I will believe anything that anyone tells me about Animorphs

Mandelbrot

ok i saw this post about animorphs and holy fuck i need someone to confirm whether any of it is real. what the hell pic.twitter.com/VWvSNhxSpA

— leon c2 (@leyawn)

August 31, 2016

Sredni Vashtar

I read some of Applegate's other series and it was dark and disturbing enough to make all of these assertions extremely likely.

Odradek

Deboss

Mandelbrot

I've read one book in the Everworld series, but there was certainly nothing in it quite like this...

glennmagusharvey

that person's background pic looks pretty snazzy though

all i remember of animorphs is that the covers always were a human transforming into some non-human animal

and the fully-animalized version was always partly a clear plastic window to the first page that showed the animal interacting as an animal

Mandelbrot

Odradek said:

Deboss

i have disgraced myself

Obā-san

the rat child was evil just fyi

Anonus

Yarrun told me I missed everything

Bee

I've read the whole series and most of it's still on my bookshelf back at my parent's house.  All of those things definitely happen, some of them frequently.

Mandelbrot said:

I've read one book in the Everworld series, but there was certainly nothing in it quite like this...

Erm.  Everworld was almost worse about this stuff, man.

Sredni Vashtar

I read the first... five books of the Remnants series, I think. There are scenes which literally talk place in Bosch's vision of Hell, and aliens with flechette guns that rip people into a mist of tiny pieces.

Klinotaxis

i only got a hold of the first one but it sure seemed promisingly fucked

Sredni Vashtar

Is it ever.

I should try to find those books again. That was wild.

Bee

I seem to remember someone was either a bird or a Hork-Bajir, and his beak got smashed off, and the words "gaping pit of face" graced the narration.

I haven't even read those books in over 10 years, but I remember the gaping pit of face.

Obā-san

Hork-Bajir

Bee

See, someone else remembers the gaping pit of face!  :)

Obā-san

i remember ax talking about how earth guns werent very good at killing you (relatively speaking), but they were certainly good at leaving horrible bloody holes in you

Princess Alice

I never read these books and now I'm wondering how I managed that as a kid

Sredni Vashtar

The first five minutes of the TV series premiere scared me enough that I never watched it again. So I know exactly how I avoided it.

Reading the Remnants books came when I was a bit older and was devoloping a taste for the grotesque. Plus, prose has less of a grip on the audio-visual part of my brain for obvious reasons, as should I prefer not to imagine too much detail, I simply don't.

Obā-san

this thread is weird because like

idk

i never was particularly struck by these books in this regard?

Sredni Vashtar

I had a very low tolerance for overt gore when I was little.

Anonus

hey me too! i still kinda do

Princess Alice

I just noticed this is in Chocolate

Which is hilarious to my sleepy self

Sredni Vashtar

Still, "gaping pit of face" is pretty stark and nasty for a kid's book. I mean, if that were animated or filmed and it were a human, or even not, that would be Shigurui levels of brutal. Goodbye nose, teeth...

Obā-san

Sredni Vashtar said:

Still, "gaping pit of face" is pretty stark and nasty for a kid's book. I mean, if that were animated or filmed and it were a human, or even not, that would be Shigurui levels of brutal. Goodbye nose, teeth...

PICKED UP THE GUN, AND PULLED THE TRIGGER

SURVIVED, BUT WAS SEVERELY DISFIGURED

Bee

Sredni Vashtar said:

The first five minutes of the TV series premiere scared me enough that I never watched it again.

This is funny because half the reason the TV series failed was because it couldn't translate the feel of the books at all -- at least not without landing squarely in HBO instead of Nickelodeon.

Anonus

did it ever turn up in reruns anywhere else? like qubo (which Scholastic owned part of at one point)?

Anonus

why's Animorphs so violent

Bee

Because 90s young adult fiction.

I mean shit, we just had that CYOA thread.  At least Animorphs wasn't usually facepalmingly stupid about it.  I can look back on it and not regret reading it.

Though IIRC they did have a CYOA, and it was pretty much exactly what you'd expect.

Sredni Vashtar

Bee said:

Sredni Vashtar said:

The first five minutes of the TV series premiere scared me enough that I never watched it again.

This is funny because half the reason the TV series failed was because it couldn't translate the feel of the books at all -- at least not without landing squarely in HBO instead of Nickelodeon.

