When you realize you’re putting the fate of the universe in the hands of teenagers

the backlog is real. the backlog is old. the backlog isnt going on main

anigraphix alt cover concept i was playing with... if you saw this on reddit/discord, that was also me!

Animorphs #20: The Discovery thoughts (pt. 1):

Animorphs books can be read here | Book Club schedule is here

I assumed that "inside a cement block" was like, it got wedged into a block not that it was fully inside of it.

god I just. love ruthlessness as a character trait so much. sexy sexy sexy

this one. absolutely in love with this definition. give me a character who thinks like this and I’ll love them to pieces

animorphs quotes that. i... those poor kids

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Edit: I made an animorphs gimmick blog: @i-assign-you-animorphs

@twilight0wanderer your comment about Jake and Rachel on the animorphs x GOT post tickled me so much I had to make this

I'll definitely be checking this out!

actually the craziest impact animorphs has had on me is that i never really got an urge to eat cinnamon buns from reading them BUT the phrase "the refreshing beverage known as vinegar" has forced its way into my head every other week for years to try and convince me it would be a good idea to chug a whole glass of it

tyhe voices in my head are gettinh louder

Vinegar is what we used to use as the acid in our sodas before we switched to Carbonated Water in the 19th century, and vinegar-based sodas trace their roots all the way back to the Bronze Age Meditteranean! The Romans called it Posca! The Ottomans adopted it from the Romans and called it Sharab, which means "Drink", and then American colonists acquired the recipe from the Ottomans in the 17th century and changed the name to Shrub!

There's a famous example of Posca that most people misremember because we don't drink Vinegar much anymore. If you're familiar with the Crucifixion of Jesus in the Bible, you probably remember the bit about the Roman soldier offering Jesus a sponge full of vinegar to drink. Most people think the Roman dude was mocking Jesus, but that's wrong. That was a sponge full of Posca. The Roman dude was like "Well this sucks. Want a Sprite?"

...Fun fact, I know this because the phrase "Refreshing Beverage known as Vinegar" got stuck in my head one night at work, and I started googling "Does anybody drink vinegar". I had to know. It turns out the answer is yes! And you can still find vinegar-based soft drinks today! Switchel is a vinegar-and-ginger drink you can find at some bars in the US, and it goes back to pre-carbonated soft drinks.

Also, I know several people who drink pickle juice regularly, and white vinegar is a key component of pickle juice! So that's also where vinegar as a drink can pop up in your day to day life.

There's also a trendy New Age beverage called fire cider that's literally just vinegar, cinnamon, spice, and pretensions. RIP Ax, you would've loved the fire cider craze.

op here. imagine how i feel. i've been dealing with this propaganda in my notifications all week.

Alright so one of my past jobs was working at an on tap place called Oil and Vinegar store. It’s supposed to be for salad dressings and stuff. People would bring in their bottles and we’d fill them up.

Vinegar is basically just made from fruit sugars so we had. The most. Amazing vinegars. There’s this one made with mango pulp that I straight up would have just drunk but if you add it to soda water it was truly the most decadent beverage imaginable. So there’s like passion fruit, raspberry, elderflower- just every wonderful sharp flavor imaginable.

We had pregnant ladies who’d buy several bottles at a time because it’s really great for nausea.

What I’m saying here is that Ax wasn’t wrong at all, that dude knew what was up even if he was probably chugging boring household white vinegar.

animorphs is funny because the kids spend almost the entire series turning into birds of prey to fly in virtually every scenario while complaining about how they have to space themselves out so it doesn't look suspicious that all these rare raptors are grouped together, about how birds of prey often have to do a lot of hard flapping work to fly in some situations they're not meant for, about tiring out easily, etc. to the point where it starts getting weird and confusing that they literally always use those bird morphs instead of thinking to turn into e.g. migratory geese for certain situations as per their general capacity for pragmatism. and then in literally one of the last books in the series some of them turn into geese to fly long distance and spend the entire time going "wtf this is great why the fuck didnt we do this earlier holy shit." and also the answer to that question is at least in part "one of the animorphs is just literally on all levels including physical a hawk that gets snooty about bird species he thinks suck and would have been really annoying about it"

hey this must be so awkward but i have a theory that your boyfriend is secretly a worm. yeah if you could take a look at my conspiracy board here, you'll see that he just has sort of a worm mentality, and knows things that only a worm would know. so not to put you on the spot or anything, but would you still love him?

have you ever seen your boyfriend in the same place as every single worm in the world, congregating as one grand worm entity? no? you haven't? yeah, that's right, that's exactly what i thought. i'd like to see you try to prove me wrong NOW

My apologies but @i-assign-you-animorphs

Would you still love him if he were a Yeerk?

