• MoreAmphibians [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    What it's like imagining yourself in one of these books.

    Harry Potter: Your superior blood makes you worthy of wielding power that your lessers couldn't even dream of, plus you're rich!

    Animorphs: You need to wage a Maoist insurgency against the parasitic overlords taking over our society.

    • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      harry potter doesn't even have superior anything he kinda sucks at most things, his greatest skill is not telling dumbledore important information

      • Outdoor_Catgirl [she/her, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah, it's surprising that nerds liked a book about a dumb, popular high school sports star who grows up to become a cop because they related to the main character

  • frankfurt_schoolgirl [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Those books are crazy. Insane levels of violence and body horror. Also there's a part where they literally give disabled children the ability to turn into lions in order to draft them into the war against the aliens.

    • PeludoPorFavor [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      yeah there is just so much wild shit happening ALL the time.

      -the part where Rachel is a starfish and kid fucking chops her in half, and each half demorphs into some very bizare good-evil freudian nightmare

      -the part where a new kid finds the ability to morph, but goes crazy and so they trap him as a rat on an island in the middle of the water to live out the rest of his life.

      -the part where jake gets captured and gets a yeerk, but the gang basically ties him up and lets the yeerk starve to death in his head and has a whole existential crisis. bonkers shit.

  • SaniFlush [any, any]
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    2 years ago

    If it didn’t exist yesterday, we can make it exist tomorrow. MSM is powerful but not all-powerful.

    • wwiehtnioj [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      true but also the time for 90's children's lit megafad permafranchises has passed and we have to look to the future.