Why were we allowed to read Animorphs as kids, anyway?

dr-jekyl: thejakeformerlyknownasprince: It’s a question I see come up in this fandom again and again: How the heck did Animorphs books make it into school libraries and book fairs across the country to be marketed to eight-year-olds when they feature drug addiction, body dysmorphia, suicide, imperialism, PTSD, racism, sexism, body horror, grey-and-black morality, slavery, torture, major…

mousathe14: alexandot: alexandot: people say the animorphs covers are *creepy* but the actual in book transformations are all like ‘then her face cracked in two, her organs melted, her bones all snapped and reformed backwards, and her fingers and toes fused together. she couldnt cry because her tear ducts didnt fucking exist anymore. everyone looked at…

bramblepatch: roachpatrol: also re: animorphs future events, please consider how cheerfully humans would look at morphing technology, and then look at spaceships, and then turn themselves into nothlit primates like gibbons and chimpanzees to be more efficient at spacetravel.   i mean like, gibbons are half the size of a human at most and are…

roachpatrol: also about that comment on yeerks smothering each other: i’m pretty sure one of the really big social problems yeerks faced was that yeerks in their natural state cannot individually murder each other. they’re softbodied aquatic invertebrates. they have nothing to murder each other with.  killing a yeerk would be a group effort: they…

roachpatrol: if the animorphs were pokemon trainers instead would rachel berenson be a gigantic-fucking-monster type trainer or a deceptively-tiny-overleveled-pink-fairy type trainer

Two Form Letters Jake Wrote Up To Make His Life Easier

friendshiptothemax: (originally posted here) Dear (circle one) Ax   Marco   Tobias   Cassie:I know that you are trying to be extra brave today because (circle all that apply)A) You fucked up the last missionB) You are attempting to live up to Andalite cultural standards of masculinityC) You are attempting to live up to Human…

pembroke:

i’ve decided to set various weekly/bi-weekly character design challenges for myself to keep improving. to start things off i went kinda easy and picked my favorite animal teens.

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roachpatrol: one thing i’d love to see addressed in post-war fics is human environmentalists vs arrogant andalite nature artists. like here’s andalites, deadass convinced they’re the most naturey possible motherfuckers, super in tune with the planet, with grass and water, the planet, whatever. and here’s human environmentalists who are used to ecosystems that contain thousands…

aniquotes: “People don’t understand the word ruthless. They think it means ‘mean.’ It’s not about being mean. It’s about seeing the bright, clear line that leads from A to B. The line that goes from motive to means. Beginning to end. It’s about seeing that bright, clear line and not caring about anything but the…