“Jake shook his head sadly, looking up at the monster roller coaster. ‘That used to be the coolest thing in the world to me,’ he said. ‘But ever since I morphed a falcon, it just hasn’t seemed like any big deal. I mean, you’re going maybe eighty miles per hour on a steel track. When I was a falcon I did like two hundred miles an hour in midair.’

‘This morphing stuff does kind of change things,’ Marco agreed. 'I used to want to get all pumped up. Then I morphed into a gorilla, and it was like, why bother lifting weights? I can just become a gorilla and bench press a truck.’

'I don’t feel that way,’ Rachel said. 'Being a cat made me more interested in gymnastics. I mean, as a cat I was just so totally, totally in control and graceful. Ever since then I’ve been trying to use that feeling. When I’m on the balance beam I try and remember that cat confidence.’

'And then you fall off just the same as always?’ I teased.

'Oh, yeah,’ Rachel said with a laugh. She made little walking fingers in the air that then fell over. 'Boom. I slip right off. But I feel confident while I’m falling off.'”

- Book #4: The Message (Cassie), pg. 48 (by K.A. Applegate)

Animorphs The Animated Series

What if each animorph had their own artstyle (batch 1)

Cassie #29

Tobias #33

“'Is he all right?’ my father asked.

‘Who, Ax? Sure, he’s fine,’ Jake said. ‘He’s just from a different country.’

I groaned. ‘Oh, no, now my dad’ll ask -’

'Oh, very interesting. Ax? What country are you from?’

'I am from the Republic of Ivory Coast.’

'Oh, man,’ I moaned. 'Why did I ever give him that World Almanac?’

'You know, if you don’t mind my saying so, you don’t look like you’d be from the Ivory Coast,’ my father said. He was getting that edge he gets in his voice when someone is slowly but surely beginning to grind his last nerve.

'How about Equatorial Guinea? The Republic of Kyrgyzstan? Canada?’

'Tell you what,’ my father said, 'let’s just go with Canada.’

'I am from Canada. I am Canadese.'”

- Book #24: The Suspicion (Cassie), pg. 55 (by K.A. Applegate)

marco, on jake's death:

i would just like to say that i LOVE that his thought process here is influenced both by his loyalty to jake and the knowledge of what it's like when someone you love never comes home. this whole mission he and cassie thought they were going to protect jake. that was what they were going to do. that was the plan, and then jake died.

so marco could not protect jake. he failed to stop him from being killed. and death is absolute, of course: there's no going back. he had one chance, and he failed. and he knew it (so much so that later he is actually the LAST person to realise that using time fuckery to save him is still an option!).

but in this moment he realises that there is nothing he can do for jake, and his next thought is actually jake's parents. he wonders how they would take it. he's not a stranger to someone he loves never coming home, and being fed a lie about how they died. what could i tell them? what could anyone tell them? a lie, of course, but which one? because the last thing marco can possibly do for jake is to protect jake's family, by lying to them.

hmmmm. considering, you know, /gestures at marco's entire life

now that this post has me thinking about it... of course. of course that's where he mind goes. marco knows, all too well, what loss does to a parent.

《MORPHTOBER 22- NOTHLIT

POV you are going to be a rat forever

Also my Ax design, or an early draft of it !》

Counterargument: Ax. Because he'd either spend half his time in Human morph puking his guts out if it wasn't for a mission(and honestly, probably even then), because ice cream and cheese are too versatile and delicious to give up, or he'd swear off any and all dairy products and drive everyone else insane with his constant plant-based milk concoctions, while also being smug about how consuming botanical matter is clearly superior to consuming animal matter(I know he eats meat in the books, it's for the bit)

Rachel. Imagine being a SoCal 90s teen mall rat who's laid low by Dippin' Dots.