam...
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Ax enjoys "The refreshing drink vinegar"
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I have so totally Animorph-geeked out to the max this weekend. It was epicness. 8)
*I figure it's safe to assume that a 16 month addiction to oatmeal would be just about permanent to a Yeerk.
*Ocarina's apparently make decent Dracons in a pinch.
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Ocarinas as in from zelda?
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The Gameboy Color game doesn't heal you when you morph, Hork-Bajir attack in broad daylight in public, and a mouse can kill a horse. It's kind of a dumb game.
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we need an updated animorphs game. I feel like it would have a mass effect style gameplay where you never REALLY feel safe and sometimes left scrambling to find a last minute spot to morph. Character switching to get the full experience.
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Book 18: V3 starts yelling in thoughtspeak:
Should half the hospital have heard that.
He only morphs when he feels save, but he yells in the open?
Ridiculous ::)
Also when aftran uses it in 19: How does controller dude not say anything about that. Okay maybe part of YPM but not likely I'd think.
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if left to their own devices, would hork-bajir gain intelligence over thousands of years or would they become like sheep?
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Depends:
Is intelligence genetic?
Are seers particularly...I'll be polite and say prolific?
Is there any reason there intelligence would have to shift either direct:
Crocs and sharks have been "left alone" for eons, neither seems ready for Jeopardy college week, but I'd never call either dumb.
Still get by just fine all in all
Idk, as far as I'm concerned asking is it intelligent should almost always be followed with does it need to be intelligent?
And of course it would help if someone would make a good definition of the word....
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hork bjairs were programmed specifically not to be intelligent. In fact seers are described by the creators as a mistake in the DNA programming
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...got a question about Yeerk naming trends. Let's use Esplin 9466 as an example. All Yeerks have a 'name' and a numerical designation. This one (9466) implies he's a twin with the double 6's at the end. Well, if I remember right, Yeerks are born from three parents, in groups of a hundred or more, right? So.. maybe the whole 'batch' is called Esplin, and then the individual grubs are given designation numbers for specification purposes. Would that make sense? And is there any in-series support for or against that theory?
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I dont think so....It could be a combination of any number of things, the pool they were born in, the parents rank, how mant, what numbers are in the name.
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if the whole batch is esplin, maybe that's a little too much?
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No, I think Bear had it right. At least, that's how I figured it was done. And his theory makes sense, too. I think Visser Three was created in an artificial pool with his sibling(s), but I could be wrong.
I had my own theory that I believed to be solid, but was foiled by a few Yeerks. For the most part, the Yeerks that we were introduced to in the series had about six letters in their names--Esplin, Edriss, etc. The way I see it, if you split the Yeerks name into three parts--for example, Esplin 9466-- you may just get the first two letters of a Yeerk parent's name--ES PL IN. Unfortunately, we get Yeerks with names like Eslin, Ordet and Temrash, which pretty much pokes a hole in my little theory.
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Maybe its a chosen name along with a number that they are assigned?
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Another question... Do Yeerks get drunk? They would, right? I mean, they absorb nutrients from the same blood, so.... yeah, they would, I think.
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they absorb nutrients, blood rushes to the brain, alchohol turns to sugar the moment it hits blood, so it might cause a little brashness. Says the doctor. oh thats going in my sig!
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i never understood yeerk naming, but as for being drunk they may not:
Yeerk "blood" may not be very similar to vertebrate blood- the reactions that get you drunk may not take place in the Yeerk body, but then again maybe it does.
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what about not yeerk and being drunk. what if you're drunk and then you morph? you still drunk?
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I think you would be because most earth species have the same blood so why would that change?
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well we know some diseases are killed off by morphing like rabies, but not others like yamphut. would molecules of alcohol remain or go away?
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It's weird: I've just reread all the regular books, and may have enjoyed this go round more than ever.
I had to take a few....breathers... .multiple times at certain books, but this is the first time that I've never really had to compose myself anywhere in 54.
And I'll it admit it, I like 54 a bit more too this time. As in a lot a bit more
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I hated the ending but the rest of the actual book was fantastic
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I was in the car, and because the occasion called for it, spontaneously broke out into mmmh-bop.
I know, I'd have kicked myself too, but it was late: what's really weird is someone else joined in.
Even worse, we both sung the same thing-ick, I know mmmh-bop.
But at least I got to give Marco's explanation of what is a Hanson
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what about not yeerk and being drunk. what if you're drunk and then you morph? you still drunk?
well, it seemed that the animorphs didnt eat more or less than they otherwise would have, so most likely if they got drunk, they wouldnt be drunk in morph, but when they demorphed it would still be in their system and they would be drunk.
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The question is, would the alchohol leave the system while in Z-space if thats how it work
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This Animorph, this Animorph
This Animorph, this Animorph
This Animorph, this Animorph
This Animorph
So what if you can see the darkest side of me
No one will ever change this Animorph I have become
Help me believe it's not the real me
Somebody help me tame this Animorph I have become
Help me believe it's not the real me
Somebody help me tame this Animorph!
This Animorph
Really, you don't need to change the lyrics, still works
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Probably a dumb question from someone who hasn't read the book in at least 5 years: Why didn't Jake ever use the Howler morph again?
Aren't those the best fighters in the galaxy?
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there's more than one thread devoted to just that (examples: Why did Jake never morph the Howler in order to fight the yeerks? (Spoilers) (http://animorphsforum.com/index.php?topic=384.0); I think I know why Jake doesn't morph Howler... (http://animorphsforum.com/index.php?topic=5355.msg438475#msg438475)) and absolutely no common consensus among fans.
Some explanations are:
The Ellimist or Crayak removed it, so he can't
He chooses not to for personal or moral reasons
The authors totally forgot about it or, more unlikely, decided not let him have a morph that would basically god mode the series
But no solid reason is ever given
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Used carpet store has an led sign flashing their sales and such. Yesterday as i drove past i saw the word remnants on that sign. My mind instantly flashed to k a a's series. And i thought, meh, animorphs was better. Remnants was too much weird in too small a package. Animorphs blended the weird and the normal just right.
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Yeah, but at least Remnants had a [spoiler=Ending spoiler]Happy ending. :P[/spoiler]
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[spoiler]Parker, you say that like it's a good thing. :P I hated the Remnants ending more than the Animorphs ending.[/spoiler]
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Really? I liked it, for the most part. I remember there was one detail that didn't sit right with me (seriously can't remember what it was); but overall, I thought it ended well.
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I got sorta bored reading Remnents
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I was enthralled, just trying to visualize and comprehend the sights and creatures. Sure some of them were completely nausiating, but still, the fact that she came up with it was crazily awesome.
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If this is random thoughts...can I post and Andalite pic I made here? Just because I have nowhere else to put it :P
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sure, that's fine
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You could always put it in the Animorphs Fan art board.
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I could've sworn I just heard someone say "bug fighter."
:dull: Turns out it was more like "bug" and "bite(bit?) her."
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Haha, that's awesome.
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When little things subtely hint towards animorphs the universe either loves you or hates you.
In other news I've convinced a nine year old to read animorphs. i think hes just about to finish his first, #8 the alien
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nice, does he like it so far?
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He loves it.
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i'm having better luck getting my friends to read Artemis Fowl than Animorphs :'( unfortunately.
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...Y'all think that moccasins would be morph-able? They're pretty much skin tight, and heck, if they're leather, they sorta *are* skin. And they aren't nearly as bulky as tennis shoes....
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They might be, probably to get them completely skin tight you would need a size or 2 smaller
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I never understood why they couldn't at least morph some tight socks or something. With moccasins, it's possible that maybe they just didn't think of it, but surely some Animorph has worn socks at some point, right?
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hey, that's a good point, i never exactly thought of it either
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What about sandals? They lived in California, sandals can be bought cheaply and easily disposed of.
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but are sandals tight enough to morph?
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No, thats wh ytheir wheap and easy to hide. CHeaper to get than sneakers anyway.
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if you've ever seen how we in hawaii wear rubba slippah (rubber slippers), you'd know that they can be fairly tight and if they still aren't morphable, then at least they're only $3 per pair
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or maybe they could have used slightly thicker tight socks
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Oh picture this scene
Shallow Girl 1: Oh my God! Rachel is wearing those weird socks
S G 2: I kind of like them. They show off the calves
S G 3: By this time tommorow the whole country will be wearing those.
Tobias: <How did you guys get away with wearing those ridiculous socks?>
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lol, that's hilarious :lol:
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While trying to sign up for something, I used a fake name. I used "Joe Bob Fenestre."
Yep. I am awesome.
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(::) cookie, its yours
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Yesterday I saw was on a plane.
I looked out the window at the clouds
Saw on that looked just like a taxxon
yep
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I was watching a show about the Freemasons earlier today. You know, that super-secretive group that supposedly controls the government? Or at least, they have a lot of members in high-ranking positions, which fuels tons of conspiracy theories about them.
According to this show I watched, they have many features of religious groups (such as rituals and symbolism), although they do not adhere to any religion in particular. Most of their rituals are geared to allow their members to ascend from one of three ranks (called "degrees" of Freemasonry) to the next.
Some Freemasons that were interviewed on this show said that their main goal was to make their members into better people and foster ties within their community and such.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have found the Sharing.
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You can have two cookies (::) (::)
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yay! i think i found another Animorphs fan! yay!
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yay! i think i found another Animorphs fan! yay!
Aren't we all fans? O_o
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SHe most likely means in reality
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technically we are are in reality. I meant not on RAF
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Im not in reality.
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^uh...ok...like what do you mean by that?
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Im where the ellimist lives.
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I was watching a show about the Freemasons earlier today. You know, that super-secretive group that supposedly controls the government? Or at least, they have a lot of members in high-ranking positions, which fuels tons of conspiracy theories about them.
According to this show I watched, they have many features of religious groups (such as rituals and symbolism), although they do not adhere to any religion in particular. Most of their rituals are geared to allow their members to ascend from one of three ranks (called "degrees" of Freemasonry) to the next.
Some Freemasons that were interviewed on this show said that their main goal was to make their members into better people and foster ties within their community and such.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have found the Sharing.
sometimes i wonder if the boyscout or girlscouts really are the sharing because i swear my friend (who's in girlscouts) said almost word for word what they say in the books to get people to join. i was so freaked out
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Wouldnt it make more sense to have more than one orginization. Anyway that would explain my boyscout friend's violent behavior
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Has anybody heard of that new show on the food network, something about secret recipes? This guy goes around trying to re-create the secret recipes for various foods. KFC's chicken, etc.
In the first episode I saw, he was trying to re-create Cinnabon's cinnamon bun. At one point, he was looking around their bakery, and he stuck some cinnamon bun dough in his pocket when he thought nobody was looking.
Pretty sure that dude is actually Ax.
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How do you morph when your on your period?
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Im sure the same way that you would normally
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ew... what if you morphed on your period and filled z-space with blood...
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Well I just lost my appetite.
I don't think there's any distinguishable 'form' to what is in Z-space. The matter that is pushed out into Z-space is just that...pure matter. I don't think there is anything recognizable. It isn't like there's a bunch of blood and guts hovering in Z-space...
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It isn't like there's a bunch of blood and guts hovering in Z-space...
I was under the impression that was exactly the way it worked
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The matter that is pushed out into Z-space is just that...pure matter.
Pray thee, by pure matter you mean atoms? Sub atomic particles? Or the body mass as one amalgamated blob where the tissues are undifferentiated? People goo, if you will
That last on is how I always picture, for convenience, but really if the mass in z space does lose form, I'd figure it should probably be reduced to as basal a unit as possible.
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Yum, people goo.
Yeah, I know the Animorphs joke about there being bits of Marco or whatever floating around in Z-space, but I think in actuality the technology would want to break the matter down to the smallest components possible.
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All I asked was what happens when you morph during your period, why are we talking about blood and Z-space :P
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Well ko ko brought up blood and I simply stated that you would morph the exact same way you would normally
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I don't think there's any distinguishable 'form' to what is in Z-space. The matter that is pushed out into Z-space is just that...pure matter. I don't think there is anything recognizable. It isn't like there's a bunch of blood and guts hovering in Z-space...
From book 18 I was under the impression that the extra mass in Z-space naturally formed itself into the form of a body.
As far as morphing while on your period goes, it wouldn't be a problem.
[spoiler=spoilerized for potential squeamishness]See, periods happen when the blood that had been collecting in the uterine wall for the month beforehand is eventually shed. So as soon as you morphed, that blood would go away (as it is not presumably part of your genetic code) and the cycle would be reset. Thus, no period, unless you went without morphing for at least a month. *is suddenly even more jealous of the Animorphs*[/spoiler]
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Well, if you dont get your periode because of the morphing, then shouldnt Rachels or Cassies mom or dad noticed that they didnt have their peroide or need pads or tamponds for like 3 years or so?
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lying solves all, and I guarantee the dads at least aren't going to be checking that :X
Many people say chronological order is
TEC
HBC
TAC
Visser
then the series, and some may argue MM2 after TEC
I disagree; in my mind publication order is chronological with 2 exceptions: TAC runs along the first few chapters of #1, and TEC runs along the 4th or so chapter of #54.
All the others are stories told within there place in the series. The story is of earlier events, but the telling of the story-which is the book- is at a different point in time.
So says I. Anal retentive as I am
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I don't think there's any distinguishable 'form' to what is in Z-space. The matter that is pushed out into Z-space is just that...pure matter. I don't think there is anything recognizable. It isn't like there's a bunch of blood and guts hovering in Z-space...
From book 18 I was under the impression that the extra mass in Z-space naturally formed itself into the form of a body.
As far as morphing while on your period goes, it wouldn't be a problem.
[spoiler=spoilerized for potential squeamishness]See, periods happen when the blood that had been collecting in the uterine wall for the month beforehand is eventually shed. So as soon as you morphed, that blood would go away (as it is not presumably part of your genetic code) and the cycle would be reset. Thus, no period, unless you went without morphing for at least a month. *is suddenly even more jealous of the Animorphs*[/spoiler]
That, seems reasonable. Animals don't "shed" like we do. I guess it then disturbs the hormonal cycle as well?
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umm, i was intoxicated when i posted that... i didn't realize it would spark such conversation.
a more sober response: if morphing did not disrupt the hormonal cycle, i think morphing a tampon wouldn't be too difficult. it's not exactly skin tight, but it's inside so i would guess it's easy to morph
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i think morphing a tampon wouldn't be too difficult. it's not exactly skin tight, but it's inside so i would guess it's easy to morph
Please tell me someone has posted something along those lines before, because I just got a huge dose of deja vu but don't know where that though is coming from
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i think morphing a tampon wouldn't be too difficult. it's not exactly skin tight, but it's inside so i would guess it's easy to morph
but there's no point of morphing a tampon when morphing gets rid of your period
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Yes, but it's when you aren't in morph that you have the problem....you have to wear clothes when you're human. So you gotta have a pad or tampon until you morph. But if it's true what someone else said, that you might not even get it, I am really jealous.
We also got into pregnancy stuff over on Livejournal...ie that most likely a pregnant person wouldn't be able to morph or they'd lose the baby.
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Would they be able to nuture the baby? I don't think so... :huh:
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Yes, but it's when you aren't in morph that you have the problem....you have to wear clothes when you're human. So you gotta have a pad or tampon until you morph. But if it's true what someone else said, that you might not even get it, I am really jealous.
We also got into pregnancy stuff over on Livejournal...ie that most likely a pregnant person wouldn't be able to morph or they'd lose the baby.
But if the baby is gone when you demorph, where does the baby go?
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Back where babies come from, obviosuly
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Babies are made from a sperm cell and an egg cell going together. Then the cel muitiplies. It makes copies of itsself. Then after a certain amount of copying, it starts to copy the cells difftrently and makes like brain cells and stuff. So if it went to where it can from, then the cells wpuld have to like mend together or something so all thats left is an egg cell anf the egg cell abd sperm will have to go back to where its from so that wpuld mean when you morph a baby, everything gets undone.
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That was a joke
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-.- That is why there should be a sarcasum font
but maybe the baby stays the way it is? Since the baby is a creature with DNA too, then maybe its supposed to grow independently then.
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Then would you morph but still have a baby inside you? Pregnant tiger fight....
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While you're right about the sarcastic font, a baby doesn't grow independently.
At least not in a mammal anyway.
And while it's really hard for me to imagine how, I'm starting to think a baby would have to be able to survive it.
Same as a yeerk does. Same as all the micro things in your GI tract must; if they didn't Animorphs have some serious toilet issues after each morph.
Course that gets me thinking about the aging process and morphing's affects. Not to mention the morphing of microflora and really it seems like non-nuclear DNA make a whole new mess of things.
But those are random thoughts for another thread I suppose
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I was signing up for a chat on another site, and I chose my password very carefully. I chose 6.
Well, that's assuming the administrator says yes. :P
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Most wont due to the minimum character amount
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No kidding.
'Course, RAFchat allows "123." I'm pretty sure the chatroom admin can make it whatever she wants. :P
Edit: 8) And it got approved. :P So woo!
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A friend of mine who knows how I feel about Animorphs posted a link on my Facebook page, and I felt I had to share it with you guys because it made me feel warm inside. Language Warning: don't click if swear words bother you. (http://isabelthespy.tumblr.com/post/12056150355/can-you-say-more-things-about-animorphs-what-makes-the)
While you're right about the sarcastic font, a baby doesn't grow independently.
At least not in a mammal anyway.
And while it's really hard for me to imagine how, I'm starting to think a baby would have to be able to survive it.
Same as a yeerk does. Same as all the micro things in your GI tract must; if they didn't Animorphs have some serious toilet issues after each morph.
Course that gets me thinking about the aging process and morphing's affects. Not to mention the morphing of microflora and really it seems like non-nuclear DNA make a whole new mess of things.
But those are random thoughts for another thread I suppose
As far as babies go, I would think that it would probably get absorbed into the morph, and reappear when the morpher demorphed, the same thing that theoretically happens to Yeerks (based on controllers being able to morph creatures too small to contain a Yeerk).
And I've never thought about what happens to non-nuclear DNA during morphing before, that's an interesting thought! Perhaps, it could be that the acquiring process stores copies of any kinds of DNA it detects, nuclear or mitochondrial or otherwise. It depends on whether Andalites have anything resembling mitochondria, and therefore any reason to plan for this contingency in their techology. While it is somewhat unlikely that DNA-bearing organelles would evolve twice, Andalites do have a lot of other similarities to earth's mammals that are likewise unlikely. So it's possible, and thus they would need to program that assumption into their technology in order for morphing to work at all.
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Yeah, I part of me stops and says, wow morphing implies amazing understanding of biology and physics to cover all the things the process entails.
And then I stop and think How much of that would KA know?
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I wonder if morphing is possible in the real world since as far as we know, there is no Z-space
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There are theories that there might be, but no one's come up with even a workable theory as far as I know. I don't know a great deal about physics, but isn't it tied in with wormhole theory and all that stuff?
Related to the earlier random thoughts, what would happen to the morph-capable humans after the war? I bet some could join Jake's squad or others like it, but not everyone would be fit for it. I wonder what the rest would end up doing.
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As far as babies go, I would think that it would probably get absorbed into the morph, and reappear when the morpher demorphed, the same thing that theoretically happens to Yeerks (based on controllers being able to morph creatures too small to contain a Yeerk).
Then if it's like that, morphing wouldn't get rid of your period.
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There are theories that there might be, but no one's come up with even a workable theory as far as I know. I don't know a great deal about physics, but isn't it tied in with wormhole theory and all that stuff?
Related to the earlier random thoughts, what would happen to the morph-capable humans after the war? I bet some could join Jake's squad or others like it, but not everyone would be fit for it. I wonder what the rest would end up doing.
Well I assume they would make millions either with their own TV shows on animal planet or on the internet making "cute animal" videos
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I so through a series of unusual events, I one up on the politics of Harry Potter wiki page, and they have a section on the evils of war.
It's about 2 lines, and I read it and can't help but think wow, Animorphs was way better at getting that point across, to say the least
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The food industry gets a boost of profits from Andalite-Humans...
^Random thought^
XD
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Not just a boost. Imagine if andalites discovered the mcrib. Whatever earth money richer andalites had would be spent on mcdonalds. They mgiht even put themselves into debt for it.
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There are theories that there might be, but no one's come up with even a workable theory as far as I know. I don't know a great deal about physics, but isn't it tied in with wormhole theory and all that stuff?
Related to the earlier random thoughts, what would happen to the morph-capable humans after the war? I bet some could join Jake's squad or others like it, but not everyone would be fit for it. I wonder what the rest would end up doing.
Well I assume they would make millions either with their own TV shows on animal planet or on the internet making "cute animal" videos
Yeah, I agree but the government or president would also have to keep watch of them, to make sure they don't morph a random animal and kill someone.
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I so through a series of unusual events, I one up on the politics of Harry Potter wiki page, and they have a section on the evils of war.
It's about 2 lines, and I read it and can't help but think wow, Animorphs was way better at getting that point across, to say the least
yeah, i mean that was kinda the whole part of the series especially at the end. i don't think a lot of people noticed it in Harry Potter because she didn't get tht point across well enough for it to have been aparent to most people
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I've recently become acquainted with TV tropes, and found this
Using the word "phylum" interchangeably with "taxon" because it sounds all science-y and no one knows what "taxon" means. (And no, "giant wormlike alien with an insatiable hunger" is spelled with a Double X.
Yes!
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I've recently become acquainted with TV tropes, and found this
Using the word "phylum" interchangeably with "taxon" because it sounds all science-y and no one knows what "taxon" means. (And no, "giant wormlike alien with an insatiable hunger" is spelled with a Double X.
Yes!
Oh, wow, that is awesome. Where was it from? A show? Article? Something like that?
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it was in an article about taxonomic misuse in film
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TaxonomicTermConfusion?action=source (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TaxonomicTermConfusion?action=source)
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When I was growing up, I had several categories of crushes. My book crush was Cassie, because she seemed so sweet. :-[ Then again, that was before I realized despite being the sweetest member of the group, her morals had led to the worst of the Animorphs' atrocities. That said, she's still an influential character with me and definitely one of my top three favorites.
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it was in an article about taxonomic misuse in film
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TaxonomicTermConfusion?action=source (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TaxonomicTermConfusion?action=source)
Thanks for ruining my whole evening and my morning and this evening (said jokingly, not madly)....that site should come with a warning LOL
Edit several days later, I now find myself wondering why more of the group didn't get some of the big morphs, like grizzlies or elephants or tigers. I assume KAA wanted everyone to have a distinctive favorite battle morph, but I think it'd have been cool if a few books had scenes with all of them fighting as really big animals. (I do know we got the cheetahs that one book and the wolves and the whale-dolphin ones.
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Thre cant be anything more random than this, its awesome!! All credit goes to somebody that isnt me.
Animorphs 300 Movie Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Xo7weys6M#)
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thats pretty sweet
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That is pretty sweet.
I really wish they would redo the TV series though. I mean, the one time when Ax and Visser Three have their big confrontation.
And they...arm wrestled....
I threw up in my mouth a little bit. And I wasn't able to watch the series after that.
I mean, I understand it was low budget and all but...Andalites armwrestling? When Ax can't even hold a mouse without using two hands? (Think it was MM1). Talk about the most anti-climactic fight ever (even if they were on steroids in the TV show.) They might as well have had an insult war. At least then it might have been mildly amusing to watch.
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"yo mama is so blue"
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"yo mama is so blue"
Hahaha.
"You're mama's so dumb she got a 99.99% in biology!"
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The other day at work, I was supposed to pull a breadcrumb mix off the shelf, and I came back with the wrong one. So my coworker told me to get "the blue box."
Yeah, you all know what went through my mind right then. :D
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Im sorry but could anyone tell me in what episode do Ax and Visser 3 armwrestle?Im curious to watch it...
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It is in Episode 8, Season 1. The arm wrestling hilarity is near the end.
The one thing I do have to say they got right is Paulo Costanzo was an AMAZING Ax. He definitely nailed his character.
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The other day at work, I was supposed to pull a breadcrumb mix off the shelf, and I came back with the wrong one. So my coworker told me to get "the blue box."
Yeah, you all know what went through my mind right then. :D
Hehe, nice. Did the "blue box" look anything like the Animorphs blue box?
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The one thing I do have to say they got right is Paulo Costanzo was an AMAZING Ax. He definitely nailed his character.
I know! I can't even watch Royal Pains without my brain going "AX!"
Fun fact: There was an episode where Paulo's character was jokingly called by the nickname "Cinnamon." I can't help but think that couldn't have been a coincidence. :D
Hehe, nice. Did the "blue box" look anything like the Animorphs blue box?
. . . Not even slightly. Pretty sure the one from Animorphs was not made by Progresso, for one thing.
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I never even watched Royal Pains. I might start just because of Paulo. XD The cinnamon thing would have totally geeked me out, that's awesome.
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never heard of royal pains. Gotta see it
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Eh, Royal Pains isn't really much of a good show, other than
Ax Paulo being in it. It's about some doctor guy who does house-calls for rich people in Beverly Hills or something, and Paulo plays the doctor guy's brother.
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Darn. I was thinking the British show by that name that we have at the library. But that's a whole different show.
Speaking of the blue box, I end up thinking of it when mom watches Dancing With The Stars. When the blue light is on those big cubes onstage, they look like giant versions of the blue box illustration.
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I paraphrased "The use of rhetoric to obscure lack of content" today without telling people what it was from. :P I got a kick out of making them chuckle unknowingly at Animorphs.
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I've done that too! And I think I've seen it elsewhere as well...
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I paraphrased "The use of rhetoric to obscure lack of content" today without telling people what it was from. :P I got a kick out of making them chuckle unknowingly at Animorphs.
Oh, nice. I wanna try that sometimes.
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I paraphrased "The use of rhetoric to obscure lack of content" today without telling people what it was from. :P I got a kick out of making them chuckle unknowingly at Animorphs.
Probably one of my favorite Animorphs lines ever. XD It's where I learned the word rhetoric. *hugs rhetoric*
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which book is that from?
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^#10, the android. Jake came up with it for a topic for Marco's english essay.
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Many years ago, I eagerly hunted down whatever Animorphs transformer toys I could find.
Sometime between then and now, I lost track of the Marco/Gorilla one.
Today, in cleaning out my room, I found, not the whole, but instantly recognizable chest plate of the gorilla.
Where did it go?!
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I'm just wondering, is anyone else paranoid about Yeerks right now? I mean, like normally I would join everything I can for school, but this year, I'm convinced that the Yeerks have taken over FFL so I quit it XP. And I keep wondering if my friends are controllers (they are acting sorta odd though. Chili is only hanging out with Bok Choy, and practically ignores the rest of us. :().
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What's FFL?
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I was watching a show on disney channe;. A danish cop was harrasing the mian characters and in the traditional disney style, if somebody has an accent somebody says something with an imitation. In this case he said. "Man that guy is such a yeerk!"
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So did those people actually say "That guy is such a yeerk"? :huh:
What's FFL?
Oops, I meant FLL, First Lego League
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It was "jerk" with a danish accent
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This is what happens when you're studying for finals.
I was just thinking, the Yeerks were lucky that none of the Animorphs were med students, or aspiring veterinarians that cared more about humans than yeerks.
Because I was just thinking, since Yeerks are parasites, what would happened if you just "poisoned" the water system with Immiticide, or heck, just dumped a whole bunch into the Yeerk pool? I wonder if it would kill them. Then again, depending on how big the Yeerks all, the amount of immiticide needed to kill the Yeerk might be a fatal dose to the human.
Also...Andalites must have a freaking iron-clad immune system...do you know how hard it would be to keep the lungs healthy without a mouth? They'd never be able to sneeze properly, they'd be inhaling everything.
Ok...back to studying for finals...freaking pharmacology....*mutters*
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I believe most of that has been covered
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Hmms, I've never seen the thread (or is it just further up in this thread?), I'll go looking for it when I have spare time, lol.
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Depending on how immiticide works (please note that I actually have no idea how it works), you can't really be sure that it would have the same effect on a Yeerk that it does on earth's parasites. Keep in mind that their biochemistry is so bizarre that oatmeal acts as an addictive drug to them.
And the mental image of an Andalite attempting to sneeze, and failing . . . that's probably the most hilarious mental image I've had all day. :XD:
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Ax does find it odd that people violently exhale and say A-choo :o
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Im picturing them shooting air out of their hooves and going a couple feet in the air
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Hmm, not sure about that, but that might be what happens when they belch. :XD:
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But there'd be no point to him shooting air out of his hooves, because I'm assuming his hooves are only connected to his digestive system. (But that is a great mental image :XD: )
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Well, Andalites do have three nasal slits, each of which is considerably larger than a human nostril. Perhaps, collectively, they would allow an Andalite to inhale as much air as having a mouth?
And perhaps they have multiple trachea (what the crap is the plural of trachea? is it just trachea? tracheas? trachei? anyway, those things) to get around the problem of only having one orifice to inhale things through.
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Or maybe they have unseen holes
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They multiple trachea thing would probably be feasible. Especially since they would probably have no esophagus or anything but the nervous/respiratory/circulatory system in that part of the body.
I would think that the slits would allow them to inhale a lot more air (and they would need to in order to keep a body that big oxygenated). The problem would be being able to take in enough air, without inhaling the object, in order to produce enough force to expel it. The extra slits wouldn't really help that, but the multiple trachea thing would.
And I think it's tracheas...I'm not sure.
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Again, I suggest the possibility of unseen holes that help air get out of the body.
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That is a possibility too.
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Im picturing them shooting air out of their hooves and going a couple feet in the air
hehe, that made me want to laugh really hard :XD:
I would think that the slits would allow them to inhale a lot more air (and they would need to in order to keep a body that big oxygenated).
agreed
Again, I suggest the possibility of unseen holes that help air get out of the body.
maybe like sweat pores?
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I absolutely love having friends who are into Animorphs like me. We go to school together, and she said she was re-reading number six. And I was like "you know, Cassie could have tried giving him Ivermectin or something..." and her eyes lit up and she went "OMG! I wonder if that would work!"
Sometimes, I love being a nerd and having nerdy friends and being amused by nerdy things. XD Though it makes you wonder about my sanity when I'm sitting in school and making connections like that. XD
Which brings me to another random thought...are Yeerks technically parasites at all? I'm going to have to dig up a definition...
Parasite: An organism that lives in or on another organism (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the host's expense.
The Yeerks don't get nutrients from their host, they have to leave their host in order to live, which doesn't make it a truly parasitic relationship. If you want to be medically technical, the Yeerks derive no medical benefit from having a host.
But then again, what would they be classified as? Just a slave-master-creature? I think it's easier just to say Yeerk.
/end rambling.
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A species that interacts with another species in a way that helps species 1 but harms species 2? Yeah, pretty much. (Except for voluntaries, I guess...)
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Well, technically that could be a predator/prey relationship I would think (at least according to my parasitology notes.) Actually, I'm going to be nerdy and go get them. (Edits incoming.)
Actually, I guess it would be parasitism: an association between two organisms in which one member lives on or within the other member and may cause harm. Usually the parasite is metabolically dependent.
I really can't think of anything else it would be.
Sorry for random rambling. This is what happens when finals week and caffeine starts to melt your braincells.
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I charge money in case of lost brain cells. And that sounds pretty plausible
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yeah, now that you mention it, Yeerks aren't totally parasites. But i guess you could say that it still benefits with the freedom *shrugs* I dunno...
I charge money in case of lost brain cells.
Ah, to bad my friend doesn't do that. My other friends slap her like at least 3 times a day, so last year we created a joke about how everytime she gets slapped, they kill a thousand brain cells :XD:
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I saw a yellow Mustang today, vanity plate LNX GUY. Wonder if Alan's working on Linux instead of Windows and Mac these days...
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Lately I've been learning to put up with one of my co-workers by means of comparing him to Marco. You know how nobody really bats an eye when Marco teases them, because Marco teases everybody? That's this guy. So, every time he grinds my nerves I can tell myself he's just being Marco.
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Lately I've been learning to put up with one of my co-workers by means of comparing him to Marco. You know how nobody really bats an eye when Marco teases them, because Marco teases everybody? That's this guy. So, every time he grinds my nerves I can tell myself he's just being Marco.
That's awesome.
I go to school with a guy named Marco, but he's one of those completely deadpan serious ALL THE TIME guys. Doesnt really fit, unfortunately.
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^really? I never met anyone named Marco or Tobias before in real life.
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Ive only knows davids and jakes, and both are jerks
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Totally random Animorphs thought of the day...
:rachel:
I still get way to emotional when I think about Rachel... Ya know what? I don't! Rachel was awesome!
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The names Alloran and Abron are still confusing me xD
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Uh...what's so confusing about them?
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Ok, so I have a question:
I have two copies of the invation and was thinking of donating one to my local climbing gym (it has a book excahnge programm) so to spread animorphs to other people.
But the fact is that one of the editions has the little paragraph about Jake morphing the lizard "I did it monday..." Etc. But the other one doesnt, so any one knows what this means? Any chance that its a super-rare print error worth a million bucks? Help! I dont want to give away a could-be valuable!
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Try searcging online. CHances are, a few sites will have a draft and you can see if its included. Or perhaps you could call the publisher and see if anybody can check records. Trying to be real I seriously doubt one missing sentence will boost the value by more than a couple cents
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I thought that he meant that it was missing the whole paragraph...? And yeah, I personally don't think that missing some sentences will make it more valuable, but that's what I think.
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I'd think it would make it less valuable, my sister recently bought a book that was missing around 50 pages, and the store had to give her a refund.
Anyways, here's what my e-book copy of #1 says
CHAPTER 16
I did it Monday morning in my locker at school. I turned into a lizard.
A green anole, to be exact. It's a member of the iguana family. Like you care.
I waited till the bell rang for first period, which was English class. When everyone else was
out of the hallway, I just climbed into my locker. I tried to act cool about it, just in case
anyone was watching.
The locker was about two inches shorter than me, so I had to crouch. And it was so tight I
couldn't move. The only light was from the three small ventilation slits. I could hear my heart
pounding in the cramped, dark space. I was afraid.
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No, I mean, remember that in back of the cover there was always a little paragraph? like right in front of the picture? its not there, the back side of the cover is blank...
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That sounds like it could have been ripped out...
I'd think it would make it less valuable, my sister recently bought a book that was missing around 50 pages, and the store had to give her a refund.
Anyways, here's what my e-book copy of #1 says
CHAPTER 16
I did it Monday morning in my locker at school. I turned into a lizard.
A green anole, to be exact. It's a member of the iguana family. Like you care.
I waited till the bell rang for first period, which was English class. When everyone else was
out of the hallway, I just climbed into my locker. I tried to act cool about it, just in case
anyone was watching.
The locker was about two inches shorter than me, so I had to crouch. And it was so tight I
couldn't move. The only light was from the three small ventilation slits. I could hear my heart
pounding in the cramped, dark space. I was afraid.
But that's 50 pages. There's a big difference between 50 pages and one paragraph/sentence. And that's like missing 1/3 book! Did the book like fall apart 0_o
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No, guys, he's talking about the little preview blurb printed inside the cover.
My instinct says it's just multiple versions, neither of which will be rare or valuable. Especially with the early books, they were printed with multiple covers (at least two- the one with the ANIMORPHS logo on the front written in white and surrounded by color, and the one with it surrounded by white and written in the background clouds... effect). Granted, I can't say for sure, but honestly, it's an Animorphs book. As much as we love them, I can't see them being irrationally valuable under... basically any circumstances :P
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No, guys, he's talking about the little preview blurb printed inside the cover.
My instinct says it's just multiple versions, neither of which will be rare or valuable. Especially with the early books, they were printed with multiple covers (at least two- the one with the ANIMORPHS logo on the front written in white and surrounded by color, and the one with it surrounded by white and written in the background clouds... effect). Granted, I can't say for sure, but honestly, it's an Animorphs book. As much as we love them, I can't see them being irrationally valuable under... basically any circumstances :P
Yay!! You´re right in both assumptions, two bad the second one is so true
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Glad that got straightened out.
I only remember them having the next book previews in the first few books, so thats my excuse for not knowing what he was talking about.[/color]
That sounds like it could have been ripped out...
But that's 50 pages. There's a big difference between 50 pages and one paragraph/sentence. And that's like missing 1/3 book! Did the book like fall apart 0_o
No, thats just how it was made, she brought it home opened it up, started reading and realized that it went from page 20 to page 70.
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Uh...what's so confusing about them?
I don't really know. I always forget their names xD
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I just found this, it's awesome and ridiculous at the same time:
[spoiler=Language](http://i.imgur.com/AYRTc.jpg)[/spoiler]
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No, thats just how it was made, she brought it home opened it up, started reading and realized that it went from page 20 to page 70.
Wow, that's pretty lousy.
I just found this, it's awesome and ridiculous at the same time:
[spoiler=Language](http://i.imgur.com/AYRTc.jpg)[/spoiler]
Angie posted that on facebook. I made 2 really long comments about how that is impossible. :XD:
[spoiler=comments on the pic (which also goes to show that most of my friends don't care about animorphs XP)]Angie Gao
Lol — with Erica Yunyun Gong.
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Erica Yunyun Gong That is so impossible in the animorphs universe. First of all, you would need to time travel to the past to get that morph (is you acquire something in animorphs, it has to be alive) . There are only like three ways that can happen. One, the Ellimist/Crayak puts you there, which i highly unlikely unless it owns you a favour. Second way, use the Time Matrix, which you won't know where it is. And third way, there's a sario rip. #3 is most likely. So let's just say that it's a sario rip. first, you need a big explosion to get you there. In animorphs, it's a nuclear one (that's never mentioned again). And once you get there, how will you acquire a dino? Humans are so weak back then, considering how large dinos are. And how will you get back? You need another explosion of equal power to get you back. And once you get back from a sario rip, the morph is no longer there and you might not even remember it. So in short, it's so unlikely that it's practically impossible.
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Patrick Wang ?...
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Erica Yunyun Gong Oh and you dont morph by thinking animorphs. You think about the animal. Animorphs is only a name marco made up for them, and andalites can morph just fine withput even knowing that word. Did these people even read the series before they made that? Its so inaccurate.
November 11 at 11:32pm · Like · 1
Angie Gao Thank you for the interesting info that I just needed to kow
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Neien Wei ?...
November 14 at 9:14pm · Like[/spoiler]
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Oh man! I am SO going to put this on a T-shirt right now!
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Holycrap WANT.
Where did you find that pic?
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Right here.
These guys do some rather "interesting" Animorphs reviews.
http://cinnamonbunzuh.blogspot.com/2011/11/andalite-chronicles.html (http://cinnamonbunzuh.blogspot.com/2011/11/andalite-chronicles.html)
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wow, that's a very cool picture :O
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No, thats just how it was made, she brought it home opened it up, started reading and realized that it went from page 20 to page 70.
Wow, that's pretty lousy.
I just found this, it's awesome and ridiculous at the same time:
[spoiler=Language](http://i.imgur.com/AYRTc.jpg)[/spoiler]
Angie posted that on facebook. I made 2 really long comments about how that is impossible. :XD:
[spoiler=comments on the pic (which also goes to show that most of my friends don't care about animorphs XP)]Angie Gao
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Erica Yunyun Gong That is so impossible in the animorphs universe. First of all, you would need to time travel to the past to get that morph (is you acquire something in animorphs, it has to be alive) . There are only like three ways that can happen. One, the Ellimist/Crayak puts you there, which i highly unlikely unless it owns you a favour. Second way, use the Time Matrix, which you won't know where it is. And third way, there's a sario rip. #3 is most likely. So let's just say that it's a sario rip. first, you need a big explosion to get you there. In animorphs, it's a nuclear one (that's never mentioned again). And once you get there, how will you acquire a dino? Humans are so weak back then, considering how large dinos are. And how will you get back? You need another explosion of equal power to get you back. And once you get back from a sario rip, the morph is no longer there and you might not even remember it. So in short, it's so unlikely that it's practically impossible.
November 11 at 9:34pm · Like · 1
Patrick Wang ?...
November 11 at 11:22pm · Like
Erica Yunyun Gong Oh and you dont morph by thinking animorphs. You think about the animal. Animorphs is only a name marco made up for them, and andalites can morph just fine withput even knowing that word. Did these people even read the series before they made that? Its so inaccurate.
November 11 at 11:32pm · Like · 1
Angie Gao Thank you for the interesting info that I just needed to kow
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Neien Wei ?...
November 14 at 9:14pm · Like[/spoiler]
The impossibility is part of the awesome/ridiculous nature of it!
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yeah, I know, but I just had to :P
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Just reread the Hork Bajir Chronicles...didn't realize how much of that story I'd forgotten.
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I ran into that blogger at TV Tropes. Love it :)
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My friend saw one of my Animorphs books in my backpack (Visser) and this is what he said:
Isn't Animorphs that series where the one alien is all "I'm a horse with a scorpion tail, touch this cube."?
I was dyin'.
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so your friends doesn't like animorphs...? Or only heard a bit about it?
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so your friends doesn't like animorphs...? Or only heard a bit about it?
He read the first 3 or 4 books when he was a kid, so he doesn't know a whole lot about it/remember it.
I'm trying to get him to read the rest :D
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Haha, yay for trying to explain animorphs to non-animorphs people. :XD:
I've been trying (and failing) to try to get my husband to read animorphs. I was trying to explain the different races to him and it kind of went like this.
Him: What's Hork'Bajir?
Me: They are controllers too, they're like lizards with blades everywhere.
Him: So why don't the Yeerks just enslave all of them and take over the universe?
Me: Well that was the plan, but the Andalites wiped out the Hork'Bajir with a quantum virus so they couldn't do that.
Him: What's a quantum virus?
Me: A virus that killed almost all the Hork'Bajir.
Him:... well that makes sense.
Me: ...
Him: Oh that's right, the Andalites are the smart ones, aren't they?
So yeah...the only way my husband remembered anything about what I said was him thinking the Andalites being genocidal was smart. /facepalm.
Other than that, I don't remember who said it, but someone said something about George Lucas making an Animorphs movie? I got a sneak preview of SWTOR (I got it for christmas, but no internet to play it. >:( ). (Posting from a phone.) And all I have to say is OMGYES! When I was watching the trailer on someone's laptop I got giddy with the idea of George Lucas doing animorphs...it would be amazing.
Though, I'm going to have to completely gut my Kelbrid fanfic...one of the races on SWTOR is like...half a carbon copy of my idea for the Kelbrids. Freakin' Rattataki. -_-
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I actually liked the new star wars so I could picture him making it
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ANGER! >:( >:( >:(
I'm hesistant to post this, cause I don't want to endorse it at all, but
My googlings have landed on a group with a song with the most horrendous name I've ever imagined
"Animorphs aren't cool any more"
Humble opinion: terrible group that merely blast power chords and has unintelligable, electronically distorted singing where you can only make out the titular lyrics if listening for it, carefully.
All the other lyrics couldn't be made out.
I am outraged
grrrr :explode: :explode: :explode: :explode: :explode: :explode: :explode: :explode: :explode: >:(
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yeah, I saw that song too. When I saw it, I was mad at them too. Wanted to rate it 1 star on ipod
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I haven't heard the song and I won't even bother myself about it, but you guys shouldn't get yourselves worked up about a bunch of fools, because to me, it sounds like that's what they are. ;)
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The thing is though, they're right. Animorphs is no longer a relevant book series. You can't go down to McDonalds with your friends and discuss how much you hate Cassie with your buds anymore. It's sad, but true.
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>:(
I respectfully disagree
(what do you think this site is for)
Group Reread thread for #9 will be up soon
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The thing is though, they're right. Animorphs is no longer a relevant book series. You can't go down to McDonalds with your friends and discuss how much you hate Cassie with your buds anymore. It's sad, but true.
Technically you still can. Its just harder to find anifans, but theres still plenty. Like on a forum for Artemis Fowl, i found at least like 5 people who also read animorphs before. But it does suck on how hard it is to find them
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The thing is though, they're right. Animorphs is no longer a relevant book series. You can't go down to McDonalds with your friends and discuss how much you hate Cassie with your buds anymore. It's sad, but true.
I guess it depends on your location. I personally have no trouble stumbling upon an Anifan in this city. Feels good man :3
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I live in a place filled with illiterate retards. Since I couldn't understand the lyrics, after a bit of google searching I found that in fact, the lyrics had nothing to do with animorphs. They could have made the song about anything. Power rangers. Pogs. Teenage mutant ninja turtles.
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Lyrics for what? That animorphs arent cool song?
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yeah. Other than the one use of the line "Animorphs aren't cool anymore, that could be easilly changed.
“Animorphs Aren’t Cool Anymore” You’re Welcome, World. (2010). Lyrics by Ben Macon
VERSE 1:
I remember summer days at skateboard parks with rollerblades
And I remember high school dances asking girls for second chances
I’m not ready to accept the fact that you’ve changed
because I’ve heard it all before, to me you’re still the same
VERSE 2:
And I remember inside jokes and metaphors
But times they change, Animorphs aren’t cool anymore
CHORUS:
So I’m moving on, I’m moving on
I’ll forget about everything that ever made sense to me
I’m moving on, I’m moving on
And I’ll give it my everything, give it my everything
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uh...I see what you mean. Yeah, the only thing in the song that has anything to do with animorphs is the line animorphs aren't cool anymore. And that seems short. That's the entire song?
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According to their website
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Since I have an English BA, I am terribly prone to WAY WAY WAY over thinking things.
So I have way way way over thought the question: Why wasn't Melissa Chapman ever made an Animorph?
My TLDR version of my head-cannon answer is that, for a series that is already regarded as borderline unsuitable for kids and undeniable high-octane nightmare fuel: She would have just really really taken that over the top into "why the hell would you ever let your kids read this?!" territory.
I have this strange idea that she was originally intended to be a character, but KA's editors were like: So, you are trying to sell us a kids series in which a child has to sit at the dinner table every day contemplating whether or not she is going to kill her parents, wondering if she should kill herself in case they notice ANY number of insignificant things that might suggest she might have an idea of what's going on so she won't be the end of earth just by merely existing, and has to take caffiene pills every night just to make sure she doesn't accidentally fall asleep and have a nightmare and scream "OMG YEERK," thus tipping off her parents and ending the world.
Yeah...our lawyers think this is a bad idea.
Why don't you explore those themes in a more dilute kid-friendly fashion...like a parent that's already dead so it's not staring them in the FACE every day, or a sibling that really has no real reason to sit there and pretend they are a parent so it's ok if they act like they don't know the animorph exists. I'm sure it'll get the point across without mentally scarring kids irreverseably.
However, I think the addition of her would make a very interesting adult-ish series. I may make a book-long post elaborating exactly why I think that KA Applegate really did intend on having her as an animorph.
Though, that might be pointless, because I remember that supposedly she responded to a FAQ about Melissa saying she was a throw away character. (As in, side character, or literally 'thrown away?') Though really the fact that Melissa was a FAQ really suggests that people were very interested in how she turned out.
Despite her saying she was a throw away character, my insanity is nagging me and saying I don't believe it. There is just too many coincidences: Elfangor-Loren-Chapman vs Ax-Tobias-Melissa, the fact that she was basically given the same amount, if not more, physical description in two as the main characters. The fact that her back story is really really well developed. The fact that KA explicitly says she looks like a Tolkien elf...and KA is also an admitted Tolkien fanatic. The fact that she shows up in someway in almost every alternate reality setting...even to the point that she WAS an animorph?
Coincidences are just coincidences though...unless it's in a series that practically beats you over the head every single time you turn the page with plot continuity.
(Fanfic? Maybe so...)
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Thats a good point. Millisa could have been so helpful as an animorph. You know, I wonder if the anis remember all the evemts (including in the alternate time line) since if they did, they could remember how helpful she was, then decide weather she should havebeen made an animorph.
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I definitely agree that she would have been a really valuable member of the team. I know when I read the series the first time, I genuinely expected that she was going to be worked in somehow, and when she never was (and Marco knocked down her house) I was left with a lesser sense of "WTF?"
So I got the crazy idea that I may do a fanfic that has her as an animorph, and I was studying the character because that is was crazy OCD English BA majors do when they have too much time on their hands.
And I genuinely realized just how terrifying and mentally terrorizing her life would have been if she WERE an animorph. Especially since Visser three, already in book two, told her yeerk parents that he wanted her infested so if she even slipped up one milimeter it was ALL over, and she had a very powerful (two?) yeerk in her household. And she'd have three choices, live as a controller knowing that she ratted out her friends and the human race. Run away like Tobias, though that would make her "parents" look for her and still endanger them. Or she could simply just off herself.
I also don't see how she could have realistically survived the war in any way shape or form, whether that meant mentally or physically, and KA was real big on realistic endings. By the end of the war she would have been irreparably insane...way more so than Jake. I'm talking we're watching an unfortunate "whacked out nam vet" become "whacked out REALLY BAD" in real time.
And I put that in quotes because I think people who think like that are disgusting. Kind of like HER FATHER in TAC. Irony! (lots of strange coincidences.)
It would have definitely gotten the "war is hell" point across VERY well. I don't think it would have been kid friendly AT ALL if it was portrayed realistically.
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So, my brother informed me today of a surgery that supposedly involved a guy needing a new heart, except that he was too weak for a heart transplant, so they just put in a heart in addition to the one he already had. So this guy supposedly ended up with two hearts. Not sure if I believe it, but that's beside the point.
My first thought? Holycrap he's an Andalite!
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I heard about it. But andalites didn;t come to mind. Dang it.
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That what I thought too Noelle.
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That funniest moments thread now has me wondering how Ax would react to today's smartphones...despi te the re-release, that stuff really makes me long for an updated, today-version of the series. (we already discussed the problems with morphing when everyone has a camera phone and the Yeerks/Sharing on Facebook in that thread I put up...yikes) I wonder how Andalite fingers would do with touch-screens... With those or tablets, I can still see him complaining about no psychic link.
And I'd LOVE to see him try to talk to Siri on iPhone 4s...hahahahaha. <What is this? Is she an android?> <This touch screen is fascinating, but impossible...the keyboard is far too small and I am always making mistakes.> He might like the voice function some phones have...it's Dragon dictation, lets you speak commands. I never use it myself, but who knows?
Oh and autocorrect. I love autocorrect fails. I can also see Marco texting pics...no, not the bad kind/sexting, just annoying Rachel sending pics with captions about how hot he is. Or if he has an Iphone, I can see him like "Hey, Siri, do you think I'm hot?" It'd be hilarious if she said no...Rachel'd have a field day.
And everyone would be jealous of Erek because he would never lose a call or enter a dead zone because he's a modem himself. "Hey, Erek, can you be our hot spot again?" if he was with them for something. Although your phone can be a hot spot if you turn that function on.
Poor Tobias could only use it as a human, talons probably don't do well on touch screens. Not that he could take it home, no one could see a bird with a cell phone and not think something was up. Plus, there's the money factor.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't Andalite fingers described to be longer and nimbler than human's? I don't think small keyboard would be the kind of complaint he'd make.
Oh and autocorrect. I love autocorrect fails. I can also see Marco texting pics...no, not the bad kind/sexting, just annoying Rachel sending pics with captions about how hot he is. Or if he has an Iphone, I can see him like "Hey, Siri, do you think I'm hot?" It'd be hilarious if she said no...Rachel'd have a field day.
Haha, yes! I can totally visualize that.
He'd definitely send her inappropriate texts and then claim they were autocorrect fails.
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So, my brother informed me today of a surgery that supposedly involved a guy needing a new heart, except that he was too weak for a heart transplant, so they just put in a heart in addition to the one he already had. So this guy supposedly ended up with two hearts. Not sure if I believe it, but that's beside the point.
My first thought? Holycrap he's an Andalite!
heh, nice. i havent heard about that though
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I think Andalite hands would be way better than humans at smartphones. Smaller fingers mean hitting the keys better, my husband always complains his hands are too big for the touch screen stuff.
I think the series would be MASSIVELY different with today's technology. Ax could virtually be a billionaire just sitting in his scoop designing Apps for a smart phone. In another thread (I think it was NaNoWriMo) we speculated that Ax could pretty much take down the Yeerk Empire from his computer sitting at his scoop with the updates to internet technology and through social media. I mean, flood facebook with "THE SHARING SUCKS."
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In another thread (I think it was NaNoWriMo) we speculated that Ax could pretty much take down the Yeerk Empire from his computer sitting at his scoop with the updates to internet technology and through social media. I mean, flood facebook with "THE SHARING SUCKS."
No way. Ax may be a technological prodigy capable of Macgyvering together Z-space technology from leftover crap lying around Radio Shack, but if one aristh were that much more capable than the entirety of the Yeerk empire, the war would have been won before it started. Keep in mind that the Yeerks are going to have their own ways of taking advantage of the available media- not to mention the authority and manpower to keep Ax's efforts from getting very far.
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In another thread (I think it was NaNoWriMo) we speculated that Ax could pretty much take down the Yeerk Empire from his computer sitting at his scoop with the updates to internet technology and through social media. I mean, flood facebook with "THE SHARING SUCKS."
No way. Ax may be a technological prodigy capable of Macgyvering together Z-space technology from leftover crap lying around Radio Shack, but if one aristh were that much more capable than the entirety of the Yeerk empire, the war would have been won before it started. Keep in mind that the Yeerks are going to have their own ways of taking advantage of the available media- not to mention the authority and manpower to keep Ax's efforts from getting very far.
I suppose, but I always read it as that the Andalites were always very superior when it came to intelligence to the Yeerks, almost all of the Yeerks technology came from Andalites, and they had an Andalite brain to help boost their production.
I always saw the reason why the Andalites didn't rofl-stomp the Yeerks back into their Yeerk pools was the fact that the Andalites were massively outnumbered. When it came to all-out guns a blazing warfare, wit can't overcome sheer numbers. Wit can pull off some things, like tricking the Yeerks into losing on Leera, but eventually you're just going to get drowned out.
