#animorphs stuff

[sug4rst1ckzz]

I remember taking an “Which Animorphs Character Are You?” quiz and I got Cassie,,,,anyways eat up

[catcrumb]

tomatocat got some good deals at the antique mall, listened to some horror/scifi literature, and walked off into the sunset...

[lakesbian]

i love how ive seen multiple different independently created posts about aximili that go "ax if you wish humans were quadrupedal to improve balance we have something that can help with that but youre gonna have to get really cool with a lot of stuff really fast"

[voidmountain]

more of them 👽💞

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Any chance of seeing Rachel reunite with her little sisters and her parents? Your brief but stellar characterization of them, particularly Jordan, hooked me haha

Short answer: Yes. Probably.

Longer answer: I sat down to jot out "post-How I Live Now vignette" a few weeks ago. That's still what the doc is called, but the "vignette" in question somehow became 150 pages and I am trying to stuff the octopus into the boot but so far it's not working. I'll get back to y'all when I have something workable.

[chiropteracupola]

took the chance to scribble up a plague pigeon for @quezify's dtiys...

[spider-artdump]

[phoenixyfriend]

Pin ribbons update!

How many Tumblr artists can you recognize?

[transingthoseformers]

Out of curiosity, besides the planet from Subnautica, which other planets from other media/games do you think would be good for Cybertronians?

I typically think about Subnautica because I love it dearly

But

I've only watched a tidge of Star Trek (okay I watched Star Trek: Lower Decks and the other shows are on my list okay) and I think a lot about if humans first met cybertronians by the time humans were already space travel capable

I LOVE INTEGRATING ANIMORPHS AND TRANSFORMERS INTO EACH OTHER. Even if it's just mentioning the various planets and alien species in it and not focusing on any of the plot details (usually what I do, I think more about the worldbuilding in animorphs than I should)

Especially since in Animorphs there's an agreed upon "universal language" of Galard at least I think it's Galard and thinking about how the various races in Animorphs would regard the cybertronians

If IDW was any indication... Most of them probably hate the cybertronians like hell. The andalites definitely would. The yeerks would deem them an objective threat as they can't be infested, their technology might be slightly less advanced but it's Goddamn Enough considering how big cybertronians are, cybertronians are relatively a far older race, and they tend to cause a mess of the planets they arrive on. I'm torn between the Hork Bajir immediately comparing them to the monsters of old on their homeworld or the two getting along pretty good because a Hork Bajir can scale a taller transformer with little harm to either party. I've been thinking a lot about the Skrit Na interacting with cybertronians too because I get the vibe they'd deal with neutrals and some cybertronian technology a lot.

Yes, in my opinion based on what I can see the Andalites and Yeerks have relatively more "advanced" technology, considering Z-space technology being relatively common in their ships and how the andalite shredders / whatever the yeerks called theirs (dracon beams? I forget.), but I can see transforming and morphing being compared so so much (it'd be an interesting discussion considering how transforming and the T-cog is legitimately an integral part of Cybertronian anatomy, while morphing and the Escafil Device / morphing cube is still relatively revent technology)

Like. In universe, the Yeerks have only been at this space faring conqueror race for a handful of decades now, and their war with the andalites is the same. Compare, say, forty years of war (which is still a fucking lot) to the four million (give or take a few) of the autobots and decepticons. Y e a h. There's a significant chance that the cybertronians star in a lot of nightmare inducing bedtime stories.

PLUS REMEMBER ALL THE LONG EXTINCT SPECIES, CIVILIZATIONS IN THE WORLD OF ANIMORPHS. How many of those could the cybertronians have met? If so, how did that go?

[tomberensonsghost]

Yeerks out there inventing new medical therapies to catch an Important Political Figure when all they had to do was have a little kid with a conch shell run up to him at a photo op and be like ‘does this sound wike the ocean, mister?’

[yuzu-adagio]

I keep hearing random snippets about/from Bionicle and it sounds buck wild

I only know it as the cool toys the kid I babysat played with, but dang maybe I should look into it

[septimusprime]

Animorph Crossing: The Gardens is now open for visitors!

After a long time spent rebuilding and repairing the damage of the yeerk invasion and the battle that ended it, The Gardens is finally ready to reopen it's doors as not only a zoo and amusement park, but also as the Animorphs rememberance and commemoration center.

