Did they ever do a book where the characters turn some kind of small animal like a frog and then get trapped in a toilet bowl right before a hot teacher of theirs goes to poop in it?
>start out making books to teach kids about animals and their perspectives >instead teach them about the horrors of war
I know its a fetish joke but there's a LOT of scenes where they morph very small prey animals. Its always horrific and traumatic. Like morphing a shrew and smelling a rotting carcass and wanting eat the meat and the maggots in it. Then having a nightmare about a shrew eating a cat and the maggots writhing within it where she is both shrew and cat. Or morphing ants and getting dismembered by real ants for being foreign.
It was made pretty clear in the stories themselves. The Yeerks are completely sapient, just as much as any human, but have to live in bodies incapable of actually doing Anything with that sapience. They aren't like Dolphins and whales who can exist in the comfy middle spot between sapient and sentient, they are completely 100% aware that their current existence sucks massive balls.
THEN you pair all that up with the fact the only creature they were free to infect were basically monkey's with everything good about being a monkey removed. None of the strength or reflexes needed to swing through trees, horrible senses that only seemed good to creatures who have only learned what "seeing" is a few weeks ago, short uneven limbs that can't even work most of the time. Creatures you can't even stay in for more then three days, otherwise you starve to a very painful death.
AND THEN you also pair everything before with the fact some extremely prideful and arrogant alien centaurs are actively keeping you from finding better bodies (aka a better existence in every possible way) no matter how much you try and explain your situation to them.
It makes completely perfect sense why Yeerks are the way they are.
Unironically one of the best book series out there. So yes.
I remember one where they turn into a fly or mosquito or something in a washroom, and then someone goes into the stall and uses the toilet with them in the bowl.
yeah haha it would be so scary and terrible if like they transformed into a beetle or something and got stepped on by a hot teacher right that would be so gruesome and bad
It was made pretty clear in the stories themselves. The Yeerks are completely sapient, just as much as any human, but have to live in bodies incapable of actually doing Anything with that sapience. They aren't like Dolphins and whales who can exist in the comfy middle spot between sapient and sentient, they are completely 100% aware that their current existence sucks massive balls.
THEN you pair all that up with the fact the only creature they were free to infect were basically monkey's with everything good about being a monkey removed. None of the strength or reflexes needed to swing through trees, horrible senses that only seemed good to creatures who have only learned what "seeing" is a few weeks ago, short uneven limbs that can't even work most of the time. Creatures you can't even stay in for more then three days, otherwise you starve to a very painful death.
AND THEN you also pair everything before with the fact some extremely prideful and arrogant alien centaurs are actively keeping you from finding better bodies (aka a better existence in every possible way) no matter how much you try and explain your situation to them.
It makes completely perfect sense why Yeerks are the way they are.
I don't think the Andalites were actively shitting on them until they initiated first contact and the Yeerks stole their bodies and tech.
Also you forgot the other hellish part of their existence: Even after they start exploring space every host body that's good is unattainable, and all the available ones have some kind of horrific, mindbreaking drawback like those centipedes who are cursed with endless hunger.
It's honestly no shock they go full tilt trying to infest humans when they find them.
To be fair, they had access to quite a lot of potential Hork Bajir bodies, until that one Andalite that later became Visser 3's host released a virus that killed of a majority of the population
>I don't think the Andalites were actively shitting on them until they initiated first contact and the Yeerks stole their bodies and tech.
Yeerks stole nothing from the Andalites. They were given tech by an Andalite, and stole the bodies of other species.
They only got an Andalite body years later, when the war was already on.
>90% of the series is ghost written yet it's still completely kino
How? It's a series for teenagers but it has great villains, body horror, morally grey decisions, metaphysical elements (Ellimist fricker), etc etc. The aliens are all distinct too, not just "humanoid". There's centaur frickers, 9 foot tall lizard blades, ravenous centipedes, brain slugs...
I'm pretty sure i read all the books when i was younger.
I remember them being mostly good, but occasionally there was a shit book. That is to be expected when you pump out 60 of them.
