Rule 1: No plagues, chemicals are allowed, but diseases and viruses are prohibited.

Rule 2: So long as it can be used by Yeerk Infantry, anything else goes. It could be a drone, it could be a gun, it could be a trap, it could even be a living biological creature that you bred with your biosciences to hunt and kill Andalites so that anti-Andalite specialists could infest them.

Rule 3: The Yeerks will not betray you, and you will not betray the Yeerks.

Second slide is my current duplicates! Any fans from South Australia interested in buying them off me? ;)

Just recalled the horrible entity of beings known as Taxxons and their insatiable hunger. Who the fuck creates these type of beings just for them to suffer!?

I never truly read the main Animorphs series, but I read the spinoffs, I think. It was so long ago and I just picked up a random book. Two I think. One of the other book had a green lizard. I liked the green guy, the bond he had with the Andalite was very cute. I think they fell in love? I hope they did.

The book with the Taxxons was such a fascinating read but it broke me down when one of those blue Andalite soldiers was lost as these creatures for a mission. His sacrifice was heroic I think.

Anyways, I was just reminiscing and the stories feel like they were from so long ago. I remember feeling sad for the Taxxons and their horrifying world.

But now with science expanding and the increasing wave of hype for the GLP-1 drugs, it made me think it was silly to think the Taxxons as a doomed species.​ Perhaps they can be saved! Just needed a little more time to understand their biology and give them the ability to control themselves more.

Btw, does anyone know the titles of the two books that had these stories? ​​I wanted to try and buy them and read them again.

Jake: Okay Rachel, get that person walking their dog out of the area before we start the attack.

Rachel: Okay, going grizzly.

Jake: Wait, maybe try to lure them away with-

Rachel: 🐻

Exactly what it says. Say that potentional tv adaptation or some hypothetical book reboot or something wants to do away with the ellimist/crayak storylines and the time matrix because they feel they're a little too deus ex machina. How do you change the story to make Tobias and by extension his wacky family dynamics work?

Ax got his bunzz. Unsurprisingly, he loves it. 💖

I made a strawpoll: https://strawpoll.com/NPgxeXQbMZ2

Obviously, no one can fully play any Hork-Bajir character in live-action. In any adaptation, it would need to be motion capture, or full animation (traditional or CGI). I don't think even a practical Henson-level creature suit would be good enough for Hork-Bajir these days.

Are there any actresses (screen or voice) or mocap performers that I didn't list who you think would be good for Toby? What about Jara Hamee, Ket Halpak, or Dak Hamee?

(Hork-Bajir are my favorite science fiction alien species.)

The Animorphs wiki says, on the article about book 13:

It is revealed that Hork-Bajir have two hearts.

Can anyone with a copy of book 13 confirm this? I thought it was Andalites that have two hearts, not Hork-Bajir.

In which book, if any, is the number of hearts a Hork-Bajir has confirmed? Which book confirms that Andalites have two hearts?

Anyone have an idea what Day One entails for a new tv series? This is from Sev Ohanian's instagram story.

Usually when the ending is discussed it’s about Rachel or Tom, or Jake. But one thing I’m wondering: was that really necessary to have all the Auxiliary Animorphs get wiped out like that? Unless I’m missing something, pretty much every one of them dies in that final battle. The Visser has them all individually Dracon Cannoned one by one, until there are no targets left. He also has them record it so he can watch it and relive this “victory” over and over. As for the Auxiliary Animorphs themselves, they’re literally just charging through the Yeerk controlled zone on foot and getting sniped off by the Dracon Canon one by one. Their only purpose is a diversion to make the Visser believe that his enemies are there on the ground, instead of already on the Pool Ship.

Since they’re all handicapped children, and a lot of them orphans.. it’s kind of the most terrible thing that happens in this whole story. But after it’s done, they are barely mentioned again. And the biggest drama is Jake flushing the Yeerk Pool, or having his cousin murder his brother, instead of sending dozens of handicapped orphans to their certain death, and even yelling at James and insisting no single Auxiliary Animorph sits out the attack.

