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call me Azalea. I don't share my age because basic internet safety. my pronouns are she/her and I am aroace. I'm Chinese American but am absolute, utter dogshit at speaking Chinese.
blog title is a quote from Animorphs #30, The Reunion, chapter 16. I think about it every waking moment. ask page title is a reference to In An Absent Dream (Wayward Children #4), in which the actual First Rule is ask for nothing.
DNIs are useless so I don't have one, but I will block you if you're a bigot. if you vaguely annoy me I might block you. apologies!
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things I am going to post about: whatever I want.
but more specifically: Dimension 20, Animorphs, and Wayward Children. also Hatchetfield, to a lesser extent. I love Hadestown but I don't post about it often.
my blog is primarily reblogs but I'll occasionally reread Animorphs and go on a slightly incomprehensible posting spree. will always and forever be Adaine Abernant's #1 fan.
my Rachel (Animorphs) webweave is here, and the first and second drafts of my Marco (Animorphs) webweave are here and here. Cassie webweave is currently in progress.
my ao3 is here. am attempting to finish here comes a killer whale to sing you to sleep.
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I have a largely incomprehensible (even to me) and perpetually in-development What If The Characters Of Fantasy High Went Through The Plot Of Animorphs, and my tag for it is #fh/animorphs lovechild from my brain. I cannot promise consistency in any posts because it is always changing. please send me asks about this.
things I have decided about this au:
literally just their battle morphs.
fabian is a lioness, riz gets permanently turned into a singapura cat, gorgug is a moose, adaine is a badger, fig is a coywolf, and kristen is kristen. kristen is an alien with a razor blade for a tail in this au.
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azalea. hi. i finished wayward children. do you have Thoughts on 6-11 👀
i absolutely have thoughts on 6-11. under the cut because rambling
trying to go in chronological order here i love regan. intersex rep! also her 'friendship' with laurel is just so... it hurts to read in a good way. conversely her friendship with chicory is beautiful. i love that there is no hooflands-ruler of the hooflands, and maybe there's never been, just door children hiding behind a curtain for eons upon eons. i always love when they stay in their worlds for years before returning, it makes everything seem so much worse for everyone involved. (<- stares at katherine lundy. god i love katherine lundy.)
and in where the drowned girls go we see a regan that is just beaten down and defeated and its so,,, just really hammers home how evil the whitethorn institute is. also cora being haunted by the trench?? amazing. the moors haunt this series. engineering a breakout? i knew cora was a badass we love to see it. GREAT sumi content in this book also, i <3 sumi so much. her plot armor is so very,,,, its the charm of a character who is so completely confident and self assured. sumi's going to go home she can do whatever she wants in the meantime.
antsy's book was so creepy. seanan mcguire does really well with building up a tense and awful atmosphere /pos. love the reveal of the doors having a cost and the cycle of the store where lost things go. and then immediately following with mislaid in parts half-known where antsy chooses to go back with full knowledge of the consequence... also love seeing references to other worlds we're familiar with. steph and her dinosaurs and seeing prism for the first time (kade's goblins miss him!!! he could be a prince if he wanted!!!) and also antsy having seen jack & jill in the moors.... i love any mention of the moors.
NADYA'S BOOK!!!!! god her adoptive mother sucks. and its another one where she spent years growing up and having a life only to be a child again. she finally got to return to belyyreka but at what cost? she is not what her loved ones remember her to be. what if they've aged and died in the years since she fell back to earth? ALSO the worldbuilding of different weights of water and them all being beneath a lake... is it nadya who started the classification of water-worlds as lakes? she's been at the school for years and years and cora specifically mentions her trenches were falsely called a Lake.
eleven!!!!!!!!!!! nancy finally returns after fucking off for like nine books <3. i loveeeeee statue nancy's pov and honoring her friends with her poses??? ahsfjsdghj shes so caring! she loves life! lord of the dead is kind of an asshole tbh but the lady of the dead is awesome. loved sumi in this book also. then again sumi's generally awesome in every book. KATHERINE LUNDY STRIKES AGAIN! i love lundy. "tell the archivist and moon that i've paid fair value and i'm going to be born in the right world this time, i'm going to pay my debts" (paraphrased, badly) LUNDY! jill making a reappearance just to fuck shit up again its harder to like her every day <3 but also. Love her. at least jack didn't have to come deal with her fuckups this time (sisters of all time. btw.)
this could be me misunderstanding but does nancy return to earth at the end of eleven?? how many years has she spent with the dead at that point?
also! i never get tired of learning more and more of the worlds they go to. the moth world......... yuemingyuan.... <- also we love seeing worlds with non english names. yuemingyuan & belyyreka are cool as hell. also the constant integration of side characters into main charaacters as the world expands as a reminder that everyone at the school was the main character of an adventure and they're all just trying to go back. everyone's badass and cool even if some of them suck
i kind of really want to know seraphina's story... her world sounds like it sucked but she wants to go back? she's such a terrible mean person i want to know how her mind works. same goes for angela. like their friend got murdered and they couldn't go on a quest to resurrect her.
christopher being amazing as always. love the skeleton flute being somehow useful in every situation. There Are Always Dead Things. also also imagine being so in love that the girl whose power is literally Everyone Loves Me can't persuade you to do shit. skeleton girl has a great future husband. (might just be because he finds flesh a turn off, though).
kade basically running the school / dealing with making a place for himself? love it. cora getting to go home!!!!!!!! also sumi ageing herself to make up for the year she was dead. also also being dead for a YEAR? poor christopher and kade and company. loved eleanor wresting back some control in #11 and finally addressing they've been breaking the No Quests rule for like eight books (even if its just her saying Go Ahead Whatever).
have more thoughts but cannot articulate them atm. unreasonably excited for sumi's book.
