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A bright future in politics?
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# ? Jul 7, 2023 16:52 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 09:40 |
Tree Bucket posted:A bright future in politics? Now all I can see is Christopher as Paul Ryan in that "work out" photoset
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# ? Jul 8, 2023 15:33 |
quote:CHAPTER XI What the hell is Senna's goal here? Obviously the kids are safe, we're only on page 36, but what is she planning because it sure seems like she doesn't need to be rescued.
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# ? Jul 8, 2023 19:09 |
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Soonmot posted:I'd made out with her, after all, we'd been close, I'd gotten to second and that had to count for something. Chris, my man, you gotta chill out a little bit. Time and a place, you know?
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# ? Jul 8, 2023 22:43 |
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Coca Koala posted:Interesting, there's absolutely ZERO recap of anything that happened in the first book - no "here's the setting and basic concept", the narration mentions names like April and David and Jalil but doesn't cover who they are at all, you're just very clearly intended to have read the first book, ideally right before starting the second book, and you have to know what the gently caress is going on because we're charging the aztecs and you better keep up, buddy. I only had the second book growing up and it was so fascinating to hit the ground running and try to piece together whatever context I could
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# ? Jul 8, 2023 22:49 |
quote:CHAPTER XII And here we get Christopher's view of Senna and their time together. Davids description of her made her out to be mysterious, Chris's makes her seem very sinister. I especially like that last paragraph.
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# ? Jul 10, 2023 01:45 |
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Pretty melodramatic, but I guess this is by a high schooler (and for them). Also quote:Maybe you will ... still party with your friends when you're thirty years old
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# ? Jul 10, 2023 10:56 |
kiminewt posted:Pretty melodramatic, but I guess this is by a high schooler (and for them). I mean that's around the age when my friends started having kids.
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# ? Jul 10, 2023 15:46 |
quote:CHAPTER XIII I think it's interesting how David is still so focused on Senna and how she's not at fault. They're obviously being manipulated by her, even if, maybe, getting dragged back to Everworld wasn't something she wanted.
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# ? Jul 11, 2023 01:52 |
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This book was the book I started on, funny enough I never went back to read the first book but I did finish the series and it drat well goes some places. Christopher is a difficult character and is CRAZY problematic but he does get some solid growth and his deal gets fleshed out a bit more. I do remember this book series having a pile of sexual scenes in it which caught me by surprise coming from Animorphs and whatever light fantasy I was reading at the time. I ended up having Jalil as my favorite character for a reason that will become obvious in his POV book. Some of Jalil's musings actually helped me with some issues I was dealing with in my own life so I have a certain affection for the series.
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# ? Jul 11, 2023 22:57 |
quote:CHAPTER XIV I feel this does a solid job selling the tension. Still no idea what April is going through though.
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# ? Jul 12, 2023 02:38 |
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"Bad things didn't happen on sunny days." is another line that would have been different had this book been written a few year later. The whole description gives a real "like lambs to the slaughter" vibe.
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# ? Jul 12, 2023 11:59 |
quote:CHAPTER XV We are about half way through and poo poo is getting tense! Whoever called mjolner getting used by the kids, looks like there might be a cookie with your name on it. Really looking forward to April saying what the hell happened to her and the rest of the women, for her to end up on the pyramid. This was the gore we only had, more or less, hinted at in animorphs.
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# ? Jul 13, 2023 03:21 |
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The description of the blood coming down the steps later followed by the bodies really stuck in my head over the years, it's pretty much the only part of this book I remember. Also lol at "still party at 30." How well I remember the teenage idea that by 30 I would of course be married with kids and a house in the suburbs...
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# ? Jul 13, 2023 08:07 |
quote:CHAPTER XVI did... did he just hit a god in the balls?
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# ? Jul 15, 2023 01:25 |
Giving Ngannou a run for the money on "greatest dick shot of all time"
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# ? Jul 15, 2023 01:44 |
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Soonmot posted:did... did he just hit a god in the balls? quote:Like a guy who's standing on his bike pedals when the chain breaks
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# ? Jul 15, 2023 07:24 |
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Do nut shots on gods produce divine pain?
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# ? Jul 15, 2023 15:24 |
quote:CHAPTER XVII We find out where April was and Christopher continues to be surprisingly introspective and honest about himself.
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# ? Jul 16, 2023 23:04 |
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Yeah, Christopher is a piece of work but he's pretty clearheaded about exactly who he is and what he's feeling. It just doesn't ever really stop him from acting like a poo poo. Honestly he always felt to me like who Marco would have probably become if the events of Animorphs never happened and he didn't have a friend like Jake.
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# ? Jul 16, 2023 23:23 |
oh my god you're right. David was an outsider. And also, David is no Jake. Christopher was the leader of that friend group. What a Toxic loving dynamic!
