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

Anonymous asked: An X-files reference... nice.

Book 14 is just a 150-page-long Scooby Doo episode and I love it dearly.  Horses and Andalites toilets and highly questionable amusement park shenanigans.  Also it is pretty much the last good times until 24, and then I think that might be…it.  So I hope you relished it.

I have to be totally honest with you here, I just finished the series (again) this morning and I’m seriously considering rereading the entire thing as a balm for my soul.

Wow! 15 was so good as well! Seriously, I love all the introspection we get about Marco and his mother. And tbh the relationship between Marco and the rest of the Animorphs is just so… good? Like, seriously, this is my jam.

I love the relationship between the whole team, I love it so much, they’re such a desperate little family of warriors, it’s so good, they take such good care of each other.  I mean.  No.  They don’t.  Because they’re at war and sometimes that takes precedent.  But they do their best and their best is so good I love them.

Anonymous asked: Where you a Tamora Pierce reader growing up?

Actually, yes!  I preferred her Immortals and Circle Magic series, and having reread one of them just a couple years ago (the Immortals series, with Daine) I can confirm that they age remarkably well and I still really ship Daine/Numair.  Feel free to come talk to me about my feelings.

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: What about... T and U? (for the fandom meme)

From this ask meme!

T: What are your favorite M/M or F/F ships?

Um…Enjolras/Grantaire from Les Mis, Baze Malbus/Chirrut Imwe from Rogue One, Waverly Earp/Nicole Haught from Wynonna Earp, Hamilton/Laurens from Hamilton and also HISTORY, Legolas/Gimli from LotR, and Aziraphale/Crowley from Good Omens, probably.  Those are the ones that come to mind.  Oh, and of late Napoleon Solo/Illya Kuryakin from The Man From UNCLE.  And Breq/Seivarden(/Mercy of Kalr) from Ancillary Justice.

U: What are your favorite M/F ships?

Rachel/Tobias and Elfangor/Loren from Animorphs, Jareth/Sarah from Labyrinth, Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff from Avengers, Raleigh Becket/Mako Mori from Pacific Rim, Aerin/Tor and Aerin/Luthe and Harry/Corlath from the Damar series, Jame/Torisen from the Kencyrath series, and any arrangement of Rey/Finn/Poe Dameron from Star Wars.  I’m also currently watching B99 and feeling a great deal of affection for Amy Santiago/Jake Peralta. 

Anonymous asked: D For the fandom meme?

From this ask meme!

D: What was the first thing you ever contributed to a fandom?

Pretty sure the first thing I ever actually contributed was THIS Scarlet Witch/Vision post-Civil War fic, which is entirely fluff originating in a conversation I had with my best friend about the lack of fic for the two of them and the fact that no one had written a mid-air kiss for these two FLYING SUPERHEROES.

An excerpt:

Vision’s hand reached out, hovering just over her shoulder.  “Are you having nightmares again?”

“Nothing shocking,” she said.  “The same.”  The wreckage of her house, her brother’s body.  Strucker’s failed experiments.  Straitjackets inside cages inside prisons.  The Avengers, twisted and shattered in red light.  “Some new.”  Men without limbs, and sinking into the sea, and Vision, turning his clear cold eyes and terrible power toward her.

Vision lingered for a moment, then lowered his hand so that his palm was up, an invitation.  “Come with me.  Just for a little while.  I promise to bring you back.”

I love this ship, y’all.

Anonymous asked: ANDALITE. AND-A-LIGHT WOULD BE GREAT!!!!!!!! HILARIOUS. TOP QUALITY. I LOVE IT.

AND A LIGHT.  LISTEN I WENT ALMOST TEN YEARS WITHOUG READING THESE BOOKS (long story) AND WHEN I REREAD BOOK 12 I LOOKED AT THE COVER AND THE FIRST THING THAT POPPED INTO MY HEAD WAS “CASSIE I’M SO PROUD OF YOU YOU’RE SO GOOD” LIKE LISTEN THAT LINE STUCK WITH ME COMPLETELY INTACT AND WORD PERFECT FOR A D E C A D E.

Also, if anyone wants to hear my headcanons about ADHD Rachel hit me U P.

Anonymous asked: Marco and the Terrible, Horrible. No Good, Very Bad Haircut™

Okay, I recommend the absolute hell out of Morph Club Cast, an Animorphs reread podcast, and in the episode for Book 10 I think they count a total of six mentions of Marco’s new haircut?  Eight?  Not sure.  A lot.

So basically… all puppers are Chee’s right?

…so…at some point all puppers were part Pemalite but also evolution exists and maybe not anymore but on the other hand the puppers respond intelligently to the Pemalite crystal but…only sort of?  Maybe?  But yes.

I realize that I just gave every answer possible to that question, but also.  Just roll with it.

I… don’t know how to feel about the Chee book. Just. Huh. Huh.

Same?  Same tbh?  It’s a weird book?  Like, Marco has some Bad Times, but ultimately it doesn’t seem to click as well as, say, the previous book, in which Cassie had Bad Times and the day was saved by bureaucracy and skunks?  Also, you just reminded me that I should post my recap of this book so that I can vent my Potentially Controversial Opinions about the Chee.  Look forward to that being the next thing in the queue.

(preview: WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK PLEASE HELP THESE SIX TRAUMATIZED TEENAGERS INSTEAD OF JUST BEING PROBLEM GENERATORS)

Anonymous asked: You've read Sansûkh, right?? because that's like, the pinnacle of the A+++ dwarf worldbuilding and love

In fact, I have.

And it is a world-changing experience.