Ozempic scares the shit out of me. You're telling me there's a drug that takes away both the craving side of hunger and targets the brain's rewards center for eating. You're telling me it takes the joy out of eating and it turns you into a skeleton. Why did we turn The Curse of the Black Pearl into a drug. What the fuck.
I actually want to thank the diabetics coming on this post like "actually it genuinely is a great treatment for diabetes and it hasn't affected my mood or my enjoyment of food. The real issue is it's getting abused as a weight loss drug which also makes it scarce and more expensive for those who can genuinely benefit from it." Kind of reminds me of the time my brother got permission from our family psychiatrist to try my ADHD medication and his reaction to it was "what the fuck are you on. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ON. WHY DO I FEEL LIKE CRYING. YOU'RE ON THIS EVERY DAY!?!"
Body chemistry! It makes a big difference in how your body processes a drug! What can be genuinely helpful for some folks is The Curse of the Black Pearl for others!
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we're all obsessed with material conditions until a trans guy exists and then what really matters is his male soul and the body it might hypothetically have in any number of situations that are not reality and have no bearing on it. "if trans men were cis they'd be cis men" "if trans men were cis they'd be cis women" it literally does not matter because we're not fucking cis
If your system doesn't account for the fact that Parents Are Going To Be Abusive/Neglectful/Insufficient then it objectively sucks I'm sorry I don't make the rules
Monitored bank accounts for those under 18. Requiring parental consent for medical procedures. Parental controls on personal devices. "We won't teach this at school because parents are supposed to address it at home." Anything that puts all of the child's power onto the parents' hand, anything that assumes parents are going to inherently do enough of a good job no one else needs to interfer, every single one of these IS going to be used by controlling, neglectful or unprepared parents and already are, and if the system did not account for that very real, tangible, dangerous tendency, then it's not worth fucking anything. You shouldn't make things "for the youth"/with children in mind if you are going to overlook this painfully common aspect of their lives u_u
we might also ask: why iranian artefacts for the premiere of a film adaptation of a greek epic? & the obvious answer is because well we respect greek cultural heritage more than iranian + the greeks are better able to protect their material culture from looters than iran, currently being bombed by the us (cf. the looting of iraq's material culture during the american occupation)
hi. i love you regan lewis. regan is so fucking cool. regan Destiny Isn’t Real lewis. regan I’m Not The Chosen One lewis. and, most recently, regan I Won’t Lie To Everyone I Care About Just Because You Want My Story To Have A Different Shape lewis. i assumed she’d be in this book after i finished #6 but not here of all places. i’m totally here for this though.
just reached part three. sumi is brilliant regan is awesome cora is badass. everything is as it should be. this is how you know you’re in the right timeline
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Image one: Acting like anti blackness doesn't exist outside of America is disingenuous as hell lol antiblackness is why you can easily conflate black ppl with their oppressors and dismiss any claim that we don't actually support our oppressors as "ethno narcissism" or whatever bullshit lol
Image two: You will find oppressed ppl aiding their oppressors in every single oppressed nation. Yall are unserious
Image three: You know how disingenuous you gotta be to be in a third world country experiencing American imperialism and you spend any time of your day trying to argue that actually black ppl are also imperialists. As if the American anti imperialist movement isn't almost exclusively us.
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i wish we were able to talk about women's rights without someone mentioning how much they do or don't want to have sex with them. i don't care if you're a lesbian Stop finding worth in women purely from their perceived attractiveness
"I think women should not be expected to shave for societal respect / to avoid discrimination" "yeah🤤 i love bush" ok well that's not what we're talking about is it.
i hate how many posts about trans women deserving respect always devolve into "I love girldick" or "trans rights but I don't want to date a trans person" because that's entirely unrelated to the topic at hand. you should not respond to feminism with "YESSS I loveeee you because I see you as nothing but a sex object" you people sound like other men I get stuck talking with that end up saying "free the nipple so I can see boobies in public" and thinking they're feminists. why can't we just respect women regardless of your attraction to them or not. why does it need to be brought up in every conversation regarding their rights
fell back asleep and had a dream that i was introduced to a businesswoman named "rolex cortado" woke with a start because i was so afraid of forgetting the name rolex cortado. she had a fuckass bob
the obsession with avoiding spoilers (to an UNREASONABLE extent) pisses me off so much. if somethings been out for years you Cannot be complaining about spoilers
I get in theory why people complain about het ships or whatever, I get wanting to watch queer media I really do, but I guess where y’all lose me is like. I saw some asshole on a post about Sinners complaining it was “hetslop”—this person was specifically doing so while also claiming Remmick was a queer character and thus they were justified in caring more about him than the Black protagonists. which is a whole other disgusting can of worms that has been well addressed by others at this point. but even in the absence of that part of the argument, like, no, i actually don’t think that a hunger for queer stories is an especially good excuse to deride and dismiss a piece of landmark Black filmmaking, especially as a non-Black person. I have a post that’s been going around encouraging folks to engage with more Native stories and characters, and I had someone come onto that post saying in the tags that they’d need these stories to be queer in order to care. and I just think that, you know, sucks! like obviously as a queer Native I also want to see more of those stories too. but idk how else to put it other than to say that Black people and people of color shouldn’t have to be like you in order for you to care about our narratives and experiences. and I think some of y’all are using this disdain for heterosexuality as a cover for your unexamined racial biases. it’s not okay to be racist to people just because those people happen to be straight, and you continue to be white before you are queer.
okay. wayward children #12 comes out on january 12. my birthday is at the tail end of december. could i potentially be able to get my hands on it by asking for it as a birthday gift.
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Me meeting a stranger at a party: yeah and that 14 year-old girl has to do neurosurgery on her alien friend because otherwise he's dead, it's not even the only thing they deal with at that moment either