Hey, we’re headed out of town in an hour, and blogging may be sketchy, but to keep you guys entertained . . .
Is anyone planning any Westerfeldian Halloween costumes? Specials? Pretties? Midnighters? Peeps? Or just plain old zombies?
Let me know, and maybe we can put together a photo gallery in early November.
And to fill your swag bags with more than teeth-ruining candy, Penguin is running a bookclub sweepstakes! Enter to win up to ten copies of six books, including my latest, The Last Days. Basically, that’s one copy of each book for all of your bookclub members!
Spread the word.
Ciao till next week!
October 20th, 2006 05:58
I really wanted a Westerfeldian costume, but don’t most of your characters dress like us?
October 20th, 2006 06:02
As far as the Halloween costumes a la Westerfeld, I’m considering it.
October 20th, 2006 08:11
Hmm… I was going to be a newsie, but it should be easy to put together a Westerfeldian costume… Though I don’t know how many people would recognize me.
October 20th, 2006 08:49
Ooooh! A Westerfeldian costume? That’s an fabulous idea! I’m headed out to the Party Store today! I’ll see what I can find….
October 20th, 2006 08:57
i wanted to be melissa really badly but i settled for alice in wonderland. it’s an awesome costume
but not quite a scool as anything westerfeldian
October 20th, 2006 10:39
Haha! Guess what–I am being Shay-la, Capt. is being a Peep and Piffs is being Des! It is going to be awesome (we just need a Hunter…)
My costume is sh-weet! I am wearing a long dress and drawing tattoos all over me (to bad I don’t have spinner tattoos). I am trying to copy the cover of the book the best I can.
And guess what!? E-Bay dosn’t even sell Hoverboards
Lol! Okay, see ya!
-Topaz
October 20th, 2006 10:42
Lookie, you and Justine get a mention in Libba Bray’s livejournal! http://libba-bray.livejournal.com/12335.html
October 20th, 2006 11:00
hey, not a bad idea… been looking for a good costume for a party next week…
October 20th, 2006 11:11
I just got back from the store and picked up some costume stuff! I thought I’d go as a Peep (Minerva?), but it looks a tad more like a zombie…
Oh well. It’s going to be fun all the same!
Aww…. No hoverboards on eBay….
I dreamt I had a hoverboad one time!
October 20th, 2006 11:34
Yep, I’m going to grace my school’s dance as a peep. It will be fun! Though I don’t want any pictures…
October 20th, 2006 11:39
Oh yes, and would Justine be open to answering some questions for my school’s paper? Please let me know, Scott, so I don’t pester her with millions of emails and such. That reminds me of something I’ve done recently… hee hee.
October 20th, 2006 12:00
My friends and I are being Midnighters. We’re planning on wearing black (obviously) and are goign to go out to a hardwear store or something and find as much metal that can be turned into jewlery as possible.
October 20th, 2006 12:09
Your school has a Halloween dance? Mine doesn’t. Well, at least not that I know of. =(
However, I will get to fluant my b-e-a-utiful costume at my church’s halloween carnival!
October 20th, 2006 14:21
Dr. Cable charges too much…
October 20th, 2006 14:54
I’ve been going through my Peeps and TLD books and I was wondering, if anybody had any ideas. What types of accessories should I get for a peep costume? I mean, what visual characteristics define a peep? Any ideas?
-Kenzie
October 20th, 2006 15:12
well…im doing not that much. im not a haloween person really. me and my friend might be salt and pepper shakers! (you know we are gangsta)
October 20th, 2006 15:55
Gosh, I just finished reading Pretties, and now it’s too late to dress up like Tally-wa! That would have been so freaking oober cool. I guess there’s always next year. Wish I would have though of it earlier though.
I might have to draw a fake flash tattoo on my face for the halloween dance though! =D
October 20th, 2006 16:00
I’m going as a Catholic school girl, only because I used to be one and therefore have a ready-made costume. I’m going authentic, rather than Britney Spears style (ugh). Maybe next year I’ll have time to think up an imaginite Westerfeldian costume. *sigh* I can’t wait to see the pix!