I'm not surprised. Still, though, the opening implied the nastiness well enough to get seven-year-old me hiding behind the couch. I know that the rest of the series was far, far tamer, but hot damn, I was terrified.

Today is Tomorrow said:

Sredni Vashtar said:

Still, "gaping pit of face" is pretty stark and nasty for a kid's book. I mean, if that were animated or filmed and it were a human, or even not, that would be Shigurui levels of brutal. Goodbye nose, teeth...

PICKED UP THE GUN, AND PULLED THE TRIGGER

SURVIVED, BUT WAS SEVERELY DISFIGURED

Art that focuses on the destruction and corruption of the body fascinates me for some reason. I think that's part of my interest in Hamasaki's work: It's more technically brilliant than emotionally accessible, but that fascination with contorted and ruined flesh resonates with me.

Obā-san

idk if it's just my crappy 2 in the morning judgement but that is definitely one of my favorite rap things that is rapped

Sredni Vashtar

On the subject of Katherine Applegate: Crenshaw sounds adorable.

Tatterhood

Bee said:

Sredni Vashtar said:

The first five minutes of the TV series premiere scared me enough that I never watched it again.

This is funny because half the reason the TV series failed was because it couldn't translate the feel of the books at all -- at least not without landing squarely in HBO instead of Nickelodeon.

now that I think about it I'm surprised it hasn't already been made into a netflix series

Odradek

I think Animorphs got away with this because there were five billion books and it was about aliens and superscience instead of The Devil's Occult Magic

Odradek

Today is Tomorrow said:

Hork-Bajir

Tatterhood

Not to be confused with the hrak-bajer, who were a totally original thing my friend made up!!

Mandelbrot

Anonus said:

why's Animorphs so violent

in KA Applegate's words

Sredni Vashtar

A direct link to the statement in question, which is quite eloquent.

Alduin

Yep. This is all accurate.

The mind-controlling slugs did get killed by oatmeal, though, which was dumb.

Salix Babylonika

There were like 30 of these books apparently.

They were among the various things that our school was not officially allowed to carry so I never read them. 

No I read a lot of YA novels about the salem witch trials. Yes, that is a real genre.

Mandelbrot

Jane said:

There were like 30 of these books apparently.

They were among the various things that our school was not officially allowed to carry so I never read them. 

No I read a lot of YA novels about the salem witch trials. Yes, that is a real genre.

there are SO MANY YA BOOKS about the Salem Witch Trials, I don't understand it

Alduin

There was this one villain that looked like a creepy Barney knockoff. He was called the Drode, and his master Crayak was basically Space Sauron.

Salix Babylonika

There's that one with like the dark red tinted photograph of a girl on the cover? That's a good one.

I don't know any of these books by name they were basically all the same.

Odradek

Does anyone remember the weird books where a girl got sucked into weird dimensions by holiday themed kitsch?

Odradek

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/186858.Dean_Marney

This is all I could find of it

Mandelbrot

Jane said:

There's that one with like the dark red tinted photograph of a girl on the cover? That's a good one.

I don't know any of these books by name they were basically all the same.

Beyond the Burning Time? I remember liking that one

Salix Babylonika

Odradek said:

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/186858.Dean_Marney

This is all I could find of it

Mike

I am going to slowly, carefully, deliberately close this webpage, and then clean my browser history, because I am 800% sure that these books--which I have never heard of before today--are cursed with the curse of an angry god.

I encourage you to do the same.

Odradek

I am going to order one of these books to see if my fever dream memories of them are true

I might just check my bookshelf though

Salix Babylonika

Mandelbrot said:

Jane said:

There's that one with like the dark red tinted photograph of a girl on the cover? That's a good one.

I don't know any of these books by name they were basically all the same.

Beyond the Burning Time? I remember liking that one

no it was an actual photo and it was heavily tinted dark red--same shade all over--and it was a young girl (blonde I think?) looking at the camera.

Salix Babylonika

anyway best of intentions inside I think that K.A. Applegate might just be crazy.

Sredni Vashtar

Crenshaw looks great, though. It has a kitty. A biiiig kitty! Who is very sarcastic and droll!

83

MetaFour

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1119189.The_Computer_That_Ate_My_Brother

Damn, I remember reading that one. It was okay.