Caro || Issue 1

A few weeks ago I logged onto tumblr (who
am I kidding, I just typed ‘t’ into my address
bar, I don’t log out and Chrome already knows
to take me directly to my dashboard). I
scrolled past the styling of my peers, rants
about when a post from fyanimorphs.tumblr.com
caught my attention: Animorphs had been added
to Netflix.
Animorphs was originally a book series
written by K.A. Applegate and ghostwritten by
several others for the Scholastic Reading
Club. The novel series was about four teenagers and an alien
from the Andalite homeworld fighting an invasion of other slug
-like aliens called Yeerks, who invaded humans brains with the
plan to take over the planet. The teens (Jake, Marco, Rachel,
Cassie, and Tobias) encounter the crashed ship of the Andalite
prince, Elfangor. Elfangor gives the teens the ability acquire
the dna o an living being and morph into it before he is captured
and eaten by Visser 3, the only Yeerk to take over an
Andalite body and therefore the only Yeerk with morphing capbilites
like the Andalites. The young adolescent Andalite— Aximili
Esgarrouth Isthill followed his brother Elfangor to
Earth. Ax is found by the teens and joins the them in their
efforts at guerilla warfare against the Yeerk invasion.
I regularly gathered my pennies, nickel,
dimes, and quarters to buy the Animorphs
books and checked out the ones I couldn’t
buy from the school library. For a good portion
of the students in my fourth and fifth
grade class, Animorphs and any memorabilia
associated with it was hot shit. Reminiscing
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