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They can, I've seen it.

I had a dream that I was reading a list of Yeerk Facts and one of the Yeerk Facts was that a Yeerk can climb inside a soap bubble without popping it.

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Gina didn't smoke the cigarette, she ate it whole.

About A-Town, could you see, in the second season, they'd potentially do a David plotline (by accident, since the Animorphs don't talk about him), by introducing a new "recurring" cast member as a student who stumbles into the overall plot? And they're "edgier" than the main cast and represent the "hard choices" character, etc, and eventually are poised to betray the Animorphs and join the Yeerks, so they have to be removed in a TV-friendly way. Bonus if they date one of the main cast.

[For everyone just tuning in: A-Town is my idea for a shitty postwar sitcom about the leader (Brandon) of a team of teen shapeshifters, his best friend (JJ), his occasional girlfriend (Crystal), his cooler cousin (Trina), her on-again-off-again aviationship (Liam), and her beau's stepsister (Gina). Any resemblance to real persons, living or deceased, is entirely coincidental. Our legal team said so.]

What if this character is also Jeremy Jason McCole's self-insert Mary Sue? Assuming JJM's the same age as the Animorphs themselves, this'd put him at age ~26 playing age ~15 as of A-Town, but that's pretty standard for Hollywood.

Zachary the New Kid first appears at a meeting of The Gathering, chatting with some cool controller kids. The camera follows him as he walks out of the meeting, around the corner, and out of sight... a housecat walks out of the alleyway a second later. We smash-cut to Crystal's barn tree house, where the cat climbs up the ladder and into the window. "Zack!" JJ exclaims, "you scared me! Good thing we have you spying on the meetings of The Gathering, the secret alien organization. Ever since you joined the team last month after catching us morphing behind those dumpsters, you've used that cat morph more than any other — you're a real cat man at heart!" Cue laugh track; evidently this line is meant to be funny.

Zack may or may not live in Brandon's house. He refers to his parents having been taken by the yeerks, and over half his scenes are filmed in Brandon's bedroom, so...

The main plot of Zack's first episode involves him declaring he'll do "whatever it takes" to defeat the yeerks, and Brandon being worried that he's "going too far." Since A-Town never shows onscreen violence and involves lots of fauximorphs casually blowing up entire Yeerk Pools by pushing a button, it's not clear what either of these extremes would entail. None of the obvious answers (killing hosts, using oatmeal Chicken 'n Stars, siding with the andalites) ever comes up in conversation. In the end, Brandon and Zack hug and agree to put their differences behind them.

His catchphrase is "E-ZACK-tly!"

Zack's major running plot involves JJ being insecure because Trina obviously likes Zack better than him. JJ goes through various antics to win Trina back, and eventually succeeds, but then! The camera shows Zack hiding in a dark corner (of Brandon's bedroom) making out with someone, judging by the moans and smacking sounds. "Daisy" (Zeptron 420) flicks the lights on, and they scream in shock — it's Zack and Crystal! "Daisy" screams too, something about "filthy humans!" and runs off downstairs.

Brandon finds out about Crystal and Zack (presumably Zeptron tattled? or he just walked into his own bedroom?) and declares he and Zack must fight to the death. Brandon morphs his terrier Mopsy, Zack morphs a beagle, and... Well. There's lots of footage of Mopsy yapping and Zack-the-beagle howling, and Liam and Gina's narration assures us that there's a vicious dogfight happening just offscreen, so we'll take the show's word for it. Even though the footage clearly shows both dogs' tails wagging furiously the entire time. The episode ends without us finding out who won.

Between episodes there's a fan poll: should Zack stick around? He loses by a landslide.

Zack's penultimate episode opens up with him meeting "Daisy" in a back alleyway. Not only does he kiss her on the cheek — he's cheating on Crystal! — but he buys a pack of cigarettes from her. Zack walks out of the alleyway and straight into Liam. "This isn't what it looks like!" Zack declares, as Liam watches "Daisy" and the other Gathering controllers wave goodbye to Zack after he was clearly colluding with them. "I think," Liam growls, "it's e-ZACK-tly what it looks like. Cigarettes are an addictive substance, and contain over 40 different chemicals that cause cancer. Plus, cigarettes are uncool. We can't have someone who smokes on the team." Zack begs for another chance and promises to quit, but then — the mid-episode twist — offers a cigarette to Gina, who accepts.

The final episode opens with the other fauximorphs all telling Zack he can't be on their team anymore. Gina smoked one entire cigarette thanks to him, and she's just an innocent young... person. Entity. Being. Phenomenon. Look, the point is, cigarettes are DANGEROUS. Zack weedles his way into going on one last mission with the fauximorphs, where he heroically sacrifices his life to keep the others safe by letting the controllers capture him so the others can get away.

For the entire rest of the show, there's a memorial statue to Zack in the corner of the tree house. If you look very very closely in some of the shots, you can make out that the epigraph just says "SMOKING KILLS."

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Rachel: I'm uhh... what'd you say your name was?

