Jr. posted:

Normally I’d never ask a trans person such a thing but how does one transition to a dog-human

Jr. posted:

Normally I’d never ask a trans person such a thing but how does one transition to a dog-human

Jr. posted:

Normally I’d never ask a trans person such a thing but how does one transition to a dog-human

zoux posted:

When "SJW" came into coinage, before it was used to describe any idea to the left of Hitler by anime video game dorks, it was about people who would try to get equal rights for their headmates or protected-class status for trans-species fursonas.

zoux posted:

Hihohe posted:

Why is SA still around... Just to suffer?

Admiral Joeslop posted:

Who would hire Lowtax for a job?

zoux posted:

Crow Your Coins! posted:

Spoilers for GoT



to which the proper response was posted

Kanine posted:

growing up in new england its bizarre to me how new englanders pretend like we're any less lovely to the south in regards to race

boston is one of the most segregated cities in the country for fucks sake

Jr. posted:

Normally I’d never ask a trans person such a thing but how does one transition to a dog-human

Vandar posted:

Fuckin’ David.

Fucker got what was coming to him.

LawfulWaffle posted:

Is he the one who gets stuck as a bird or something? I know nothing about Animorphs aside from the covers.

Piell posted:

The Animorphs deliberately trapped him in rat morph then stuck him on an uninhabited island. Near the end of the series he came back and begged for death and Rachel (probably) killed him.

Animorphs was hardcore.

Seeereowpedia(?!) posted:

David owned two pets: a fat gray tabby cat named Megadeth and a king cobra named Spawn (prompting Marco to note that he had bad taste in music but good taste in comics).

LawfulWaffle posted:

Lol, christ I didn't need this rabbit hole today

LawfulWaffle posted:

Lol, christ I didn't need this rabbit hole today

LawfulWaffle posted:

Lol, christ I didn't need this rabbit hole today

LawfulWaffle posted:

Is he the one who gets stuck as a bird or something? I know nothing about Animorphs aside from the covers.

zoux posted:

One Angry Gamer account identity finally revealed
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1128620594164006912

Mikl posted:

By the way, the writer of Animorphs is an all around excellent person, as opposed to some other writers.

quote:

Dear Animorphs Readers:
Quite a number of people seem to be annoyed by the final chapter in the Animorphs story. There are a lot of complaints that I let Rachel die. That I let Visser Three/One live. That Cassie and Jake broke up. That Tobias seems to have been reduced to unexpressed grief. That there was no grand, final fight-to-end-all-fights. That there was no happy celebration. And everyone is mad about the cliffhanger ending.
So I thought I'd respond.

Animorphs was always a war story. Wars don't end happily. Not ever. Often relationships that were central during war, dissolve during peace. Some people who were brave and fearless in war are unable to handle peace, feel disconnected and confused. Other times people in war make the move to peace very easily. Always people die in wars. And always people are left shattered by the loss of loved ones.

That's what happens, so that's what I wrote. Jake and Cassie were in love during the war, and end up going their seperate ways afterward. Jake, who was so brave and capable during the war is adrift during the peace. Marco and Ax, on the other hand, move easily past the war and even manage to use their experience to good effect. Rachel dies, and Tobias will never get over it. That doesn't by any means cover everything that happens in a war, but it's a start.

Here's what doesn't happen in war: there are no wondrous, climactic battles that leave the good guys standing tall and the bad guys lying in the dirt. Life isn't a World Wrestling Federation Smackdown. Even the people who win a war, who survive and come out the other side with the conviction that they have done something brave and necessary, don't do a lot of celebrating. There's very little chanting of 'we're number one' among people who've personally experienced war.

I'm just a writer, and my main goal was always to entertain. But I've never let Animorphs turn into just another painless video game version of war, and I wasn't going to do it at the end. I've spent 60 books telling a strange, fanciful war story, sometimes very seriously, sometimes more tongue-in-cheek. I've written a lot of action and a lot of humor and a lot of sheer nonsense. But I have also, again and again, challenged readers to think about what they were reading. To think about the right and wrong, not just the who-beat-who. And to tell you the truth I'm a little shocked that so many readers seemed to believe I'd wrap it all up with a lot of high-fiving and backslapping. Wars very often end, sad to say, just as ours did: with a nearly seamless transition to another war.

So, you don't like the way our little fictional war came out? You don't like Rachel dead and Tobias shattered and Jake guilt-ridden? You don't like that one war simply led to another? Fine. Pretty soon you'll all be of voting age, and of draft age. So when someone proposes a war, remember that even the most necessary wars, even the rare wars where the lines of good and evil are clear and clean, end with a lot of people dead, a lot of people crippled, and a lot of orphans, widows and grieving parents.

If you're mad at me because that's what you have to take away from Animorphs, too bad. I couldn't have written it any other way and remained true to the respect I have always felt for Animorphs readers.

K.A. Applegate

Crow Your Coins! posted:

Or like the giant centipede ones that live their entire lives in a state akin to extreme fear and dread of starving, as an evolutionary adaptation.

Piell posted:

Yep, her letter to fans who didn't like the ending was a great message about how war fucks people up.

Vandar posted:

Long story short:

David was a nobody who found the cube that gave the Animorphs the power to morph.
The bad guys found David.
The Animorphs felt that they had no choice but to fake David’s death and force him to become the seventh member of the team.
David tried to betray the team.
David tried to kill the team.
David tried to blackmail the team.

In the end, they ended up trapping him in rat form (there’s a two hour time limit on their transformations) and leaving him on a rat infested island. Anyone that passed by the island could hear his psychic screams so the island got a reputation for being haunted.

Y’know. For kids!

quote:

"Without Crayak, without help, I can't beat you, Rachel. And I'm tired of trying. But I won't go back. I'd rather die than go back to that island. You'll have to kill me."

"I won't do that."

"Kill me. I'd rather die than go on like this. Rather die than go back to that place!"

"You're going back to the island."

"I won't go back. Kill me, Rachel! If there's any humanity left in you at all, please kill me."

"I'm one of the good guys."

"Then do the good thing!"

EL BROMANCE posted:

I mean, I'm still in shock that someones mind works that way.

chitoryu12 posted:

Goddamn, Applegate.

EL BROMANCE posted:

More of a personal sad one, rather than the light plain old dummy ones but hey.

So my wife passed away at the end of April, obviously everyone here is very shocked and saddened and in a state of disbelief. A girl goes up to one of my wife's close friends saying that she met my wife once at a party (literally once, and our friend was also at this party and doesn't remember this girl at all) and they were Facebook friends but she deleted my wife a year or so back in a spring cleanout kind of thing. So far, so good, that's normal.

However, she had a change of heart and asked our friend to speak to me to have me, less than 24 hours of losing my wife, to break into her Facebook account and accept her new outstanding friend request.

I mean, I'm still in shock that someones mind works that way.

Vandar posted:

Also the Elimist uses that name because it was his screen name in the video game he used to play before becoming a space god.