Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

luckyladylily asked: Thought you might like this, in my head you are "That animorphs person". You made me get back into the series from when I was younger. Gradually making my way through the series again now. I Love your rereading comments.

This…this is it…this is the pinnacle of my life….

I was just wondering to my friend the other day if I qualified as an Animorphs Person now or not.

I am so gratified by this information.

readera asked: For the softer world Animorphs, any pair. M, L, O, and T. T is made for Ax, though. Have you heard of the podcast Morph Club Cast? It is two nerds rereading all of Animorphs. All of them, even the spin offs!

For some reason this ask got lost in the shuffle a billion years ago, but I am actually for real doing all of those prompts for the Animorphs because I have no sense of self-preservation.  I specifically have already completed O: No no, we aren’t breaking up!  You didn’t let me finish.  I’m gay for YOU. (And I’m queer for math!)  It has tragic gay Andalite smoochin’.  L and M are still up in the air and I’m considering having T be someone teaching Ax to cook, AKA The grand adventure of “NO AX THAT’S NOT FOOD”.  N is going to be a Firefly AU, though.

AND YES.  YES I HAVE HEARD OF MORPH CLUB.  I LOVE THEM DEARLY.  I DON’T KNOW IF MEGAN OR CAREY HAVE TUMBLR ACCOUNTS, BUT IF THEY DO, SOMEONE TAG THEM.  IN THE EVENT THAT EITHER OF YOU SEE THIS, I SCREAMED FOR REAL WHEN I DISCOVERED YOUR PODCAST AND I LOVE IT TO BITS AND FUCKING PIECES.

My thoughts exactly. I love this book, I love that scene, and I love these kids.

THAT FUCKING SCENE.

I just finished the books for the latest time this morning and like.  Listen.  My order of priorities is as follows:

1) Write the Ellimist Ex Machina post-war AU

2) Reread the entire series

3) 

Anonymous asked: C and F for the fandom meme? (I hope you're having a good day!)

From this ask meme!

C: A pairing you wish you shipped, but just can’t

Oh, wow, sit tight, all of these are entirely predicated on God my life would be easier if I shipped the most popular ship in the fandom.

Charles Xavier/Erik Lensherr: I got committed to the tragic friendship way too young to change my mind, but I have nothing against the ship.

Any configuration at all of Jim Kirk/Spock/Bones McCoy: I just…struggle?  I concur that Spock/Kirk is pretty gay in TOS and I want to ship it, and honestly Kirk/Bones should be my exact shit, but I just–look, Kirk is too in love with the Enterprise for anyone else to have a claim.

Buffy Summers/Spike: nope, nope, nope, nope, can’t do it.  Too rapey, too much sexual assault, even if I didn’t like Angel I wouldn’t be able to handle it.

Doc Holliday/Wynonna Earp: the show clearly really wants me to care about that pairing and like…I guess there’s nothing wrong with it, but I raise you Doc Holliday/Wyatt Earp and Wynonna/Dolls because Dolls is wonderful and Doc is so blindingly obviously in love with Wyatt and trying to work his issues out by fucking Wynonna, which, no judgement, because Wynonna is clearly trying to work out her own adequacy issues by fucking Doc.

Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter: I want to ship it just so I could stop feeling this level of seething wrath about it, I feel similarly about almost EVERY ship that the HP fandom likes, including literally anything that includes Severus Snape.

F: What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom? What fandom was it?

I mean…I was a late-comer to the concept of internet fandom (the last…four or five years?) because of various reasons, but I’ve been a devoted consumer of any X-Men content I could afford to get my hands on since I was 7 and I’ve been collecting Animorphs books about as long, so there’s those.

Anonymous asked: you are making me seriously consider going back and reading the animorphs books we have at my house

DO IT.

DO IT AND TALK TO ME ABOUT THEM.

ALL THESE YEARS MY BLOG HAS BEEN NOTHING BUT A RUSE TO SUCK YOU ALL IN AND CONVERT YOU TO ANIMORPHS.

HERE IS A LINK IN CASE YOU DON’T HAVE A FULL COLLECTION.

Anonymous asked: *Finishes Book 13* *screams* OH GOSH I LOVE THIS BOOK VERY VERY MUCH. Like the Hork-Bajir plotline AND THAT ENDING!!!!!!! So good! I'm pretty sure this is my favourite book so far. AHHHH. I'm sorry I can't contain mY EMOTIONS BECAUSE THIS IS A GOOD BOOK AND I LOVE HAWK BOY TOBIAS. I LOVE PAIN. 1/2

And like the Hork-Bajir??? I… love them???? Bless them and all good wishes to them in their little Eden. Oh god and again another battle they won, and with like a damn good strategy rather than you know everything falling apart at the last minute. AND ALL THANKS TO MY BOY TOBIAS. And I really love how this book gave so much insight into his character. Sorry for the rant.

DO NOT BE SORRY I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH, I’M???  I LOVE IT?  TOBIAS GETS TO BE A HERO AND THE HORK BAJIR GET THEIR LITTLE EDEN AND RACHEL AND TOBIAS GET TO JUMP OFF A CLIFF TOGETHER, WHICH IS JUST THEIR RELATIONSHIP IN A NUTSHELL TBH.

AND HAVE I MENTIONED HOW MUCH I LIKE THE SCENE OF THESE SIX TERRIFIED CHILDREN AND THESE TWO REFUGEE ALIENS STANDING IN THE FOREST AND TAKING A MOMENT OUT OF THEIR BUSY SCHEDULE OF BEING HUNTED LIKE ANIMALS TO SHOUT FREE OR DEAD AT THE TOP OF THEIR DESPERATE LITTLE LUNGS.  LIKE, THAT IS THE THESIS OF THESE BOOKS, THAT IS WHAT EVERYONE IN THESE BOOKS BELIEVE, THAT IS THEIR CODE: FREE OR DEAD.

