Who Has Given You The Best Hugs? Do You Like Hugs? Rate Hugs In General On A Scale From One To Ten.

Who has given you the best hugs? Do you like hugs? Rate hugs in general on a scale from one to ten.

The blurred word in the last piece of dialogue is “eldest.”

Korr, like most Andalites, doesn’t think much of human technology. (She likes games like Tetris for some reason, and seems to be able to play those for hours if she gets the time, but gets really bored with anything else.)

Ask away! Anything about Korr, or her story, or her friends, or just Andalites/the Animorphs world in general. Anything remotely applicable really. (I may just write directly on the paper next time instead of going through all the hassle of typing text in... we’ll see. I was going for space saving this time. It didn’t work.)

Yes, I do have a rough design for Muffet’s mother, along with a rather in-depth headcanon about Muffet, her mother, and her age (both physical and actual), but I won’t go into those here. Possibly in another post. The captions on the right, which got a little cut off while scanning, read:

*The spiders are our cousins. I am their queen, as you will be someday, and they are very much like us - but many people hate them. That is why we must protect them.

*Because they fear them.

*That, my little miss Muffet, I do not know.

guys guys I finally did it I finally figured out an Andalite-to-human morph sequence that WORKS

Though it got cut off a little at the edges... stupid scanner isn’t quite big enough for my notebook *kicks (gently)*

In all seriousness you guys have no idea how long I’ve been trying to do this; I can draw human morph sequences with very few problems, but Andalites just cause so many problems when I’m drawing morph sequences! I must have attempted this at least twenty times before I finally nailed it down yesterday. I left the skeletons underneath intact, since a) I usually ONLY draw the skeletons but I got uber-excited over this so I actually finished it more or less, and b) I’d like to be able to do it again maybe at some point in the future, and leaving the skeletons intact seems like the best way to do that.

My only annoyance with her is some of her morph descriptions. Birds do not have backwards knees; what we think of as the “backwards knee” sometimes is actually the equivalent of the human heel. And horses and other unguligrades (hooved animals) don’t have four knees. The “knee” of the front leg is the equivalent of the human wrist, or the carpus. I mean, really, if you’re going to write about humans turning into animals, do your research on animal anatomy

Can we take a moment to appreciate the fact that K.A. Applegate might be the only sci-fi writer EVER who both (a) condemns the mass killing of aliens even if they are attacking the earth AND (b) shows why it’s sort of necessary in the situation?

It seems like too many other sci-fi stories go the route of Avengers or Doctor Who (S1) or Independence Day where a protagonist wiping out thousands of aliens is portrayed as uncomplicated heroism and we all celebrate at the end. Either that or they go the route of Avatar the Last Airbender (S3) or Buffy the Vampire Slayer (S5) where the characters that don’t want to engage in violence don’t have to get their hands dirty because a deus ex machina comes along and prevents that from having to happen.  In both cases doing the right thing is also a matter of doing the easy thing.

Applegate, by contrast, doesn’t let her characters get away with an uncomplicated happy ending.  She doesn’t say “they were aliens so it’s okay to kill them,” and she doesn’t offer them a third way out of their impossible choice.  She gets into the hell that is war and doesn’t use the sci-fi genre to let her gloss over the dirty details.