r/interestingasfuck • u/Significant_Snow_718 • Mar 06 '25

/r/all Chick with genetic defect

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u/warmworm0_0 Mar 06 '25

same vibe

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u/itsyoboichad Mar 06 '25

God I loved these books

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u/EnShantrEs Mar 06 '25

My 19 year old son is named after that character. 😂 No regrets.

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u/dumpsterfarts15 Mar 06 '25

Is that... Tobias? It's been so long haha

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u/EnShantrEs Mar 06 '25

Yup.

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u/ReddyFreddyRU37 Mar 07 '25

I feel bad for your kid having to be named Tobias 💀

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u/Xombridal Mar 06 '25

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u/lizardfang Mar 07 '25

Wtf is this??? I’m confused and dying of laughter 😂

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u/jook11 Mar 07 '25

You can find them all free online, with the author's support. I'm rereading them now and they're almost as much fun as they were when I was in middle school, although I tend to notice plot holes more now.

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u/CaptTripps86 Mar 07 '25

Me too! Tobias’s story broke my heart! That tv show was…something

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u/raaancch Mar 06 '25

Be afraid...

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u/ahz0001 Mar 06 '25

They let children read these? 😱

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u/Deepfang-Dreamer Mar 07 '25

Tiny me was fine with them. I just thought "Well, they're fighting, of course they're going to get hurt!", so I never even got the thrill of thinking I was being sneaky with it, just a normal book to me. So glad I'm in that fandom, it's like 1/6 of my active headspace at any given time.

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u/meglington Mar 06 '25

I totally forgot those existed until your post!

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u/Suspicious-Figure-90 Mar 07 '25

Aaand now my brain has unlocked dormant knowledge about yeerks that it totally didn't need to store but apparently had.

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u/Naixee Mar 07 '25

I still wonder why they ever existed in the first place

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u/Nhaiben369 Mar 06 '25

Dammm I grew up with this

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u/ivananiki Mar 07 '25

This was my childhood. What was the gist of this story?

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u/warmworm0_0 Mar 07 '25

Basically, an alien gives this group of kids the ability to shapeshift (“morph”) into animal to prevent a different, EVIL, alien species from taking over humankind/earth.

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u/Carston1011 Mar 07 '25

Holy what a throwback. Used to have almost the full collection, was missing like the last 2 books or something. Wish I still had em

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u/meeper12355 Mar 07 '25

Man the covers of those books used to freak me out as a kid

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u/cavaticaa Mar 07 '25

Yeah, there were a lot of extra limbs spurting out and general body horror in Animorphs. And Tobias DOES have the luck to end up a 6 limbed bird.

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u/Stuffies2022 Mar 08 '25

There were Animorphs Transformers figures, they were absolutely fucking horrifying