A Strange, Strange Occurrence

[sylverlining.livejournal.com]

Bizarre-ass story commence! 

So my grandparents are in town and staying with us. I am not very happy about this, as they are... frankly, awful, awful people who disapprove of me and my immediate family in nearly every way (particularly religiously - yay, we're all heathens, gonna go to hell! But they're fine with eating our food!), are manipulative, critical, EXTREMELY negative, and very, VERY nosy. My grandmother in particular will start digging through our stuff and snooping through shit WHILE WE'RE IN THE ROOM.

And yesterday she did this in mine. Just randomly comes in and starts pulling stuff out of my bookshelves, looking in my closet for God knows what, and I just kind of sit there and pretend she isn't there, because if you say the SLIGHTEST word of "excuse me, but could you pretty-please not dig through my stuff?" - she starts to cry. Rather, FAKE-CRY. :| It's the most God-awful thing in the world and I didn't feel like dealing with it.

Plus, I have nothing to hide. I threw out my drug stash before they got here. (...KIDDING. xD)

I HAVE A RELEVANT POINT HERE, I PROMISE! D:

Anyway! 

She picks up my copy of The Hork-Bajir Chronicles, and starts messing with it, glaring at the cover and going "THE... HORK... BAY-JERR... CHRONICLES?"

And I'm anticipating some tirade about "WHY ARE YOU READING ABOUT BLADED DRAGON DEMONS AND EVIL SATANIC CENTAURS, YOU DEVIL-CHILD?!", so I just say very briefly "yeah, it's just a book I like." Hoping she'll just... go away. MAYBE IF I HOLD VERY, VERY STILL, SHE WON'T SEE ME AND SHE'LL GO AWAY.

She doesn't. Instead... she kind of creeps across the room to me and gives this weird glance around the room like someone might hear. Then she leans in and goes in this weird conspiratorial tone, like she's telling me a BIG SECRET...

"You know... I've read some of these... chronicles." With the WEIRDEST emphasis on the last word.

And I'm like, "Oh! Uh... did you like them?" because I cannot quite believe what I am hearing. My grandmother has not read the Hork-Bajir Chronicles. No she has not. She didn't even know how to say 'Hork-Bajir' and is clearly seeing this book for the first time in her life. So why in the world is she telling me this?

She just nods, very... SAGELY, I guess, like - again - that she knows a big secret she's letting me in on, or something... and goes "Yes. The Chronicles." 
And then she puts the book down... and just sort of wanders out of the room. 

D:

And I'm just kind of going... what... in the WORLD... just happened?

MY GRANDMOTHER, AS FAR AS I KNOW, IS NOT SENILE. D: She is lucid and has her faculties, and aside from being quite possibly Nosy, Critical Evil Incarnate, is a perfectly normal 85-year-old. Who I am CERTAIN has never so much as heard of Animorphs, much less read anything of it. 

So... WHAT? D: There are a few possibilities here:

1) My grandmother has finally really freakin' lost it. 
2) She's totally messing with me and having a bizarre kind of laugh. (...this is actually LIKELY. My family really is this messed-up.)
3) SHE REALLY HAS READ THE HORK-BAJIR CHRONICLES. 0_0
4) She's trying to give me some SECRET MESSAGE, because it sure as HELL seemed like "CHRONICLES" was code for something, but frick if I know WHAT.

I am so confused.
But now I have to find out about this. I just have to. THE CHRONICLES, YOU GUYS, THE CHRONICLES.

...I may report back if more weirdness is discovered.
 

Comments

[caterfree10.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that's. Special. Yeah.

See, there are times when I really want at least one of my grandparents alive so I can ask them stories about their lives during various historical events (WW2 for example since I know at least my paternal grandparents were in the army in different capacities). Then I read things like this and am terrified that my grandparents might've been like this with my interests had they lived past my 11th birthday. XP _{Or was it 12? fuck, I don't even remember how old I was when Pokemon Crystal came out. ~_~ /tangent}

STILL. I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO THE CONTINUATION OF THIS. THIS. SPECIAL-NESS. YES. /skitters off

[sylverlining.livejournal.com]

Yeah... seriously, old people ARE a wealth of information - I mean, you can't learn what it was LIKE in war from reading a history book, but if they were THERE...

If mine were nicer, I'd ask them too. :<

Still, I'm sorry. :(

[spiletta42.livejournal.com]

Wow. I eagerly await the next episode!

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

mmaaybe she meant the Chronicles of Narnia???

