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Link of the Day: This Is War.
Link of the Day: This Is War.
Nope, not a political link. It's about Animorphs, actually, and why the final book ended the way it did. While procrastinating on writing final papers, I've been cleaning up my tags and found out that I had an Animorphs tag, which led me to a very old entry where I discussed a letter that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nyrhtek had linked to wherein K.A. Applegate discusses the end of the Animorphs series.
And I hated the end of the series. I really, really loathed it. I wanted to scream and fanwank about it when I read it though thankfully, I didn't have a livejournal or a deadjournal back then to rage about it.
Why thankfully?
Because I was completely and totally wrong to hate it as I did. She had a really good reason for ending it the way she did and just because I hated it on a personal level and was horrified at what happened to my favorite chars, well, reading her letter got me over that. Especially the following paragraph:
Pretty soon you'll all be of voting age, and of draft age. So when someone proposes a war, remember that even the most necessary wars, even the rare wars where the lines of good and evil are clear and clean, end with a lot of people dead, a lot of people crippled, and a lot of orphans, widows and grieving parents.
A-fucking-men.
...And now I want a Tobias-hawk icon. Or maybe a Rachel-Tobias one. Canon ship ftw, in this case. Which is another reason why the Animorphs books are awesome -- they're good enough to make me ship a canon pairing, which is pretty rare where I'm concerned. I'm picky about shippings and pairings and unless I like both characters in a pairing, it's unlikely I'll like the actual pairing as a whole. And I'm even pickier about female characters, because there aren't that many of them to begin with and I tend to get a little irate when I keep empathizing better with the male chars than the females. Nothing against guys but it would be nice to have some female characters out there that I can understand and really get behind, you know what I mean?
So, Rachel/Tobias? Totally my rock-solid OTP there. Hits all my buttons and has two of my top three chars from the series. Occasionally my top two depending on what I've been reading recently.
Edit: I have an Animorphs icon now. XD Text is Elfangor's hirac delest, image is of Rachel and Tobias dancing. With apparently Ax-the-Afro-Andalite in the background.
Nope, not a political link. It's about Animorphs, actually, and why the final book ended the way it did. While procrastinating on writing final papers, I've been cleaning up my tags and found out that I had an Animorphs tag, which led me to a very old entry where I discussed a letter that
nyrhtek had linked to wherein K.A. Applegate discusses the end of the Animorphs series.And I hated the end of the series. I really, really loathed it. I wanted to scream and fanwank about it when I read it though thankfully, I didn't have a livejournal or a deadjournal back then to rage about it.
Why thankfully?
Because I was completely and totally wrong to hate it as I did. She had a really good reason for ending it the way she did and just because I hated it on a personal level and was horrified at what happened to my favorite chars, well, reading her letter got me over that. Especially the following paragraph:
Pretty soon you'll all be of voting age, and of draft age. So when someone proposes a war, remember that even the most necessary wars, even the rare wars where the lines of good and evil are clear and clean, end with a lot of people dead, a lot of people crippled, and a lot of orphans, widows and grieving parents.
A-fucking-men.
...And now I want a Tobias-hawk icon. Or maybe a Rachel-Tobias one. Canon ship ftw, in this case. Which is another reason why the Animorphs books are awesome -- they're good enough to make me ship a canon pairing, which is pretty rare where I'm concerned. I'm picky about shippings and pairings and unless I like both characters in a pairing, it's unlikely I'll like the actual pairing as a whole. And I'm even pickier about female characters, because there aren't that many of them to begin with and I tend to get a little irate when I keep empathizing better with the male chars than the females. Nothing against guys but it would be nice to have some female characters out there that I can understand and really get behind, you know what I mean?
So, Rachel/Tobias? Totally my rock-solid OTP there. Hits all my buttons and has two of my top three chars from the series. Occasionally my top two depending on what I've been reading recently.
Edit: I have an Animorphs icon now. XD Text is Elfangor's hirac delest, image is of Rachel and Tobias dancing. With apparently Ax-the-Afro-Andalite in the background.
