what horrible new halloween costumes do you think will become popular after the war?

Andalite tourist (lazy version): Don a headband with blue stalk eyes, and carry around a Krispy Kreme box.

Andalite tourist (hardcore version): Paint your entire body blue, have an inflatable second set of legs and tail attached to your butt, and attach the tail blade to a wristband so that you can swing it around by waving your arm.

Animorph (lazy version): Put on bike shorts, take off shoes.

Animorph (hardcore version): Exactly match Rachel's preferred cut and color of leotard. Wear brown fur boots and gloves, then use body paint on your arms and legs to make it look like they're transitioning into a morph.

Yeerk (lazy version): Borrow your friend's The Sharing shirt.

Yeerk (hardcore version): Shave your head, and paint your scalp with the illusion of a window looking in on your brain with a slug wrapped around it. Then borrow your friend's The Sharing shirt.

Hork-bajir (lazy version): Get a t-rex costume, add a headband with blades on it.

Hork-bajir (hardcore version): This one involves stilt-walking, while wearing knives, and has been banned in six countries by November 1 of the first year after the war.

Your OCs!

Gali Homal for venerabela

Ishna-Farell-Illgele for pixelsilver

Maxillicor for anonymous

Wyvern the pup has been horking and we weren’t sure why. (Turns out he ate part of a blanket). But after a bit my betrothed said, “We should call him Hork.”

And like someone who’s read the entire Animorphs series multiple times I said, “Hork-Bajir more like.” (That’s the name of one of the alien species).

That was hours ago.

They just said out of nowhere, “Hork-Bajir has just been going around and around in my head nonstop.”

so, like, Hork-Bajir, am I right?? 👀

I'm talking about Hork-Bajir again with my BFF, and look, I love them. They're honestly one of the most impressive alien races in all of Animorphs.

They know three languages! They're pretty fast and very strong! They're mostly not inquisitive, curious people, but that's OK! You don't have to be!

They somehow persist after YEARS of brutal slavery, and losing their home, losing each other, suffering a *chemical weapon* in the form of a quantum virus, and attempted cultural genocide!

The Hork-Bajir are amazing resilient people, and they also are just, you know, guys. A race of himbos. But being "considered big and dumb" and actually being those things are two different things.

They're not toddlers or children, they're alien immigrants, who are mind-control slaves, so simply existing is very difficult.

(There's a LOT OF COOL ALIENS in Animorphs! Like the Leeran, the Chee, and the Helmacrons, but I readily attached to the Hork-Bajir very early on, and said, "THESE GUYS".)

Inktober 2023: Trick or Treat Alien

They almost have it down.

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“Zara’s Saber” a commission for hork-bajir4ever on FA! Lots of fun with this, including designing the lightsaber to fit with a Hork-Bajir character. Wood surrounding the main parts where all the electronics and tech go, visible Kyber chamber, claw shaped emitter shroud and butt to allude to the blades that Hork-Bajir have, etc. The wood is probably from a personally significant tree to hork-bajir4ever’s Zara.

Andalite 911 Operator: 911, what’s your emergency?

Hork-Bajir Caller: Help! We’re being held hostage by alien parasites!

Operator: What? Parasites can’t do that, that’s illegal.

*sounds of virus being developed*

Operator: Don’t worry, someone will be right there to eliminate your species.

crash bandicoot bosses crossed over with animorphs aliens

no animorphs spoilers in the comments/reblogs please!

andalite n tropy

hork-bajir dingodile

mercora n gin

helmacron cortex

and yeerk n tranced

{PSNL} Reference: Gali Homal

A reference for Gali Homal!  I've loved Animorphs since I was a kid, despite its darker theme. The Hork-Bajir were my favorite species from that series. For a little while I've been wanting to make a Hork-Bajir character. So here's Gali! She is a survivor of the Yeerk War, living in Wyoming on Earth at the Hork-Bajir settlement. After the brief culture shock, she learned about many physical mediums of art that were barely if ever performed among the Hork-Bajir. Being a species of oral and visual arts, singing, stories, dancing, and whatnot, seeing sculptures, paintings, and so many beautiful things she had never even conceived of before led her to take a trip to Hawai'i. In Hawai'i, she sought out the native culture, asking to learn their dancing, and became enamored with Earth flowers after being given a lei. As an aside, my first headshot of Gali got a like from KA Applegate so I kinda have it in my head that Gali's canon now~ Art and Gali (c) to myself Hork-Bajir species (c) to KA Applegate Wanna see these images early? Have HD downloads? PSD access? Consider becoming a patron on Patreon! >>> https://www.patreon.com/Venerabela <<< Want a commission? See other sites I'm on? Interact with me and my community? >>> https://venerabela.carrd.co/ <<<

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Off the top of your head, what alien swear words do you remember from animorphs? I think dapsen means shit or fuck.

