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hatsune yeerku..... get it

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marco, jake, and ax in animorphs book 5:

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*these are both morphs they gain then lose during Sario Rips — commenters on the last poll suggested to adding them back in

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so like, what if you were the last surviving animorph but it's been canonically established that you still had your best friend's DNA in your body

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bored, have some of my favorite animorphs quotes

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bit of a random doodle but hey, what if Andalite/Xenomorph crossover?

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the book where a doomed child visits his past self only to realize he had been the one to knowingly doom himself in the first place and makes the conscious choice to subject himself to the same fate once more without the knowledge of any possible reward for this decision is immediately followed by a book where the main antagonist is a space toilet

Animorphs will truly never be topped

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You were brave. You were strong. You were good. You mattered.

Messy Rachel sketch I think about her floating in space all the time (If anyone has animorph requests my inbox is open btw :3)

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people ask me "how the hell is [scene from animorphs] in a kid's series" and i cannot emphasize to them enough that animorphs does not forget for a single moment that it is a kid's series

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I made an Animorphs meme because I saw Tobias admire geese for their powered flight early on and every single instance afterwards of them flying towards a mission felt painful

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I remember so little from the actual series. I was very young when I read it lol

But I do remember that one time Rachel had an allergic reaction to the crocodile DNA in her body and had to basically live birth an adult crocodile in a school restroom. What a cool and child friendly book series.

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Not shaded yet, but as promised I did at least rough color it. I was gonna wait till I was completely done, but a lot of folks weirdly liked the initial rough sketch I did, so I figured I might as well show the work in progress. I’m thinking of maybe offering a line art copy for anyone who’d like to color Ax in their own favorite 90s and 2000s fashion. (The Cinnabon is non-negotiable). What other shenanigans would you like to see these two get up to?

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Another piece of old, Animorphs fanart. The Hork-Bajir Chronicles still stands as one of my favorite pieces of Sci-fi literature.

Aaaaaaaand I'm a sucker for interspecies romance.

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Would you still love me if I turned into a *BALD eagle

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no but seriously the whole david thing was so fucked up, and it's especially wild how it comes right after book 19 and cassie's deal with aftran, where we are shown the "humanity" of the evil brain slugs, and then right afterward we get three books showing just how evil these kids have become just by virtue of the way they've been forced to fight (do you think they'd turned fourteen yet, when they exiled a kid their age, because they'd forcibly recruited him just as they'd been recruited, and he didn't handle it like they did?)

This has been sitting in my ask box for a bit because I wanted to fact check my memories but woof. I don't know that I would have handled David any better at 14 or now for that matter.

Especially after the Saddler incident. Like we saw some humanity from a Yeerk in book 19 and then some REAL Yeerk behavior in David choosing to steal this poor kid's identity and life--literally throwing him down an elevator shaft to finish him off. Not just any kid either--Jake and Rachel's cousin. Their obnoxious cousin who sucked but still. Their flesh and blood family.

The thing that really gets me about The Solution is, at the end of the day, it's Cassie's plan. Cassie, the kindest most empathetic member of the group, is forced to use that empathy with brutal efficiency to figure out how to play emotional chess with this fellow kid huge amoral liability and it works. It works exactly according to plan.

But she has to live with that. Cassie, the tree hugger, the vegetarian, the one who was willing to sacrifice her life for one stranger three books ago has to live with the knowledge that she did this (knowing full well what the lifespan is of a rat as opposed to a human boy) and she has to live with that knowledge for a long, long time.

Anyway I don't know about evil, but ruthless? Oh yeah.