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This month there is a special 👻 SPOOKY SEASON 👻 addition: instead of ✓ or ✕ for like or dislike, it's 🎃 and 💀. Whatever the character has the most votes for shows up appended to their username on the network for the next month, as in, un: aurora 💀.

Please feel free to switch out any of the Q&A questions with those listed here!

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a group of crappy-ass robots took away my opportunity to talk about costumes and coffee flavors. I'll survive

the weird part is people assuming I care what they say about me

[ She switches to text. Maybe to match. Perhaps because she's a teenager and the 'tone' puts her a bit off. ]

No need to think too much about it. And for what it's worth, I was more concern about having the choice taken away, not as much about what they said. There's a difference.

[ Which... true. But also teenagers. ]

[Sorry, Gaia. Regrettably, Shaw's tone sucks regardless of the format.]

as far as choices that can be taken away, this one's Little League. filling it out myself would be more annoying, if I don't have a good reason to

[ It's perfectly fine. Surprisingly, Gaia seems to read it and not take more dramatic offense at being misunderstood. Who knew teenagers could be reasonable! ]

Oh, I suppose that's one way to look at it. Glad to hear it wasn't bothering you at least.

If you don't mind answering; I noticed your questions were different from the ones I was prompted to fill out. Why do you think they'd pick entirely different questions?

[ If there was an optional link or an arrow for a dropdown menu, she absolutely missed it. ]

who knows?

maybe because I haven't worn a Halloween costume since I was 9.

[ Through various conversations, Gaia is slowly starting to pick up what Halloween even is. ]

I see. I notice people often talk about costumes that scare. What sort of costume would children wear?

[ She was getting this as a thing adults and older teens did for fun. But dressing kids up as monsters to scare one another? She's not quite there. ]

whatever they want, I guess. spooky things or cartoon characters or animals

why? you don't have kids here, do you?

Why would I have kids? I'm 17.

[ Not Gaia forgetting Shaw wouldn't know that. ]

I was just wondering why people would dress children up as monsters. Cartoons... so people would dress as characters in those moving picture tales too?

why not? people love their moving picture tales

It's just that we don't really have this sort of thing where I come from. Is this supposed to be a time to dress up as monsters or like you're a character in a play which can include monsters?

either

both

but you're definitely overthinking it, and anyone who isn't a loser won't care what you wear or don't wear on Halloween, so do whatever you want

This sounds like the merchant pushed pumpkin spice gimmick. Though I guess the reasons for the traditions fade over time, too.

[ Overthinking? Well Gaia isn't going to deny that. ]

Well, you're probably not wrong. But in my defense, I'm trying to understand something I've never even heard of before coming here.

where you're from, you have festivals that are just for fun, right?

Edited 2025-11-02 17:12 (UTC)

I know what a festival is. In fact my friends and I were organizing one before I was first summoned away. I meant the reasons for this particular one. Its origins. That sort of thing. How it became what it is now.

That common sense that people don't think to talk about because they grew up with it.

Edited 2025-11-02 17:20 (UTC)

[As someone who grew up straddling two cultures - sometimes more than one, depending on where in the world her father was stationed - Shaw gets it. She may not feel the alienation as acutely as others, but she understands what it looks like.]

ok

stock up on candy. not baked desserts or anything like that, pre-made individually wrapped candy. you can get it at the convenience store here. it's as much a candy holiday as a costume one.

I see. I've seen a bit of that in grocery stores.

[ She's likely talking more about fun size bars than actual Halloween packaging. But it's close enough. ]

So it's... to hand out? Ah. Is that what the 'trick or treat' bit is?

Trick or treat is a jokey threat. Give treats, or get tricks. No one actually goes through with it.

[Though, actually--]

Now that I think about it, maybe we shouldn't assume that here. Those bots are weirdly literal.

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