Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 07:18:15 JST mhoye

   First -time trick or treater who was about two feet tall and super adorable just pushed open my door and yelled “Candy! Candy!”, this year’s cohort is starting out strong.

   • Embed this notice
     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 09:19:31 JST mhoye

     in reply to

     Also the best: families going after a theme. Mom-catwoman rolling up with a baby dressed as the penguin in a harness? With tiny Batman holding her hand, and Larger Penguin Dad nearby? Outstanding.

   • Embed this notice
     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 09:19:31 JST mhoye

     in reply to

     I have just given candy to a young woman dressed as Charles Hayden Savage from Only Murders In The Building. I know that Steve Martin has achieved some number of notable things in his career, but now he can say that somebody in Ontario is cosplaying his pretend stunt double on Halloween, which I think we can all agree is the only real measure of thespian success.

     Flash Mob Of One repeated this.
   • Embed this notice
     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 09:19:31 JST mhoye

     in reply to

     Solid Men In Black look from two kids just now. One of them flashed me in the face with a light and said, you don’t remember giving us candy, we just got here” so yeah, that’s a good enough gag that I’ll play along.

     Matthew Lyon repeated this.
   • Embed this notice
     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 09:19:31 JST mhoye

     in reply to

     My favourite, bar none, is when the kids in the homemade costumes I don’t recognize at all roll up and say trick or treat, and I say “… you are?” And they take a deep breath, and you can _see_ them physically restraining themselves from dumping three hours of lore on you before they say “I’m this character from that anime”, and I know that I’m looking at the purest, undiluted kind of fan love.

   • Embed this notice
     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 09:19:32 JST mhoye

     in reply to

     A traffic light! Two bananas and two Elsa’s, who all looked kind of confused what I called them Team Smoothie.

     We’re split about fifty-fifty on the princess/witch axis tonight? I wonder if there’s a historical trend there.

   • Embed this notice
     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 09:19:32 JST mhoye

     in reply to

     Holy shit, Easy-E? There’s a kid here dressed like Easy-E, saying “I’m Easy E”?!!! Hot damn that’s a deep cut. Somebody’s raising their kids right.

   • Embed this notice
     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 09:19:32 JST mhoye

     in reply to

     Four mouseketeers? _The_ four mouseketeers? I said this in a bad Dr. Doofenschmirtz imitation, that got me a look.

   • Embed this notice
     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 09:19:33 JST mhoye

     in reply to

     ‘Aight let’s keep track. Our adorable candy-yeller was a fireman, and came with a witch. Next crowd was five young women done up as two witches and three sharks! I said, bhalaj? And they said, with authority: bhalaj. These women will go far.

     #trickortreaters

   • Embed this notice
     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 09:19:33 JST mhoye

     in reply to

     Four firefighters, three princesses, and a few pikachu, John 117? The plague doctor without his mask! I guessed immediately, of course and he said “how did you know?”

   • Embed this notice
     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 09:19:33 JST mhoye

     in reply to

     The 100% homemade costumes are the best. We’ve got something from Roblox, a bunch of skeletons, a clown that’s also an axe murderer? Solid one-two punch right there. One parent with a heavy Irish accent looked like a coachman, but when I asked said “ah dunnoo! Whatamah?”

     His kid muttered something, and he said, really loudly: “staympoonk? Whassa staympoonk?” It was magical.

   • Embed this notice
     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 09:19:33 JST mhoye

     in reply to

     Turns out you _can_ see it when a skeleton dies on the inside.