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In this episode:
Another guest host!
The best thing humans ever invented
Is K.A. Applegate a cat person or a dog person
Memory and violence
Asimovian robot literature
Gray officially becomes skeptical of Z-Space
Food-based psychological warfare
Is Jenny an android
Spiders of the past and future
The Dumbledore of the Animorphs
In this episode:
Our first guest host!
Gray's rules for morphing
How good is Cassie and Jake's relationship, really?
Cassie's philosophical struggles
Could a skunk really defeat Visser Three?
In this episode:
The Animorphs grapple with death (not literally)
Ax discovers chocolate and other human oddities
Jake is the morph police
Warrior societies are almost universally real dumb
In this episode:
Marco is a bad driver
Visser 3 is a bad manager
What does the Veleek sound like?
The return of the whale
In this episode:
Rachel + Tobias 4ever
The importance of blinders
Applegate does not like circuses
Is the future pre-determined?
Internalized misogyny
In this episode:
What Jake’s family eats
How big is Jake, really?
Shipping that is not really justified by the book
Incredibly gross morphs
The Yeerk invasion plan
Jake commits war crimes
What it’s like to fight the Animorphs
In this episode:
Gray is grouchy about plot twists
What happens if your tragic backstory is an important part of your personality?
Ax struggles with human impulses
Marco expresses vulnerability
Class in The Animorphs
A few things we discuss in this episode:
Gray ships Rachel and Tobias
Tobias has to fight his hawk instincts and decide what it means to be human
A trans reading of Tobias’s character and coded characters in general
If you could morph only one animal, what would you choose?
A few things we discuss in this episode:
The font! (Gray didn’t like it.)
The Animorphs vs. classic novel structure
The humanity of the Yeerks
Magic vs. science
How much we love Rachel and Tobias
Outside references:
Disability and KidLit: disabilityinkidlit.com
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