>Visser 1 comes to Earth and controls a human with some other Yeerk and they fall in love and their human hosts fall in love too and then the four of them wind up in this weird fricked up symbiotic love situation and have two kids then Visser 1 kills her host but the other Yeerk refuses to and starves out leaving part of himself attached to the brain of his host who goes insane from it and 1's host comes trying to get the kids and is then killed off as well
My little ten year old brain reading this under the covers when I was supposed to be asleep was on a trip.
i remember during that elementary scholastic book fair deal i circled a ton of books in the magazine and my mom ended up buying redwall instead of animorphs because they had cute animals. no regrets but i wonder how different, it at all, my life would be down the other route
The series was pretty fricked by the start. The alien who gives them power is devoured in such a way that there is plenty of gore and chunks for the other aliens to eat up, the actual horrors of transforming, people being killed during the big ending rescue via giant painful fireball.
Not to say it doesn't get even worse with the gore, horror of transforming into animals or bugs, just how plain SHIT war is, recruiting disabled kids for canon fodder, the very act of war changing the valley girl into a psychopath who actively needs war to continue functioning as a person, characters being tortured until they shit themselves, ants being forced to cope with the size and instincts of a full human brain, all sorts of shit really.
It's great and not even the most fricked up series by Applegate. Shit like Remnants gets even CRAZIER.
Basically, Earth gets hit by an extinction level asteroid killing everything, but a spaceship filled with the last survivors gets launched into space. All the people are kept alive in a frozen stasis, except for one kid who ends up forced awake for 500 years straight thanks to a glitch.
And then all the remaining members whose cryo-pod didn't give out and fail over the 500 year trip are forced to survive inside a giant spaceship trying to make a proper environment for the humans, only to end up including the extremely fricked up art of Hell itself, made by Hieronymus Bosch and others.
And that's all in the first book alone lmao
> but a spaceship filled with the last survivors gets launched into space. All the people are kept alive in a frozen stasis, except for one kid who ends up forced awake for 500 years straight thanks to a glitch.
That's a blatant rip off of a short story by Fred Saberhagen with exact same premise
Basically, Earth gets hit by an extinction level asteroid killing everything, but a spaceship filled with the last survivors gets launched into space. All the people are kept alive in a frozen stasis, except for one kid who ends up forced awake for 500 years straight thanks to a glitch.
And then all the remaining members whose cryo-pod didn't give out and fail over the 500 year trip are forced to survive inside a giant spaceship trying to make a proper environment for the humans, only to end up including the extremely fricked up art of Hell itself, made by Hieronymus Bosch and others.
And that's all in the first book alone lmao
lol I never read this or Animorphs I just looked at the funny page flip art at the bottom of the page where the guy gradually turns into a ferret or whatever, put the book down, and read something else
What the frick is a "proper budget" in this context though?
The main characters' powers are incredibly CGI intensive and their fighting forms are tigers and bears and shit which means you either need to pay to have those animals on set + stuntmen and wranglers trained to use them in shoots, or CGI those as well.
Andalites and a lot of the other ayylmaos are too big and/or fricking bizarre to have practical suits for, so you're probably CGI'ing them as well.
And that's before you even get to the ones where they're going to other planets or under the sea.
No fricking way this could be a live-action series, it'd have to be animated or a string of films.
if the writing/acting was good in the series i wouldn't even care about fake animal puppets or bad cgi
i don't know why they haven't made any animated movies
>The Vissir Chronicles has an entire page dedicated to Vissir One trying to wrap her mind around the fact Humans are apparently the only species to engage in wars with itself
How did other species invent weapons of war if they never warred amongst themselves? Why would you need to put weapons on starships if you don't know what war is?
I'm pretty sure what you're referencing is the first abduction where she sees human brains have two halves at odds with each other meaning humans are schizoid compared to other races, not that other races don't conduct war.
Andy Serkis
Unorthodox but I like the way you think anon
I wouldn't have them make it at all because it would be filled with homosexual/troony shit and gender/race politics
Did they ever do a book where the characters turn some kind of small animal like a frog and then get trapped in a toilet bowl right before a hot teacher of theirs goes to poop in it?
with 60some books in the series, i'm sure it's in there somewhere!
Shut the frick up reddit
>start out making books to teach kids about animals and their perspectives
>instead teach them about the horrors of war
I know its a fetish joke but there's a LOT of scenes where they morph very small prey animals. Its always horrific and traumatic. Like morphing a shrew and smelling a rotting carcass and wanting eat the meat and the maggots in it. Then having a nightmare about a shrew eating a cat and the maggots writhing within it where she is both shrew and cat. Or morphing ants and getting dismembered by real ants for being foreign.
