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

Anonymous asked: For the ship grade: Hellboy/Liz Sherman?

Aaaaaah, yay, I didn’t actually expect anyone to do this.

Ship Grade: A+ (OTP) | A (I love it) | B (It’s really cute) | C (Not a bad ship) | D (I’m neutral on it) | E (I don’t really like it) | F (NOTP) | N/A (Don’t know it well enough)

I believe I’ve mentioned that, first of all, I’m an absolute sucker for complementary superpowers and Girl On Fire/Fireproof Demon Hero is consequently my exact shit, and, second of all, I really like ships where they click so well in combat, and, third of all, the whole dynamic of “I lit a whole room on fire and killed a thousand demons for you”//”I low-key almost ended the world for you and then probably threatened the angel of death to make it give you back” is MY WHOLE LIFE.

Oh, and of course I’m hilariously into the mutual pining that’s going on there.

So, um, yes.  I’m Here For It.

Anonymous asked: JFC TOM!!!! MY BOY!!!! HE DIDN"T THEM TOUCJHING JAKEEEE!

LISTEN I WILL CRY WITH YOU FOREVER ABOUT TOM AND HOW MUCH THE ONLY THING HE WANTS ANYMORE IS FOR THE YEERKS TO LEAVE HIS LITTLE BROTHER ALONE, THAT’S ALL HE WANTS, GOD, I’M GOING TO CRY.

Book 6 was so good! I loved that Yeerk perspective! Tom THO!!!

T O M T H O

Anonymous asked: do you think that during the scene where harry and corlath sit at the fountain he was like holy shit holy shit holy shit she's holding my hand holy shit and then later was like sheheldmyhandsheheldmyhandsheHELDmyHAND and one of the riders (probably mathin) was like im gonna tell this story at your wedding

Well, as we all know, the exact order of people who realized that Harry and Corlath were in love* was:

1. The Riders
   
2. The hafor
3. Bystanders at the laprun trials
4. Sungold
5. Corlath, probably immediately after she took his mask at the trials
6. Gonturan
7. The City hafor
8. Random City folk
9. Various Damarian soldiers, including Senay and Terim at different times
10. Luthe/Aerin
11. Jack Dedham
12. Random Outlanders following mad Harry into battle
13. Kentarre and her archers
14. Richard Crewe, probably because Jack tells him
15. Small animals on the side of the path
16. Passing birds
17. Thurra probably????
18. MAUR THE BLACK DRAGON, DEAD THESE MANY CENTURIES
19. PEOPLE IN SUNSHINE, WHO AREN’T EVEN IN THE SAME UNIVERSE
20. Harry

*Narknon is not included because, as it has no bearing on her life besides the improvement of her porridge quality, she maintains catlike, disdainful disinterest

So what I’m saying is: yes, yes he does.  And at their wedding Mathin, in his capacity as Harry’s stand-in entire family, presents her as the Daughter of the Riders and tells the entire assembled city about how it took a fight, a mutiny, a war, a miracle, and a near-death experience for Harry to see what was right in front of her nose, and in the meantime their noble king was blushing like a teenager after so much as touching her hand.

Anonymous asked: Yes to your Jake headcanon. 'Big Jake' to me always meant that he was broad shouldered and tall and just solid (which means Tom was probably even taller if he called him midget but that could have also been a big brother teasing thing). No offense to anyone if they want to headcanon Jake as being chubby, but that's not how I interepreted his nickname at all.

I have read some EXCELLENT chubby Jake headcanons and I’m here for it, tbqh, but yeah, IDK I knew a lot of just…really big dudes when I was younger, the gentle giant types who seem kind of bemused by being the size of a fridge.  And Jake always struck me as the type of guy who seems kind of bemused about being so tall.  Also, who else is with me that Tom used to call Jake midget because Jake was shorter than him as a kid and then Tom got infested with a Yeerk and the Yeerk never changed the nickname even though by the end of the war Jake is three inches taller than his big brother.  Obviously in an AU where Everything Is Okay this means that Tom calls Jake midget as like an ongoing family inside joke that makes people very confused because Jake is Tall.

Anonymous asked: "Not fat–he’s an athlete" just an fyi that you can be fat and be an athlete :)

You’re absolutely correct, and that was an error in phrasing on my part.  I have no idea when I wrote that post but I was probably having a pre-MCAT anxiety fit and therefore pretty fuzzy, mentally speaking, because that’s basically been my last month.  My apologies, and thanks for how polite your message is.

Anonymous asked: In my mind I will forever refer to Jake as "Roach Boy"

Oh my God, the YELP of laughter I let out when I saw this, you have no idea.  Roach Boy, with a Roach Motel on his head.

