Halloween

[frameacloud]

Page number 10 of Theri There, originally posted on October 31, 2005.

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Image description: A single panel comic. The caption says, "Halloween is when our costumes are taken off." In the background, a row of people in business suits check their watches, and start unfastening their neckties and buttons. In the foreground, a businessperson removes their blazer, transforming into a tiger with an optimistic smile. Description ends.






Note from 2005: When offered a chance to wear a costume, some people dress as their opposite. Some dress as what they wish they were. And some go as themselves…

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Comments

Sadness!

[meirya.livejournal.com]

No, not this year. College is eating my brain (and time). Maybe next year, because there is an idea for a novel bubbling and simmering in the back of my mind.

Nice strip today. I ought to go as a bird one of these days, but that'd be a bitch of a costume to make. Although... hm. Phoenix fursuit, or would that be a feathersuit in my case? Could be interesting.

Re: Sadness!

[frameacloud]

"I ought to go as a bird one of these days, but that'd be a bitch of a costume to make. Although... hm. Phoenix fursuit, or would that be a feathersuit in my case? Could be interesting."

I made a last-minute bird costume for Halloween when I was ten. Mostly just a black outfit with paper-feathered cardboard wings and tail hung on it. It looked complete, though, so that's probably all that's needed to casually convey "bird" ...aside from mask/headgear that would help convey "No, a bird, not an angel."

My costume was made less ambiguous by my reciting a verse of Poe's "The Raven" at each door.

Re: Sadness!

[eredien]

I went as a parrot my freshman year of college. I made a beak out of cardboard support, string, and the silvery inner part of a kit-kat wrapper, and got a bag of feathers at the dollar store and stuck them into the weave of my sweater.

Very easy, very fun. A big pain to pick out of the sweater later though.

Re: Sadness!

[dinogrrl.livejournal.com]

My last-minute costume last year was BoxFox. That is, fox ears and muzzle (made in two pieces so it would move when I talked) made out of cardboard.

It was so ghetto but so much fun at the same time XD.