However on Earth, it was different. I think it was written that Ax was mentally superior to all of the Yeerks there, even Alloran because his education was probably more updated than his. (I could be wrong.) While the Yeerks would definitely be using the same tactics Ax would, I think Ax could out-think them. It wasn't all-out guns-a-blazing warfare, it was really a mental game between the Yeerks and the anis. I think Ax would have been able to pull it off. Not necessarily from his scoop (that was an exaggeration, lol.), but I think he could have out-thought the Yeerks.
Edit: Oh, I see where I went wrong. I didn't mean he could take down the whole yeerk EMPIRE (I'll leave that typo in since you quoted it.) I meant he could take down the Yeerk invasion on Earth. Obviously he couldn't do crap about the Yeerks in space, lol.
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I'm gonna side with lumy on this-despite the upgrades I doubt ax could have shut down all the Yeerk forces.
On the blade ship-presumabling using it's systems, it'd take him near an hour to over ride their codes: when Tom gave them a 15 minute roll over he was out.
And that bugfighter in 11: he could reright the software on his own. In 20 years
At best he may be able to hack a bit further, but that's a far cry from shutting down the invasion.
All over the galaxy they are brillant Andalites armed with their own tech, but it seems they aren't able to remotely shut down any larger scale operations.
As for facebook: You'd have to flood it with "The Sharing Rules" viruses and popups till it crashes. That way when everyone is made that their precious site falls, they're made at the Sharing, not sympathetic
(With or without human technologies, you have to wonder what Erek could doL and why he never does. Disabling the fleet wouldn't be very violent....)
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I'm gonna side with lumy on this-despite the upgrades I doubt ax could have shut down all the Yeerk forces.
On the blade ship-presumabling using it's systems, it'd take him near an hour to over ride their codes: when Tom gave them a 15 minute roll over he was out.
And that bugfighter in 11: he could reright the software on his own. In 20 years
At best he may be able to hack a bit further, but that's a far cry from shutting down the invasion.
All over the galaxy they are brillant Andalites armed with their own tech, but it seems they aren't able to remotely shut down any larger scale operations.
As for facebook: You'd have to flood it with "The Sharing Rules" viruses and popups till it crashes. That way when everyone is made that their precious site falls, they're made at the Sharing, not sympathetic
(With or without human technologies, you have to wonder what Erek could doL and why he never does. Disabling the fleet wouldn't be very violent....)
Yeah, you're probably right.
But that is a good point, the Chee could have done a lot more...
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I just found this site cinnamonbunzuh.blog spot.com/2011/11/book-12-reaction.html and I can't stop laughing xD
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Oh, yeah those guys are fantastic.
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Cool, they also have great book reviews
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I love it whenever they point out a midmorph on one of the covers which happens to look extremely odd. Juvenile, but it always cracks me up.
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Yeah, Marco the wightlifting spider on a mcdonalds color scheme. *snicker*
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So... There has been the same exact copy of Making Waves #4 (I forget the original name KA/Michael published it under) at Barnes & Noble since I started college. Six years ago.
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Yeah, Marco the wightlifting spider on a mcdonalds color scheme. *snicker*
Have you ever seen any creature that's more precious and viewtiful than these darlings? c:
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v6bXcSKk5pc/Tuy9dhBr5nI/AAAAAAAAAj0/7znIdHMhVaI/s1600/Screen+Shot+2011-12-15+at+5.54.53+PM.png)
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zivyaDg3oUw/TqyCt2G6qvI/AAAAAAAAAfY/H3VHmVBPA8E/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-10-27+at+6.00.04+PM.png)
I cry myself to sleep every night knowing I'll never be half as gorgeous as them.
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sarcasm win?
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uh...what?
And yeah, those are pretty messed up.
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Amazon, via Google, says Ocean City. I never heard of that one.
And yeah, those are bizarre lol
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I think the cassie yeerk one is weirdest
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That was pretty weird, but the Tobias-Taxxon midmorph is just downright disturbing.
(http://covers.openlibrary.org/w/id/275916-L.jpg)
This is what all of Visser Three's creepiest morphs strive to be!
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It ust looks like a normal taxon to me, just shrunk with a different color scheme
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well, third one from hawk looks like a hawk with three eyes and a beak with teeth and a long skiny tougue. looks odd to me
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Its kind of cute actually. And this has been a look inside the mind of Jar Jar Binks
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I only just realized the creator of this topic has the book cover of Marco the Weight-Lifting Spiderboy as his avatar. Perhaps he, too, sees the beauty.
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I believe it's the cover of the book that is currently the re-read. However, I am sure they see the beauty as well. XD
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I believe it's the cover of the book that is currently the re-read. However, I am sure they see the beauty as well. XD
She's right!
and this is the perfect time to plug the on going re-reads which, as stated, currently cover as far as #10 the android.
Feel free, hell encouraged even, to go there, talk about the weirdness of the cover, and anything else you would like about each respective book
and remember to vote!
/end shilling
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It's a morph in progress lol
There were "it's not a fail" complaints, but I still like it. There's only the hair left to go. (it's like Marco on The Absolute.)
http://failblog.org/2012/01/10/guidos-bros-douchebags-fratboys-bros-its-the-natural-progress-of-evolution-really/ (http://failblog.org/2012/01/10/guidos-bros-douchebags-fratboys-bros-its-the-natural-progress-of-evolution-really/)
http://failblog.org/2012/01/10/guidos-bros-douchebags-fratboys-bros-its-the-natural-progress-of-evolution-really/#comment-1575162 (http://failblog.org/2012/01/10/guidos-bros-douchebags-fratboys-bros-its-the-natural-progress-of-evolution-really/#comment-1575162)
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It's a morph in progress lol
There were "it's not a fail" complaints, but I still like it. There's only the hair left to go. (it's like Marco on The Absolute.)
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I thought to myself "it's Marco, except he shouldn't have long hair " when I first saw it.
Why is it that every single time I try to draw either of my two human Animorphs fanfic characters, both of them end up looking all sultry?
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There is a Frank's Pro Shop in Sacromento, California.
No sign of the Twins or softball aspects of it though...
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I aimagine after the war marco became like pink floyd, women driving by, hurling their underwear at him.
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I wanna morph a bird right now..
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Dear Pre-rat David (books 20-22),
Feeling sorry for yourself and whining about your current
situation is not only a total waste of time and energy, but
also the worst thing you could possibly do.
And it makes everyone hate you.
So grow up.
Sincerely,
Everyone
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Dear Pre-rat David (books 20-22),
Feeling sorry for yourself and whining about your current
situation is not only a total waste of time and energy, but
also the worst thing you could possibly do.
And it makes everyone hate you.
So grow up.
Sincerely,
Everyone
I agree for the most part, though I do believe he had a reason to be completely Emo, I mean, the kids life was just torn apart.
What makes ME hate the kid was the fact that the rest of them were doing the very best they could to accommodate for him and help him...and he was a total, insufferable @$$ the whole time to them.
I mean, if I was Jake, I would have straight up said "Excuse you, Mr. *censored*, we could have just left you for dead, but we decided to be nice and give you the chance to fight for your parents life. Now get your panties untwisted or I'm going to order my Andalite pet to have a really unfortunate slip of the tailblade next battle..."
And if I were Rachel...*leaves mouse-trap on island*
I would have been a terrible animorph. *Starts plotting Cassie's downfall*
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What makes ME hate the kid was the fact that the rest of them were doing the very best they could to accommodate for him and help him...and he was a total, insufferable @$$ the whole time to them.
EXACTLY!
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Clearly the fan base was okay with emo (Tobias being the most popular character) but angry EMo is a whole other level.
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Clearly the fan base was okay with emo (Tobias being the most popular character) but angry EMo is a whole other level.
I don't know, there's justified emo. (Which, as long as its not completely overdone, makes a good story.)
Then there's justified yet wickedly insane emo, where a character has a reason to be emo yet they do stupid/cruel things and that includes biting the hands that are feeding them.
Then there's unjustified emo...where the character is emo over stupid things. Like termite queens.
I can see why the top one works in a series. As for the other two...*plots fanfic downfall*
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Clearly the fan base was okay with emo (Tobias being the most popular character) but angry EMo is a whole other level.
I don't know, there's justified emo. (Which, as long as its not completely overdone, makes a good story.)
Then there's unjustified emo...where the character is emo over stupid things. Like termite queens.
Yeah, justified emo is okay, considering it's extremely easy to understand why Tobias is emo. And being emo over termite queens...0_o That just sounds odd to me
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"I killed a colonoy of bugs that are designed by nature to destroy society. So now I'm going to angst all over the place."
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THIS IS INSANE!
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How are they designed by nature to destroy society?
And really, she didn't kill them, just created a period of disorder and chaos.
Different
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the queens gone, imagine if you had an entity telling you exactly what to do for your whole life, and suddenly it dissapeared. Their gonna die. They also eat wood, which many buildings use for support. One wrong bite and the whole place goes down
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1 they are not going to die.
The queens die in nature. They are replaced.
And I'm sorrry, Applegate HIGHLY overstates the automaton traits of non reproductive of social insects-phremones influence, they don't "control".
Workers and soliders don't wig out and die if you remove them from the queen or vice versa.
2 They are not designed by nature to destroy society.
They've been eating wood long before society started using it for structures, seems more like society designed itself to antagonist nature.
There are alternatives to wood for structures.
Non pleasent, but much of society could survive with out such buildings
And in some societies, people depend on them as a source of food.
Hell, they build more societies than they destroy.
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1 they are not going to die.
The queens die in nature. They are replaced.
Really? So the termites and stuff just know that when the queen dies, they know what to do to replace them? Well, what kills only termite queens in nature? Shouldn't that happen alot in order for the workers to know what to do?
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i don't think there is anything that eats exclusively termite queens, but one dies, from termite eating animals, other insects, or old age (they are still insects they only live a while, but since they breed up till the end many of their young out live them) but when they die, other potential reproductives (those that can become queens) develop into the reproductives.
In fact, this may be the best example of queen control (I may be confusing termites a other social insects, but I think this applies to most): The queens produce a chemical that keeps the potential reproductives from developing. When the queen dies then it stops producing that chemical, and the potential reproductive is no longer suppressed and develops into an active reproductive.
Also, some termite species may have more than one queen active at the same time.
I would recommend to everyone I know to take two courses in college: a basic ecology and evolution class, and a general entomology.
The former because it is fundamental to science
That latter because it beautifully examplies the former. And is actually pretty cool if done right
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It's Marco, if he worked in an office
http://work.failblog.org/2012/01/16/job-fails-its-good-to-get-back-to-the-basics-when-youre-stressed-out/ (http://work.failblog.org/2012/01/16/job-fails-its-good-to-get-back-to-the-basics-when-youre-stressed-out/)
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Haha, that's awesome :XD:
And yeah, I'm so taking anything that has to do with animals and science in college, but I'm aiming for university
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I know Yeerks in the police force would complicate it, but I think it would be interesting if they tried to get some controllers arrested. Could anyone in the world frame someone better than an Animorph?
Then, few days in the slammer and bam. Yeerk free-with witnesses
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The only problem I see with that is they get one phone call. =/ And then Chapman shows up with a briefcase full of Yeerk to help convince the policeman to let them go.
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Which is why you frame them with a high profile crime where they will be contained at maxium security-that way the public is sure to notice when the someone-especially anyone from the Sharing-is involved in getting big time criminals out on bail.
either way, yeerks get unwanted attention.
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That would work. At least, it SHOULD work.
But then again, when you have stuff happening like Chapman running over high-end government officials and no one saying anything... ::) (I had a hard time buying that one, but I had a hard time buying a lot of what was in that book, which is too bad because for the most part it was a really great book.)
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I can just picture that meeting now.
Visser 3: <Chapman, we hae discovered a high ranking member of the human goverment.>
Chapman: "He will make a good host Visser."
Visser 3: <Yes. Unfortunately though, he cut off my limo, so our method to capture him will be for you to hit him with your primitive vehicle. If he does not survive, he got the death he deserved.>
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lolz
but HA3 was super secert high end government official. he should be able to sit in your wheaties and no one would say anything (ninja)
This calls for classic side show bob-bery.
Morph William Roger Tenant (tv guru from 35)
Rob liquor store with gun. Shoot up place, maybe wound Apu.
Smile for security cam, revealing illegal drugs
Run away
20 minutes later WRT is arrested across country in his home and volia! Yeerk in jail
Note: I'm assuming he has Krusty the Clown's laywer and stay's looked up, not Lindsay Lohan's and getting to come and go daily
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I need to find a way to work that into my Bones/Animorphs crossover LOL. The FBI is the perfect area to have dealings with high-ranking people. And it's easy to figure they'd have controllers in there. So far, Booth, Brennan and Booth's boss are your typical controllers. Hodgins is YPM. And the perfect controller either way because he's a total conspiracy freak.
Trouble with this fic is, all the action is on the east coast. I think they're going to need a field trip. Bones went to LA and Vegas before, if I go with popular opinion and put the Anis in San Diego, it won't be a problem. Especially if I could figure a way to break the 'kids only' thing and get Brennan morph capable. She'd completely wig out, given her Spock personality.
I also wrote a snippet of CSI NY cross, but it's not gone anywhere yet. (Someone already did a Vegas cross...loved it too. Especially whoever said about Ax "Leave him alone...at least he isn't eating the wrapper this time." as he's gorging Cinnabon.
I nee to find a way to quit rambling now and go to my appointment.
And I think a character like Hodgins from Bones or Grissom from CSI would love to morph insect...a whole new way to study them LOL
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I can just picture that meeting now.
Visser 3: <Chapman, we hae discovered a high ranking member of the human goverment.>
Chapman: "He will make a good host Visser."
Visser 3: <Yes. Unfortunately though, he cut off my limo, so our method to capture him will be for you to hit him with your primitive vehicle. If he does not survive, he got the death he deserved.>
haha, nice one Blaze
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I tried to convert my English teacher to animorphs today, The idea came to me when he mentioned mighty morphing power rangers.
"It's weird, in 54 books their isn't a single power rangers reference."
"You've read 54 books?"
"No...ummm...forums!"
*later*
"Theirs a family matters reference, a Dr. Doolittle, an Independence, and even a Pokemon."
At the end of class we were required to show him a sentence to get out the door.
*shows him*
"Theirs an animorphs reference in there."
"Yeah, and a Pokemon, and a Dr. Who."
*running out door* "Dr. Doolittle!"
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It was once said Rachel would morph her elephant and grizzly at the same time if she could figure out how.
But did they do that in book 32? No.
Fail
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You would think that William Roger Tenant's yeerks would have enough control to not atttempt to whip a dog on live TV.
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It was once said Rachel would morph her elephant and grizzly at the same time if she could figure out how.
But did they do that in book 32? No.
Fail
Yeah, but I guess it's diffrent. And when did it say that?
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book 15 during the distraction attack in the facility
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Nice parallelism between Tobias living with his uncle early on in the series and, um, living with his uncle later on in the series.
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O.O I never thought about that. Nice.
Whenever I'm on a Harry Potter site and see the word "Howler" I get confused. I keep thinking "Huh. That's an unusual choice for crossover material" and then realizing my mistake.
Short attention span + one-track mind = daily disappointment. XD
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You see this posting
http://notalwaysright.com/cinnabonkers-for-cinnamon/16842 (http://notalwaysright.com/cinnabonkers-for-cinnamon/16842)
And think "Tell me that's not an Andalite in morph".
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XD Haha, that is amazing. Gotta be an Andalite. Or maybe just the most awesome person ever.
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You see this posting
http://notalwaysright.com/cinnabonkers-for-cinnamon/16842 (http://notalwaysright.com/cinnabonkers-for-cinnamon/16842)
And think "Tell me that's not an Andalite in morph".
Ahhaha, thats halariouse XD
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I've read all of these books repeatedly. I know all the plots, most of the best lines, and the feel of the stories by heart.
And yet, I still could not stop the tears from welling up when in Book 19 Rachel says " "Cassie was my best friend," I'm not going to be the one to call her a fool." "I'll carry her,"
"I'll keep her safe."
***! It happened again. Damn you awesome writing
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There's a bug crawling around on the floor. I swear, every time I look directly at it, it freezes in place. It just darted behind a desk leg.
Obviously, it's someone in morph. Obviously.
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What do you guys think of the concept of a yeerk trapping you in a fake reality?
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What do you guys think of the concept of a yeerk trapping you in a fake reality?
If Yeerks could do that I'd get one and have it trap me in a better reality.
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I dunno, the idea of being trapped in a fake reality kind of scares me.
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I don't eactly find it scary. After all, we might already be in a fake reality.
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What if it were to put you in a world invnted by your own mind that would change according to want. Like your lucid dreaming forever.
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I've always wondered why all the aliens speak almost exclusively in English...it would have been so easy for Visser III to discover their identities.
Visser III, the Yeerk with the Andalite host, fights against six alleged Andalites...and they speak in English. It's weird. If he tried to speak in Andalite language, he would have realized that only one of the bandits was able to speak that language...
And when they are aboard the Blade ship? Visser III sends a public toughtspeak to dozens of Hork-Bajirs and Taxxons...in English! :o
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Actually, thought-speech sorta translates to whatever language you speak. It's sorta mentioned in the Hork-Bajir Chronicles
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Actually, thought-speech sorta translates to whatever language you speak. It's sorta mentioned in the Hork-Bajir Chronicles
Really?
Well, I have not yet read the Hork-Bajir Chronicles (not published in Italy), but it's curious...so you can't change language with toughtspeak cause the "receiver" still hears it in its native language?
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Probably nothing more than fan-theory but it'd make sense that more capable telepaths could trick others into "hearing" what they want. eg. false sense of distance, voice, language... You could probably even disorient someone by flashing them with a random/slightly altered thought-speech image/emotion etc. Depending on how resourceful you are telepathy can be crazy powerful. Arguably, depending on how resourceful you are your limits are limitless...
Heh imagining Tobias stalking someone and mentally disorienting them :XD: "Chapman, it's a green light go!"
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Yeah, it's also mentioned somewhere (I think HBC) that it can also say words in languages and have them not translate.
Heh imagining Tobias stalking someone and mentally disorienting them :XD: "Chapman, it's a green light go!"
:O That's plain evil
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It was at least brought up that images could be broadcasted. In the first, they all get an image of a yeerk from Elfangor.
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I finally read #53. The end was sorta sad to me
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Is the other books worth the read? You know the side stories next to the 1-54 books. They seem really thick and I'm wondering if I should read them as well?
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Oh yeah! They're all worth reading! My favourite is still The Ellimist Chronicles even though it is very alien at the beginning. Each of the chronicles are very insightful into the alien species. Also rather touching.
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And if you liked Avatar, you'll love the hork bjair chronicles, because it completely ripped it off.
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I think the side books (all the chronicles) were the best books in the series. You won't be disappointed. :)
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Cool, I'll check them out. Another question, does anyone know if they're going to redo the tv show? I'm seeing new actors for the animorphs on the website and am just wondering if anyone knows anything? Since they're reselling the books and all.
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I don't think anybody but die hard fans would be willing to make it, after the flop the first one was.
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Yeah, animorphs as an animation would be so much better
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You ever catch any mistakes in the books? I was reading book 6 and caught Jake saying how it was his dad's birthday coming up in ch 12 then in the next paragraph he says it's his mom's birthday. I think it's funny catching little mistakes in books lol XD
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I don't think that one's a mistake
Sounds like he's currently shopping for his mom's birthday which is soon, but has to conserve his money because his dad's birthday is a couple months after
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I don't think that one's a mistake
Sounds like he's currently shopping for his mom's birthday which is soon, but has to conserve his money because his dad's birthday is a couple months after
yeah, I do remember it was that too
But there are lots of KASU's. Hirac Delest lists a bunch of them
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I get it now, both of his parents bday are only 2 months apart. I thought that was a typo lol. So what's your favorite book? I liked book 6 because of what happened to Jake, he got to experience it.
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you know, I'm pretty sure there's a topic about that. I'll edit this post if I do end up finding it soon, but it should be in the first few pages
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Well I'm still finding a lot of threads, I'm new to this so sorry if there is already another thread? Just talking random talk. :)
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there are multiple:
favorite animorphs book? (http://animorphsforum.com/index.php?topic=7116.0) contains poll
Favorite Animorphs books and why (http://animorphsforum.com/index.php?topic=245.0)
Top 10 Favorite Books (http://animorphsforum.com/index.php?topic=5333.0)
just to name a few
on other notes
I don't mind the lack of continuity as much as the relapses in character development.
I grew up-then I didn't? boo
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Cool, looks interesting, thanks!
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Well I'm still finding a lot of threads, I'm new to this so sorry if there is already another thread?
Sorry, I just wanted to let you know. Sorry if I sounded a bit rude
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Who would win in a fight:
The giant fire breathing monster that Visser 3 became in animorphs one.
Or the monster made of fire he became on 'The mutation"
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Dunno, but it would be interesting if he morphed into a starfish and split him to find out.
I wonder what would happen if Visser 3 got starfished. That would be interesting personalities...all four of them.
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Possible personalitys:
Wants to eat everything
The psyco we see most of the time.
The logical scientist that came before the hork bjair homeworld.
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Dunno, but it would be interesting if he morphed into a starfish and split him to find out.
I wonder what would happen if Visser 3 got starfished. That would be interesting personalities...all four of them.
http://animorphsforum.com/index.php?topic=8613.msg690056#msg690056 (http://animorphsforum.com/index.php?topic=8613.msg690056#msg690056)
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Anyone know how many of the new books are out to sell for Animoprhs? I'm having trouble to trying to find out and decided to get them this time.
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As far as I know, the reprints only go 1-6
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So far, 1-8 is confirmed relaunch. No one has any idea about MM1. Hirac delest has really good info about animorphs. There's a blog that sometimes has info about relaunch
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Cool I can get book 5 at least, don't have that one.
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Yes! Yes! Yes!
(http://t.qkme.me/3iwg.jpg)
Yes! Vae Victus!
Why though, must twilight also be used in the same context :(
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Animorphs is third? :O
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I think that image
Yes! Yes! Yes!
(http://t.qkme.me/3iwg.jpg)
Yes! Vae Victus!
Why though, must twilight also be used in the same context :(
Is used to express what certain people dont consider to be "real books" and it´s supposed to be funny cause that girl only reads those kind of books instead of "classics" and thus she isn´t "really reading" but more like, I dont know, getting duber, get the idea? (of course the only of that list that I dont consider to be a "real book" is twilight)
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yes, I know, but I don't care.
The point is Animorphs is, still, being used by outside groups to make cultural references. I don't mind that it's getting poked at
Likewise though, I don't care for twilight, so even in references mocking them, I prefer Animorphs not be categorized with it
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While it is a little disappointing that it is lumped in with Twilight, I think it just kind of a comment mocking those that view light pleasure reading as making them 'uber nerds' or something. Maybe nerd is the new 'cool?' :huh:
Anyway, I kind of view that as a strength of the Animorphs series, it was light enough to be enjoyed by those who don't like deep books, yet it still attracted a crowd of deeper thinkers as well. And of course, any series will have it's group of nay-sayers, my father holds to this day that Animorphs was one of the worst written series ever, though he only ever read half of a book. :XD:
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Nerd is the new cool. As technology is deeper integrated into society, those who are better with it become the strong and advanced.
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I'm proud to be a nerd if that's what people call Animorph lovers, lol. I'm really loving the books. :)
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I sorta wish that I was a nerd, but I'm more interested in quantum mechanics and genetics than technology
And I thought a nerd was someone who is interested in technology, and how it works. Animorphs doesn't include too much of how stuff works
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nerds are not genre specific
you have your star trek nerds, star wars nerds, harry potter nerds, computer nerds, biology nerds, beatles nerds, shakespear nerds etc.
In my eyes and one who knows all the starting Lakers stats is a Laker nerd. Though most of those people are just called fans
But mostly nerds are really good with the subject(s) and tend to be somewhat socially odd
Just being active on this site qualifies you well as an Animorphs nerds- at least as knowing your subject, up to you your socially aptitude.
I think one day you'll make a fine quantum mechanic/genetic/animorphs nerd yunyun.
And that's a good thing
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Very nicely defined.
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Anyone in the US see the ads about Burger King getting mini Cinnabons? There's gotta be a fanfic there somewhere LOL
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I stood there, with my legs squared, poitning the primtive weapon at the clerk. "Just give me the delicious cinnamon bunzuhs and nobody gets hurt."
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Anyone think it's funny that Tobias on the book covers has brown hair when in the book he has blonde hair?
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Yeah, the model for Tobias dyed his hair right before the photo shoot.
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But he couldn't have died it BACK?
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So, I'm writing an RP post where my character gets involved in a battle. As I was writing it, I realized he was enjoying it. XD My exact thought: "He's having a Rachel moment. :D"
Yeah. My favorite thing I've ever written. Hands down.
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Awesome.
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So, I'm writing an RP post where my character gets involved in a battle. As I was writing it, I realized he was enjoying it. XD My exact thought: "He's having a Rachel moment. :D"
Yeah. My favorite thing I've ever written. Hands down.
Nice
But he couldn't have died it BACK?
Good point. I wonder why he didn't. Maybe they didn't want to change Tobias' look? (but they do change models for like every 2 books for Rachel) :huh:
And why didn't they chage the hair colour digitally? "We couldn't find a kid in time for the shoot, so the photographer asked the agency to send over any old kid to stand in. Our artist, David Mattingly, would alter him digitally to fit the character. Well, a boy shows up kind of out of nowhere, skateboard in hand (he lives in the neighborhood) and a knit hat pulled down practically to his eyes. When he pulled his hat off, we knew we found the perfect Tobias. Tonya (the editor for Animorphs) and I just loved him. He was blonder than the first Tobias, but was perfect. He was Tobias. A happy accident from a desperate situation."
(from Hirac Delest (http://www.hiracdelest.com/missions/books/43.htm))
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wow.
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Really random thought. (spoilers)
The Fabric of the Cosmos - The Illusion of Time [Full - Ep 2 of 4]] [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYOO2mOjo9s#ws]The Fabric of the Cosmos - The Illusion of Time [Full - Ep 2 of 4] (http://[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYOO2mOjo9s#ws) [/url]
so I'm mostly refering to the part from 22:10 to 25:50
so mostly in animorphs #54 (but there's plently of other places I could mention, but I would get too confused) Ax gets captured and taken to wherever. The animorphs are on earth. Ax and the animorphs are probably moving at diffrent speeds. So Ax is waaaay on the other side of the univeres, while everyone else is on earth. Ax is probably moving away from earth pretty fast and since the animorphs just bump into him, he probably wasnt flaoting in z space. So if he wasn't in z space andwas moving faster than the animorphs, then his "now" slice in time is waaay in the animorphs past. So then doesn't that mean Ax getting captured happened waaay in the past for the animorphs? So then if they start turning to earth to tell the animorphs, wouldn't they be going waay in the furture? And once they get to Ax, they're either already waay in the future or waaaaaaaay in the future.
Just a random thought that I don't totally get yet, just saying that if that did happened in our world, it would probably be really diffrent. Then again, I really doubt K. A. Applegate would read lots about physics and stuff and not go by what just about everyone thinks about time. That was just a really random thought
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What the guy was explaining is that the perception of what is considered "now" is relative. The simplest way of saying it is "Time is relative". From each person's point of view their "now" moment is different depending on gravitational distortions and their relative velocities. This doesn't cause any problems in the order of events happening because you only observe events happening when you are "close" enough to it.
You're right that relatively speaking (depending on distance of Earth and Kelbrid space) when Ax gets captured this would be happening at the same time as for example Beethoven being born. However this would only matter if instantaneous travel was possible and if there was some interaction between these distances. Once Applegate introduced the concept of Z-space it could be interpreted as the bridging device for events. The Animorphs must use Z-space to find Ax again. If you wanted it to make sense you can pretend Z-space is like a wormhole.
On a different note, directionality is constantly changing for people on different planets due to the rotation of the planet's spin. The description that the guy from the video gives is more simplistic to give you the general idea. Realistically the "now slice" of time is extremely momentary. You can only compare the relative "now" time for a single moment (smaller than the smallest time scale imaginable) and then the two become people would be out of sync again.
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We made the memes again :)
http://www.failbook.failblog.org/2012/04/11/funny-facebook-fails-kewl-turrmlurrrn/ (http://www.failbook.failblog.org/2012/04/11/funny-facebook-fails-kewl-turrmlurrrn/)
Anyone can tell what books those are?
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i had a thought that maybe k.a.a. was not generous at all towards the animorphs in terms of giving them a legitimate day off. something always happens or someone does something stupid and starts something. what? why can't for just once they all have a really relaxing day where no one goes and starts something. seriously, just one real day off k.a.a.
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well that'd be very boring to read about.
There are chronological gaps between book. probably took some time out
we does that meme morph from boy to girl ???
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we does that meme morph from boy to girl ???
I know! I was wondering that too. And I don't exactly get what's funny about it but whateverWe made the memes again :)
http://www.failbook.failblog.org/2012/04/11/funny-facebook-fails-kewl-turrmlurrrn/ (http://www.failbook.failblog.org/2012/04/11/funny-facebook-fails-kewl-turrmlurrrn/)
Anyone can tell what books those are?
The last one is #22. The middle one looks sorta like #21 or #42, and the last one looks sorta like #17 or #5.
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The polar bear dog thing in Legend of Korra reminds me of Marco poo-bear in book 35
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One of our local Burger Kings has a giant inflatable cinnamon bun on its roof, to advertise the new mini Cinnabons. I can so see Ax trying to sneak up and steal it, though it'd be tricky to do so without demorphing, which he's not dumb enough to do in public. Alternately I can see him pestering them to give him the inflatable when the promo's over LOL.
I do think he'd like the frozen ones you can buy now, though the one time I bought a Cinnabon at the mall, it was better than Pillsbury's. There's also cinnamon bun flavorted Miniwheats now, along with the coffee creamer I spotted somtime back. Although I seem to recall there already being a Cinnabon cereal, though I could be wrong.
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Considering I used to be addicted to Oreo flavored cereal, it is not at all unreasonable to say their was a cinnabon cereal. I really miss that oreo cereal.
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prior to andalites having the morphing technology or in the cases where they can't morph like that one dude in that one book (ya ya i don't remember his name or the book number whatever) - if an andalite lost a hoof or broke a leg, what would happen?
if you look at hoofed mammals, they can't walk on three legs like mammals with paws. trying to imagine an andalite with a broken back leg, maybe. but due to the weight distribution their humanlike torso provides, i would think walking would be neigh impossible with a broken front leg.
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When the andalites were still primitive, they would have likely done what cowboys did to injured horses. Put them our of their misery.
As they evolved they likely developed methods similar to what we have now for injured horses.
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shouldn't andalites have some kind of splints for broken legs or something? Or maybe they can use crunches too
As they evolved they likely developed methods similar to what we have now for injured horses.
which is...?
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shouldn't andalites have some kind of splints for broken legs or something? Or maybe they can use crunches too
That's why I said primitive, they didn't know how to do any of that.
As they evolved they likely developed methods similar to what we have now for injured horses.
which is...?
Splint it, don't let the horse walk for a few days. Unfortunately, if a horse is disabled for long it might not be able to get up again.
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I love Ax's obsession with sweets, especially cinnamon buns.
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You know how sometimes when places serve both sweetened and regular tea, they will label the other one "unsweet"? That always makes me think of the Andalite word "unschweet," meaning their tradition of cutting fur.
So, what, the tea is so bad it makes your fur fall out?
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I never thought of that.
Now every time I order tea I'm going to think of that. :XD:
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Glad I don't drink tea
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Yeah, I never noticed that either. And I never knew there was such thing as sweetened tea either.
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This is probably get me a bazillion haters but,did anyone else enjoyed Cassie being eateb by a Taxxon (even ifyou knew it was a hologram). No? Not even a bit? Not even considering that she surrendered the morphing cube and was hated by thousands (maybe even yourself) around the globe? Not at all? Ok, maybe it's time to check myself in Arkham Asylum.
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Today is the 11th anniversary of when I finished reading #54.
I feel kind of old.
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This is probably get me a bazillion haters but,did anyone else enjoyed Cassie being eateb by a Taxxon (even ifyou knew it was a hologram). No? Not even a bit? Not even considering that she surrendered the morphing cube and was hated by thousands (maybe even yourself) around the globe? Not at all? Ok, maybe it's time to check myself in Arkham Asylum.
Not Arkham, you'd be out in a week, by complete accident.
I was frankly having a ridiculously hard time following what was going on, so I felt nothing.
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This is probably get me a bazillion haters but,did anyone else enjoyed Cassie being eateb by a Taxxon (even ifyou knew it was a hologram). No? Not even a bit? Not even considering that she surrendered the morphing cube and was hated by thousands (maybe even yourself) around the globe? Not at all? Ok, maybe it's time to check myself in Arkham Asylum.
Not Arkham, you'd be out in a week, by complete accident.
I was frankly having a ridiculously hard time following what was going on, so I felt nothing.
agreed. I got confused by that part
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Glad to know I wasn't the only one.
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Song Unsung (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yp7ZCTtW1w#)
This song played during the ONLY well written scene of the animorphs TV show.
And I read somewhere that around book 14 Cassie's parents are taking about Jake's, well his...you know. Is that even true?
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No, but now I want to read it LOL
I have too much time on my hands. The thought that popped to mind earlier after a book I came across while shelving is "how would morphing affect conjoined twins?" Since the ability is in the DNA in the blood, only one would have to acquire and become capable and all that, but I wonder if, since usally there are two brains, if they could morph and then morph back and be separate. The anomaly that causes conjoined twinning isn't in the DNA I don't think, it's a malfunction of something else.
Or would the result be a morph with two people controllling it rather than one? Sort of like the morphed controllers or Cassie and Aldrea. THat, of course, would mean a demorph would return them to their former state.
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I'd have to imagine that, if morphing did separate conjoined twins, then unless they both morphed at the same time, it would be messy. :P
Saw a truck being pulled over, that said "Tobias Farms" on the side, and I thought, 'Now that's profiling. They probably just pulled him over for being a red-tailed hawk.'
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Hmm, perhaps both morph starfishes. If the starfishes turn out conjoined, one child with a shovel is all it takes.
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Mutated sea people! yeah barely linking on from sea starfish.
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When for an assignement we had to write a talkshow interview with the main character of hatchet, we got to choose the name of the host so naturally I picked...William Roger Tennant.
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Hrms, I need to get my inspiration back for my anifanfic before Camp Nanowrimo.
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Who do you think would win a fight between an andalite, a hork-bajir and a xenomorph (from the aliens movies), free for all, in a cage, no weapons other than those they naturally posses?
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I need to know what a xenomorph is....
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(from the aliens movies)
You know, black, quadrupedal, big head, razor sharp tail and claws, a second mouth were they toungue should be and acid for blood?
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lol good question crossoverfan. I'm going with Xenomorph. Their tails are stronger (not sure which is faster though). If the Hork Bajir or Andalite even pierced it's "skin" they'll burn.
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The fight will probably end up with a andalite-xenomorph hybrid
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The Andalite can't even attack the Xenomorph without harming itself. If the cage has a ceiling the Xenomorph could climb the cage and the Andalite would be within range of dripping acid. Xenomorph would own Andalite butt!
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Agreed,but if the Hork-Bajir (who is almost as good climber as the xenomorph) and the andalite worked toghether they would have a chance. And I'm not sure about the hybrid.
Andalites dont have mouths so, how are the eggs getting in?
A Hork-Bajir/Xenomorph hibrid is more likly, and a scary-as-hell thought.
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Xenomorphs don't need to impregnate to kill! Besides if the Hork Bajir or Andalite cuts the Xeno then it will just spray acid everywhere hurting both Hork Bajir and Andalite. If the Andalite and Hork Bajir worked together they may be able to win but probably at great cost. Entire limbs being burned away by acid. The acid obviously doesn't hurt the Xenomorph.
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Could a xeno actually impregnant an Andalite? You know with the lack of mouth an all... :huh:
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Actually I'm a bit fuzzy on that bit too. The Queen lays some egg things that grow to be small Xenos that leap onto the faces of it's host then crawls into the host to eat. Something like that. So grown Xenos don't actually reproduce I think with the exception of the Queen. Their young are more of a parasite than Yeerks!
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I was thinking going through the Andalite's nose slits but still will that work?
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Actually I'm a bit fuzzy on that bit too. The Queen lays some egg things that grow to be small Xenos that leap onto the faces of it's host then crawls into the host to eat. Something like that. So grown Xenos don't actually reproduce I think with the exception of the Queen. Their young are more of a parasite than Yeerks!
Yeah I think only Queens reproduce.
I was thinking going through the Andalite's nose slits but still will that work?
Hahaha that's gross ;D The nasal passage does lead to your lungs so I assume they could still burst out? But still, ew.
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As a centaur like quadrupedal species the Andalite probably has more meat and organs for the infant Xeno to consume so it might pop out elsewhere...lol If you think about where an Andalite's mouth is, it's their feet. One Andalite probably could feed quite a few infant Xenos!
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Abit like those poor pregnant ladies on Alien vs. Predator? /disturbing film moment. Facehuggers trying to attach themselves to an Andalite's hooves is quite a lulzy image ;D which would probably end up in stompage.
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lol made me think of what Ax would look like playing Dance Dance Revolution :XD:
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lol made me think of what Ax would look like playing Dance Dance Revolution :XD:
http://rougelvr.deviantart.com/favourites/#/d1zku3k (http://rougelvr.deviantart.com/favourites/#/d1zku3k)
Awesome piece of art, IMO. ^_^
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:XD: That literally made my day.
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Hahaha! Didn't expect that :D +1
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Somehow I can imagine Ax becoming quite the expert on a dance dance revolution :D
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He could play two pads at once. :D
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"I would like to shuffle my artificial hooves to the music with you. But you cannot have my body. My bod. Dee. My bo. Dee." :XD:
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somehow I can imagine Ax becoming quite the expert on a dance dance revolution
That reminds me of playing DDR as a unit for P.E. in grade school... *shakes my head*
back to the topic i wonder Xenomorphs & Predators VS Andalites & Hork-Bajir who will win
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Team 1 in a murdercurbrapestom. I mean, PREDATOR COULD SOLO!!!
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Xeno all the way. If the andalite and hork bjair manage to team up to take him down, it would be a victory the same way bunker hill was a victory for the british. Sure, you got the hill, but you lost triple the men the enemy did for it.
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I agree i take the Predator over all of them... have any of you ever read the comic Superman and Batman vs Alien and Predator [spoiler]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_and_Batman_versus_Aliens_and_Predator[/spoiler] i wanna see a fight like that with Hork-Bajir, Taxxons, Andalites, and Gedds vs Alien and Predator
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why gedds? what do they add to the fight, unless you use them as a shield
Really, you want to put out the best of Aniverse into a fight you need to use armed Howlers, and non-violence limited chee
well, I suppose you could use non rule bound Ellimist/Crayak/Drode, but that seems a little unfair
whole series could have used more spam
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Ohhhh!!! ;D
What abot Ellimist and Crayak (no bounds) vs The Spectre and The living tribunal?
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somehow I can imagine Ax becoming quite the expert on a dance dance revolution
That reminds me of playing DDR as a unit for P.E. in grade school... *shakes my head*
back to the topic i wonder Xenomorphs & Predators VS Andalites & Hork-Bajir who will win
You played DDR in P.E!? :o Jealous, that would have been the best. Unit. Ever.
But yes, definitely Xeno over Andalites and Hork-Bajir since Ripley had to suck the xeno out of an airlock AND set it on fire to kill it. Predator? I'm not so sure...
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Oh, and for those of you that dont know The Spectre/Living tribunal, googling it would be btter, but as and overview the Spectre represents God's wrath (punishes evil guys through the DC multiverse) and the living tribunal keeps order and balance in the Marvel universe.
Both are tier end reality-warpers.
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why gedds? what do they add to the fight, unless you use them as a shield
Really, you want to put out the best of Aniverse into a fight you need to use armed Howlers, and non-violence limited chee
well, I suppose you could use non rule bound Ellimist/Crayak/Drode, but that seems a little unfair
whole series could have used more spam
Howlers & Chee would make it too unfair, when i read the books i thought of them as immortal.
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Gedds are pointless, they're not even capable of walking properly.
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Ethical implications aside, cannon fodder perhaps?
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Not sure if he/she/it is another reality warper or if they were just messing with a dream in Jake's head but The Familiar features a new unnamed alien. If the whole thing wasn't just a dream!
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Not sure if he/she/it is another reality warper or if they were just messing with a dream in Jake's head but The Familiar features a new unnamed alien. If the whole thing wasn't just a dream!
yeah my childhood mind couldn't comprehend that new alien concept and I believe it is The One now that i review my facts
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The Familiar left me feeling like dafuq did I just read. It's so ridiculously trippy.
The One actually sounds like a really reasonable assumption, but I thought the big ole scary voice came across as a lot more...nicer?? I suppose than "lols I'm going to absorb your consciousness now as I am scary space satan."
The real shame about the book was the way the points about using Rachel etc was just completely glossed over and forgotten about in later books.
EDIT: Not sure if he/she/it is another reality warper or if they were just messing with a dream in Jake's head but The Familiar features a new unnamed alien. If the whole thing wasn't just a dream!
Just thought if the whole thing was only a dream, maybe that's why Jake didn't take anything he learned from it .
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i'd like to be a polar bear in the cold cold polar....
if only
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Have you ever had a nightmare that when you awoke you realised it was just a dream but you still needed to do something to calm yourself? I think that's what Jake felt at the end. So yup! Even if it felt real he probably dismissed everything in it afterwards. In comparison to his usual Crayak nightmares I think this one was too one off for him to think that it would actually happen!
Also agree that this alien didn't sound as bad as The One. Scary Space Satan :)
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Maybe it was Father from Ellimist Chronicles (too bad he is dead)
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I always seemed to think The One was that alien that chased Crayak out of another galaxy.
The One also reminded me of this D:
LOTR Extended Edition - Mouth Of Sauron (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7joUYD_EIc#ws)
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That video reminded me of this one Trolling Saruman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaqC5FnvAEc#ws) but i do agree that is like Crayak
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Haha it actually fits really well!
Random Animorphs thought: I wonder if Visser 3 has or uses the mini bar in his limo :kitty:
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Random Animorphs thought: I wonder if Visser 3 has or uses the mini bar in his limo:3
Why not
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It's probably a rental anyway
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who will need a drunk Andalite?
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That'd be hilarious
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Ax(drunk):And....And.....And then i said "Where are my cinnabon*pukes*"
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I'm curious to *how* exactly an andalite could puke.
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Through their hooves, according to The Andalite Chronicles :nerd:
Hehehe Ax all boozed out ;D all his four legs would get tangled up :XD: that would be literally be adorable.
who will need a drunk Andalite?
Everyone needs one!
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If Andalites are anything like horses, they wouldn't be able to puke, even with their hooves.
Drunk Andalite would be scary, that tail could do some serious damage. :-X
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Still laughing at the thought.
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Pool of alcohol and a few Andalites can drink together! Only thing would be if one vomits then everyone would be in the same shi-!
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Pool of alcohol and a few Andalites can drink together! Only thing would be if one vomits then everyone would be in the same shi-!
Hahah I think that would apply to anyone who was having a nice swim (in booze, like you do) and their mate pukes in the pool!
If Andalites are anything like horses, they wouldn't be able to puke, even with their hooves.
Drunk Andalite would be scary, that tail could do some serious damage. :-X
Some one would lose a stalk eye, that's for sure!
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Like the drunken fist martial arts, a drunken Andalite master would be awesome!
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Drunk Andalite would be scary, that tail could do some serious damage. :-X
Before, I was like, "uh, drunk andalite? That's an odd thought." After I read that I was like, "Whoa, forget drunk andalites." XP
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Like the drunken fist martial arts, a drunken Andalite master would be awesome!
Andalite drunken master prestige class!
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Hahahaha, someone has got to write this for a fanfic!
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http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Drunken_Master,_Tome_(3.5e_Prestige_Class) (http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Drunken_Master,_Tome_(3.5e_Prestige_Class))
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What about Ax drunk in human Morph? His playing with mouth sounds would get turned up to eleven.
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If you gave him LSD he'd spend the whole night laughing at the sound of laughing.
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Andalite on psychoactive drugs projecting their hallucinations to other people! Groovy baby!
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4nryaZEjf1rvwt34o1_400.gif)
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Ahhh no man, this wayy to groovy for me *passes out*
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If you stare at it for a few seconds, you feel pressure in your forhead. I LIKE IT!
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If you stare at it, it gives you head aches, and seems to go faster.
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How did we get from Drunk Andalites to looking at strange images
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I just might work on Ax on LSD.
'Ax, where did you ge that?'
"Prince Jake. Jake jake jakety jake, I went to the social gathering building to purchase some delicous cinnamon bunzah. Bunzah, bunzah. I like cinnamon bunzah."
'But where'd you get this...substance?'
"A nice man asked me if I wanted some grass. I like grass."
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Seems Legit
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Ax could in theory accidentally stomp over some magic mushrooms like he did that snail :kitty: he wouldn't have to resort to buying :P
Andalite on psychoactive drugs projecting their hallucinations to other people! Groovy baby!
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4nryaZEjf1rvwt34o1_400.gif)
lols imagine that but with four eyes.
Random thought: Can Erek play Playstation/Xbox games which simulate violence or what that go against his programming?
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Good question. I think the Chee are against violence in 2 ways. 1st) They're programmed never to commit violence or cause death 2nd) They morally object to violence or killing due to their pacifist creators. I can definitely see them not playing with simulated violence unless pressured into it in some way but since they're smart enough to know simulations aren't real they should be able to play simulated killing games.
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Andalite on psychoactive drugs projecting their hallucinations to other people! Groovy baby!
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4nryaZEjf1rvwt34o1_400.gif)
Bleh, looking at pictures like that makes me nauseous/headachy.
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Just read The Hork Bajir Chronicles for the first time and it's so sad :(
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Yeah, but it's also one of the best books in the series.
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Yes, it's really a good book. But for me it's also on of the saddest in the whole serie
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I totally got the girl at the bookstore interested in Animorphs. XD It was awesome.
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You make us sound like a cult. Which we totally could be.
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Got an order on my desk from a company called "Yerkes Observatory."
:eyebrow: Y'all thinking what I'm thinking?
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I knew this day would come...
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I work at a movie theatre; I'm a Senior Manager and am currently oversee orientations along with other HR related duties. Anyway, part of our new employee orientation is a section called "Jake's Experience." It basically contains a little story about a guy named Jake's experience at "Restaurant X." The new employees have to read the story and pick out 10 things wrong with the experience (and then we go over how they relate to a theatre and why we want to avoid those things).
Getting to the point, we write all 10 things in a list on a dry erase board. An assistant manager was actually conducting the orientation one day, so I wasn't in the room when it happened. However, I walked into the conference room and noticed the 10 things from Jake's experience listed on the board. There was also included a #11: He morphed into a tiger.
I LOL'd. I still don't know who did it.
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Whoever did it just won an internet
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I wonder what I would have to do to persuade my dad to drive the 250 miles to my house to bring me all my animorphs books. I MUST READ THEM AGAIN.
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You know...if you can't bring the Animorphs books to you....
[spoiler]You need to bring yourself to the Animorphs books! ^^ Walk it![/spoiler]
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Bulk mail order?
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I apologize if I've already mentioned this one, but there's a line from the song "Lights Out" (don't know the artist) that goes "I still keep my watch two hours behind." I always picture Rachel singing that line (for obvious reasons). Unfortunately the rest of the song is just about somebody who used to live in Memphis, so I think it's a reference to different time zones. But still.
And I have a second thought to share. When the Animorphs found the Escafil device, they really ought to have hidden it in a modern art museum. It would have fit right in, everybody would have just assumed it was a piece of art, nobody would ever have touched it (and they'd even have unwitting guards making sure they didn't), and I doubt that looking at art would generally be high on the Yeerks' list of priorities. It'd be perfect.
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Keep our watch 2 hours behind, interesting.
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I doubt that looking at art would generally be high on the Yeerks' list of priorities. It'd be perfect.
Yes, but one infested hipster later and everything goes to hell.
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Infested Hipster: OMG I was infested with a space alien parasite before it was cool.
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Huh, I somehow ended up with 2 copies of book 7. When the copy I ordered off amazon came in, I was in a rush so I just put it on my coffee table, still in the shipping envelope, and forgot about it. Then about a month later I was all "Oh, it looks like I forgot to order it. I guess I'll go buy it at the local book store.
Yesterday I found the envelope. lol. Whoops! Thinking of donating the second copy to my local library. Although I never did get my receipt from them from the last time I donated books for taxes... But whatev.
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You could send it to me.
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Yours has that? We never give reciepts where I work. I didn't know it was done by some libraries.
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So, I have a new co-worker, who has a somewhat sarcastic and witty sense of humor. Turns out, though, that a lot of tragic stuff had happened to her, so I sorta wondered how she stayed so positive. She was like, "Well, life is too serious as it is, so you just have to make jokes to get through it."
Ladies and gentlemen, I've found Marco's long-lost sister. :D
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I think that Andalite culture has to be pretty boring if Ax finds "The young and the restless" so highly entertaining. Are there no lovers quarrels or love triangles on the Andalite world?
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None publicly displayed. Andalites and yeerks are very similar in the 'maximum efficiency' department.
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There was a bird trapped inside the store at work today. I kept thinking to myself, "If only I had a baseball . . . I would probably be fired."
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Only if caught.
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the only reason cassie and rachel couldn't figure out why they were best friends is cuz they were too foolish to understand that opposites attract
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Only if caught.
Considering that the only windows in the store are right by the front entrance, where all the customers are AND where all the security cameras are, it's a pretty safe bet I'd get caught. :P
Heh, I was just now looking back through a (really old, haven't played it in forever) Pokemon game of mine. Apparently I had a Fearow named Tobias, a Kangaskhan named Cassie, and a Skorupi named Visser.
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I wonder if constantly morphing and demorphing every 2 hours except when sleeping would slow down aging.
If so, every time Tobias morphs human, does he morph his 13 year old self when everyone else in nearly 17?
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I wonder if constantly morphing and demorphing every 2 hours except when sleeping would slow down aging.
If so, every time Tobias morphs human, does he morph his 13 year old self when everyone else in nearly 17?
This was heavily discussed awhile back. I'm of the mind that yes, his, and Ax's human morphs, wouldn't age, but I don't know what the consensus is
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It was never brought up because the author simply didn't think about it. Based on what we know about DNA, probably.
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Heh, I was just now looking back through a (really old, haven't played it in forever) Pokemon game of mine. Apparently I had a Fearow named Tobias, a Kangaskhan named Cassie, and a Skorupi named Visser.
LOL. I can't recall if I've done that yet...I do have an Axew named Ax, I think, in my Black game. Do you recall which game yours was? Has to be Diamond, Pearl or Platinum, or Heartgold/SoulSilver, because Skorupi is Gen IV. Which means it isn't *that* old lol.
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Okay, yeah, fine, not that old. I guess it just felt older than it was, because I was looking through my game and thinking, "I remember none of this." That probably says more about my memory than the age of the game, lol.
As for which game it was, I vaguely remember that I was semi-simultaneously playing SoulSilver, Diamond, Ruby, and FireRed in an attempt to get as close to a (legitimate) complete Pokedex as I could. So those Pokemon could have come from any of those games (even though I found them on SoulSilver).
Anyway, to get back to the topic of Animorphs (heh, sorry), yeah, Tobias's aging was never covered in the books, but Blaze brings up a good point about DNA. According to some studies, it's actually the DNA that ages, and as it replicates throughout your lifetime, it shortens, and that's the reason why we have a limited life-span.
But does that mean that morph DNA keeps aging, or does the morphing process preserve it somehow? I think the biggest argument against the idea of morphs aging is the fact that the Animorphs have fly morphs. If those morphs aged normally, they'd be dead in a matter of days, since that's all the longer flies can live.
Of course, as RYTX pointed out, all that has been discussed before, so I think I might be off-topic again by bringing that up too. :P
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I wonder if constantly morphing and demorphing every 2 hours except when sleeping would slow down aging.
If so, every time Tobias morphs human, does he morph his 13 year old self when everyone else in nearly 17?
I think I read somewhere that a fan suggested that the Ellimist messed up that morph on purpose so it ages without Tobias in the morph, and K. A. Applegate liked that idea
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In spanish hope can be translated the same as to wait
Kinda makes that theme a bit more depressing
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Animorphs was mentioned in a cracked article *SQUEEEEE*
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http://www.cracked.com/article_20031_6-movies-that-accidentally-recreate-real-mental-illnesses.html (http://www.cracked.com/article_20031_6-movies-that-accidentally-recreate-real-mental-illnesses.html)
So according to the second entry in this article, half of RAF has the same mental illness. Because let's face it, we all went through (or are still in) the phase of believing we could turn into animals. :P
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Sandy got me wondering what a situation like that would have been like in the books, how it would have affected the east coast pools and feeding and stuff.
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i'm a little curious as to how ax would have reacted if he had contracted an earth based disease. clearly the kids handled themselves well enough when they got that alien sickness, but what would ax do if he were feeling a foreign illness
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I imagine chicken pox would drive him insane.
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So... I joined this animation personified RP forum that my friends run. And I decided to play Toby from The Great Mouse Detective. His name on the site is Tobias Jacob Kane.
I felt like there wasn't enough Animorphs in that, so I also had him channel Ax and marvel at the fact that it's possible to balance on two legs without a tail.
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Random thought because I stopped WoW to post here.
What if a group of 5 humans received the power to morph in the warcraft universe?
5 deathwings running around?
How would the druids feel about these people?
How would the world be changed if there were multiple dragon aspects?
