Fandom vs. The Real World- 2nd Period- Class #8
"In case you haven't noticed," Aeryn greeted the class after the bell had rung, "October tends to be a pretty busy month here. There's Parents Weekend, homecoming, and now we move onto Halloween. This is a holiday that people celebrate everywhere here, though I can't tell you why. At the end of the year, everyone gets obsessed with being scared, down to the movies on TV, though I find they're less scary and more about gore which means they probably even get that part wrong. Vampires, werewolves, ghosts, all of these things are suddenly all over like it's going to scare you. Not that there is anything wrong with being any of these things," she added quickly.
"People celebrate by one of two ways, usually. They go to Halloween parties, wherein everyone is supposed to dress up, and for every so-called scary costume, there are at least two females dressed up like tralks, I believe because those are the only costumes available to them. There is also something called trick-or-treating. This is mostly done as children, though I suppose there's no shame in continuing this later." Said because she knew a lot of people who were likely to do that fully into adulthood if they thought it sounded like fun and would give them cavities. "People dress up in costumes and then go around the neighborhood, ringing on the doorbells of homes and businesses demanding candy saying 'trick or treat.' This is not something you can do on any other night but Halloween. The police will be called on you. Especially as if you don't get your treat, you are supposed to trick the person, though this seems to involve things more like throwing eggs at their house just because they didn't want to give you something you didn't deserve, and for good reason. So it's a holiday based around solicitation and vandalism, but there you are.
"Today we're going to do something I don't believe in at all, but we're going to watch a movie. It's called Death in a Fence, and I encourage you to talk through it because it is terrible."
"People celebrate by one of two ways, usually. They go to Halloween parties, wherein everyone is supposed to dress up, and for every so-called scary costume, there are at least two females dressed up like tralks, I believe because those are the only costumes available to them. There is also something called trick-or-treating. This is mostly done as children, though I suppose there's no shame in continuing this later." Said because she knew a lot of people who were likely to do that fully into adulthood if they thought it sounded like fun and would give them cavities. "People dress up in costumes and then go around the neighborhood, ringing on the doorbells of homes and businesses demanding candy saying 'trick or treat.' This is not something you can do on any other night but Halloween. The police will be called on you. Especially as if you don't get your treat, you are supposed to trick the person, though this seems to involve things more like throwing eggs at their house just because they didn't want to give you something you didn't deserve, and for good reason. So it's a holiday based around solicitation and vandalism, but there you are.
"Today we're going to do something I don't believe in at all, but we're going to watch a movie. It's called Death in a Fence, and I encourage you to talk through it because it is terrible."