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Yes!  A few I’ve recced before:

Animorphs: Facebook News Feed Edition by Ember Nickel.  This is hilarious and whacky and has some great commentary on Animorphs’ imperfect continuity.

Take Me Out by neinlives.  This one is just high-quality good fun.  It’s set in a postwar world where the characters get to be happy, which I always love.

Elfangor’s Folly by KimHoppy.  Probably my favorite long read in the Animorphs fandom, this is a full-series retelling of Elfangor sticking around to train the Animorphs that makes excellent use of subtly biased narration.

The Tocsin by tptigger.  It’s brilliant, wonderful, painful, beautiful Tom Berenson  content.  Need I say more?

The Agreement by From.The.Tower.  An “unseen scene” sort of story, this one picks up from Aftran’s point of view after #19 and grapples with a lot of the big ethical questions of Animorphs.

THE CLASS by Freak Apple.  One time, my boyfriend was like “why do you have a yeerk in a condom drawn on your window?”  This fic.  This fic is why I had a yeerk in a condom drawn on my window.  It’s the most brilliant stupidity ever written.

A few highly enjoyable crossovers:

The Hork-Bajir Job and Teach Me How to Say Goodbye by Poetry (@featherquillpen on Tumblr).  Both of these crossovers are extremely different in tone, format, content, and plot.  However, both accomplish exactly what I always want from a crossover, by providing awesome characterization for the canon team and brilliant commentary on the ways they’d function in a situation very different from canon.

The Archer with the Eyes of a Hawk by Lia.  Exactly what it says on the tin: it starts with the premise that Tobias is literally Hawkeye, in the MCU.  It goes from there.

My Little Pony: Morphing is Magic by Tricondon.  I admit I have not actually finished this one yet (nor have I finished My Little Pony) but I’ve really enjoyed what I’ve read so far.  I have no idea why MLP crosses over so very well with other fandoms, and by now I’ve learned not to question.

Is Jake Awake? by StellarStylus.  I was about to say “this is enjoyable pain” but really, that’s all of Animorphs.  So if you like Animorphs (probably a safe assumption) you should read this.

and high schoolers - sometimes mere months before being able to vote, before being poached into the military - will tell you things that ring absolutely true in scientific studies. they tell me: “this is only meant for 1 type of learner.” “I don’t feel that teacher/student ratios actually allow teachers to get to know their students.” “some teachers are only here for a paycheck, and we can tell you which ones.” “my mental health is a fucking joke to the administration and my actual physical safety is not guaranteed by my living situation” “i was horrifically bullied but we both were threatened with suspension, so now i’m still bullied, just without me being able to report it” “i was told i would fail, so why would i try?”

and yet nobody fucking listens! the admin says over and over - well, it has always been done this way, so it’s fine. it’s cool we wake kids up WAY too early for their natural patterns, don’t you know? and it’s horrible. because the mental health of students is treated as a natural sacrifice for the sake of convenience. 

So people are making different videos for you to use in uncomfortable situations!

Here’s one of the reasons I don’t buy the cynical interpretation that Ariel gives up her identity for a man.

This screencap comes from her introductory scene. She’s searching through a shipwreck for human artifacts–which is her passion–when suddenly she’s attacked by a shark.

While fleeing, she accidentally drops her bag full of artifacts right in the shark’s path. Without hesitating, she chooses her passion over her safety, risking her life for a dinglehopper.

The girl is an anthropologist who studies humans. That’s her passion, that’s how she spends her time…that’s her identity.

Sure, Eric is the catalyst that leads Ariel to changing her species and leaving her family–he certainly intensifies her feelings–but they’re feelings she already has, and they dictate most of her life.