Tis the season to be jolly! Not because of Christmas as most Wal-Marts and Targets would lead you to believe, but because of Halloween!
Being that it is so close to this holiday, I felt that it'd be a good time to have a post for Halloween related stuff that anyone would like to discuss be it party plans, memories, or costumes.
To start off, I'm going to dress up as Dipper Pines this year from the amazing show Gravity Falls. If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend to go and watch it. It's one of the greatest animated shows of our time with tremendous writing, lovable characters, and boat loads more.
I honestly decided to do this pretty randomly. I originally wasn't planning on dressing up this year for Halloween as I had zero ideas on what to do since I already dressed up as Princess Derpy Hooves (did an alicorn version of her so I could use a plush horn I got from WeLoveFine some time ago) and didn't feel like dressing up as her a second time in a row despite it's ease. Then, I happened to be walking through the mall with my friend, sister, and brother-in-law and we visited Hot Topic like we usually do just to window shop and I saw that they had the parka and hat that Dipper wears for sale. I looked at it and thought it was pretty cool, especially since I'm in a bit of a Gravity Falls kick since I'm showing a coworker friend of mine the whole series since they hadn't seen it yet.
As I thought about it, I realized that dressing up as Dipper would be incredibly easy to do since he doesn't dress in anything super complicated and decided then and there to dress up as him. After buying the parka and the hat, we all went around the stores to find everything that I needed for the costume, shoes, socks, a shirt, and shorts. At this point, the only thing that I am missing is a wig that I just bought off of a cosplay website (since I have no wig shops near me) and the costume will be complete. I'm thinking that I'll be able to use the costume for cosplays as well if I decide to go to any non-pony specific conventions in the future. Maybe even have my sister dress up as Mable regardless of the fact that we're not twins because I don't care, shut up.
What I find kind of funny though is that I honestly want to work this year on Halloween if only because I don't have any plans going to any Halloween parties (nor are there any being planned by people that I know) and god knows that at 22 years old, my trick-or-treating days are long over. If I don't work this year on Halloween, I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to put the costume to good use until a convention and I don't have any non-pony conventions that I'm going to for me to use the costume. I'll be able to dress up for the sake of class, but I don't really want to since I don't see that as being a place to have fun on Halloween. With that said, work is really the only place that I can think of where I'll dress up and have the most fun wondering if any customers/coworkers will get my costume (probably not since most of them don't seem to be the nerdy time, but you never know). I'll get my next work week schedule over the next few days, so we'll have to see until then. Hell, maybe I'll end up switching with someone who wants the day off if I get it. Shouldn't be too hard.
Anyway, those are my Halloween plans for this year. Feel free to post anything Halloween related! Happy Halloween!
Being that it is so close to this holiday, I felt that it'd be a good time to have a post for Halloween related stuff that anyone would like to discuss be it party plans, memories, or costumes.
To start off, I'm going to dress up as Dipper Pines this year from the amazing show Gravity Falls. If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend to go and watch it. It's one of the greatest animated shows of our time with tremendous writing, lovable characters, and boat loads more.
I honestly decided to do this pretty randomly. I originally wasn't planning on dressing up this year for Halloween as I had zero ideas on what to do since I already dressed up as Princess Derpy Hooves (did an alicorn version of her so I could use a plush horn I got from WeLoveFine some time ago) and didn't feel like dressing up as her a second time in a row despite it's ease. Then, I happened to be walking through the mall with my friend, sister, and brother-in-law and we visited Hot Topic like we usually do just to window shop and I saw that they had the parka and hat that Dipper wears for sale. I looked at it and thought it was pretty cool, especially since I'm in a bit of a Gravity Falls kick since I'm showing a coworker friend of mine the whole series since they hadn't seen it yet.
As I thought about it, I realized that dressing up as Dipper would be incredibly easy to do since he doesn't dress in anything super complicated and decided then and there to dress up as him. After buying the parka and the hat, we all went around the stores to find everything that I needed for the costume, shoes, socks, a shirt, and shorts. At this point, the only thing that I am missing is a wig that I just bought off of a cosplay website (since I have no wig shops near me) and the costume will be complete. I'm thinking that I'll be able to use the costume for cosplays as well if I decide to go to any non-pony specific conventions in the future. Maybe even have my sister dress up as Mable regardless of the fact that we're not twins because I don't care, shut up.
What I find kind of funny though is that I honestly want to work this year on Halloween if only because I don't have any plans going to any Halloween parties (nor are there any being planned by people that I know) and god knows that at 22 years old, my trick-or-treating days are long over. If I don't work this year on Halloween, I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to put the costume to good use until a convention and I don't have any non-pony conventions that I'm going to for me to use the costume. I'll be able to dress up for the sake of class, but I don't really want to since I don't see that as being a place to have fun on Halloween. With that said, work is really the only place that I can think of where I'll dress up and have the most fun wondering if any customers/coworkers will get my costume (probably not since most of them don't seem to be the nerdy time, but you never know). I'll get my next work week schedule over the next few days, so we'll have to see until then. Hell, maybe I'll end up switching with someone who wants the day off if I get it. Shouldn't be too hard.
Anyway, those are my Halloween plans for this year. Feel free to post anything Halloween related! Happy Halloween!