I’M GOING TO START CRYING ABOUT THIS?????

GOD OKAY I LOVE IT.  PLEASE, GUYS, IF YOU KNOW OF ANY ART OF THIS GIVE IT TO ME SO I CAN WEEP SOFTLY OVER MY F A V O R I T E SCENE IN THIS SERIES.

Anonymous asked: P for the fandom meme? :)

From this ask meme!

P: Invent a random AU for any fandom

Here are several arbitrary universe mash-up AUs I’ve been thinking about lately.

Mediator AU of Jessica Jones/Luke Cage

Jessica is basically Susannah Simon (from the Mediator series, which I read as a kid and am rereading) all grown up with an alcohol problem, so this is the universe in which Jessica can see, talk to, and punch ghosts.  This can either be a straight up nothing-is-the-same AU where the entire plot is Jessica moving into a new apartment haunted by a beautiful guy from (help) maybe the 20′s who just never left for reasons that are unclear, or it can basically be canon, except that Jessica could always talk to ghosts and then acquired superstrength and *gasp* TRISH KNOWS EVERYTHING.  Clearly that is the superior AU.  But so then Jessica moves into her new office/apartment at the start of her show and it’s already haunted by a kinda grumpy recently dead guy who…possibly she murdered his wife still, that would be debatable.  Regardless, Luke (after about an hour of arguing about this is my goddamn apartment–  excuse you, you can’t just kick me out, I was here first, she finally does get a name out of him) has the strongest telekinetic powers she’s ever seen, and Jess can still lift cars.  Stuff proceeds apace, but with more Luke and maybe Kilgrave is an evil mediator or an extra-solid and terrible ghost or maybe he’s just Kilgrave, and I have no idea what the plot would look like or how Luke’s show would happen.  But it would have Luke appearing in Trish’s apartment to push something heavy over and yell “JESS IS GETTING HERSELF KILLED” until Trish woke up and went to help Luke deal with the situation.

Rogue One AU of Animorphs

Obviously.  I’ve seen a couple casual comments about a Star Wars AU of Animorphs where people are Jedi or whatever, but listen.  No.  The Animorphs are Rogue One.  Jake is Cassian, obviously, and Rachel is Jyn but less intensely disillusioned and more Ready To Go To War (both for the cause and for the war).  The major difference here is that it’s Jake who delivers the stirring speech, while Rachel is the one who recruits a small force of mutineers to back them up.  And no sexual tension.  I feel like Ax is Chirrut but like a baby, like he was really REALLY young when the war went down, and Tobias is Baze (ditto) and Rachel is like “…nice shoulder cannon” the first time they meet.  Instead of being gay married space warrior priests, Ax and Tobias are best friend space warrior priests.  Elfangor was definitely the older priest initiate who survived the massacre on Jedha and raised the two of them in the old ways and then dies tragically during Rogue One’s attempt to reach…Naomi?  I’m not sure who Saw would be in this argument.  CHAPMAN MAYBE.  Because Naomi has to be an engineer rather than a lawyer so that the plot can progress.

Wait, actually, no, Eva is the engineer, they don’t have to go on a hunt to find Rachel for the contact information because Marco already has it and MARCO IS K2 except he’s not a robot, he’s still a human and Jake’s best friend.  They go pull Rachel off an undercover op on Jedha because they need reinforcements, and Ax and Tobias basically just invite themselves along, and CASSIE IS THE PERSON WHO IS DRIVEN TO RISK HER LIFE BY REBELLING AGAINST THE EMPIRE WITH WORLD-SAVING INFORMATION.

This story would be like 95% Cousin Feelings with an additional 5% Ship Feelings, but the point of it all would be that Jake and Rachel die sitting on the beach shoulder-to-shoulder like they did when they were little kids, and Rachel says that Jake’s brother would have been proud of him and Jake smiles and it’s all terrible.

Mrs. and Mrs. Smith AU of Atomic Blonde

No, that’s it.  That’s literally it.  AU where Delphine and Lorraine have been married for five years and spend a few days trying to murder each other as couple’s counseling/the complications of the job and have wall sex in their destroyed kitchen.  Alternatively, Good Omens AU of Atomic Blonde, where Delphine is a sweet-natured demon who loves music and dancing and photography and Lorraine is a rather embittered angel.

Anonymous asked: W for the fandom meme?

From this ask meme!

W: List five favorite characters from five different fandoms

Does this mean…one character per fandom, or five characters per fandom?  I’m doing five characters per fandom.  Plus some rampant cheating.

MCU

Jessica Jones

Luke Cage

Claire Temple

Steve Rogers

Natasha Romanoff

+ Elektra Natchios as Honorable Mention since I just spent eight hours of Defenders crooning over my murder girl

Animorphs

RACHEL, A THOUSAND TIMES RACHEL

Tobias

Ax tied with Jake

Eva

…Cassie but she and I have some major ethical differences, thus the tie with Marco

+ Elfangor and Loren as Honorable Mention because I will take any opportunity to remind the whole world how much I love them

Star Wars

Rey

Finn

Poe Dameron

Leia Organa

…and all of Rogue One because I am a filthy cheater

Star Trek

JANEWAY

Jim Kirk

Nyota Uhura

Seven of Nine

Spock tied with Bones McCoy

X-Men

Rogue

Kitty Pryde

Storm (Ororo Munroe)

Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)

Gambit (Remy LaBeau) tied with Colossus (Piotr Rasputin)