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Yah... I don't always read the entire Andalite Chronicles (even though I think it may be my favorite of the Chronicles), but I always have to read that scene. It makes me bawl. My roomie finally read the entire series last summer and I was like, 'ELFANGOR AND TOBIAS. *SOB*' ;-; I thought that was an interesting twist. I know I didn't see that coming. :P
I cried over Sirius dying, but that's because Sirius is my favorite character so I'm allowed to. But his death was lame. >_o;; I guess I've never really compared HP and Animorphs... I don't often compare books, I guess. I would say I prefer HP because that's just something I would read over Animorphs, but when I'm in the mood for some Animorphs, I can literally sit there for hours and just read. :P
XD No Sweet Valley Twins. I don't think I've ever read any books from that series. I guess I was always more of a fantasy person, so Tamora Pierce was my personal god. :P
I wouldn't say Ax is ruthless as much as... practical, I guess. I'm not sure. He never struck me as ruthless. Marco struck me as a little ruthless though, in a very calculating sort of way. Jake sorta tries to balance doing what is 'right' and doing what's needed, so that's always been interesting, while Cassie is just completely on the moralistic side. But I can see her point, which is why I don't dislike her. Not like in House, where the female character's moralistic bullshitting makes me want to beat my head against a desk.... :P
It's a great series because when I first read it, I didn't THINK about all those issues. I just read it and... went on. But now when I reread, I'm just amazed at everything that went on in that series that just went over my head. I appreciate it more, in a way. It's kinda like Avatar... I watch that and just think, 'Do the 12-year olds watching this UNDERSTAND all the shit that is going down?' and I'm amazed. I like how you can reread or rewatch something when you're older or not the target audience, but there's still a powerful message in it that younger people might not catch on. It's neat. ^_^
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ALSO, I FINALLY HAVE AN ANIMORPHS ICON MADE. It only took over twelve hours. *dies* Because I was distracted by RPing.
I am pretty much tied between the Andalite Chronicles, the Ellimist Chronicles and the Hork-Bajir Chronicles for favorite of them. I mean, Hork-Bajir has best romance and ethical conflicts, no doubt, Ellimist is the most creative in terms of space creation, and Andalite is just awesome because SQUEE, parents of Tobias and Elfangor and cool Loren who is SO MUCH LIKE RACHEL and and and and SQUEE!
*petpet* I tend to compare books when I'm trying to figure out what I would rather read. I have the HP books with me at college just because there are fewer of them so they were easier to carry but I haven't read them all semester long, and I have to admit, if they were Animorph books, I think I would have pulled them off the shelves at least a few times by now.
I was so voracious, I think that I read everything. Plenty of fantasy, but most other things as well. Though I was a classicist and hearted Greek Mythology mostly when it came to fantasy as a kid, I remember. XD
Ax, well, yeah, he does come off as more practical than ruthless but that's because he doesn't think about it in terms of a moral dilemna. His practicality is ruthless but unlike Marco and Rachel and Jake who worry about it, Ax just takes it for granted that of course the logical course is a better option the possible high ground, because being an Andalite automatically gives him that. House, I've never seen, but Cassie just got on my nerves more often than Jake because there was just THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE at stake and although I can get qualms, this is THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE we're talking about here.
How old were you when you first read it? I actually think that I was about 11-14, not entirely sure how long it took for the books to catch my attention. Those days, I went on the interesting system of randomly pulling out something from the closest bookshelf after I sat down, then reading everything else by that author if I liked it, so there wasn't any guarantee about me reading material fit for my age group or not.
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Animorphs... I have the TV eps still recorded somewhere. I was going to drag Val over sometime so we could appreciate it... it's probably going to be awful, but fun nevertheless. As long as the tapes still work... and still exist. Which they should; I haven't even recorded over some figure skating events that are close to 8 years old now. O_o;;
I actually did not like the Ellimist Chronicles at all. I barely remember them because it was a struggle for me to finish it. The other three I liked, but not that one. ^^
Greek Mythology... did you read that big orange book with the cool illustrations and shit? I memorized that damn thing. I never bought it but whenever we used to go to the bookstore, I'd find it, sit my ass down, and read it. I loved that thing. When we had to read... I think it was Edith Hamilton's Greek myths for my lit class in high school, I didn't really like it so I sorta ended up skimming most of the time. Which was fine because since I had memorized the kid's book, I knew pretty much all of it anyway.
(Same went with the Bible. Thank you Great Illustrated Classics!!)
(And you need to watch House. Just finished watching the eppy. So frustrated. Need more. GYAH.)
I'm not sure how old I was when I read it... I know I started in elementary school. 5th grade, I guess? Which is how old... I don't know. o_o;; Uh... ten or eleven, I guess??
I tend to just reread the books I like over and over and over again, although in middle school I read books that were shiny and pretty which was how I got into Terry Brooks. >D I'm so shallow like that....