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# ? Jul 16, 2023 23:28 |
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Zore posted:Yeah, Christopher is a piece of work but he's pretty clearheaded about exactly who he is and what he's feeling. I think Marco losing his mum* probably changed him and sapped him of a Christopher-esque teenage cruel streak he might've otherwise developed. I also think that a lot of teenagers who are kind of shitheads, like Christopher, grow out of it. (*Though now that I think of it that is, of course, part of the broader events of Animorphs)
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 00:30 |
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For sure. An important part of growing up is remembering things you said at age 15 and then yelling AUUGGH involuntarily
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 00:47 |
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I feel like he has that sort of teenage solipsism. He knows who he is, but also knows that everything that's Not Him is contemptible (if he can fight it) or gross and just not right (if he can't).
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 18:02 |
I was an overall good kid and I still cringe thinking back on some of the things I believed. poo poo I looked at my rap sheet on here last year and was horrified.quote:CHAPTER XVIII A real Chicagoan would have said “the Jewels”. Also, this was a sweet chapter. We are past the halfway point for this book!
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 22:49 |
quote:Now RW and EW Christophers became one. I was me, and him. And who was me, and who was him, was impossible to say. Someone's been listening to Echoes
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 22:52 |
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I wonder if/when we'll get some kind of explanation for the two worlds/two bodies situation. After Animorphs I'm kinda disappointed we don't get a little more time with the real world versions so the teenaged drama can brush up against the life or death drama.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 16:36 |
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I don't think its a huge spoiler to say, but while Everworld is always the focus later books definitely split time more with the real world and have plot and such there.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 17:04 |
Doing two chapters today since this week is a bit busy for me!quote:CHAPTER XIX The start of this chapter reminds me of this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeE-6P5iHhE Good to see Christopher get called out on his bullshit by his much cooler brother, but my god is this 90s overload! quote:CHAPTER XX Cool, weird aliens!
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 17:22 |
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Oh hell yeah baby it's Coo Hatch O'Clockquote:"Yogurt." I started at the list in my hand. White, college-ruled notebook paper, folded in four. Yogurt. Coffee filters. Double-A batteries. Toilet paper. Cookies, liquid hand soap. Ground turkey. The list was in my left hand. My right hand was on the push bar of a shopping cart. I was standing by the dairy case of the Jewel. A woman in a long coat stared at me. "Yogurt," I said. She looked at me like I might be dangerous. I stared down at the yogurts. So many lands. So many styles. "So," I muttered under my breath. "The real world." I was shopping for my mom. I remembered her asking me. I remembered that the Real World Christopher hadn't slept much last night because the Real World Christopher knew that Everworld Christopher was getting ready to take a one-way trip to the human butcher shop. https://twitter.com/willuminati_/status/1681836141622833152
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# ? Jul 20, 2023 10:47 |
quote:CHAPTER XXI quote:CHAPTER XXII These guys a pretty weird, but this might be the safest they've been in Everworld.
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# ? Jul 21, 2023 21:10 |
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These guys rule
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# ? Jul 21, 2023 23:58 |
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We've had like five wholesome comfortable chapters in a row, here; the next group of people they run into need to be extra-traumatic somehow
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# ? Jul 22, 2023 00:33 |
Kazzah posted:We've had like five wholesome comfortable chapters in a row, here; the next group of people they run into need to be extra-traumatic somehow well, we're on page 66 of 97 so odds are good!
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# ? Jul 22, 2023 02:53 |
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The Coo-Hatch are some of my favorite parts of this series, Coo-Hatch steel is the poo poo. Also there is some weird poo poo coming up.
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# ? Jul 22, 2023 03:20 |
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TGG posted:The Coo-Hatch are some of my favorite parts of this series, Coo-Hatch steel is the poo poo. I'm kinda surprised by how little I remember of this series even though I read nearly all of it. I remember the Coo-Hatch scene here, and I think I remember that they're about to give Jalil a magic cut-through-anything Swiss Army knife, but I don't have a clue how this book finishes out.
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# ? Jul 22, 2023 10:42 |
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I have a vague recollection of the Swiss Army Knife and the Coo-Hatch, I think the collected volume I owned as a kid was the first two books with a teaser for the third. I think the teaser had Jalil as the narrator trying to process the concept of a fuckin dragon. I have no idea what the deal with these multiple alien species is or where it's going, I'm so much more confused about this whole series than I remember being as a kid.
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# ? Jul 22, 2023 18:38 |
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I have absolutely zero recollection of this, which makes me wonder how many of these books I actually read when I was a kid.
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# ? Jul 23, 2023 00:43 |
quote:CHAPTER XXIII Yeah, these coo-hatch weirdos are cool. I wonder if the gods who took them were ones from out mythology or theirs.
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 03:02 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 09:40 |
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Well hopefully they didn't accidentally teach the Coo-Hatch how to make a nuke or something.
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 03:18 |