[–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

i meant which book are you on in your reread, but it's always wise to be cautious regarding the yeerks.

The names don't ring a bell, but I think I was more of a lurker reading things rather than actively participating, so I doubt I would have remembered them.

You know, i just looked up RAF and apparently it's back online as of 2025 with some new posts.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    whoa, good pull.

    i honestly can't be sure, but i was on pretty much every animorphs forum back in the day just in case everything was real and Richard's is ringing a bell.

    what do you remember from RAF, why did it stick out?

    and have a great time on your reread! where sre you at?

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    good find! i listened to a lot of morph club cast but it was a reread for thr hosts, and although they were often surprised, I'd like to hear from someone with fresh eyes on the series.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Heck yeah, I've even reread everworld and remnants.

    The

    spoilersThe captive scene with hel, the way the Angel's sacrifice stuck with Christopher, there was some sort of gay relationship being explored there too, Senna in Africa

    Those series are very original, creative and progressive in that they have a lot to say that aren't just rehashes of issues already brought up in animorphs or other ya series.

    Grant's solo YA series like BZRK and Gone also get pretty crazy

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    Why is the title Animorphs? Applegate and Grant are very inclusive and politically progressive in their works and interviews.

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    I installed 22.2 on my laptop, installed waydroid, it failed to launch, so i logged out, selected ubuntu on wayland, and waydroid works in that DE.

    I installed 22.2 on my friend's laptop(way older), and 3 cinammon DEs were included but not the ubuntu DEs, so i can't open waydroid on the second laptop.

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    etymology of "juggernaut" (sh.itjust.works)
     

    it comes from the Sanskrit jagganath, which means " lord of the world", and is the name of one of the major Hindu gods.

    but what's awesome is he's basically their giant buff God.

    so all his temples are like super squat and beefy, sort of brutalist architecture.

    so the X-Men iteration is pretty close to what you can imagine the lord of the world looking like.

     

    Pulling clear packing tape straight out or straight up will give you that loud tearing sound, especially if you pull it off quickly. Pulling clear packing tape backwards at an extremely acute angle along the roll eliminates that loud cracking, ripping sound entirely.

    I can't find any mention of this tip online, so I had to improvise with the image.

    Enjoy!

    I don't know if this is an issue for other people, but I always hated that noise.

     

    because that's fucking crazy.

    they were like "hey, instead of using this land for our new city, let's take the trees from this land, strip their branches, transport them and shove them down into this lagoon in the next state, cut them so they're all level and then build a city on millions of log butts. it'll be fine in 1600 years."

    and they were pretty much right.

    The alder trees the wooden piles were made from are apparently still composed of sound alder wood, fiber cellulose, and their composition and placing are a big reason why Venice is still afloat.

    fascinating article.

    this is the other article by the team that inspected one section of the piles themselves about 10 years ago:

    https://share.google/RLMuBm3wTDRaaI7m4

     

    Chemtrails, trails of aerosolized chemicals secretly released from aircraft over civilian populations, were dispersed without consent or warning over US cities and towns in the early 1950s.

    The US Army Chemical Corps conducted Operation LAC(Large Area Coverage), a program to test what it would be like to drop extremely dangerous bioweapons over enemy cities by dropping less dangerous carcinogens like zinc cadmium sulfide(ZnCdS), over US civilian populations without knowledge or consent, and without following up on the long-term health effects of dropping ZnCdS on US civilian populations.

    The Army said the carcinogen was probably not harmful before dispersal, but no human trials were done

    NIH recommends the Army conduct tests on the toxicity of ZnCdS since it can get stuck in the lungs

    The Army was like, nah.

    broad overview

    YSK because as nonsensical as some later chemtrail theories became, the conspiracy of secret chemicals dropped from aircraft onto US civilians without knowledge or consent did occur, according to the US government and military branches that conducted the tests.

     

    Sometimes doing the right thing makes a big difference.

    in 1983, Petrov, a Soviet Lt Col, received multiple reports of US missiles being fired at the USSR but decided not to report the missiles to his direct superiors, who could order a retaliatory nuclear strike.

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    Maybe the least relevant title to content?

    or maybe the title is lost in context since every character is the most unlike they have ever been in the series and this book is all about coming to terms and impressing upon the naive that the only choices left to make in war are terrible choices.

    spoilers

    everyone dies or you find a few more soldiers willing to sacrifice themselves.

    It's pretty difficult watching the gang pedantically and repeatedly explain to their parents that the life they thought they had is gone and people are dying and getting hurt. and you can't choose the moral high road unless you're willing to sacrifice others.

    and the Animorphs have to hold the line on this reasoning because they're the only ones who really understand where the line is.

    This is the controversial (as I remember it) decision to recruit disabled kids to be soldiers, because they're sure that the yeerks don't want any physically disabled bodies.

    The ending really shocked me, I figured Cassie was going to kill Tom so that Jake didn't have to, and they could recover the morphing cube, I completely forgot that she bit Jake to slow him down and allow Tom to get away with the morphing cube because of her HUNCH that letting him have the morphing cube with the right thing to do.

    that is a brassy hunch.

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