Have You Ever Eaten An Icicle?

You know I was going to draw something to this effect but this happened to pop up on my dash and it was too perfect XD

Dear followers of mine:

Why don’t you talk to me?

What’s wrong?

Who is Eliza? How well do you get along with her?

Captions under the cut.

<…was often her only defense against her personal problems.><…it was often a good way to hide the pain.>

what are your morphs, if you have any? got a particular favorite?

My other morphs include the djabala, scorpion, white butterfly, donkey (long, long story), kestrel, and, of course, human.

((Mun’s note: definitely writing directly on the paper from now on, unless there are huge paragraphs for some reason. ...also, ignore that random faint Andalite in the second image. I was originally going to do a morph sequence but good gods Andalite morph sequences are hard to draw))

What if you turned rainbow colored?

[Korr: Without morphing? I should be very disturbed.Eliza, in the distance: Gay!Korr: I thought you were leaving.]

[A/N: oh look, colors]

<This reblog, that is.>

Reblog if you would date an Andalite. I am not an Andalite I am just asking for a friend. I have a mouth.

Do you take crossover asks?

[Depends what the crossover is for. If it’s something I’m interested in I may consider it, but the likelihood is right now that it’s not going to happen, because I’m taking a long time getting to my regular asks and I haven’t really gotten the blog style set yet. (Sorry about that, by the way, guys - I am working on the stuff in my inbox, I promise.) You can always ask, but don’t hold your breath, I guess, and don’t be too disappointed if I can’t or won’t do it, especially right now.

Thanks for asking though!]

Munday Meme (RP blogs)

[[ Send the face next to a question in my inbox to get the answer. If mun does not want to answer then mun will tell you so. ]]

⊂•⊃_⊂•⊃ - How closely related are mun and muse (main muse)?

 v( ‘.’ )v - How tall are you?

ლ(́◉◞౪◟◉‵ლ - How old are you?

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ - Which blogs do you admire the most?

^o^ - Chocolate or vanilla?

（ミ￣ー￣ミ）- What is your favorite insult if any?

(●´ω｀●) - Do you have any other blogs muse that you ship yours with? If so who?

(┛◉Д◉)┛彡┻━┻ - Have anons made you angry before? If so, how did you respond to that?

★~(◡﹏◕✿) - What gender do you categorize yourself as?

Ｏ(≧▽≦)Ｏ - What is your favorite music genre?

(⊙︿⊙✿) - Do you have a blog that is your senpai? If so which blog?

(づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ - How would you rate your own RP skills on a scale from 1 to 10?

 (⋆‿⋆) - What is your favorite food?

 (▰˘◡˘▰) - If your muse (main muse) was real, would you be friends with them?

ಠ益ಠ - Sexual preference?

Who has given you the best hugs? Do you like hugs? Rate hugs in general on a scale from one to ten.

The blurred word in the last piece of dialogue is “eldest.”

Have you ever been on a trampoline?

[Korr: Well, not in my natural form. (Hooves are horribly unsuited for bouncing.) But in my human morph, once.]

My only annoyance with her is some of her morph descriptions. Birds do not have backwards knees; what we think of as the “backwards knee” sometimes is actually the equivalent of the human heel. And horses and other unguligrades (hooved animals) don’t have four knees. The “knee” of the front leg is the equivalent of the human wrist, or the carpus. I mean, really, if you’re going to write about humans turning into animals, do your research on animal anatomy

Can we take a moment to appreciate the fact that K.A. Applegate might be the only sci-fi writer EVER who both (a) condemns the mass killing of aliens even if they are attacking the earth AND (b) shows why it’s sort of necessary in the situation?

It seems like too many other sci-fi stories go the route of Avengers or Doctor Who (S1) or Independence Day where a protagonist wiping out thousands of aliens is portrayed as uncomplicated heroism and we all celebrate at the end. Either that or they go the route of Avatar the Last Airbender (S3) or Buffy the Vampire Slayer (S5) where the characters that don’t want to engage in violence don’t have to get their hands dirty because a deus ex machina comes along and prevents that from having to happen.  In both cases doing the right thing is also a matter of doing the easy thing.

Applegate, by contrast, doesn’t let her characters get away with an uncomplicated happy ending.  She doesn’t say “they were aliens so it’s okay to kill them,” and she doesn’t offer them a third way out of their impossible choice.  She gets into the hell that is war and doesn’t use the sci-fi genre to let her gloss over the dirty details.