un: vivi

[ornitiers]

um. i hope everyone is okay, after that stuff with looking for the vent.

i've been seeing some decorations? i think? and pumpkins? but i'm not sure what that's about. does anyone know? some of the other kids seem pretty excited...! and talking about dressing up? i'm not sure this was something we did back home, so. i guess there's still a lot to learn about things. different celebrations? or um, holidays! yeah! maybe we can celebrate lots of them! if there's people from all kinds of places, there's gotta be lots of holidays people celebrate that we can learn together, right? it'd be fun!

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text | un: wild.flower

[hasitsthorns]

it's almost halloween!!
where I'm from, it's a holiday where kids dress up in costumes and go to houses saying 'trick or treat' to get candy
that's the treat BUT there can still be tricks sometimes!
playing pranks on people or spooking them for fun is a big tradition too

have you ever carved a pumpkin before?
that's also a tradition
basically, it's carving out the front of the pumpkin in a face or something
and putting a light in it to make it glow all cool like
then you use the seeds and insides to cook or bake something nice!

text; un: vivi

[ornitiers]

oh. so you either get treats, the candy, or someone tricks you? the pranks aren't mean or get anyone hurt, are they?

i haven't done that. i've had pumpkins with food before, but not like that? um, decoration?

[hasitsthorns]

wellll
they shouldn't be, but some people (usually, like, teenagers) can do harmful pranks
once of the classic ones though is just throwing toilet paper on someone's house or car to be silly
it's annoying to clean up, but doesn't hurt anyone

and yeah!!
it's for decoration, mostly
and just fun to be creative with

[ornitiers]

toilet paper? i guess that doesn't hurt anyone, but still.

maybe i can try it. if everyone else is.

[hasitsthorns]

not usually!

and I can help you? if you'd like!
I love doing creative stuff like that
and last year, it was...
I was still pretty new so I didn't do much!

[ornitiers]

you can? that would be great! i want to learn. not that i haven't eaten pumpkin before. but carving it like that would be new.

[hasitsthorns]

of course I can!!
that's the fun of meeting people from different places, right? learning new stuff!
I can get us a couple of pumpkins so we can work on it

do you want a regular sized one?
or mini? I don't wanna assume anything, but they do come in smaller sizes which might be easier!!

[ornitiers]

oh. i'm not sure if a bigger or smaller one might be better. does the size matter that much?