How about morphing key political figure like Varian or Thrall?
Could plant-like creatures like treants be morphed.
The warcraft universe has a wide variety of animal life, so many options are available.
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They'd be killed for experience in seconds. Realistically, in a world as heavily populated as world of warcraft, it would never be safe to morph. And, once you're high level enough, turning into monsters weak enough to acquire would be practically useless.
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(I never played warcraft and never will so correct my statements if possible)
They won't be able to morph unless wearing no or tight clothes, which will make them even more vulnerable targets due to the fact that they have no armor.
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:huh: If the Chee were meant to be companions and are programmed to be non-violent... why do they have super strength? I mean, it's not specified that they were also made to be all-around sort of useful. You know "companion, laborer, servant, etc." So... what's with disproportionate amount of strength?
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The pemalite planet has three times earths gravity.
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not to be a prick but....4 times
which means the pemalites themselves should also be pretty physically capable, least off that world, as it seems andalite, hork-bajir, and taxxon worlds all had gravity comparable to earth
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I'm still giggling...I was trying to click a bookmark and hit the Whedonesque bookmark by mistake. I don't visit the site much, cause the stuff comes on my RSS feed, but the site today has a quote in one of the top corners that says "Cinnamon buns!" Of course, I read it like Ax lol.
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I assume the pemalites would have to be an adaptable species as well. The ellemist said they were spread across the whole universe.
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Actually...
[spoiler=The Ellimist Chronicles]
The Pemalites were created by the Ellimist. He would have designed them to be able to resist most harsh environments (including heavy gravity) since at that point in time he had just been taught the way to beat Crayak would be to seed life all around the galaxy faster than Crayak could destroy.
How he learnt the answer was a beautiful part of The Ellimist Chronicles.
[/spoiler]
The Pemalites wouldn't have done very well if they couldn't withstand some unusual environments.
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Exactly what I was saying.
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It's amazing how sad the Andalite Chronicles ending was.
That was seriously a beautiful book... :'(
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I haven't read any of the chronicles. I don't even know why I haven't
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I haven't read any of the chronicles. I don't even know why I haven't
Actually it doesn't really affect the series if you don't, with the possible exception of Visser which is a continuation from #35.
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They need to be read. They're on a whole 'nother level from the normal books.
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if horkies are so quick to heal, were they also regenerative? if they lost a limb, could they regrow it like a lizard? was that specified anywhere?
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I don't think that was said anywhere. I always assumed the fast healing only went so far. Cuts and stuff heal fast. Losing an arm... Not so much. Something like that.
Though splitting your skull open seems like a pretty serious injury to me, now that I say that, so I don't know. XD
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There needs to be a Fallout Animorphs mod. There's a Pokemon New Vegas mod, why not Animorphs? Deathclaw morph!
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That would be amazingly hard to create.
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Books where Yeerks try to increase numbers by taking people of influence:6,12,20,21,22,28,35,50 (8 total)
Books where Yeerks may indirectly increase numbers by attempting tech/feeding improvements: 10,25,27,36,42(5 total)
am I missing any
rest of the time was spent chasing bandits. Makes sense, but that is not how you take over the world. Bad Visser
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That's the thing Visser 3 was horrible at his job. And the animorphs kept sabotaging him whenever he tried something remotely productive.
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that's my point, the animorphs really only sabotage his plans for take over like a dozen times, cuz he only has a dozen plans that aren't "catch the Animorphs"
definitely bad Vissering, but that the council never said "hey, try more than 12 things to actually take over the planet"
bad yeerk empire in general
and contractory to the formula's we see else where: HBC, they fight rebels, they hunt rebels, but the whole time they are working to expand. Not really shown on earth.
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We also miss a lot of what could actually be happening. Theirs clearly space between every book, even a week or two is enough for another plot.
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I happened to be listening to Gangnam Style when I was re-reading The Alien... so now whenever the song plays I just get reminded of Ax. :XD:
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*Imagines Ax Gangnam styling*
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If he knew about the fad, he'd be ABSOLUTELY convinced that humans are a strange, yet enjoyable, species.
Gangnam styling in human morph or Andalite form? :XD:
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Andalite obviously.
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Okay, so I'm watching Life Of Pi at the moment... And Jake wasn't kidding every time he mentioned that the roar of a tiger can scare the pee out of a full grown man :o
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We have a new arcade-bar called the Space Bar.
Some old friends here will know why that makes me think of Animorphs xD
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*Imagines Ax Gangnam styling*
... I'm fail at animating, but now I feel like I need to make this. @_@ And perhaps replace that woman with a Cinna Bun. xD
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The title made me think of something else
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBNHPk-Lnkk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBNHPk-Lnkk)
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http://cheezburger.com/6760721408 (http://cheezburger.com/6760721408)
Ax and someone lol
Also had to laugh at an article I was reading about a whale researcher because the name was Dr.Visser. I wonder what inspired KA to use the word and if she knew it could be a last name or not.
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Did you guys read the newest post on Hirac Delest. It says that Sony owns the right to an animorphs movie website and that the domain name expires June 19th 2013... I really hope that if they DO make a movie it would be Sony CGI because it looks nice on Blu-ray
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Also had to laugh at an article I was reading about a whale researcher because the name was Dr.Visser. I wonder what inspired KA to use the word and if she knew it could be a last name or not.
Dude, I know a guy whose girlfriend's last name is Visser. :P
Did you guys read the newest post on Hirac Delest. It says that Sony owns the right to an animorphs movie website and that the domain name expires June 19th 2013... I really hope that if they DO make a movie it would be Sony CGI because it looks nice on Blu-ray
Yeah, the post also said not to get too excited. There's always hope though :-\
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I was at the book store today, they had a display of npr's list of 100 greatest teen books.
Gone was 96.
Harry Potter was first.
Animorphs was not on the display.
**** npr
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Maybe because Animorhps is considered a children's books...
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We really need to do something to change that notion. It is NOT a children's book as far as I'm concerned, it's actually really good young adult material.
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Written for children, enjoyed by weirdos like us. :P
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but harry potter is not a children's book?
the line is fine indeed my friends
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Not really because the high vocabulary and large amount of page numbers, but Animorphs was written for children and advertised for children too.
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I'm not really sure why that definition came about in the first place.
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In terms of total word count I doubt potter was significantly longer than Animorphs as a series.
If they are calling it novel vs novella (or whatever a paper back that size is called) maybe, but as most the books were series rather than individuals, not a fair comparison.
Potter also was not particularly high vocabulary, a high number of big adjectives sure, but not above standard middle school levels. Animorph's was admittedly a grade or two lower, but not so much to remove from the category.
And finally, they both, and all the other books I saw there fell in the same categories at the stories: young adult. I don't recall HP ever being marketed to an older audience, but once the films started coming it was seen as a "family" thing, and since it took them near ten years to come out, they had the carry over, but still a single adult 35 yro in 2007 with Deathly hallows was seen as reading a youth book. Just being common place doesn't up it's level of difficultly
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Full member, huh? Wow I just noticed.
I feel like I'm either being promoted up the levels of The Sharing or up ranks in the Andalite military.
I think I'll go with the latter. ;)
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Before the invasion, did yeerks ever have parties in yeerk pools? Did they match into trio's and swim? Do yeerks go around hitting on random members of their species like humans?
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Guess that would've been difficult.. They were blind, right? ::)
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well lots of animals can't see, they still find and court in their own ways.
So from the biological stand point, I imagine there was something along those lines, but from the story point I doubt it. Party slugs aren't evil (see Slurms Mckenzie), and so I doubt they'd make that a secret character aspect for the bad guys
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Guys... Davids back Golden Eagle Snatches Kid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE0Q904gtMI#ws)
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I just got a review for an Animorphs fanfic on ff.net telling me where "the thought speak symbols that K. A. uses" are on the keyboard. Methinks someone is new to Animorphs fanfics on ff.net.
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Or just hasn't seen an actual keyboard im their life.
Oh come on, even first grade math has < and > !!
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Something is telling me Saffa is also new to fanfiction.net's use of < and >... Kidding
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Got a big book on animals from the Smithsonian. Now attempting to identify the exact species for the morphs used in Animorphs. Or at least the ones they got from the barn. Or just... not the Gardens.
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Or just hasn't seen an actual keyboard im their life.
Oh come on, even first grade math has < and > !!
Oh no, they knew where they were. They were telling ME where they were, because somehow they never noticed that everyone on fanfiction.net uses an alternative due to < and > being html symbols, and thus don't work on the site.
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Got a big book on animals from the Smithsonian. Now attempting to identify the exact species for the morphs used in Animorphs. Or at least the ones they got from the barn. Or just... not the Gardens.
Let me know what conclusions you draw.
So far as I know, anoles aren't found in California, so how you work that out at least should be neat to hear
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Oh no, they knew where they were. They were telling ME where they were, because somehow they never noticed that everyone on fanfiction.net uses an alternative due to < and > being html symbols, and thus don't work on the site.
I last did HTML in 8th grade, and I don't remember a twit... which is bad, considering I'm gonna be doing Computer Engineering in college :P
That said, how do you embed images in your posts again? The code?
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Oh no, they knew where they were. They were telling ME where they were, because somehow they never noticed that everyone on fanfiction.net uses an alternative due to < and > being html symbols, and thus don't work on the site.
I last did HTML in 8th grade, and I don't remember a twit... which is bad, considering I'm gonna be doing Computer Engineering in college :P
That said, how do you embed images in your posts again? The code?
i believe it would be: [ img ] insert image link here [ / img ]
if marco had not been able to finish demorphing from a ****roach and got stuck as a massive human sized roach, i'm pretty sure he would have just died as it is physically impossible for a roach of that size to live
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I've been thinking too much lately.
I've always said that if Animorphs came out on TV or film, I'd what it to be true to the books. And that hasn't changed, but I think I'd be more forgiving for some changes now.
Film is a different medium that a book, you can do things in a book you can't with film, and vice versa.
I really like LOTR, the films, wasn't big on the book. But I'm starting to see you can lose some of the faithfulness, and still tell a good story, even if it isn't exactly the same.
That said the show they did make was still not a good story, but idk, it just strikes me. Maybe I could see something new
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There is a term called adaptation distillation, which is basically where they change some things, but actually for the better. As long as there's a good reason for the change, I think fans can appreciate it. Especially if there was something in the first one that they didn't like, and the adaptation fixed it.
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On the topic of an Animorphs movie, I would love to see the Hork-Bajir Chronicles made into a movie.
Seriously, that book is perfect for a movie. The way it jumps between narrators would make for dramatic scene changes, and it's not as long and detailed as the Andalite Chronicles, and its plot just would really work well for a movie. A movie based on the entire Animorphs series would be harder.
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Popped into the bookstore today, and saw a beautiful sight. Two girls, about 13-ish, very seriously checking out the stack of Animorphs books there, with one even calling her mom up to get money. Couldn't help smiling to myself :)
The series ain't dead, peeps. You can count on places like India, where it was released late, to keep it alive. ;
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It involves Animorphs so I'll go ahead and say it. I was talking with a friend of mine about Animorphs and they suggested the idea of them being "updated" to todays standards...but as..furries? He said he would make the changes to the Animorphs as followed:
Jake-Tigertaur
Ax-Chakat
Tobias-(Stay the same)
Marco-(Stay the same)
Rachel-Panthertaur
and Cassie-a Centaur(stuck in midmorph most likely)
And then the weidest thing he said(not that it wasn't already weird) was that Cassie would flirt with Tobias alot.
Eh...just throwing it out there as a random thingy
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If Animorphs became furries, I would burn off my Animorphs tattoo.
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Thank God the internet hasn;t caught onto the fraky potential that is animorphs.
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Had anyone actually gone up to a McDonald's counter and asked for a Happy Meal with extra happy? I haven't tried it here coz I'm pretty sure they'd just blink :dull:
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I read on this forum that is a code for drugs or an extra McNugget
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I keep forgetting to do that when I go with my grandmother. She likes McDonalds.
You don't think...nah, couldn't be.
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My friend IMed me the other day and said that she saw a red-tail and thought of me. My reaction: THAT'S THE NICEST THING ANYONE'S EVER SAID TO ME.
Clearly not an over reaction.
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OMG today's mouse-over text on XKCD! :awesome:
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Link please Dino? As a redditor I love xkcd
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In #29 Aftran says Yeerks reproduce by fusion of 3 slugs (male? female? hermaphrodites?). Then, the three yeerks die. Does this make sense?
Why - and how - a yeerk should decide to die only to generate other yeerks? Can you imagine Visser III that chooses to die in order to have children - children who can not even keep and see them grow?
How can a society work without parenthood, sonship and marriage - or something similar to a close relationship between two individuals?
On the other way, in book #8 a Yeerk talks about a kind of love for another - presumably female - Yeerk. It's weird.
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Link please Dino? As a redditor I love xkcd
Here it is, in all its glory. (http://xkcd.com/1187/)
I think a society could work without a concept of parenthood, and it even goes some way towards explaining why the Yeerks became so militaristic. With no specific individuals having responsibility for raising young, the young are 'cared for' by society as a whole, and so there is a greater impetus to get kids to grow up and take responsibility as rapidly as possible. And a militaristic structure makes a lot of sense for that.
As for the why of it, I always assumed that some kind of instinct would kick in when a Yeerk got to the end of its lifespan and to the point where they were ready to die anyway. I dunno, maybe it would manifest as some feeling of responsibility towards future generations, or perhaps even a connection to the other two individuals that they'd be willing to die for. Evolution is a weird thing, but it has ways of making creatures want things that would seem against their own interests (just look at male black widows and preying mantises).
As for the Yeerkish lovebirds in book #8, I kinda assumed that had been an instance like in Visser, where they were really having human feelings for one another, not necessarily 'Yeerk' feelings.
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Animorphs rule what else can be said?
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Who else absolutely love books #6 and MM #4??
I neeeed to know!!!
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Who else absolutely love books #6 and MM #4??
I neeeed to know!!!
I seriously need to hunt down the paperback of #6 since I'm killing my eyes enough with the PDFs... and being in India, that's gonna be tough.
To be honest, I actually didn't enjoy MM#4 all that much. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that my favourite character gets turned into a Controller... I dunno. :P
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Did you guys read the newest post on Hirac Delest. It says that Sony owns the right to an animorphs movie website and that the domain name expires June 19th 2013... I really hope that if they DO make a movie it would be Sony CGI because it looks nice on Blu-ray
Ya, I heard about that...... kind of hope they get their butts in gear so us Animorphs fans can pick it apart.... ;D
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The strange age of Rachel's sister.
In book #2 or #7 Rachel says that Sarah is very young but Jordan "has nearly my age". So, assuming that Rachel was 13-14 at the time, we can suppose that Jordan was 11-12.
Rachel should be 16 in book #49. So, Jordan should be 14-15. But when the Animorphs burst into Rachel's house, she is watching cartoons with her little sister and then she plays with Ax as if he was a magical creature. A 15-year old girl? :o
So, is this the error of a ghostwriter or Jordan grows backwards, like Benjamin Button? :)
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I've always wondered that, too. I feel like things were intentionally vague for a lot of things, because the amount of time that had passed was intentionally vague. But then it just gets confusing with sibling ages. o.o Like, I always wondered how old Tom was. He's in high school when the series starts. Is he still in high school in the final arc? If he'd just started high school in #1, then he'd probably be in his last year. Which... would make sense except Jake says Tom joined the high school basketball team, and had also been weirdly distant for a year. Unless Temrash was like "yeah, can still do this b-ball thing for awhile" and then quit, Tom's been off the team for a year. Which means he has to be at least a sophomore in #1.
So... did he graduate? Was he taking college classes? Was he taking a gap year? IT DOESN'T SAY.
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Tom/Temrash had just quit the team "a couple days ago" in book 1. I could have sworn it also said somewhere that Tom was two years older than Jake but I can't find it in the e-book.
We do know that Jake is 13 in book 1, because he says in 53 that he was thirteen when it all started.
I can see Tom taking a gap year to work full-time with The Sharing though.
I figure the book 49 thing is a ghostwriter error, but can be possibly passed off as Ax lumping the girls' reactions into one. Sarah's the one giggling over him while Jordan is just watching with amusement.
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Or maybe Jordan had nothing better to do, so she was keeping Sara company.
Hey, I'm an elder sister. I know how that goes. :D
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Who else absolutely love books #6 and MM #4??
I neeeed to know!!!
I seriously need to hunt down the paperback of #6 since I'm killing my eyes enough with the PDFs... and being in India, that's gonna be tough.
To be honest, I actually didn't enjoy MM#4 all that much. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that my favourite character gets turned into a Controller... I dunno. :P
Haha. Thats probably the only reason that its one of my favorites. :D I dunno but i think it's just the way I am.... :whoa:
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Characters do need development, as long as its progressive in the story. Jake is a good example of this. Katniss is not.
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Today I completed my collection of the Animorphs books!
I was trying to buy them for about 9 years now, and finally I got all.
Here in Germany there were only he first 30 books translated and when I started buying them most of them where not available anymore, so I had to buy them on eBay. Later when I got older I started to search for the English books, but here they're hard to get, so it's really a success that I now have all of them :)
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Congrats, a worthy accomplishment
Superman draws his power from our one yellow sun and he can fly around the world fast enough to turn back time.
Yet the time matrix has the power of 10 suns, which the andalites same is the amount required to move an object through time.
Someone's gotta be wrong here
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*Welp* Taxxons are real. :o
http://25.media.tumblr.com/e290908228ae03451c872954225e7aa2/tumblr_mm0m5cSOWK1qbdc3uo1_400.gif (http://25.media.tumblr.com/e290908228ae03451c872954225e7aa2/tumblr_mm0m5cSOWK1qbdc3uo1_400.gif)
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*Welp* Taxxons are real. :o
http://25.media.tumblr.com/e290908228ae03451c872954225e7aa2/tumblr_mm0m5cSOWK1qbdc3uo1_400.gif (http://25.media.tumblr.com/e290908228ae03451c872954225e7aa2/tumblr_mm0m5cSOWK1qbdc3uo1_400.gif)
*shudders* oh crap. That things scary, but really small.
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I BLOODY KNEW IT!
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So, I got a friend of mine to read the series. She seems to be enjoying it so far. It's only been a few days and we're only on #3. XP But still. She finished #2 yesterday and was saying she hadn't been that into the flying bits. I then proceeded to name off books with better flying scenes.
62 books. Most of which involve at least SOME flying. And I just sat there naming off my favorites before I realized how weird I probably sounded.
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*Welp* Taxxons are real. :o
http://25.media.tumblr.com/e290908228ae03451c872954225e7aa2/tumblr_mm0m5cSOWK1qbdc3uo1_400.gif (http://25.media.tumblr.com/e290908228ae03451c872954225e7aa2/tumblr_mm0m5cSOWK1qbdc3uo1_400.gif)
*shudders* oh crap. That things scary, but really small.
How is that thing called?
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Since Plants contain DNA, shouldn't they have morphed plants to look inconspicuous? Wouldn't Visser Three also be suspicious of every tree he sees? :P
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There was no attempt to due to risk of not being able to morph back. If one can get caught up in the instincts of an animal, something with absolutely no thoughts like a tree was too big a risk to attempt.
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There was no attempt to due to risk of not being able to morph back. If one can get caught up in the instincts of an animal, something with absolutely no thoughts like a tree was too big a risk to attempt.
But their own minds were still there, along with the animal instincts. Wouldn't that mean that they would just be in complete control?
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I would disagree. They said things like a flea (at least without blood around) was a big nothing. Never had problems getting in or out, I doubt an absence of mind would be overwhelming. Besides, when do they ever get really caught up in a mind for more than the first few minutes (spare emotional crisises)
There are various suggestions that morphing wouldn't work on plants, but think it's the ultimate KASU that the only requisite we were told of was DNA, yet it seems implied that plants can't be done :P
But even if you could, why: can't see much more than light/no light, probably can't detect spoken words, can't fight, and if they find you out (via Helmacron tech or the like), they run you through the woodchipper, put you in the fire, no way out but to demorph and be helpless. What can a tree do against a Hork-Bajir?
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What can a tree do against a Hork-Bajir?
Feed it until it explodes? :P
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Yeah, thinking about it, plants would be like morphing into a medium rare steak in front of a large dog.
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*Welp* Taxxons are real. :o
http://25.media.tumblr.com/e290908228ae03451c872954225e7aa2/tumblr_mm0m5cSOWK1qbdc3uo1_400.gif (http://25.media.tumblr.com/e290908228ae03451c872954225e7aa2/tumblr_mm0m5cSOWK1qbdc3uo1_400.gif)
OH HELL NO
*hides forever*
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*Welp* Taxxons are real. :o
http://25.media.tumblr.com/e290908228ae03451c872954225e7aa2/tumblr_mm0m5cSOWK1qbdc3uo1_400.gif (http://25.media.tumblr.com/e290908228ae03451c872954225e7aa2/tumblr_mm0m5cSOWK1qbdc3uo1_400.gif)
Never fear everyone! I have a lethal weapon! *holds up shoe* :D
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Die taxxon scum!!
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*Welp* Taxxons are real. :o
http://25.media.tumblr.com/e290908228ae03451c872954225e7aa2/tumblr_mm0m5cSOWK1qbdc3uo1_400.gif (http://25.media.tumblr.com/e290908228ae03451c872954225e7aa2/tumblr_mm0m5cSOWK1qbdc3uo1_400.gif)
Damn nature you scary!
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I don't imagine plants would be very conspicuous in the Yeerk Pool...Maybe if the Animorphs had themselves form a bouquet and get themselves sent to Visser Three for Valentines day?
No. Even better! The Animorphs convince Visser Three to convert to Christianity (or to just celebrate Christmas), by having him go through a "Christmas Carol" scenario, where they all pretend to be the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. After he sees the error of his ways, Visser Three gets into the spirit of Christmas. The Animorphs morph his Christmas tree, and assassinate him over the milk and cookies and presents!
I am convinced. Animorphs must definitely morph plants!
Also, in regards to murdering innocent real life Taxxons: for shame, Saffa. For shame!
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Rose churned out this facepalm-inducing one-liner yesterday --
Q: What do you call a Yeerk-infested species standing very far away from you?
A: A remote-Controller.
:facepalm:
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Oh dear, Saffa. You have a handful. :facepalm:
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I thought Rose's joke was brilliant :)
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Oh dear, Saffa. You have a handful. :facepalm:
Oh yes I do. Don't encourage her, Goose. ;)
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How did the yeerks set up breeding programmes for non-human species? That is, assuming they had any, but then it seems pretty obvious that they should. If they had enslaved all members of a species, they would seemingly dictate how it all happened.
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Today I started a role play thread entitled "Taxxon. Taxxoff."
I regret nothing.
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I just started re-reading the series, and I love Ax more now then I did when I was a teen lol. Tobias on the other hand, I dunno, a little less then I did, but then, I'm only on book 11.
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Today I started a role play thread entitled "Taxxon. Taxxoff."
I regret nothing.
You and Rose are a class apart, Steph. :P
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Despite the fact that they were teens in the mid nineties, the Animorphs always acted like they were being monitered when they made calls, or went online.
If real terrorist weren't already taking those measures, I'm sorry, you suck. Literally worse at secrecy than teenagers.
Fictional teenagers granted, but teenagers
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^Now imagine a world with webcams! The Yeerks could easily monitor people that way.
No one would want to make a skype call ever again :P
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Went to this website: http://www.whatdoestheinternetthink.net/ (http://www.whatdoestheinternetthink.net/)
Typed in Animorphs.
Then typed in Harry Potter.
Animorphs wins the Internet.
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Oh, dear Ellimist, I am going to kill days at a time on this website. Here's a fun one: enter whatdoestheinternet think.net :P
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Boo site. You can do better than that. :disgrace: ...Or maybe it's just super humble.
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MY ROOMMATE KNOWS ABOUT ANIMORPHS. SHE'S EVEN READ ONE OF THE BOOKS AND LIKED IT.
Here. In freakin' INDIA!
Okay, it's official. I love this chick. She is so my roommate of choice next year. :D
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Invite her to RAF, invite her to RAF!!
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Well, I have to make her read the whole series first...
Though she'll probably fit in after that. She's pretty damn insane. :D
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Yes! The more, the merrier!!
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That is awesome ^_^ Most definitely the more the merrier. And she can totally visit RAF without finishing the series- just tell her to avoid the Animorphs board :P
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Yep. Who says she has to finish it. I didn't until I actually joined this. :D
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I don't know...more new people? I'm not sure how I feel about the new newbies, let alone the new new newbies.
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What? Don't you like us newbies? ;) Geeze. It feels like I've been on here for forever...even though its only been a few months...
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I have yet to assess my feelings for you people.
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Well, okay then. :)
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It just occurred to me that these aren't Animorph thoughts :p
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Enjoying myself inserting Animorphs references into conversations with friends who haven't read the books (and basically making myself look like this total smartass :P ;D )
Example: In the cafeteria today, looking at their creation of the day.
"This food is green. Food should not be green."
(It wasn't green vegetables, so I was perfectly valid. :D )
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I had a dream last night that Myitt and I were running away from Visser Three on jet skis. It seemed like a wonderfully convoluted, Scooby Doo-esque plot that could've easily actually happened in some of the lesser books. XD
Was reading the backlog here. For those of you who haven't read The Andalite Chronicles (or any of the Chronicles), shame on you. Read them! There's a reason three of us here have the last word of the book permanently inked on our bodies somewhere or another. XD
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Found this blog where someone is doing a graphic novel of The Invasion and other illustrations - pretty good! http://animorphscomic.blogspot.in/ (http://animorphscomic.blogspot.in/)
(And also did a little plug for RAF seeing the other comments :P )
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I read a fanfiction titled Animorphs:Agents of SHIELD which is basically an avengers vs yeerks fight. The fanfic is crazy, when Elfangor arrives instantly agents of SHIELD and its sister agency SWORD (sentient world observation and response department) show up and take the animorphs in custody ending with them being a crazed up version of the avengers, its insane but a really fun read
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Found this blog where someone is doing a graphic novel of The Invasion and other illustrations - pretty good! http://animorphscomic.blogspot.in/ (http://animorphscomic.blogspot.in/)
(And also did a little plug for RAF seeing the other comments :P )
Ah Char Reed, I think she was a member here once, long long ago. She's very good, just takes so long
I used to get mad that KA put so much of the morphs mind on food, but you know, when you don't have constant access to a full fridge and "to do", I'm starting to see how it gets kinda all consuming
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Hey guys! I think I've finally figured out what the word "gafrash" means!
I'm pretty certain that "gafrash" is actually just the sound a Hork-bajir makes when it sneezes. And the reason that you only ever hear Hork-bajir controllers saying it, is because some Hork-bajir are allergic to Yeerks.
Think about it. No word is used that often in general speech. It's gotta just be them sneezing at random in the middle of all their sentences.
MYSTERY SOLVED. ;D
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How did you figure this out? Did you sneeze and it sounded like you said 'gafrash' or something? ;) lol
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Hey guys! I think I've finally figured out what the word "gafrash" means!
I'm pretty certain that "gafrash" is actually just the sound a Hork-bajir makes when it sneezes. And the reason that you only ever hear Hork-bajir controllers saying it, is because some Hork-bajir are allergic to Yeerks.
Think about it. No word is used that often in general speech. It's gotta just be them sneezing at random in the middle of all their sentences.
MYSTERY SOLVED. ;D
Maybe their language is somewhat similar to that of the smurfs and grafash is the smurf equivalent of smurfing
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How did you figure this out? Did you sneeze and it sounded like you said 'gafrash' or something? ;) lol
No . . . come to think of it, I have no idea how I figured it out. It just popped into my head and I was like, "Of course!"
In other words, the "Totally Random" of Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts.
Kinda like when I figured out that the difference between the Yeerks and the Yoort, was probably oatmeal.
Maybe their language is somewhat similar to that of the smurfs and grafash is the smurf equivalent of smurfing
You did NOT just compare Animorphs to Smurfs. :disgrace:
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Accidentally found a The Invasion in my cousin's messed up cellar ......It's badly damaged,the pages after p61 was gone.And my cousin just looked through the remaining pages and says "I totally forgot it,but it's really naive",then threw it to me......I really wanted to punch him at that moment.
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Shame on him!! That poor book!!
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Your cousin shall be subjected to unspeakable kinds of torture.
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*performs Sheldon Cooper's brain-exploding move*
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http://imgur.com/zPpxe5G (http://imgur.com/zPpxe5G)
literally first thought in my head was "He's talking to you Tobias"
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if you morphed an anglerfish:
(http://abisharp.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/angler-fish.jpeg)
what might your instincts be?
please note: you live in the deepest parts of the pitch black ocean under tons and tons of water pressure. there is no light other than what other bio-luminescent creatures such as yourself with your dangley lure. prey is hard to come by and your light draws your curious prey near enough to snatch them up. food is so scarce that there are some very similar fish very similar to yourself whose jaws can constitute over 60% of their body size in order to maximize their chances of catching their prey and minimizing the rest of their body size in order to reduce overall nutrient requirements for living. the food will somewhat come to you though, because of your lure. anything and everything you can eat, you will craftily use your abilities in order to attempt to eat.
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A predator with a somewhat intelligent level of thinking, but still possessing predatorial instincts?
Plus, highly developed eyes to see in the dark?
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Anything that lives that deep would need to spend most of its time conserving energy, since there's so little food at that depth. Chances are your instincts would basically be 'sit still or move slowly, unless it's time for mating or there's potential food nearby.' As far as predators go, I'd think an anglerfish would be one of the most laid back. Even hunting for them consists of just turning on the light and waiting for food to basically swim into their faces.
How the heck would one go about acquiring an anglerfish, though? Don't they die if they come into water that's too shallow? How would one morph an anglerfish without dying before reaching the proper depth?
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... which is probably why no one considered it in #27, or Visser Three didn't consider it to reach the Pemalite ship in #36.
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"How the heck would one go about acquiring an anglerfish, though? Don't they die if they come into water that's too shallow? How would one morph an anglerfish without dying before reaching the proper depth?"
Easy.
Gain the power to morph.
Acquire a giant squid and become a nothlit
Be compelled to lead an aquatic species of Yeerk host to form a new colony, and recieve the ability to morph again from the Ellimist, with squid as your "true" form
Find and acquire angler fish
Simple
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Oh, yeah. Really simple. Perhaps I can also throw in the superior technology
acquired stolen from the Andalites to help your Hork-Bajir army breathe underwater. How come I didn't see this before?
Ooh, now we have a whole new series. The Squidimorphs. Eh? :D
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you guys know angler fish are typically also smaller than your hand?
but thanks, that was fun
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Really?
Huh, I always thought of them as being a little bigger. Perhaps about the length of a deflated basketball.
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Size is dependent on species (there are actually many species of anglerfish). The National Geographic page (http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/anglerfish/) I'm looking at says that some can actually reach lengths in excess of 1 meter, but that most are significantly smaller (around the size of a tea cup). For the most part, I'd expect them to be very small, since living at that depth is going to make the food supply necessary to feed anything large hard to come by-- the larger ones are going to be increasingly rare, I'm sure. If you're going for a morph, though, you may want to track down one of the bigguns.
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Fair point, because the most part of food at that depth is plankton, if I'm right - haven't really had a nature study class in the deep sea for quite a while now.
Yeah, those were good.
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Unrelated to any particular book (except one of the first, where applegate wrote this gem):
"the use of rhetoric to obscure a lack of content."
Which i used without reference and with delivery to poor effect at best in a meeting discussing the development of a report for someone moderately important. ...i wish i could name-drop just for effect, haha.
Also, i found out this weekend that my sister's bf read animorphs. Imo, that improved my opinion of him (not that it needed improving) by a few big points.
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http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/4111/20130923/eagle-vs-deer-rare-images-caught-camera.htm (http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/4111/20130923/eagle-vs-deer-rare-images-caught-camera.htm)
From the article
Golden eagles are not known to attack deer, but the image of the bird latched on to the deer's back and bringing it down to the snowy ground is as clear as it is puzzling. The eagle's attack was successful, researchers later found the deer's carcass a few yards away from the camera trap.
Bull. Animorphs fans have known Golden eagles to attack deer since 1998
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David's back.
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supernatural s6/ep16: where i come from, we call that a yeerk.
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Haha. I'll have to consult my Supernatural-obsessed roommate on where that shows up.
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Haha! I posted this in the wrong place the first time, its in the right one now!
Well, I just had two random animorphs thoughts.
The first was that I was re-reading through megamorphs 3 and when I reached the [spoiler]agincourt battle[/spoiler] part I opened medieval 2: total war in my pc and instantly played that particular battle, and I won!!!
Second, I was in anatomy class and my professor told us to place our hand in a position where our fourth finger wouldnt respond to our commands no matter how hard we tried, I nearly broke out in tears thinking that thats how it must feel to have a yeerk in your head
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Speaking as a history buff, the Agincourt but in MM3 drives me crazy. I just... want so bad for someone to be like "so this is what's going on. Blah blah blah."
It didn't bother me when I read it the first time. But I didn't know anything about it yet. It bothers me so much now.
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i am so blissfully unaware.
maybe i should reread. that was the time-travel, everybody dies megamorphs, right?
i about had a million heart attacks and was a sobbing mess by the end, the first time around.
my thought- on the morbid side- no normal chipmunk hides in a garage and, when discovered, half-walks, half-scampers to the nearest bush to sit and watch the garage.
*cough* ....except likely a sick and dying chipmunk. but yes.
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try to win the game
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Yeah it's the time travel one.... wait, which megamorphs doesn't have time travel? Just the 1st one?
It's the one where they're chasing the guy with the time matrix.
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the everyone dies time travel one was MM4.
Progressesively more of them die in the megamorphs once they start time travelling. Interesting pattern
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Did i already mention that two screens are just epic?
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donut, rytx could be right, for all i know. ....i haven't read any of the MMs since.... holy cow. D: so long ago!
...well, gee. shutdown and all, i certainly have the time to read them, lol. xD if i read them and find out anything different, i'll let ya'll know.
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it's NOT apple and cinnamon.
the tv show got it right actually. instant maple and ginger oatmeal.
At the end of book 17, Marco brings all his stashed oatmeal to Rachael, saying that his Dad is making him throw it out. Why is his Dad making Marco throw out the oatmeal? Has it passed its expiration date?
Rachael says that that was the end of the only battle involving oatmeal. Why? Can't the Animorphs find another place to hide the oatmeal, such as in the woods outside Cassie's barn?
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tim, you've got a serious eye for detail. ...not an insult- an objective observation. are you rereading the series now, by chance?
every. time. i use a coffee cup with a lid, i think, "no spills! ills! ills!" ...someone shut aximili up.
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it's NOT apple and cinnamon.
the tv show got it right actually. instant maple and ginger oatmeal.
At the end of book 17, Marco brings all his stashed oatmeal to Rachael, saying that his Dad is making him throw it out. Why is his Dad making Marco throw out the oatmeal? Has it passed its expiration date?
Why not instead donate the oatmeal to a food bank?
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I realized yesterday that I haven't told anyone to keep me tied up for 3 days if I start acting strangely. I can't believe my oversight. >.< ...So I've said it like five times in the last 24 hours.
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Would that work? Since if you told people that, the the yeerk in you would know to act exactly as you would, and if you are acting crazy, then there wouldn't be a yeerk in you since if there's a yeerk in you, it wouldn't reveal itself to avoid kandrona starvation and by now I'm repeating myself XP
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<.< The Yeerk would either get super bored acting like me, or would actually be the coolest person ever and we'd proceed to have a totally amiable relationship.
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No worries, Steph, we'll be sure to pick out a good one for you.
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I mean they.
They'll be sure to pick out a cool Yeerk
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I mean they would.
Y'know.
If they were planning on infesting you.
Yeah.
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my coworkers don't know how qualified i am to explain how a bald eagle can see and snap up a fish from a river and why, if the fish wriggles out of said eagle's talons on the way back to the nest, the eagle is not going to drop out of the sky and go back to pick it up off the ground.
THEY JUST DON'T EVEN.
xD
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Haha, same thing happened sometime ago when one of my roommates just randomly mentioned eagles (or was it hawks?) having extremely keen eyesight and I launched into a full-blown discourse on raptors and how they hunt their prey.
Everyone just blinked. :P
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One of my friends hasn't read Animorphs, but she's heard me go on about it so much that she's started sending me pictures of Red-Tails randomly. :D
I feel like I could get her to read them if they'd ever morphed pandas. Darn it.
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Hey, better a second-hand Animorphs fan than none at all, yeah?
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True, true.
Alternatively, I could lie and say that they do morph pandas. And then when she gets to the end, just be like "Oh, I must have been thinking of a fanfic I read once."
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So, at the ski rental place I work at, we have little erasable stickers so that people can write their names on their skis, right? Well, today I came across a pair of skis labelled "Ax."
I spent the rest of the day trying to picture how an Andalite might ski. The mental images I came up with pretty much made the rest of my day. :XD:
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Maybe he was there. Who knows?
Watching Doctor Who and I had a thought. Cassie is the Bad Wolf. ;)
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If Tobias cant morph dude cuz he became a nothlit, and no longer had the morph, how come Cassie can still morph all her crap after becoming a butterfly nothlit?
And can she still morph the butterfly/caterpillar?
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Ha, that's a good question
Crappy cope out answer is the "natural morphing" of metamorphosis doesn't take anything away.
Tobias's powers come back through the Ellimist, such that hawk is his natural form-thus what he had obtained while human-Dude-is lost.
The butterfly transformation let Cassie go back to her base form of human, it cause it to be something else.
I guess.
Don't know about the butterfly. I'd assume so, but then she acquired the caterpillar. I don't think there's an agreement on age of acquired item and it's effects of what you morph
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saw two red-tails on a single power line crossing a six-lane road the other day.
wondered where the territory demarcation was. the median? xD;
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I realized yesterday that I haven't told anyone to keep me tied up for 3 days if I start acting strangely. I can't believe my oversight. >.< ...So I've said it like five times in the last 24 hours.
Does that count as behaving strangely?:)
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I realized yesterday that I haven't told anyone to keep me tied up for 3 days if I start acting strangely. I can't believe my oversight. >.< ...So I've said it like five times in the last 24 hours.
Does that count as behaving strangely?:)
Tie them up anyway! Better to be safe than sorry
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do we know of any animorphs in russia? because that bird. is sledding.
?????? ???????? ?? ?????????? ?????? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7hiuXjXJEw#)
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Either the Animorphs are on holiday or the Yeerks are invading a country other than America for once.
Bet it's Marco
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They could come to India. It's a great source of corrupt, fat politicians. :P
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rather than calling it "the sharing", they could call it "the stealing". the corrupt would be knocking down doors just to get in.
...i assume. not knowing any of these people myself. *clears throat*
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I was just browsind through the Animorphs-tag on tumblr and found a few great posts. But somehow it's sad, that nowadays there are so few people who still know an like the Animorphs. Actually I can't really understand it, even if they are a little bit old, because it was a great book series. I'd wish more people would still read them.
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Kit, that video is awesome.
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hahah. :)
and as blues said it: i'd put money on its being marco. or a bored tobias on watch?
either way, i don't know what a bird gets out of the sensation of controlled falling that's any better than flying. ....maybe he's just shaking it up? :O
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Somebody came into the store today whose last name was "Visser." Had to keep myself from grinning like a loon the whole time I was helping him. Or saying "Yes, Visser," every time he asked something.
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It occurred to me the other day that I could totally see this happening:
1. The NSA finds out about the Yeerks.
2. They contact the Yeerks and propose an alliance.
3. The Yeerks infest key members of radical political groups/random Muslims and report back what those groups are planning. (You don't even need to plant an undercover operative and slowly gain peoples' trust, because the undercover operative is someone who's been there all along, whom they already trust!)
4. They eventually infest every member of said radical political group/mosque, then disband it.
Soooo much easier and more effective than just spying on everyone's e-mails.
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Interesting idea, but what's in it for the Yeerks to help the NSA, rather than just infesting them?
Oh, and I've been waiting and waiting to post one of my own (I didn't want to double post, and it's been forever since anybody else has posted here).
So, let's look at a few facts:
-The Time Matrix is white. Z-space is white.
-When using the Time Matrix, you see your body inside-out from all possible angles. When in z-space (outside the protective shielding of a ship), you see your body inside-out from all possible angles.
-Z-space is at one point metaphorically described as the point at the tip of a cone, connecting all universes (which are described as lines along the cone). The Time Matrix is demonstrated to have the ability to travel from one universe (ours) to at least one other (Elfangor/Loren/Esplin's hyper-spiral).
-Z-space does allow for the possibility of time travel, as seen in #18 when the Animorphs came back from Leera at different times but showed up on Earth at the same time, without any time apparently having passed in between (even though time obviously did pass).
GUYS GUYS GUYS. The Time Matrix is made of solid z-space that somehow manifested itself in real space!
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Interesting idea, but what's in it for the Yeerks to help the NSA, rather than just infesting them?
Maybe they don't want the government to find out and get involved, since that would launch an open war, which might lead to the loss of large numbers of valuable host bodies.
Incidentally, I am deeply, deeply amused by the fact that my karma is at zero because one person gave me a karma for that post and then another took it away for the same post. :XD: Who downvoted me? Is there an NSA operative on RAF? ;)
Oh, and I've been waiting and waiting to post one of my own (I didn't want to double post, and it's been forever since anybody else has posted here).
So, let's look at a few facts:
-The Time Matrix is white. Z-space is white.
-When using the Time Matrix, you see your body inside-out from all possible angles. When in z-space (outside the protective shielding of a ship), you see your body inside-out from all possible angles.
-Z-space is at one point metaphorically described as the point at the tip of a cone, connecting all universes (which are described as lines along the cone). The Time Matrix is demonstrated to have the ability to travel from one universe (ours) to at least one other (Elfangor/Loren/Esplin's hyper-spiral).
-Z-space does allow for the possibility of time travel, as seen in #18 when the Animorphs came back from Leera at different times but showed up on Earth at the same time, without any time apparently having passed in between (even though time obviously did pass).
GUYS GUYS GUYS. The Time Matrix is made of solid z-space that somehow manifested itself in real space!
That makes a crazy amount of sense! Or at least as much sense as Z-space ever makes.
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You know seeing all this comments it suddendly ocurred to me that the main reason why the animorphs reboot failed was that people didn´t find it plausible for a secret this big to remain hidden, you know with cellphones/cameras and youtube and social networks this would have been known ASAP. However Im thinking that maybe in this new world the yeerks would have used those same weapons agains us, the only thing they needed was to capture Mark Zuckenberg or maybe some YouTube admins and convince people that any video they saw of a hork-bajir roaming around was just a tralier for a new movie or something, or just take it down inmediately.
Having them have this degree of control would in my opinion make them much more formidable and scary enemies. Just my two cents
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So I was scrolling Animorph fanart while listening to Beyonce's recent album and had a random desire to make a fanvid set to the song 'Superpower.' Like some of the lyrics could totally fit:
"(Super power)
A subtle power
(Super power)
A tough love
(Super power)
Uh huh, like a shark
(Super power)
Ooh, Like a bear"
"And I thought the world would revolve
I thought the world would revolve, without us
Without us, without us, without us
But nothing I know could break us down
They couldn't break us down"
"And just like you I can't be scared
And just like you I hope I'm spared
...
It's a super power
(Super power)
The laws of the world never stopped us once
Cause together we got plenty super power"
But I am like the least creative person ever so I wouldn't know the first thing about making a fanvid. Alas!
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;Dthe v3 eatin ppl deserves a fic. Will write and link. :visser3:
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Talked about this in another thread but it belongs here too! In the recent episode of Cosmos, they to go to Saturn's moon, Titan, and talk about how it's really likely to have life like nothing we've ever seen. Which of course only reminded me of Visser 3 getting his Veleek from somewhere around there. Maybe K.A. can see the future!
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k.a.
y u troll us with cliffie ending
jake: ram the bladeship
suddenly a wild author note appears
KAA:trolloolololl end of series have some armageddon
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I have ship art
:jake:/ :cassie: :rachel:/ :tobias: :marco:/ :ax: tho it is shown that Marco/Ax is just a fic
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Oh, man, something crazy just occurred to me.
First off, what if the real reason the Ellimist wanted to save the Iskoort in #26, had nothing at all to do with showing the Yeerks a way around parasitism? That explanation never really made much sense to me in the first place, given how far away the Iskoort homeworld was from earth; the Ellimist must have known that the war would be long-over before the Yeerks and Iskoort ever made contact.
Instead, ponder on this. The Ellimist's original homeworld, Ket, was covered in uninhabitable sulfuric swamps, which was what forced the Ketrans to live on the crystals in the atmosphere instead. The Capasins destroyed the crystals, but we have no reason to assume that they wouldn't have left the planet itself otherwise intact.
The Iskoort homeworld (perhaps not coincidentally) has a surface covered by very similar sulfuric swamps. Much like the Ketrans, the Iskoort were thereby forced to live far above the planet's actual surface.
So, here's the revelation that blew my mind: what if the Iskoort homeworld actually WAS Ket?! What if, what the Ellimist wanted to save from Crayak's corrupting influence, was not the species, but the planet itself?
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...My mind is completely blown.
...On a totally less profound note. I've been doing a writing challenge on site where I write prompts for each letter in the alphabet relating to a specific topic. I picked Animorphs. Because I could. And somehow it's turned into random drabbles about secondary characters. Except one about Cassie, but whatever. THERE'S A THEME GOING.
A "if you haven't read the series, you can tell who gets the most page time based on the quality of the writing. More time = better writing" theme. Also I had the hardest time figuring out how to write about combining DNA for "F is for Frolis Maneuver." Morphing Sequences take a long time to write. D:
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I'm an animorphs geek. I know the EXACT canonical position of Ellimist chronicles.
(Book 54, most of Page 24)
I actually was not born when the series came out but I'm gonna reread by release date anyway!
This is gonna be a long post, but, I want to tell you the story of how I discovered the Animorphs. OK so I was in year 5 and a few animorphs books were permanently part of the class set. I had read all others so I had no choice. My first was I think #14 or #16 (the permanent books are #5, #12, #14, #16, #32) so I sorta got a bad impression from that filler. But I sought out the books in the council library. They only had the 7 damn books of reprint. I could not read #8 (my fave. look at dat sig) until I found the /eBooks section of this website! I bought TAC at a bookstore. In 2013 my bookish aunt Stephanie bought me a lot of books off Amazon and I bombarded my dad with random plots until he read TAC and then the real series. He is up to #28 now and he mostly reads eBooks. Mostly in release date order for Megamorphs and chronicles because WHO THE HELL KNOWS WHERE HBC FITS IN PLOT???? Mum read #1 and was like "meh you can tell me plots. I don't want to read another series."
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Dino: That. Is. Awesome. I really like that theory. It's just crazy enough to make sense. You should write a fanfic about it.
Steph: You're a nerd. It's great ^_^
SmartGirl: A lot of us grew up with this series, so it's good to see that it's still finding new fans. I'm glad you're enjoying it ^_^ As for HBC: It has to fall between #13 and #23 somewhere-- probably somewhere in the middle, and at a time when the Animorphs haven't had much going on (ie not during the David trilogy). If you read it after any book from 14-19, it'll probably fit right in. The Megamorphs books do, in fact, take place according to their release date (putting them after books 7, 18, 29 and 40).
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Dino? My mind has been completely blown.
K.A., you sneaky little devil, you. :wow:
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Thanks. I'm in year 7 now cuz I'm smart. lol yesterday I had an in depth convo with my dad about what qualifies as filler. We agreed on the definition of filler being "A book which does not contribute to the story arc but is just there to elongate the series or add funny. A filler book can be omitted without confusion for a new reader. #14 The Unknown (andalite toilet) is a good example." The other two classes of book are Character Development book; "which just develops a character's individual arc. There is not much effect on the main story arc but they should be read to avoid confusion. #5 The Predator (Marco + V1) is sort of an example." and Essential Plot book. "These books must be read because they have much effect on the main plot. Introducing non-throwaway characters and necessary concepts, these books are completely essential to the series. #49 The Diversion (families evacuated) is a vital part of the plot. otherwise people may think How the F did everyone's parents appear in the HB valley?"
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I think my karma is totally shot now, after the flight 370 stories and thinking "dude...it was Nartecs."
I'll go figure out a penance now.
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Here is link 4 v3 fic! https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10253001/1/Om-Nom-Nom (https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10253001/1/Om-Nom-Nom)
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Ya, for a good reading romping time... 28 is a good book to go to. Hehehehehe... cow tipping. XD
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The Chee are way too overpowered... Especially if they had the crystal...
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a young bald eagle followed me on a jog a few miles down a lovely, well-stocked river.
i had to resist the urge to call out:
HEYO, RACHEL.
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So, I had this idea that you could tell how widely known or popular a book series, TV series, game, website, etc. is by typing in kind of abstract things about it and googling it. scroll down, and see how long it takes you to see something from the series. I.E. "morph" and "block" are not words owned by anyone, yet they quickly give you pictures from animorphs and minecraft. based on my tests, I believe the series is doing very, very well. and so is minecraft! :D
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See, when I hear or see "Morph", I immediately think of "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers". :D
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duckduckgo disagrees, unfortunately, but i'm sure that the demographic using that search engine is vastly different than the one using google.
and, well, it has nothing to do with my bias, but i'm still willing to give the results of your research the benefit of the doubt. animorphs is always doing well, in my mind. ;D
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I wonder what would happen if somebody morphed Helmacron and then died? Would they get absorbed into the rest of the species, as ordinary Helmacrons do?
How freaking weird would that be?
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so I've been speed reading some of my favorites of late.
There is a very strong since of characters in this series being averse to being pitied. Just the idea of it.
Wonder if it rubbed off
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cry references animorphs at a bit after 23:10.
Cry Plays: Dishonored [P5] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm-kOavwvAg#ws)
i was a tiny bit moved. also silently argued: "people are animals, silly."
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I went through the David trilogy last night, first time in a year or two. And when they first mention his dad's a spy, I was trying to recall. I knew it wasn't FBI or CIA, and I was thinking it was just some made up group. And then late in 20 they say it's the National Security Agency. Laughed so damn hard at that, since it actually has meaning now.
David Snowden anyone?
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I went through the David trilogy last night, first time in a year or two. And when they first mention his dad's a spy, I was trying to recall. I knew it wasn't FBI or CIA, and I was thinking it was just some made up group. And then late in 20 they say it's the National Security Agency. Laughed so damn hard at that, since it actually has meaning now.
David Snowden anyone?
xD *snort* very true. for me in the nineties, i wouldn't've thought much of katmike throwing the NSA out there.
technically, the NSA has always served in that capacity- to include a certain amount of monitoring of civilians (pats and non) as well as corporations (US and non). snowden's just heightened our awareness of their activities.
(not to get too sidetracked, but are people really so shocked that the NSA does what it does? >____> i mean.)
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As being fan of both Animorphs and Artemis Fowl series, I have noticed the similarities between
Andalites (specifically Ax) and Foaly. Well, hows this?
They are both relatively similar in appearance, also they act similarly, and have interest in technology.
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i could barely tolerate 'the host'. how does this get screen time and animorphs doesn't? someone needs to fix hollywood's poor judgment with respect to raw script material.
seriously, 'the host' is animorphs- less an interesting cast and crew and with unnecessary 'romance'.
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I doubt if any series/movie could get the real animorphs spirit inside it, know what I mean? I kind of don't think they would work in other formats than books.
On other thoughts, I wish that KAA would make Crayak Chronicles, I would so read that! Ellimist - Crayak was very interesting pair of opposites :)
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i'd buy it.
there's a lot to explore with that, too. hrmmm. have you seen any satisfactory fanfics on that note?
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Unfortunately no. Maybe someone comes up with one sometime... though I would prefer author making it :P
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i could barely tolerate 'the host'. how does this get screen time and animorphs doesn't?
Um, The Host is able to be mass-marketed and Animorphs involved 13 year olds basically in "Vietnam with Aliens"? It's a no-brainer, something like The Host isn't going to incur the wrath of angry parents. The target audience probably skews a little older too by a couple of years, so anything controversial in it's going to be diluted in terms of backlash. That being said, I haven't seen it, been meaning to though. Even if it is from the Twilight writer, the director's good and Saoirse Ronan's always pretty awesome in stuff.
It's just...yeah, even though they share similar themes the whole tone of The Host seems way less subversive and cause for "won't somebody think of the CHILDREN?!" reactions among the folks.
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well, i'll take that logic and apply it to animorphs.
i've read the host; i haven't seen the movie. you admit that a great director and great actors can alter the contents of a book when translating to the screen - for better (or worse). i'd submit to you, then, that a cast and crew could take the contents of animorphs and make the movie something palatable for a broader audience. ...if that is, indeed, what's stopping hollywood from making this happen.
anyway- side tangent! :)
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It is definitely true that a great cast can alter your perception of a movie. XD I saw The Book Thief awhile ago, which is based on one of my favorite books, and it took me a while after seeing it to decide I didn't like it because the acting was really good. It was just that the acting was all I liked. XD As a stand alone thing it was kind of blah run of the mill WWII flick. As an adaptation it cut out most of what made the book stand out. Like leaving out some of the most interesting aspects of its main characters o.o
...It's things like this that make me not overly optimistic about an Animorphs movie, even if we got one.
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four words. avatar: the last airbender.
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Why would you bring that up? We're never to speak of that.
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moohahahaha... er... put that grenade launcher down, eh?
but i think that it Can Be Done. animorphs: the movie. done. i offer lorde's 'everybody wants to rule the world' for soundtrack consideration. ;D
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Did you know there's a species of worm (http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/lab-rat/2014/06/28/arctic-creepy-crawlies-part-i-the-ice-worms/) that requires below-freezing temperatures to survive? For those who don't care to read the whole article, it notes that at temperatures above freezing, the worm's tissues start to fall apart and they basically melt.
