Part of it is Andalites already have ideal communication tech built into their brains and they aren't aware it's tech
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Plutoburns and
so they're an entire species of overprivileged dudes who think their experience is default
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Replying to @NoraReed @Plutoburns and
Yeah I mean think about it, they think of being "stuck" in a morph as a hazard of morphing and why you should almost never use it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NoraReed and
it was for the animorphs cause they didn't have access to a cube for a chunck of the story and needed to be able to go back to default.
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Replying to @Plutoburns @arthur_affect and
Yeah but it was also ideological for the Andalusians... Likely a retcon but still
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Plutoburns and
Yeah it's ideological in the bad way though. The lesson they learned was "We should've let the Yeerks stay that way"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
"Giving species the power to fundamentally change themselves is Bad, bc Nature"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
"After all Nature made us the best species so it knows what it's doing"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Real talk the ultimate point of Animorphs to me was bioliberalism/transhumanism
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Nature does in fact make mistakes, and saddle us sentient creatures with biology we aren't suited for and shouldn't be stuck with
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It's a very pro-trans narrative even though that doesn't actually come up
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
The Andalites allow untold suffering bc of their biocinservatism that "feels right" at first bc we are generally bio conservative
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
But the books subvert the hell out of that over time with example after example of sentience showing up where it wasn't "supposed" to
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