I loved these books and they set a very high standard later in life for science fiction for these reasons
autism
Yes, but that doesn't mean it's wrong.
I remember one where they turn into a fly or mosquito or something in a washroom, and then someone goes into the stall and uses the toilet with them in the bowl.
holy fricking kek
yes, #16, The Warning. They morph flies and Tobias gets stuck in the toilet after losing control. Not a teacher but some rando sits on the bowl.
yeah haha it would be so scary and terrible if like they transformed into a beetle or something and got stepped on by a hot teacher right that would be so gruesome and bad
Probably Del Toro. I liked the look of Hellboy 2, it had some good looking creatures.
>From the mystifying mind of M. Night Shyamalan
what the frick was their problem?
It was made pretty clear in the stories themselves. The Yeerks are completely sapient, just as much as any human, but have to live in bodies incapable of actually doing Anything with that sapience. They aren't like Dolphins and whales who can exist in the comfy middle spot between sapient and sentient, they are completely 100% aware that their current existence sucks massive balls.
THEN you pair all that up with the fact the only creature they were free to infect were basically monkey's with everything good about being a monkey removed. None of the strength or reflexes needed to swing through trees, horrible senses that only seemed good to creatures who have only learned what "seeing" is a few weeks ago, short uneven limbs that can't even work most of the time. Creatures you can't even stay in for more then three days, otherwise you starve to a very painful death.
AND THEN you also pair everything before with the fact some extremely prideful and arrogant alien centaurs are actively keeping you from finding better bodies (aka a better existence in every possible way) no matter how much you try and explain your situation to them.
It makes completely perfect sense why Yeerks are the way they are.
I don't think the Andalites were actively shitting on them until they initiated first contact and the Yeerks stole their bodies and tech.
Also you forgot the other hellish part of their existence: Even after they start exploring space every host body that's good is unattainable, and all the available ones have some kind of horrific, mindbreaking drawback like those centipedes who are cursed with endless hunger.
It's honestly no shock they go full tilt trying to infest humans when they find them.
To be fair, they had access to quite a lot of potential Hork Bajir bodies, until that one Andalite that later became Visser 3's host released a virus that killed of a majority of the population
>I don't think the Andalites were actively shitting on them until they initiated first contact and the Yeerks stole their bodies and tech.
Yeerks stole nothing from the Andalites. They were given tech by an Andalite, and stole the bodies of other species.
They only got an Andalite body years later, when the war was already on.
>Name strikes a bell like I read her books for half my childhood
>Look her up to see what I remember
>Haven't read a single one of her books
Weird.
I dont trust anyone to adapt this properly. Not in the next 5 years a minimum
Did anyone actually read these? I just looked at the cover
Unironically one of the best book series out there. So yes.
I was going to go through the whole series but ended up only finishing Andalite Chronicles. Its pretty great. About how there's no "good guys" in war.
No one. It's a shitty series frick off.
>90% of the series is ghost written yet it's still completely kino
How? It's a series for teenagers but it has great villains, body horror, morally grey decisions, metaphysical elements (Ellimist fricker), etc etc. The aliens are all distinct too, not just "humanoid". There's centaur frickers, 9 foot tall lizard blades, ravenous centipedes, brain slugs...
there were a few stinkers here and there.
I'm pretty sure i read all the books when i was younger.
I remember them being mostly good, but occasionally there was a shit book. That is to be expected when you pump out 60 of them.
I still remember the ellimist book from when I was a kid. Must have been 15 years ago or something. It was a pretty tragic story
Neill Blomkamp
Not a bad choice either
Fricking furgays
Visser Three did nothing wrong
Unadulterated kino.
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do female andalites have furry breasts?
I don't remember much about this, but I remember it being fricking insane when I was a kid. Like super violent or fricked up or something.
I stopped reading these when I got to the book with the butterfly cover.
