#visser

[exigencelost]

It's just that what you have to understand about animorphs is that the most important thing about animorphs barely happens in animorphs. The most important moment in animorphs is when marco's dad says that in the year before his wife died he and his wife stopped fighting, their relationship became smooth sailing, it was like all the little things that any couple has trouble with just disappeared, and marco (maybe 14? 15? at this point?) listens to him say this and understands with cold certainty that what actually disappeared a year before his mother's ''death'' was his mother. This declaration from his father gives Marco a timeline for a familial trauma he had never before been able to fully parse, which is the precise moment in his life when his mother's body was taken over by a brain controlling slug from outer space--hey. hey. stay with me. look at me. look at my eyes. don't worry about the alien slug. just keep reading. this is a chilling and deeply compelling statement about patriarchy and colonialism and you have to not worry about the slug--anyway Eva Animorphs (an immigrant woman of color) lost all control of her life and voice and body and that was, in reality, the moment that Marco lost his mother to a colonial power, the moment he lost his childhood, the moment he and his mother lost their home, which even after winning the war they will never return to, but his father never understood that moment as anything but a mysterious sudden increase in harmony in his household. Because his wife stopped arguing with him.

#animorphs #visser #eva animorphs #marco animorphs

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Hey sorry, what was that in the tags about humans having two brains?? I haven’t read any of the Visser books…

So in Visser, Edriss describes her first experience in the human brain as:

Then I discovered something strange and disturbing. A huge, deep chasm. It seemed to separate the human brain into two halves. And between the halves was only a nerve bundle not much thicker than my own true body... This second half of the brain was an almost mirror image, but not. It could have functioned all on its own, if necessary, and yet it was in some ways radically different in its memories, its sensory interpretation, even its will. Two almost entirely functional brains in one skull, communicating across a channel of nerves. Not a fully redundant system, almost a second, different brain! ...This brain worked by dialectic. Each half of the brain saw and heard and smelled and touched a slightly different world. Each tended toward specialization, but not a hard, fast split. The left half had more language, but not all the language. The right side had more spatial perception, but not all of the spatial perception... This brain contained its own traitor!

And that's a pretty accurate description of how human brains work, and how they differ from those of non-mammals. It's not about individuals being "right brain" or "left brain" (that's nonsensical; anyone who says differently is selling something). It's talking about the fact that the two halves of the brain are partially but not fully redundant, meaning they work as a team. That way there's backup for the super-important functions like breathing, but not for the nifty-not-necessary ones like language.

I think the stuff about the two halves talking to each other from slightly different worlds refers to split brain research. Split brain patients are those who've had that "nerve bundle not much thicker than [a yeerk]" severed in order to prevent seizures. These individuals tend to have normal quality of life (improved after the surgery)... unless you cut off their ability to use sensory information to compensate for the lack of brain-to-brain information. This interview with one such woman says:

neuroscientists now know that the healthy brain can look like two markedly different machines, cabled together and exchanging a torrent of data. But when the primary cable is severed, information — a word, an object, a picture — presented to one hemisphere goes unnoticed in the other.

If you shut a split-brain individual's right eye, then show their left eye the word "baseball", then they can grab a baseball out of a box by touch — but only if they use their left hand. When asked out loud "What did you grab?", they'll answer "I don't know" because they don't — the right hemisphere which controls the left half of the body has almost no language comprehension. If you show the right eye only the words "stand up", most patients will stand, but when asked why, will say things like "I guess I wanted a bathroom break" or "I must be getting restless" because they have no conscious awareness of being told to stand.

Anyway, this system is pretty great, since it means humans can have pretty good quality of life with huge chunks of their brains missing. And it's kinda baffling, because there have also been people who had all quality of life destroyed by minuscule localized damage. Our brains really are their own traitors. Le sigh.

#animorphs #visser #brains #neuroscience #yeerks #corpus callosum #longitudinal fissure #split brain patients

[gloomygalavant]

I think that Visser and The Hotel Herself would either be besties or fight eachother until the end of time,,, something about being an unknowable and undefinable diety that takes the form of a many roomed building that feeds off of flesh, blood, and decay I guess....

#the hotel would so be leviathan #the hotel podcast #Archive 81 #visser #the hotel herself

[clitoris-maximus]

visser three doodles. id let him decapitate me any day

#sorry tf moots #animorphs #visser three #visser three animorphs #visser #esplin9466 #HES PURPLE TO ME OK #edit:guess. art tag #con art

[gallyg]

I always loved how Visser spends 90% of the plot telling us about how Edriss had a hard life and made mistakes but has things she cares about just like anyone else and even had a son and daughter that she loves only to go "she's still evil as fuck though" in the end and kill her unceremoniously the next time she appears, to be mourned by nobody.

