SOMETHING SPOOKY IS IN THE AIR: IT’S HALLOWEEN!
If you’ve started hearing the spooky whispers of the night even during the day, then you must know what time of the year it is! Halloween is just around the corner and everybody is getting ready to commemorate it their own way.
Halloween may not be widely celebrated in South Korea compared to the United States, but stores all over the city are still selling costumes, decorations, and candy for Halloween, and both tricks and treats abound this October. If you’re more on the creative side (and money is tight!), you can always opt to make your own costume and sweets to celebrate. No one ever said Halloween is strictly for children, so embrace your inner child and go all out for some spooky fun!
For the most courageous of souls, you may even find it thrilling to enter a haunted house in the heart of the Gangnam district that’s set up to scare whoever tries to visit it. (But, if you’re too easily scared, make sure to bring a change of clothes or else you might fall victim to spooky wet pants!) Those who successfully come out of the haunted house alive will win a tiny ghost pin, so steel up your best courage before you try it out.
Lotte World is also going all out with their spooky celebrations, at least after 8:30pm, where the Lotte World Magic Island is overtaken by zombies and other frights. Rides also run until 5 AM! For children (and fearful adults), Lotte World’s festivities are far less sinister during the day. They include Halloween face painting, flash mobs, parades, and storytelling. The amusement park’s event runs through November 6th.
For those who hate these spooky kinds of festivities, don’t you worry! If you’d like to spend your time complaining about the excessive pumpkin decorations instead, no one is going to stop you (in fact, some might even secretly agree with you.)
For +2 POINTS TO DISTRIBUTE AS YOU WISH: write a four post thread or a 250+ words solo about your character enjoying any Halloween festivities in any way. This can be about the costume-picking process, trick-or-treating, attending a Halloween party with your friends, braving the haunted house, enjoying (or despising) Halloween at Lotte World, complaining about Halloween, or anything else you can think of, so long as it covers your character’s celebration of the holiday!
For +3 CREATIVITY: it’s au time! Make a gifset/edit of your character’s costume, or if your character isn’t dressing up, anything to suit the Halloween theme. If you’d rather, you can write a 250+ word AU solo or four post thread to suit the theme and earn the points instead. Now’s your chance for your character to live their spooky monster or superhero dreams-- you could even write up a better vampire and werewolf love story than Twilight. Feel free to use your imagination! You’re free to make as many edits and AUs as you’d like, but you can only receive the points available once.
Please tag all your posts related to the event with #rkspooky and have them up by midnight EST at the end of November 8th. There is no verification form for this event, so you may add the points to your tally sheet as soon as you have met the requirements, and link your posts as proof. Threads may be continued after the deadline, however, after November 8th points may no longer be collected for them.
Remember that even if Halloween is all in good fun, this holiday comes with many potential triggers that may affect our members negatively. Please don’t forget to use trigger warnings accordingly for both posts and pictures so everyone can have fun!