October 21st, 2006 04:14
I’m going as a dumb blond in a tenis outfit, I think its a very scary thing. Might I add I am the complet opposite of that, so you get the idea. I usually look like mellisa everyday, so if i stayed normal, one might assume i was going as her.
October 21st, 2006 04:50
yes!! my friend and i are being peris and fausto as pretties going to the party at Valentino….i shall take many pictures
October 21st, 2006 06:14
Topaz — consider using grey and black ‘tattoos’ overlapping each other. That way, when you move, it will look like they are shifting around. (At least, they will if the light isn’t too bright.) I did that by accident once, when I put on a temporary tattoo, then pulled it off to soon, and put it back on, but crooked. I wound up with a light version and a dark version overlapping and, as I said, they seemed to shift when I moved.
Has anyone considered cosmetic contact lenses? My first thought was to use black contacts to make my eyes look like Tally’s special-eyes. I talked to my optometrist, and she said it’s perfectly safe. But I decided not to, ‘cus I got queasy when I watched her put a contact in to show me. I could NEVER touch my eye like that…
But maybe someone else would like to? I saw lots of Peeps-type eyes in the contacts catalog…
October 21st, 2006 06:16
Oh, I forgot to mention that I signed up for that bookclub books sweepstakes. Thanks for sharing that, Scott, that is so cool!!
October 21st, 2006 06:33
I would dress up like something Westerfeldian, but you have a distinct shortage of blonde characters (aside from Hunter). As a matter of fact, if you can think of any blonde characters in your books who would make good costumes, could you tell me?
October 21st, 2006 08:22
Teehee. Scott, you have your very own flamers! That’s something to be proud of. Everyone should get some at some point. Bet they’re middle schoolers. Heh. Don’t worry Scott, you don’t want them as fans, they can’t even spell correctly.
October 21st, 2006 10:25
Yes, flamers, but not very original. (And now gone.)
capt. cockatiel, Justine would be happy to answer quessies for your school paper. You can go to her blog and hit “contact.” (And replace the “at” with
an @.)
Mary, cool idea. That SOUNDS like it might work.
October 21st, 2006 10:30
capt. cockatiel: what Scott said.
October 21st, 2006 14:28
I’d aim to be a peep…only walking around in tattered rags on a tuesday night isn’t completely appealing.
As far as the midnighters, they dress like us….and Pretties….I’ll try that sometime.
October 21st, 2006 21:08
Scott, where can I find the Phoenician numerals for my Midnighter weapons? I’ve been googling for them for a while, but all that I’ve found is the alphabet.
October 21st, 2006 22:56
scott–any suggestions on where to find bungee jackets and safety flares???
October 22nd, 2006 02:53
ooooooo. I didn’t even think about that. Sweet! I could be Melissa or Dess…thanks for the awesome idea!!!!
October 22nd, 2006 03:41
Kallie: Here’s how to write Phoenician numbers:
http://www.phoenicia.org/imgs/phoenumbering.jpg
Laine-wa: Hmm, you’ll probably have to make your own bungee jacket.
“As far as the midnighters, they dress like us”
Well, probably a bit more gothy than most, and with lots of cool anti-darkling devices.
October 22nd, 2006 05:09
I’ve already planned to go as roadkill, but I could always make improvements as the more threatening “anti-darkling roadkill”.
October 22nd, 2006 05:44
I was going to have yellow peep eyes, but it was vetoed by the parental units. Darn. Well, my costume was pretty good, but no pictures. Sorry. Piffs had a hubcap for her Dess costume and wrote Hypochondriac on it for authenticity. It was all quite a blast. Yeah… Thanks Scott and Justine!
October 22nd, 2006 07:14
My Shay-la costume turned out well. I was Shay in her party-crashing-cutter-stage and I drew tatoos all over myself (to bad I can’t make spinner tattoos…)
My teacher saw one of a sun on my shoulder and thought it was real! She told me I couldn’t get a tatoo until I was eighteen without my parents consent. It was funny, because it was (obviously) fake.
Can’t wait until I can wear it again for Halloween night!!!
Piffs costume WAS pretty fawesome. She wore a dress too (she was Dess) and taped blue glowsticks to the back of the Ford hubcap we found on the side of the road. It looked like it was glowing, or like she had hit a darkling with it
Capt: Looking forward to the artical in our newspaper!
