It's a pumpkin festival to celebrate the autumn harvest. The village gets decorated with some lights and we carve pumpkins and have a communal potluck, and kids do dress up according to an old legend about scaring away monsters that come down from the mountain, but that's about it.
That sounds really beautiful. I'm a little sad that I won't be able to see it.
Yea, we have Halloween where I'm from. It's kind of similar to your festival in that people decorate with lights and silly or spooky decorations. There's pumpkin carving, and bobbing for apples, and people dress up in costumes. Kids go around from door to door saying "trick or treat" and get candy, or small toys, or popcorn. There was this one family on my block that always gave out coloring books and crayons.
[Maybe she would have told him if he'd asked. Then again, she's not sure if they've reached the point of telling people yet, so maybe it's better that he didn't.]
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Date: 2025-10-31 06:52 pm (UTC)Re: un: cc
Date: 2025-10-31 07:32 pm (UTC)[Silly? Gaudy? Cheesy?]
much of a big deal.
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Date: 2025-10-31 10:14 pm (UTC)What's your festival like?
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Date: 2025-11-01 03:59 am (UTC)Do you have this holiday at home?
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Date: 2025-11-01 04:34 am (UTC)Yea, we have Halloween where I'm from. It's kind of similar to your festival in that people decorate with lights and silly or spooky decorations. There's pumpkin carving, and bobbing for apples, and people dress up in costumes. Kids go around from door to door saying "trick or treat" and get candy, or small toys, or popcorn. There was this one family on my block that always gave out coloring books and crayons.
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Date: 2025-11-01 04:39 am (UTC)Kinda glad we didn't do the door to door thing when I was a kid. Sounds stressful.
[Which might be a weird thing to say, but Cloud really didn't like his village very much, because it didn't like him.]
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Date: 2025-11-02 06:50 am (UTC)I suppose it can be kind of stressful if you're not big on crowds.
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Date: 2025-11-02 07:01 am (UTC)I don't mind crowds too much, but knocking on random people's doors to ask for stuff? You'd have to pay me to do that.
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Date: 2025-11-02 08:04 am (UTC)And that's fair. It was a lot of fun when I was younger, but I don't think I'd want to do it now.
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Date: 2025-11-02 08:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-11-02 08:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-11-02 07:51 pm (UTC)Not by choice. But I need to keep an eye on a couple of teenagers with too much power and not enough sense. So yeah, I'll be there.
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Date: 2025-11-03 03:52 am (UTC)That's so kind of you. Do you have a costume?
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Date: 2025-11-03 03:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-11-03 04:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-11-03 05:10 am (UTC)[So that means he's exempt...right?]
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Date: 2025-11-03 04:50 pm (UTC)[That's not at all what he said, but it's a Halloween party so she's going to assume everyone needs a costume.]
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Date: 2025-11-03 05:35 pm (UTC)I guess?
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Date: 2025-11-03 07:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-11-03 07:25 pm (UTC)[Sorry, Chrissy, he's kinda useless at this stuff. His idea of a good outfit is one that's as practical as possible.]
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Date: 2025-12-22 03:05 am (UTC)