[crypticidentity.livejournal.com]

My first guess as well.

[lowrider.livejournal.com]

My same thought, especially because Narnia is CHRISTIAN and thus OKAY

[sylverlining.livejournal.com]

That is a distinct possibility...
Although she can't have remembered them very well, because Hork-Bajir look NOTHING LIKE ANYTHING in the Chronicles of Narnia. xD

[anordir.livejournal.com]

My initial thought was "...Maybe she meant 'The Chronicles of Narnia'?" I'm going to go with the SEKRIT MSG ZOMG theory though. Do let us know how it plays out!

[dgcatanisiri.livejournal.com]

This. Confusing it with the Chronicles of Narnia or something similar makes sense, but I like the idea that there's some kind of secret message.

[sylverlining.livejournal.com]

Ye know what, I'm going with that too.
PROBABLY Narnia... (Though God knows what she thought a Hork-Bajir was)

But I like the secret message ZOMFG theory too. :D MUCH MORE EXCITING!

[cxrdevil.livejournal.com]

the chronicles of narnia

she was hoping jake would turn out to be jesus, but alas, he was a tiger :(

[sylverlining.livejournal.com]

xD I SUPPORT THIS.

OH JAKE, PLEASE BECOME OUR JESUS-LION AND TEACH US A LESSON THAT IS NOT AT ALL REMINISCENT OF ANYTHING WE'VE EVER HEARD BEFORE ON SUNDAYS.

EVER.

[angary.livejournal.com]

This! But that would mean David is Jesus, then o_O

[almighty-patsy.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD YOUR FAMILY ARE YEERKS

(...And now I'll just allow you to return to the intelligent comments.)

[sylverlining.livejournal.com]

DO YOU KNOW, THAT IS NOT THE FIRST TIME I'VE HAD THIS THOUGHT.

D:

[tobiahawk.livejournal.com]

Gotta admit, that crossed my mind after reading this post, too (and, yes, I know Yeerks aren't real!)

[sylverlining.livejournal.com]

I WANT TO READ IT. :D

[kat-nic.livejournal.com]

I wrote a book report on The Andalite Chronicles in 7th grade. ^_^ I don't still have it though...I'm sure it would be good for a laugh too.

[iapetusneume.livejournal.com]

lol @ all the guesses of Narnia. It totally makes sense.

I fell into both my Narnia and Animorphs obsessions around the same time, and now this plus reading the comments is making me think of a crossover and it has completely shattered my brain. Mostly in an OMG MY CHILDHOOD ;_; way. I love me some crossovers, but I'm not sure that they would be two great tastes that taste great together.








...and yet I'm suddenly getting the mental image of Marco seriously being tempted to morph Mr. Tumnus. Or another faun. (Movie!verse here.) Because dude, the fauns were hot. Chick-magnet.

[sylverlining.livejournal.com]

OH MAN. xD That... that would either be INCREDIBLY EPIC or RIDICULOUSLY FAIL. x3 Maybe a little of both.

And HELL YEAH FAUN MARCO. xDDD Because YEEAAHHHH the fauns were hawt. Even as a kid reading the books I might have had a weird crush on Mr. Tumnus.

:> Other crossovers I would LOVE to see with Animorphs is The X-Files and Star Trek. Preferably DS9 homfg.

[lisacharly.livejournal.com]

Narnia? Really, guys? Your thoughts are that reasonable? I totally assumed she was confusing it with the Satanic Bible and was warning Sylver that she knew about the witchcraft.

[kat-nic.livejournal.com]

I...have no words. I mean, my immediate family is slightly nuts but my grandmothers were/are actually pretty cool. It's pretty bad when you're 83 year old grandmother is generally more openminded and accepting than your parents.

I don't get it either.

[nostalgichild.livejournal.com]

ha ha, great story!

My grandmother does not know anything about Animorphs. My parents do, though. Lately I ordered #3 (still haven't finished my collection) from amazon and my mom was like "What did you order?" Me: "Animorphs." Mom: "Ah, your weird aliens again."
Obviously she does not appreciate them the way I do, but she knows I have a mad obsession with them.

[tobiahawk.livejournal.com]

My mom hated the books, especially the thoughtspeak tags, and thought they were horribly written.

In fact, she said this to me again a couple weeks ago when I mentioned the books briefly in conversation.

[ghaweyriao.livejournal.com]

Ha, my grandparents aren't that bad but I have issues with some of the other members of my father's family.

This post cracked me up. By the way, I just want you to know that I, too, have read the . . . CHRONICLES.