RIP Rachel Berenson you would have loved Legally Blonde

there they all are

i’m re-reading animorphs, a series i loved when i was a closeted young child, as a queer adult and feeling a little insane over it actually. like ok so. imagine you are just a normal regular kid until one day, a chance encounter with an adult unlike any adult you've ever met before abruptly changes who you are as a person, and suddenly you are not like other kids at all. and now you have to fight a secret battle for survival, but you cannot tell anyone around you about it, because many of the people around you harbor a secret violent hatred for who you are, and if you tell someone without realizing the person you're talking to is one of the people who hates you, that person will either put you through horrific harm to make you like them or just outright kill you. this is true of every single person around you—your parents, your siblings, your friends, your teachers—except for a few other kids who you know share your same secret.

and now you have to try to maintain close relationships with the people you love even though you cannot tell them who you really are, who you spend your time with, who you go to when you're not with them. when you see your secret companions in public, you have to try to pretend you barely know them, because being seen together too often could lead to suspicion. you are enduring consistent ongoing trauma that you cannot talk to anyone about because anyone whose job is to help people through trauma may also be one of the people who wants to kill you. also you're a shapeshifter. like yeah ok i wonder why so many people who were obsessed with animorphs as a kid turned out to be queer

Honestly while people talk a lot about the war aspects of animorphs, for good reason, not enough people talk about how brutal it got about celebrity culture and how humans could oppress and hurt each other just as much as the yeerks could.

Like the most vivid thing I remember over a decade later of reading the books is the mental image of the scenes when celebrities voluntarily taking on yeerks because it was trendy or cool and then not caring at the feeding pool things when they’re surrounded by screaming suffering sobbing people in cages that didn’t volunteer for it while they just casually wait, just complete apathy to the immense suffering around them because they only cared about seeming trendy. It was honestly so fucking chilling. It was so long ago so I might be misremembering a few details but DAMN did animorphs have some poignant things to say about dehumanization from your fellow man

Good after morning

I'm throwing these at you

What other characters should I draw after the main 6 kids??

“i can’t not care about living things. i can’t be like that.” everyone’s favourite horse girl 💛

made up alien tactile responses YEP *leaves*

He's in the cube

My flatemate: "can you give me some warning before you put your laundry on? Your 90s nerd t-shirt is scarring my boyfriend."

The T-shirt:

Hey guys so I’m listening to the animorphs book where Jake’s got a yeerk in his brain, and guys??? I HATE how into this I am. Oh my god, it could not be a horror trope more aimed at me. What if you were buried alive except in your own body? What if there was an evil worm who made you watch your embarrassing fantasies and knows how embarrassed they make you? What if the worm was like “here enjoy these thoughts from another person who suffered greatly and prayed for death” while reveling in your helpless suffering. What if you had to watch everyone you love never realize you were gone? It’s so goodbad. It’s so badgood. It’s so evilhorny. It’s so aimed at children.

oh shoot have I not posted this before

a truly gorgeous commission that @norisus did for me last year, Andalite and Guide tree. It's so high resolution!

The images from The Andalite Chronicles that just barely show a bit of the Andalite homeworld make it look so sere and drab, but it's described as full of colorful flora.

Happy New Year to only these 6 traumatised kiddos.

⚠NO SPOILERS IN THE TAGS OR REPLIES PLEASE⚠

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.

and this beautiful cassie panel. and also her dad:) i think we havent seen him before…love the salt and pepper

jakey!

if somebody kill my son, that mean somebody gettin killed / tell me what you do for love, loyalty and passion of/ all the memories collected, moments you could never touch

some sketches, jake + the sadistic parasite enslaving his brother 

Nice Is Neat :)