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After a while Korben started meowing; a bit unusual. He’s a talker, but he doesn’t usually meow that much unless he’s begging or wants something. He seemed especially distressed. I didn’t think too much of it, just tried reassuring him without really investigating.

His meowing went up an octave like he thought he was trapped or something. I finally stuck a head out to see what was bothering him and Leeloo was sitting outside the catio walls looking slightly perplexed.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Aftran 942/Cassie Characters: Cassie (Animorphs), Aftran 942 Additional Tags: Friendship, Perceived Loss of Self, queerplatonic Summary:

Yes, yes, YES! Starting a new post, because this sums up so many of my frustrations with fan crit. Like, Animorphs clumsily attempts to tackle AIDS and slavery reparations and environmentalism and disability justice, and sometimes it works but sometimes it doesn't. But at least it tries. AniTV strips all of that out in favor of a far blander "yeerks bad, humans good, we ignore race here" story.

There's this fallacy, where it's easier to criticize a failed attempt than it is a total lack of trying. In the Heights (2021) got smacked up, down, and sideways by critics and fans for its failure to include more dark-skinned characters; meanwhile A Quiet Place II (2021), Venom II (2021), Free Guy (2021), and Black Widow (2021) get no such critiques because they each include Exactly One Black Actor. Scholomance gets review-bombed for "fake" "forced" "diversity" (X) for featuring kids from all over the world, while Mortal Instruments gets a total lack of criticism for its cast having Exactly One Asian Guy (who is half-white).

I vividly recall a media professor ca. 2013 mansplaining to me that, actually, Orange is the New Black is sexist because it shows male characters having power over female ones, and there's no onscreen sex between the Black lesbians. Somehow he didn't feel the need to say this about Breaking Bad, Supernatural, Peaky Blinders, or any other series that went entire YEARS without passing the Bechdel test. No wonder TV shows have again embraced colorblind racism.

Chapters: 55/? Fandom: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill/Marco (Animorphs), Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill & Tobias (Animorphs), Marco & Tobias (Animorphs), Marco/Sergeant Santorelli  Additional Tags: Post-War, Hollywood Marco, Established Relationship, Long-Distance Relationship, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Mental Health Issues, Secret Relationship, Space Opera, Alien Culture, Alien Politics, Trans Characters, Recovery Series: Part 10 of Lies Agreed Upon Summary: