“And In The End, The Love You Take Is Equal To The Love You Make.”

animorphs book 1: yikes! weird aliens are trying to take over the planet!

animorphs book 22: hi I’m a 13 year old teenage girl whose cousin of the same age uses me as an attack dog because he knows I have the ability to switch off my moral code for dirty work and I don’t know how to feel about it

animorphs book 22: I’m thinking about this because I just threatened another boy my age by telling him that if he crossed me and my friends I’d find a way to kill his parents. Then I had to resist the aching temptation to jam a fork through the side of his head

The Noir (2001) dub is pretty meh but the cast deserves credit for realizing how gay the series is and subsequently writing and voicing this scene to sound as much like a toxic lesbian breakup as possible

Not pictured in the center: Clarissa, Emily, and Victoria, mean girl squad

Jake: Of course, we absolutely cannot steal, so we’ll mail some of our hard-earned teen money to that beach t-shirt shop that we had to ... uh... pre-borrow clothing from.

Jake, one book later: Thank you for coming to my murder counsel. Today we will be plotting the horrible demise of a child our own age whom we drove to desperation by our alternating neglect and bullying. Cassie, take it away.

Crayak, enthralled, sharing a bowl of popcorn with the Ellimist: Wow, the morals on this kid are all over the map.

Ellimist, offering Milk Duds: I know, and you call your minion the ‘Wild Card’.

When you’re about to jump to conclusions but you think better of it

HERE THEY COME TO SNUFF THE ROOSTER

Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd except via the in-ceiling speakers of a truck-stop diner at 4am. The florescent lights buzz, the cracked vinyl seat creaks, the waitress pops her gum, and the highway traffic is just starting to pick up.

este’s best friend looking out the window as she drives past este’s house and sees her husbands new truck tires after she didn’t show up to olive garden on tuesday night for dinner and a glass of wine