My Only Annoyance With Her Is Some Of Her Morph Descriptions. Birds Do Not Have Backwards Knees; What

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.

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6 years ago

What do you think of paragliding?

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Korr: From what little I know about it, seems like it would be fun. Easier to just morph a flying thing, though.


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9 years ago
Yes, I Do Have A Rough Design For Muffet’s Mother, Along With A Rather In-depth Headcanon About Muffet,

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.


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6 years ago

What's your favorite color?

Answered here!


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6 years ago

((Hey, mun here - sorry things have been slow; I’ve had midterms. I haven’t left the blog, promise, and I’ll hopefully be able to start working on replies again soon!

Love y’all! Thank you for your patience! <3))


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9 years ago

if u blog animorphs like/reblog so i can follow u


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6 years ago
Some Sketches Of A Very Young Ax! He’s Excited For His Tail Blade To Grow In.

some sketches of a very young Ax! He’s excited for his tail blade to grow in.

(the white spots on his back are baby camouflage– they’ll fade as he grows up.)


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6 years ago

What if you ended up losing a leg? Can you get a prosthetic one? Would that affect how much time you spend eating due to the loss of a hoof?

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[Korr: Sort of? (Gods forbid.) Prosthetics definitely exist, but…Korr: …they’re probably not as advanced as they could be. And yeah, food would be a little annoying.

Korr: It doesn’t really matter what’s available back home, though. I don’t know where I would get something like that here.]


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