#craftingcaitlin

[mysilverylining]

Re: VM poster I didn't get one so I can't be totally sure but I have framed other movie posters before and Walmart has surprisingly sturdy options for a good price. They are sometimes labeled as poster frames. If you are anti Walmart there are also some good options at Target but you might have to buy online.

Thank you!  I’ll check them out this week.  Can’t wait to have it framed and to hang it on my wall!

[craftercaitlin]

NEW COUPON CODE!

Hello there Crafters!

This is just to inform everyone that I've set up a brand new coupon code for My Etsy Shop: Crafting Caitlin

Use the code TUMBLR and get free shipping on any order more than 5 dollars! This code is good until May, so you have plenty of time to pick out great gifts and products from my shop!

[commandersass]

Peter stared hard at the woman and hawk sitting in front him and crooked his eyebrow before asking, "So you guys are like... together together?"

When the girl nodded and stroked the wing of her partner, Peter finally just shrugged and offered a, "We've had stranger." Hell, he was half spider, so who was he to judge?

Part of one pairing + one AU for 3 sentences. Prompt me!

[commandersass]

fursasaida replied to your post: OMFG you like animorphs?!?!? i've never seen...

I. LOVED. ANIMORPHS. Every time I got my allowance I would go straight to the bookstore and spend ALL OF IT on Animorphs.

craftingcaitlin replied to your post: OMFG you like animorphs?!?!? i've never seen...

D’awww Animorphs. Our origin story.

jadesymb replied to your post: OMFG you like animorphs?!?!? i've never seen...

I LOVE ANIMORPHS. I OWN THEM ALL AND RE READ THEM….. I EVEN SHIP THEM……….

evilsafoot replied to your post: OMFG you like animorphs?!?!? i’ve never seen anyone else who even knows what it is! YAY!!

I love you guys. Best origin story. Hey, remember that time a bird was following us (kinda) and we thought it was Tobias? Also, Marco was awesome. And Cassie was an only child, not an aunt, stupid ghost writers.

Ok, it is official then: We are starting a secret society called Animorphs Anonymous and we shall forever remember Ax's adorableness and how much Jake/Cassie and Rachel/Tobias needed to be together forever.

Amen.

[commandersass]

OMFG you like animorphs?!?!? i've never seen anyone else who even knows what it is! YAY!!

LISTEN UP ANON IMMA TELL YOU A STORY

When I was little I used to be a little bit of an introvert (still am but really, who here isn't?) and didn't have a lot of friends and when we went to middle school I was separated from all my friends by department. Our school had a weird system where each grade separated their kids into like four different sections and unless you were taking an extra curricular you weren't going to see people in other sections. I was lucky (nerdy?) enough that I decided to pick up the cello as soon as I entered middle school. Now I love the cello, and I will always be super happy about the time I spent playing it, but as a 10/11 year old whose trying to learn music and an instrument at the same time as thirty other kids, cellos didn't get a terrible amount of attention so we had a lot of free time.

Now at this time Harry Potter didn't exist, and the latest and greatest craze in YA Literature was Animorphs. Literally it was brand new and I had managed to purchase or borrow every copy until then. It was reading these books in class (and I don't remember who first approached who but it's as they say history) that drew me and my future best friends together. Somebody saw the other reading, and the next thing we knew we were three girls who were giggling over the same group of teens.

And it only grew from there. Animorphs was my first source of fanfiction, my first literary crush, my first otp, the reason for my first sleepovers and my first feels (I can't even imagine 11-year old me going through a fandom the way we do today). But we used to have sleepovers where we talked about the books and how much one had a crush on Jake or what a pain Marco was or how badass Rachel was and would Tobias ever EVER get to be human for good again? Cinnamon bunzzzzzzzzaaaaaaaaah became an inside joke I still occassionally reference and I still get a little worked up over how poor the series ended (and I will go hipster over Animorphs, which I swear was picked up by the worst ghost writers in the very last and most crucial books in the series). But we talked and fangirled for hours and hours and hours and of course it progressed to other fandoms and of course we eventually found other friends and starting moving on with life but really isn't that was being a preteen/teen was about?

Our entire friendship was founded on the Animorphs book series and I still consider both of those girls of the most precious people in my life. Literally, Animorphs shaped who I am today.