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There's an andalite that perma-morphs into a taxxon and he winds up joining the Taxxon resistance.

They're hungry, and they will cannabalize, but they aren't evil.

Ancient even. Like one and a half years older than me.

Congratulations :P

Well, I suppose the whole mind-controlling parasite trope isn't anything new, but the basic premise of the book -said parasite doesn't wanna be evil anymore/ relates with its host- totally rips off both fandoms...

I hereby gift you with a sack of pebbles, your own customised sling to throw them with, and a basket of Bleeprin-berries from my Bleeprin-berry bush. Tied to the handle of the basket is a biiig balloon reading "Happy 25th Birthday!"

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Down in the Archives...

A rather large number of people arrived, bearing gifts ranging from chocolate to high-grade explosives and many other useful and amusing items. Neshomeh found herself hugged, glomped and generally congratulated before the group dispersed to give her some breathing room.

And a Cake made up of Memes.

It's a haro from Gundam 00, they make great robotic pets. They are like Gundam's answer to R2-D2 minus the repairing stuff.

Does morphing even have degrees of power? How can one morpher be more "powerful" than another? There are degrees of skill, certainly, but that's just how quickly and easily you can morph. And being able to hold half-morphs for a few seconds, etc. Would someone please explain how morphers can be "powerful"? I really don't want to read that bad excuse for a fic to find out...

Your Mileage May Vary. Also, the plot elements ripped off were Older than Stargate and Animorphs. That said, I'm not buying that book.

As for Twilight, I read the first few chapters. I found Bella to be a whiny, ungreatful bitch, but all in all, it wasn't that bad (except for Edward).

Congratulations! :D Have a llama. It spits. Fire. At Sues.

Admittedly, I didn't finish the series, but what the crap is an Andilight? -has a mental image of a centaur-thing with a giant lightbulb for a head-

You have a point. My definition of trolls appears to be a bit off; I think of trolls as not particularly malicious, more practical-jokers. Extremely irritating practical jokers. The kind of practical jokers who throw your shoes over telephone wires...

Anyway, I don't see trolls are particularly evil, though they're certainly annoying--more of "Hey, will this actually get /published/? Holy crap, it did! And people /like/ it!"

Yup. At around 9:00 tonight, I will officially be a quarter of a century old. How about that?

Agent!Neshomeh is hosting a party down in the Archives. Everyone is welcome, but no fire allowed. No, not even for Flaming Denethors. Otherwise, BYOB. Cake, ice cream, and cookies of the Convenient variety will be provided.

... Woo!

~Neshomeh

But yeah. If you want "dark" anything, then there's enough about Animorphs that's already "dark". You don't have to go and turn morphing into something it wasn't meant to be. Morphing was always the *best* part of it for all of them.

You have a point about the romance being obvious, but it was also quite cute, and for heaven's sake Katsa's a child soldier. She gets a little angst. I appreciated the idea of the "Graces" varying so much in importance (and what about the weather-discerning Grace from that captain, or the mind-reading young girl who had a cameo near the beginning? Or all the people mentioned in assorted armies who had various warlike Graces? They were pretty well distributed). I also thought the "survival" thing was decently set up, if not perfectly, and as for your "no-wait-he-was-really-a-pedophile" thing, that's a misreading of it. The impression I got was "no-wait-he-was-a-jerk-and-Katsa-was-a-panicking-kid-who-wasn't-thinking." He wasn't really a threat to her, but she was too young to have that kind of perspective.

Anyway, that's my two cents.

Admittedly, the author seemed unsure how to categorize it, but they do mention it as a parody in the author notes.

There was never a 'dark side' aspect of morphing dammit. The downside was that you just might get stuck as an animal!

Even the description has problems! It's spelled "Andalite," you, you- *incomprehensible noise* ...I admit the last book stank, but that's no excuse to mess around with one of my favorite childhood series like this.

Also, "recently edited." What. You couldn't even edit out the glaring error in the description?

The Talent,, My story » by Go-ruden Kiba reviews
There's a new Animorph: will she prove to be more powerful then any Andilight? Will she become too powerful? Will she be strong enough and use her abilities wisely enough to defeat Visser Three? recently edited.
Animorphs - Rated: M - English - Adventure/Angst - Chapters: 5 - Words: 15,858 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 6-12-06 - Published: 6-3-05 - Complete

I don't think it's meant to be a parody, just a different look at the whole thing.

But hey, that's juts how I see it...

Ripping off Animorphs... that just takes the cake. That series was part of my childhood, damnit!

*foams at mouth and looks for Sue on which to displace anger*

Seems to me like the Sue has her author fooled, too. The author thinks s/he's getting to spend time with his/her favorite canon, or getting to "fix" the canon so it's "better"; but the Sue only takes advantage of the author's ability to create and change worlds to insert herself into a canon.

That would explain why the PPC doesn't just kill Suethors; they're only guilty of gullibility and inexperience, not malevolent intent.

If the Sue is a natural phenomenon, a creature that's evolved to take advantage of plot holes, it makes sense that she'd be able to influence authors. Authors, after all, can create those plot holes; and bad authors are most vulnerable because they create a whole lot of plot holes and don't close them; and Sues can manipulate plot holes.

If a Sue latches onto a plot hole in a new canon, she often turned into a Canon Sue, incorporated into the canon itself.

Not to mention it seems to rip off the idea of the Tok'ra from Stargate SG-1 and the Yeerk Peace Movement from Animorphs...

Of course the ACMSES has a different definition of Sue than the PPC, but I wanted to contribute.

The Mary Sue wants to fix something. The idea is that the Sue will do anything, anything at all, to ensure that the author's ideal of a perfect version of the fandom is achieved. Usually, the ACMSES just leaves them alone and groans (unless they get out of the author's control, in which we step in).

A Sue exists to "fill the hole" in the author's perception or heart.

From what a friend has told me about the book, The Host is equally as Mary-Sueish and plotless.

...what you can attribute to laziness.

If Meyer has written better stuff, it's more believable that Twilight was more of a fetish piece for her, written with less thought put into it.

Trollers have a specific target in mind: in a forum, the target is the entire community. Well, for a book that wound up getting hugely popular that simply can't be the case. So who is left to be the target? Intellectuals?

When you get down to writing something with the sole intention of pissing off a specific group of people, I don't think it's a troll that did it - I think it's an artist.