wandringaesthetic
asked:
About the Animorphs only being able to save one person in the first book and you feeling relieved about that: I was, for a good year or so, 98% sure the books were Real and trying to figure our where the local Yeerk pools were. I think the fact that the Animorphs so often lose and/or barely escape with their lives in the first few books (they don't have a real VICTORY until book 7) are what cemented it for me. It felt so much more honest than any fiction I'd been exposed to before that.

Oh my God YES.  They…they basically don’t win for six books, and I had never seen that kind of track record in any books, let alone kids’ books.  I mean, they get Ax out before the Yeerks can get to him, but even that…the only reason they survive that encounter is because the whales come and save them from being eaten by Visser Three, it is A VERY CLOSE CALL is my point here.  And like, that’s upsetting, sure, yeah, very upsetting, the fate of the world is at stake and these THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLDS keep losing fights, but just…someone who was prepared to admit, straight-up, in a kids’ book that sometimes you lose and that’s just how it is?  I was fucking blown away.

I am an adult, I cannot be flailing in a public ice cream store about these books, I have work to do.

That being said, NEVER HESITATE TO TALK TO ME ABOUT ANIMORPHS.

H ATHE IDEA OF ME PASSING UP A CHANCE TO TALK ABOUT ANIMORPHS BECAUSE OF SOMETHING LIKE WORKFUNNY SHIT GUYSI'M A COMEDIANANIMORPHSthe great animorphs rereadi guess i'll just tag a lot of shit with that???