Hot girl shit.

#animorphs #visser #visser one #edriss 562

[andalitean]

"Edriss is a murderer" ok whatever everyone in the animorphs books is. shes also a MOTHER who she doesnt want to launch an attack on earth not bc she cares about humans but bc she wants to save her own two kids this is a book about LOVE

#visser #im on chapter 18 dhdosowhdj

[tomberensonsghost]

NO Visser has ALL 5:

A loyal host

Any idea what they’re doing

Uhhhh

Ummm

A love of evil?

#animorphs #visser

[kingoftheu]

My spicy Animorphs take is that yes the ending is not good. Yes I get the point about war but it’s not well executed with the random evil. It fits neither the never ending slog of war angle or the PTSD angle.

#animorphs #books #scholastic #ya books #jake animorphs #cassie animorphs #rachel animorphs #tobias animorphs #marco animorphs #ax animorphs #aximili esgarrouth isthill #visser #visser three #visser one #ptsd #ptsd tw #living with ptsd #yeerks #andalite #tom animorphs #tom berenson #jake berenson #twitter

[ninewheels]

Ambien made me forget how I got here but I just want to say that I am once again mourning the non-existence of a 50,000+ word novel about the whole Edriss/Essam/Alison/Hildy situation because a basically harmonious semi-voluntary infestation involving so few people, with no authority or power structure in place to dictate the next steps, everyone out in uncharted waters--good God, just think of how close they got to symbiosis. From an Ellimist's-eye view, the way they lived was right there next to the concept of symbiosis, the philosophy of symbiosis that there has to be another way of living like this. They could have touched it, the four of them together, and found their hands pressed upon a revolution. But they didn't.

#Animorphs #Visser #I have a lot of goddamn feelings about this okay #Visser One #Edriss 562

[exigencelost]

''Peter didn't know'' that is the point. That is the entire point that's what tips it from tragedy to horror. You don't have to know. That is what makes it a story about heteropatriarchal colonial violence and not just a story about an evil alien. Of course he did not know that his wife had been possessed by an alien monster. He did know that his life got easier! He did know that his wife stopped arguing with him! That is all he knew and he was happy to know only that. That's the horror story. The question you are supposed to ask is: where in your life have you been handed comfort or power or ease, and seen no visible sign of distress from anyone offering it to you, and asked no further questions?

#animorphs #eva animorphs #peter animorphs #visser

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Please i just needed a fellow animorph fan to see this shop near my job 💀

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Oh damn I just got flashbacks to the whole subplot in AniTV with Visser One being obsessed with plants.

#submission #visser #animorphs #perfection #anitv

[rays-animorphs]

I’m reading Visser, and Essam…damn. Damn.

and it’s not enough, but it was so close to being enough, there were only two of them, it was so close.

And I just read Those Who Walk Away from Omelas.

First Yeerk conscientious objector. That we know about. Wow. Applegate. Wow.

#Animorphs read-through #Visser #They’re literally brain slugs Applegate is making brain slugs sympathetic I am so impressed

[yalikejazz9]

JUST FINISHED READING VISSER.

I AM SO TOTALLY NORMAL RIGHT NOW AND DEFINITELY NOT REELING WITH INSANITY.

#animorphs #visser #visser 1 #Visser 3 #FUCK #AH

[tobiasmasonpark]

Reading the chronicles books from Animorphs

#Animorphs #Hork-Bajir Chronicles #Ellimist Chronicles #Visser #Andalite Chronicles #Alternate Universe where Taxxon chronicles exists

[andalitean]

Visser is not a book about a trial. it’s a book about how politicians are stupid and manipulative and only want to do things for their own good, and how us foreign policy and the military industrial complex has ruined millions of lives, and how imperialism never went away, and how ableism is a way more common ideology than anyone thinks, and how war is literally always fought between people who have families and friends and dreams and homes and passions on both sides, and how even in the midst of war there can be love and joy and peace, and how motherhood is a daily battle but you would do anything, even murder, to protect your children, and how the relationship between parents and their children can be fraught and estranged but still hold love in them, and how kids are smarter than you think they are, and how people are never black and white, and how there is hope of survival in hard times if you just believe in it. it’s also about a girlboss’s rise to power. because god forbid women do anything

#patrimorphs2022 #animorphs #visser #did i get everything #analysis

[smoldragonblood]

gay?

#Animorphs #Visser #I remember reading this a long time ago and it was wack #I did not expect the cover to look like this tho #animorphs books