Embarassing Animorphs Encounters

[telepathique]

What's there to be embarrassed of?
Animorphs is a really great book series, who cares what people think

I got into the series only a couple months ago (I read Goosebumps when I was a preteen/early teen).

I told my all of my friends that I started reading Animorphs and how amazing they are, that I really like Applegate's writing style, that the books crack me up and that I'm pretty much hooked. Some people didn't know how to react, but I didn't get ridiculed or anything like that. I'm not embarrassed and I know that anyone who would patronize me because of this is just a closed-minded conformist, regardless of their intellectual prowess or lack thereof

[Dameg]

You're right, Telepath ^^ Anifans shouldn't feel embarrassed of liking Animorphs.
Even when nobody around understand.

[Aluminator (Kit)]

Haha. I can go for that. Animorphs pride!

[sublime88stang]

I was one of the only kids in my school reading Animorphs. I got into them when they originally came out, I was in like 3rd grade. I'm 22 now and I had totally forgotten about the books for the past 9 years, then I saw this forum on one of those adds on facebook. I did a double take and decided to signed up.  I'm still shocked that theres an actual forum about the series I had loved so much in grade school. As a result im starting to Re-read the series, I have every book (except Visser), and a good amount of duplicates, as well as the T.V. shows on VHS.
Woot for my first post!

Is this in the wrong area btw? sry if it is.

[Aluminator (Kit)]

Anywhere is the right area if you love Animorphs

If you're looking to officially introduce yourself, though, might I recommend creating a thread in the http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php?board=7.0 board?

Welcome to RAF, sublime ^_^

[Stephquiem]

Today, my friend texted me and told me that she saw copies of #31 at Dollar General.

I drove 40 minutes out of my way--during a snow storm--to spend half an hour searching every inch of that store. For a book I have two copies of already. And I didn't find it. XD

[warren_bearclaw]

Awesome Steph!

We are having a fly problem in our kitchen right now, and we have no clue why. Well, we've also got this electric fly swatter.  To be honest, I love gettin' 'em and watching them spark on the electrified mesh. But today I felt odd about it. First, I swatted one on the table with just my hand. It laid there, unmoving, for like 45 seconds, and then it flew off... I'd thought it was dead. Apparently, I reasoned, it was Jake or someone in morph, and they were trying to play dead. Well, it worked. And later, when I was zapping the ones on the ceiling, I noticed that FIVE of them had landed on the light, which I couldn't hit since it was glass. They were strategizing....  Anywho, I got at least a dozen of 'em, but it made me feel bad, like I'd just killed someone's friend or something....

[vitovlad]

Probably telling my brother I tried to "aquire" our dog.

been there bro
dog, cat, fish, i even caught a seagul at the beach and tryed it. didnt work tho, i just got craped on

[TobiasMasonPark]

     My friends and I started reading the series in sixth grade. We each chose characters and pretended to be Animorphs.

     Yea, we made up missions; acted out missions that were already done in the series; recruited new Animorphs. I'd like to think that we came up with some pretty good ideas, but the rest of the kids in the school yard (first graders-eighth graders) just thought we were...off. Like we escaped from some sort of insitution or something I'm serious, our whole class thought we were weird; whispering to each other on bus rides to school trips, talking about which classmates were controllers.

     Our sixth grade teacher gave us a zero on an assignment, and we were sure that she was a high ranking controller

     Even now, I try to "acquire" my dog. And when I see someone acting "off" I think; YEERK! YEERK! YEERK!

     Oh, the wonderful world of the Animorphs

[KitsuneMarie]

     My friends and I started reading the series in sixth grade. We each chose characters and pretended to be Animorphs.

     Yea, we made up missions; acted out missions that were already done in the series; recruited new Animorphs. I'd like to think that we came up with some pretty good ideas, but the rest of the kids in the school yard (first graders-eighth graders) just thought we were...off. Like we escaped from some sort of insitution or something I'm serious, our whole class thought we were weird; whispering to each other on bus rides to school trips, talking about which classmates were controllers.

     Our sixth grade teacher gave us a zero on an assignment, and we were sure that she was a high ranking controller

You just described my childhood.

[TobiasMasonPark]

You just described my childhood.
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     I'm sure that every Animorph fan has gone through something similar Otherwise, we wouldn't be Animorph fans

[warren_bearclaw]

I never had any friends to play animorphs with.... *sniff*

[KitsuneMarie]

So true, TobiasMasonPark! I have to find a note my best friend and I passed back and forth during science class. We were convinced our 7th grade science teacher was Visser 2 and was named Temrash. If I can find it, I'll scan it and put it up... although she might have it, so it may have to wait until I see her over Christmas. We lived in daily fear that he would intercept a note during class--and drag us to the Yeerk pool!

[Terenia]

     My friends and I started reading the series in sixth grade. We each chose characters and pretended to be Animorphs.

     Yea, we made up missions; acted out missions that were already done in the series; recruited new Animorphs. I'd like to think that we came up with some pretty good ideas, but the rest of the kids in the school yard (first graders-eighth graders) just thought we were...off. Like we escaped from some sort of insitution or something I'm serious, our whole class thought we were weird; whispering to each other on bus rides to school trips, talking about which classmates were controllers.

     Our sixth grade teacher gave us a zero on an assignment, and we were sure that she was a high ranking controller

You just described my childhood.

And adulthood. >_>

[warren_bearclaw]

Oh right, just glaze over my poor-unfortunate-friendless-me post... That's alright. I have other friends to .... never mind.