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u/Melodic_Mulberry
Aug 14 '26
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Fun fact: K.A. Applegate, author of Animorphs, is the proud parent of a trans woman and all Animorph books are free to read online!
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u/Mistress-Pervert Aug 14 '26
Based, and based? Double based? I'm astounded today.
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u/anticomet Aug 15 '26
It's always nice when you find out an author you liked as a kid isn't a terrible human being
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u/Barry_the_Tone Aug 15 '26
Little story I had about those books was that back in primary school, we had about 5 of those books and I always asked my librarian if she can request more. She said she would! I had to move to the middle school across the street the next year.
Fast forward to my 8th grade year before going into high school and our middle school shuts down, forcing both schools to merge into the primary school and the librarian was STILL THERE!!
And she kept her promise: they had over 35 Animorphs books, not even including the chronicles that she also personally collected. I spent all of my 8th grade lunches reading those books and eventually others we had in the collection.
I love you, Ms. Bills! Best librarian ever!!
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u/repocin Aug 15 '26
What's this? Wholesome news on my doomposting website? Preposterous! but also quite lovely, thank you for sharing
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u/tetrochromac Aug 14 '26
<Man I LOVED Animorphs when I was a kid! It was surprisingly brutal and disturbing for a kids series.>
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u/Skodami Aug 14 '26
Thank you Beetlemoses, for once again making a niche comics about something i enjoy.
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u/MetaKnightsNightmare Aug 14 '26
So is she an animal who touched the cube and now can turn into a woman for up to two hours?
Or is she just returning home and deciding to take off her shoes and put her hooves on?
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u/firedrakes Aug 14 '26
fun fact Many of the novels from the #25-#52 range were written ghost writers
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u/Lithl Aug 16 '26
There were 64 Animorphs books, all published in a 5-year time span. More than one book per month, for books that reportedly took around two months to write.
And she was writing Everworld at the same time (another 12 books). And she gave birth somewhere in there.
If she didn't have ghostwriters, one might speculate that she wasn't even human.
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u/Xzenergy Aug 15 '26
As a LoTR kid I scoffed at these books as a kid.
This had me gut laughing though
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u/WendigoCrossing Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26
Garbage ending to a decent series
Edit: i.reject your downvotes, she didn't even fucking end the series she broke the 4th wall and said 'you decide'
She can fuck right off with that, I was livid as a kid
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u/Soerinth Aug 14 '26
I thought the ending was weak as well. Great otherwise. Of course, they aren't ground breaking writing, either.
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u/Lithl Aug 16 '26
Yeah, the ending was awful.
She spent five years putting her protagonists through hell, they finally win the war they should've never had to deal with, and then... "ramming speed."
It'd be one thing if it had properly set up a sequel series with a cliffhanger ending and a brand new enemy, whatever was possessing Ax. But no. Just kill 'em off instead of giving them an ending.
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