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"tumblr's favorite NHL team" bracket: STANley cup finals!!!!!

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Short freenoodles focused comic inspired in part by takakmimi's freenoodles post on twt!!

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MK's father figures

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Matching Deku and Bakugo covers for the new mha volume.

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DEEP DISH [Chicango Style!] PIPIS

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visiting the paris catacombs today and my mom messaged me saying "make sure you check the weather forecast before you go" . in the catacombs?

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still fuckin hate that “bee-free honey” that’s made from……… apples. bitch who you think sexed up those apples

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@quantumvaudeville drew me an Alloran inspired by those medieval tapestries of unicorn hunts. Gosh!

I do so love how varied Andalite redesigns can get, and the fact that at a few points humans in the series who half-glimpse one think they could be unicorns. In the first several books the Animorphs all describe Visser Three's host body as being dainty and delicate, too.

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i would have been an animorphs middle schooler except i never got past book 6 because that was the book where one of the kids gets possessed by the aliens (i think idk man it's been a while) and the angst and drama of it all just lit something in my brain on fire. i was like pacing around my bedroom, holding the book, and imagining my silly little ocs going through it too and i was just so autistic about the concept of alien possession and the whump and the torture that i literally couldn't move on to the next book. i feel like this says many things about me

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Probably a dumb question -- do you know why both the animorphs and yeerks prefered not to reveal the war? i know the yeerks didnt want to damage potential hosts, but if they were losing, would they have wanted to openly attack? the animorphs were willing to later-- im unclear on what changed then

For the yeerks: I think it's the sheer number of humans. We know that, given the estimated death toll alone, there were at most ~50,000 yeerks in the pool under the Animorphs' hometown (#52). We also know that was the biggest pool on the planet (#51). So I tend to guesstimate that there are 200,000 yeerks total on Earth, at maximum penetration.

200k yeerks vs. 6,000,000k humans doesn't work out for the yeerks, unless the yeerks already have (say) the leaders of the G8 countries under their control. Which is why the yeerks spend so many books trying to get G8 leaders (#20-22, #48, etc.) or dramatically lessen the number of humans (#41, #46, etc.).

For the Animorphs: They spend a lot of the war trying to bring it into the open, especially early on (#3, #8, #11, etc.) but their biggest problem is not knowing who they can trust. Even one human-controller knowing their identities and that they can morph would probably end the whole war effort, and there isn't a way to identify controllers from the outside.

I think the biggest reason they move away from those efforts is David. They give him the ultimate level of trust, and he uses it to betray and nearly kill them. He drives home the danger of giving even one stranger even one iota of trust. But he also doesn't entirely remove their desire to bring the war into the open, as they're the ones who ultimately succeed in doing so, over the course of #45 - #53.

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here,have some slugs

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Do you think the FAA would require Tobias or anybody else who morphed into a bird to get a pilot's license after the war? How would they keep random bird morphers away from restricted airspaces? What about even smaller flying creatures, like wasps and butterflies and spiders? Do you need a pilot's license to be a spider? What about creatures that only fly in limited circumstances, such as pigs? Do you need a pilot's license to morph into a pig? I have so many questions. Tangentally related to that, what about roadtrips? Could morphing enable people to take the Great American Roadtrip without needing a car? Could you just morph into a goose and carry like, a small wallet or purse with money for when you need to make purchases, and stop at rest stops along the way for demorphing and snack breaks? Actually, that sounds pretty awesome, cause then you could get better vantage points on the various landmarks you would pass and have better freedom to detour and check them out if you wanted to. But how would you take photos? Your payload would have to be ridiculously light to make it cross country - no more than a few pounds, tops. We're talking Ultra-Ultralight Backpacking levels of gear here. I don't think the average person is ready for that kind of experience. I suppose you could carry more if you were using a crosscountry quadruped morph, like a big deer or a mountain lion, or maybe a horse, but you'd be so slow, and you'd be more at risk of getting into trouble with other people. Nobody ever shoots a goose for crossing property lines, but ground animals do get shot at. Maybe you could add a vest to your animal morphs, the same way Ax's human morph has clothes, so that people know you are a person. Tangentally related to the impact of morphing on trips, could United Airlines force passengers to morph into small creatures for short flights so they can fit more passengers onto a plane? Would they even be allowed to do that? If you got stuck in morph because of United Airlines, could you sue? Would being able to morph an aquatic creature appropriate to the body of water you are boating in qualify as a substitute for a life jacket, or would you still need a lifejacket just in case? What if your aquatic morph is an invasive species, do invasive species laws apply?

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most heartbreaking moment of the early animorphs books - the kids morph dolphin and experience true happiness and play for a moment before being forced to ignore those instincts because these teenagers are at war

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Animorphs | Cassie

I can’t not feel anything when there is violence. I can’t not care about living things. I can’t be like that.

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ANIMORPHS FANS

and explain in the tags if your answer is complicated

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interviewer: so can you explain why you didn't get a job in high school marco: yeah i spent most of high school fighting a gorilla war marco: as in, it was a guerrilla war and i was a gorilla