reading animorphs sequentially instead of in whatever random order you can get your hands on them is such a trip because you can see these kids getting progressively better at war and worse at being happy, you can see how traumatic events from one book echo into the next ones but never quite get dealt with because these kids have no real way to take care of their mental health, you can see their relationships deepening but simultaneously gaining friction and faultlines as they learn just how far they’d go for each other but also how far they’d go in general…
obviously this series was meant to be episodic in nature, and i actually think that might be the better way to first encounter it, but the arc of the series in publication order is extremely well-crafted
I’ve never read Animorphs sequentially, but I might have to try now that you mention it.
Star Trek TOS: what if the captain was a slut who got in fights all the time and did whatever the hell he wanted and it all sort of worked out anyway
TNG: what if the captain drank tea and gave speeches instead
DS9: what if the captain was a single father and religious figure trying to hold onto his morals in the face of an existential threat
Voyager: what if the captain was trying to get her unruly scout troop back home and also she had a GUN
Enterprise: what if the captain was a massive dweeb
Kelvin timeline: what if the first guy was actually a horny frat boy
Disco: what if the captain was a cryptofascist? no wait, what if he was just sooooooo handsome, like so mind-meltingly handsome that is just feels unfair? wait, what if he was a deer? no actually what if she did whatever the hell she wanted, but also felt emotions about it?
Picard: what if the captain was a secondary character driven into solitude by his PTSD, and then we suddenly replaced him with some dipshit from Chicago
Lower Decks: what if the captain was your well-meaning perfectionist mother
Prodigy: what if the captain was a purple teenager
When I was a teen, I went to a Christian youth group for a while. I was obsessed with musicals, particularly Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats. One day, one of the youth group leaders told me that it seemed I loved Cats the musical more than god, and urged me to give it up. Anyway, I decided after our conversation that I really did love musicals more than god, and I never went to church again. So that’s the story of how Cats made me forsake Jesus and turned me into an atheist.
We found it, folks. The one good thing Andrew Lloyd Webber did.
saw iv (11-20-2006 version, eric matthews as protagonist draft)
saw v (3-20-2008 double blue draft)
saw vi (04-02-2009 double yellow draft)
and the following books:
Horror Film: A Critical Introduction by Murray Leeder (PDF)
Screenplay: Revised Edition by Syd Field (ePUB)
i’ll make a more permanent post for this on my blog in the near future when i’m not mad as hell about wasting all that time making a carrd for this stuff. the drive itself will be updated, hopefully i’ll remember to update this post/the eventual permalink from my blog as well.
(update august 1 2023)
the above link for my horror studies gdrive still works!!! in the time since this post was made, i was able to scrounge together all of the publicly available screenplays for every saw movie except jigsaw and spiral 😄👍🏻
the non-fiction section of this drive has also been greatly expanded and organized!! it currently contains the following broad categories, with 19 bookspertaining directly to horror studies and an additional 10 non-horror film/cultural study books(most of these pertaining to feminist or queer cultural studies).
i collect and add to this drive for fun and to make researching horror and horror-adjacent things easier for myself and others, so i would love if other people found this helpful as well 😄
I know everyone says it’s best to just stick to “said” as a dialogue tag bc it disappears and that’s true and I mostly do but I want to take a moment for my all-time favorite dialogue tag, “lied.” Absolutely nothing hits like “‘I’m here to help,’ he lied.” NOTHING.
