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[essayel]

First this - http://www.livejournal.com/users/resonant8/71077.html - because I think it's quite important.

More ramblings below...

Borrowed this from gonzothegreat because I can and because Treat or Treating simply isn't done properly in the UK.

Instead of winsome moppets tripping around the streets in fairy costumes lisping requests for sweeties we get hulking lads in gorilla masks hammering on old ladies doors and saying "Give us some money or we'll smash your fucking windows." Like so many American ideas we have taken it adapted it to local conditions and completely missed the point - like 'fast food', which is neither fast nor edible.

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
essayel goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Xena Warrior Princess's Mother.
ajhalluk gives you 3 mauve cola-flavoured jelly beans.
camillabloom gives you 1 blue cola-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
casfic tricks you! You lose 1 pieces of candy!
darthrami gives you 1 blue tropical-flavoured jelly beans.
irana tricks you! You lose 3 pieces of candy!
katbeseroc gives you 3 dark blue passionfruit-flavoured gummy fruits.
metallumai tricks you! You lose 2 pieces of candy!
obsessed1 gives you 9 light blue pineapple-flavoured gummy fruits.
shezan gives you 5 orange orange-flavoured wafers.
villainny tricks you! You get a wad of paper.
essayel ends up with 16 pieces of candy, and a wad of paper.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

Actually, candy I can live without but the wad of paper could come in very handy.

Comments

[nassima.livejournal.com]

Xena, warrior princess, has a mother? Wow, that must be some intersting lady! I'd love to know how she dresses...

And that's nice to see you're still around :-)

[metallumai.livejournal.com]

Mmm, and they were good, too. (humbugs, my new favourite. That Humbug research this summer paid off....)

I'm guessing we get to see more of you these past couple of days because Resti's gone to its reward, right? And about time, too.... :)

Now give us DoW.... Trick or treat?(holds out paper bag)

[lyras.livejournal.com]

Hello! I haven't commented here before, but I came across your journal via Copperbadge's.

I just wanted to say thanks for the heads up about the writer who was raided - I'm not a US citizen, but I still found the story deeply disturbing on a human level. I've posted about it in my journal.

Cheers,
Lyras

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Nice to meet you. Browsing around copperbadge's journal is always worth doing.

As far as the poor traumatised author is concerned I have no idea how true the item is but it is worrying. Writers have to research their subject, otherwise you might as well be writing for Mills and boon or Harlequin, but some subjects look as they are now too touchy to approach.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, Xena's mum - I had a costume for her a couple of years back when a young friend of mine had a fancy dress party on the theme of "Princesses and Pirates". Mercifully no one took photos. However, I will do you a drawing and post it here in a day or two.

Re: Sal!! Plagiarism!

[essayel.livejournal.com]

LOL, I bet she doesn't write our Felix - but who knows what the daft bitch will come up with? By book seven she could be easily into spanking and Weasleycest.

How's you? How's life? How's writing?

I'm stupid - I agreed to try doing a collaborative nano with metallumai. Wish us luck. We'll be posting in ms_nitt - when we get something written.