. . . Perhaps the Venber were carbon-based, after all.
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I don't think an Animorphs movie can be done, for a lot of reasons. First, I think it would take too much material to develop the characters and the conflict to cut into even a 3 hour movie. But I also think it can't be done because of how much of the series is the character's thoughts. Take away the internal thoughts and struggles, and it's just a kids book. The internal struggle about what line the characters are willing to cross and how the characters behaved externally was a lot of times a bit different than how they thought internally. Besides just the moral dilemmas there were how they believed they needed to look to others, Jake, Marco, and Rachel all were very aware of an image they needed to present to the group even if they didn't always feel that way.
Those internal struggles and the differences between what the characters are feeling and what they're showing can be done on screen, but it's hard, and it takes a lot of time to do. A series might be able to if it had hour long episodes and a decent budget. Homeland and Game of Thrones I think are some decent examples of showing the internal worlds of the characters, especially Homeland. But I don't think anyone would sign off on doing that for something aimed at kids.
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Monologues and voiceover can be done, it's there a lot in noir type stuff. But I think the way to go with that would just be as an opener to the story, a little "My name is.... ______ 30 seconds or so of monologue" at the start, kind of like the first Raimi Spiderman.
I've always thought maybe the best way to do Animorphs would be segmenting it a little, the "big event books" with some significant development and reasonably large scale would be movies, with an animated miniseries sort of bridging them. But then you'd get a situation of people having to view the show between movies, and so many people wouldn't bother.
It's more just a combination of the special effects (live-action living things aren't quite there yet with CG, Avatar's close but even that's aliens, made up things where we're not intimately familiar with what they actually should look like) and more importantly content with Animorphs. You've basically got two options: sanitize it so it's acceptable, or don't make it. You don't get to do this the way the books were, not in reality.
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I think that we can all pretty much agree that movie or few movies out of whole series wouldn't be good idea.
Series with episode of every books would be best choice if it was to ever happen.
I do have to say that animation might be better in terms of price and feasibility
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Right. A high-quality, traditional/hand-drawn animated series, something like the '92-'98 Batman series, or the 90s Spawn show, with a PG-13 rating and the freedom that comes with it. Would be the best way to go.
Even that, though, how do you justify it? Anything Animorphs at this point would have to be going after a new audience, as the built-in fanbase isn't really large enough to substantiate it. So in terms of just selling the thing, a movie's the way to go, chase the new people. An animated show is costly, and the audience just isn't there.
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I was thinking more about small project- Where group of skilled animators with animorphs interest would do it. I honestly don't think that many people outside existing fans would be interested about such, so it would work better in small scale.
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Yeah, it's been tried a couple of times, a series and various comics and stuff. Never seems to eventuate, a little more ambitious than what's there to back it up or whatever.
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So I found this today: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/17/childrens-book-series_n_4432884.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/17/childrens-book-series_n_4432884.html)
They've even included Animorphs! :D Although, the description there may not be as right as far as I'm concerned... Best part was, the person who shared the link on Facebook also grew up on Animorphs, and so did one other commenter. I think I better do some RAF-plugging. ;)
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If ax ate cinnimon bunzuh untill he exploded, he would likely die. or at least be in a lot of pain. its more likely that he would write a complicated equation to determine when he would explode...
also,
I must warn you: its about the series. the entire series. applegate is evil. that is all I have to say. it is not a spoiler. only an implication. If you are collecting the series, stop immediatly. enjoy the books you have. the fist books are wonderful. works of art. this is something that I cannot extend to the last. the perfect series in my mind has been torn in half. Its too late for me. but you might get away still. stop at... stop at book 47 or so. you might venture as far as book 52. but it will be a pointless punishment for your mind and heart. stop collecting the books.
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They put the Whole Animorphs TV Series on Netflix? Whose idea was THAT? We all just want to forget about it!
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I feel the same way about the CDi Zelda games, yet people still keep mentioning and writing about them.
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If ax ate cinnimon bunzuh untill he exploded, he would likely die. or at least be in a lot of pain. its more likely that he would write a complicated equation to determine when he would explode...
also,
I must warn you: its about the series. the entire series. applegate is evil. that is all I have to say. it is not a spoiler. only an implication. If you are collecting the series, stop immediatly. enjoy the books you have. the fist books are wonderful. works of art. this is something that I cannot extend to the last. the perfect series in my mind has been torn in half. Its too late for me. but you might get away still. stop at... stop at book 47 or so. you might venture as far as book 52. but it will be a pointless punishment for your mind and heart. stop collecting the books.
I agree that the first half of the series was a lot better than the second, but I actually did that ^. For about a decade I hadn't read anything past book 40. I gotta say even though I didn't like how it ended, I'm glad I finally finished it.
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I'm in the same boat as Donut. The series went downhill once KA got the ghostwriters to work on the series, and I certainly wasn't happy about most of the ending, but it's still good to have finished it.
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My sister was the one who actually found this, surprisingly enough. (http://knitmeapony.tumblr.com/post/92848273534/kk-maker-misseclectica-fandalitescum-now)
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227 notes! Not bad. :D
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I love the Animorphs tag on tumblr. XD ...Aside from the fact that it's the only reason any of my posts get any notes.
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My sister was the one who actually found this, surprisingly enough. (http://knitmeapony.tumblr.com/post/92848273534/kk-maker-misseclectica-fandalitescum-now)
That is just adorable right there. I like the "Let's do it" with the bear paw.
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I like the "Let's do it" with the bear paw.
Someone needs to make that as a pendant or something. :D
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Shower thought: A Chee growling probably sounds like a chainsaw revving. It's definitely my headcanon now.
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http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1468 (http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1468)
R.I.P. 1468-21,comrade,fellow avian,(and maybe a)fellow nothlit.
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Would a Yeerk trapped in human morph age?
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Would a Yeerk trapped in human morph age?
Like any other nothlit, yes.
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Shower thought #2: If Ax took the DNA from all the other animorphs and spliced it together to create his morph, does that kind of technically make them all his biological parents?
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Why do Hork-Bajir even have names? The Yeerk Empire uses them as slaves, and empathizing with them is prohibited. You would think refusing to let them have names would be a step towards completing the process of taking away all identity. I guess maybe the Hork-Bajir name themselves and each other, but wouldn't the Yeerks punish them for it? I suppose giving them a designation number instead of a proper name would make their new "names" similar to Yeerk names, and the Yeerks don't want that. But maybe they need some word to differentiate them because certain hosts belong to certain Yeerks.
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Why do Hork-Bajir even have names? The Yeerk Empire uses them as slaves, and empathizing with them is prohibited. You would think refusing to let them have names would be a step towards completing the process of taking away all identity. I guess maybe the Hork-Bajir name themselves and each other, but wouldn't the Yeerks punish them for it? I suppose giving them a designation number instead of a proper name would make their new "names" similar to Yeerk names, and the Yeerks don't want that. But maybe they need some word to differentiate them because certain hosts belong to certain Yeerks.
Well, considering they got almost completely wiped out on their homeworld and the small remnant was saved and enslaved by the Yeerks, they'd become kind of a tight-knit community in their cages as their Yeerks fed. I imagine that even if they were born without a name, the older Hork-Bajir from the homeworld would probably give them one.
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How the HECK did the Yeerks catch that Garatron to infest it?
I'm imagining a whole bunch of animorphs themed Coyote and Roadrunner shorts but with Hork Bajir controllers and the Garatron instead of the roadrunner.
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I'm sure they used higher technology. It doesn't really matter how fast you are if they have a fleet of bugfighters. Those things are fast too, and programmed to keep up with other ships zooming around.
Then again, maybe he's voluntary. Did we ever find out anything about it as an individual?
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*shrug*
Humans hunt bigger and faster animals all the time, and zoos are full of them.
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You guys both make good points. My way is funnier though.
And for my random thought...
Would a mentally handicapped but otherwise perfectly physically fit human make a better host for a Yeerk than a normal human? Would they be less likely to to try to escape when their Yeerk is in the pool or be less able to fight back while being controlled?
This thought makes me feel like a bad person.
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While I'm sure it would make it harder for the host to devise an escape plan, the mentality of a host effects the Yeerk as well. Hork-Bajir controllers sometimes talk dumb, and Taxxon controllers are said to be about as bad as Taxxons. Any mental problem a host has can adversely effect their Yeerk, so there are pros and cons to using physically fit but mentally deficient hosts.
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I didn't really take into account how it would affect the Yeerk controlling said human. Duh. Reminds me of something Terenia said ages and ages ago.
Clearly as time went on he somewhat lost his mind. I think that this is in part due to the fact that he was inhabiting Alloran, who was a few crayons short of a Crayola box. Together they made a rather unbalanced team.
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Yeah, I'm sure part of the reason V3 is as crazy as he is, is because of who he uses as a host. I'm not sure if it's really discussed by the characters all that much, but the evidence is there that hosts really do have an effect on Yeerks. Which is partly why voluntary hosts are so valued by most of them.
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So this showed up on my Facebook wall as someone's shared post. Jaw nearly hit the floor.
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Woah.
That reminds me of something from #17 (The oatmeal book) when they were trying to break into the Mental Hospital.
We were gathered near the Rupert J. Kirk State Mental Health Facility. It was two floors of red brick. There was a little fountain just outside the front door, and lots of shade trees and lawn chairs sitting out on the grass. It could have been an old folks' home, or a slightly aged apartment building. Except for the fact that it was encircled by a high chain-link fence. And there were three strands of barbed wire atop that fence. And there was heavy wire mesh on the windows. But aside from all that, it looked perfectly nice.
"Who else has the willies?" Cassie wondered. I held up my hand.
"What are willies?" Ax asked. He was in human morph.
<A vague, creepy feeling,> Tobias explained. <The subtle, unsettling sense that something you can't quite see is desperately wrong.>
"The feeling I get when I reach the school door every day," Jake muttered.
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Much as I like and respect the guy, that's all well and good coming from Michael Grant, successful author. The majority of kids are going to end up in uniformly regimented jobs and careers, and need to be prepared for that. Not everyone can be an author, more or less working for themselves and at their own pace. And if you look internationally, the countries getting the best results are the ones than operate the way schools used to, emphasizing the basics and using regimented repetition. The Asian nations all do it, the northern Europeans do it. Yeah, school stress has probably increased a bit since the 70s, but so has the world. Our systemic results with literacy and numeracy rates are lagging behind, and that's because we're trying all this alternative stuff without making sure kids are graduating knowing the basics.
As for whether a handicapped human host is more attractive to the Yeerks, I doubt it. They kind of us all as substandard anyway, a simple resource to be harnessed. Even a high-functioning human being they'd be arrogant enough to think they'd be able to squash immediately anyway.
And I think Esplin's change/evolution in personality between the Hork-Bajir World years and Earth is maybe just more an incongruous thing in the writing, or he just got more jumped-up and egotistical and careless as his power and rank grew, rather than that being anything to do with inhabiting Alloran. Alloran wasn't really a nutso dictator anyway, more just sort of prideful and paternal to the point he was playing god.
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I always loved it when the Animorphs needed to know something important and Ax had to explain that "there was a pretty girl in class flirting with him the day they learned about that, or he fell asleep, or that there was a game later that day so he hadn't been paying attention..."
It was an awesome way to show that teenagers would be teenagers, no matter the race or species and it really helped me connect with Ax knowing that, at the end of the day, he was still just a kid like the rest of the Animorphs.
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I think in the atlantis book Ax believes they're about to ask what these aquatic/amphibious "aliens" are, and just tells them straight up he doesn't know what they are. Because when some new alien shows up, they all look at him like he's going to know their names and a brief history about the species.
I really do wish they found a legitimate alien species living at the bottom of the ocean, given how different the real life creatures down there can be from anything we find up here.
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READ THIS! READ THIS! READ THIS! READ THIS! NOW!!! :P
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/08/animorphs-why-the-series-rocked-and-why-you-should-still-care (http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/08/animorphs-why-the-series-rocked-and-why-you-should-still-care)
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Pretty funky (uh, rad, groovy, bodacious?) article!
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That article. :')
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That article was worth reading, for sure. It's odd to see that kind of series in a young teen section, but it was a great series.
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It...was a young-teen series, though. :huh:
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Yes that was the demographic, but I'm saying it's a bit hardcore for a teen book. The demographic for stuff like that is a little higher than what Animorphs was going for, right?
It's like sure, Land Before Time and Secret of NIMH were meant for kids, but they were still prety dark.
Those movies were by Don Bluth, and I think he said somewhere that you can show a kid things that are quite dark, and it's okay as long as it has a happy ending. Apparently it works. Animorphs didn't go with the don Bluth ideology, since it had a downer ending. Not that I think KAA was inspired by Donb Bluth movies.
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Animorphs was the exact same target audience as Goosebumps and Potter. She just got away with more, for reasons unknown.
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I'm aware they had the same target audience. I'm just saying Animorphs is significantly darker than Goosebumps.
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Well, sure. But what's that got to do with the demographic, or where book stores placed it on the shelves? They're still YA books, the same target audience. Harry Potter started out pretty innocent, moved dark by the end. Goosebumps was mildly scary, but still the same audience as Nancy Drew or whatever. Dark as Animorphs might have been comparatively, it's still pretty clearly in that 9-14 or so range though, wouldn't logically be anywhere else in a bookstore.
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So, I was driving home from work today and I glance over at the side of the road and oh hey, it's hawk I don't see many of those around here. And then...
"OH MY GOD IT'S A RED TAIL. OH MY GOD."
...That's it. Then I was past it and couldn't see it any more and then really distracted by the fact that it was probably carrying a small mammal considering what it had been doing when I saw it.
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Ooh, small mammals. Tasty.
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http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2014/06/02/woman-knocked-out-cold-by-aggressive-hawk/ (http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2014/06/02/woman-knocked-out-cold-by-aggressive-hawk/)
URL kinda says it all, really. I'd been wondering about the actual real-life combat potential of a hawk, but it seems to me that if anything, KAA actually underestimated Tobias' capabilities.
Also, I realized that most of the times they see Visser 3 in the books, Tobias is almost always the first one to go straight for him. And most of the time, he actually comes out on top. That's kinda awesome.
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An Andalite's one blind spot is directly above, I think, which is why Tobias kind of has an edge there.
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Actually, an Andalite's blind spot is between its stalk eyes. Because they'd be able to look straight up. Also I feel like there's no way Tobias would be able to drop straight down on anything except from a very short distance. Anything else would require him to come down at an angle if he wants to steer?
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Yet, the best way to seek up on an Andalite is from beneath.
Even with 4 eyes, there's an unacceptable amount of area they can't see.
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Trying to come straight down from too far would mean he'd have to make a high speed 90 degree turn. Certainly not easy. Any battle you can fly away from was a good battle, though.
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They're renovating the plaza in my neighborhood.
I went through there yesterday, looking at all the half empty bottles, and cranes and debris and looked at the sky.
No ships.
Well, I guess it's not an abandoned site.
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At lecture on vision today.
Guy who does modeling makes case that human vision isn't all that much worse than raptors. And broadly, there's evidence for this.
Applegate.
Tobias.
Perceptions.
Dashed
One more thing Tobias was needlessly moping about
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Yeah, but there is more to vision than just the clarity your eyeballs can achieve. A lot of it is in how your brain interprets the massive amount of visual data it's being given. I once read a study talking about how colorblind people can actually spot movement better than people without colorblindness. And, speaking as a person with deuteranopia (red/green colorblindness) I can say that I always spotted people in Call of Duty faster than my brother did. I can remember hundreds of times my brother just swept the camera right past an enemy soldier running straight for him while I shouted,"QUICK GET THE GUY THE GUY YOU JUST PASSED QUICK (http://www.housepetscomic.com/2012/03/26/the-hunger-for-games/)" *ded* XD
So yeah, we might be on par with a bird of prey's eyes, but they'd probably be better at processing a lot more peripheral stuff and picking out movement while sweeping a huge area than we would be. After all, that is what they have to do to survive, all day every day.
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Found one of our teachers have the faint remember of"reading a book about transforming kids saving the earth".As you can imagine I geeked out and try to ask him about further informations,but she keep asking me about the how I felt about the chemistry exam.:P I didn't even mention RAF yet!
Also,the exam was junk.
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Friend just linked me this:
[10/31/14, 4:39:37 PM] it is time: http://femurscourage.tumblr.com/post/101444080461/crazycritterlife-ste-succubus (http://femurscourage.tumblr.com/post/101444080461/crazycritterlife-ste-succubus) is this you
[10/31/14, 5:14:51 PM] Dingus McPringus: I freaking wish
lol
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You jellie, brah? I'm jellie.
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Mom, what else do you think I would've thought when I opened the paper and saw a headline "Youth held on morphing charge". :P
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I just re-read book 18, and realised a plothole: Why is Ax angsting over V3 having a Kafit bird if it's one of the basic morphs and Alloran could have easily had the morph before getting yeerk'd.
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I found this somewhere.
I don't even know.
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^That is totally fanart for CinnamonBunzuh (I SUMMON ADAM FROM THE DEEP WEB)
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I actually found it on Instagram. :P Isn't CinnamonBunzuh the podcast?
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CinnamonBunzuh is a review blog on blogspot owned by adam (yes, this forum's adam) and a crazy lady called ifi. Ifi has a fanon where V3 owns loads of cats.
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Ooh, the same Instagram had this totally hilarious fan art where Visser Three was covered in kittens. It's quite the villainous trope. ;)
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Post it.
(That's totally ifi's instagram...)
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Here it is, included the Instagram handle also if you recognize it.
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Just for the record, that second pic is by Necrosis_Demon, who happens to be a RAFian. :D
Also, my sister found this (http://drunk-animorphs.tumblr.com/) (which I think is probably supposed to be a take on stuff like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLGuWyfUH5Y)). WARNING: Profanity and drunkenness in that second link.
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Haha, no wonder I recognized it. I've seen her Andalite drawings while lurking on here. It's sad that no one bothers to give credit these days when posting stuff on fan accounts, especially the Tumblr generation of fans. :/
Also, I would totally do that reading if I had a sufficient supply of alcohol. :P
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Let's get fishical, fishical!
*morphs into fish*
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Going to do a grand re-watch of poparena's reviews soon!
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The first thing I thought of when I saw this picture was: not Tobias' best moment.
(http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014-12/19/17/enhanced/webdr11/enhanced-2186-1419026977-19.jpg)
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The first thing I thought of when I saw this picture was: not Tobias' best moment.
Birds of Prey:
Majestic from the side
Derpy when looking head on
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Let's get fishical, fishical!
Quafajinivon
You actually
you put a post into your sig
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the SF zoo has the bald eagles right across from the grizzlies.
The bears are both girls, but still, can't help but think of her.
On a different talk, someone brought up fighting off gorillas. Someone else brought up that they may be strong, thought it could be beat with a kick in the stones.
That disturbed me, but I couldn't help but think it would be hysterically to come up in the series
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Well, considering they're more direct ancestors of humans, I wouldn't be surprised. :P
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What if they morph something small and de-morph somewhere where there is no space for a human?
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That's happened a fair few times, usually disaster. In #9, Cassie demorphs from termite while still inside the block of wood, and she's nearly squashed in it until Ax cuts it open.
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wait
just had a more random thought.
What if z-space is like another dimension.....and when entering a worm hole you travel through z-space o.O
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It's a pretty similar concept, yeah. Hyperspace in Star Wars, Warp in Star Trek, all the same general idea.
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One time I was reading book 54 on my kindle and for a couple of seconds I thought "Wow, this fanfic is really in character." before realising it was an actual book.
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So, on a RP forum I'm on, someone has a character whose middle name is Aximili. They were trying to work out how to justify this IC without being like "I just wanted to make an Animorphs reference." Today we realized that the character was born post-book 4's release anyway, so it would actually be totally legit for him to be named after Ax.
And that's the story of how Animorphs got fit into the Harry Potter universe.
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Feeling nostalgic about my old Animorphs fic, considering finally going back to it after all this time...
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Feeling nostalgic about my old Animorphs fic, considering finally going back to it after all this time...
DO ET! You know you want to! ;D
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Ha ha, thanks yeah I actually do. I don't know if you're ever read it, but I first wrote it a LONG time ago and I did start working on a revised (and hopefully improved) version a while back.
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So I started drawing up my concept of how I think The Rachel would look. I don't draw often, but I felt good about what I had so far. Then I set it aside to play through Mass Effect 2 and 3 again. That's when I realized that my sketch looked exactly like The Normandy, only stubbier. *sigh* Literally back to the drawing board. :\
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That is actually an amusing thought. Like picturing him hanging out in the hotel doing normal human things to maintain his cover, all while wondering if Tobias is secretly watching or if he's just being paranoid and foolish. :P
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Ha ha, thanks yeah I actually do. I don't know if you're ever read it, but I first wrote it a LONG time ago and I did start working on a revised (and hopefully improved) version a while back.
I wouldn't know. What's it called?
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You won't have read it, haven't worked on it in years (started part 1 when I was 13). It's called Animorphs Travels and I almost finished part 2 of the series before abandoning it. Originally planned to make it a long running series.
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You won't have read it, haven't worked on it in years (started part 1 when I was 13). It's called Animorphs Travels and I almost finished part 2 of the series before abandoning it. Originally planned to make it a long running series.
Oh I see then. What was it about? Also, I'm thinking about writing a bit of fic myself sometime soon, would you be interested in helping out? Even if its just to have someone to bouncing ideas off of and make sure I'm not derailing the canon characters?
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Sure I like bouncing ideas around, just send me a PM or something.
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Will do as soon as I get a chance.
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Totally random.
The toughtspeak of Andalites is a problem, at school. Human teachers may prevent the students copying during a class test. They need to talk each other.
But Andalites? They could easily communicate each other without anyone noticing...
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Good point. Maybe they all have to take tests solo? Or perhaps they don't have tests in the same way we do.
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Ax was in the same room as a cute girl in xenobiology class. We know that. We also know it's kind of possible to tell that someone is talking privately, even if we don't know what they're saying, because they'll look distracted. I'm not sure how they'd do tests, unless the tests are considerably different.
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Yeah, I suppose they take tests in a completely different way, maybe isolated or by some mechanism which can detect thought-speak impulses. In any case I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have as many random tests as we do. :P
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Just scrolling through my Twitter feed when.
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Haha, Grant's awesome.
I need to track down the rest of the Gone books. Trailed away from them after the second one, not through lack of interest just never got around to continuing. Both Katherine & Michael have awesome senses of humor.
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If I cave and get Twitter (which I'm actually considering doing) I'm so adding KA and MG. Those two are awesome :)
Ax was in the same room as a cute girl in xenobiology class. We know that. We also know it's kind of possible to tell that someone is talking privately, even if we don't know what they're saying, because they'll look distracted. I'm not sure how they'd do tests, unless the tests are considerably different.
Being in the same room during class makes sense, but that doesn't mean they all take tests together. Maybe they actually have an education system based on learning instead of grades, in which case they wouldn't have tests in the traditional sense (or at least far less frequently than we do).
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I wonder what the different aliens and alien concepts are called in different translations of the series.
Edit: Just running through the languages i have some familiarity with: Yeerks are "Yirks" in French and German, and "idoiter" in Swedish. "Chee" are "Cheys" in French, "Djee" in German, and "Chier" in Swedish. Unfortunately i'm not aware of any Chinese translation of the series or i'd check.
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Just scrolling through my Twitter feed when.
LOLZ
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I wonder what the different aliens and alien concepts are called in different translations of the series.
Edit: Just running through the languages i have some familiarity with: Yeerks are "Yirks" in French and German, and "idoiter" in Swedish. "Chee" are "Cheys" in French, "Djee" in German, and "Chier" in Swedish. Unfortunately i'm not aware of any Chinese translation of the series or i'd check.
In Italy the name of the alien races are identical. The exceptions are where the names have a meaning. For example, the "Howlers" and "The Five" are translated with their corresponding in Italian.
Andalites and Pemalites are "italianized" to facilitate the pronunciation. So "Andalite" is "Andalita" and the pronunciation is as in the word "margarita".
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In Italy the name of the alien races are identical. The exceptions are where the names have a meaning. For example, the "Howlers" and "The Five" are translated with their corresponding in Italian.
Andalites and Pemalites are "italianized" to facilitate the pronunciation. So "Andalite" is "Andalita" and the pronunciation is as in the word "margarita".
That makes perfect sense, of course. But i guess it's just interesting to see how names are given different spellings according to the way different languages handle sounds. Like the "Cheys", "Djee", "Chier" example above. I wonder about the Japanese translation, for example. :XD:
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decided to watch the TV series for the first time in a decade or more (that is, have in on as background noise as I do stuff in the evening)
I admit. It's not as horribly terribly nauseating as I remember.
That said, I still had to stop 4 minutes into the first episode and try again an hour later because of all the cringes
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Yeah it's one of those things where you convince yourself it wasn't as bad as you remember, then you have to turn it into a drinking game because it's the only way you can get through a whole episode. ::)
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Oh man, Animorphs drinking game at the next RAF Con yes please.
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animorphs needs shipping names. marco x ax is otp
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animorphs needs shipping names. marco x ax is otp
Marximili?
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Jassie
Rabias
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Jassie
Rabias
"Rabias" sounds like an infectious disease... :XD:
How about Cake, for Cassie+Jake? It could work. No? Nvm then.
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Did anyone see that time KAA told a fan it was totally okay if they wanted to view Marco and Ax as a romantic pairing on Twitter?
Someone posted it on the Tumblr tag months ago and I forgot if it made its way here. But that happened. It's their usual "if we didnt write it assume what you want" shtick but I didn't realize I shipped it until that moment.
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Jassie
Rabias
"Rabias" sounds like an infectious disease... :XD:
How about Cake, for Cassie+Jake? It could work. No? Nvm then.
They actually use Cake a lot. :P
Tobiel?
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They actually use Cake a lot. :P
Tobiel?
Tobiel sounds nice. Another alternative without Rachias.
I'm new this whole shipping thing. Can we ship threesomes? Maybe Marximilias? Marco, Ax, and Tobias? :-*
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It took me years to realise "Prince" didn't mean the same thing in Andalite military terms as it does in human societies. For a long time i just couldn't get why Elfangor was a prince but Ax wasn't.
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You'd think Ax calling Jake Prince would have tipped you off that the meaning was different.
Yeah Rabias does sound similar to rabies. Cake sounds great for Jake/Cassie. I have never shipped Marco/Ax. Kind of a leftover from when I used to dislike homosexuality, but I always assume two close same sex people are just buddies until they start kissing or something. Not that Marco and Ax were terribly fond of each other like that.
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You'd think Ax calling Jake Prince would have tipped you off that the meaning was different.
You'd think that, but really it just confused me even more. :XD:
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Shipping names.
Marco+Rachel+Jake+Cassie+Esgarrouth : Marrakesh. Tobias is excluded. ;D
A relationship between cousins : Jachel. Rake. Jara. Raja.
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Shipping names.
Marco+Rachel+Jake+Cassie+Esgarrouth : Marrakesh. Tobias is excluded. ;D
A relationship between cousins : Jachel. Rake. Jara. Raja.
Ooooo... Very impressive.
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:D one of my posts got noticed
Marco x Ax was one of the first ships I ever shipped
just
because
so cute
Also, I just decided to reread all the TV Tropes subpages
tv tropes is eating my liiiiiiiife
but it's awesome that Animorphs has so many subpages
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I've always found the end of #8 really frustrating. The Animorphs had a golden opportunity to deliver a devastating blow to the Yeerks and gain a very powerful ally. If only Alloran could have morphed and rid himself of the poison, if only Tobais hadn't missed Visser Three when he wiggled through the grass (I can't imagine catching a slow moving slug would be harder then a terrified mouse)
There were plenty of so-close-yet-so-far moments in the Animorphs series, but none of them irritated me as much as that one.
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Yeah. Buuuut... that book had the first real characterization of Ax. So... it balances out.
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V3 had major plot armor on that day. I actually roleplayed a character that was based on an alternate universe where they did manage to kill him, but the Yeerks won because V1 came back to finish the job V3 was trying to do.
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Plot armor. PlotArmor? :o hello fellow troper
and yeah the Yeerks are weird. they put V1 in charge of Leera and V3 in charge of earth. To quote CinnamonBunzuh:
It's like the council of thirteen took Vissers One and Three and were like, "Hey we found posts that are perfect for both of you but we're assigning you to each other's."
"All-out invasion of an alien frog planet with lots of combat? Edriss you can do that."
"A subtle and painfully slow takeover of the state of California, which relies exclusively on an understanding of human culture? Esplin, you're up."
This quote comes from this review (http://cinnamonbunzuh.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/book-35-proposal.html)
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I think it was V4 for Leera, but I will admit V3 was an odd choice for a guy with V3's personality. Given how he was promoted to v1 after his failures, instead of demoted, I'd say he has some sort of pull with the Council. He wanted to be the one that killed Elfangor. Why he stuck around after that, I don't know. Although I do remember it turns out the only reason they were going for quiet invasion was because V1 didn't want two Humans to get killed in the war. I think the original explanation was that if they went openly, War of the Worlds style, the Humans might have won, but then it one book Ax says the Blade Ship could ignite Earth's atmosphere from orbit. So even if we kept them from taking us all, they could still take some of us and burn the rest, and one or two billion would likely be enough to satisfy their needs.
And yes, I'm a troper. There was a thread where we gave the books alternate titles, and most of the alternate titles I came up with were tropes. Except things like naming the last book The End.
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Awesome! I have the same name and pic on TVT as here.
Also, brb looking for thread
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Would it work if you acquired yourself at age, lets say, 13, then 10 years later morph into your 13 year old self? I don't even think you can acquire yourself since your DNA is already in you, but what if you cut off an arm and preserved it or something, then acquired that arm 10 years later-you would be acquiring (slightly) different DNA than what you already have! I don't really know how DNA ages or anything, so correct me if I'm wrong.
And if that worked, you could live to like 90, then morph into 13 year old self, become a nothlit, move to another country and disguise yourself so you could live again. And if the ellimist owes you a favour you could repeat the cycle- you could live forever! ;D ;D ;D
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You know how Ax acquired all of the Animorphs (except Tobias) and combined them via Frolis maneuver? Could he morph into just one of them?
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It depends if the frolis maneuver thing combines all the DNA, if there's still left over DNA he could focus on one and morph them.
Can you mix DNA of different species? Like what if you mixed a hawk and lion, could you control the appearance and become a gryphon? That would be cool.
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I'm pretty sure canon says no, and anyway physics. It would be like trying to fly half-morphed. It's CoolButImpractical (I want TVT syntax to work here now!)
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You know how Ax acquired all of the Animorphs (except Tobias) and combined them via Frolis maneuver? Could he morph into just one of them?
He did in book 6. As for mixing other animals, an estreen may be able to do something with it, but it wouldn't be as practical as one or the other. unless the two were very similar, like morphing a lion with tiger stripes.
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Where is that "rename the books" thread you talked about earlier? I want to post on it. If it's no longer around or replying would be necroposting, then I will start a new one.
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http://animorphsforum.com/index.php?topic=3552.0 (http://animorphsforum.com/index.php?topic=3552.0)
Here it is
I would just create a new thread since the last reply was in 2009
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Where is that "rename the books" thread you talked about earlier? I want to post on it. If it's no longer around or replying would be necroposting, then I will start a new one.
It's not a recent thread. You could start another one.
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I'm starting the thread now in AF Classic. I will link in next post or edit.
:edit:
Here it is! (http://animorphsforum.com/index.php?topic=11004.msg862896)
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Ax had to re-acquire Jake in book 6, though. He couldn't just use the DNA he'd acquired before.
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Did he reacquire Jake? I guess when they shook hands. I thought since he already had the DNA, he just morphed Jake.
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He did. If the Frolis Maneuver is combining multiple DNAs into one, it would make more sense that he'd have to reacquire than for him to be able to extract Jake's specific DNA from that combination. It's not like he has to recombine them all every time he morphs human.
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Easier to mix something up than it is to extract one thing from a mix.
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I always imagined the Hork-Bajir differently to the cover art. I guess I completely skipped th "snakelike" description - in my haed they had literally no necks, just a squarish alien with spikes :)
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I had same impression, kind of like big humans, and I always thought that the blades were kind of like Uruk-hai (http://www.wellingtonsurplus.com.au/largeimages/UC1309.jpg) swords. (Well, didn't think EXACTLY urukhai but it is pretty close...you get it)
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I just reread the series myself (first time all the way through).
Random thoughts:
I remember hating Cassie seven years ago, but now she's one of my favorite characters.
I also, for some reason, loved the book where Jake had to stop Tom from killing his dad this time.
Oh my god same!
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Yeah, I've heard of people changing their minds about the books over time. My opinions of Cassie, or book 31, have not changed. She's still a scrappy, and i still think 31 is an idiot plot.
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Yeah, cassie's a sue. KAA normally made good balancing flaws, but with cassie she's like
"zOMG SHE CAN TAALK TO JESUS WHAELS AND ALSO IS A TEMPEREL ANOMLY ADN AN ESTREEN AND DATING JAEK"
</exaggeration>
she's also the first example here (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/CreatorsPet/Literature)
...I almost tried to use TVT markup there.
DISCLAIMER: I don't hate cassie, per say, she's just a mary sue. Please, dont start the flame war
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I won't start a flame war, I've given up. There are far too few Cassie fans out there... At least I am one of them.
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You're new around here. Good. Don't be an idiot. LEAAAARN FROM MYYYYY MISTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK ES
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:D Teheehee
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Since my rename the books thread isn't getting off the ground, let's put random way-too-long "titles" here. Bonus points for pop culture references.
#26: Jake and Cassie finally kiss while trying to save vulture Ankh-Morpork from Sauron's demon children.
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Its been long time since I read the book #54(or any of them for that matter), but I still find the part where V3 kills auxiliary animorphs with the big ship cannon hilarious.
And with hilarious I mean hilarious similarly as when Joker blows things off or kills someone in "humorous" way in Batman series.
"pew pew pew! Look at those andalites die! Ha ha ha ha!"
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I found it just facepalm-worthy. To me it seemed obvious that Applegate wanted them gone. Like recruiting them was supposed to be this big controversial thing, that showed another step down a dark road, and after that she just needed them out of the way. Though my sentment was recruiting them was a great idea, and they probably should have done it sooner. i know David was a flop, but that scenario wasn't as controlled as it ideally should be. Not to mention that him turning on them was partly their fault. I mean, having him sleep in a loud, smelly barn instead of a guest room in Eric's house? Come on guys. at least try a little. i know the side plot is mega impotant, but he's a Human being going through stress. More stable people would justifyably snap under such pressure, and he's a guy who names his pets Spawn and Megadeath.
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but the auxies died in #53 iirc
Also,we're posting unmarked spoilers.
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The beginning of the final battle started in 53.
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Huh. Something interesting just occurred to me. Several people have pointed out that, because Cassie is a space-time anomaly who corrects any incorrect timeline, Megamorphs #3 should never have happened, right?
I only just now realized, though, that Cassie actually WAS the one who fixed the timeline in Megamorphs #3. *mindblown*
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And indeed, Megamorphs #3 technically never happened.
(Well, unless we're going with the multiverse view of time travel, which Animorphs apparently doesn't.)
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I feel like Animorphs not ascribing to the Multiverse view is highly debatable. At least factoring in fan theories, which... is mostly what I mean whenever I say "debatable" in fandom discussions, why am I clarifying this.
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I will retain my gripe about the Cassie time-anamoly thing, and say that while that making her fix the timeline is a neat idea that I don't think she fixes anytime line.
Maybe the Sario Rip in 11 doesn't count as a broken one, but I think of it as such and she didn't fix it.
Moreover, I think it's to do with her time line
I love the way the Ellimist describes life forms as lines in space-time, that he can see where the stretch and grow, but while they connect to many, they are distinct, they start of from a point all their own when one is born, and curl up into nothing when one dies. Cassie's line wouldn't exist in WWII or anything. (Would love to know what happened to it when she went back though)
I see her line as being anchored (grounded, if you will) to table. You can shift it, but you can't pick it up and move it across the room. The lines she's connected with she also anchors, eventually snapping back and bring them with her. Think about the others saw breaks too, but unless they are all somewhat grounded naturally, or it turns out morphing unintentionally does it, a bunch of other people should have been disturbed too, but it only happened to those connected to her, on this issue (avoiding the "Ellimist did" explanation)
But those connections to exist till particular points in time, so she can only effect certain people and events. Just turns out some of those have different scale
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I think #11 counted as a stable time loop that she didn't need to fix, because it fixed itself on its own and placed Jake in a slightly more beneficial position to the cause, having learned something about leadership. Heck, come to think of it, his time flashes started happening pretty much the moment he came in contact with Cassie that day. Maybe she unintentionally caused it to an extent. After all, laser beams intersecting and nukes detonating don't typically cause time travel as far as we know.
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#11 the forgotten
because that book, by everyone, was forgotten.
8)
YEEEAEAEAAAAHHHHHHH HH
ok that isn't actually that funny
but you were discussing #11
and I wanted to bump
...i'll leave now
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ah. i see.
cassie is KA's favorite. hands-down. why did i not think of this? why didn't this matter to my analytical brain?
stupid brain. so many things make sense now.
the 'author's pet' curse. she loves you: everyone else hates you.
i need sleep. further logicking requires sleep.
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I never saw it as "favorites". Katherine's just pretty much Cassie and Michael's pretty much Marco. Their personalities and "writing voices" just came out most prominently in each, it wasn't some Mary-Sue situation.
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Just saw this:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/outer-east/police-hunt-for-100000-shelby-mustang-stolen-from-springvale/story-fnrwkhlp-1227354470531 (http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/outer-east/police-hunt-for-100000-shelby-mustang-stolen-from-springvale/story-fnrwkhlp-1227354470531)
And this hilarious comment from another website(at the bottom):
Rare Mustang stolen from car centre in Springvale
Date May 14, 2015 - 11:22AM
UPDATE: The owner of a rare Mustang stolen in a ram raid on Friday night says he is heartbroken over the brazen theft.
Craig Dean told Neil Mitchell two blue Ford mustangs were stolen from a car centre in Springvale.
One of the vehicles has since been recovered in Dandenong, but the Shelby GT 500 KR Mustang is still missing.
It was imported from the US and is valued at $100,000.
Mr Dean said the offenders came up in and "bashed the place up".
"They damaged two other cars that were there trying to get them out - it's very heartbreaking," he said.
The recovered car was in a reasonable condition he said.
Police believe up to four men used a vehicle already on site to ram open a roller door to access the vehicles.
Victoria Police spokesperson Creina O'Grady told Ross and John the cars were similar to those in the Gone in 60 Seconds movie.
Detectives have today released an image of the car in the hope someone can provide information.
Elfangor, it's not yellow, just give it back.
Also, David, the animorphs didn't tell you everything.
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I thought this story was going to be trash can related when I started reading it.
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One time I was reading #54 on my kindle, and thought "wow, this fanfic is great, they're all so in cha-- this isn't a fanfic"
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So, this happened...
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Red-Tailed Hawks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiN_-AEhTpk)
and of COURSE the first thing I thought of when I saw it in my recommended YouTube list brought me here. :P
But seriously though, what a d*** move, and not just for those kids. You guys have the best contender ever for official raptor. ;)
Also, why aren't YouTube videos getting embedded in posts anymore?
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Oliver's the man. I've switched to his show from The Daily Show lately, Stewart's just become an unhinged crazyface lately. I guess he's finally being honest and showing true colors, but ehh. Oliver has a viewpoint, but he at least makes an attempt to be a bit more straight-down-the-line.
His writing's way less lazy, too.
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OK but there is NO WAY that ep was not the work of anifans. I mean, the motto of New Hampshire showed up in one of the books.
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It's a pretty well-known motto, outside of Animorphs. And aren't red-tails like one of the most common birds of prey in North America?
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OK, let's just assume coincidence, but still use it as an anifan in-joke. Deal?
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the squirrel that invited himself onto my lap on a park bench to help me eat my breakfast on friday.
clearly an animorph.
no sane squirrel would simply sit on my lap and tamely eat the almonds off of my spoon.
am i right?
...right.
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And we know at least one Animorph has a squirrel morph.
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given that we were 100 yards / 91m from the white house? i'd say that cassie needed the protein pick-me-up prior to a reconnaissance mission. anyone think that she might be a nervous eater?
(the worst part was seeing the secret service squad car between us and the rez and actually - briefly - thinking "if you need cover, little squirrel, i got you." i am the lamest fan ever. in fracking ever.)
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Speaking of Cassie, remember that whole "is she a mary sue" debate? CONTINUE (http://www.sherv.net/cm/emoticons/eating/popcorn.gif)
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She's a flat character, makes decisions that by all rights should blow up in her face yet somehow the narrative makes sure it doesn't, and is the only one who gets to be somewhat happy at the end of the series. Besides marco for a little bit.
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She ended up happy to contrast everyone else who didn't. By design.
Even then I guess she's going to end up miserable post-series, given the rest of the group all being taken out permanently.
Really don't know about "flat", either, a good part of the drama in the final arc all stems from Cassie, she's pretty damn firework-y there.
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Flat meaning she doesn't develop much, if any at all. By the end she is a bit more cynical, perhaps, but largely she's the same person in the end that she was in the beginning.
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Totally disagree with that. She compromises just like everyone else, she just held it together in the aftermath unlike Jake & Tobias. Same can be said of Marco though.
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Nevertheless, she is the first example in CreatorsPet/Literature and oh holy **** am I taking my own bait?
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The Mary-Sue/Creator's Pet thing is so overblown with Cassie. If she is, Marco is too. They're just the ones where the "voice" of each writer comes through strongest, neither is shown as having preferential treatment or lacking flaws.
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Marco doesn't get overly preachy, and I don't think the narrative bends around him to make sure that idiotic things he does don't blow up in everyone's face like it does with Cassie. When he threatens to leave the group, it's because his dad will likely commit suicide if he disappears. When she leaves the group, it's because she doesn't want to change from who she currently is. She decides that killing someone is so abhorent that trapping someone as a rat and dropping him off on a deserted island is MORE merciful. And then of course there's giving the morphing cube to the enemy on her own, after the last book she narrates where she said that the Yeerks getting the box would be the worst thing ever. With no real understand of why she changed her mind, other than the fact that for some reason she thought a tiger and a wolf couldn't easily capture a human controller alive, because he had a weapon.
Probably the worst thing Marco does is lie about Nora to his dad, and forget all about her later. Which is quite douchey, but doesn't endanger the world with his decision.
Whether he is a sue or not, he's still done better than she is.
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So I've started a summer reread, (thinking about making a tradition of it :P), and it's bringing some things to mind that don't really belong in any particular threads and really don't need to be discussed at length in new threads. So yeah, just stuff
Visser Three really seems enjoy eating his minions
Probably for the same reason Ax enjoys eating Cinnibons! I expect that Alloran in human form would be as overwhelmed by food as Ax is!
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Yeerk Invasion 2015: The Animorphs would have a hard time keeping their morphs secret, with all those people walking around wielding cell phone cameras! You Tube would be full of videos of Animorphs and Visser 3 changing form! Also You Tube videos of Controller cops engaging in police brutality.
Unless the Yeerks can take control of the various social media corporations.
The Yeerks would be able to utilize the NSA's vast phone and Internet records to track down the Animorphs.
But Ax might be able to use the NSA database to track down Controllers.
I expect that social media would be full of Sharing propaganda videos.
I would expect the Yeerks to deploy lots of drones to look for animals or people changing form. There would also be drones at zoos and wildlife rehabilitation centers.
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Yeerk Invasion 2015: The Animorphs would have a hard time keeping their morphs secret, with all those people walking around wielding cell phone cameras! You Tube would be full of videos of Animorphs and Visser 3 changing form! Also You Tube videos of Controller cops engaging in police brutality.
Unless the Yeerks can take control of the various social media corporations.
The Yeerks would be able to utilize the NSA's vast phone and Internet records to track down the Animorphs.
But Ax might be able to use the NSA database to track down Controllers.
I expect that social media would be full of Sharing propaganda videos.
I would expect the Yeerks to deploy lots of drones to look for animals or people changing form. There would also be drones at zoos and wildlife rehabilitation centers.
tl;dr: if animorphs happened now **** would hit the fan way faster and there would be non-alien technobabble.
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Why are alien races always capitalized, but human never is
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My general rule is that you don't capitalize it if you're talking about the species, but capitalize it if you're talking about the people/culture (i.e., a pool for yeerks, the Yeerk empire, an andalite toilet, the Andalite fleet). Not sure if that's grammatically correct or not, but it's what I do. To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever come up with official grammar rules that really only apply to fantasy and sci-fi.
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You know how, in #18, the Animorphs basically became the conscious versions of leftover morph-mass from their mosquito morphs?
So, what happened when they morphed small animals again (which they did several times throughout the book)? What would have happened if another ship came along and picked up the leftover morph-masses from that iteration of small-animal morphs?
Morph-ception.
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You know how, in #18, the Animorphs basically became the conscious versions of leftover morph-mass from their mosquito morphs?
So, what happened when they morphed small animals again (which they did several times throughout the book)? What would have happened if another ship came along and picked up the leftover morph-masses from that iteration of small-animal morphs?
Morph-ception.
The answer is don't think about it. ;)
Horkies is my new favorite way of referring to the hork bajir.
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If The Familiar was all just a dream based on Jake's memories and thoughts, Then where did the orff come from? I like the poparena's theory, but still pretty wierd. :P
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*first time in my memory that this thread has ever been bumped clear down to the second page :o* This cannot stand.
I was just thinking the other day, about the supposed 'summit of world leaders' that the Yeerks were planning to attack (during the David trilogy). Erek mentions that one of the leaders was already a controller, correct?
This . . . doesn't really make sense. As far as we know, for pretty much the entirety of the series, the Yeerks have kept their Earth base of operations in and around the Animorphs' hometown. We know they must not have Yeerk pools anywhere else, given that they're totally crippled every time something happens to that one Yeerk pool, right? Yet, there's at least one guy IN ANOTHER COUNTRY supposedly walking with a Yeerk in his head. Not to even mention that this guy is the LEADER of this country, and as such should have had no trouble at all establishing a Yeerk base of operations in whatever country he's leading (don't think it's ever mentioned which country it is).
Maybe he has his own portable Kandrona, so that he doesn't need to hop a plane to America every three days, but still, if he isn't at least working on infiltrating the population of that country and establishing a new Yeerk pool there, then he is supremely terrible at his job and the Yeerks need to give that host to somebody else. :P
Either that, or Erek got his information screwed up, and there was never a pre-existing controller at that summit at all. Come to think of it, that option is probably a lot more likely.
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That always really confused me as well Dino. I finally decided that Erek must have overheard some low ranking yeerks talking, yeerks who had heard about the Visser's plans for the summit through the grapevine and probably didn't have accurate information.
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That or Clinton was actually a controller the whole time. :eyebrow:
...Nah, except he'd still be far away from the only major yeerk pool.
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That or Clinton was actually a controller the whole time. :eyebrow:
...Nah, except he'd still be far away from the only major yeerk pool.
Doesn't the White House have a swimming pool Clinton's Yeerk could use?
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We never found out who that leader was did we? I really need to reread.
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No way, it would be Kim Jong-un :P
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When Animorping becomes commonplace, racism will become totally silly, since whites will be able to morph blacks and vice versa!
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But would they want to?
That's how racism works, kid.
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But would they want to?
That's how racism works, kid.
My point is that some blacks would be morphing whites and vice versa. Those who want to discriminate based on race would be able to tell true whites from fake whites, or true blacks from fake blacks. KKKers would be utterly confused!
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Oh, yes, that's a lovely idea. And, while we're at it, why don't all the gays just stay in the closet forever to avoid the bigots, why don't all women go the transgender route to avoid sexism, and why doesn't everyone in the world just act exactly the same as everyone else to avoid anyone who might ever disagree with the way they think?
Yeah that was sarcasm in case you didn't pick up on that. ::)
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-eats popcorn in the corner-
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*steals some popcorn*
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In my experience, small sects of paranoid isolationist bigots don't react well to confusion. They tend to just make themselves more paranoid, isolated, and bigoted in response. Racism isn't just one group of people making fun of another. It's one group feeling the need to regard another as an inferior, or the enemy. To someone in the KKK, a black person is the toxin that's polluting their great country, and anyone who collaborates with them to topple white supremacy is their enemy. Morphing wouldn't help the issue, just potentially make it worse. Just look at all the backlash against Rachel Dolezal's outing, from every side. So many people are calling her a traitor, just because she chose to put on makeup to make her hair and skin a few shades darker.
Ugh. It's ugly. Gimme some of that popcorn.
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But back to the topic, I don't think it would at all be any good for the general public to have morphing powers, it'd just make things worse, especially in a society that isn't ready to deal with the possible consequences. You can absolutely bet that if morphing were widely available like that, people would use it for things like identity theft, framing people, and other such crimes. It would be so easy for someone with a grudge to force a person into becoming a nothlit by drugging or keeping them unconscious, or to fake your death and live as another person entirely. This isn't even taking into account the damage that could be done by using the morphing technology for its intended purposes. The Andalites didn't even trust it to their general public either.
Good points. However I think if not all, at least most of posts in this thread are just light-hearted thoughts shared without further incentive to weigh all cons and pros in real environment. After all if we did, it would be pretty boring.
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nothing brings the nostalgia like crippling pain in your ear....
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Rachel's dad didn't even show up to her funeral... That's not cool.
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I just noticed someone smited (smote?) Tim for his post. Yeah, punish people for their opinions you don't agree with, that's the way to promote open dialog and understanding. ::)
Widespread morphing would be a pain. It would make it almost impossible for people to prove they are who they say they are, or prove someone isn't. You'd basically have to make them wait hours to open an account at the bank or at the DMV to get a license to make sure they aren't morph.... oh wait. We already do that. Nah, we're good. :P
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#34 had a weird ending. Didn't really conclude.
Why the heck was 34 called "the prophecy?"
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Half the names don't make sense lol
Random thought: On my copy of the Phoenix files, it says "this is a great book blah blah" Michael Grant, author of the Animorphs and I was like wtf he didn't write the animorphs, and I looked it up, and that's how I found out that half of them were ghost written. This was 2 years ago.
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Random thought: On my copy of the Phoenix files, it says "this is a great book blah blah" Michael Grant, author of the Animorphs and I was like wtf he didn't write the animorphs, and I looked it up, and that's how I found out that half of them were ghost written. This was 2 years ago.
That's sad :P
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Half the names don't make sense lol
Random thought: On my copy of the Phoenix files, it says "this is a great book blah blah" Michael Grant, author of the Animorphs and I was like wtf he didn't write the animorphs, and I looked it up, and that's how I found out that half of them were ghost written. This was 2 years ago.
Actually, Michael Grant didn't ghostwrite the books. He co-wrote the Applegate one; KA and Mike are spouses.
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Yes I know, but looking it up led me to realise lots were ghost written.
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I read Phoenix Files too! (though I can't find copies of 5 and 6)
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It sure was too bad the Arn made themselves uninfestable. The biotechnological knowhow the Yeerks would've gained... BAM! Instant iskroot! End of the war! Peace and cinnabons and symbiotic hosts for everyone! (Also what is Phoenix Files?)
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It sure was too bad the Arn made themselves uninfestable. The biotechnological knowhow the Yeerks would've gained... BAM! Instant iskroot! End of the war! Peace and cinnabons and symbiotic hosts for everyone! (Also what is Phoenix Files?)
It doesn't seem to have occurred to the Arn to try creating artificial hosts for the Yeerks.
What would you think of artificial mechanical hosts for the Yeerks, equipped with their own Kandrona generators? I'm sure the Chee could create such hosts.
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It sure was too bad the Arn made themselves uninfestable. The biotechnological knowhow the Yeerks would've gained... BAM! Instant iskroot! End of the war! Peace and cinnabons and symbiotic hosts for everyone! (Also what is Phoenix Files?)
We Arn have our reasons. Mostly we don't want to be controlled by another species
Phoenix Files is great series of 6 books written by Chris Morphew. Yes, his name is Morphew.
I read the whole series last year, then I read Gone, they're pretty similar :P
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What would you think of artificial mechanical hosts for the Yeerks, equipped with their own Kandrona generators? I'm sure the Chee could create such hosts.
The Chee actually were such hosts. Everyone always forgets that Erek showed the poor yeerk he was keeping tied up as a prisoner in his head, supplying him with Kandarona rays so that he wouldn't have to risk releasing Chee secrets to Yeerk forces.
So yeah, the Chee had access to Kandarona generators, which makes a bunch of plot holes even less excusable. For instance, their lack of a decent plan in #31. Imagine if they'd let Tom's yeerk get nice and desperate before backing him into a corner and offering a choice between death, or living as a Chee captive. Yeerks get really submissive in defeat, so of course he'd go along with it. Then they have Erek play Tom for a while before faking his death, all whilst Erek mind-probes the yeerk for info.
THAT WOULD SOLVE SO MANY PROBLEMS OMG
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What would you think of artificial mechanical hosts for the Yeerks, equipped with their own Kandrona generators? I'm sure the Chee could create such hosts.
The Chee actually were such hosts. Everyone always forgets that Erek showed the poor yeerk he was keeping tied up as a prisoner in his head, supplying him with Kandarona rays so that he wouldn't have to risk releasing Chee secrets to Yeerk forces.
So yeah, the Chee had access to Kandarona generators, which makes a bunch of plot holes even less excusable. For instance, their lack of a decent plan in #31. Imagine if they'd let Tom's yeerk get nice and desperate before backing him into a corner and offering a choice between death, or living as a Chee captive. Yeerks get really submissive in defeat, so of course he'd go along with it. Then they have Erek play Tom for a while before faking his death, all whilst Erek mind-probes the yeerk for info.
