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poparena.livejournal.comThe Ellimist enlists the Animorphs to chase Visser Four across time. They end up calling French soldiers skanky.
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poparena.livejournal.comHey everyone,
I'm currently working on the Opinionated Animorphs Book Guide for Megamorphs #3 Elfangor's Secret, and I'm going to open it as if I was making the videos in the alternate universe seen in the opening chapters, including an alternate opening theme. What I'd like is fan art as if Animorphs was published in this alternate universe. For example, the Animorphs standing and saluting in front of the empire's flag, cast pictures with Melissa instead of Rachel, war posters for the movement against "primatives" in Brazil, or whatever else you can imagine.
Anyone who wants to contibute can, in any form of image making, be it drawings, crayon, digital, whatever. I need them by August 30th, just go ahead and post them in the comments. Any art I use will be credited in the video and will include links to your personal art pages if you have them. Thanks a bunch!
I'm currently working on the Opinionated Animorphs Book Guide for Megamorphs #3 Elfangor's Secret, and I'm going to open it as if I was making the videos in the alternate universe seen in the opening chapters, including an alternate opening theme. What I'd like is fan art as if Animorphs was published in this alternate universe. For example, the Animorphs standing and saluting in front of the empire's flag, cast pictures with Melissa instead of Rachel, war posters for the movement against "primatives" in Brazil, or whatever else you can imagine.
Anyone who wants to contibute can, in any form of image making, be it drawings, crayon, digital, whatever. I need them by August 30th, just go ahead and post them in the comments. Any art I use will be credited in the video and will include links to your personal art pages if you have them. Thanks a bunch!
buffyangellvr23.livejournal.comSomething is wrong...the Animorphs' reality is radically different from what it should be. And they don't even know it until the Drode shows up and lets them remember. Visser Four is after the Time Matrix, the powerful weapon Elfangor buried here and then died trying to reach later. Now the Animorphs are following Visser Four through history, trying to stop him from changing it. And they know that according to the deal they made, one of them must die...
I'm a sucker for this one because of the time travel and dystopia elements, but I now can see more clearly the complaint that was brought up last time around. It's possible to argue that they should have tried to eliminate the Yeerk's birth, not the host's, although that's up for debate.
I still think of my big question from last time...Why was the Time Matrix never brought up again??? I think it should have figured into the endgame somehow.
I do like KAA's (or was it a ghostwriter?)techinque of starting out with the subtle differences and not acknowledging them until a chapter or two in.
Of course we have the ambiguity at the switchback...again not a clear good vs bad choice...saving lives possibly but also restoring the Holocaust to reality.
megamorphs #3 elfangor's secret
Jun. 10th, 2009 05:47 amkarma-fucked.livejournal.comin megamorphs #3, cassie makes the decision to prevent john berryman from ever being born. i have tons of thoughts on this, but the one that i've been wondering about lately is what that would do to berryman's soul.
blame fred's death in angel. just bear with me okay?
if he had never been born, he never existed. if he never existed, what would happen to his consciousness after death? assuming some sort of afterlife exists would berryman be able to "participate" in it? did cassie not only kill the man, but destroy his soul with her decision? if he completely ceased to exist, would he leave anything metaphysical behind?
blame fred's death in angel. just bear with me okay?
if he had never been born, he never existed. if he never existed, what would happen to his consciousness after death? assuming some sort of afterlife exists would berryman be able to "participate" in it? did cassie not only kill the man, but destroy his soul with her decision? if he completely ceased to exist, would he leave anything metaphysical behind?
buffyangellvr23.livejournal.comWe found out who Visser Four is. And he found the time matrix. The machine Elfangor had hidden in the abandoned construction site. The same place we met him on a night we'll never forget. Espeically me. Now Visser Four has the time matrix and he plans to use it to become Visser One.
But Jake, Rachel,Cassie,Marco,Ax and I can't let that happen. We can't let him alter time so the yeerks will win this invasion. So we're prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice. And,ultimately, one of us will lose this fight...
I love KAA's method of beginning this one; anyone who hadn't read ahead or didn't know what was up would be like "what the...?" I also love her once again staying away from clear cut right and wrong at the end. If they stayed in the alternate timeline, America wouldn't exist and people would be oppressed, but going back to the real timeline would mean the Holocaust happened.
My big question is one I asked before...why didn't the time matrix ever pop back up again later? That just strikes me as wierd.
I'm having trouble coming up with good questions, but I know this one will generate some good discussion. And maybe someone else will have some good questions to ask.
Prompt...ultimate sacrifice sounds good.
