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Just a Keyleth straight out of my comfort zone. Did you happen to know that you can commission me? I'd love it if you commissioned me. Link in my bio.

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Animorphs really has a way to turn every scifi trope on its head. "Why do alien invasions always start in America?" Actually the body snatchers first landed in a Middle Eastern farming community where they kidnapped the first guy they saw, read his mind, and concluded that, since he was terrified of the US soldiers who had brutally destroyed everything he knew and loved, the US would be the ideal place to center their invasion. This is revealed in the spin-off "Visser" which is an excellent stand-alone book that can be read without any prior knowledge of Animorphs. And you can read it for free and with the author's blessing right here:

The reviews are in!

okay if we're gonna talk about animorphs turning kinda racist alien invasion tropes upside down, i HAVE to share the 'aliens built the pyramids' bait-and-switch. from a scene in which the kids talk to an alien android:

“So you all pass as humans?” I asked Erek. 
He nodded. “Yes. We live as humans. We play the role of children and then grow older, and eventually our hologram is allowed to “die” and we start again as children.”
“How long has this been going on?” Cassie asked. 
Erek smiled warmly. “I helped to build the great pyramid.” 
“You designed the pyramids?” 
“No, no, of course not. We have never interfered in human affairs. I was a slave. I helped to quarry the stone.

--book 10: the android (marco POV)

like, that's just fucking hilarious. yeah aliens were there but they just carried rocks, the design part was 100% the ancient african civilization.

It should also get props for having an alien join the human heroes early on in the traditional Someone To Explain The Context And Alien Tech role... except he's a teenager who didn't pay attention in school because he was thinking about girls and sports. Like, yeah, he can hack computers and has a vague understanding of how the alien spaceships work, sort of, but just as often the kids will ask "hey Ax what's the deal with this weird physics portal thing" and he'll be like "well the thing is there was a really cute girl sitting in front of me in class that day. So I have no idea."

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