Tune in tomorrow when we get started on our next book - Visser, DUN DUN DUUUUUN!

Reminder that since Visser's a double-sized book, we're going to be reading it for a double length of time, so your midbook check in will be going up next Fri/Sat instead of Wednesday (and corresponding adjustments thereafter)

(Given that it's Thanksgiving in the US, it's probably good that we hit a double this week)

So, we've had our first major family/lifestyle change in this book. Rachel's dad moved away, but her parents were already divorced. Tobias lost his family immediately, and Cassie and Jake's parents are solid and steady couples. The war is a huge problem for the kids, but this is the first time anything has really rocked their world independently of it

And given that phone call Marco gets, it's probably not going to remain stable for very long

This time, let's ask a different sort of question. It's not at all uncommon for people's parents to start dating and remarrying after a spouse dies or the couple divorces; guarantee there's a few in our community here

So, if it happened to you, what was it like for you? How did you handle it? Was it a relief to have your parent find a new partner, or did you resent them?

We'll be back tomorrow to get started on Visser!

unrelated but

there are so many animorphs fics with people who are/were controllers who are like actually this is great and it's just

i dunno

IT'S A KINDA WEIRD TREND I FEEL LIKE

since for the most part yeerks are kind of treated as like, backseat buddies or partners who don't really have control like you're still you but with company

which... no.......

...that... is... not what it is, mostly......

yeeeeeeeah

there was one about this voluntary controller who got in because of dealing with addiction and it was like [my yeerk] would have stopped me if i ever tried to get some which is why i didn't

and i'm here like

"that. that's. that's not how it works though."

like even if you have a Good Yeerk who is taking co-command it's down to like

they're in charge and you're offering input on what you want your body to do now

I mean. A few will cohabitate. A few. And that's all

yeah but it's like even more than that like the implication seems always to be that the human is still in charge

and even with that few that's really not the case

The ones in the YPM I could see, Tidwell was operating in tandem with his yeerk, but that.. is few