THAT WOULD SOLVE SO MANY PROBLEMS OMG
One plothole: Why didn't Erek suggest the above idea during #31?
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Lol, Animorphs radio commercials
:static::
JAKE: Hel-...hello? Turn it a little this way... ::tone of airwaves change to a higher pitch:: Ok,the animorphs are on-air.
RACHEL: Ok. This is Rachel. I am an animorph. I used to be fearless, but now I feel this fight is going to the grave. We fight a bunch of parasetic aliens called Yeerks, and they are getting more aggressive. Don't doubt me. They're here. And we need your he- ::static::
ANNOUNCER : Get the latest Animorphs Book, The Resistance, by KAA Applegate at bookstores everwhere, and know the secret.
::static::
::static::
JAKE: Hi. My name is Jake. For three years we've been fighting the Yeerks. But now changes are coming. Big changes. Changes that could morph your world- ::static::
ANNOUNCER: Get the newest Animorphs book, #46 The Deception, wherever books are sold.
::static::
::static::
Rachel: Go, Jake!
Jake: Okay. My name is Jake. I'm the leader of the Animorphs. We've been fighting the Yeerks for three years. But now we know we just aren't strong enough. So we need your help. We need...
::static::
ANNOUNCER: "The Animorphs need your help. Catch K.A. Applegate's latest book, The Deception, in stores near you."
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I planned on reading #44 today. Instead, I learned some CSS.
When you need to decide between reading Animorphs and coding, you realize how much of a nerd you are.
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(http://hiracdelest.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/animorphs_1.jpg)(http://hiracdelest.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/animorphs_2.jpg)(http://hiracdelest.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/animorphs_3_1.jpg)
If you live in Brazil, BUY THESE REPRINTS!!!!
Also, the reprint cover for 4 looks weird.
Also, these cover's Tobias and Marco (see below) ARE CUUUUUUUUUTEEE. ;) :luv:
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Cool covers.
I can't deal with 3 pages of unread posts in the animorphs board. I just can't deal.
Edit:
1 and a half. same thing.
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It appears that the Super Best Friends guys played the Animorphs PS1 game. Considering none of them know anything about Animorphs, it is glorious. Lots of swearing and sexual references, though, so younger RAFians might want to steer clear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAB5I_Rj3ZY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAB5I_Rj3ZY)
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Oh my god...
For shame stupid gamers, for shame!
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Yeah, I should probably edit the post to mention that. :P
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Lol, I pretty sure I'm the only person here who owns all the reprints. :P
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I HIGHLY doubt that you're the only one, my friend.
Then again, I don't own them. [sarcasm]I'm one to talk.[/sarcasm]
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Actually it was the reprints that got me into Animorphs. :)
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lol, lots of good stuff in the comments of that video
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Actually it was the reprints that got me into Animorphs. :)
My cousin lent me the first two books. His copies were, funnily enough, reprints! I couldn't find book 3 anywhere so I forgot about it for over a year, but hey! Here I am now!
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I like the reprint covers, they're so cool.
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Uses for Yeerks:
To prevent an alcoholic from drinking.
Interrogation of suspects, who can't hide anything from a Yeerk!
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Uses for Yeerks:
3: Salad toppings
4: Floor wax
5: Toothpaste
Just kidding!
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Uses for Yeerks:
6. As a replacement for prison in my ****ty fanfic
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Uses for Yeerks:
6. As a replacement for prison in my ****ty fanfic
7: Have the Yeerks morph into endangered species permanently to boost their numbers.
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They should have done that.
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I'm really in the mood for an Animorphs movie. Why hasn't that happened yet?
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I think a TV series would work better.
There are a lot of reasons why a movie hasn't been made.
1. It would be EXTREMELY expensive.
2. It's pretty obscure nowadays and wouldn't make much. Just look at how the reprints went. :P
3. We're all traumatized from the '98 Nickelodeon failure.
4. Applegate/Grant don't own the rights. Scholastic does, and they don't seem interested.
5. The universe hates us.
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Salad why do you use arial for every post rather than the default font? It is quite annoying.
And don't say "because the option exists". As a complete noob, I filled my posts with stupid smileys, used more than three exclamation marks per sentence and used intentional misspellings "because the option exists". All I'm trying to do is to stop you from making my mistakes. Although, you probably aren't 10 (my age when I signed up), so you are most likely mature enough to not do that exactly.
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1. I used arial to seem a bit more original. For my first post, I used Times New Roman (I think) and for the second I used arial. (I think.) Following this, I made the assumption that someone would be annoyed if my font face were inconsistent, so I decided to stay with what I had chosen in the past. Starting now, I may convert to the regular text.
1a. Gosh. That sounds oddly religious.
1b. Just to let you know, I would never say "because the option exists." That's just as annoying as answering all questions with "because." It makes me want to bash my head against a wall.
1c. [rhetorical]Why am I organizing this text like some sort of court document?[/rhetorical]
2. My apologies. I try to use emoticons sparingly, but that time I couldn't help myself. I'll try to be more careful in future posts.
3. I want to let you know that I'm not typing this in a snarky manner. I actually want to know the answer to this question: are you bothered by me putting periods before quotation marks? In American English you are supposed to put the period before it, but you are not American and I want to avoid annoying people.
4. I am older than 10. (That's right, Dpsb! My age is even closer to being revealed! HAW HAW, ARREST ME FOR THAT!)
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Oooooooooh shocking reveal! I'm excited ;D
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Socking.
Socking.
Socking.
Socking.
Socking.
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*Shocking
:P
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socking
just
socking
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socking
just
socking
Who are you socking?
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typos
just
typos
why am i typing like i am from tumblr i am not from tumblr come on what am i doing help me
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WELL JEEZ, I FIXED MY TYPO
Anyway, I still want an Animovie (that's what I'm calling the Animorphs movie)
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Ani-socking-movie
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Gahhh
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Gahhh
Why doesn't the Animorph clip you have in your sig include Ax?
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Because he wasn't in the opening credits of the TV show, which is what he made the gif from.
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Maybe just splice this in?
(https://38.media.tumblr.com/4b88cd60e81cb21a781fea3ba6b905d1/tumblr_mz394jxbc71sjf4wao1_400.gif)
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No, that's visser 3.
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No, that's definitely Ax. Here's the full clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaXMaIgnuu4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaXMaIgnuu4)
Heck, just put that whole morph sequence in. XD
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No, that's definitely Ax. Here's the full clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaXMaIgnuu4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaXMaIgnuu4)
Heck, just put that whole morph sequence in. XD
Visser-socking-three
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Gahhhhhhhhh
I'll just put in a gif of Paulo Costanzo
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The gif should be really unfitting and sort of off-center. At the end when it shows all the characters' silhouettes, his face should just be sort of floating next to them.
Paulo-socking-Costanzo
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Recently I read a collection of scifi short stories, the book was authored by Isaac Asiimov. There was this one story where there were three characters called Cassie, Jake and Rachel. And Jake and Cassie were even together for some time of it.
Interesting coincidence.
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Back when I was watching the TV show Monk, I recall an episode where a guy named Jake was in a relationship with a girl named Cassie.
Unfortunately, Jake stabbed Cassie in the middle of the episode.
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Wow, what a coincidence
And I'm not splicing Paulo Castanzo into my signature.
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a socking coincidence
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Recently I read a collection of scifi short stories, the book was authored by Isaac Asiimov. There was this one story where there were three characters called Cassie, Jake and Rachel. And Jake and Cassie were even together for some time of it.
Interesting coincidence.
Could they morph?
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No, probably not
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HAHAHAAHAHAHAHHA THIS ISN'T ANNOYING AT ALL
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Comic SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAANS :mad:
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Okay then.... (walks slowly out of the room.)
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Comic Sans is terrifying.
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Side note: as I was looking for this thread to post in it, I noticed that it had fallen clear down to page 4! :o
Anyway. Totally random Animorphs thought.
Joe Bob Fenestre/Esplin 9466 the lesser was . . . a Bankroller-Controller. 8)
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Side note: as I was looking for this thread to post in it, I noticed that it had fallen clear down to page 4! :o
Anyway. Totally random Animorphs thought.
Joe Bob Fenestre/Esplin 9466 the lesser was . . . a Bankroller-Controller. 8)
Why do you see fit to mention that fact? (And 11 days since the last previous post in this thread!).
Book 29: Aftran made history as the 2nd Yeerk to infest an Andalite! She had previously made history in Book 19 as the 2nd Yeerk to infest an Animorph!
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Why do you see fit to mention that fact?
Uh, it's a Totally Random Thought? There doesn't need to be a reason, dude.
As I've noticed on a couple occasions, Tim, you've got the sense of humor of an Andalite and you talk like one in human morph.
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"Listen, Gandalf," said Buffy, extinguishing her lightsaber, "If Skynet takes over Hogwarts, the Browncoats may be our only hope." Suddenly, the window of the Sept exploded inwards, and in flew Fox Mulder wielding a sonic screwdriver, riding on the back of a Night Fury. He spoke only Klingon, but the dragon translated in thought-speak, <HAL9000 has been destroyed by the Xenomorphs, rebooting the Matrix. We must seek out the Avengers aboard the Battlestar Black Pearl before Marty McFly returns from Krypton with the Lost Ark, or we risk losing Jurassic Park to the White Witch.> Seconds later, they were all eaten by SPECTRE Zombie Autobot Turtles.
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Now we just need to throw in an Animorphs reference in there and the nerd rage is complete!
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"Listen, Gandalf," said Buffy, extinguishing her lightsaber, "If Skynet takes over Hogwarts, the Browncoats may be our only hope." Suddenly, the window of the Sept exploded inwards, and in flew Fox Mulder wielding a sonic screwdriver, riding on the back of a Night Fury. He spoke only Klingon, but the dragon translated in thought-speak, <HAL9000 has been destroyed by the Xenomorphs, rebooting the Matrix. We must seek out the Avengers aboard the Battlestar Black Pearl before Marty McFly returns from Krypton with the Lost Ark, or we risk losing Jurassic Park to the White Witch.> Seconds later, they were all eaten by SPECTRE Zombie Autobot Turtles.
Then SG-1 arrived to shoot the turtles and rescue everyone. Then Tobias morphed a roc (A really big bird) to carry everyone away to Babylon 5.
Meanwhile, the tourists are admiring all those dinosaurs the White Witch stoned!
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Now we just need to throw in an Animorphs reference in there and the nerd rage is complete!
The thought-speak totally counts :P
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The books #6-#14 take place within two months of each other, so there must be one book (and one mission) per week.
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I seem to recall that three years passed during book #54, between the end of the war and the end of the book. So, 18-19?
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Holy crap, I just realized that my copy of book 5 had an iron-on T-shirt print in it. I am SO getting a blank shirt tomorrow. Any suggestions for a color?
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Depends on what the design is. Photo?
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I couldn't manage to find an image online, so here's a (mirrored) photo I took.
(http://i1292.photobucket.com/albums/b579/guitarhero01234/animorphs%20shirt_zpsaeprmige.jpg)
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On 60 Minutes, a man was trying to release his gorillas (who had been raised in captivity) to the wild. Some express skepticism that animals raised in captivity could survive in the wild. I therefore suggest that the Animorphs teach such animals how to survive!
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1. I had an iron-on print from Megamorphs 1, but it ripped.
2. Interesting concept, Tim!
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Is that design black? Anything would work then. Except maybe yellow.
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Someone on the tumblr tag warned someone that the Ellimist Chronicles is spoileriffic.
I don't think these people understand what a spoiler is.
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*repeatedly bashes head against goat*
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If you were an Animorph with a whale morph, and you were allergic to whale DNA, how would you survive burping up the whale?
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Eh, the only spoiler I can think of is the one where it explicitly states that one of them dies at the end. For many, that's enough of a spoiler.
XD I understand what they're referring to. But how is that a spoiler. That's the point where you're meant to find out that that's coming. How does a series spoil itself.
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Eh, the only spoiler I can think of is the one where it explicitly states that one of them dies at the end. For many, that's enough of a spoiler.
XD I understand what they're referring to. But how is that a spoiler. That's the point where you're meant to find out that that's coming. How does a series spoil itself.
Wouldn't people who haven't real "The Elimist Chronicles" feel spoiled if someone told them that the EC reveals that [spoiler]one of the main good characters dies?[/spoiler]
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Wouldn't people who haven't real "The Elimist Chronicles" feel spoiled if someone told them that the EC reveals that [spoiler]one of the main good characters dies?[/spoiler]
Yeah, but they're saying the book itself was spoileriffic, not that someone spoiled it for them.
I actually had that bit accidentally ruined for me by an unmarked spoiler on TVTropes when I was looking up the series. Pretty annoying.
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Fellow troper! :D
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I was actually really annoyed that
[spoiler] Ax went back to the Andalites. After everything the Animorphs did for him, after his close friendship with Tobias, and the way the Andalites treated him throughout the war, I expected him to stay on Earth. Maybe even live in the Hork-Bajir Valley with Tobias. Heaven knows Tobias needed someone with him. [/spoiler]
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By the time I was on the twelfth book, I knew that [spoiler]Rachel died.[/spoiler] TvTropes let me know that [spoiler]the series ends with the blade ship getting rammed.[/spoiler] I'm much more careful around spoilers now. Of course, sometimes they leap out at me unexpectedly. You know, you're removing some natter or are about to fix someone's example indentation and - OH WAIT, WHAT'S THAT? THE INSIDE OF A SPOILER TAG? LET ME EXPLORE!
[/rage]
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By the time I was on the twelfth book, I knew that [spoiler]Rachel died.[/spoiler] TvTropes let me know that [spoiler]the series ends with the blade ship getting rammed.[/spoiler] I'm much more careful around spoilers now. Of course, sometimes they leap out at me unexpectedly. You know, you're removing some natter or are about to fix someone's example indentation and - OH WAIT, WHAT'S THAT? THE INSIDE OF A SPOILER TAG? LET ME EXPLORE!
[/rage]
How did you learn about [spoiler]Rachel's untimely death?[/spoiler]
Actually, the series ended with [spoiler]Jake ordering that the Blade ship be rammed. We didn't actually get to see the order carried out![/spoiler]
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Of course, sometimes they leap out at me unexpectedly. You know, you're removing some natter or are about to fix someone's example indentation and - OH WAIT, WHAT'S THAT? THE INSIDE OF A SPOILER TAG? LET ME EXPLORE!
[/rage]
This is why I only edit pages/examples that I don't care about getting spoiled for because either I've already finished the work or already know the spoiler. #TroperProblems
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By the time I was on the twelfth book, I knew that [spoiler]Rachel died.[/spoiler] TvTropes let me know that [spoiler]the series ends with the blade ship getting rammed.[/spoiler] I'm much more careful around spoilers now. Of course, sometimes they leap out at me unexpectedly. You know, you're removing some natter or are about to fix someone's example indentation and - OH WAIT, WHAT'S THAT? THE INSIDE OF A SPOILER TAG? LET ME EXPLORE!
[/rage]
[spoiler]How did you learn about Rachel's untimely death?[/spoiler]
Actually, the series ended with [spoiler]Jake ordering that the Blade ship be rammed. We didn't actually get to see the order carried out![/spoiler]
Tim: [spoiler]1. I don't remember where I found out the first time because I kept reading "rachel dies" everywhere. I do remember the second time, though, because I'm just that odd - 'twas in a goodreads review of The Invasion.
2. Oops! Thank you.[/spoiler]
SmartGirl: People shove spoilers where you least expect them. *teenage boys snicker in the distance* With any trope, there's a decent chance that someone put an unmarked/easy to guess spoiler on its page. Like you, I try to be careful, but this is the internet.
(https://minterc93658.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/asdf-internet.png)
It's a minefield of spoilers.
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Book 34 features the last of the Arn. He wants to clone Hork Bajir to fight the Yeerks on the HB homeworld. Why doesn't he clone himself?
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The Good News: I discovered a fellow Animorphs fan at work today!
The Bad News: Upon discovering one another, the two of us almost instantly got into a screaming match over the identity of the One. :P
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Lol, only person I've ever found in my area who has ever read Animorphs only read a few books and completely forgot everything about them. I'd absolutely welcome a heated argument about the One. :P
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So far I have found only ONE person in this college of twenty thousand people who's heard of the series, and he's read only till about book 30 or so. :/
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I know two people at my school who have read some of them. One guy read the first 14 books and the other read 1-54 with some gaps in between. Neither of them are that into the series, and we don't talk much.
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What headlines would you expect to see in Animorph Universe newspapers, and in supermarket tabloids?
"Man describes seeing monsters with blades all over them!".
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I know a whopping zero people in real life who know or care about the Animorphs. This is why I come to this forum.
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Animorph Headlines:
Book 37: The Weakness: Rash of Wild Animal Attacks All Over Town!
Terrorists Crash Plane Into Skyscraper!
The Hidden: Cape Buffalo Smashes Assistant Principal's Car!
Postwar: Andalite Delegation Demolishes Banquet!
[spoiler]Human Rights Activists Blast Animorphs Leader For Flushing 17,000 Naked Yeerks Into Space![/spoiler]
[spoiler]Three Animorphs disappear![/spoiler]
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That's ordinary headlines. The real challenge is creating Fox News headlines. :P
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That's ordinary headlines. The real challenge is creating Fox News headlines. :P
Man Reports Finding Monster With Blades All Over It!
Obama Is A Secret Controller!
Wild Animals Trash Global Summit!
Boy Rescued By Crocodile!
Dolphins Aid In Sub Rescue.
Trained Birds Try To Steal Cube!
Toy Spaceship Flies Out Of goodwill Warehouse.
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Obama Is A Secret Controller!
Yep, I can totally see this one on 9 pm primetime.
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Obama Is A Secret Controller!
Yep, I can totally see this one on 9 pm primetime.
You mean Fox New already hasn't?
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It seems that even the developers knew how much I'd hate the GBC Animorphs game.
https://tcrf.net/Animorphs
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Obama Is A Secret Controller!
Yep, I can totally see this one on 9 pm primetime.
You mean Fox New already hasn't?
Fox News doesn't know about the Yeerk invasion yet.
The World Trade Center Attack: Were The Yeerks Responsible?
Book 43: The Test: Deaf Boy's Dad Credits Hawk With Finding His Son!
Book 44: The Unexpected: Airplane Passenger Says Someone Stole His Prune Juice!
Rumors Of Battle In Australian Outback!
Book 45: Scientist Announces Zero Space Radio!
Later: Z-Space Scientist Dies In Mysterious Attack: His Grieving Wife Joins The Sharing.
Book 49: The Diversion: Sharing Announces Big Blood Drive.
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I feel embarrassed to admit that I am an Animorphs fan at the age of 24. Anyone else?
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Tim: the skyscraper one - too soon. Otherwise, nice headlines!
Gh: I've never seen a better description of that game.
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re: real life anifans: I used to have a friend in primary school who was an anifan. One of my cousins is too, but he hasn't read the final arc.
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Tim: the skyscraper one - too soon. Otherwise, nice headlines!
Gh: I've never seen a better description of that game.
Book 37: Terrorists crash plane into skyscraper! (That was Rachel et al attempting to rescue Cassie from the Yeerk pool).
The WTC one would work if we relaunch the Animorphs series for the present day.
Book 2: Assistant Principal badly clawed when stray cat explodes!
Book 17: The Terminator rescues crazy man.
Book 18: Teenager goes nuts, eats entire tray of Cinnabons!
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It seems that even the developers knew how much I'd hate the GBC Animorphs game.
https://tcrf.net/Animorphs
LOL is that serious?
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According to the Cinnamon Bunzuh review, it was "Pokemon without what makes Pokemon fun". So... yeah.
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LOL is that serious?
Just looked into the ROM with a hexidecimal editor, and, well, I think the image speaks for itself.
(https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/t31.0-8/11885707_1682578725347754_1861883209319673260_o.jpg)
You'll have to trust that I didn't edit the code in any way. Or just check for yourself with any ROM of the game and a hex editor.
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Tim: the skyscraper one - too soon. Otherwise, nice headlines!
Gh: I've never seen a better description of that game.
Book 37: Terrorists crash plane into skyscraper! (That was Rachel et al attempting to rescue Cassie from the Yeerk pool).
The WTC one would work if we relaunch the Animorphs series for the present day.
Book 2: Assistant Principal badly clawed when stray cat explodes!
Book 17: The Terminator rescues crazy man.
Book 18: Teenager goes nuts, eats entire tray of Cinnabons!
I get that the skyscraper one was from 37. I HIGHLY doubt that it would fit the present day; while I was a bit uncomfortable about it, some people would freak out. Most people avoid 9/11-esque sequences in media even if such media was made before 2001. 37 would have a different climax slapped on. While I'm not offended, some people would be.
Look here (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TooSoon).
What a beautiful nothing, Gh!
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What a beautiful nothing, Gh!
. . . I shouldn't even have to tell you what's wrong with that quote. Always lowercase, Salad!! :P
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Oops! Forgot about that.
Still, I love that photo!
Er, I probably would if I could see it.
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Wait, is it not showing up or something?
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photo not found.
CLICK
for photos
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Just uploaded it to Facebook. This image work?
(https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/t31.0-8/11885707_1682578725347754_1861883209319673260_o.jpg)
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New morphing use: Morph someone who needs blood but has a rare blood type, then donate blood to that person!
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Just uploaded it to Facebook. This image work?
(https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/t31.0-8/11885707_1682578725347754_1861883209319673260_o.jpg)
Yep! That's cool!
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Very, very bored, so I was casually scrolling through Buzzfeed, and then I found this (http://www.buzzfeed.com/sarahaspler/shawn-ashmore-deserves-our-love?utm_term=.nrNVx7nMDN) slightly NSFW article on Shawn Ashmore. And Animorphs was mentioned. What an honour.
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Very, very bored, so I was casually scrolling through Buzzfeed, and then I found this (http://www.buzzfeed.com/sarahaspler/shawn-ashmore-deserves-our-love?utm_term=.nrNVx7nMDN) slightly NSFW article on Shawn Ashmore. And Animorphs was mentioned. What an honour.
Agreed. It couldn't be just me, I thought Ashmore was hot. :-]
[spoiler](http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/2015-08/13/12/enhanced/webdr06/enhanced-13672-1439481607-2.jpg)
Helllllll yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah :luv: [/spoiler] (slightly inappropriate)
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Yeah I looked at that picture and not gonna lie, I thought "hey better post this, Dylan will enjoy it" xD
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Yeah I looked at that picture and not gonna lie, I thought "hey better post this, Dylan will enjoy it" xD
Hahaha, that's true :) I had to upvote you for that
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Let's face it: straight men have a crush on Shawn Ashmore.
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Let's face it: straight men have a crush on Shawn Ashmore.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH me thinks Yeerksalad might admiting himself to a man crush
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Animorph Puns:
Do morphers ever take morphine?
Has Jake ever been to a clam bake?
I suggest that Cassie morph a bee in order to sting Visser 3.
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Yeah I looked at that picture and not gonna lie, I thought "hey better post this, Dylan will enjoy it" xD
What, and I wouldn't? Jake has never looked sexier. :P
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Animorph Headlines:
City of Santa Barbara Accused Of Wasting Water! Its Water Consumption Way Up this Year!
Sharing To Receive Presidential Medal Of Honor!
Book 11: UFO Crashes Into Safeway!
Book 22: Tiger Found Seriously Injured In Mall!
Book 31: Assistant Principal Kidnapped! But He Frees Himself By Sawing Through His Ropes With Broken Glass.
High School Student (Tom) Breaks Leg In Freak Accident During Trip To Lake Tahoe, Is Medivacced To Local Hospital. Assistant Principal Chapman visits Him In Hospital.
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Shawn Ashmore? I suppose he's somewhat attractive.
Benedict Cumberbatch, however... well come on! Lesbians have a crush on him!
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Today is the 80th birthday of Social Security.
Ob Animorphs: Were the Animorphs granted military pensions for their fight against the Yeerks?
Do Andalites have an equivalent of Social Security?
[spoiler]Were the former Yeerks granted pensions?[/spoiler]
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At the moment Tim is sounding like Fox News on fast forward. :P
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Book 12: Assistant Principal Puzzled By Current Shoe Styles: "One Of The Students Was Wearing Bear Skin Boots Recently".
Book 16: Internet Mogul Accused Of Cannibalism!
Book 27: Chee Discover That They Are Using Windows!
Book 28: Gorilla Seen Driving Like Maniac To Meatpacking Plant!
Postwar: Epidemic Of Food Thefts.
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Maybe we should make an animorphs headlines thread.
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Maybe we should make an animorphs headlines thread.
I started such a thread on August 11, but no one has replied t it yet. It is titled 'Animorphs Headlines". It is currently on page 2.
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no one has replied to it yet [...] It is currently on page 2.
Wait, you actually bumped it like 15 times? Hahahahaha
But yeah, that should become a thread that people use. If only it wasn't started by such an infamous user...
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Honestly, I blame us, not him. We're encouraging him.
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Yeah, we should probably not continue that. :P
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Give him the silent treatment, he'll bore and prance away down the yellow brick road, to hang with the winged monkeys and such.
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Give him the silent treatment, he'll bore and prance away down the yellow brick road, to hang with the winged monkeys and such.
[spoiler](http://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/understood_that_reference_avengers.gif)[/spoiler]
Cross reference. :XD:
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What has Tim done that's bothering people so much? He posts a lot, but otherwise...
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Yeah man, chill out. Unless something extreme happens, no need for drastic measures.
Also, did y'all straight-talkers realize he can still view this thread? Damn smooth, Dylan. :P
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So he hasn't done anything?
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He hasn't insulted all of us or our mothers, so no. :P Seriously though, there are a lot worse things that have happened in RAF's history that have gotten people banned. Tut tut, newbies.
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Well said, Saffa :)
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He reminds me of my past self with regards to noobiness, tbh.
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Heh! That's funny, but remember that he can read this.
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PP 46-59 of Book 8: The Alien: Ax attends Jake's school, posing as his cousin "Phillip". Shouldn't "Phillip" have to register at the school, so that the officials at his home school can be told that he went to school while on vacation?
Shouldn't Phillip have to give Jake's school proof that his vaccinations are current?
I am confident that Assistant Principal Chapman would be particularly interested on gathering information on everyone who sets foot at his school, just in case "Andalite Bandits" are seeking to infiltrate the school system in order to spy on the Yeerks who have infiltrated the school system. He has heard speculation that the Andalite Bandits might be human!
Is this a good place for the above comment, or should I stick it in the "Simple Animorphs Questions" thread?
At one point do questions concerning aspects of the Animorphs series count as "spam".
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Eh, in a school of so many people I doubt the authorities would bother if there was one extra hanging around, plus they allow visitors in all the time. At least, they do here. Don't schools in the US have visitor policies? Kids coming over and sampling a class when applying for admission in the school? Then again, you guys do have this weird ass education system that has way more rules than necessary, so. :P
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Eh, in a school of so many people I doubt the authorities would bother if there was one extra hanging around, plus they allow visitors in all the time. At least, they do here. Don't schools in the US have visitor policies? Kids coming over and sampling a class when applying for admission in the school? Then again, you guys do have this weird ass education system that has way more rules than necessary, so. :P
In this case, the authorities are aliens from another planet, who are fighting a resistance force which can morph into animals, attack, then retreat, demorph, and disappear. I would therefore expect that said authorities would be more concerned about "visitors" then normal school officials, and would be interested in their backgrounds (as in "do these visitors really exist as legitimate humans, or might they be Andalite fakes?")
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True. I've always wondered that. You couldn't get away with it here in a British school.
Surely it would have been better to have Ax pose as one of the Animorphs at the school? No random extra relative, no new kid at the school, no reason to draw suspicion (providing Ax can hold himself together).
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True. I've always wondered that. You couldn't get away with it here in a British school.
Surely it would have been better to have Ax pose as one of the Animorphs at the school? No random extra relative, no new kid at the school, no reason to draw suspicion (providing Ax can hold himself together).
If Ax IDed himself as an Animorph, wouldn't Chapman jump down his throat?
The only thing I have found so far on the subject of kids bringing visiting relatives to school is the following from the Marshal Public Schools website about its summer school program. I'm assuming that the below policies would apply to the regular school year as well.
Program Visitation by Students not Enrolled: At times, summer school students desire to bring an out-of-town visiting friend or relative. Visitations are allowed according to the following guidelines:
A non-enrolled student may visit the program for a maximum of two days.
Parents of children who are bringing visitors must call the summer school office one day prior to the visit to state that their child is bringing a visitor.
Student visitors to the summer school program must check in at the building office upon their arrival.
No student visitors will be allowed to visit a class where a field trip is occurring in the class on that day.
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Dunno about school, but you can definitely get away with it in university. I've sat in random classes without giving attendance like no big deal. That said, shifting the books to a college/uni environment actually opens up a lot more possibilities since parental interaction is at a minimum.
Also, thanks Tim for bringing the thread back on topic. :P
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I don't have time to read 10 pages of new posts in the animorphs board. I am not exaggerating.
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Well, your fault for making the hiatus that long :P
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In this case, the authorities are aliens from another planet, who are fighting a resistance force which can morph into animals, attack, then retreat, demorph, and disappear. I would therefore expect that said authorities would be more concerned about "visitors" then normal school officials, and would be interested in their backgrounds (as in "do these visitors really exist as legitimate humans, or might they be Andalite fakes?")
Why would the Yeerks think that Andalites would want to go to a human school though? Human education is laughable compared to Andalite schools and by book 8 there was no longer a Yeerk pool entrance inside the school. Ax wanted to go because he's young and wanted to learn more about human culture, not for any tactical reason.
True. I've always wondered that. You couldn't get away with it here in a British school.
Surely it would have been better to have Ax pose as one of the Animorphs at the school? No random extra relative, no new kid at the school, no reason to draw suspicion (providing Ax can hold himself together).
I actually changed primary schools when I was about 7 and I did get to spend a day with the class before I moved there. But I'm pretty sure that was all arranged through the head teacher and such, I didn't just turn up and ask to tag along, lol.
I don't think Ax posing as one of the Animorphs would have ended well. He's bound to have done something strange, especially if they made it to lunch time, and they aren't meant to be drawing attention to themselves (hence why they don't usually sit together at school).
This does remind me of a random thought I had the other day though: why did the Animorphs get Ax to play Jake during book 6? He obviously acted weird around his family, which draws unwanted attention from Tom. They only had to cover for him for 3 days! The other Animorphs could have taken turns playing him at home and (assuming he had school for at least one of those 3 days) they could have called in sick for him at school (Jake does the same thing in book 31 by pretending to be his father). Or they could have taken turns morphing Jake and covering for him. Marco, Rachel and Cassie missing one day each of school (not all on the same day of course) is less suspicious than Jake missing three in a row or acting like a food obsessed genius with a speech impediment.
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So I've started a summer reread, (thinking about making a tradition of it :P), and it's bringing some things to mind that don't really belong in any particular threads and really don't need to be discussed at length in new threads. So yeah, just stuff
Visser Three really seems enjoy eating his minions
Does the taste overwhelm him like the taste of Cinnabons does with Ax?
The Visitor: Chapman tells Visser 3 that he has recruited 4 new Voluntary Controllers, including an FBI Agent. Why would an FBI Agent WANT to be a Controller?
The Predator: Visser 3 seems to be math challenged: He orders the guard at the Animorph's prison tripled, yet when their door opens, they find FOUR of Visser 3's Hork-Bajir lying on the floor. That means that the normal guard would be 1 and 1/3rd Hork-Bajir! What good is 1/3rd of a Hork-Bajir?
The Suspicion:
Front Cover: Cassie morphing into an anteater.
Inside Front Cover: Cassie Anteater with a bunch of Helmacrons stuck to her tongue. She is in the anteater pen with one other anteater (possibly either Visser Three or another animorph). There are 7 people watching the anteater pen. The scene of Cassie morphing into an anteater and sticking Helmacrons to her tongue actually occurs, so I assume that the 7 people watching are canonical!
PP 152-153: Having checkmating both the Helmacrons and Visser Three, the Animorphs go to work. Anteaters Rachel and Jake lap up the Heklmacrons and hold them hostage, while Ax holds Visser Three hostage, and guards the Helmacrom ship and the morphing cube. Marco and Cassie demorph to miniture human form, go into the Helmacron ship, and start unshrinking everyone. They first unshrink Visser Three, Tobias, and the Human-Controllers. Visser Three and the Human-Controllers depart. Then Rachel and Jake scrap off their Helmacrons, demorph, and are unshrunk. Then Marcos and Cassie put the beam on automatic and stand in it.
How in the world do Visser Three, the Human-Controllers, Ax, the Animorphs, and the Helmacron ship leave without the 7 sightseers noticing them? Those 7 visitors on the inside front cover should have seen the following:
I: A Northern Harrier landing in the anteater pen, carrying a toy spaceship and a glowing blue cube.
II: Five anteaters growing out of nothing (PP 147-148. Jake, Cassie, Marco, Rachel, and Visser 3 morph full sized anteaters from their 1/16th inch natural forms).
III: The northern harrier morphing into an Andalite (Ax) and pressing his tail against an anteater's throat (Visser 3). Page 151.
IV: Another Andalite, a bunch of humans, and a red-tailed hawk appearing out of nowhere and leaving the anteater pen, along with the 1st Andalite! Also the toy spaceship flying away. PP 152-155.
I expect that the 7 tourists would spread the news far and wide!
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The cover shows Cassie morphing into a kangaroo. The inside cover shows the kangaroo HOLDING A WEAPON (a hunting boomerang). The Cassie-kangaroo's ability to hold a boomerang makes me wonder if she could have operated a Dracon beamer with her kangaroo paws? If so, that factor would have made the kangaroo morph a real bonanza!
The plane arrives in Sydney with most of the luggage missing, the cargo hold and cabin clearly damaged, and the passengers suffering burns from the Drakon beams the Hork-Bajir applied in an effort to smoke out Cassie. Unless the Yeerks have a major presence in Sydney, I predict a major scandal!
At the end, Visser Three sees two tourist planes approaching, so he erases all evidence of aliens from the battle scene in the Australian Outback, and leaves. Why doesn't he just destroy the tourist planes?
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We don't need to add extra drama for Cassie by having two planes worth of people get blasted. Though the indea of someone getting an infected arm or leg from handling alien metal seems a bit forced.
No one uses dracons, for some reason. Not even Ax, who should have training with a similar weapon.
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author=Chad32 link=topic=11499.msg882230#msg882230 date=1440091375]
We don't need to add extra drama for Cassie by having two planes worth of people get blasted. Though the indea of someone getting an infected arm or leg from handling alien metal seems a bit forced.
Visser 3 would have no reason to care about the emotional impact on Cassie of blowing up two tourist planes! It seems to me that destroying the planes would be less bother than eliminating all the bodies from the battle.
No one uses dracons, for some reason. Not even Ax, who should have training with a similar weapon.
Most of the morphs lack opposable thumbs, so the Animorphs got in the habit of not carrying weapons.
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I'm talking about the author of the book. Not V3. Maybe I should have made that clear.
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I'm pretty sure KAA lost interest in the series about halfway through, since most of the later half of the series is ghostwritten. Everworld had that problem too, even though it was only about 15 books long or something. After what she did in the last arc, I wouldn't want her coming back to the series. I'd be too afraid to read them.
It's not going to help that you'd have some backlash whether she brought Rachel back in some form or not.
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I don't know about "lost interest", she was just juggling multiple series at a certain point.
Was some of Everworld ghost-written too? It's been like a decade since I've read it, sort of assumed it was all Katherine/Michael.
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KA also had a child part way through writing the Animorphs series, which is another reason she ended up relying on ghost writers
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I know it was deliberate. I also believe it was a bad idea.
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I think that
[spoiler] everybody died. I didn't consider it that bad of a cliffhanger - it's not hard to speculate what happened. My opinion about The One, however... that was a bad move.[/spoiler]
Crapplegate.
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I too am annoyed that the series ended [spoiler]on the cliff-hanger of Jake ordering his ship to "Ram the Blade Ship". [/spoiler]
(One other series I saw that ended in the cliff-hanger was Blake's 7, [spoiler]which ended with the ship seeming to blow up![/spoiler]
Weirdest Animorphs books I have read: The Hidden, with the morphing buffalo.
The Journey, which the Helmacrons and the Animorphs going up Marco's nose!
Animorph Headlines:
The Hidden: Buffaloes Go On Downtown Rampage!
The Pretender: Many Bladed Alien Put On display By Local Man.
The Unexpected: Badly Damaged Plane Arrives In Sydney.
The Conspiracy: Wild Animals Go On Rampage Outside Local Sharing Meeting.
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I am okay with [spoiler]everyone dying.[/spoiler] I'm not okay with [spoiler]a new antagonist being introduced at the end.[/spoiler] Heck, [spoiler]killing everyone[/spoiler] could actually make a really good ending. It just didn't in this case.
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I loved Blake's 7.
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Actually, I didn't like [spoiler]The fact that everyone dies :explode: . While I kinda dig the not everything was happily ever after ending, I just don't like that Jake, Tobias, Marco, and Ax all die. Rachel, Tom, and even Jaras' were symbolic to the series and they should left the death count to those three in the end.[/spoiler]
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[spoiler]Well, I can't say that I enjoyed their deaths, but I think that they could have made for a really great scene. Applegate just screwed it up.[/spoiler]
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I have confirmed that morphing is indeed harder than demorphing, thus solving the great mystery of Elfangor's failure to morphing away his burns in "The Invasion", and Alloran's failure to morph away the snake poison in "The Alien".
The Visitor page 12 Rachel POV: Morphing takes concentration. When you're going from human to animal, it's harder. You really have to focus. But going back to human is easier.
Evidently, Elfangor's exhaustion and burns made it too hard for him to focus well enough to morph. Ditto Alloran's rattlesnake poisoning. But going back to one's natural form is easier, and can be done even when one is injured nearly to the point of death! (As often happened to the Animorphs).
I wonder if that T.O. who lost his tail in "The Decision" could have recovered it via morphing?
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Just found out someone that I work with used to be an Anifan. That's pretty cool I guess. :D
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I met an anifan on Minecraft. She had no idea that there was a fanbase.
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She didn't know there are still people who remember, and discuss, Animorphs?
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Perhaps I worded that badly. She was surprised that there was still an active online community.
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random thought: lets say someone morphed a lion,
and after an hour they started to demorph
but they changed their mind halfway and re morphed a lion.
would it reset the morphing clock or do you have to completely demorph?
it would solve a lot of problems if it did.
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random thought: lets say someone morphed a lion,
and after an hour they started to demorph
but they changed their mind halfway and re morphed a lion.
would it reset the morphing clock or do you have to completely demorph?
it would solve a lot of problems if it did.
I have always been under the impression that one would have to completely demorph to reset the clock.
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I agree with Tim.
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I agree with Tim.
Thank You! It does occur to me that the Animorphs' apparent assumption that one has to totally demorph to reset the clock may be mistaken. However, it would be quite risky to experiment in that direction! (But if an Animorph is in a small morph and is in a container too small for his/her natural form, it might be a good idea to try the partial demorph idea to see if it would reset the clock!).
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I love this animorphs tattoo
(http://i.imgur.com/rANml6z.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/jbCe7bG.jpg)
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My sister and I are considering getting matching Animorphs tattoos this month. It gon be awesome :D
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I love this animorphs tattoo
(http://i.imgur.com/rANml6z.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/jbCe7bG.jpg)
Whose is it?? That is awesome! !!
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I love this animorphs tattoo
(http://i.imgur.com/rANml6z.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/jbCe7bG.jpg)
Does the tattoo depict from Book 54 [spoiler]Rachel being killed by the Yeerk polar bear?[/spoiler]
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Yeah, that's pretty plain to see, really.
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Yeah, considering [spoiler] the quote in the tattoo is what the Ellimist says to her after she dies[/spoiler].
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Yeah, considering [spoiler] the quote in the tattoo is what the Ellimist says to her after she dies[/spoiler].
[spoiler]The quote in the tattoo was what made me suspect that the subject was Rachel. Also, the tattoo looked bearlike to me.[/spoiler]
Meanwhile, on my map of the world, the Red Sea looks like an elongated Yeerk to me!
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I want that tattoo so bad. I also found it randomly while browsing one day.
I have a question regarding a tattoo actually. I'm planning on getting a tattoo of Tobias holding the morphing cube. However, I want to get the proportions right, so I was wondering if anyone knew a rough guess on how big the cube would be compared to Tobias?
I know its probably in the books somewhere but I can't remember.
I'm looking at book 20 right now, Marco attempting to steal the cube back from David while in bird morph. He mentions its too big to carry unless he uses two talons. So its probably what, half his size as an osprey?
Any help working this out is appreciated. :)
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I want that tattoo so bad. I also found it randomly while browsing one day.
I have a question regarding a tattoo actually. I'm planning on getting a tattoo of Tobias holding the morphing cube. However, I want to get the proportions right, so I was wondering if anyone knew a rough guess on how big the cube would be compared to Tobias?
I know its probably in the books somewhere but I can't remember.
I'm looking at book 20 right now, Marco attempting to steal the cube back from David while in bird morph. He mentions its too big to carry unless he uses two talons. So its probably what, half his size as an osprey?
Any help working this out is appreciated. :)
The cube is big enough that the hands of all six "people" fit on it, one hand at each side.
Book 49: Rachel the eagle was able to fly with the cube.
Book 39: The cube is carried in the mouths of wolves.
Would Tobias be holding the cube as a human or as a hawk?
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The play with the measure quite a bit.
I think it's said to be 3 or 4 inches on each side in book 1, but in 50 Jake pulls it out of his pocket. I know I couldn't fit a 3 inch box in any of my pockets
A red-tail is probably around 2 feet long, with a 3-4 ft wing span, so it shouldn't be more than 1/5-1/4 his height I think. Ospery would be similar in size. I have no idea what the size of his talons would be, probably smaller than an adult palm.
Maybe that helps, but think you'd be better off just finding a size that's aesthetically pleasing. Beauty of books, in the end you decide what it looks like
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Maybe Jake's wearing oversized cargo pants!
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Maybe Jake's wearing oversized cargo pants!
He'll have to take them off before he morphs, and I don't see anyone carrying the cube inside their morphing outfits! (Unless Cassie dismantles it. But would she then be able to put it back together?).
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Oh.
Yeah.
MY DREAMS HAVE ASPLODED
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Book 2: Melissa Chapman sobs to her cat that her parents no longer love her. I wonder if she confided those feelings with a school counselor or other therapist. I wonder if any kids in her situation did so, and if that resulted in any kids being turned into Controllers.
The Chapmans don't watch TV or listen to music. Is that because the Chapman Yeerks fear getting mesmerized?
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Thanks guys. Yeah I'll have to talk to my tattoo artist when I have it done and see how it goes.
Its going above my current RAF tattoo so its on my upper arm/shoulder area.
Tobias would be in red tailed hawk morph. I plan on getting a half sleeve all dedicated to Animorphs.
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Would it be possible to acquire and morph a fertile chicken egg?
If so, and you became an egg nothlit, would you proceed to hatch into a baby chick?
If so, would the change from egg to chick count as a "natural morphing", and thus allow you to return to humanity a la Cassie in "The Departure"?
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Why would you want to?
Also, wouldn't the thing you'd have to morph be the thing inside the egg? Which, unless you're acquiring it at the time it's hatching, can't survive outside the egg anyway. So, no. You couldn't morph an egg because an egg isn't an animal. The thing it holds is. And the animal inside doesn't go through a metamorphosis akin to the caterpillar -> butterfly one. It's just growing.
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If you morphed a whale, and were allergic to whales, how would you survive the whale emerging right out of your body as you burp up the whale DNA?
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You won't. People die sometimes. :P
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PP 4-6 of paperback The Departure, Book 19: The Animorphs are spying on a meeting of the Sharing when they suddenly notice that a Human-controller is being arrested and dragged off to a Bug fighter to meet Visser 3! They decide to rescue her in the hopes that her Yeerk would be grateful enough to reveal secrets to the Animorphs.
How did the Animorphs intend to keep that Yeerk alive for more then 3 days so that they could debrief it completely? I am confident that the Yeerk wouldn't cooperate unless the Animorphs had a source of Kandrona rays for it.
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Haha you come up with some really random questions, dude!!
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Book 34: At one point, Cassie is in osprey form flying above a large Yeerk pool on the Hork-Bajir homeworld. She demorphs most of the way to human, but keeps her osprey wings to slow her fall. She then STARTS morphing to whale, while STILL keeping her osprey wings! How in the world does she begin to morph to whale without having completed her demorph from osprey to human?
Book 22: PP 70-79: The Animorphs morph into elephants and Rhinos to smash up the venue of a world leaders' banquet so that Visser 3 can't have those leaders turned into Controllers. P 79: Rachel encounters Visser 3 in the form of Tony the White House protocol chief and chases him off. Can't Visser 3 still go to the White House bearing a Kandrona generator and a Yeerk and plug the Yeerk into the President, then have the President plug Yeerks into the heads of other world leaders?
What ever happened to the real Tony?
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He travelled to Afghanistan to demonstrate some weapons, got captured by some terrorists, built an arc reactor to break himself out, and became Iron Man.
What? Fan theory. :P
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Tony Berenson...Isthil.
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The Prophecy: Quafijinivon, the last of the Arn, comes to the free Hork-Bajir valley with a plan to clone Hork-Bajir and take them to the HB homeworld to wage war against the Yeerks. He will die of natural causes in 412 days. Why doesn't he clone himself?
I have also wondered if he could have helped the Chee recreate the Pemalites out of the Pemalite DNA stored in dogs.
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He probably just didn't clone himself because . . . uh . . . that book is stupid? Sorry, I really can't think of any reason for that aside from the writers dropping the ball.
As for the Pemalites being reborn, most likely no. The Pemalite DNA would have probably been integrated into the wolves' DNA and changed as they evolved.
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PP 117-118 of "The Answer"
[spoiler]A Humvee containing Tom, another Human-Controller as the driver, a Cassie faked up by Erek, and several Animorphs in insect form drives up to the wall of Hork-Bajir who are protecting the Pool ship. A Hork-Bajir and a Human-Controller approach to do an inspection. The Human-Controller introduces a sensor probe, which reads only two complex life forms (Tom and the driver) and the insects. It doesn't read Erek-Cassie as a life form, but Tom rebuffs the guard by asking him if he can count to 3. Why doesn't the senor probe detect the Yeerks inside Tom and the driver? [/spoiler]
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I heard my name.
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Why would an FBI agent become a Voluntary Controller? (As one did during "The Visitor").
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Brainwashing.
I almost justified Godwin's Law! Whew!
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I found this on MTV's website (http://www.mtv.com/news/2281900/animorphs-fancast/). :o ;D This pretty good fancast for the anis, I made a longer post (http://animorphsforum.com/index.php?topic=11762.0) about it
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Why didn't I think of Ezra Miller for Tobias before? It's so perfect I could cry.
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In the aftermath of the Yeerk War, I predict a huge market for Gleet Biofilters, which would be used to:
I: Keep pests out of farms and homes.
II: Kill head lice.
III: Prevent the spread of invasive species.
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Long after the war, of course. Widely and casually using enemy technology would make a lot of people say, "too soon, man. Too soon."
Could the filters be used for crime? You could program it to notice someone specific and invite them to dinner, and as they enter... TSEEWW!
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Sorry about the double post, but I felt the need to post this now.
I just listened to Steven Price's Shenzhou (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQHDKQbvdto) as I reread [spoiler]Rachel's death.[/spoiler] How did I not cry at that?!
Go to 1:19 to begin to get the feels. At 2:35, read [spoiler]"I love you."[/spoiler] Keep on reading, and if you time it just right, you'll get to [spoiler]"You mattered"[/spoiler] at another climactic moment.
Steven Price? I don't think Shenzhou was made for Gravity.
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right in the feels
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Long after the war, of course. Widely and casually using enemy technology would make a lot of people say, "too soon, man. Too soon."
Could the filters be used for crime? You could program it to notice someone specific and invite them to dinner, and as they enter... TSEEWW!
I seem to remember Ax saying that the Yeerks had stolen the biofilter technology from the Andalites. Since the biofilter tech actually came from the Andalites, it should be Kosher.
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Biofilters should probably only be used by government corporations.
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Biofilters should probably only be used by government corporations.
But that will prevent farmers from using the technology to protect themselves from pests.
October 4 holidays of interest to Ax and the Animorphs: Cinnamon Roll Day or kanelbullens dag (Sweden). World Animal Day (International).
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How about this: people have to get licenses to use biofilters.
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How about this: people have to get licenses to use biofilters.
Good idea, but won't that upset the National Biofilter Association?
(Biofilters don't kill people, people kill people).
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Using biofilters.
Limit the use, not outright get rid of them.
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What if we just had the already-existing NBA handle the issue?
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Yeah, sure. Why not?
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What if we just had the already-existing NBA handle the issue?
You want basketball players to regulate biofilters?
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Harlem Globetrotters managing alien technology.
Especially effective since in Futurama they have their own planet.
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Some train wreck happened here.
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Yes Saffa, this is what happens when dump people with dumb ideas take over a thread
I got board and made this quiz, play it http://www.pollsnack.com/my-polls/?item=q7kfg59h (http://www.pollsnack.com/my-polls/?item=q7kfg59h)
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Apart from some typos, good quiz. I expected to be Marco or Ax but came out as Tobias.
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I got Tobias (which is definitely the one I'm most like), even though my answers were evenly split amongst Tobias, Jake, and Cassie. Huh.
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I got Jake. ... how
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I got Tobias . . . somehow. I dunno, despite my depressive tendencies, I don't think I really resemble Bird-Boy too much. Marco and David were tied for second in my results, though, which I would probably understand a lot more.
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Huh, I couldn't see who was second in mine.
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Same here.
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Originally got Jake but now with the edit I come out as Marco. I'd like to think I'm some sort of awesome combination of the two.
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Got Marco this time.
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Got Ax this time. Surprised due to the answers I gave.
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Got Cassie the first time but now I got Ax.
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Do Hork-Bajir reproduce kind of like chickens? They couldn't make physical contact without hurting each other. Does the female fertilize the egg but only in response to the male being... male-y?
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Well, they're not completely covered in blades. Physical contact is still on the table, just gotta be careful about it.
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Did it!
Frobe: They could very easily cut each other, though. My headcanon says that they reproduce like chickens, partly because I don't want to have to draw alien genitalia.
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So I downloaded the Animorphs: Know the secret
Wow.
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Please elaborate.
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Happy World Animal Day! Happy Cinnimon Roll Day!
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Those are actually days? who am I kidding, if there's a potato day, there's a day for anything. And if there's a day for anything, Tim will be sure to know it :P
Please elaborate.
Well I only played for 10 minutes as it took me like half an hour to figure out the controls (the only games I'm slightly good at are Super Smash Bros and guitar hero. Oh and skylanders) and it took me 3 attempts to get through the forest run bit. But I'm excited to keep playing. Not nearly as bad as what I expected.
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I played that game all the way through a while back. Trust me, after the first hour or so of gameplay, it gets horribly tedious, and it never gets better. Pretty much just the same thing over and over.
Really, if you're gonna play any of the Animorphs games, Shattered Reality for the PS1 is probably the best; it's the most competent out of the three at least. Because, as I've made us all aware, the Gameboy Color game was a ****sack. :P
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Those are actually days? who am I kidding, if there's a potato day, there's a day for anything. And if there's a day for anything, Tim will be sure to know it :P
Please elaborate.
Well I only played for 10 minutes as it took me like half an hour to figure out the controls (the only games I'm slightly good at are Super Smash Bros and guitar hero. Oh and skylanders) and it took me 3 attempts to get through the forest run bit. But I'm excited to keep playing. Not nearly as bad as what I expected.
National Potato Day is on August 19th - it's probably just for Americans. *attempts to high five gh but misses* There's a day for something every day of the year.
I've never played Skylanders. Back in elementary school all the guys in my school were freaking out about it, but then they discovered swearing which is apparently a lot more fun.
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I find Know the Secret > Shattered Reality which had a stupid story, mediocore platforming, and lousy fights. It's one of those games you can beat in 3 hours without paying full attention.
Know the secret had lousy fights, but the story at least had some depth, and it wasn't completely linear.
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I might get the PS1 game someday. I mean, my dad has a PS2 he never uses, so I doubt he'd be bothered by me snatching it away.
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My calendar has random stuff on the back of each day and on August 19 it said:
Bizarre Holiday: Potato Day
August 19
Bake them, mash, them, fry them. So many delicious ways to enjoy this spud!
(Answers to Tuesdays puzzle:
1. c, 2. d, 3. a, 4. b)
And naturally, I stuck it on the wall. Because who doesn't like potatoes?
I don't have any PS but I could borrow it from my cousins. If I get the game.
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My calendar has random stuff on the back of each day and on August 19 it said:
Bizarre Holiday: Potato Day
August 19
Bake them, mash, them, fry them. So many delicious ways to enjoy this spud!
(Answers to Tuesdays puzzle:
1. c, 2. d, 3. a, 4. b)
And naturally, I stuck it on the wall. Because who doesn't like potatoes?
I prefer mashed potatoes with gravy.
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Those are real days? I thought days like that only existed on Tumblr.
*attempts to high five gh but misses*
*Dylan comes in and gets the high five instead*
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National Potato Day is on August 19th - it's probably just for Americans. *attempts to high five gh but misses* There's a day for something every day of the year.
. . . I've been trying to figure this out since you posted that, with no luck at all. Why's you put that bit about trying to high-five me in the middle of that thought? In fact, why was that there at all? :P
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Because a non-American person posted the thing to which I replied and you were the American closest to my post.
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So, in the TV show Steven Universe, episode 48 is "The Return."
Coincidence? Or Anifan shout-out? :D
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If the latter isn't true then life isn't worth living.