When you visit The Gardens, you'll be able to:

-Ride all of the rides you know and love

-View and learn about many of the animals the Animorphs acquired here at The Gardens during the war

-Visit the home of Michelle Cassiesmom, which is full of genuine Animorphs memorabilia from the war

-Speak with our Andalite ambassador, Bam

-Stay overnight at our campground, where you can experience real scoop living, Andalite style

-Visit (a recreation of) the construction site where the Animorphs first met Elfangor and encountered the escafil device

Visit today at DA-0897-5822-5631

[krakendra]

goddamnit why am i never free of animorph brainworms

i'm just slightly obsessed with the thought of President Cassie being haunted by the ghosts of her dead friends and also david

and no, not in a metaphorical way, or in a way where maybe it's all in her head

she is in her forties or fifties, in the oval office and there are shitty teen ghosts that don't mean to torment her except when they do.

[voidmountain]

Hel,o I am once again afflicted by urge to draw aliens

[yellowocaballero]

hi! i know that i'm fated to read your every work despite not knowing the media half the time. this time i would like to finally be one step ahead. so uhh. where do i read orv? do i go for the webtoon or the novel? to clarify, i did try to search, but got confused by reddit. also i am going to watch trigun. i've been eyeing animorphs too but the 54 (?) books are making me go hmm. thank you for existing you're pretty great. you're like the spiderman of writing but instead you got asbestos rat'd.

THIS ASK IS INSANE. WE'RE REFERENCING MY LORE NOW?

But thank you, you're insane. People ask why I have stupid high standards for the fics i post on AO3 and it is because there are people like you who will just read whatever regardless of whether or not it's good. I have a responsibility.

This ask also made me wonder if I have good taste. Because every time somebody says this my first reaction is "oh god and the source materials aren't even good". I read a lot of trashy stuff (but, like, define trashy), and I consume too many bad things to be able to say I have discerning taste. If I enjoy something I almost never call it bad, because things were made to be enjoyed and I enjoyed them then they had value in at least one aspect. If you were to ask me if my favorite TV show of all time the Incredible Hulk 1974 was actually, unironically, good, then I'd break into a cold sweat. Is somebody bad because it's camp? Is something bad only if it's unintentional camp?

Regardless, I never write fic for something that isn't only like 80% good - there's a sweet spot of 'good enough for me to obsess over' and 'bad enough that I'm rewriting it in my head'. It's rare I write for anything I find completely good. Which is why I feel bad when people say that they're reading this thing I'm writing fic for jalksdf there's better things out there I SWEAR.

ORV is in the sweet spot of "this isn't high literature" and "this has given me brain worms". Definitely for sure start with the webtoon - the webnovel is clunkily translated, you don't read it for the writing at all, and it is also a literal million words. Don't read the webnovel unless you're like "I'm going insane and I need more of this". It starts off kind of slow ("This is a well executed very banal isekai") and you're like a frog in the pot of it slowly going more insane until you're a ways in and you are in a tangle of ridiculously complicated gambits and convoluted storytelling. There is literally no other way to describe it than the Homestuck of webnovels. If you're completely unfamiliar with isekai that's fine, but as a warning - ORV being your first webtoon/webnovel isekai is like your first shoujo manga being Ouran High Schol Host Club, or your first magical girl show being Madoka, or your first mecha anime to be Neon Genesis Evangelion. It's one of the best works in its genre but it's supposed to be viewed in context of the genre. Or maybe it's more like if Homura starred in Evangelion, which was Ouran. I'm just saying words.

Animorphs is kind of like Mother 3 in which everybody who has ever read/played it said that it changed them as a person, it changed their relationship with media and storytelling forever, if you read/play it you will be born again from the world's egg, etc. Works that genuinely become part of your personality. I also never recommend it to people because it is incredibly hit or miss. I remember using a spreadsheet of just "what books are skippable or not" because some of them are incredibly weird and some of them are incredibly weird in the bad way. The only Animorphs fic I've ever written is from 2019 so it's also not that great. Each book only takes an hour to read and the pdfs are free online, so it's incredibly accessible in terms of the reading experience, but it's kinda the Animorphs gestalt that changes you forever and not the individual books. I try not to recommend stuff that's like 25% bad.

Watch Trigun if you like what Trigun is - it's not going to deliver on something it's not. Also watch 98 first. Watch Stampede/read Trimax if you want more Trigun. The Trigun fic is based off Stampede but refer to my "I only write fic for smth that's 80% good and not 100% good" statement.

Also I think being bit by an asbestos rat just means that I probably have mold and drywall in my lungs, which would explain a lot about this blog. Thanks for the ask I love it.

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Do you think there’s any way for a Yeerk to live a happy, or at least not miserable, life without a host of any kind?

Oh yeah! That's how the end shakes out: the yeerks get to morph, they don't need hosts, and it's definitely not as simple as "they all live happily ever after" but it's not bad. There's also fandom speculation about the purple box Visser Three uses for communication during his trial. We don't get a lot of detail, but it seems like those machines could be a way for yeerks to have lots of sensory input and cross-species communication without having to enslave anyone.