#a: k.a. applegate

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[edenlouiseart]

Happy New Year to only these 6 traumatised kiddos.

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[andalitean]

ALL of the animorphs audiobooks are available NOW on libro.fm!!!

(via Katherine Applegate! )

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Your post mentioning why #41 is your least favorite, and why a simple one-sentence explanation of Anti-Morphing Ray would improve it tremendously, made me think of one thing that would make #40 *slightly* better for me: if the bees they morphed were solitary carpenter bee type species, which actively DON'T live in hives and presumably don't have a social mindset that would be a PTSD trigger for our protags.

Even better, some of those bees are known for hovering for ages in the same spot certain times of year, which would make them the perfect surveillance bugs for discovering the hidden secrets of new-found Andalite pals!

Yes, that's good point! I gnash my teeth over #40 because it has such wasted potential. It's, like, three lines away from being a damn good Animorphs book. Setting aside a version where Gafinilan introduces Mertil as his husband (I get why that can't happen in a 90s children's book) it could be vastly improved with a few tweaks:

Carpenter bees! You're right that that fixes the continuity, both plot-wise and character-wise, by having non-social bees.

Have Gaf say he and Mert "are vecols." Or else add a line clarifying that "vecol" means "visibly disabled." Either works, and either one has interesting implications for andalite culture, without being ham-fistedly ignorant about invisible disability.

Give Mertil a personality. Which could be done with one line — he only needs one wry comment as he's being rescued, a kind remark about bees, a silly pet name for Gaf. Just... something.

Drop the line about "the girlfriend" supporting Jake no matter what. Marco can be sexist, but that's too far even for him.

REMEMBER TOBIAS EXISTS. Especially when Ax announces that anyone who chooses to become a nothlit is "a coward" and Cassie agrees that Gaf is no coward and thus would never trap himself in morph. Tobias has TWO LINES in that scene, one of which is "Sounds reasonable." He's also there for Jake's and Gaf's conversation about nothlits and vecols, and again barely says a word. Again, you only need one line — just have Marco notice that Tobias isn't weighing in.  #37, #38, and #41 comment on Tobias being dissociated after Taylor fucked him up, so you can explain his near non-existence in this story. But at least explain it, ideally while making Ax look marginally less dickish toward his shorm.

[comicreliefmorlock]

fuck Hogwarts houses, what's your MORPH

Battle morph, travel morph, stealth morph

[silversong79]

Anyone want to cut through an abandoned construction site after an afternoon at the mall, come upon a dying alien prince, be gifted a terrible curse/weapon/power and handed the sole responsibility of fighting a secret invasion of parasitic aliens hellbent on enslaving the galaxy with me? Time sensitive please respond

[starblightbindery]

Animorphs #20-22 by @kaaauthor

This is a remake of a book I made almost exactly two years ago. That was the 11th book I ever made and this one is the 50th (!) I asked K.A. Applegate to sign the book while it was still in sheets, so I only had one chance to get it right.

🐅 Animorphs 20-22 was the first serialized arc in the 90s book series.

🐅 The heroes recruit a new kid to their guerilla team and grant him morphing powers, only for his selfish and sociopathic tendencies to jeopardize their fight against the alien invasion.

🐅 Young readers were challenged by this subversion of the "new kid" trope and the moral dilemma that developed. Do they kill a fellow teammate? How else can they neutralize him?

🐅 ALSO: Can these middle schoolers crash the G7 Summit and save Boris Yeltsin, Bill Clinton, and other heads of state from infestation?

Foil Quill on Verona bookcloth, with iridescent calligraphy ink edges. I wanted to give this trilogy the special edition it deserves.

[goodgrammaritan]

Animorphs Book 10 — The Android

Just random lines/sections I highlighted while reading.

And of course, all the girls just call me… gorgeous. Okay, maybe I've never actually heard anyone call me gorgeous, but I am confident that someone, somewhere, must have called me gorgeous at some point. Or not.

He starts off so confident, too...

I've cut my hair. Or at least my stylist, Charise, cut it for me. That's right, Charise.

The way this is phrased makes me think that either A) with a name like "Charise," she has to be good at hair or B) it's a really small town, and everyone knows Charise is the best.

See, dog happy isn't like human happy. Human happiness always has this little voice in the back of your mind going, "Don't be too happy. Keep your guard up. Something bad could still happen."

You don't have to come right into my head, Marco. I already know what foreboding joy is.