On a somewhat related note I think it’s fucking great that he gets called Big Jake, like, point me toward the fanart where Jake is just.  A big dude.  Not fat–he’s an athlete, even if he’s not great at basketball–but just big.  I have a friend who’s a football player (like…one of the positions that does a lot of running, I know nothing about football) and he’s like six foot and he’s ALWAYS been a really huge dude, tall and broad shouldered and kind of benevolently looming at all times, even when we were Animorphs-age.  Draw me Jake like that dude.  Just.  Real tall and real broad through his shoulders with real big hands and generally kind of unsure about what to do about it.  Talk to me about how he goes from kind of cheerfully slouched (I know a lot of friendly huge dudes, you know the slouch I mean, of like “I’m really tall and I’m trying to look approachable”) to ramrod straight and menacing as fuck during the war.  He goes from being totally friendly and adorable to…genuinely kind of intimidating? 

…listen, I’m sorry for this drastic change of topic, I just have a lot of feelings about Big Jake.

Anonymous asked: So there's a TV show about the Animorphs... Is that a things that's acknowledged in this fandom or is it Not A Thing We Talk About Shut The Hell Up?

I know there are some people who acknowledge it, but I got through literally a quarter of the first episode before I concluded that I was being unnecessarily cruel to myself and since then I have happily pretended that it does not exist while dreaming about the animated series I want to get someday.

Oh NO! MARCO!!! ANd MArco’s MUM?! Jesus Christ

IT’S SO TERRIBLE AND SO PAINFUL AND I LOVE IT DEARLY

*slams fist on table* Holy crap do I love this thing with Marco’s family. Also is it bad that I found the line about his mother being On Yeerk mothership funny? This is seriously juvenile humour.. and yet

Oh no trust me I too laugh at that joke every time.  I’m also always hysterically amused by the recurring joke of “Hey, Rachel, open this door” Rachel, in morph: *breaks down the door*

Like, I’m a huge fan of that terrible joke, it will never not be funny to me.

mirandatam asked: Okay wow, these are dated: "How long do you think this will take?" Rachel asked. She checked her watch. "I set the VCR for two of my favorite shows, but I forgot to tape the movie of the week." "I'm taping it in case you miss it," Cassie said. Wow.

First of all, yeah, wow, the 90′s were a long time ago.  Like, I know how to wind a cassette tape with a pencil and I’m pretty sure my friend’s kid sister has never even seen one before.  It’s a trip.

Second of all, I kind of love how much Rachel and Cassie (and Jake and Marco, for all that they try to be gruff about it) are just.  Really into their friendship.  Like, yes, obviously, Cassie tapes movies that Rachel wants to see and makes sure to hang onto them for her.  Rachel probably tapes Animal Planet sometimes, with much complaining, for her best friend.  *sighs* I love them.  They’re good kids.

grape juice omfg, these kids

In case you had missed that they’re TINY TEENS, they’re teeny tiny teens.  Like.  Thirteen.  Juice box teens.  I know that’s not what this is referencing but THEY’RE TINY TEENS, MARCO PROBABLY BRINGS CAPRI SUN WITH HIS LUNCH BOX.  Or he would if he brought a lunch box.

mirandatam asked: aaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAH I JUST FINISHED BOOK THREE AND AAAAAAAAH MY BIRD CHILD NEEDS SO MANY HUGS like, even though I read a bit of this series when I was little, so I... think... that things do eventually change for the better wrt that situation.... aaaaah that is much worse than I remember it being. wow

My booooooooy I love him, he goes through such a rough time.  

And um.  Sure!  Yeah!  Things totally change for the better!  I absolutely did not talk all of these people into reading 54 books of unremitting, unalloyed, cold-eyed tragedy!

*whistles*

Originally posted by eightbitferrets

miraculoussparrow asked: "His jaw is set hard, no trace of his nervous smile, and he’s standing up straight for the first tine in her memory and the two of them are immediately, viscerally agreed. They are going to war. The others can stay or go, but Rachel and Tobias. They are doing this, because this is what they are. Who they are." I love them and I LOVE this. I love the way you write so much, it's amazing. I've read this drabble twice over. It's so good.

THANK YOU SO MUCH, I HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS ABOUT THESE KIDS AND I’M GLAD THAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE ENJOYING THEM.

WELL.

ONE OTHER PERSON.

Originally posted by yourreactiongifs

Also in case you want to read EVEN MORE of my start-of-the-war Rachel/Tobias feelings, I wrote this a while back.