Next week The Reunion
But Jake, Rachel,Cassie,Marco,Ax and I can't let that happen. We can't let him alter time so the yeerks will win this invasion. So we're prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice. And,ultimately, one of us will lose this fight...
I love KAA's method of beginning this one; anyone who hadn't read ahead or didn't know what was up would be like "what the...?" I also love her once again staying away from clear cut right and wrong at the end. If they stayed in the alternate timeline, America wouldn't exist and people would be oppressed, but going back to the real timeline would mean the Holocaust happened.
My big question is one I asked before...why didn't the time matrix ever pop back up again later? That just strikes me as wierd.
I'm having trouble coming up with good questions, but I know this one will generate some good discussion. And maybe someone else will have some good questions to ask.
Prompt...ultimate sacrifice sounds good.
Next week The Reunion
tygerwulfe.livejournal.comJust had to share.
I just got out of the first part of my History 101 final here in college. I've always had a pretty crappy memory, especially when essays are required. I have all the stuff planned and outlined before I go into the class, I read over it right BEFORE the class, and I still blank on 99% of it when the empty blue book is in front of me and I'm supposed to write the essay.
I was proud of myself: I didn't blank on the first essay... Not completely. I got down the information about the battle of Manzikert relatively quickly.
It was then that I looked at the second question and realized that I could not remember ANYTHING I'd had planned to answer this question. I stared at it, panicking internally... I'd already had a crappy morning, breaking up a fight between two of our housecats while still under Nyquil (I've had a cold for a few days), and now I was going to fail part of my History final because I'd blanked completely. Then I spotted one word:
Agincourt.
Suddenly, at the back of my head, in the vast repository of memorized Animorphs knowledge (why I can remember little details about the books but blank on normal schoolwork that I've STUDIED for, I don't know...), I heard this sequence of lines in what I imagine is Cassie's voice... Transscribed from memory, so forgive me if they aren't quite right:
"The battle raged around us. The noise was horrific to my horse ears. Steel clanging against steel. The clank-clank-clank as crossbows were wound tight. Hooves and feet pounding in the mud, and landing, all too often, on bodies. Men grunted with the effort of swinging their heavy swords and maces and axes. Men cried out or moaned as they were hurt. They staggered and fell, from wounds or from sheer exhaustion. And all of this was all around me. On top of me!
This, I would later learn, was the battle of Agincourt. One of the great battles of history. Glorious. That's what people called it: glorious. Shakespeare wrote a play about it. But I'm here to tell you there was nothing glorious going on. It was as glorious as murder."
Suddenly everything I'd planned to write for my essay came flooding back, as my mind was filled with the Animorphs frantic battle amid the chaos of Agincourt.
I think I aced my History final... All thanks to Animorphs.
X-posted to my personal Journal.
I just got out of the first part of my History 101 final here in college. I've always had a pretty crappy memory, especially when essays are required. I have all the stuff planned and outlined before I go into the class, I read over it right BEFORE the class, and I still blank on 99% of it when the empty blue book is in front of me and I'm supposed to write the essay.
I was proud of myself: I didn't blank on the first essay... Not completely. I got down the information about the battle of Manzikert relatively quickly.
It was then that I looked at the second question and realized that I could not remember ANYTHING I'd had planned to answer this question. I stared at it, panicking internally... I'd already had a crappy morning, breaking up a fight between two of our housecats while still under Nyquil (I've had a cold for a few days), and now I was going to fail part of my History final because I'd blanked completely. Then I spotted one word:
Agincourt.
Suddenly, at the back of my head, in the vast repository of memorized Animorphs knowledge (why I can remember little details about the books but blank on normal schoolwork that I've STUDIED for, I don't know...), I heard this sequence of lines in what I imagine is Cassie's voice... Transscribed from memory, so forgive me if they aren't quite right:
"The battle raged around us. The noise was horrific to my horse ears. Steel clanging against steel. The clank-clank-clank as crossbows were wound tight. Hooves and feet pounding in the mud, and landing, all too often, on bodies. Men grunted with the effort of swinging their heavy swords and maces and axes. Men cried out or moaned as they were hurt. They staggered and fell, from wounds or from sheer exhaustion. And all of this was all around me. On top of me!
This, I would later learn, was the battle of Agincourt. One of the great battles of history. Glorious. That's what people called it: glorious. Shakespeare wrote a play about it. But I'm here to tell you there was nothing glorious going on. It was as glorious as murder."
Suddenly everything I'd planned to write for my essay came flooding back, as my mind was filled with the Animorphs frantic battle amid the chaos of Agincourt.
I think I aced my History final... All thanks to Animorphs.
X-posted to my personal Journal.
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