Officer: John Smith.

Rachel: Oh wow, what a coincidence, that's my name too!

Marco: And my name is Smith Johns.

Cassie: Um. Cindy Crawford?

Rachel and Marco: Ohmigod Cassie, you're so embarrassing.

Can't believe Marco and Rachel were making fun of Cassie for saying 'Cindy Crawford', as if 'Mulder and Scully' were any better.

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Can't believe Marco and Rachel were making fun of Cassie for saying 'Cindy Crawford', as if 'Mulder and Scully' were any better.

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Ax' Earth Diary

Yeah maybe that was it.

Ax's Earth Diary

The humans have a saying: "What doesn't kill you doesn't kill you." Humans like to say many obvious things.

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Ax's Earth Diary

The humans have a saying: "What doesn't kill you doesn't kill you." Humans like to say many obvious things.

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“Alright everybody, quiet down, time to divvy up! So, twenty points each to Edrian, Astalin, and Enadin for correctly guessing that this week’s morph would be fire themed! Great job, guys. Another ten points to Astalin for correctly guessing the color, grayish purple, and to Ectrin for somehow predicting the number of limbs, five point two! How does he always know? Bilsup and Mergin have won 30 points each for their answers in the category of How Many Andalite Bandits Will Be Impaled, and of course Bilsup gets an additional 25 points for their prediction that the Visser would also be impaled. Great work, everyone. Winners, please come up and get your prize vouchers… hm? Oh, a moment of silence for Ectrin, may his body be returned to the moss. His points will be added to the pot for our holiday giveaway… As you may recall, we did have to remove the category for ‘effectiveness’ as it was deemed unfair. This week we have replaced it with a category for How Many Uninfested Humans Will Witness the Morph? Answers range from 1 to 250+, so correct guesses will earn you five times the points! Make sure to get your forms in by the end of the day, and remember, forms turned in after the incident will not be valid for prizes, but they can always be a fun way to gather data! Thanks everybody!”

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I go to the door that is not the closet and I put my hand on the door and it slides open and I step out into a tall and skinny human who pokes me in the eye with its very pointy shoulder. I look up at the human and see that it has no head and at first I am alarmed by this but then I realize that I have actually gone to the door that is a closet and the tall skinny human is actually just standard clothing and the very pointy shoulder is in fact a hanger and I am not sure that I can take care of myself if I cannot even tell two doors apart. 

But actually this is good and the right decision because no one has changed me out of my Unhosted uniform and if I went outside like this then I would be sent right back to the prison and I would have to wait another very long time to have a chance to come out again. 

I put on the uniform that I thought was a person. I am a person. Now I am wearing the clothes of a human who is a Yeerk and I think I will blend in better. 

I go to the other door. There are only two doors in the room so I know that I have the right door this time. 

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Tagged by @hillnerd for WIP Wednesday: post a snippet of something you're working on and tag 3-5 people.

When Cassie and Tobias, hunched over scrolls and scrolls of contraband, recited the words that were supposed to open a connection to the spirit world, they didn’t really know what to expect. 

They were aware of the possibility of being caught and arrested, which is why they chose a secluded glacier a few miles out from the tribe. They knew the scrolls could be confiscated and burned, which is why they had dug out a hole for them to throw the scrolls in at a moment’s notice.

They were prepared for the whole thing to not work- no one contacted the spirit world anymore. Not only was it considered treasonous, but no one knew how to do it. They were hopeful, so very hopeful that it would work. That they’d be able to save their dying friend. One of the last Leerans alive in the water tribes, the only one still around in the southern water tribe.

What they didn’t expect, as they held hands and chanted the barely-decipherable scribbles on the scroll, was for a strangely pretty boy, dressed in the tell tell black and red of the fire nation, to stumble out of the solid glacier wall in front of them.

Tagging @lytefoot, @headcanonsandmore, @thejakeformerlyknownasprince, @districtunrest, and @the-sun-and-the-sea

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Marco: So he stole the Time Matrix? He's doing time crimes??? Like some kind of time crime lord???

Tobias: A tempus fugitive, if you will.

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Had a dream last night that I was desperately trying to post this to my blog:

Hey, mister DJ, don't put a record on. The Yeerk Pool is not the appropriate venue for that.

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Died and came back the same because my girlfriend rewrote time so I never even tried to cross the Potomac with George Washington.

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Everybody stop what you're doing right now.

Nothing bad will ever happen to me because I am too cute and funny for that.

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Nothing bad will ever happen to me because I am too cute and funny for that.

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No, I got drugs now, I'm so chemically balanced in there!

Nobody's tried to lure me down to the basement of the school lately and I'm starting to take it personally.

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Nobody's tried to lure me down to the basement of the school lately and I'm starting to take it personally.

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Marco: Dude, did you just eat a spider?

Jake turns, multifaceted eyes melting back into human eyes: It tried to eat me first.

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Does anyone know if the torture tomorrow is going to be psychological or physical? Asking for a friend.