#big tw for internalized fatphobia here tbh

[revvetha]

Feel free to ignore this as you've deleted the corresponding post while i was writing my reply.

My Halloween-tradition as a non-USian is to ignore the Americanised version of the day completely and play video games on the federal holiday i get regardless because 500+ years ago one cranky area monk decided to piss on the Roman Catholic Church's shoes and hammer some nails into a church's door with 95 pamphlets attached to them.

And then i go to town on discounted pumpkins and sweets in the days after the holiday because while we do Americanise our holidays more and more halloween is still more of a niche thing over here so there is stuff to buy but not yet the audience to sell it to :)

I'm sending you strength regardless 🫂 societal pressure sucks ass and as a short chubby person who can't do make-up for similar reasons i can relate completely 🥺💖

Aw thank you, I appreciate the support <3 I did spend a few years ignoring Halloween as much as humanly possible (it helps that it's not a holiday here either, only the following day, for Catholic reasons. Also not USian lol). But now (and also back when I was at uni) I usually spend time with friends who do enjoy it, and who do enjoy dressing up and just getting to look like hot goth queens for a day. As they should! And usually I'm happy to just be their cheerleader, in the end, because hell yeah!

But sometimes it just really sucks that I can't also be a sexy hot vampire for one day like other (not fat) people can. It's a really stupid yearning but yeah sue me, I secretly wish I could just be pretty for a few hours. IME, Halloween is generally a shit time for afab people that are and/or grew up fat. Even in "alternative" nerdy spaces, because even if you're not a classic hot nurse, societal conditiong says that hot vampires and elves or whatever gotta be just as skinny.

Honestly, your version of Halloween sounds lovely, I hope you can have a chill time again this year! Thanks for taking the time to write <3