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yet another reason for me to just watch it already
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/mikeynicholson/theyre-all-morphed-up#.kmzWkbxlbV (http://www.buzzfeed.com/mikeynicholson/theyre-all-morphed-up#.kmzWkbxlbV)
OHMAIGOD Marco :o
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Oh my god, Rachel and Ax.
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Oh my god, Rachel and Ax.
You want them to get married?
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Tim has this unusual talent of making relatively non-violent Indian females want to take up gun violence.
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Did you mean to put that in TRT, Saffa?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mikeynicholson/theyre-all-morphed-up#.kmzWkbxlbV (http://www.buzzfeed.com/mikeynicholson/theyre-all-morphed-up#.kmzWkbxlbV)
OHMAIGOD Marco :o
Shawn, Paulo, and Boris have all gotten more attractive thanks to age. Brooke broke the scale on that front. Chris looks waaaaaay different, but not bad. Nadia is pretty much the same.
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Oh no, it pretty much goes everywhere at this point.
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Oh my god, Rachel and Ax.
You want them to get married?
Wha--wha--How? HOW?
I think that stupidness has literally caused my computer to glitch. RAF literally gone offline right as you posted that.
(http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/walkingdead/images/a/ae/You-are-literally-too-stupid-to-insult.gif/revision/latest?cb=20150606144844)(https://media.giphy.com/media/3o85xw4WymU1aw2Hmg/giphy.gif)
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Literally dying of laughter right now
Also, oh my god marco and ax :o
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Marco and Ax are totally canon. *violently types up fanfic*
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Oh my god, Rachel and Ax.
You want them to get married?
Wha--wha--How? HOW?
I think that stupidness has literally caused my computer to glitch. RAF literally gone offline right as you posted that.
It would have been possible if Ax assumed his human morph for the wedding.
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Smiting people makes me feel so guilty, so how about you just stop commenting instead?
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Tim: you typed your reply inside of a quote.
Saffa: Tim hasn't been smited. Er... smote. Smoted?
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Yet.
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Marco and Ax are totally canon. *violently types up fanfic*
This was my first OTP ever...
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Here is reply number 2222, an all same digit number.
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So, guess what I just got today!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v71/AniDragon/Picture%2044_zpspiecfslt.jpg)
This is the ONLY Animorphs book I've been missing for years, now. I was never super invested in tracking it down because it's not canon, but I was putting in a large order on Thriftbooks and thought, hey, why not?
I now have the complete collection, and I'm kinda giddy. Pictures of the whole collection soon!
EDIT: *ahem* Pictures of the whole collection coming once I track down my copies of book 8 and MM1, because they ended up in a different box from the rest of the books during my recent move, and I haven't fully unpacked yet.
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Here is reply number 2222, an all same digit number.
Tim. That is not a totally random Animorph thought. I've asked you before to not post spam like that.
Yay, AniDragon!
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Tim, GETs are only a 4chan thing.
If you think this is 4chan, get >>>/out/.
(this is a joke, kind of)
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Tim, GETs are only a 4chan thing.
If you think this is 4chan, get >>>/out/.
(this is a joke, kind of)
I'm afraid that your joke went right over my head. What is a "GET", and what is a "4chan"?
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*Bangs head against desk* Apparently that's not the only thing that went over your head. See also, Ash's post, which you COMPLETELY FAILED TO EVEN RESPOND TO.
Sorry, I usually try to avoid getting that mad. Anyway, back on-topic, I really need to get around to re-reading The Stranger. It's been sitting in my room for weeks now, and it's one of my favorite books from the first dozen. I just have had no time lately.
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Here is reply number 2222, an all same digit number.
Tim. That is not a totally random Animorph thought. I've asked you before to not post spam like that.
Yay, AniDragon!
Okay, okay, I shall try to confine my remarks in this thread to ones mentioning Animorphs.
Ob Animorphs: What arguments might persuade you to accept a Yeerk in your head?
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Here is reply number 2222, an all same digit number.
NOOOOOPE Check again
This made me think of Tobias (http://jezebel.com/new-hampshire-may-revive-bill-they-happily-destroyed-in-1694620957)
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Here is reply number 2222, an all same digit number.
NOOOOOPE Check again
I could have sworn that there had been 2221 replies before I posted that message, making mine #2222. How did it become reply #2221?
Ob Animorphs: Why did the Andalites make relatively little use of their morphing abilities in warfare? The Decision: The Animorphs are told that few Andalites actually acquire morphs.
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I saw that too. Someone must've deleted a post.
Answer: they clearly state that morphing is more of a stealth-related technology. Andalites are great for fighting anyway; few morphs would be more useful than their true selves.
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I saw that too. Someone must've deleted a post.
Answer: they clearly state that morphing is more of a stealth-related technology. Andalites are great for fighting anyway; few morphs would be more useful than their true selves.
Visser 3 has lots of morphs that are more combat capable then the Andalite form!
Shouldn't all Andalite warriors acquire small morphs for the purposes of escaping and hiding?
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Touché. But not all Andalite warriors are subtle, now, are they? Some aren't for stealth.
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Visser Three also had a collection of torture equipment in his blade ship.
Dude liked terrifying things.
Also I feel morphing is going to have different appeal to a yeerk, which is inherently in a weak body. Esplin really did love the Andalite form, but probably had some satisfaction in taking on a variety of new forms in a way a human or andalite might not
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http://imgur.com/gallery/Ve2HT (http://imgur.com/gallery/Ve2HT) I got bored
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Most of those images could be switched and work just as well, but +1 karma for the 'when you see the booty' one. That got me.
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https://twitter.com/MichaelGrantBks/status/662071118098857984 (https://twitter.com/MichaelGrantBks/status/662071118098857984) also posted this under favorite animorphs ships
I am going to go write a tobias/marco fanfiction now :inlove:
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??? Why, man. I mean, I can get with him being bi, since I definitely saw something with Marco/Ax, but why Tobias, man? It's so strange. No offence, but I don't see it at all. :-\
Weird fanfic pairings are one of my biggest internet cringe factors.
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This is like Dumbledore gay to me: if the author wants that, fine, but put it explicitly in the series. Claiming it by word of god after the fact is stupid, annoying, cowardly and done only to be edgy.
As for Marco/Ax, don't get me wrong, I think they had a special relationship, but I doubt it was sexual, or romantic.
There where times though I thought they were better friends then with Jake/Tobias, respectively
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I definitely ship Marco and Ax. I don't ship Marco and Tobias. Rachel can get the feathery glob of meat, not him!
Edit: oh wait. That sounded very sexual.
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I feel like sometimes people are overeager to slap a romantic/sexual label on relationships. Personally, I enjoy a strong, uncomplicated lifelong platonic relationship between two people that just get each other. Just because two people like spending time around each other and really click together doesn't make it romantic.
Yeah, that's something that would have to be in the series itself for me to consider it canon. I mean, it's not like the characters weren't already doing things that were a million times more edgy and controversial. The way it was said in that tweet, in context, felt kinda like pandering without even fully dedicating to it (what with the specific way he qualified the statement with a debatable opinion).
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+1. Thank you. This basically sums up what I feel about what I like to refer to as "the Tumblr generation". Quite a few fandoms I'm in have this problem to a way worse extent, or maybe I only perceive it that way because I'm aware of the vast amount of fanfiction. Either way, it does feel a bit like how JK Rowling keeps adding new Potter material every other Wednesday - yes, the younger fans who recently got into it will lap it up, but to readers like me who were around when the books were still in the process of release, and grew up with the anticipation and planning of stuff around a release date, it sort of feels too much like milking, money-wise or otherwise. And I'm not the only one, lots of other HP fans I've talked to shared this sentiment.
TL;DR - the tweet did feel like a last-minute reply to shut the commenter up, lol. I've followed MG for a long time now and a lot of his tweets are in the same blunt, sarcastic way I usually use, so I'm extrapolating. :P
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I am going to go write a tobias/marco fanfiction now :inlove:
Obvious Sarcasm isn't Obvious :P
I could think of a whole lot more cringe-yer ships.
MarcoMcKitty 4life OHMAIGADJEEBUS
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You mean like OwlSalad? :P
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Thanks for that reminder. I just died laughing again. Best RAFparty ever.
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TL;DR - the tweet did feel like a last-minute reply to shut the commenter up, lol. I've followed MG for a long time now and a lot of his tweets are in the same blunt, sarcastic way I usually use, so I'm extrapolating. :P
Hi! I'm the person MG was tweeting to, lol. To defend myself, MG is a really cool dude and all that we did was have a pretty interesting discussion about reading Animorphs as a young LGBT fan (myself!) and how I interpreted and identified with the characters (read: Marco, who I identified with the most) growing up. It wasn't me harassing or rambling on at him. He asked me how I felt about diversity then as a kid versus how much diversity there is in media now that I'm an adult, and I was a little surprised at his receptiveness and apparent interest in what I had to say! So I answered his question and then thanked him for being so open and willing to listen to an LGBT fan, since he's such a big champion of diversity in his newer books and all. And I figured that was the end of the conversation, hence my "thank you for listening" tweet sounding so final, but then he came back with the tweet linked in this thread and surprised me.
If you don't feel like scrolling through twitter though, someone posted the meat of the conversation here -> https://www.reddit.com/r/Animorphs/comments/3rkiqz/michael_grant_just_nonchalantly_tweeted_that/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/Animorphs/comments/3rkiqz/michael_grant_just_nonchalantly_tweeted_that/)
So pandering? Maybe. Maybe he just wanted to make some poor gay girl's day. (More like he made my life, though, lol!) Pulling a Dumbledore? In the barest definition of the trope, I guess so. But for someone, an LGBT person, who's been identifying with these characters and hoping for a sliver of diversity or representation for roughly fifteen years, if even outside canon and just Word of God, it feels like so much more. Thx for listening RAF. \m/
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I loved the little conversation between you guys. And your "ramble" was very eloquently put. Welcome to RAF :)
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I'm sorry but I have to say that it's pretty frustrating, as someone who is gay, how people suddenly lament over how undervalued platonic ships are almost exclusively whenever the mere possibility of gay ships are mentioned. It's just a huge downer to come on here after Marco's confirmed to be bi only to see people complain about it.
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I'm totally fine with him being bi. I think it's just the fact that Grant seemed to be doing it as sort of a "yeah sure whatever you guys want" thing rather than something he really thought about and believed.
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But for someone, an LGBT person, who's been identifying with these characters and hoping for a sliver of diversity or representation for roughly fifteen years, if even outside canon and just Word of God, it feels like so much more. Thx for listening RAF. \m/
SAMEEEEEEE! It's almost kinda fitting Marco narrated the gay andalites are okay andalites book
Also, I saw this tweet because of reddit. What I said in the post here is basically the same thing I said on Reddit.
Also, Someone beat me to my the my cringefiction. (https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10364611/3/New-Beginnings-and-Second-Chances)
*Note: I reposted this because my original post had bad I-was-typing-quickly-on-my-phone grammar.
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I did read the entire conversation, which is why that tweet felt like that. I still stick to what I said, though I see where you're coming from: getting a reply from your favorites just makes your day. :D
And vivaria, you misunderstood what I was getting at. I have no problem at all with gay pairings. I've doubted my own sexuality for years. It's only when fans tend to take every second character and make them gay in a headcanon for the sake of coupling up everyone, that it gets bloody annoying. And this even applies to straight characters. Random coupling. Being in the Marvel fandom, I've seen that **** happen a lot. Because there's different things that come out of platonic and romantic relationships, and random and/or mass coupling just sort of muddles the group dynamic the characters are supposed to be having.
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The October 31 Doctor Who episode featured Zygons, a reptilian alien race whose members can change form, similar to the Animorphs!
[spoiler]The Zygon Invasion: As part of a peace treaty, 20 million Zygons have settled on Earth and taken human form. However, some of the Zygons are dissatisfied and have decided to take over Earth, using their shape shifting abilities to eliminate their opposition, which includes the Doctor! As the episode ends, a Zygon disguised as the Doctor's dear friend and Companion Clara fires a missile at his plane.[/spoiler]
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I think you meant to put this in TRT.
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I'm sorry but I have to say that it's pretty frustrating, as someone who is gay, how people suddenly lament over how undervalued platonic ships are almost exclusively whenever the mere possibility of gay ships are mentioned. It's just a huge downer to come on here after Marco's confirmed to be bi only to see people complain about it.
Personally my issue is with this "confirmed bi".
A co-author puts this on social media 15 years after the book is over, and that should not make it confirmed. It's just fan-fiction from the author imo.
If they want to make him gay bi or anything else, but it in the book. Write a new book, make book 55 three lines and that the sole topic, but until then don't tell me it's canon when through the whole of the series Macro only expressed a sexual interest in woman.
That book 40 is being referred to as "the gay andalites are okay andalites book " is equally vexing. Maybe they were, but we only ever get the word friend-repeatedly and explicitly- to add a romantic label and say two individuals of the same sex who are close are must have been gay seems offensive in it's own right.
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I'm sorry but I have to say that it's pretty frustrating, as someone who is gay, how people suddenly lament over how undervalued platonic ships are almost exclusively whenever the mere possibility of gay ships are mentioned. It's just a huge downer to come on here after Marco's confirmed to be bi only to see people complain about it.
I take serious issue with the implication that I'm being homophobic. I say platonic relationships are undervalued because that's honestly how I feel, all the time, not just when gays are mentioned. LGBT has nothing to do with the issue. Everywhere I look on the internet, all I see is people talking about how they want to pair up absolutely every imaginable combination of characters (romantically, sexually, and beyond), even if it totally goes against everything the characters in question are and how they feel about each other. I like keeping characters in character, because violating who and what they are just turns them into a one-dimensional slate for everyone to slather their own personal fantasies onto and kills what makes them unique individuals. It's a whole different beast from just mere alternate interpretations. Tumblr likes to go crazy with the stuff, and that's what bugs me.
I don't have a problem with any of the characters being gay or bi. I just can't see it in Marco. Part of it may be because I'm kinda antisocial and maybe even aromantic. I dunno. However, offhand, I remember plenty of times he's fantasized about/hit on chicks, and none where he's fantasized about/hit on dudes. Like, not even curiosities, really. That would definitely be worth a mention if it happened, given how hard Marco works to cover up all his insecurities, especially if the dude in question happens to be from a different species and planet altogether. Keeping in character, it would create an insane amount of awkwardness and stress for him because he doesn't want to change how others perceive him, just breaking him down under his easygoing exterior. Combine that with everything else going on in his life, and he'd probably end up having a mental breakdown way earlier than he actually did.
This is bigger than Dumbledore, because in this case it actually would have an effect on how he approached his relationships. Dumbledore never sought out a partner. Marco did. If such a significant detail isn't actually in the series, and ultimately doesn't lead to any different conclusions or connect any dots, it might as well not be canon and I have a really hard time accepting it. It'd be like if they said that Rachel's true favorite morph was actually an ostrich she acquired off screen. We don't see her morphing it ever, it's never brought up, it doesn't quite gel with how she acted, and ultimately had no bearing on how she approached things in the series. We know she's pretty cool with bird morphs, but... That's about all there is going for it in the book itself.
All that being said, I found the (very nsfw) fic "Ax the Prostitute" totally hilarious because it was so well in-character up until just before the end. That seemed to me like a logical angle for the Marco/Ax pairing to work. XD
Anyway, if you want to interpret the character that way, okay. If you want to write fanfic for pairings, that's your prerogative. Just please don't insinuate I'm acting homophobic because I disagree.
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A character from a 90s series: Retconned on a whim to be bisexual because it doesn't not make sense, hurts literally nobody, and it makes a bunch of lifelong LGBT anifans happy.
Y'all: A bunch of heterosexual and/or otherwise just plain grumpy frumps complaining about this thing that affects your life in literally no negative way.
Also, none of this has literally anything to do with shipping?? Shipping was never once mentioned. This is about LGBT fans getting Word of God vindicated and nothing more. Chill. It being canon (yes, the word canon is used) affects nothing you thought about the character previously. It just opens up new facets for meta and things. He thought a fish person was hot, him liking boys is totally normal compared to that for crying out loud! I think y'all will survive.
Ugh. I thought y'all would be excited to have an, albeit retconned, main LGBT character, but all this did was remind me why I never had a RAF account to begin with. So I think this is where I'll hop off for now. If y'all really wanna complain about the sexuality of this fictional character for whatever totally not homophobic reason, you can tweet @ me or send me a message on tumblr, my name is still menderash on both.
Viva la canon bi Marco! \m/
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I'm not gonna get into the debate about Marco and all of that, but I do find it insulting that you insinuate that RAFians are mostly homophobic. I've personally found everyone here to be incredibly accepting of my sexuality, and it shows quite a bit of ignorance on your part to assume that when you're only going off of a couple people having a different viewpoint on Michael Grant's tweet than yours.
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A character from a 90s series: Retconned on a whim to be bisexual because it doesn't not make sense, hurts literally nobody, and it makes a bunch of lifelong LGBT anifans happy.
Y'all: A bunch of heterosexual and/or otherwise just plain grumpy frumps complaining about this thing that affects your life in literally no negative way.
Also, none of this has literally anything to do with shipping?? Shipping was never once mentioned. This is about LGBT fans getting Word of God vindicated and nothing more. Chill. It being canon (yes, the word canon is used) affects nothing you thought about the character previously. It just opens up new facets for meta and things. He thought a fish person was hot, him liking boys is totally normal compared to that for crying out loud! I think y'all will survive.
Ugh. I thought y'all would be excited to have an, albeit retconned, main LGBT character, but all this did was remind me why I never had a RAF account to begin with. So I think this is where I'll hop off for now. If y'all really wanna complain about the sexuality of this fictional character for whatever totally not homophobic reason, you can tweet @ me or send me a message on tumblr, my name is still menderash on both.
Viva la canon bi Marco! \m/
My god, you're a prick. You know, just because not everyone subscribes to your personal viewpoint bulletpoint to bulletpoint does not make us homophobic. I get it, you were excited that you go what you wanted (although I think you're reading far too much into it, as it could have been a joke for all you know, considering the way it was worded). But you can get off your high and mighty attitude, right there, buckaroo.
What did you really expect, menderash? A parade? To be lauded for your part? From the link in your first post, it seemed like you coerced him to say that more him stating it of his own free will. Honestly, I think what this "catch_yer_own_train" guy -- on the very page you linked -- said perfectly accurate:
Wtf that menderash guy was pushy af
Actor says he thought marco wasnt bi and so menderash responds with like twenty tweets melodramatically whining about the most childish "wah this character isnt made exclusively for me" thing? Cmon son
You, pal, are no different from a homophobe, only on the other end of spectrum. Where you hurl around "heterosexual" like a slur. And how strange it is that you like to be very pushy until someone decides to push back, and then you lash out in some arguably elitist ways.
Look, I'm sorry, but I don't take very kindly to people like that. And, honestly, if you don't want to come back because some dared to have a difference of opinion and push back, then fine. We can do fine without you, I think, and I will only apologize for the harshness of my tone and nothing else.
And, yes, I'll admit, I wrote this post out of anger at your utter pretentiousness, menderash.
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We aren't bothered by him being bi, I'm pretty sure. If you aren't straight it's totally fine. It's the fact that it was lazily and rather insincerely presented, as if Grant was just saying it to make you happy. Not that your happiness is a bad thing, of course.
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I am bi, and a god damn furry on top of that. Never said it so outright before, but that's the case. Been that way for years, since long before I ever got into Animorphs. So don't act like I don't get it, and definitely don't throw around the word heterosexual like it's some kind of synonym for bigot. Consider this me kicking the closet door off its hinges to smack you in your Tumblr-bigoted face. Just leave it there guys, I'll reattach it later.
Marco briefly thought a fish person was hot. Said fish person also had a female form and might not have even been wearing all that much (the book said raggedy togas, so who knows). It's not evidence for him being bi because THAT ISN'T HOW SEXUALITY WORKS. Just because you get a passing interest in one weird thing, doesn't mean you are automatically into something that's less weird. Weirdness is extremely subjective. Trust me, I know this well.
Shipping was mentioned before you joined the conversation. You can't jump in and try to dictate what we can and can't talk about. That's considered poor etiquette in any scenario.
Yanno, I was all set to welcome you into the community after a pleasant, thoughtful, intelligent conversation about Marco's character, but never mind that. I'm deeply insulted by this. This is why I've never set foot anywhere near Tumblr for as long as I could help it.
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As an LGBT fan, a normal Rafian, and the guy who brought this to RAF in the first place, I guess I should have say on what I think about this. And what I think about this is "Ooohh that's cool :) " and "Tobarco would be a funny fanfic >:D :P ".
Also, it was just added to Seerowpedia . " While explaining that since he personally felt "everyone is bi to one degree or another", Michael Grant recently admitted on Twitter that Marco was in fact bisexual. Many readers felt this as his teasing of the male Animorphs and Ax might have been considered more. He also explained that at the time of printing, in the mid to late 90s, some things were not considered appropriate by Scholastic to publish."
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You're all right, I should not have insinuated that you're all heterosexuals or, if you are, that you are automatically not open to the idea of diverse sexuality in media. That is poor judgement on my part. My response was emotionally charged, as it should be obvious that I do have a bias as a gay person. I hope you understand. I will try to be more objective in the future.
I do want to have an open dialogue and discuss my favorite character with people, but then something pretty cool like this happens and the general response on this site seemed to be "I don't think there is any way in any interpretation this could be even remotely feasible and it's just PC pandering to pushy fans", how am I supposed to respond to that? What is there to discuss or express besides hurt? Is there a way? It's just very depressing to hear.
Regardless, I do hope we can have discussions about a good character and subtext and things without just running into a "this isn't possible ever because reasons" wall over and over. That tweet could open up a whole new world (ala Aladdin) of Marco meta and reading his POV in new ways, but instead I kind of just turned it into an argument. I really am sorry for that. Like I said, biased and emotionally charged! We should have fun talking about this, not arguing about it.
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That's the spirit, menderash! I understand where you were coming from, and I'm glad you accepted your second post wasn't the friendliest.
I've been around forums a lot, but no place has made me more aware of LGBTQIA or more accepting/open-minded than RAF has - I can proudly say I'm straight but not narrow ;)
I look forward to the in-depth discussions about Marco :)
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You're all right, I should not have insinuated that you're all heterosexuals or, if you are, that you are automatically not open to the idea of diverse sexuality in media. That is poor judgement on my part. My response was emotionally charged, as it should be obvious that I do have a bias as a gay person. I hope you understand. I will try to be more objective in the future.
Well... I'm glad for that. I'll be honest, I wrote my last comment in the heat of emotion too, kinda tinging the way I usually write. If you're willing to move past it, though, then I am too.
I do want to have an open dialogue and discuss my favorite character with people, but then something pretty cool like this happens and the general response on this site seemed to be "I don't think there is any way in any interpretation this could be even remotely feasible and it's just PC pandering to pushy fans", how am I supposed to respond to that? What is there to discuss or express besides hurt? Is there a way? It's just very depressing to hear.
A couple of ways to respond to that.
1) Realize that it wasn't meant as an attack on you or anyone's preference. I, as a writer myself, was mostly just criticizing the way in which this was handled. I can accept that Marco could be open to some things. The way it was presented just goes against my philosophy as a writer: everything in the story should be relevant to the story's development, and everything that could be relevant to its development should be at least addressed within the story itself. That's what makes the overall story feel like a cohesive whole.
2) Accept that other people might have more loose or rigid interpretations of a character, regardless of what the author chooses to label as canon. Nothing wrong with that. I mean, holy hell, don't get me started on my opinions of Cassie. Even MG said himself, "What we put on the page is our part; what you find there is your part. That's how it works." That goes for everyone.
3) My favorite, relevant GIFs. (http://giant.gfycat.com/LastBrokenHorsefly.gif)
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You're all right, I should not have insinuated that you're all heterosexuals or, if you are, that you are automatically not open to the idea of diverse sexuality in media. That is poor judgement on my part. My response was emotionally charged, as it should be obvious that I do have a bias as a gay person. I hope you understand. I will try to be more objective in the future.
I do want to have an open dialogue and discuss my favorite character with people, but then something pretty cool like this happens and the general response on this site seemed to be "I don't think there is any way in any interpretation this could be even remotely feasible and it's just PC pandering to pushy fans", how am I supposed to respond to that? What is there to discuss or express besides hurt? Is there a way? It's just very depressing to hear.
Regardless, I do hope we can have discussions about a good character and subtext and things without just running into a "this isn't possible ever because reasons" wall over and over. That tweet could open up a whole new world (ala Aladdin) of Marco meta and reading his POV in new ways, but instead I kind of just turned it into an argument. I really am sorry for that. Like I said, biased and emotionally charged! We should have fun talking about this, not arguing about it.
First off, I want to say thank you for being so mature in your response. It takes a lot of guts to come back and be so level-headed after we pretty much jumped down your throat, and I applaud you for that. I think everybody pretty much said what I wanted to, so I'll just say that looking back on my original response, I may have been a little harsh. I promise that I wasn't trying to be mean, as I try to be as friendly as possible on RAF, so if it came off as douchey, I apologize for that. I just tend to get a little defensive of this place, since it's practically a second home for me. :P
Now that that uncomfortable-ness is out of the way, I'd like to say, welcome to RAF, and I do hope you stick around. :D
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1) Realize that it wasn't meant as an attack on you or anyone's preference. I, as a writer myself, was mostly just criticizing the way in which this was handled. I can accept that Marco could be open to some things. The way it was presented just goes against my philosophy as a writer: everything in the story should be relevant to the story's development, and everything that could be relevant to its development should be at least addressed within the story itself. That's what makes the overall story feel like a cohesive whole.
Oh I wholeheartedly agree- but that's what I think makes the New Age of Social Media so engaging and interesting for fanbases. In cases like this, you just kind of have to accept that Animorphs is almost a decade and a half old at this pont. It's not getting any new content any time soon. Any new information or speculation is going to be superfluous and unnecessary, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, especially in an old zombie fandom like ours!
Like for instance, let's be honest, we all knew in our hearts that Gafinilan and Mertil were more than "just friends." The subtext and symbolism was puh-retty heavy. So when, I guess it was a few weeks ago now, MG posted on his blog about the various diverse characters he's written and he listed Gafinilan and Mertil as a couple under the header of gay characters he's written, it came as a surprise to very few! Even fifteen years after the book was published, lol. (Actually, did RAF know about that? I feel like that blog post kind of flew under the radar. IDK if it got talked about here. Anyway it's canon, they were a couple.)
So, does Gafinilan and Mertil's story still work if they're just Really Good Friends? Of course it does! Animorphs is a plethora of platonic friends going through hell and back for each other. Is it a superfluous detail to be revealed fifteen years after the fact? Yeah, it doesn't really change a whole lot. But does it add a whole new layer and emotional significance to their interactions and the point of the story now that they're confirmed to have been In Love??? HECK YEAH. (EDIT: I also wanna add that the reason it wasn't explicit in the first place was almost definitely due to 90s scholastic censorship.)
Anyway I hope that's how we can approach this Marco thing! Even if you're not into ~Shipping~, I think looking at Marco's actions and motivations from a new light could be fun and interesting. Like, does his initial hostility towards Tobias and even Cassie make more sense if you think his motivations are different? (AKA, jealousy?) How about his pact with Cassie to keep Jake safe in Megamorphs #3 and his reaction when he fails? With the above knowledge, could he have related to Gafinilan and Mertil in a different way, a way that made him act almost uncharacteristicall y sympathetic towards Mertil in the end of the book? When he got closer to Ax near the end of the series, could there have been parallels between them to Elfangor and Loren that went unexplored? OPEN DOORS, PEOPLE! It's a WONDERLAND of meta and speculation!!! :kitty:
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"It's okay, we're very good friends."
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I see vivaria still hasn't responded, even though she was saying basically what you initially said, but thank you, Menderash, for opening your mind a little more towards the forum and apologizing, that was good spirit. :) See, I know as a member of a minority - I'm LGBT-curious and a woman in a third-world country - we tend to get extremely defensive about the rights and recognition we fight for, but if we have to gain them, we have to welcome the other side in, not push them away just because 0.1% of the population was born with a naturally bigoted mind. Anyway, now that that's out of the way, we can move on to Marco.
I always saw two sides to the Ax-Marco pairing - (a) they did spend a lot of time together doing non-battle stuff and you could definitely read more into whatever happened there, and it would be a fun pairing to explore; (b) even though it sounds sweet, I'd rather not, because by this point the other four have paired off as well, pairing off every single character of a group within a group to me feels lazy, and doesn't give room for platonicity, which in itself is a very special relationship that can solve issues that a romantic relationship gets in the way of. That said, the more romances within the group, the less variety of writing and character dynamics available.
It's not to say I didn't consider it completely; I did. But I would've been happier if that was actually written into canon in some form, like they did with Gafilnan and Mertil, because EVERYONE saw that one, come on. Leaving it as a footnote 15 years later doesn't really get me the same way and I'm more likely not to take it seriously, like how random details keep getting added to Harry Potter long after the series has ended. You don't need to do that, the fandom's still there no matter how big it is, and if they're good fans they'll still enjoy the books with every re-read several years down the line. Making headcanons is what fanfiction is for. At least then I don't have to read it, considering most fanfiction is terribly OOC. :P
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I'm sorry people got offended, but I don't believe I was incorrect or offensive in what I had said. I did not say anyone was homophobic at all. I simply pointed out the fact that conversations about wanting fiction to value platonic relationships more than romantic relationships, or downplaying a character's orientation by referring it to be "pandering" or "OOC," does indeed pretty exclusively happen in fandoms when the conversation is about gay characters or ships in particular. I have found that very rarely, if ever, does the conversation appear when talking about straight characters or ships. I have been in fandoms for quite some time and have seen the same conversation many times. Despite all that, I do absolutely agree with the sentiment! I do wish platonic relationships could be shown to be equally important as romantic relationships, but I would rather see those platonic relationships be valued between a man and a woman, as different-gender friendships seem so incredibly rare compared to same-gender friendships.
[spoiler]In my personal opinion, I would much rather see Marco and Cassie or Marco and Rachel having more interesting but platonic dynamics without it delving into shipping, and I am also something of a sucker for romantic relationships that have broken up to become a friendship, like Jake and Cassie's relationship after the war.[/spoiler]
Not to mention, there is often censorship that keeps creators from being overt in LGBT representation, especially when it comes to kids media, so a creator saying that a character is LGBT outside of the source material is very much just as canon to me, however frustrating the censorship is.
My own experiences, as a teenager, was that I had not known that one could be gay, so until then, I pretty much only sought after relationships with boys even though it usually ended quick or was subconsciously self-sabotaged! But when I found out, I had been in denial and insecure about being "obvious," so I would often play up seeming like I'm straight or continuing to flirt with men to a possibly amusing degree. I've also known plenty of bi friends who are attracted to different genders but have preferences when it comes to relationships, preferring mostly men or mostly women. I don't think any of these points makes it unfitting or OOC for Marco! I think it would be rather interesting to reread, with this new information in mind. :)
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For what it's worth (to those people who had argued that there's no in-canon evidence that Marco was bi), I honestly think he would have been pretty much the exact identical character, either way. He lived in a time when the mainstream culture didn't really admit that being gay was a legitimate possibility (I know, because I grew up in that same mindset, and never realized I was a lesbian until I was nearly an adult, because I just kept thinking "I'm sure I'll start liking boys eventually, I mean, what other option is there?")
So, if Marco was bi, chances are that he would've thought the same way. And since, unlike me, he actually would have had feelings for the opposite gender as well, it probably would have taken him even longer to figure it out. Until then, he would have simply assumed that any feelings for same-gender characters were just really strong platonic feelings (again, that's what I did). Which means . . . bi or straight, he's exactly the same Marco as far as the series is concerned. :P
I mean, come on. They were in middle school. Do you really think any of them had that whole 'feelings' thing figured out? *reflects briefly upon the other relationships in the series* . . . No. No they did not.
Anyway, I actually kinda agree with everybody on this one. Yeah, it sucks that MG just gets to wave his hand and change canon for the rest of us (and I totally agree that JK Rowling is especially annoying this way). And, yeah, it sucks that there couldn't be more openly LGBT characters in fiction. But you know what? I think, on this one, both sides can be right. As I said, it doesn't change the actual story in the slightest, so you all can just read it however suits you best. :)
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I'm sorry but I have to say that it's pretty frustrating, as someone who is gay, how people suddenly lament over how undervalued platonic ships are almost exclusively whenever the mere possibility of gay ships are mentioned. It's just a huge downer to come on here after Marco's confirmed to be bi only to see people complain about it.
I take serious issue with the implication that I'm being homophobic. I say platonic relationships are undervalued because that's honestly how I feel, all the time, not just when gays are mentioned. LGBT has nothing to do with the issue. Everywhere I look on the internet, all I see is people talking about how they want to pair up absolutely every imaginable combination of characters (romantically, sexually, and beyond), even if it totally goes against everything the characters in question are and how they feel about each other. I like keeping characters in character, because violating who and what they are just turns them into a one-dimensional slate for everyone to slather their own personal fantasies onto and kills what makes them unique individuals. It's a whole different beast from just mere alternate interpretations. Tumblr likes to go crazy with the stuff, and that's what bugs me.
I don't have a problem with any of the characters being gay or bi. I just can't see it in Marco. Part of it may be because I'm kinda antisocial and maybe even aromantic. I dunno. However, offhand, I remember plenty of times he's fantasized about/hit on chicks, and none where he's fantasized about/hit on dudes. Like, not even curiosities, really. That would definitely be worth a mention if it happened, given how hard Marco works to cover up all his insecurities, especially if the dude in question happens to be from a different species and planet altogether. Keeping in character, it would create an insane amount of awkwardness and stress for him because he doesn't want to change how others perceive him, just breaking him down under his easygoing exterior. Combine that with everything else going on in his life, and he'd probably end up having a mental breakdown way earlier than he actually did.
This is bigger than Dumbledore, because in this case it actually would have an effect on how he approached his relationships. Dumbledore never sought out a partner. Marco did. If such a significant detail isn't actually in the series, and ultimately doesn't lead to any different conclusions or connect any dots, it might as well not be canon and I have a really hard time accepting it. It'd be like if they said that Rachel's true favorite morph was actually an ostrich she acquired off screen. We don't see her morphing it ever, it's never brought up, it doesn't quite gel with how she acted, and ultimately had no bearing on how she approached things in the series. We know she's pretty cool with bird morphs, but... That's about all there is going for it in the book itself.
All that being said, I found the (very nsfw) fic "Ax the Prostitute" totally hilarious because it was so well in-character up until just before the end. That seemed to me like a logical angle for the Marco/Ax pairing to work. XD
Anyway, if you want to interpret the character that way, okay. If you want to write fanfic for pairings, that's your prerogative. Just please don't insinuate I'm acting homophobic because I disagree.
I read that fic once when i was in this one stupid READ ALL THE M RATED FIC BECAUSE SO EGDY phase. The FridgeHorror that Ax told the guys he (she?) was 13 only hit me recently, and the "then they all ****ed" ending was stupid. But your judgement is right.
For what it's worth (to those people who had argued that there's no in-canon evidence that Marco was bi), I honestly think he would have been pretty much the exact identical character, either way. He lived in a time when the mainstream culture didn't really admit that being gay was a legitimate possibility (I know, because I grew up in that same mindset, and never realized I was a lesbian until I was nearly an adult, because I just kept thinking "I'm sure I'll start liking boys eventually, I mean, what other option is there?")
So, if Marco was bi, chances are that he would've thought the same way. And since, unlike me, he actually would have had feelings for the opposite gender as well, it probably would have taken him even longer to figure it out. Until then, he would have simply assumed that any feelings for same-gender characters were just really strong platonic feelings (again, that's what I did). Which means . . . bi or straight, he's exactly the same Marco as far as the series is concerned. :P
I mean, come on. They were in middle school. Do you really think any of them had that whole 'feelings' thing figured out? *reflects briefly upon the other relationships in the series* . . . No. No they did not.
Anyway, I actually kinda agree with everybody on this one. Yeah, it sucks that MG just gets to wave his hand and change canon for the rest of us (and I totally agree that JK Rowling is especially annoying this way). And, yeah, it sucks that there couldn't be more openly LGBT characters in fiction. But you know what? I think, on this one, both sides can be right. As I said, it doesn't change the actual story in the slightest, so you all can just read it however suits you best. :)
THIS POST.
Replies aside, I myself am bi and this is a great development. Marco/Ax was my first OTP.
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What did the Sharing think about homosexual relationships? Did they take advantage of homophobia to recruit gays as Controllers?
Did the people who pushed Tobias' head into a toilet think he was gay?
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Did they take advantage of homophobia to recruit gays as Controllers?
Did the people who pushed Tobias' head into a toilet think he was gay?
They probably would. They need any controllers they can get, and they have been shown to use bullied of depressed people to make controllers. A lonely LGBT youth would probably join...
As as the gay Tobias thing goes, he was the one to bring up the gay rights thing in 23 and MM4. (Not Marco haha) I'm not saying Tobias is gay based on that though.
http://animorphs.livejournal.com/447471.html (http://animorphs.livejournal.com/447471.html)
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Did they take advantage of homophobia to recruit gays as Controllers?
Did the people who pushed Tobias' head into a toilet think he was gay?
They probably would. They need any controllers they can get, and they have been shown to use bullied of depressed people to make controllers. A lonely LGBT youth would probably join...
As as the gay Tobias thing goes, he was the one to bring up the gay rights thing in 23 and MM4. (Not Marco haha) I'm not saying Tobias is gay based on that.
http://animorphs.livejournal.com/447471.html (http://animorphs.livejournal.com/447471.html)
I wonder what the Sharing's public stance was on gay rights.
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They probably didn't care. Homophobia helped business, but it may have made others afraid to join for fear of people being a-holes.
I honestly don't think that Tobias is gay. My guess is that he's feminine but straight. He could be bi, I guess.
I'm wondering if maybe being straight is uncommon on this forum. I'm pretty sure I like only the opposite sex. I feel like there are only 2 or so other active users who have confirmed their straightness.
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I'm wondering if maybe being straight is uncommon on this forum. I'm pretty sure I like only the opposite sex. I feel like there are only 2 or so other active users who have confirmed their straightness.
I wouldn't say uncommon. I've met allot of other RAFians who've said they're straight. It just seems like allot of 20 something year-olds (which makeup a big part of the anifan base) are gay or bi or trans or one of the weird Tumblr sexualities.
(and what I mean by Tumblr sexualities is it's anything outside of straight, gay, bi, or trans.)
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or one of the weird Tumblr sexualities.
Um, you mean genders.
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I've never understood those either. It seems like they're creating those labels just to satisfy their special snowflake syndrome.
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Pretty much. Like the social media sites with their 30 different gender options.
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CAN YOU PLEASE STOP WITH YOUR ACCIDENTAL INSENSITIVENESS I DON'T WANT TO ENTER SOCIAL JUSTICE MODE
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I have seen so many sites with just three.
Not Listed
Male
Female
Like, at least put an 'other' option there!
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I've never understood those either. It seems like they're creating those labels just to satisfy their special snowflake syndrome.
Exactly, It's one of the reasons why I left Tumblr (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUyZGtLny5o&list=PLO8cfFbedjXLhmUWLzP4qFXBxFiaClH4z&index=3)
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I DON'T WANT A FLAME WAR PLEASE STOP POURING PETROL EVERYWHERE
IM GOING TO CHANGE THE TOPIC NOW
So who else has hard copies of Animorphs books?
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You mean hardcover? If so, I wish I did.
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I mean real life copies in general. I have all of them up to #32, plus #34, #35, #37, #38, #39,#41, #44, all 4 megamorphs and the andalite chronicles.
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I have them all save for "Meet The Stars of Animorphs" which I sold to a used bookstore.
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People are downvoting me for not wanting a flame war. Makes perfect sense.
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No, people are downvoting you because you're being pretentious and self-important. You were the one that decided to start yelling, smartgirl:
CAN YOU PLEASE STOP WITH YOUR ACCIDENTAL INSENSITIVENESS I DON'T WANT TO ENTER SOCIAL JUSTICE MODE
I DON'T WANT A FLAME WAR PLEASE STOP POURING PETROL EVERYWHERE
IM GOING TO CHANGE THE TOPIC NOW
So who else has hard copies of Animorphs books?
You weren't trying to stop a flame war, but provoke one. Why else use such rhetoric? Let it slide, or if you feel compelled to register your discontent, fine, you can do it without the all caps. That's yelling. And next time, perhaps you could word it in a less inflammatory, less demanding way. That might make people take what you say less hostilely.
On topic, I only ever had Visser as a hard back book. I wasn't aware there were any others, other than possibly the Ellimist Chronicles (which I never had a permanent, tangible copy of).
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CAN YOU PLEASE STOP WITH YOUR ACCIDENTAL INSENSITIVENESS I DON'T WANT TO ENTER SOCIAL JUSTICE MODE
I DON'T WANT A FLAME WAR PLEASE STOP POURING PETROL EVERYWHERE
IM GOING TO CHANGE THE TOPIC NOW
So who else has hard copies of Animorphs books?
People are downvoting me for not wanting a flame war. Makes perfect sense.
We kinda happen to be people who live in the real world more than on the internet, and in the real world SJWs are not cool. Basically, they're all the guy from this clip:
https://youtu.be/l8ukak8P2vY
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HER CAPS LOCK WASN'T MEANT TO BE ANGRY IT WAS JUST LOUD THERE'S A DIFFERENCE I DON'T THINK SHE DESERVES A DOWNVOTE HAVE MEERRRRRCCCCYYYYYY
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Lol no, Salad, I got the context perfectly clearly. You need to have seen Tumblr to understand. Or just watch that Monty Python clip.
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I apologize for sounding "pretentious and self important". I was in fact trying to avoid that by changing the topic. it's 4 am and I panicked. Besides, I'm pretty sure all of those downvotes are from the same person. I'm not a SJW, I'm just defending all the minorities you're ****ting on. Also, thank you YeerkSalad. Anyway, this is completely unrelated to Animorphs, isn't it? I guess I'll leave the forums forever now! Bye ****s!
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No one is low enough to send you six downvotes at the same time. We may not appreciate apparent pretentiousness, but we're not outright malicious. Perhaps if you took off the black-tinted glasses on everything you could maybe have an easier time here.
Also, the more minorities feel they need to be defended, the less seriousness and equality they're actually gonna get. And equality is what they want, right? Watch the video Dpsb posted for reference. I know we're horrible people for being in the majority, but hey, give us credit for trying.
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I'm not a SJW, I'm just defending all the minorities you're ****ting on.
But you see, Tumblr otherkin (http://kinfessions.tumblr.com/),headmates (https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/headmates), and cis-hating poly-disexuals aren't real world minorities
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As did I, Saffa. If she wasn't angry, then her word choice was exceptionally poor. Because it conveyed loud anger and indignant self-importance on my end. I was just trying to say that it might behoove smartgirl to pick her wording with a bit more discrimination, otherwise it could convey pretentious hostility as it did here.
:edit: Smartgirl, you're getting careless with your words again. "Defending all the miniorities you're ****ting on". That is a loaded statement, and I believe you know it. If you don't wwnt to start flame wars, then why are you throwing about such loaded statements like that? You know it will illicit a hostile reaction.
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Anyway, this is completely unrelated to Animorphs, isn't it? I guess I'll leave the forums forever now! Bye ****s!
I see you've taken the typical SJW route after all and fled when people don't pander to your substance-less whining. Well, good riddance, I certainly won't miss you. I'd say some less polite things, but I don't want to be the noble fellow taking your ban for you. I'm not that heroic. :)
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This entire flame war was based around me being unable to keep my big mouth shut after someone took a joking remark as serious. I'm so sorry.
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I'm not a SJW, I'm just defending all the minorities you're ****ting on.
But you see, Tumblr otherkin (http://kinfessions.tumblr.com/),headmates (https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/headmates), and cis-hating poly-disexuals aren't real world minorities
Strawmanning again!
Forgive me, but just how is what you're doing any different, smartgirl? I'm afraid I do not understand your logic here.
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i apologize for being a little **** at 3 am can you guys forgive me
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I'm not a SJW, I'm just defending all the minorities you're ****ting on.
But you see, Tumblr otherkin (http://kinfessions.tumblr.com/),headmates (https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/headmates), and cis-hating poly-disexuals aren't real world minorities
Strawmanning again!
Well have you ever met a feminist- Aromantic-transethnic-dipony kin-non binary- multiple system in real life? I certainly haven't
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You know what? I'm done. You win. Can we be friends again and not enemies? I really don't want people to hate me.
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Yeah, unfortunately, you're just digging yourself deeper here.
This entire flame war was based around me being unable to keep my big mouth shut after someone took a joking remark as serious. I'm so sorry.
Almost sounds like you're blaming someone else here when you're the only one to blame. Also, I fail to see anywhere here where you actually acknowledge you did something wrong, but you continue to just emptily apologize like someone was making you.
Also, it's not just one person downvoting you, I can assure you. Get off your ****ing victim complex (hey, there's that term again).
Whatever, there's my two cents. I'm not gonna contribute to the derailment of this topic any more than I just did. Someone wanna call me when this is about Animorphs again? Cool, thanks.
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I don't actually know what I did wrong, but I'm sorry. This is all my fault. I'm not even going to attempt to defend myself any more since nobody's opinion ever changes for the better from the vortexes of hate that are flame wars- all they do is make enemies.
Anyway, I agree that we should get back on topic.
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Yes, the topic what hard cover Animorph books.
I was saying that I wasn't aware there were any other than Visser and possibly the Ellimist Chronicles.
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I have VISSER in hard cover, but all of my other physical Animorphs books are paperback. i was originally referring to paper copies in general by "hard copies".
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Oh. That makes more sense.
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I really need to get on buying more of the books. I only have 1-25 (except my copy of 14 seems to have vanished mysteriously) and all the Chronicles except The Hork-Bajir Chronicles.
Also, sort-of on topic, does anyone around here have the original copies of the Andalite Chronicles? Apparently, when it was first published, it was actually split up into three separate books, but I haven't found anyone who's actually owned them.
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Also, sort-of on topic, does anyone around here have the original copies of the Andalite Chronicles? Apparently, when it was first published, it was actually split up into three separate books, but I haven't found anyone who's actually owned them.
Ditto on that. I've only seen the thick book, not the three separate ones.
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I got my copy of the Andalite Chronicles separately from all the main series books and megamorphs- I bought TAC from a used bookstore when I only knew the series from library copies and pdfs, then later my aunt bought me a box set of all the other ones I have online. The box set came with two copies of #18 and nothing after #44. It also came with a bonus "Megamorphs 1 part 1" which is entirely useless since the "Megamorphs 1" book has both part 1 and part 2.
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weren't all Books 31-42 (minus MM4 and Alternamorphs 2) also printed in huge sizes? I remember reading 39 and 41 in the humongous hard cover sizes. From what I remember they were the size of my head (I borrowed those two from the library, I returned them a looooong while back)
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Do you have a very small head...?
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Noooo.
a.) I found the large print ones in 7th grade and
b.)The large print (http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Animorphs-Gareth-Stevens-Library/dp/0836827724) ones do exist (http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Animorphs-Gareth-Stevens-Library/dp/0836827759)
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Oh. I know that kind. Turtleback, right?
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Only hard copy I have is #33, which is the first one I ever read and also probably in my top five from the whole series.
(I may have accidentally stolen it from the middle school library, but it's not like they cared enough to remind me it was still checked out, so whatever.)
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Whoa, I feel old, having the original-prints all in paperback from getting them as they came out each month.
Thank god they were so cheap back then, books seem weirdly expensive these days.
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I know, right?
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Making bored fanart is fun
http://imgur.com/gallery/E4PsT (http://imgur.com/gallery/E4PsT)
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I love it. :D
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That's great! ;D
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So I found "Vegamorphs" at a used book store the other day. I didn't think it actually existed until now.
OHMAIGAD THAT WAS IN AN EPISODE OF ARTHUR **** THE WHAT (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfC4ZDgKtLU)
(http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/arthur/images/0/0e/Vegemorphs2.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/282?cb=20120211073432)
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Haha, lol. I always knew the "Scare Your Pants Off" books were supposed to be Goosebumps, too.
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I remember that.
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I remember reading Vegemorphs a while back and thinking it was sort-of funny. Not the best thing I've ever read, but I guess a good way to waste your time reading something goofy.
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I might check it out.
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This tweet came up in my feed and naturally the first thing that came to mind was every dog morph ever.
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Is it bad that I kinda want Nickelodeon to release the entire aniTV show on DVD/Blu-ray? I think it would be funny to own it :)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v177/gmcube/anipreview.jpg)
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I'd buy it. That fanmade dvd art has one big flaw, though: the show wasn't TV-Y.
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The VHS tapes are still probably easy to find. I bought mine years ago second-hand, but they're probably still up on eBay and such.
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Have all the episodes been released on VHS?
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I can't even remember, it might have just been season 1. But there are official-release tapes out there.
Also, damn I feel like a geezer, still having a VHS player beneath my TV among the other stuff. Haha.
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My family may have a blu-ray player, but beneath it we have a PS2 and a DVD/VHS player. You aren't alone.
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I don't have a VCR, but I do have a PS1 and Nintendo 64 sitting under the TV in my room. Along with a crapton of CDs. And Pokemon merchandise.
Am I cool yet?
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The only thing about you that isn't cool is the fact that there are numbers in your username.
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OOOOOOOOH BUUUURN
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The fact that CDs are oldschool depresses me. :P
I still buy 'em, screw digital releases. With yer newfangled thingamajigs. That's the Demmycrats for ya. Where's my belt onion?
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Digital releases? How archaic. I only get my media through ThoughtNet on my wetware quantum computing assistant, as the artists are thinking of making it.
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Demmycrats and Rehpublikahns are crazy. Why can't 'chall be Induhpendanat like me?
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I didn't even vote. :P
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I can't vote yet, but I identify with the Independents anyway.
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Well I could have, anyway, with the big deal my dad made over my finally getting my voter ID, but I got stuck in college. Yay. Not like it would've made a difference anyway, we got a ****ty government all the same.
Anyhoo, I just realized that you might have mistaken this for the Totally Random Thoughts thread. Someone get us back on topic and get Salad a pair of glasses.
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We have to vote. Or they fine us like $10 and hit us with a boomerang, or something.
Forced voting, yeah, there's democracy. ::) Freedom to...nah, do it! Dooo iitttt! That's not a knoife, THIS is a knoife, etc.
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Another reason I'm glad to not be Australian.
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And yanno who wasn't Australian? The animorphs. There, that's on topic.
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*slow clap*
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*joins enthusiastically*
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To quote the great Devin Townsend from the Strapping Young Lad show at Download Festival 2006:
"STOP CLAPPING!"
Anyway, am I the only one who finds the Drode's character oddly hilarious? Like, I find a sort of weird humor in him tearing apart the Animorphs in book 27.
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The Drode's friggin' awesome. Also, he has Gilbert Gottfried's voice, he just does. Pretty much the only easy, "bam! done!" casting for a movie, not tricky at all.
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I love the Drode. Just really wish he had more screentime.
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People always say "offscreen" or "screentime," even when they're talking about books. Why?
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I'm pretty sure the series is on youtube
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Drode is one of my favourite characters.
Also what did I miss that got you -7 karma?
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Quite a bit. Let's not go back there.
You know that thing where characters have a voice in your head when you read the book? I always imagined the Drode to have a Southern drawl for some reason. I dunno. Foreigner complex, I guess. :P
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that's what I imagined it as too. Gotta love drode.
Also I did a bit of stalking and let's just say I chose a good month to disappear.
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One of my top ten quotes of the series came from the Drode: "Cassie, the killer with a conscience. Kill 'em, then cry over 'em, that's our Cassie." I mean, dang, he was the only character in the entire series who was actually able to see Cassie for what she really was (up until book 50, at least).
Yanno, I kinda think he's actually smarter than Crayak is. The Drode keeps making these on-point observations about the Animorphs, while Crayak perpetually fails to predict what the Animorphs will do, wildly underestimating them to his own downfall. I think, if Crayak stepped down and promoted the Drode to replace him, the guy would start winning against the Ellimist.
Fanfic pls?
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That's exactly how I always thought of Cassie. Now that I'm older, I understand her better.. but as a (pre)teen, I was just always intensely annoyed by her :P
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I never got what the perceived problem with the 'killer with a conscience' stuff was. Isn't that what you'd want the Animorphs to be? Just because she cares about sentient life, doesn't mean she can't kill them when it's necessary, it's not a binary thing.
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It was more a jab at how hypocritical her whole mindset was. If she actually cared about non-violence, she really should've put more effort to finding a non-violent solution to the war. Instead, she just wanted to be controlling and preachy, trying to use a perceived moral high ground as a way to lever people into doing what she felt comfortable with (which didn't necessarily line up with any kind of sane morality all the time).
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There wasn't a non-violent option, though. It was pretty simple "they're an invading force with superior ability, it's us or them" rationale.
Doesn't mean she can't feel bad about killing them. She's willing to do it, though.
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Three words: Yeerk Peace Movement. That had potential. What better way to undermine an invasion than spreading dissent among their footsoldiers and encouraging desertion, or even betrayal and open rebellion? But no, she never made an effort to get in contact with them, either before or after it directly affected her in #29. She just continued to follow Jake's orders through the whole series, mainly because she felt like she could influence him with her superior principles, and it kept her feeling important enough to distract her from the violence (at least until #50, when his angst levels made her unable to control him anymore). She has a desperate need to control things from behind the scenes, if you really read into her actions, as well as drive the mental states of others into the dirt to make herself feel superior. Ending the war prematurely would take that away from her, as would adding a fighting force that she couldn't directly influence.
There are always options beyond "us or them." It just depends on how hard you're willing to look.