-Topaz
October 22nd, 2006 07:22
I was thinking of using those contacts… because I use contacts sometimes anyways, so it wouldn’t make much of a difference because I know how to do it… but I’m still thinking about it. I actually have to dress up this year because my bro-in-law did his house this year and is holding something there.
and yeah… I write all over myself all the time. freakied my teacher out. she thought I was all tat’ed up too. haha.
October 22nd, 2006 23:55
what do bungee jackets even look like? *sigh*
October 23rd, 2006 04:38
At the school dance my teacher called me ‘Peeps’ the whole time. It got annoying quite fast, I have to say.
Topaz, the tatoo mistake was really funny, especially since it really didn’t look real. It was sad. Yes, very sad.
Laine-wa, bngee jackets look like bungee jackets. You can’t discribe them… it’s practically impossible. Couldn’t you just google bungee jackets??
I’m happy because Justine emailed me back…
Later folks!
October 23rd, 2006 04:45
Someone should go as the half-darkling half-human thing.
October 23rd, 2006 07:35
hmm… I’m going as a Pretty Zombie. I’m going to get all prettied and then add some gross things to make me look dead. But I’ll still be a rusty… *sigh*
October 23rd, 2006 10:30
I’m still not sure what other accessories I should get for a Peep costume…. My mom says no contacts. Darn…
October 23rd, 2006 10:43
I agree, Kenzie, how can we REALLY dress up as peeps without the eyes? Wwe are doomed into non-peepness for life.
October 25th, 2006 00:03
sup people for Halloween …my friend Alex P. is being my mom …… He loves my mom sooooo much
October 25th, 2006 00:10
I love Halloween. Its a soecial day 4 spooking people. This year 4 HAllween I’m gonna be the tooth fairy. SPOOKY!!!!! I love trick-or -treating because I get lots of candy. YUMMY!!!!!!!!!! Watch out this year 4 the tooth fairy or else lose your teeth SUCKA
October 25th, 2006 00:13
J.K. Rowling rocks baby. But you rock even more Scott Westerfeld. I love your books even more than the HArry Potter series. You ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m planning on reading all the books you have written over this school year. It’s gonna be great.
October 25th, 2006 11:21
Last year I didn’t go trick-or-treating because
1) I wasn’t allowed to (???)
nad 2) I ended up finishing So Yesterday that night and that made me happy. I love that book sooooo much. Hunter can kick Harry Potter’s butt! Yeah… So Yesterday is cool, bow before its awesomeness…
October 25th, 2006 12:37
I’ve wanted to be a greaser for like years now.
i was telling my brother,
and he was all “Be a dead greaser!!!”
SO, i’m going to be dead Johnny Cade.
from the outsiders…
October 25th, 2006 22:43
wow. last night i went out shopping for pretty-makeup….o…m…g…what an experience
October 27th, 2006 10:07
Hmm. I like the idea of being a smokie, but I can’t find the wool sweater that would have worked perfectly. Probably it was too small and I just forgot that I’d grown out of it. Oh well, it was quite itchy. Not really the ideal halloween costume. I guess I could be a pretty, but that would be boring. All I’d wear is my homecoming dress. Nothing really special about that.
Dressing like Uglies/Pretties/Smokies is just hard since they are so much like us. I think I’ll go as a Midnighter!
Plus the Midnighters books are easier to explain when eveyone asks “so, what are you?”
October 27th, 2006 10:11
I would be the anti-Hunter. People say I look kind of like him, but I’m out of time and $2000 suits…
October 28th, 2006 13:26
I took my bird to the vet today and since everyone was speaking of peep-ish eye contacts (okay, not EVERYONE) I thought I would share my strange experience. I hadn’t been to this vet before, so I didn’t know the guy at all. I saw his eye at this weird angle through his glasses and was like “Hmm, that looked like a yellow eye with a slit pupil, maybe his glasses are just thick and did some strange glasses-angle thing.” But no. He had these weird snake/cat eye things going on and it was SCARY. I had to talk to him for 2 hours and look at his freaky eyes. Just thought I’d share.
October 30th, 2006 05:52
Well, I was going to be a fairy, but now… well, a special would be awesome!!!!!