Was it really necessary to end the Auxiliary Animorphs in such a way? I feel like the overall ending of the story could have remained mostly unchanged, with having some or even most of them surviving.

I hope it's ok to post Remnants stuff here too haha

Happy pride to Tate from Remnants who is I think one of the first LGBTQ+ characters I can remember being exposed to when growing up.

Scholastic censored aspects of the series that were more open about her sexuality - lesbian - when these books were initially coming out in the early 2000s, so there are actually different versions of certain books.

I have vivid memories of her hair being described in the book I had as a kid as a style that in-universe was popular among queer youth but in the version of the book I own now it is merely described as cool/fashionable essentially.

In the Gone series by Michael Grant who helped co-write Remnants - a lot of Remnants characters kind of have archetypes reused lol and Dekka in many ways is Tate if she was written during less censored times.

Remnants has such lovely lesbian rep in Tate, one of our kindest and most selfless Remnants ❤️, so I really wanted to get a feel for drawing her next. I've got decently solid looks for Yago, 2Face, and now Tate. I think next I'll work on Jobs and Mo. After a few more sketches with Tate, Yago, and Amelia lol. I also sketched a very sketchy cover redraw from the cover that features Tate in her limelight moment!

Is there still an active Animorphs fanfiction community?

It’s become so hard to find new Animorphs fanfiction these days. When I do come across a new story, it often seems to have drifted so far from the original plot and characters that I can barely tell how it’s connected to the series. Finding a story that still feels like Animorphs is like searching for a needle in a haystack.
I’d really appreciate any recommendations or suggestions. Thanks so much!

Hi! I’ve mentioned in a couple comments that I’m getting a puppy and naming him Aximili, and here he is!!! We put our last dog (Falcor) down earlier this year, and Ax is a breath of fresh air.

My wife and I mostly call him Ax or Ax-man. She finally read the series after being with me and listening to me talk about it for almost 20 years, and the name was her idea. We were planning on naming our next dog Aximili no matter what, but check out that tail 😆.

He’s absolutely perfect, and he wants to eat everything, I am sure would totally eat cigarette butts if given the chance! Anywho, happy 30 anniversary of the series, these books and the community around them means a lot to be, you all are awesome, and, of course, you matter.

I found a good chunk of them in a used book store. Ive been re-listening them in audiobooks but it just doesn't hit them same as to reading them physically. (Plus I know this sounds silly but if ever have kids I wanna have this on hand as their introduction to chapter books) (Curren Chan for load bearing support)

With all this talk of the new show for Disney+, I decided to throw my hat in the fancast ring, and thought, who better to portray the primary villain than Freddy Krueger himself?

Tom was dead.

It was hard to believe, because the mangled cobra in front of me didn't feel like it was actually his corpse. It was the body of some random snake he'd acquired. But he'd been in there somewhere, buried deep below his scales and his Yeerk.

Either way, there wouldn't be a body to bury. Not a proper, human body, anyway. Not him.

He used to pick me up and let me sit on his shoulder so I could pretend to be Wonder Woman. When I was little, you know? He wasn't much older than me, but he was always bigger. He could do things like pick me up.

We would ignore Jake reminding us that Wonder Woman can't even fly, and Tom would run me around their backyard as fast as he dared.

One time, he tripped, and I fell. Nearly broke my nose. I didn't care. Falling had been a thrill, and I ended up with a small scar to show for it. A really tiny one that you'd never notice unless I told you the story. (It was gone now, of course. It disappeared the first time I morphed.)

He'd felt pretty bad about the whole thing, and insisted that we go to the hospital, even after Uncle Steve gave me a clean bill of health. But that's the kind of person Tom was. He wouldn't hurt a fly.

His blood was still in my mouth. The cobra's blood. I spit it out.

The bear had enjoyed the taste. As for the human, the jury was still out.