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Not only that, but I always read certain words of that quote as being sarcastic (specifically, "conscience" and "cry"). I don't think Cassie had an actual honest conscience. I think XenoFrobe is right, she just wanted to manipulate and control.
I mean, come on, think about the many senseless things she got all whiny and preachy about. Stealing the identities of dolphins? Baby skunks and termites? What the crap does that accomplish, besides forcing her will on the other Animorphs? The one time it finally hits her that she actually is a murderer of actual sentient beings, she throws such a tantrum that she quits the Animorphs over it . . . but afterward she promptly forgets that whole thing and goes right back to what she was doing after she rejoins (and you never hear her whining over ripping the throats out of perfectly innocent beings ever again). Which strongly implies that the ragequit was really just for show. Just a reminder that "hey guys I'm the moral compass of the group!"
[spoiler]Not to mention, when they drop the bomb in the Yeerk pool in #52, she insists upon giving the Yeerks some warning so they can get out of there. But who does that save? The Controllers, the Yeerks who have taken hosts and thus who have the mobility to get out. Not the host-less Yeerks, who, supposedly according to Cassie, are the Yeerks most worthy of saving. Again, the whole spectacle was just an act to make her look good without actually accomplishing anything remotely worthy of the risks.
Stopping Jake from killing Tom. Trapping David as a rat rather than doing the merciful thing and killing him. I could go on with all the supposedly 'moral' things she's done that were all an act to make herself look better than the others, didn't accomplish anything, and risked everything.[/spoiler]
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:o
in nearly two decades of animorphs I never once took that view of cassie.
She's annoying, she certainly wanted things done a certain way that she didn't do nearly enough to achieve, but that she did it to feel superior?
That whiny preaching skunks and dolphins crap was out of place for a guerrilla group, but Cassie would still do that on her own. She didn't make anyone help her take care of baby animals (yes you can say they had to to make sure that she didn't do anything stupid, but they could have bared down and stopped her just as easily).
I think she had a conscience, but I don't think she took stock of what her actions meant to others, rather she focused on the intent, and we all know road to hell.....
And now I've defended Cassie. Uck. It's too early for this
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I briefly mentioned how she puts down the others as well, and it's pretty brutal when you look at it.
Through inaction, Cassie just affirms Rachel’s role as the "bad guy" of the team at the end of #48, the book that shaped Rachel’s mindset for the whole finale. All she ever saw was Rachel getting progressively more violent, and never tried to help her, just pre-judged and condemned her apparent attitudes without ever trying to look deeper. Rachel, in fact, took deep personal offense to this and it drove her to a breakdown in the end, followed by a suicidal level of determination to keep her friends safe when she'd picked up the pieces of herself. Tobias was literally the only person she had who told her she wasn't a monster. Cassie, her alleged best friend, should have been there to do that too.
With Tobias, Cassie barely has any interaction with him throughout the series, apart from them sharing dreams after he mistakenly tried to eat her in #4, and the bit in #9 when she coldly treated him like he was being a jerk for eating cute little animals (which couldn’t possibly be more insensitive to his more obvious struggles if she actually tried) right at the moment when he was trying to open up to and sympathize with her. It’s no friggin’ wonder he never talked to her afterwards. It's not like he has serious issues with emotional dependence, trust, acceptance, and getting hurt by those closest to him or anything, and right on the tail of a massively traumatic identity crisis too.
[spoiler]<Hey, Cassie,> a thought-speak voice said as I crunched noisily through the woods. <What's
going on?>
I looked up and saw Tobias go skimming by. He flared, turned on a dime, and landed on a
branch. He dug his ripping talons into the soft bark.
"Not much," I said.
<I heard it was pretty bad last night. >
"Yeah? Who did you talk to?"
<Ax. Who else? He was definitely weirded out by the whole thing. >
I stopped walking. It was something in the way he said "weirded out." "Tobias, who else did
you talk to?"
<Maybe Marco,> he said.
"And Marco told you I went nuts, right?"
<Actually, the word he used was "insane." Also "Looney Tunes." And "wacko." But he
meant it all in the nicest possible way. >
I laughed bitterly. "Well, I guess I did go a bit wacko," I said.
<Welcome to the club,> Tobias said. <None of us is going to come through all this
completely normal. You know that. Too much fear. >
"Well, I'm pretty sick of it," I said. "I had to destroy the termite queen. I know, she was just a
bug. But you know, who am I to decide that it's okay to kill one animal and not another? Here
I am, the big Earth Mother, tree-hugger, animal-lover, as Marco would say, and when it gets
down to it, I'm just like ..."
<Just like me?> Tobias asked.
"Just like any predator," I said lamely.
<You feel bad because you had to kill the queen in order to survive.>
"I shouldn't have been there. It's their world, not mine. Those little tunnels in a rotten piece of
wood -- that's their whole universe. I invaded it. And when they got in my way, I reacted.
Who does that remind you of?"
<Look, you are not a Yeerk, and termites are not human beings,> Tobias said. <There's no
comparison.>
I didn't bother arguing. "Look, I have to morph. There's something I need to do."
<What?>
I sighed. "It's something stupid, all right? There's this mother skunk we have who's injured.
She has a litter of kits who are going to die. I think I know where they are, more or less, but I
can't get there walking like a human."
For a moment Tobias said nothing. <Skunk kits? Near the edge of the Yeerk logging compound?>
"Yes."
<I can show you where they are.>
For a frozen moment of time I refused to understand what he'd just said. I didn't want to think
of why Tobias . . . why a red-tailed hawk would know the exact location of a litter of skunk
babies.
I took a couple of deep breaths. I tried to keep my voice level. "Are they still alive?"
<There are four still alive,> Tobias said.
I felt an emotion I don't feel very often. I felt it boiling up inside me. I glared furiously at
him. At the ripping talons. At the nastily curved beak.
I could picture the scene in my mind. The way he would have swooped down, raked those
talons forward, snatched the defenseless kit off the ground and . . .
I was shaking. I laced my fingers together, just to stop them from trembling.
"I'm going to save what's left of them," I said. My voice didn't sound like my voice.
<I'll help you,> Tobias said.
I used my osprey morph and flew behind Tobias as he led me directly to the spot I had seen
the night before. I carried the frozen grasshopper in my talons. I didn't ask Tobias any
questions, and he didn't say anything.
He pointed out the almost-invisible entrance to the skunks' lair. And then he flew away. I
knew he'd go to Jake and tell him what I was doing. And I knew that I had hurt Tobias by
treating him so coldly.
But, to tell you the truth, I didn't care right then. I just wanted to find those baby skunks. I
don't know why, but somehow in my mind those baby skunks had become very important.
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Legendary kindness and people skills, hard at work right there. Seriously, look at Tobias go, trying to bond with that active listening, heartfelt reassuring, honesty, and personal sacrifice as Cassie ignores it and trashes their chances of close friendship for the rest of the series. She apologizes later, but that kind of stuff still cuts really deep for him.
With the whole cube situation in #50, you know what a “people-person” would do? Negotiate or manipulate. Things she was supposedly good at. She specifically says she wanted Jake to “be able to face himself in the mirror,” and that if he killed Tom he’d end up crossing the moral event horizon (which he debatably did anyway, partially as a result of her actions). And when she had a chance to capture Tom, the thing Jake has wanted more than anything since day one, she just let him go--no, more than that, kept Jake from him. And that played absolute hell on Jake’s sanity for the rest of the series, even long after the war. What a person with people skills would have done is sneak around, block escape, keep Jake from hurting him with constant reassurances, and then talk the Yeerk into surrendering with promises of life and freedom from Visser Three. Seriously, what Yeerk wouldn’t find that tempting, especially one that’s cornered at all angles and at extreme risk of being killed by V3 for the slightest mistake even if he does escape? Even if that failed, she’d still be in a position to just chomp his hand with the Dracon beam while Jake secures the cube and apprehends Tom. They could fix injuries with morphing later. What a person with people skills would NOT do is maul their boyfriend with no warning at all and doom their family members to the hands of the enemy.
[spoiler]I stopped in my tracks.
Because there stood Tom, unsteady, blood dried and streaked on his face.
Clutching the blue box. And a Dracon beam.
His eyes were wild. They darted toward Visser One. I imagined what Tom was
thinking. Whoever had the morphing cube held the future of the planet in his
hands.
Why would he hand that over to Visser One?
Tom ran.
I followed him to the edge of the ramp. Saw a pair of eyes gleaming in the dark
below me. A crouched body, black and orange.
Jake!
He watched as Tom staggered past. Then padded after him. His paws nearly silent.
Again, I followed. Into the surrounding woods. Beyond sight of the school. Barely
keeping Jake, the silent, bloody beast, in sight.
Still, Tom must have sensed something. Because suddenly he looked over his
shoulder. Turned.
And fired.
The Dracon beam singed Jake’s shoulder! But he kept moving forward. Toward
Tom.
“Back off!” Tom screamed. “I mean it, I’ll kill you!”
Jake took another step forward.
Tsseeeew!
Tom fired again. The shot hit Jake in the back leg. He fell heavily.
Tom took off running. Sure that Jake would not, could not, follow.
But Jake lifted the tiger’s seven-hundred-pound body on three legs and started
after his brother. Into the shadows. Into the darkest place Jake had ever been. The
place where he would have to kill his brother. Or be killed by him.
Suddenly, I remembered my father’s face. His voice. “Is what you’re doing
humane?”
No matter which way it went between Jake and Tom, I would lose Jake.
Because if Jake had to kill Tom, he’d never be the same. He would cross whatever
line it was that separated us from them.
And I was pretty sure there was no crossing back.
I ran ahead into the dark. Followed the trail of Jake’s blood.
Tom crashing through the woods ahead of me.
Soft, irregular thudding. Jake.
Stalking his brother. Prepared to kill him. For what?
For a morphing cube. For…
It wasn’t worth it.
Suddenly, I knew the truth.
I reached the clearing where they both stood.
Tom was out of breath. Staggering.
Jake was only a yard or two behind him.
Tom turned. Lifted his arm. Aimed his weapon.
“I’ll kill you, Jake,” he said, voice ragged. “I will.”
Jake snarled. Crouched. Prepared to spring.
That’s when I shot forward and closed my jaws over Jake’s uninjured back leg.
Clamped down.
Jake roared. Turned on me. Smacked at my head with his paw. The blow sent me
sprawling. Claws raked deep gashes in my side.
But it was worth it. The pain, everything.
I’d done what I had to do.
I’d made the sacrifice.
Tom disappeared into the night.
Jake and I lay there, panting with pain and fatigue.
We had nothing to show for this fight. Except that we were alive to fight another
day.
And tomorrow, Jake could face himself in the mirror.
[...]
We’d been back twelve hours and Jake still hadn’t spoken to me.
Hadn’t even looked at me.
Nobody but the two of us knew what had happened. They knew only that Tom had
gotten away with the morphing cube. That Jake was devastated.
And they knew something was very wrong between me and Jake. But they didn’t
know why. Finally I decided to force the issue with Jake.
Jake stared at me, his eyes cold and hard. “Well?”
“Stop treating me like I’m the enemy,” I said.
Jake turned and began to stalk away. I trotted alongside him and grabbed his
sleeve.
He yanked it out of my grasp and faced me. His face was white with anger. His lips
were shaking. “How could you do it?” he cried, his voice breaking. “Why?”
I choked. “I was trying to protect you!”
“Protect me?” His brows lifted in amazement. “How?”
“You were wounded. He might have killed you.”
“Then why didn’t you go after him?” Jake demanded. “You weren’t hurt. With the
trees for cover and the wolf’s speed, you could have taken him down!”
I couldn’t explain. Because I didn’t understand it myself. All I knew was that letting
Tom take the morphing cube had seemed absolutely the right thing to do.
And something still told me I was right.
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Sure, he can face himself in the mirror, but she can’t grasp why he wouldn’t want to face her after what she did. Personal betrayal involving incredible physical and emotional pain, endangering the war effort, and almost getting them both killed on the spot (I think the only reason the Yeerk didn’t shoot them in the confusion was because maybe his dracon was running low, otherwise he had two animorphs at his mercy and every reason to kill them), all because she didn’t want to see Jake hurt. Is she just that self-absorbed that she can’t see what’s wrong there?
Then there's also the way she distanced herself from everyone after the war ended. She couldn't stand to even look at Jake and Marco anymore, after Jake spilled what was on his mind and Marco tried to help him over it. Way to be a supportive friend there.
I'm sure there's some way she's hurt Ax too, but I don't have time for another comprehensive reread just at the immediate moment. XD
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So, it occurs to me, the main reason we tend to think that Cassie has a 'real' conscience is because of the thoughts and feelings she writes about in her own self-narrated books, right? She must really care about the things she says she cares about, because she says she does.
But . . . we know, from ample evidence, that she is a very skilled manipulator. The other Animorphs seem to agree that she always knows exactly what to say or do to press someone else's buttons. My point is, who's to say she isn't manipulating you, the reader, as well? Telling her story the way she wants it told? Maybe even fudging a few facts, being careful not to come into conflict with what the other Animorphs might be writing, but, yanno, just taking a few liberties here and there?
Not that she's the only Animorph who could potentially be doing so. I surely wouldn't put it past Marco to 'edit' his thoughts in a similar way. But in Marco's case, his actions tend to at least line up with what he says he's thinking. Cassie, though? Not so much. And those dissonances (which some might have attributed to just not thinking things through) could instead be evidence of outright lies in her books.
. . . Whoa. I think I just made the case for Cassie being a full-blown psychopath. Um.
Oh, hey, did I ever tell you guys about my fan-theory that the reason Cassie was a sub-temporal anomaly, was because she deleted John Berryman from time, and the universe had to 'fix' the paradox she created by doing so? Basically, if she fixed the timeline, then nobody would have had any reason to go back in time to delete John Berryman, so then he would have existed, but then she would have gone back and deleted him, except if she had then she wouldn't have, etc. Paradox. And the only way this paradox could be resolved, was for the universe to simply insulate the entirety of her timeline against any possible changes, adhering her now and forever to one 'correct' timeline, namely the one where she deleted John Berryman. And the 'sub-temporal grounding' effect had to be retroactive, affecting her whole timeline, because she needed to always have been in the 'correct' timeline for the fix to work. It's sorta like how Sario Rips automatically repair paradoxes by deleting one copy of a person. Except that simply deleting Cassie wouldn't have worked, in this case, so the universe had to come up with a different solution.
There. Implying Cassie's a psychopath, then giving her a valid reason to be a space-time anomaly that magically fixes timelines. I figure that balances out, right?
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There. Implying Cassie's a psychopath, then giving her a valid reason to be a space-time anomaly that magically fixes timelines. I figure that balances out, right?
Pfft, I did that before it was cool. (http://animorphsforum.com/index.php?topic=10495.0)
I do like the idea that it was caused by Berryman though, hadn't considered that.
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Personally I take a stance much closer to Jake/Rachel/Marco on most of the issues in the books, but I think you're all way overstating the Cassie stuff too. The kids were 13 at the beginning, 16 at the end, they're still pretty damn young, and idealism comes with that territory. Her parents are freakin' vets, and that combined with her inherent empathy just makes all the animal-related ethics stuff par for the course.
The Yeerk Peace Movement gets way too much emphasis by fans, it was a pretty relatively-small, niche, fringe-ideal thing within the Empire from what we know. Potential to grow? Sure. It's not going to be able to overcome the Empire and end the war peacefully in the timeframe the kids were working with, though. In a life-or-death fight you're not going to put your eggs in that basket and hope it spreads, Earth was going to be all-out conquered (or, yeah, blown to hell by the Andalite High Command) within the span of like a year. It's a nice thought, but you simply wouldn't count on it panning out, in their shoes.
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The movement had potential for being really awesome, but nothing ever really happened.
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Pfft, I did that before it was cool. (http://animorphsforum.com/index.php?topic=10495.0)
Pfft, I've done loads of things before they were cool. In fact I'm still waiting for most of them to become cool. :P
Personally I take a stance much closer to Jake/Rachel/Marco on most of the issues in the books, but I think you're all way overstating the Cassie stuff too. The kids were 13 at the beginning, 16 at the end, they're still pretty damn young, and idealism comes with that territory. Her parents are freakin' vets, and that combined with her inherent empathy just makes all the animal-related ethics stuff par for the course.
*sigh* Okay, fine. No, I do not actually think Cassie is a psychopath. Occam's razor: the simplest explanation that fits the facts is usually the correct one. So, yes, more than likely, Cassie is every last bit the one-dimensional moralizing simpleton with zero character growth that she seems to be.
But, the thing is, now that I've realized this alternate (and far more interesting) possibility, I think I personally prefer the concept of psychopath!Cassie to sanctimonious!Cassie. Psychopath!Cassie actually learns and grows as a character, becoming more and more adept at using her powers of manipulation to accomplish her warped goals. Where she starts out merely testing the other Animorphs trust in her with silly rules like "don't morph sentient beings" and whatnot, she ends up altering the entire course of the war for the worse while still flawlessly playing the part of the 'moral compass.' Psychopath!Cassie is intelligent and cunning and interesting, albeit evil. Sanctimonious!Cassie, on the other hand, just continuously blindly lucks into victory after victory. Which is boring and dumb and I don't want to read about that. :P
It's the same reason there's this crazy Star Wars fan theory (https://www.reddit.com/comments/3qvj6w) making the rounds across the net, that Jar Jar Binks was actually a Sith lord, and all the weird little accidents and coincidences that seem to just happen to work out in his favor were actually his doing all along. People don't think that because it's the explanation that makes the most sense; it isn't. People latch on to this idea because it fixes something that was bad.
Anyway, point is, I don't particularly care if it's 'true' or not. It's a book series, meaning the reader can interpret it the way they see fit. And psychopath!Cassie is my official headcanon now. You can't take that away from me. :akanbe:
BTW, according to my calculations, Aftran probably died in #19. The Yeerk Peace Movement? Never happened. Nobody but Cassie ever encountered a YPM Yeerk, unless it was in one of the books Cassie narrated. Just remembered that Jake narrated part of #19, so nevermind. I need to do a re-read.
. . . And, just like that, I've utterly undone any 'balance' in opinions toward Cassie that I managed to accomplish with the Cassie/Berryman theory. I'm working towards being able to like Cassie, though! I promise! I just have to pretend she's a psychopath for her to be remotely interesting, that's all.
I need to stop posting now.
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An enormous part of that "psychopath" description is a lack of empathy, just pure callous manipulation without giving a sh*t. Come on, you can't think Cassie was that. She could manipulate, yeah, but it wasn't a chronic & constant thing, she did it specifically to either resolve conflict among the group or to steer someone a certain way. You can not like that, but that's not venturing into psychopath bounds.
It's like the "Tobias has Aspergers!" thing. Sure, you can paint a character however you want, but there's nothing in the books to support it, he interacted just fine with the rest of the group, there wasn't an inability there. Throwing this stuff around, you might as well be saying Jake had clinical depression because he was down in the dumps after losing his brother and cousin and sending 17 000 sentient people to their doom. That's...called being human. Like with Cassie, just because she has manipulated people, doesn't make it some defining personality problem or mean she doesn't empathize/relate, empathizing & relating is basically all she does. And that's not a bad thing.
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I agree, I don't think she's a straight up sociopath. I kinda think she's a middle ground between bumbling naive idiot and evil master manipulator. She isn't exactly either, but she did a lot of horrible things that hurt a lot of people, whether or not she directly intended to. She worked an angle constantly, and sometimes the consequences blew up bigger than she'd anticipated, but she managed to justify it to herself time and time again. Her whole goal behind every manipulation was always centered around her comfort zone, not the well-being of the group, even if there was an overlap there. She got uncomfortable when people fought, so she tried to make it stop by saying placating things, which usually worked. Most people don't like it when people fight near them. That doesn't really make her a natural empath.
I honestly think she had problems relating to people, but managed to convince others she was good at it through a combination of thinking about what she'd want in their place, telling them what she figured they'd want to hear, and her interest in animals. Look at how her relationship with Rachel turned out. They were best friends since childhood, and it ultimately ended with Cassie completely rejecting Rachel because she couldn't see past the rough surface. In fact, Cassie didn't do a single meaningful thing to try to help Rachel. All Cassie supplied was a constant, subtle bombardment of accusations and insinuations buried under every word and action, and it drove Rachel away from the group. She even abandoned Rachel to the trauma of watching over David for the final two hours, when she realized how horrible her own idea was. Her moral posturing created an alienating atmosphere where Rachel felt she couldn't measure up in that regard (which managed to bruise Rachel in her competitive side as well as her conscience; note the way she talks about Cassie in the end of #48). Tobias was what kept Rachel sane. Cassie was the problem.
Then she abandoned everyone else in the end, when they really needed emotional support. Notice how Marco was the one who managed to help Jake out of his depressed state. Marco, the cold, ruthless tactician who was willing to sacrifice his family on more than one occasion. Like a true friend, he stuck around for Jake's sake, found him things to do, gave him ways to distract from or deal with the pain as he needed to, and helped him function again. Cassie, the instant she heard something she didn't like, bailed. Got the heck out of dodge and severed almost all contact. Again, it's selfishly based around her own comfort zone.
I don't think she's an emotionless mastermind trying to play everyone like puppets, just incredibly selfish and hypocritically self-gratifying (even if we go with my STG theory).
Also, I freaking love that Jar-Jar theory because it so totally feels like an ingenious idea that's in line with classic Star Wars/folklore/fairy tale tropes. It's so brilliant, it just needed a better script supporting it and it would have been plot twist of the century.
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Just about all of Cassie's naive decisions you can chalk up to just that, though...being a highschool kid. Nuance isn't exactly something that's developed yet, compromise and middle-ground gray area stuff is something that comes with time. Doesn't mean it was intentional or anything more sinister, it's pretty damn clear Cassie's heart is in the right place with all of this stuff.
I disagree with her a bunch of the time, but she's an invaluable voice on the team. Even Jake would have strayed into pure us-and-them simplicity a great deal of the time without her keeping people on the straight-and-narrow.
About the Jake thing, I figure Marco pulling Jake's head out of his butt was just him seeing the pathway there first. Marco's the master manipulator, probably more than Cassie. Cassie's not going to see "let's kidnap him, dump him in the ocean, then after he's figured out to morph we'll verbally berate him and call him a self-absorbed ***hole once he's safe!" as an option. :P It's a combination of Cassie being too close to him, and all the tension between she and Jake towards the end, and Marco just snapping and being all "hey jerkward, don't blow this trial for us" and that sort of pure pragmatism being the thing to shake Jake out of it.
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A while ago, I actually started a fanfic as an experiment. It was gonna be called Megamorphs: Hard Mode, and it would basically start off by killing Jake and Cassie in the end of book 1, just to blow the group apart and go from there with Murphy's Law in full effect. I haven't continued it because I'm not in the right state of mind (massive depression) to write it anymore, but it was a neat thought experiment, seeing everyone on their own, figuring out if there was a way they could be brought back together after that. So yeah, I acknowledge that Cassie is basically a sort of glue for the group, and her presence did help defuse quite a few things that could have gotten out of hand. I just don't think she ever did it out of a concern for the group's safety beyond how it directly affected her emotionally. Where the others had ideals or familial ties driving them, she was purely about avoiding discomfort while she made every effort to inform everyone her heart was in the right place.
Whatever her intentions, she's just not a good "people person," even if she did mean well. The idea that she was good at understanding people was just something she projected by acting nice, placating people, and keeping some peace, and the others bought it. Long term, though, her actions just repeatedly prove she wasn't good at it.
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For someone who seemed so empathetic, Cassie was quite selfish.
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Yanno (not to keep trying to force the psychopath!Cassie angle, I know you guys don't agree with me and that's totally cool) but something a little odd does occur to me. Talking about the various Animorphs who she has either actively hurt or at the very least woefully failed to help. There is, to the best of my recollection at least, one Animorph that she actually has honestly and truly empathized with. One Animorph whose problems she has attentively listened to, fully understood, and offered helpful and meaningful advice to overcome said problems. Marco. The cold, ruthless tactician seems to be the one Animorph that Cassie really gets. Hmm.
Disclaimer: okay, yes, I realize, Cassie and Marco are supposedly loosely based off of the authors Katherine and Michael, respectively, so you could probably also argue that the reason they 'get' each other is because their counterparts are, well, married. Spoilsport.
Anyway, I'm not-at-all arguing that Cassie-as-she-is-presented-in-the-books is a psychopath/sociopath. Rather, I'm saying that there might be details omitted from/added to her books, and somewhere in the cracks between what we're given and what the other Animorphs know, she might at least have some of those tendencies. Most mental disorders are on a spectrum, and the vast majority of people are not simply split into 'normal' and 'other.' I'm saying that the reason that Cassie seems so empathic, without actually understanding or empathizing with hardly anyone except herself (as XenoFrobe has also pointed out and done such an excellent job of explaining that I feel no need to reiterate), is because she's just really good (possibly pathologically good) at pretending to be something she's not. Which implies some amount of antisocial personality disorder to me. Again, you guys are welcome to disagree. That's what makes this forum so awesome.
I don't think for a second that Tobias had Aspergers though. Really? He was introverted, had one 'special interest' that was only mentioned in one book, and both of those things stemmed from his upbringing. :P
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Totally. Aspergers /= loner who likes things
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Tobias pretty clearly wasn't a 'loner' in the sense that he wanted to be, or was comfortable with that. He's unpopular and bullied pre-book#1, yeah. But if it was a personality issue, it'd carry over to when he's surrounded by the other kids. Honestly I'd put forth that Tobias is probably one of the more social of the kids, when given the opportunity. Hell, Marco & Rachel are interesting in that they're probably much more 'not people-persons', even if they're more popular in a middle-school type of environment, that's not a personality thing.
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Animorphs on the periodic table of nickelodeon
(http://images-cdn.moviepilot.com/images/c_limit,h_401,w_640/t_mp_quality/xvuhtsdbckavzigzla04/that-was-my-jam-classic-nick-shows-you-probably-forgot-about-683213.jpg)
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I don't even remember who brought up Tobias having Aspergers, but yeah, it's way off the money. Ax loosely fits the profile, if anyone, but as an alien we can't really apply human psychology to him.
Tobias is an introvert. He doesn't need to be the spotlight, just likes to hang out in the background and work support roles. In group meetings, he'll mostly just speak up if he feels he has something meaningful or worthwhile to contribute. However, when he's hurt or stressed, he does feel the need to be alone. His typical reaction in those situations is to just fly off without another word and collect his thoughts out in the woods. I think he just learned to be very self-dependent from an early age; having horrible people looking after him and no friends forced him to rely on himself for emotional stability. It's his way of protecting his vulnerable emotional side. That doesn't mean he doesn't value his friends, it's just how he's learned to keep himself safe.
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I don't even get the 'only speaks up when there's something to contribute' thing. Tobias is casually making pointless fun conversation with everyone else all the damn time.
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Introversion doesn't necessarily correlate to 'talkativeness in a group.' I'm an introvert, but if you put me in a social setting, I will make pointless fun conversation with everyone else all the damn time, too. I just eventually need a break from that, I can't do 'social' in the long-term.
I've heard it said that introverts 'gain energy' from being alone. They can be social, but they need to be alone to 'recharge.' Extroverts, though, 'gain energy' from being around others. They, similarly can be alone, but for them it's being alone that drains them, and they need other people to get that energy back.
Based on this definition, yes, I definitely would call Tobias an introvert. He contributes to group meetings and interacts with the other Animorphs whenever it's relevant, sure. But he seeks out alone time when he needs energy, the way introverts do.
Ax is probably an introvert, too (although, like XF said, as an alien we can't really apply human psychology to him). I'd say Jake and Cassie are 'middle-verts,' not really one or the other (Jake might be slightly extroverted, Cassie slightly introverted), and Rachel and Marco are definitely extroverts.
Ooh, somebody needs to figure out the Animorphs' Myers-Briggs types! Or, if not, I'll probably end up doing it (but after work when I have time).
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AMBIVERTS FTW
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Totally. Aspergers /= loner who likes things
That's a mildly retarded thread (http://animorphsforum.com/index.php?topic=3255.0)
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... whoa. Herp derp, amirite?
Edit: I just realized that I just became the epitome of the internet.
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Okay, so. The Animorphs' Myers-Briggs types. At least, by my best evaluation.
First I should probably link to some quick run-downs of what these terms actually mean, for those of you unfamiliar with Myers-Briggs. Introversion/Extroversion (even though we already covered this one) (http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/extraversion-or-introversion.htm), Sensing/iNtuition (http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/sensing-or-intuition.htm), Thinking/Feeling (http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/thinking-or-feeling.htm), Judging/Perceiving (http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/judging-or-perceiving.htm).
Jake: ESTJ (Extroversion, Sensing, Thinking, Judging)
Rachel: ENFP (Extroversion, iNtuition, Feeling, Perceiving)
Tobias: INFP (Introversion, iNtuition, Feeling, Perceiving)
Cassie: INFJ (Introversion, iNtuition, Feeling, Judging)
Marco: ESTJ (Extroversion, Sensing, Thinking, Judging)
Ax: ISTP (Introversion, Sensing, Thinking, Perceiving)*
*I'm attempting to evaluate Ax by Andalite standards, since I think by human standards he'd be considered Judging rather than Perceiving. However since most Andalites seem to be more Judging than humans are, Ax is actually quite Perceiving by comparison. Andalites might also be generally more Thinking and less Feeling, but that one doesn't matter because Ax is still Thinking even for an Andalite. The other two categories are roughly equivalent between Andalites and humans from what I can tell.
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This works. Nice job.
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Introversion doesn't necessarily correlate to 'talkativeness in a group.' I'm an introvert, but if you put me in a social setting, I will make pointless fun conversation with everyone else all the damn time, too. I just eventually need a break from that, I can't do 'social' in the long-term.
Introvert, personality disorder, apples & oranges. The latter's such a huge stretch.
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I don't even get the 'only speaks up when there's something to contribute' thing. Tobias is casually making pointless fun conversation with everyone else all the damn time.
It's absolutely confirmable within the books, I've reread it and gone over it. Find a group meeting, and Tobias will keep to the background until someone else speaks first, or he has something to say about the mission. Most of the banter he engages in is instigated by Marco and directed at him. He's guarded and keeps to himself, especially in the earlier books. That's just one of his core defining character traits and it takes Rachel to break him out of that shell.
Introversion doesn't necessarily correlate to 'talkativeness in a group.' I'm an introvert, but if you put me in a social setting, I will make pointless fun conversation with everyone else all the damn time, too. I just eventually need a break from that, I can't do 'social' in the long-term.
Right, that's kinda how I am too, but more shy. There's a subtle but distinct difference between introverted, shy, and guarded. If I'm in new company, it'll take me a little bit to work up the courage to say something, but on a subject I'm comfortable with, I can't stop talking. Once I get past the obstacles of worrying about people not liking me and not being sure how to handle the situation, I can be social for a while until I need my "recharge."
Tobias is different. He's guarded. He's put up walls that are hard for him to lower, even when he knows he's safe with friends. As such, whenever he's hurt, stressed, or just really uncomfortable with something, he shuts people out even if he knows on a conscious level that it's not their fault. He's been subconsciously trained that people are a cause of pain, even though he wants positive human connection more than anything. It traces back to the "ambiguous duality" theme that was so prominent in his character arcs. Everything in his life is a source of happiness and pain at the same time and it cripples him with confusion.
As for Ax and Myers-Briggs, I think all andalites are more extroverted by default against human standards. They're evolved from herd animals, and it figures into their psychology very heavily. That's the theory I like, anyway.
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Tobias isn't that way with Jake & Cassie, right from book 1. He & Marco were always a little contentious, so yeah, there's some warming up that needs to take place there, and I guess he was pretty shy toward Rachel initially. But that's for, what, 3 books or something. I just don't see the inability to relate & interact here. They're pretty much the first people who've ever treated him decently, that trust is earned, so initially the tentative stuff makes sense.
Still well within the bounds of normal human interaction though. The guy's not lacking in social skills, I really think a whole bunch of this theory comes from that one throwaway line he has about "the mall gives him the creeps". It's grasping.
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Tobias was giddy over hero-worshipping Jake and morphing in book 1, the combination of which pretty much overexcited him to the point of making him forget his normal reservations. Morphing was also something he could bond over with Jake, so he was desperately pushing himself into the group because he'd never before had such an opportunity to be accepted by his peers. I got the feeling he even came off as weirdly desperate in Jake's eyes.
As for Cassie, they had a brief conversation in #4 when he tried to eat her. That consisted of a grumpy, "Sorry for trying to eat you," and, "Weird dreams? Hey, me too." (paraphrased) The next time they interacted was the bit I cited earlier in #9, when she blew up their friendship and they pretty much never spoke again for the rest of the series. Neither of those really disprove my assertions.
Also, I'm definitely not saying he has an inability to relate and interact. That's way too absolute a term. I'm saying he has difficulty opening up to others and keeps things at a safe distance as a defense mechanism. He's obviously not a total shut-in who avoids others at all cost. He's just an introvert with some trust issues as a result of an abusive childhood.
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NFS, are we arguing about whether Tobias was an introvert, or on the autism spectrum? You know that neither I nor XF thinks Tobias was remotely autistic, right? I feel like you posted something about how Tobias wasn't even an introvert, and then as soon as we started refuting that, you assumed we were arguing for Tobias being autistic. Which we're not. At all. Just wanted to clear that up, since I think there was some confusion there.
Gah, if I knew how to quote posts from locked threads, I'd quote Jess's post that quite decidedly puts the whole misguided 'Tobias had autism' thing firmly to rest. :P
Anyway, as far as 'verts go, I'm fairly positive Tobias was not only an introvert, but probably the most introverted of the Animorphs, for reasons that have already been discussed. Now, whether this was a result of his upbringing, or a tendency that he already possessed, is up for some debate. But I really don't think there's much of a case to be made that he was a 'people-person.' I'd be curious to see if you could come up with some examples, though.
As for Ax and Myers-Briggs, I think all andalites are more extroverted by default against human standards. They're evolved from herd animals, and it figures into their psychology very heavily. That's the theory I like, anyway.
That's a really good point, but keep in mind that humans are a pretty heavily extroverted species, too. We may not have a 'herd' mentality, but we have a 'tribe' mentality, where rejection from a tribe was, for most of our evolutionary history, a death sentence. So I think we're actually pretty similar to Andalites in that regard.
P.S. I've read your post about all the reasons Andalites being herd animals causes them to act the way they do, and it's a pretty amazing idea.
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It just occurred to me that we may be working off slightly different definitions of the phrase, "people-person." I meant it more in terms of empathy, sympathizing, and knowing how to read people than a need to be social all the time.
As for Ax and Myers-Briggs, I think all andalites are more extroverted by default against human standards. They're evolved from herd animals, and it figures into their psychology very heavily. That's the theory I like, anyway.
That's a really good point, but keep in mind that humans are a pretty heavily extroverted species, too. We may not have a 'herd' mentality, but we have a 'tribe' mentality, where rejection from a tribe was, for most of our evolutionary history, a death sentence. So I think we're actually pretty similar to Andalites in that regard.
True enough. Primary difference, however, is that humans typically don't desperately try to join in on a mass suicide in progress. Maybe it's kind of a difference in how the extroversion is approached. The difference, I guess, boils down to us being sympathetic to one another, where andalites are more empathetic. Just look at the justifications for the whole vecol thing. Maybe they can actually kind of feel each others' emotion thanks to their natural language being thoughtspeak.
Come to think of it, it probably affects them more than we even realize. You think maybe having a large number of telepaths all in the same area causes a sort of subconscious collective undercurrent to form? Just look at that evil aura of evil Visser 3 projects all the time. With everyone talking to each other in thoughtspeak, there could be a sort of buildup of background emotions being passed on to one another spreading like a viral chain from andalite to andalite. That could perhaps provide another explanation as to why they exile vecols. The vecol can sense on some level how others feel looking at them, which makes them feel sad, which then is projected to the others and generally brings everyone else down. Missing limbs are like, a total buzzkill man, y'know?
I dunno, I'm really tired right now. Caffeinated speculation isn't the safest practice.
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It just occurred to me that we may be working off slightly different definitions of the phrase, "people-person." I meant it more in terms of empathy, sympathizing, and knowing how to read people than a need to be social all the time.
Oh, semantics, thou derailer of arguments. :P
True enough. Primary difference, however, is that humans typically don't desperately try to join in on a mass suicide in progress. Maybe it's kind of a difference in how the extroversion is approached. The difference, I guess, boils down to us being sympathetic to one another, where andalites are more empathetic. Just look at the justifications for the whole vecol thing. Maybe they can actually kind of feel each others' emotion thanks to their natural language being thoughtspeak.
Yep, I think you're right. Humans and Andalites probably have about the same average levels of extroversion, but they have different psychological motivations for the same trait. Humans being more selfish, Andalites being more selfless. Humans are like "I want to hang out with you, so I won't be lonely" where Andalites are like "I want to hang out with you, so you won't be lonely."
Come to think of it, it probably affects them more than we even realize. You think maybe having a large number of telepaths all in the same area causes a sort of subconscious collective undercurrent to form? Just look at that evil aura of evil Visser 3 projects all the time. With everyone talking to each other in thoughtspeak, there could be a sort of buildup of background emotions being passed on to one another spreading like a viral chain from andalite to andalite
That's a very interesting point about Visser 3. Do you suppose it's because he isn't quite in full control of Alloran's mind? I've speculated before, that Esplin absorbed far more from Alloran's brain than he could handle; it explains why he went from an ambitious and cunning tactician to a nearly-incompetent cliche villain as soon as he got his palps on an Andalite host. For that matter, what if the reason he always yells his thought-speak is the same as the reason for the aura of evil? There's, I dunno, a sort of 'leak' between the Andalite brain and the Yeerk wrapped around it, that lets all that stuff through? He can't control his thought-speak or his emotional projection, because he doesn't have access to that part of the brain; maybe the thought-speak 'volume knob' and emotional 'filter' are somewhere in the interior of the Andalite brain, where even a Yeerk can't reach.
And, it might not actually be a projection of 'evil' at all. They often describe it as a feeling of 'wrongness' that surrounds him. So what if it's actually all of Alloran's emotions, mashed up with all of Esplin's, just oozing uncontrollably out of his brain. Fear and sadness and lack of control mixed with, okay, well, evil. But the point is, it would feel dissonant and jarring and unnatural to anyone who was exposed to it, and the person feeling that could easily interpret it as 'pure evil.' And Esplin doesn't know how to turn it off (or might not even be aware that it's happening).
Lol, it's great discussing these things in TRAT. We've had at least three completely different debates in the last couple days, and haven't gone 'off-topic' once. :XD:
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Here's a recent (Dec 7 2015 :) ) interview with the cover artist of animorphs http://www.vice.com/read/meet-the-artist-behind-the-animorphs-covers-that-destroyed-your-mind-as-a-kid-1207 (http://www.vice.com/read/meet-the-artist-behind-the-animorphs-covers-that-destroyed-your-mind-as-a-kid-1207) saw this on Reddit, made me happy
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Tonight I'll read that!
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That interviewer's pretty horrible. :P You'd think you'd do like 10 minutes of quick research before interviewing the guy, to figure out what he's done. "I did Everworld too" - "Really?" Haha. I didn't remember he did Everworld either, but if you're interviewing the guy...
So from that interview, is he saying the final published covers for books 1-3 were another artist? Or another artist did the covers, Scholastic changed their minds and hired Mattingly, and the final published ones were his? Didn't quite get that. I don't have the books handy to check, but from memory it looked like the same art style.
And, grr, Vice. That news show of theirs is so irritating. Let's cover serious issues with hipster douchebags reporting from the field. Ehh.
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Well, the first two covers showed the morph only from the head, not the full body, so I suppose they were by a different guy.
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That interviewer's pretty horrible. :P You'd think you'd do like 10 minutes of quick research before interviewing the guy, to figure out what he's done. "I did Everworld too" - "Really?" Haha. I didn't remember he did Everworld either, but if you're interviewing the guy...
Wait. He did everworld? I like their covers better than the Animorphs covers.
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/maritsapatrinos/can-you-guess-the-animorphs-title-based-on-its-cover#.emqp7V1Kqa (http://www.buzzfeed.com/maritsapatrinos/can-you-guess-the-animorphs-title-based-on-its-cover#.emqp7V1Kqa)
10/10. Because for an RAF member, anything lower is shameful.
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I got a 10/10, too. And then the quiz tells me that I must be Elfangor . . . right next to a picture of Ax.
Also, THIS is one of the possible answers. :XD:
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That was surprisingly easy.
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The Starfish nis such a much better name for that book
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much more high brow
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Heck, ALL the books should be named by that method.
[spoiler=I have way too much free time right now apparently]The Lizard, The Cat, The Hawk, The Dolphin, The Gorilla, The Fly, The Bear, The . . . yeah okay that one can stay the same, The Wolf, The Spider, The Jaguar, The Crocodile, The Human, The Horse, The Shark, The Rhino, The Bat, The Mosquito, The Butterfly, The Cobra, The Dog, The Rat, The Rabbit, The Anteater, The Bear II, The Tiger, The Squid, The Cow, The Yeerk, The Roach, The Falcon, *we already covered this one*, The Andalite, The Hork-bajir, The Poodle, The Orca, The Cheetah, The Hawk II, The Buffalo, The Bee, The Grownup, The Elephant, The Taxxon, The Kangaroo, The Ant, The Human II, The Beaver, The Muscle-claws, The Dog II, The Owl, The Duck, The Raccoon, The Snake, The Shadows. AND YES, I DID THAT ALL FROM MEMORY.[/spoiler]
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Impressive. I'm not that great with the last 10 or so.
Still, 10/10.
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I sometimes try to recite all the actual covers from memory in my head.
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It's the same reason there's this crazy Star Wars fan theory making the rounds across the net, that Jar Jar Binks was actually a Sith lord, and all the weird little accidents and coincidences that seem to just happen to work out in his favor were actually his doing all along. People don't think that because it's the explanation that makes the most sense; it isn't. People latch on to this idea because it fixes something that was bad.
And now Cassie will forever be the Jar Jar Binks of Animorphs to me. :P
I'm not buying her being a psychopath, I think she's more the blind idealist/fundamentalist (not sure the right word for this). Basically, she has her worldview, you can't change it, she won't consider she can be wrong, or someone else can be right. If you follow her view, she's your best friend, if you dont, she hates you or maybe just really dislikes you, and you're the enemy to either be converted or fought. That's not really psychopathy, that's just idealism gone really bad.
The only one that ever really struck me as a psychopath was David. He was just off. Like, he didn't have morality, but knew he needed it to fit. So he substituted rules for morals. He can't kill people because it's against his rules, but if they're in morph, they aren't human, so there's no problem. That kind of stuff. That was downright eerie.
(I caught up on a lot in this thread)
Tobias having aspergers? Well, no. I'm not that up to speed on it, even though I recently found out my parents had me tested for it when I was really little. Twice. (Apparently I was shown pretty conclusively to not have it both times). But, I don't really think he ever shows any traits of it except not fitting in. Ax seems a decent fit for it. I never really considered it, since he's an alien, he shouldn't get all that human stuff... except other aliens in the series all seem to get the things Ax doesn't after being with humans for a little bit of time. Ax spends years with humans and never gets any closer to catching on. So, yeah, I'm starting to wonder of Ax does have autism.
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Well, it could just be that he didn't want to change – he was so set in his ways that anything different was, well, too different.
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REPOST:
Here's some links to that AniMORphs XREEEEEEEEME Poparena was talking about: http://web.archive.org/web/20011212051134/http://www.scholastic.com/ANIMORPHS/xtreme/index.htm (http://web.archive.org/web/20011212051134/http://www.scholastic.com/ANIMORPHS/xtreme/index.htm)
http://web.archive.org/web/20010804113046/http://www.scholastic.com/ANIMORPHS/xtreme/ask.htm (http://web.archive.org/web/20010804113046/http://www.scholastic.com/ANIMORPHS/xtreme/ask.htm)
http://web.archive.org/web/20010413163703/http://www.scholastic.com/animorphs/bk53.htm (http://web.archive.org/web/20010413163703/http://www.scholastic.com/animorphs/bk53.htm)
I loves me some wayback machine
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I don't think that's it. Ax wasn't against adopting human culture as much as he just didn't get it. He watched a soap opera and started talking like they do for instance.
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Here is some apparently unused artwork from 19
(http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/animorphs/images/4/47/Alternate_Cover_to_19.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150516155108)
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How did you find that?
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The 90's animorphs website. I found it using the wayback machine. I posted in Seerowpedia. (Noob Alert EWWWWW)
BEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ANIMORPHS ANGELFIRE WEBSITE EARLY INTERNET SO MANY BAD GIFS LOL http://www.angelfire.com/al/AnimorphGirl/frames.html (http://www.angelfire.com/al/AnimorphGirl/frames.html)
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Got emulator, got pokemon, did this.
(http://i.imgur.com/SjO9c5g.png) Funny or not funny?
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Here is some apparently unused artwork from 19
(http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/animorphs/images/4/47/Alternate_Cover_to_19.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150516155108)
She evolved into Butterfree :D
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SG: The first one.
Dino: I wish that 54 was actually called "The Shadows." I've always had trouble with its name being "The Beginning."
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If she evolved into butterfree that means... cassie is really caterpie?
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Dino: I wish that 54 was actually called "The Shadows." I've always had trouble with its name being "The Beginning."
I like the "The Rolling Stones Styled Cover" for The Begining
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If she evolved into butterfree that means... cassie is really caterpie?
Metapod, actually. Insert "Harden" joke here.
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BEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ANIMORPHS ANGELFIRE WEBSITE EARLY INTERNET SO MANY BAD GIFS LOL http://www.angelfire.com/al/AnimorphGirl/frames.html (http://www.angelfire.com/al/AnimorphGirl/frames.html)
Oh lore. I made soo many cacky sites on AngelFire and Geocities. I wonder how many of them are still out there...
I made a SlipKnot forum which was actually rather popular at one point! It was embarassing looking back...
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Slipknot? Buuuurrrrn hiiiim! :P
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Haha, it was pure cringe. We were all like a bunch of non-cutting, non-orgy-having people from a Tara Gilesbie fanfic.
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My god, I had all but forgotten about My Immortal up till this point. That was golden.
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My god, I had all but forgotten about My Immortal up till this point. That was golden.
I love this renactment/dramatic reading. No matter how down I'm feeling, it gives me the crack ups :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdv6Q68EutU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdv6Q68EutU)
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I always thought it looked like he was grinning on the cover of VISSER :D
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The only thing about you that isn't cool is the fact that there are numbers in your username.
What's wrong with numbers in a username?
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Holy **** he dragged that reply from like two months ago.
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Holy **** he dragged that reply from like two months ago.
You sound surprised.
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Found this on a random Google search
(http://36.media.tumblr.com/067132ab9b68fffc612aef84cdd43259/tumblr_ny3q7zwt7b1uuilj1o1_1280.jpg)
Noob levels reaching 1000000
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Holy **** he dragged that reply from like two months ago.
I thought you would of realised by now tim is a professional necromancer. Annoying but professional.
I would like to know what random google searches lead you to an animorphs fortune teller...
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You know the story of Zeus being a bird? In case you don't, let me explain. Zeus took the form of a wet, ragged bird as a way to get Hera to hold him to her breast (wink wink) and take him home. He took advantage of her (aka got laid) and shamed her into marrying him.
This sounds familiar to a certain scene in #25...
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Can you acquire dead people/animals
What if someone preserved a foot or something, could acquire the dna and then morph the person who it belonged to?
Imagine that
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A character in a (non-animorphs) book I was reading decided to talk to a random red-tailed hawk. She'd been thinking something about how the world was ending, and the birds would inherit it soon, and she said something like "Not today, birdie."
I just pictured the hawk being like, <That's okay, I can wait.>
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Can you acquire dead people/animals
What if someone preserved a foot or something, could acquire the dna and then morph the person who it belonged to?
Imagine that
I think the reason that doesn't work, and the reason acquiring puts the target into a trance, is because the morphing tech needs to do a full body scan and figure out how everything should function as normal. It's taking a snapshot of all the inner workings and seeing how all the parts should do their jobs so it can figure out how to make a good transition without accidentally causing catastrophic organ failure mid-morph. That would really suck.
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That makes a lot of sense, but everything in book 18 happened because Ax said you should be able to morph from blood alone if you had enough of it
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That makes a lot of sense, but everything in book 18 happened because Ax said you should be able to morph from blood alone if you had enough of it
Why didn't the Animorphs ever try the morphing from blood trick again after Book 18?
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Because just look at how that turned out.
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Can you acquire dead people/animals
What if someone preserved a foot or something, could acquire the dna and then morph the person who it belonged to?
Imagine that
It would have been awesome if the Animorphs could have just morphed random limbs. They could play dead really well if they were supposed to have been eaten by something. "Oh, the monster must have missed the arm."
Or maybe they want to freak someone out so they morph a hand that just crawls along the ground.
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Got bored and decided to make an Animorphs Themed playlist on 8tracks. Hope yall enjoy:
http://8tracks.com/yourmomisafish/do-you-just-hate-trash-cans-an-animorphs-mix (http://8tracks.com/yourmomisafish/do-you-just-hate-trash-cans-an-animorphs-mix)
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Because just look at how that turned out.
It seems highly unlikely that their extra mass would get rammed by a Zero Space ship the 2nd time they tried the mosquito trick! It my understanding that the accident in Book 18 was the FIRST such accident ever!
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I just had a disturbing/hilarious thought.
What would happen if you took a Mortron :mortron: (the wheeled aliens Visser Three kept as pets in the Andalite Chronicles, which could quickly regenerate into multiple copies of themselves when cut in half) and put it into a blender/food processor? Will It Blend?
. . . The 'disturbing' part, of course, is the fact that I find this mental image 'hilarious.'
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:mortron:
That mortron smiley is bomb
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dose mortrons doe
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That mortron smiley is bomb
Thanks! I honestly wasn't trying to toot my own horn, I was just providing the smiley for reference, but I sure do appreciate the compliment all the same. :D
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PSA: Michael Grant will be having an AMA on r/books at 3 EST tomorrow.
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PSA: Michael Grant will be having an AMA on r/books at 3 EST tomorrow.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH
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Michael Grant AMA:
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/463bss/im_michael_grant_author_or_coauthor_of_animorphs/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/463bss/im_michael_grant_author_or_coauthor_of_animorphs/)
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The other day I noticed a red-tailed hawk circling almost directly above one of those "2-hour limit" parking signs. :XD:
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Found him!
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Cassie was my least favorite when I was a kid. She still is. Is that bad.
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Not in the slightest. She is a frigging monster.
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Nein.
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... slightly creepy
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Haha!
(http://i.imgur.com/bh1v5E3.gif)
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Heard the song "No" on the radio for the first time today. One of the lines is "My name is 'No'."
My first thought: " . . . Ax?"
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Aw, Ax, you lovable blue bastard you.
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Pretty sure I've read the fanfic where he discovers Earth music. :P
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Randall Munroe continues to be a huge Animorphs nerd in this week's What If (http://what-if.xkcd.com/149/). Check out footnote 7.
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He needs an account here.
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So I guess the animorphs shop at Gap
(http://i.imgur.com/zOt1AOq.png)
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Yeah, I noticed that a lot whenI was making the Abridged Series. Always made me think of the Gap that used to be in my mallwhere I once looked for an entrance to the Yeerk Pool in whenIwas a little kid.
I didn't find it.
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You did, however, find an abundance of people screaming "GET OUT, YOU PERVERT!"
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I read MM3 this weekend, and this morning was thinking how what Cassie and Marco said about Jake only being willing to sacrifice himself.
I wonder what his thoughts on that were, by the end it clearly wasn't the case, but when did he consciously realize that. Did he really belief going in that he was the only possible casualty, or would he have considered that Crayak may have wanted someone else
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I read MM3 this weekend, and this morning was thinking how what Cassie and Marco said about Jake only being willing to sacrifice himself.
I wonder what his thoughts on that were, by the end it clearly wasn't the case, but when did he consciously realize that. Did he really belief going in that he was the only possible casualty, or would he have considered that Crayak may have wanted someone else
Oh wow, never thought about that. This is a great question. Actually, if you think about it, Crayak could only have wanted one particular Animorph, Rachel, if he wanted someone else than Jake....Really interesting...
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Well if he's demanding death he should go after Cassie, leave Jake with the crushing guilt for losing a teammate and the crushing grief of losing who he loved most, but then Crayak never seemed into torture, physical or psychological, just death, which is why he took Jake over Cassie (and a bunch of the other stuff he did). I'd think he would want to kill Rachel the least, and wonder how that would be considered in knowing his demands
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During one Animorphs novel, Ax offered to refer to Prince Jake as something like "the boy formerly known as "Prince"". This was a reference to the great musician Prince changing his name to a symbol, becoming the "Artist formerly known as Prince". He did it to secure control of his music.
This morning, Prince died at his estate. He was found unresponsive in an elevator.
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I believe it was, "The prince formerly known as Jake." Even so, I appreciate your sentiment.
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(http://40.media.tumblr.com/89f1818f6bf3c3e26d8e5d2cc922415e/tumblr_nrfwrlKExA1uuilj1o1_1280.jpg)
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Duh, the little rat-dog. :)
And ahh, the awesome 90s, all the Prince & NIN & Offspring references and such. *Bows to the awesome gods*
"The Prince Formerly Known As Jake" is still ****ing gold.
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I'm pretty sure it was "the Jake formerly known as Prince," because remember, it was Jake telling Ax not to call him 'prince' anymore. Of course, I agree with all the "awesome reference" sentiments nonetheless. :)
It actually took me a second or two to find the fake morph. But, yeah, I'm pretty sure Jake never morphed a chihuahua.
