Halloween meme

[cattygabriel]

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
cattygabriel goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Fitzwilliam Darcy.
angelofawesome tricks you! You get a 3.5-inch floppy disc.
archerangel gives you 15 green coffee-flavoured nuggets.
divine_tempest gives you 2 pink pineapple-flavoured pieces of taffy.
grace_descends tricks you! You lose 6 pieces of candy!
kesefhanaah tricks you! You get a 3.5-inch floppy disc.
lady_of_nineveh gives you 3 light orange grapefruit-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
leucemic_god gives you 15 light orange mint-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
lordofthesouth tricks you! You lose 18 pieces of candy!
pointisdolphins gives you 12 light blue pineapple-flavoured pieces of taffy.
stillnotfallen tricks you! You get a wad of paper.
cattygabriel ends up with 23 pieces of candy, a 3.5-inch floppy disc, a 3.5-inch floppy disc, and a wad of paper.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

Being tricked by Belial and... Lucifer is not surprising. But Aziraphael, Haniel and Michael? Really. And besides, I have no idea what a floppy disc is.

Also, it is a little disappointing that there is no chocolate.

Comments

[leucemic-god.livejournal.com]

Sorry, but I like chocolate, too. Not into mint taste, though. And that's the only reason I gave you chewing gum instead of rocks. It is! Really!

[cattygabriel]

I'm not really a fan of mint either, but it's still preferable to floppy discs and wads of paper. At least rocks can be used as paperweights.

Who or what would you dress up as for Halloween?

[leucemic-god.livejournal.com]

I don't see what you've got against floppy discs and paper, but I guess that's your choice.

Me, I'd simply shift into my dragon shape. Silverfox tells me she'll never dress up for an American holiday teaching children how to run extortion schemes. It is a bad fit in her country's culture.

[cattygabriel]

Not for Halloween. Besides, I've researched floppy discs. They're obsolete.

Well, that's handy. Of course, I could go as myself... Sivaroobini says she loves the idea because it's a modernisation of the ancient Celtic festival for the dead, Samhain, and she wishes her country has it simply so she has an excuse to dress up as a witch or a knight or an Egyptian goddess and have her friends over for a sleepover and ghost stories. She would also love to reenact the ancient Samhain festivities.

[leucemic-god.livejournal.com]

Sometimes old stuff can be quite useful.

Silverfox says the ancient traditions are something else entirely, but here the attempt to introduce the American Halloween resulted in serious property damage and the quiet Christian holidays of All Saints and All Souls do not mix well with Trick or Treat either. Silverfox's culture already has a happy dressing up holiday in Fasching and doesn't need a second.

[cattygabriel]

Ah. Property damage? What's Fasching?

[leucemic-god.livejournal.com]

Property damage as in tricks that resulted in people needing to have their house repainted or buy a new fence or such a small thing as a new car ...

Fasching is the Austrian carnival, starting in November and ending the day before Ash Wednesday, a time for dress up parties, foolishness, dancing, eating and drinking and political satire.

[cattygabriel]

... Wow.

That sounds very, very interesting! I would love to see it.

[leucemic-god.livejournal.com]

The big one in Villach gets shown on TV every year, but you have to be fluent in German and up to Date with Austrian politics to really enjoy it. (That's the one all the politicians go to and whenever there's a joke about them you get to see their face ...)

[cattygabriel]

LOL! Wish we had something like that here, but everyone's too terrified of the ruling party.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_silverfox/]

The trick is, that the whole thing is based on the tradition of court jesters -> as fools they must be forgiven for saying things that would normally be considered insulting (The people in costume are also called Faschingsnarren - Faschings' fools.)

[cattygabriel]

Ahh. That sounds even more awesome! I'm a huge geek for medieval court life.

[brushworkmother.livejournal.com]

[there might be someone who is giving you a strange look, but that person is certainly not Ammy, who is in fact sitting and looking vaguely hopeful.]

[cattygabriel]

[would offer her chocolate, but is unsure if it's good for her or not]

[brushworkmother.livejournal.com]

[she doesn't know either. she probably won't die if he gives her a little piece, if that's any help]

[cattygabriel]

[Gabriel gives her a piece of chocolate]