Yeah, we know "dapsen" is something rude in Galard, from Ax's reaction to its use. Another one we see used a lot is "hruthin," usually by hork-bajir-controllers describing Animorphs, so my headcanon is that it's a rude word for "andalite."

Other than that, I think the closest we come is Jara and Ket using the word "kawatoj" to mean "procreation" in #13, and then hesitating to translate it when Tobias asks. It's not clear if they're just not sure of the best English translation or if they're shy about discussing sex in front of kids of another species, but it might mean something a little ruder like "fucking."

Update: Animorphs fan film is still in the pipeline, tho it has become clearer just how much work it’s gonna be. I don’t make a habit of setting myself deadlines bc i inevitably don’t make them and that stresses me out.

in the meantime, have a hork-bajir I made in Lego: Jurassic World with my bf

and also what said MADMAN of a bf got me for my birthday:

(Full set complete now baybeeeeeeeeyyyyyy)

Been a long ass time since I’ve done a full body of a hork-bajir.

A Poll! About Hork-Bajir!

It's a kind of bark that us humans find edible, too! Ok, maybe not eaten raw for humans, but... Don't you think Hork-Bajir would like it, too?

(I HAVE 100% FORGOTTEN IF THIS EVER GETS DISCUSSED IN THE BOOKS, OKAY? I don't think it ever was????)

PLEASE VOTE AND REBLOG THIS POLL. It's up for a week for maximum saturation!

Thinking about it, I suppose that the biggest difference between seers and baseline hork-bajir could be that the former are simply so much more *inquisitive*, but I'm running on decade-plus-old memories of HBC, and I'm curious what your thoughts are with regard to hork-bajir intelligence.

I get really mad about this issue because Applegrant contradict themselves on it constantly and it does come down to ableism and the noble savage trope.

In The Hork-Bajir Chronicles, Dak Hamee's friend Jagil Hullan is unable to understand art as a concept. Dak makes a drawing of him and he's unable to recognize or understand that. The fact that this story takes place within a STORY that a non-Seer, Jara Hamee, is telling to his family around a fire, is self-evidently absurd. If Jara Hamee is able to tell the beautiful story that is The Hork-Bajir Chronicles, TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH FOR TOBIAS'S BENEFIT NO LESS, and his fellows are able to understand that story, then non-Seer HB can OBVIOUSLY understand representative art. Supposedly the free Hork-Bajir could understand that the sounds coming out of Jara's mouth were meant to represent real people, but Jagil couldn't understand that scrapings of charcoal in the shape of his body were meant to represent him? Get out of town, Applegrant.

And then he started to tell his tale. It was in the rough, stilted, limited speech of the Hork-Bajir. A mix of English and Hork-Bajir and languages I could only guess at. It was hard to follow at first. But I swear after a few minutes the words grabbed hold of my brain somehow. I could not only hear the guttural words, I could hear the original words as spoken by Jara Hamee’s father-father.

u are so goddamn rude, Tobias, Jara just translated an epic story into his second or third language for u and all u can say is that he's rough, limited, stilted, and guttural? u do better translating ur shit into a language other than english, u horrible bird. I'll wait.

It's also SO revealing that in the main series nobody took any interest in the Hork-Bajir's governance and ways of life until Naomi fucking Rachelsmom, light of my life, offered to help the Hork-Bajir write a constitution to codify their ways of self-governance in book 49. And they were into it! They had strong opinions about bark distribution! They wanted to learn to read and write! I think it really goes to show that the Hork-Bajir only appear "primitive" to those humans, Andalites, etc., who take no real interest in them. The moment Naomi decided to take an interest and pay attention, the complexities of their politics unrolled before her.