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Ah! Screwed up an Ani-quote. *Ritual seppuku*
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i give up
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I found that off of this Tumblr blog. (http://myanimorphscollection.tumblr.com/)
I WANT AAAAAAAALL OF THIS
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Ooh. :) She has a lot of Animorphs swag.
I still have this lying around somewhere back at my parent's place, can't even remember where I got it, I think they were even selling them in bookstores back in the day.
(http://40.media.tumblr.com/42f07023604c161ad484c4153b332589/tumblr_o4z2qpTzKA1uuilj1o1_1280.jpg)
(http://41.media.tumblr.com/c980bc2656e987fbe7d0175ac3faa766/tumblr_o4z2qpTzKA1uuilj1o3_1280.jpg)
Remember getting that in one of the books way back when, too. :) God, that Tumblr's such an awesome nostalgia trip.
(http://41.media.tumblr.com/3a0d96aa1318c3a9deb3e0445e0c60cb/tumblr_npnog1JCQP1uuilj1o1_1280.jpg)
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I hope the CD that ad is talking about is Nice is Neat: The Downward Spiral
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Heh, yeah, I can't remember which book with the "new" NIN album reference is, but it's probably referring to The Downward Spiral just got the time a bit wrong. The Fragile was 99.
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Maybe it was referring to the Offspring. According to Wikipedia, their album Ixnay on the Hombre was released a few months before book 10, which was where they were mentioned. And most people would agree that was the last good Offspring album.
God, Offspring? Nice is Neat? I probably would have hung out with Jake and Marco for the music alone.
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Yep, although the book reference is Marco & Jake sneaking into an outdoor Offspring concert (or festival in which they were playing) as dogs, it's not a specific album reference, but that'd be it. 1997. Amazing, amazing album too. 8)
The NIN thing is Marco & Cassie discussing "the new" NIN CD. Downward Spiral was '94, so too early, but The Fragile's probably too late at '99. So it's just likely a broad general 90s setting for the series, doubt they paid much attention to the years. But mid-90s, it'd be Downward Spiral.
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The Fragile was 99.
The Reaction (the book with the NIN joke) was published 1997. So it would be The Downward Spiral
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Well, yeah, but what makes more sense is that Katherine/Michael were just going for a general period/vibe, than thinking specific years. Like the series taking place in 1994, that album's year, would throw off the Alanis and Offspring references etc, as they were sort of only just becoming "names".
It's just a general era thing.
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oooooooooh Mr. Shawn Ashmore recently came out with an interview about his memories on the set of animorphs
(http://thespinoff.co.nz/21-04-2016/video-the-last-animorphs-mystery-solved-by-star-shawn-ashmore/ (http://thespinoff.co.nz/21-04-2016/video-the-last-animorphs-mystery-solved-by-star-shawn-ashmore/))
based on this interview, I don't think he ever read the books ::)
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Why do you think he didn't read the books?
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I'm assuming the one comment from 'Dylan' was you (dpsb) :P
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I'm assuming the one comment from 'Dylan' was you (dpsb) :P
You caught me red-handed
Why do you think he didn't read the books?
IT'S CALLED THOUGHT-SPEAK GODAMNIT
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Oh.
Yeah.
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News Alert: KA's The One and Only Ivan is reportedly being made into a film.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/harry-potter-director-mike-newell-891491 (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/harry-potter-director-mike-newell-891491)
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That's cool. But I don't understand why people feel the need to turn everything into a movie... why do you all think that is?
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That's cool. But I don't understand why people feel the need to turn everything into a movie... why do you all think that is?
Turning this into a feature-length film.
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Movies based books and other things people already know sell really well. That's why reboots and book adaptations are constantly made.
Cough Cough where's my Animorphs movie already Cough Cough
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An animorphs movie would almost certainly be an atrocity
Who the hell are Tobias's aunt and uncle? I assume the siblings of the guy Tobias originally thought was his dad, but really how the hell did they get roped into caring for him
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Wasn't Tobias's aunt Loren's sister?
*looks it up*
Yup, mentioned in #49. Loren had some serious brain damage after her universe-resetting car accident, so she couldn't take care of Tobias and someone sent him to live with his aunt. I'm guessing the aunt and uncle divorced shortly after, seeing as he was passed back and forth.
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Touch'e.
I suppose I've always taken the "whoever she was" part of that as an indicator that she wasn't a real sister. Unlikely to be an out and out imposter, maybe a sister in law or even step sister.
Just seems off to me that it'd be her real sister.
But if that is the case, what man agrees to take care of an ex-wife's nephew after a divorce. Especially since it's clear he didn't care about Tobias either?
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I'm pretty sure it was "the Jake formerly known as Prince," because remember, it was Jake telling Ax not to call him 'prince' anymore. Of course, I agree with all the "awesome reference" sentiments nonetheless. :)
In which book was that quote?
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Touch'e.
I suppose I've always taken the "whoever she was" part of that as an indicator that she wasn't a real sister. Unlikely to be an out and out imposter, maybe a sister in law or even step sister.
Just seems off to me that it'd be her real sister.
But if that is the case, what man agrees to take care of an ex-wife's nephew after a divorce. Especially since it's clear he didn't care about Tobias either?
At first I figured they were a divorced couple. But I think that they were relatives from different sides. The aunt being Loren's sister, and the uncle being the brother of Tobias' step-father.
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It was book 18.
But what brought me here today
http://www.dorkly.com/post/77540/were-the-90s-actually-better (http://www.dorkly.com/post/77540/were-the-90s-actually-better)
Ah memories
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Heh, xkcd referenced Animorphs again. Note 7 in this article. (http://what-if.xkcd.com/149/)
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(http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/animorphs/images/a/aa/Disney_adventures_winter_1999_anitv_3.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160315005212)
I never really got why they gave The Reaction to Cassie in TV show. There were a couple other Cassie books they could do within the show's budget ( 9, 14, 19, 29)
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53 COULD DEFINITELY HAVE FIT THE BUDGET
THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE ANDALITE CHRONICLES TOO
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Dude, 26. That would be like, all bluescreen and the worst possible CGI. XD
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We have to make this a thing. If RafCon ever happens again, this should be a top priority.
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We have to make this a thing. If RafCon ever happens again, this should be a top priority.
won't that happen in 2020?
(https://40.media.tumblr.com/b3793ea0ca7338bf945ebbefd36ac555/tumblr_o18riehNDa1uuilj1o1_500.jpg)
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I can't believe that poster was actually a thing.
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Sitting in a Starbucks and I see a couple (16-17?) boy and girl, both blonde. Guy is taller than the girl. Girl looked just a bit like the Rachel cover model. The guy looks handsome enough, but doesn't have the confidence that would keep him from maybe getting picked on at a younger age. Then again, I could be completely wrong.
They'd make a good Rachel and Tobias, is what I'm saying.
Not a creep. I promise. Just bored before my shift at 10.
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Apparently, The Message was KA's favorite book
(http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/animorphs/images/f/f1/Ka_applegate_interview_nick_mag_dec_1997.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160324034713)
She must be a deep believer of JesusWhale
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Bwaha, "Jesus Whale". :P
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Happy 20th anniversary to Animorphs!
According to Dpsb5,#1 The Invasion was published on June 17th, 1996.
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Rewatched pieces of the TV show last week. For some reason, of all the horrible, horrible decisions they made, the one that bothers me the most is from the episode with Marco's mom.
In Part II they steal a Blade Ship (!? wtf, that's a fighter) and are trying to pilot it and...just...no. As a kid, I guess I overlooked the fact that they were just MESSING WITH EQUALIZER SLIDERS. Oh, and one of the buttons they press still says AUX on it. They didn't even TRY.
"Quick, just have the screen shake a lot! They'll never know! Spin the spinny knob! Show the sliders randomly going up and down! It's ALIEN!"
Okay, that's all. #rantover
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Happy 20th anniversary to Animorphs!
According to Dpsb5,#1 The Invasion was published on June 17th, 1996.
Wow!
Rewatched pieces of the TV show last week. For some reason, of all the horrible, horrible decisions they made, the one that bothers me the most is from the episode with Marco's mom.
In Part II they steal a Blade Ship (!? wtf, that's a fighter) and are trying to pilot it and...just...no. As a kid, I guess I overlooked the fact that they were just MESSING WITH EQUALIZER SLIDERS. Oh, and one of the buttons they press still says AUX on it. They didn't even TRY.
"Quick, just have the screen shake a lot! They'll never know! Spin the spinny knob! Show the sliders randomly going up and down! It's ALIEN!"
Okay, that's all. #rantover
I've only seen a few episodes.
Time to go through all of them.
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I've only seen a few episodes.
Time to go through all of them.
I have actually sat down and watched them all (no, I don't hate myself) and out of all of the episodes, some of them are actually okay.
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Such as...?
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Such as...?
The Visitor episode, The Invasion episode, Back to Before's episode, The Alien episode, and The Underground's episode were decent.
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I saw a few of those. They were okay.
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I actually thought parts of The Capture were okay. I like the voice over they got for the Yeerk who infested Jake (Temrash?). I do feel like they could've done more with it, but hey...I'll take what I can get.
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It really is a shame that, more than a decade later, a proper Animorphs show would still be way too expensive for any network that isn't HBO. That being said, the show we did get (and probably the only show we'll get) wasn't....horrible. As far as 90s sci-fi kids shows go, it was pretty good. It was just a horrible adaption.
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Yeah, if viewed as something totally different from the books, it's actually pretty okay.
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I would actually really like to see an HBO Animorphs show. That'd be perfect. Yanno they actually own Sesame Street now? Probably why they had a GoT parody skit at one point, come to think of it. Can't wait to see how bloody these next few seasons get.
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Problem with something like that on HBO is, it'll be R-rated. Animorphs occupies this weird position where like, yeah, the violence and themes are pretty R-rated, but on another level it sort of has to be primarily for tween/teen-age kids.
Condundrum!
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Considering the original fan base is all grown up now, why not. :P And I'm pretty sure kids these days are a lot more sensitized to that sort of thing, it's just the parents that wank a lot.
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The central theme to Animorphs was always "war is hell", straight from the beginning, and that's why the violence was so brutal. You can't really convey that message anywhere near as effectively if you nerf the heavily R-rated violence at all.
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I dunno, I still think a real-life adaptation wasn't a good way to go. Even today, I'd rather see an animated version. With the right animator you could get a lot of the dark undertones of the series in (and do a LOT more with it) while reaching both the younger audience it was originally intended for and the adults.
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^
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this
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Agreed. I'd much rather see them try their luck at an animated adaption. I've been dreaming of animated version of Animorphs with an art style akin to these (http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/281690/header.jpg?t=1447360514) shows (http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/vsbattles/images/4/4a/Vji4ec930claksbsh1fs_(2).jpg/revision/latest?cb=20151030142430) for years. Of course, you'd still have the whole "what network would take it" problem. With the level of violence and mature themes that the series has, there's no way in hell any kids network will take it. And other networks usually aren't willing to take on any animated shows that aren't comedies, like South Park or Family Guy. Your best bet would be Adult Swim/Toonami or Netflix.
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Right, animated cuts out a lot of the budget issues (GoT is I guess probably the highest-production-values show on TV, HBO does this stuff really well, but even GoT's probably too small to do much in the way of the off-world stuff, or space battles etc).
Something like HBO's own Spawn animated series from 1997, though? That could absolutely rule. Animated, serialized so you don't have to start chopping & cutting the books to streamline it, you can go multiple seasons. Animated so you can have just about anything drawn/conveyed without costing a bazillion dollars. Pretty much in the style of the 90s Batman animated series, only it was R-rated.
(http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/1/18863/937731-393869_101980_spawn.jpg)
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Space battles are actually a bit cheaper and easier than you might expect. Usually, they boil down to ships just moving around against a background and they still look amazing if you do it right. Battlestar Galactica had massive space battles almost every episode without exploding their budget (they blew it on music instead). It's the same reason video game devs can afford to put so much more detail into the graphics in space games. Spaceships don't typically have a lot of (externally visible) complex moving parts that need to be delicately choreographed, and space typically doesn't have a million environmental objects around you that you need to render.
An alien planet, on the other hand, would take quite a bit because then you're having to go through the effort of blending the CGI to look good with the live action, and it can easily become a jarring mess.
I would totally go for something like Ben 10: Alien Force with a ton of blood and gore. Heck, Ben 10 is probably the closest thing we'll ever actually get to a good Animorphs adaptation.
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Maybe I should start watching Ben 10. Never too late...
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Please do. It's awesome! Just stay away from the Omniverse series
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Why?
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Battlestar Galactica still looks pretty cheap though, Xeno. I don't mind that because it sort of fits the feel of the thing (I mean, hey, the digital effects on 90s stuff like Buffy, while few and far between, always look awful and it doesn't even matter), but still, you'd sort of want to be able to convincingly convey the larger scope stuff in the second half of the Animorphs story.
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Definitely watch Ben 10. Start with the first series, just to get introduced, then skip straight to Alien Force once they deal with Kevin. Alien Force/Ultimate Alien are awesome. Omniverse is meh.
To be fair, I always pictured the crazier stuff in Animorphs (The Ellimist, space battles, all of #26) looking like mediocre 90s CGI. Just how it came across in my head. XD
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Huh, I really remember not liking Ben 10 very much when it came out. Maybe I should revisit it.
Let's be honest, mediocre 90s CGI is the bomb. I would sincerely like to see Animorphs done in that way.
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Didn't we already, with the show? :P
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No, those weren't mediocre 90s special effects; those were terrible 90s special effects.
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Those were rock bottom 90s VFX. :P
It's gotta be stylized mediocre, too. Something engineered to trigger the nostalgia rush without making you want to puke looking at it. :D
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Ehh, the Ani TV digital stuff wasn't really any worse than anything else from the 90s. In '98 those types of effects were still pretty fresh on TV.
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I pictured BSG-reboot-style effects. I haven't actually watched the show, but I've seen clips here and there.
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I saw this on r/Animorphs and doesn't this poster give off such big animorphs vibes
(http://i.imgur.com/4DRvdOI.jpg)
Litterally, Animorphs is basically Power Rangers but a whole lot better
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DYLAN, WHAT THE HELL, I WAS JUST ABOUT TO POST THAT!!! Glad I'm not the only one who got serious Animorphs vibes from that poster. :D
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Yeah, it really does. 8) Sure that movie's tone will be infinitely different to Animorphs (at least hopefully, you go all serious with friggin' Power Rangers and it's not gonna work), but it's a cool image.
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Serious Power Rangers.
That would be fun.
(http://i.imgur.com/4DRvdOI.jpg)
Left to right: Jake, Cassie, Marco (he got taller I guess), Rachel, Tobias
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Kid Me was a little cracked. She apparently thought that the back of Book # 1 sounded almost exactly like the narration for a movie trailer, and so literally played it out beat for beat as if it was one. To the tune of the cheesy Cerebus Syndrome version of Johnny Quest's main theme. Luckily I didn't accompany this with cheesy 90s CGI, but instead with rather photo-realistic images (For a kid)...As if we could actually summon two Andalites to act for us. :P
Also, K.A. Appelgate's initial creeptastic, stupidly-arrogant-yet-competent Visser Three got lodged in my little child brain's collective unconscious as a reference for the character archetype he was (Whom Mar and Jeffrey both source from). Which occasionally makes me wish for an alternate universe where there were no ghostwriters and the quality of the writing was consistent.
As did, actually, Marco as someone to look up to--- Who is more consistently awesome. <3 And Cassie to resemble me. It's interesting when I think about how much impact the series has had on me.
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Please tell me she actually made the trailer.
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I wish. I was eight and I was creative, but I wasn't exactly a video editing genius. :akanbe:
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Channel 8 y/o you and make this a thing...
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Question:
I have all the paper copies of the animorphs except Visser, and all the ebooks on my computer. My friend has agreed to give them a shot (after lots of nagging from me), should I lend her my books or give her the ebooks, knowing she has a tendency to lose books I give to her? I don't feel that it would the proper experience to read them in ebook format, but I've spent a long time getting the whole series. To trust or not to trust?
Also none of the libraries near us have them :P
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Ebook. Ebook all the way. If there was ever any chance at ALL of a friend of mine losing an Animorphs book, there is no way I would lend. Gah, even contemplating that scenario is filling me with dread. *shivers*
Never trust. Never!
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How can people read a whole book on a computer screen, though? Eep. :) I'm so old fashioned, with my...god-forbid, evil paper stuff.
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I think I'll give her the first 5 or so actual books, and see how she goes.
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My eyes die when I read a book off of a screen.
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I think if Animorphs ever makes it's way to visual media, Visser Two should be played by Bryan Cranston.
No one else I can think of taking seriously talking about world domination in his briefs
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I don't remember Visser Two being in his briefs at any time.
Also, I need to watch Breaking Bad sometime.
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I just listened to this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzaPduo5HL4). They described Animorphs as a bad fusion between a Lifetime movie and Power-Rangers.
WAT UGH
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Their skulls shall be our trophies. MWAHAHAHA!
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They hate animorphs yet they love goosebumps.
WHAAAAT UGHHHHHHHHHHH
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Nothin' wrong with Goosebumps, amigo.
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What's with all the hate on goosebumps...
I liked them
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Honestly, I always thought Goosebumps was kinda lame. Read one book, you kinda read them all.
Give Yourself Goosebumps, on the other hand, was incredible.
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I used to love Goosebumps. I haven't read many of the GYG books but I did enjoy the ones I read.
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They were the best. 100x better than alternamorphs, there were 10 different endings that resulted you in being ALIVE, not a dead rat or whatever.
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Yeah, GYG was the shiznit. I have the first one sitting on a bookshelf in my basement back home. Might pick it up when I get the chance.
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I remember being addicted to the magic shop GYG. That one had some crazy twists. I also liked that there was a death for listening to the bratty sister for once in your life. It literally said something along the lines of, "When has she ever said anything worthwhile?" XD
I feel like RL Stine was probably tormented by siblings in his childhood.
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Probably. He erased the existence of the protagonists sister completly in one of the main series books, I think it was called Cuckoo Clock of Doom. That one always freaked me out for some reason.
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Because no one has mentioned it yet.
(http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/275/927/c4b.jpg)
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Err...?
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Er....mahgerd!
Sorry
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Quaf is a very good human being.
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Probably. He erased the existence of the protagonists sister completly in one of the main series books, I think it was called Cuckoo Clock of Doom. That one always freaked me out for some reason.
That one was just existentially terrifying. The ending bugged me, but then again, 99% of all the books' endings bugged me. That's why Night in Terror Tower is my favorite. It was suspenseful, had interesting plot twists, and a decent/happy ending.
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The Ghost Next Door surprised me the most, idk I read Night in Terror Tower when I was older so wasn't as shocking. Still a really good book though. The only other one I would put high on my list would be Let's Get Invisible, which was really creepy.
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That one was pretty creepy. The whole mirror thing was interesting when you figure out why it's happening, but then it had the typical plot twist ending that just completely undid everything the characters accomplished in the book.
Yanno what had a weird ending? Egg Monsters from Mars. The kid lays an egg. Srsly. Like, right in the front lawn.
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I've always wondered what hole it exited. Did he crap it out, or was it like some sort of monstrous kidney stone?
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Yanno what had a weird ending? Egg Monsters from Mars. The kid lays an egg. Srsly. Like, right in the front lawn.
Wait, did Stine end a book with a kid getting impregnated with alien eggs?
Let's Get Invisible, which was really creepy.
I mildly remember reading this when I was 9. Wasn't that book Stine's PSA about not doing drugs?
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Yanno what had a weird ending? Egg Monsters from Mars. The kid lays an egg. Srsly. Like, right in the front lawn.
Wait, did Stine end a book with a kid getting impregnated with alien eggs?
Uh-huh. That was a thing that actually happened. The alien saves the kid, smothers 'em like a blanket, kid passes out, wakes up, escapes from evil scientists lab, then squats down and "[lays] the biggest egg you ever saw!" in front of their house. Book ends. The kid's sex was left vague to appease censors iirc, but that just opens up whole other potential cans of worms.
Back on topic, Tobias is clearly trying to figure out how to unscrew this camera for a surveillance mission. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY0fJv33U3Q)
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This is amazing. :XD:
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Raptors = awesome.
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WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMq-8At1yYA)
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Tobias needs a haircut
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fitey777.proboards.com (http://fitey777.proboards.com)
Hahaha
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Interesting.
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Here are the top ten animorphs books based off of Bustle.com (http://www.bustle.com/articles/171822-the-10-best-books-in-the-animorphs-series-according-to-a-90s-kid-who-read-them)
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Well, those Fitey posters...seem...in telligent...
... Etc.
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"Is this real? Someone please answer and tell me if this is legit!"
Real Einsteins.
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That was a cool list. Though I would certainly say it was "in no particular order..."
I'm pretty sure that they're discussing it all in-universe, but I'm not sure. I just told the kid who said "is this real?" that Yeerks wrote the books. It certainly doesn't look like a very put-together forum, and the discussions didn't seem very... uh, fruitful.
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Your username is moist?
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It was just as a guest, but yeah. I go by Moist Nugget on some places.
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Delicious.
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I recently found out that Moist Nugget is a nickname for a Russian gun called the Mosin Nagant. I'm not a gun person, but I still think it's a great name.
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tore up a blue shirt for the cloth last night.
The urge to make an arm band of the elite blue-band Hork-Bajir was truly over powering
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Happy 20th anniversary to Animorphs!
According to Dpsb5,#1 The Invasion was published on June 17th, 1996.
Rats, I missed that!
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Hahahahaha for a second I forgot you were goosed XD
But you are riiiiiiiiight
XD
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Quoting was necessary here, but a lot of the time you do it when replying to a post right above you. Am I right or am I riiiiiiiight?
I quote so that people know what I'm responding to!
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Animorphs is good.
Am I right, or am I riiiiight? IN YOUR FACE QUAF; it's #10
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So over the last ten months I've reread the series, going slowly not deeply to see how it effects me at this point in laugh.
Only a few didn't make me laugh.
A number of them made me sad, but more for piting a particular character than empathy.
Nostalgia still a factor, but even so, it's a nice series. I look forward to sinking into it again, thought perhaps not anytime soon
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A number of them made me sad, but more for piting a particular character than empathy.
Which character was that?
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GUYS WHAT THE HECK THIS IS AWESOME
EPISODE 74 OF THE PODCAST REPLY ALL IS ABOUT SOMEBODY WHO WRITES ANIMORPHS FANFICTION
(IT'S NOT THE MAIN POINT BUT IT'S STILL REALLY COOL)
AHHHHHHH THIS IS SO AWEWSOME
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A number of them made me sad, but more for piting a particular character than empathy.
Which character was that?
Depended on the book, pitied all of them at some point. Macro and Tobias in the beginning. Rachel Jake and Ax in the end.
Cassie on occasion, just never when she was narrator.
For once even the Ellimist in TEC.
Was a long year
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After completing watching the Opinionated Animorphs Book Guide I just found the "Thought-Speak – An Animorphs Podcast"...
Didn't know there's so much Animorphs stuff out there :)
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(http://i.imgur.com/hxPAYHJ.jpg)
Banksy street art reminded me of Tobias
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That Banksy dude bugs me for all sorts of reasons, but that's admittedly awesome!
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No.No. The sun does not rise in the west,the Chicago Cubs don't win the World Series, Scully never,ever believes Mulder,and Rachel does not cry. These are the things I know
Much as I love it, these are the things that proof it's not timeless. Though granted, it took 15 more years to get there....
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Well, thanks. Now I'm actually sad about the Cubs winning.
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I think it's about time for me to start up a re-read of the series. Haven't sat down and read through it since . . . what, sophomore or junior year of high school? Yeah, I'm long overdue for it.
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Been quite a while. Enjoy!
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GUYSSSS JUST HAD SECOND CHRISTMAS WITH MY MOM (I have divorced parents) AND I GOT 53 AND 54 MY COLLECTION IS DONE OMG OMG OMG IM CRYING TEARS OUT OF MY NOSE
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That's wonderful! How did you read 53 and 54 before?
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I KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IN THEM BUT I TECHNICALLY HAVEN'T READ THEM YET
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I sometimes wonder how things like hairstyles can be aquired - when the Anis morphed other people, they looked as they should, presumably with the hair cut in the same way etc. Haircuts aren't DNA, so how does that work? Them keeping their own hairstyles I guess I can understand, as their bodies were sent into Z-space.
So morphing heals injuries, including to their own bodies, so if Marco broke his arm he could morph and remorph to fix it. When they morphed steers, they turned out to be bulls, as neutering doesn't affect DNA. Jake is Jewish, so would he have had a little surprise when he next used the bathroom?
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Because morphing isn't just about having the DNA, you have to concentrate on the image of the creature to morph it. Or you can just say it's andalite magic :P
What does being Jewish have to do with anything?
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Hahaha, oh man. This is taking a weird turn.
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Oook nevermind I get it now.
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I KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IN THEM BUT I TECHNICALLY HAVEN'T READ THEM YET
OH MY GOD HOW
HOW ARE THEY
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What if one of them acquired an old lady who had a face lift, breast implants, and hair extensions - when they morphed her, would they see what she'd look like without those? If she morphed, would her bewbs explode, and then she'd demorph to find herself old with short hair?
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What if one of them acquired an old lady who had a face lift, breast implants, and hair extensions - when they morphed her, would they see what she'd look like without those? If she morphed, would her bewbs explode, and then she'd demorph to find herself old with short hair?
The series has been finished for 15 years, and I've been on this forum nearly a decade.
Sometimes I worry there's nothing left about Animorphs to discuss.
And then this happens. Thank you.
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This is gonna keep me up at night.
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Thinking of morphed old ladies with boob implants?
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Yeah, I mean, it's not like I didn't have enough nightmares already.
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http://ew.com/books/2016/12/28/animorphs-k-a-applegate-anniversary-interview/ (http://ew.com/books/2016/12/28/animorphs-k-a-applegate-anniversary-interview/)
^^^^from reddit :)
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Ooh! A new K.A. interview? Pretty surprised that wasn't posted here a couple of weeks ago when it was published.
A fun read. :)
Love how she's still not caving to fan BS and apologizing for the ending, too. 8) Screw 'em.
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Recognised the article and was confused because I don't go on reddit then realised the RAF fb page posted it on Sunday/Saturday night
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If Ax got infested while in human morph, what would happen to it if he demorphed?
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If you jack off while in morph, are you up and ready to go again when you go back into human form?
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You speak like you have a detailed knowledge of how every species jacks off.
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Eww.
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Why would you want to jack off as an animal?
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Better question, why wouldn't you?
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We're getting real philosophical in here.
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It's not like the series didn't sometimes get philosophical
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About...animals...c hoking the...chicken...?
Eep.
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honestly, I can't help but think that should have come up more. I'm glad it didn't mind you, but the whole animals thinking about only eating or getting eaten, it ignores the large amount of time most of them spend trying to get, off so really...
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That kind of thing did come up*, briefly in #23. The bit where Rachel morphed eagle and Tobias had some feelings.
*Innuendo not applicable, as most birds including hawks are not equipped with that function altogether.
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RIP childhood.
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That kind of thing did come up*, briefly in #23. The bit where Rachel morphed eagle and Tobias had some feelings.
*Innuendo not applicable, as most birds including hawks are not equipped with that function altogether.
I don't think that counts, he did a whole spiel on how that was admiring what might best be called spiritual personification of the girl Rachel, not sexual attraction to the eagle Rachel. Very un-euphemism for animals doing it
Now what happened/didn't happened with the hawk in book three, that's about as close as they ever get, and really, especially for Tobias, that should have come up a lot more
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Gay Bird Sex isn't something you want in kids books
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Yeah, but apparently they didn't even want straight bird sex in their kids book.
Prudes
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Animal Sex in general isn't something you want in kids books
Being against kids reading about bestiality is not being a prude
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this reminds me of pterodactyl porn I once saw
won't link so I don't get banned
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Not bestiality if there isn't an actual physical human involved...
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Tobias is mentally human and physically bird and Rachel is a human who is temporarily a bird
I mean if Tobias and Rachel do it like they do on the discovery channel as Humans, it's okay
other than that
not okay
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self-discovery channel
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(https://cdn1.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2016/02/BbTwWd2CQAAH8gz.jpg)
One might argue that Tobias is very much a bird mentally and only temporarily a physical human. Think about the implications.
Think about them.
Now stop thinking about them you perv.
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I don't think Applegate was thinking about it like that
I hope not
ew
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....
Y'all need Jesus.
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Confession: when I was younger I fantasized about Tobias sneaking into Rachel's house in bird morph and then going human and then those two would...
kill meeee
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They don't call him the big hawk**** for nothing
I'm going to kill myself now
I'm sorry for that
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They don't call him the big hawk**** for nothing
I'm going to kill myself now
I'm sorry for that
(https://cdn1.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2016/02/BbTwWd2CQAAH8gz.jpg)
Hawks don't have those though. When I said earlier that they are not equipped with that functionality, I meant that they are literally not equipped.
Y'all have been breaking your brains about how birds "butter their biscuits" backwards.
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so how do birds pour the bisquick
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I was going to caution about the fact that there are younger members on the forum, but then I realized some of the youngest are carrying on this conversation.. so I'm going to just back away slowly :P
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(http://www.theglobaldispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Morgan-Freeman-talks-Obama.jpg)
Those young rascals are the ones who started it.
so how do birds pour the bisquick
(http://balleralert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/throughwormholemorganfreeman431x300.jpg)
Not very well.
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What the hell has happened in this thread oh my god
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mate I've been asking the same question for like the past five days
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(http://www.theglobaldispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Morgan-Freeman-talks-Obama.jpg)
Those young rascals are the ones who started it.
so how do birds pour the bisquick
(http://balleralert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/throughwormholemorganfreeman431x300.jpg)
Not very well.
You, sir, are hilarious.
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You know, I often wonder now if the reason I liked Tobias the best was because I just felt sorry for him :/
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you've been shagged by a rare bird
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I see your Morgan Freeman stuff and raise you some better Morgan Freeman stuff. ;D
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUvhQgF6bV8#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmwnaJHVRYA#)
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You know, I often wonder now if the reason I liked Tobias the best was because I just felt sorry for him :/
I've been wondering the same, considering I passed that judgement back in 7th grade. Now my answer would be very different.
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And I'm that crazy forumite who was fond of Jake and Cassie. :p And our friend Visser Three, but that's mainly due to my total inability to dislike a character who acts like Esplin does when he's played correctly. Even when I was 8.
I was also pretty fond of the ever-loved Marco though. ;} Not so much of Tobias, Ax, or Rachel. It's ironic in retrospect that I couldn't seem to empathize with Tobias, because of course I was the creepy weird kid. XD
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Also, they rub their cloacas together. It's as if the pee hole and the Fun Times Hole were the same hole, and both ladybirds and dudebirds had it, and they kiss to make smolbirds.
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*Facedesks*
(https://whyweprotest.net/attachments/morgan-freeman-facepalm-01-gif.260313/)
Now y'see, I was trying to avoid going into how they prance in the dance without pants, but then you had to come along and just lay out the bees of the birds' whole slap and tickle.
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Shenmue: Ruining lives and stealing innocence since 1989. : B
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http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae235/Artisan219/AnimorphsCovers15_zpsxnimpp3l.jpg (http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae235/Artisan219/AnimorphsCovers15_zpsxnimpp3l.jpg)
^I found this on reddit the other day and I like it
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had a nice dream last night were I chatted with KA about Marco and his mother. I was arguing that he didn't actually love her because he was too young when she was taken by Edriss, so he doesn't know Eva as a person, or a mother.
Not something I believe, but it was an interesting discussion
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red-tail flew across my 2 feet off the ground the other day.
Very nice sight, and of course...
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Just started reading all the books again as part of my summer tradition. Ahh...the memories!!
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Andalites in their natural, non-warrior state ate total stoner hippies
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Psh. stoner hippies aren't exactly Mr Miyagi badasses or spending their recent centuries building ginormous galaxy-domineering battle stations that can raze entire planets. :P
They're more like hardcore samurai dudes who just tend to their little bonsai trees now and then for a moment of peace. :)
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But it's canon that they do get stoned from time to time. Remember Gafinilan with Ax? They grow that root pretty regularly and openly, apparently.
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so dad was watching this show called killjoys on tv, and I was in the kitchen procrastinating when SHAWN ASHMORE APPEARS and the conversation went like this
Me: Hey that's Shawn Ashmore!
Dad: Who?
Me: Jake from the animorphs show!
Dad: who?
Me: Iceman from xmen!
Dad: oh
and he didn't believe me because he never believes me when it comes to actor trivia, so I looked it up and it wasn't in fact Shawn, but his identical twin Aaron.
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The sheer number of books I read and media I consumed as a kid that parent organizations deem inappropriate for kids is ridiculously long. That list includes a children's book series very prominently. :P
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Nooo, not Aaron. Twins are creepy. :P
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Fun fact: both Shawn and Aaron were actually in the Animorphs TV show. Shawn played Jake, but Aaron very briefly played Ax (when Ax morphed Jake while Jake was a controller).
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Yeah, pretty sure Aaron's involved in most stuff Shawn does, or at least used to be. They tend to play around with the twins thing a lot, doubles and mirroring and stuff, in various shows.
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So, I saw this label on a box of coffee cup lids at work the other day. :XD:
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omg XD
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I'm going to invent some insect spray named "Bug Fighter" now.
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Excuse: I'm sick (cough, cough), so I can't come to the Sharing meeting tonight!
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https://midnightdogs.co/collections/all/products/animorphs-enamel-pin
^ I saw this today, I don't think I'd buy it but I thought it was really cool
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The further I get in science, the more my methods make use of flipping a coin.
Oh what Ax would say
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Now I'm thinking about it and I can't figure out why the Yeerks went through the trouble of setting up The Sharing as a deception. If they just came out and said, "Wanna be part of the alien Illuminati? You lose control of your life, but we'll pay for your health care, you get to overthrow the rich people, be part of this huge patriotic army, and there's a small chance you'll get to vicariously be a rich jackass, and you don't have to work hard ever again..." ....like seriously, countless people would agree to that in a hot minute. This would not be a small number. Especially if they were depressed or anxious or addicted to something.
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With the caveat that they'd probably demand an agreement with the Yeerks that they'd continue to produce TV. : P
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Funny story yesterday:
I was working and someone brought in cinnamon buns from Taco Bell yesterday. I actually never had cinnamon buns before because I generally don't eat a lot of sweets. However, I ate them for the first time... AND THEY WERE AMAZING! ;D
And my mouth went crazy! I felt like Ax! "Cinnamon bunz"
I couldn't help but think about Animorphs when I ate those buns! Good times man!
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XD First time I ate one, it was indeed delicious, but my first thought was, "So I'm a cinnamon roll eating a cinnamon roll. All we need now is a third one eating---*Is shot before she can say anything bad* <___<;;;;
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Are Cinnabons pretty much everywhere in the U.S.? I can't even remember, only one I've ever seen here is at the airport.
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I wouldn't say "everywhere." They're in quite a few places if you know where to look, but you do have to look.
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Not really everywhere, I've barely seen any in AZ
The only time I've seen one here was in a mall lol
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Can I just take a moment to appreciate that Animorphs considered its very young readers intelligent enough to "get" politics? I can't remember a show or book before this that ever made it more complicated than "good king" and "bad king" for the same age group, beyond maybe high fantasy novels for slightly older kids.
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One thing I would really like to see is a count of how many times the word "thermal" shows up in the series
Its in there a dozen plus times in every book.
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128 times (http://animorphsforum.com/index.php?topic=15233.0#new)
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Totally random thought : Andalite, injuries and morphing power.
There's something unclear about how the metamorphosis could heal a wound. They say many times that the morphing power cure every physical problem not related to DNA.
We have seen various Andalites with permanent disabilities, a lost stalk eye and others, mostly suffered in battle : captain prince Asculan from #54, or prince Galuit from #18, Mertil from #40
But Mertil is the only to be defined "vecol", and it's clearly stated that he cannot heal his injuries because he has an allergy to morphing technology.
And the others? How can there be disabilities in the andalite military if the power of metamorphosis heals every wound?
We should assume that a lot of andalites are allergic to morphing power, and they are all in the most important positions, but it looks really unlikely, even because the allergy is never mentioned before book 40.
And obviously Elfangor and his lethal injury...but probably this is explained in Andalite chronicles, I don't remember.
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This is definitely something I've thought about before, and I can think of at least two possible explanations (at least, for the minor injuries).
1. Those Andalites probably could morph those battle scars away, but they just . . . don't. It is made fairly clear that most Andalites, other than those specializing in espionage, don't really make much use of their morphing abilities. They do the training, maybe morph a kafit for fun when they first get the ability, and then they just seem to forget that they have these powers at all. The Andalites in #18 didn't even have a small morph available to them so that they could escape the destruction of their ship. And, in any case, I could see an Andalite actively choosing not to morph their scars away, with the scar being a point of pride and honor to Andalite sensibilities.
2. The morphing power probably takes some element of self-image into account. There's a couple books where it is made clear that a haircut will not be fixed by morphing (#2, #10, and #26, in case you wanted me to cite my sources), and neither will a piercing (#32). Both things are technically 'injuries' that do not affect DNA, but they stick around from morph to morph. And then I could go into all the stuff that's affected by environment rather than DNA, which is how identical twins can still look different from one another, etc. Yet, again, the morphing process keeps those environmental effects intact. So, what I think is happening, is that the morphing technology uses slightly more information than just the instructions in your DNA. It may also take into account your subconscious self-image. Which, for battle-scarred Andalites, includes their scars.
As for Elfangor, though . . . I think someone on RAF once pointed out that going into a morph is somewhat more difficult than demorphing back to your true form. So, while the Animorphs have often managed to demorph from serious injuries, they may have been aided by the fact that they were never (to the best of my recollection) fatally wounded in their true forms. Even then, they've had some very close calls. Elfangor says in TAC that he was 'too weak to morph,' and given the circumstances I'm inclined to believe that.
I had a fan-theory at one point, that Elfangor wasn't given back his morphing powers when the Ellimist freed him from his nothlit human form. But the 'too weak to morph' comment seems to contradict that. :P
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Just finished my summer tradition of reading all of the books. Man, the final book tears me up every time...
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I just realized how bad I feel for ax at the end. For the story to close with him enslaved by another. How much it would hurt his pride to be the enemies tool. the greatest indignity to an andalite warrior
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So I'm watching dba for the umpteenth time this month and can't help but think visser three would be a much better character if he's taken with the additive of main vilians in this. An undeniable challenge and threat but without the magic levels of evil darkness. If nothing else it would make the villain decay hit softer since he keeps appearing. Magic.dark levels of evil should be kept for magic stories or very rarely occurring evil
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dba?
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Finally got the Harrier, male, on a day I was sure I shouldn't have.
Life is weird
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I’ve reread the series a billion times, yet I somehow always skip #46, the one with ax morphing the military dude on the cover. I can’t even remember the plot from the first (and only) time I read it. Hell, I’ve read the weakness more than once, but this book I just hate so much and I don’t know why, but it’s enough to stop me from reading it to find out
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Yeah, I always kind of forget that book even exisis :P
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#46 was one of my favorites because I love the themes of war and morality it had in it, including the war between the Yeerks and the potential nuclear war with nations.
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I'm at home, admiring how perfectly all the Animorphs books fit on a single shelf of my childhood bookshelf, but I can't help but wonder why TEC looks among the most worn out. I've read them all more than I can count, but that's gotta be one of the ones I handled the least.
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This looks oddly ... familiar ....
https://www.dynatrace.com/perform/ (https://www.dynatrace.com/perform/)
Ignore what the site is for ... but enjoy the somewhat Animorphs related space theme.
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Even though Animorphs was among the most popular series of it's time, I can't help but feel...alone when ever I talk about it with others. No one seems to have spent as much time with it, read it as repeatedly, as fully, taken the time to understand the things that aren't said, the things that could be said, the things that are toldly up to interpretation because of what has and hasn't been said.
I though this yesterday, and it made me appreciate this place. Because I can have those conversations with you guys.
Thanks.
Though, to avoid getting to freely, this came about on pondering how it is someone could read the series in depth and still draw different conclusions about both the implications and the events themselves. There are a few popular theories here that I vehemently oppose, and I was thinking that for most people those were what was theorized without any deeper thought. But some people have probably thought of them as deeply for them as I've thought against them.
So the point is you're still wrong, but you're wrong for better reasons than everyone else.
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Agreed. Like how Jake definitely murks out Fenstre at the end of 16.
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Rachel, Cassie, Tobias, Marco?
hmm
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interesting
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Holy CRAP, I forgot about the Knights Kingdom line. Easily my second favorite Lego sets, behind Bionicle of course
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haha, they were actually in the same storage box as our bionicles, I've spent the last few days building all sets we have on the dining room table
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All you young people with your fancy Lego sets as kids. :P
We just had generic sh*t we had to use our imaginations for, haha. *grumpy old guy mode*
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#14 the unknown was the height of comedy in the series fight me
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#14 the unknown was the height of comedy in the series fight me
America, facts are facts
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Apparently I use the word anomaly a lot and I’m pretty sure it’s because of animorphs
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yo I hope that movie happens. I know a lot of people have gripes with the idea of it, but I'm ready for it.
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I had the weirdest thought about Animorphs the other day. Specifically, about book #16.
What if Esplin 9466 (the lesser), had actually died? Like, when Visser Three tried to starve him, he actually just . . . starved? We know from Visser that a dying Yeerk can leave part of itself attached to its host's brain, and the host brain firing through the dead Yeerk tissue causes some personality traits to carry over. So, Esplin dies, and part of him is left with Joe Bob Fenestre (maybe it was the part that was self-aware?), who then gets confused and doesn't really know who he is anymore. He then crafts this elaborate story, believing that he is still Esplin, about how he survived by eating other Yeerks.
It explains why Visser Three never just nuked his house from orbit (after all, since when has Visser Three ever been like, "well, I tried to kill that guy, but it didn't work, so I guess I'll just let him live *shrugs*"?). It explains how he was able to 'figure out' how to survive within the three-day time limit (he didn't).
This theory makes me sad and I'm not even sure why.
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I've been on a nostalgia kick for animorphs recently (I check this forum often but, It's been forever since I picked up one of the books) and book 2 is actually good but like nobody ever talks about it. Rereading it, I love the stuff with Rachel comforting Melissa while she's a cat. Honestly, I wish they used Melissa more in the series. Like I know K.A only ever intended to use Melissa for this story, but this book could have actually set a great character arc for her. Like, she could have eventually became an animorph with her being close to Rachel and her parents infestation would be great motivation for her to join the fight. Her learning that her parents voluntarily became controllers to save her would have been a great moment as well.
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It's admittedly been awhile since i've picked up the books too, but I have watched Poparena's Animorphs reviews (both on the crappy Nick show and books). I seriously did wish we got an official Chee or Taxxon chronicles book way back in the day. I would have preferred it to the Ellimist one we got, although it wasn't a bad book but nowhere near Andalite or Hork-Bajir Chronicles for me. Taxxon especially would have been nice to flesh out the species more, as well as give Arbron a bigger cameo than just being shoehorned briefly into book #53 I believe it was.
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I always loved Poparena's reviews! I may have to rewatch them again soon.
Okay so I just saw one of those "describe a book in exactly 6 words" things for Animorphs and I just wanted to share a few random ones:
We broke the world- ooh McDonalds!
We should have brought ear plugs
How one bird killed the dinosaurs
Mum's not dead, just an alien
My friend, the killer robot dog
Dost thou detest waste product receptacles?!
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We broke the world- ooh McDonalds! - #28?
We should have brought ear plugs - Drawing a blank, sadly
How one bird killed the dinosaurs - MM #2
Mum's not dead, just an alien - #5
My friend, the killer robot dog - #10
Dost thou detest waste product receptacles?! - Pretty sure that was MM #1
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We broke the world- ooh McDonalds! - 17 (?)
We should have brought ear plugs - 6 (They didn't bring earplugs to that hospital)
How one bird killed the dinosaurs - MM2
Mum's not dead, just an alien - 5
My friend, the killer robot dog - 10
Dost thou detest waste product receptacles?! - MM1
Here are some more:
* Jake of the Jungle
* Rachel does the splits
* Cassie becomes an illegal immigrant in a foreign nation
* Happy birthday, you have daddy issues
*The one time AniTV did a plot before the books
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* Rachel does the splits
* Cassie becomes an illegal immigrant in a foreign nation
omg these are so good
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Those are good, but shouldn't they be 6 words or less?
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Those are good, but shouldn't they be 6 words or less?
lol true I forgot
here are some more:
* Grey's anatomy: Andalite Edition
* The War on Drugs (and Oatmeal)
* Scholastic Presents: Brave New World
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Ax's human morph is a composite of everyone else in the mystery gang, right? So why did nobody ever do that again? Like, what's keeping you from making a composite of some other species where you can pick and choose the best traits to basically create the most powerful version of a given animal possible?
I'm probably just misremembering something and this was addressed in the series. It's been a long time since I read Animorphs, and my memory is pretty foggy at this point.
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But didn't it just affect appearance? Like assuming it only worked if you wanted to mix the DNA of the same species, there's not really a point to change the colour a bear's fur or whatever in the middle of an alien invasion.
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I mean Elfangor did that when decided to live on earth with loren. Also, you probably can't do it mixing different animal species, it'd be a weird biological mess.
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create the most powerful version of a given animal possible?
What would that entail? You can't put an elephant's strength on a tiger's skeleton, the mechanics would be a mess. Maybe give a grizzly thumbs?
I'm probably just misremembering something and this was addressed in the series. It's been a long time since I read Animorphs, and my memory is pretty foggy at this point.
Surprisingly it's not explicitly addressed, the closest thing is Marco's messed up mutations in 35, where he says it's impossible, that he knows it's impossible, yet he ends up doing it anyway - with terrible results. None of the Andalites every explain that you can't cross species, they would have found Cassie's ability to hold demorphings shocking, though maybe not impossible
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I meant with one species - a situation in which, for example, you would find a tiger with really strong jaws and then a different one with abnormally swole legs and mix them. Bad example, but you get the picture.
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If it's the same species It'd work
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I meant with one species - a situation in which, for example, you would find a tiger with really strong jaws and then a different one with abnormally swole legs and mix them. Bad example, but you get the picture.
Yeah I get you and I don't know nearly enough about DNA to be confident in this, but I think all that sort of stuff is due to the environment rather than genetics.
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Actually the more I think about this the more it falls into 'the fine rules of morphing that are kind of contradictory throughout the series but there's a war going on so we'll ignore them'. Like when they all demorph: why does rachel keep her pierced ears (shouldn't it be an 'injury'?) and how does their hair all stay the same (I think marco once commented about his haircut idk).
See, I justified those things by thinking morphing is as much a psychological thing as it's physical- you have to concentrate on the animal and picture it in your head to morph. So then why wouldn't the animorphs be able to 'picture' a more muscular animal with sharper teeth, longer claws, etc? Then you don't even need to 'mix' the DNA like Ax and Elfangor did.
Not sure if that trainwreck of my thoughts made any sense
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No, those made sense. But going back to the first point, while muscular strength is definitely partially based on how you treat your body, some people are born stronger than others. But (https://cdn.mamamia.com.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18161417/shrug-face.jpg)
edit: oops that was really big
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Piercings, tattoos, worn hymen, circumsion. All that should be corrected with morphing.
I wonder though what would happen if a morpher had a peacemaker or stents/surgical pins in them? Would it be safely stowed in Z-space and returned in working order after remorphing? Perhaps that is another contraindication for the technology aside from just allergy to it.
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If leotards and bike shorts can go to Z Space, Pacemakers being inside your body definitely can. I feel like stuff like small earings, tattoos, nail acrylics, and hair cuts could be saved too given the logic of the skin tight clothing. The series is a little inconsistent with the details but imo based on what we do see in the series, when it comes to morphing things that aren't part of genetic code, you have to actively imagine it forming with the rest of your body? Like, Rachel in 2 mentions imagining a certain haircut while she morphs, and not liking it because it's uneven at the bottom.
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On a completley different note, it took me a good year to understand Ax’s gag of watching “these messages” idk if it was a decade thing or a country thing but i have never seen ads introduced like that in my life. I used to think it was a popular American tv show
Similarly it took until 3 years ago to realise that “Mickey d’s” from the saddle club books was in fact McDonald’s and not an obscure milkshake place.
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If leotards and bike shorts can go to Z Space, Pacemakers being inside your body definitely can. I feel like stuff like small earings, tattoos, nail acrylics, and hair cuts could be saved too given the logic of the skin tight clothing. The series is a little inconsistent with the details but imo based on what we do see in the series, when it comes to morphing things that aren't part of genetic code, you have to actively imagine it forming with the rest of your body? Like, Rachel in 2 mentions imagining a certain haircut while she morphs, and not liking it because it's uneven at the bottom.
Makes sense, as the morphing technology essentially reads skintight spandex as if it were actual skin. Though maybe i'm mis-remembering as it's been awhile, but I thought Rachel was trying to get her old hairstyle back to the way it was before she cut it. Only it didn't work, and her current hair kept coming back each time. It wouldn't let her correct her uneven hair until it grew out naturally.
On a completley different note, it took me a good year to understand Ax’s gag of watching “these messages” idk if it was a decade thing or a country thing but i have never seen ads introduced like that in my life. I used to think it was a popular American tv show
It was very stereotypical of old American television (especially in the '80s). Though I don't personally recall them doing that much in the later '90s when Ax would have been watching; and it's certainly something you don't see anymore now. 'We will return after these messages....'
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I have at least 1 concrete memory of Rachel saying she'd gone for a run.
Who the hell when for morning jogs in middle/high school, especially gymnasts?
Don't you start that in college when you're no long forced to do anything physical and have to combat the looming horror that is aging?
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Went for a run today
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I have friends who sometimes run in the mornings. I myself only do it after school during the week.
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I would go for runs just to get out of the house on the weekends.
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Re: things like haircuts and pierced ears:
My headcanon for that sort of thing is that the morphing takes a genetic 'photograph' of the body every two hours, and it is that 'photograph' that it demorphs to. So, if Rachel loses a chunk of hair just before going into battle morph, she would demorph with it fully intact after. So pierced ears and haircuts are part of the initial 'photograph'. This would also explain how someone gets trapped as a nothlit. The morphing nanotech takes its updated genetic photograph at the two-hour mark, and the morphed form now takes over as the default.
It's not a perfect explanation, it doesn't explain how James' body could have been fixed by morphing, but I thought it a good place to start.
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Re: things like haircuts and pierced ears:
My headcanon for that sort of thing is that the morphing takes a genetic 'photograph' of the body every two hours, and it is that 'photograph' that it demorphs to. So, if Rachel loses a chunk of hair just before going into battle morph, she would demorph with it fully intact after. So pierced ears and haircuts are part of the initial 'photograph'. This would also explain how someone gets trapped as a nothlit. The morphing nanotech takes its updated genetic photograph at the two-hour mark, and the morphed form now takes over as the default.
It's not a perfect explanation, it doesn't explain how James' body could have been fixed by morphing, but I thought it a good place to start.
Having reread a few of the books, I think there's suppose to be a little bit of active choice when it comes to demorphing. You can want your piercings and tattoos to come back when you demorph, but not your life altering accident that caused the loss of your legs
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Re: things like haircuts and pierced ears:
My headcanon for that sort of thing is that the morphing takes a genetic 'photograph' of the body every two hours, and it is that 'photograph' that it demorphs to. So, if Rachel loses a chunk of hair just before going into battle morph, she would demorph with it fully intact after. So pierced ears and haircuts are part of the initial 'photograph'. This would also explain how someone gets trapped as a nothlit. The morphing nanotech takes its updated genetic photograph at the two-hour mark, and the morphed form now takes over as the default.
It's not a perfect explanation, it doesn't explain how James' body could have been fixed by morphing, but I thought it a good place to start.
I freaking love this theory and I'm not even sure why. It just feels like, "yes, this is how nothlits work, this makes sense to me" in a way no other morph-time-limit explanation has done.
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Oh, thank you! I don't remember how I came up with it, but it was back when I spent hours trying to figure out how all the details of everything would work; even trying to come up with explanations that would explain all the KASUs. Some things I gave up on, but one I was pretty happy with.
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It is day 187263890 and we still have no proper adaption of the series ScHOLAsTic iM wAITiNg
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It is day 187263890 and we still have no proper adaption of the series ScHOLAsTic iM wAITiNg
Be careful what you wish for....
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When lupin turns into a werewolf in the prisoner of Azkaban movie that is a good visualisation of morphing (except for probably cassie)
video here (https://youtu.be/rKQRveimQkM)
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I think Visser 3 eats his minions so often because its sort of a power thing. Or it could be that K.A. wanted to draw more comparisons to his twin who (SPOILERS) eats yeerks to survive.
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Or maybe he spends too much time in his horrific morphs that he begins to think like them as Tobias has.
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I found it kind of funny that, even my Visser standards he's a psycho. The type of host a Yeerk has can mess with their brains.
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David definitely posts really sloppy necrophagist guitar covers on youtube
Also, I think it'd have been kind of a cool twist if Andalites exclusively used morphing for artistic purposes - if Elfangor only gave the power to the kids because he didn't have any functioning weapons. Fighting a war with art supplies. Would have been sort of bleakly funny.
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Well maybe they end up doing dancing with morphing as a form of art ... kind of like how Cassie seems to do it subconsciously.
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I vaguely remember it being canon that it was used as a form of dance.
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the inside of figs remind me of taxxons
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I hate that. You're right.
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Ha ha ha. Awesome observation.
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Micheal Grant tweeting about the possibility of their being an animorphs film/tv being a lot stronger than any time in the past is the ONLY good news to come out of 2020
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I thought the murder hornets were good news ...