Even back then troons were too busy trying to ruin our fun
>Visser 1 comes to Earth and controls a human with some other Yeerk and they fall in love and their human hosts fall in love too and then the four of them wind up in this weird fricked up symbiotic love situation and have two kids then Visser 1 kills her host but the other Yeerk refuses to and starves out leaving part of himself attached to the brain of his host who goes insane from it and 1's host comes trying to get the kids and is then killed off as well
My little ten year old brain reading this under the covers when I was supposed to be asleep was on a trip.
i remember during that elementary scholastic book fair deal i circled a ton of books in the magazine and my mom ended up buying redwall instead of animorphs because they had cute animals. no regrets but i wonder how different, it at all, my life would be down the other route
Instead of being kinda furry you'd be a giga autistic chris chan tier sperg who goes to furgay cons in full d-fur cosplay
I read both and it was probably responsible for a lot of things
What's this one about, it looks like Reepicheep
I A M T H A T I S
I read both, Animorphs becore Redwall, and my life is amazing tbh
Try The Prince of Nothing series for an adult Animorphs feel.
I read maybe the first couple of books. sounds like this series gets really fricked up what the hell
The series was pretty fricked by the start. The alien who gives them power is devoured in such a way that there is plenty of gore and chunks for the other aliens to eat up, the actual horrors of transforming, people being killed during the big ending rescue via giant painful fireball.
Not to say it doesn't get even worse with the gore, horror of transforming into animals or bugs, just how plain SHIT war is, recruiting disabled kids for canon fodder, the very act of war changing the valley girl into a psychopath who actively needs war to continue functioning as a person, characters being tortured until they shit themselves, ants being forced to cope with the size and instincts of a full human brain, all sorts of shit really.
It's great and not even the most fricked up series by Applegate. Shit like Remnants gets even CRAZIER.
go to sleep sperglord
Only if you do so too.
Sleep together.
what the hell is remnants
Basically, Earth gets hit by an extinction level asteroid killing everything, but a spaceship filled with the last survivors gets launched into space. All the people are kept alive in a frozen stasis, except for one kid who ends up forced awake for 500 years straight thanks to a glitch.
And then all the remaining members whose cryo-pod didn't give out and fail over the 500 year trip are forced to survive inside a giant spaceship trying to make a proper environment for the humans, only to end up including the extremely fricked up art of Hell itself, made by Hieronymus Bosch and others.
And that's all in the first book alone lmao
> but a spaceship filled with the last survivors gets launched into space. All the people are kept alive in a frozen stasis, except for one kid who ends up forced awake for 500 years straight thanks to a glitch.
That's a blatant rip off of a short story by Fred Saberhagen with exact same premise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_Fred_Saberhagen
Is that the one where the kid wakes up something like 60 years early and when the family wake up they think he is their grandpa from back on earth?
isnt this pandorum?
and the premise of passengers.
I'm a fan of Everworld
to be fair Rachael was already a israelite
I didn't like how ax was some israelite in that show they did.
Ax>Tobias>Marco>Jake=>Rachel
Marco is pretty shitty, why rank him so high?
We were fricking robbed. I will forever hate that fecal abortion that was shat onto the bit screen.
David Cronenberg obviously.
Me.
lol I never read this or Animorphs I just looked at the funny page flip art at the bottom of the page where the guy gradually turns into a ferret or whatever, put the book down, and read something else
Would be great to see this series adapted with a proper budget and decent show runners
What the frick is a "proper budget" in this context though?
The main characters' powers are incredibly CGI intensive and their fighting forms are tigers and bears and shit which means you either need to pay to have those animals on set + stuntmen and wranglers trained to use them in shoots, or CGI those as well.
Andalites and a lot of the other ayylmaos are too big and/or fricking bizarre to have practical suits for, so you're probably CGI'ing them as well.
And that's before you even get to the ones where they're going to other planets or under the sea.
No fricking way this could be a live-action series, it'd have to be animated or a string of films.
if the writing/acting was good in the series i wouldn't even care about fake animal puppets or bad cgi
i don't know why they haven't made any animated movies
>that scene where an ant gets the ability to morph and just starts screaming when it turns into a human
>they fricking beat it to death
Me.
George is or was the only director with the vision/power/money to make this in a way which would be worthwhile.
>The Vissir Chronicles has an entire page dedicated to Vissir One trying to wrap her mind around the fact Humans are apparently the only species to engage in wars with itself
How did other species invent weapons of war if they never warred amongst themselves? Why would you need to put weapons on starships if you don't know what war is?
I'm pretty sure what you're referencing is the first abduction where she sees human brains have two halves at odds with each other meaning humans are schizoid compared to other races, not that other races don't conduct war.
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