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[ SECRET POST #3564 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3564 ⌋

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[Keeping Up Appearances]

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[set the thames on fire]

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[Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, Magic Knight Rayearth]

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[Dragon Ball Z]

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[Obduction]

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Do you get into Halloween? Not so much? Is it not a big deal (or even a small deal) in your country? Tell me all about it!

yes! Halloween is my favorite holiday. I love costumes, spooky stuff, Autumn, and just the whole feel of Halloween. I haven't been trick or treating in a long time, but i usually try to do something. This year I'm going to a Doctor Who party.

It's not a big deal here (England) but I feel like we do it better than the Americans even though it is an American holiday. We focus on scary and spooky and they seem to be about regular fancy dress, like superheroes and Disney princesses.

I'm really surprised that a Brit would think they do something better than us.

Do people actually call costumes "fancy dress" in England because that sounds like a joke from 30 rock.

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I'm American and I wouldn't be caught dead trying to dress up like some Disney princess, either when I was a kid or now.

Not a big thing for me - Jews have a holiday called Purim, which is in very early spring. It's similar to Halloween in that there's dressing up, but instead of trick-or-treating you go around giving all your friends gift baskets of food and candy. The costumes can be anything, there's no spooky theme, and getting drunk is Thing.
That holiday I love XD and where I come from, it's the one that gets more of the real attention. If people celebrate Halloween, it's mostly secular people who are interested in an excuse for another party.

That sounds like a great holiday!

Wow, Purim sounds like a really great holiday!

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I wish it was a bigger deal but no one ever comes to our house for candy. :(

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Not so much? It's a recent thing in my country, so it's not something I have nostalgia for, so meh.

Not really. I'm in the US and the last time I was truly excited about it, I was in college. I'm dressing up, but only to go to a friend's party. I'm honestly planning on hiding in my place all night so I don't get any trick or treaters. Maybe I'll just leave entirely.

I love it. I'm somewhat of a non-practicing pagan, but I haven't never been able to shake the feeling that the day just feels really spiritual to me.

Not really, it was never much of a thing when I was growing up and even though a lot of the supermarkets and stores are trying to make it a Thing but it's not working very well.

We just don't really give a crap and people are usually far more focused on the fact that Christmas is in a couple of months.

Kind of? I really like specific parts of it, I guess? I'm not super into costumes, and I don't like really intense horror stuff. But I like the sort of creepy, autumnal aspects of it - ghost stories and cheesy Halloween stuff and all that. So as long as it stays in that lane, I'm into it.

I like it because it's fun to get into it and because when he was younger it was my brother's favorite, so I have fond memories, even though we lived in too remote an area to trick or treat really.

Not really, but I do love to carve pumpkins and usually do 3-5 of them for the entranceway every year.

I guess it's a big deal here, but we don't get as many trick or treaters anymore because people are doing more trunk or treating at schools and churches. I do dress up, but I just sit at home and watch horror movies while eating candy.

While it's getting more popular (at least for children) in my country, it's not as big as I'd like? (I like creepy things and would have loved Halloween when I was a kid.)
Most celebrations for adults are too focused on getting drunk, not on the dressing up. We also have a much bigger carnival tradition with costumes around February, so people don't really go all-out for Halloween (it also shares the day with another holiday but that's not usually a problem).
Children sometimes go trick-or-treating anyway, but I think it's kind of shitty when they go too far with the pranks when they don't get anything because trick-or-treating is not a tradition people are used to, so they don't prepare for it.

Totally, love Halloween.

I honestly don't know if it's a thing here or not. I presume that supermarkets pushing Halloween stuff this time of year keep doing so because they make money out of it, but is something my family has ever given mind to, as my church deems it too "pagan" and too superstitious.

Though in past years I have idly contemplated stocking up on prunes, but we really don't see trick-or-treaters to bother.

I love Halloween. Our house is kind of run down looking, so I pile as many pumpkins as I can schlep home by our front door--I love carving the plain ones but I leave the weird ones whole because they're tasty and that way I can make them into bread and soup and stuff later. I used to grow our own pumpkins but now we're in the middle of a drought.

I have a big copper cauldron I fill with candy and wish we got more trick or treaters. Some day I will have enough time and disposable income to make an awesome haunted house. The coolest decorations I ever put up were a suit and wedding dress with a skull for the groom's head and the wedding veil suspended above the stuffed dress. It was actually my grandmother's wedding dress that my grandfather had ruined by putting in the washing machine. I used it as a ghost bride costume myself one year.

Two of my friends (married) always host a Halloween party for our friend group on the weekend closest to Halloween. We wear dumb costumes and eat tons of junk food and play Cards Against Humanity. It's pretty great.

I love Halloween, but I've never had a lot of fun with it lol I just love the spirit of Halloween and the candy.

But this year I'll be in Tokyo again, and I'll actually wear a costume since I have friends this time around! I'm pretty excited, but also nervous. Roppongi is crazy town during Halloween, dear lord.

yes. I always go out to a party or Rocky Horror or something. I wouldn't be caught dead staying home and doing nothing on Halloween, it's one of my favorite holidays, maybe my favorite.
(last year some creep sent me an e mail the day after Halloween trying to guilt trip me for not staying home. Apparently they thought I somehow owed my neighbors' obnoxious kids candy. I never found out who sent me that e mail, especially since I'm not in the habit of giving out my e mail address to just anybody.)

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