October 30th, 2006 12:33
I finished my costume today! Here’s a discription:
Clothes:
1. Sunglasses (although I may not where those whiel walking outside. Not very safe). Out of all the thousands of pairs of sunglasses in my house, I picked the msot midnightery of them all.
2. Black Dress. It’s actually a sort of gothic looking sundress. ‘This dress is charcol(sp?’Hahahaha.
3. Black Spandez type things. So my legs don’t freeze.
4. Black zip-up sweater. So my arms don’t freeze.
5. White long sleeve shirt. The dress needs to be layered.
6. Sparkly silver socks. I found these when I was out on the weekend and knew immidatly Im ust have them.
7. Black leather shoes.
Jewlery:
1. 13 silver braclettes I made today using silver beads on stnailess steel wire.
2. Ditto but in different bead pattern.
3. Silver hoop earings with 7 silver beads on one and 6 on the other.
4. 13 silver bangle braclettes
5. 2 Silver rings.
So that’s my Midnighter Coustume! The only thing else to add is I’ll be wearing black nail polish with a sparkly(silver) top layer.
October 31st, 2006 21:57
the only upsetting thing is that I can’t find sparklers this time of year…..
where should we send the pics:)
November 4th, 2006 07:01
This comment isn’t related to this particular post, but I’m curious about the photo you’ve used in the banner atop the page. The eyes seem eery, not natural. Is the photo symbolically related to any of your books? I’m thinking of the Pretties and Uglies–a society aiming for perfection that can only come through surgical enhancements. Am I reaching?
November 5th, 2006 09:26
The picture is from the cover of Peeps (paperback version), Lisa. They are vampires, though they are pretty…
November 15th, 2006 10:32
I was going to be a special…but my sister said no one is going to grt it you should be some thing else insted…but i do want to get a special tattoo when i turn 18 wel bye
January 6th, 2007 19:02
Hola senor! Yeah Scotty you are pretty darn amazing if you ask me. Me and my friends Alexis, Hannah, and marina read your books all the time when we get bored. Which is quite often. I think you are rather atractive also. I mean, don’t you think ladies?!?! Wll anyways I love you (but not more than Jason) Peace out homie.
February 3rd, 2007 07:16
oh my god avant garde i am going as the half darkling half midnighter this year! ive already started making it because it might take a while. i made my pirate costume for last year in two weeks but this one has to be perfect
February 3rd, 2007 07:21
yes i realize that it is febuary and that halloween isnt until october
February 3rd, 2007 11:52
I am considering being Tally-wa (as a special) for Halloween, but my best friend Hunter wants me to go as Morticia(sp?) from the Adams family so that he can be Gomez for the Halloween football game…hmm. What do specials dress like anyway? Aside from sneak-suits and ugly-costumes? I hope its something I can march in… I’m in the color guard (we spin flags for those of you who don’t know)at my high school and we march in Halloween costumes for the homecoming game in October. I’m really considering being Tally-wa, because Gomez and Morticia were done a couple years ago by two of our soloists…. hmm (again..).
If anyone knows, can you get cosmetic contact lenses with a perscription? I already wear contacts and I don’t fancy going back to glasses.*shivers*
February 3rd, 2007 13:23
If anyone has an answer to my last post, my email is Tally_and_Zane@yahoo.com
April 1st, 2007 14:29
Next year I’m going to be a midnighter. Everybody’s going to think I’m just a goth, but that’s good too.
I guess.
WHY CAN’T PEOPLE READ MORE?!?!?!?!?
August 26th, 2007 12:08
I need to post a picture of me and Stuffy-kins ‘Specials’ costumes. We made them using eyeliner (My friend did our facial ‘tattoos’. She can’t read above a second grade level at the age of 15, so we look more like.. Umm.. Nonspecials whe nit comes to facial.) my grandma’s shawls (Which were grey) a black dress and so so. We looked like dorks, not specials. Mainly because I couldn’t finish my ‘Specials Overrals’ in time.
October 4th, 2007 08:23
Costume idea is so totally happy-making, i would have done it but not doing anything for Halloween,so thats totally unhappy-making!
I’ll try 2 post something though!
Scott has fawesomely cool ideas!
Just got Extras, need 2 read it right now!
Peace