We had important business, and I was not going to lower myself to training insults with Rachel. Besides, I couldn't think of any.

Lol.

At the time, I figured he was mad because he had to dress up. I get that.

Lol lol. Such an 11-year-old thing. (Related: my 11-year-old nephew successfully wore shorts every day of 2024.)

I could feel the rage flowing through me, the blind, violent rage that became little films in my head—little head-movies of revenge and destruction. I pictured the things I would do to Tom…to Chapman…someday even to Visser Three. I would do terrible things to them. Terrible, violent things. It was a sick feeling. It was sick, and I knew it, and yet I ran those images over and over in my head. Rage is addictive, you know. I guess it's sorta like a drug. Anger and hatred get you high. They get you high, but like any addiction, they hollow you out and tear you down and eat you alive.

Oof.

"Is there any way to see through the hologram?" Cassie asked. "We could hit him with something as big as a bus," Rachel suggested.

Thank you, Rachel.

Rachel said, "Look, no one likes violence. All right?"

This is foreshadowing. And sad, in light of how everyone on the team comes to view her later.

"Not bad," I said. "He's not quite that Frisbee dog we saw on TV, but he's not bad." "Hey, that was a professional Frisbee dog. Homer's just in it for the sport. Homer doesn't even have any endorsements."

Oh, Jake. One of your increasingly rare jokes. It's so sad when these go away.

[littlecajunlady]

Look at them 😭

[animorbius]

I remember years ago (mid-2010's) I tweeted about how much the Animorphs TV show sucked and the only person who liked the tweet was K.A. Applegate

[haveyoureadthismgyabook]

Series info:

Book 1 of Animorphs

Book 2: The Visitor

Book 3: The Encounter

Book 4: The Message

Book 5: The Predator

Book 6: The Capture

Book 7: The Stranger

Book 8: The Alien

Book 9: The Secret

Book 10: The Android

Book 11: The Forgotten

Book 12: The Reaction

Book 13: The Change

Book 14: The Unknown

Book 15: The Escape

Book 16: The Warning

Book 17: The Underground

Book 18: The Decision

Book 19: The Departure

Book 20: The Discovery

Book 21: The Threat

Book 22: The Solution

Book 23: The Pretender

Book 24: The Suspicion

Book 25: The Extreme

Book 26: The Attack

Book 27: The Exposed

Book 28: The Experiment

Book 29: The Sickness

Book 30: The Reunion

Book 31: The Conspiracy

Book 32: The Separation

Book 33: The Illusion

Book 34: The Prophecy

Book 35: The Proposal

Book 36: The Mutation

Book 37: The Weakness

Book 38: The Arrival

Book 39: The Hidden

Book 40: The Other

Book 41: The Familiar

Book 42: The Journey

Book 43: The Test

Book 44: The Unexpected

Book 45: The Revelation

Book 46: The Deception

Book 47: The Resistance

Book 48: The Return

Book 49: The Diversion

Book 50: The Ultimate

Book 51: The Absolute

Book 52: The Sacrifice

Book 53: The Answer

Book 54: The Beginning

[joemerl]

It's so weird that after Animorphs, K.A. Applegate started writing books that are actually appropriate for children.

[milquetoast-zeitgeist]

Tonight, by absolute chance, I got to attend an event with K.A. Applegate. And she signed two of my Animorphs books! #1 and #54. I got to tell her how impactful that series has been to me. I am absolutely overwhelmed beyond words.

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

What if Vin from Mistborn was part of the Animorphs?

Ooh, tricky. It'd have to be the version of Vin we get after Final Empire, since she'd otherwise never join up with a team even if her life literally depended on it. She needs the influence of her platonic polyparent polycule (Full House situationship?) to trust that much, but of course that raises the issue of everything else she's doing after the first book... Really runs into the fact that Brandon Sanderson is a plotter and worldbuilder first, a characterizer (characterer?) second.

Does anyone else have ideas for how to make this work?

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: THE MESSAGE by K.A. Applegate, adapted by Chris Grine.

The original ANIMORPHS books were a hugely formative influence on....My Entire Life, Writerly and Otherwise, so I've been collecting the graphic novels as they come out, too!

[lockandkeyhyena]

Okay, here's a weird little ship of mine for ya: Cheerilee and Daring Do. I might possibly elaborate someday.

oooh very interesting! i must admit i’m a sucker for rarepair ships, so this is scratching an itch of mine- i can definitely see it!! i’d be interested to hear the reasoning behind it sometime