Have You Seen My Beautiful Girl?

bogleech:

rjalker:

chansaw:

anyways read animorphs all 54 books are available online for free with the authors blessing

I’d like to add this on, to make things easier for everyone, since the books aren’t…actually in the correct order if you just read them in chronological order.

https://rjalker.tumblr.com/post/178286441229/all-the-animorphs-books-in-the-proper-order

It’s a link to a masterpost of mine with all of the books in their proper order, using the site above, so that you don’t have to play a guessing game with which books you should be reading when.

Please don’t take the words “read animorphs” lightly, I experienced these books at nearly thirty years old and I am still shaken by some of the body horror, vividly accurate representations of psychological trauma and at least a dozen explorations into the terror of genocide.

And I run what is presently the internet’s largest horror-writing contest

allisondraste:

Alistair talks about how he is a “Templar” in a compulsive kind of way, as if he feels the need to apologize for himself in advance. It’s kind of a disclaimer “Oh by the way I have Templar abilities…”

I like to think it’s in part because he acknowledges some of the biases he automatically has from his years of conditioning, and he’s not particularly thrilled that he has them. In fact, in the conversation where he asks you how you feel about different party members, he says something about Morrigan being an apostate, and you have the option to say “Hey your Templar training is showing.” To which he answers something to the effect of “Hah, you’re right. My bad.”

Alistair very openly and bluntly expresses his disagreement with the Chantry as well as the Templar Order, and his failure to understand why anyone would want to serve in a position that mandated killing young mages who fail their Harrowing.

Alistair knows that his presence can bother mages and make them uncomfortable. He states it when you first meet him and he’s talking the Grumpy Mage. He says it again when you arrive at Lake Calenhad with him in tow, and he has a banter with Wynne about it.

He recognizes the power that Templars hold. He asks Wynne how she feels about that, and she has to explain to him that he’s not actually and never has been a Templar, and even aside from that, he is a good person who wouldn’t simply kill her for being a mage.

Alistair is incredibly conscientious and self-aware and I’m not sure why I typed this up. I just really appreciate how we get to watch him struggle with his own privilege and biases, how he checks them, and how he attempts to do better.

I think that’s really cool, and one of the many reasons why I love him.