Some Halloween-related posts:
1) A lot of people have written me about costumes lately, asking questions like, “What do Specials wear?” “How do you do flash tattoos?” and “Would Dess wear this?”
But you guys would know better than me. A lot of you have done excellent face paint jobs, as shown here. Please use this comment space to share your acquired knowledge and new ideas for Westerfeldian costumes.
The power of psycho-kitty commands you!
2) Vampire fans may be interested in this: A teacher in North Carolina is planning to use Peeps (and two other sf books) in her biology class, if she can round up enough money to buy copies. Click here to read more about the project, and donate if you can.
3) I have been roped into a Scare-a-thon! Lauren Myracle, author of the TTYL series and the amazing new Bliss, has challenged a passel of YA authors to face their fears. So between now and October 31, M.T. Anderson, Holly Black, Libba Bray, Meg Cabot, Cassandra Clare, Melissa De La Cruz, John Green, Shannon Hale, Maureen Johnson, Stephenie Meyer, Kirsten Miller, Sarah Mlynowski and I will all be doing something that we’re horribly afraid of.
Will we survive?
Click here to read the challenge. I’ll be revealing my greatest fear on this blog. Be warned!
4) Okay, this is not Halloween-related, but if you live in or near Toronto drop, by Bakka Phoenix Books at 697 Queen Street West. Not only are they a great sf bookshop, but Justine and I just signed lots of stock for them. Go buy it!
Psycho-kitty photo ganked from io9.
October 30th, 2008 04:37
Aw, that kitty is soooooo cute! I’m a sucker for cute animals, but then, who isn’t?
If I were going to dress as a Midnighter, I would just shop at Hot Topic… okay, I already shop at Hot Topic, but not in the goth section. Though, if anyone is interested in being either Dess, Melissa, or Rex for Halloween, they should go to Hot Topic.
I officially can’t wait till Halloween! The Scare-A-Thon is going to be awesome!!! I’m really looking forward to seeing what Kirsten Miller, and of course, Scott Westerfeld are afraid of.
*coughvisitmyblogcough*
October 30th, 2008 05:48
omg! #2! usually im like #billion or something. They should make like a really thin transparent pocket of plastic with black liquid in it that moves. It might not move to the beat of your heart, but it would be a pretty cool flash tatoo! if youre a techie, get back to me on this. I just devoted myself to westerfeldism!!!!!!!!
October 30th, 2008 05:49
ps- the plastic pocket would stick to your face
October 30th, 2008 05:50
First off: The kitten is adorable major!!!
&those manga eyes you mentioned earlier… I’m not sure about them everyday but they would be ideal for pretties costumes… and if dark ones then specials…
October 30th, 2008 05:57
hi yall
October 30th, 2008 05:58
Oh and I have practised many times with eyeliner to create flash tattoos… but I’m no artist and it’s hard doing it on my own face. But the flash tattoos have turned out decent… sorta.
I’m not allowed to celebrate Halloween though
even though it’s my fav holiday…
my parents think it’s the devil’s birthday or something…
I think they’re ridiculous when it comes to this matter…
so next year, I’ll be 18 and I plan to go all out as a Special… or Pretty, preferably Special though, I have most of it planned out
October 30th, 2008 06:18
Gasp. Cute kitty! Frankly, being Dess for Halloween would be scary. No amtter how cool a colour black is, I just don’t have enough.
October 30th, 2008 06:39
i was totally going to be a special for halloween. (my awesome ripped jeans and a black tank top with a flash tattoo.) but then i realized that no one would know who i was. so i actually bought my costume. lame! i know, but whatever… (plus, my mom wouldnt get me a costume until last weekend because she thought i wasnt doing anything for halloween. but then my friend maddy inveted me over for fun halloween stuff… like trick or treating… at the age of 14… we dont care… anyway, i didnt have much to choose from, so i was sad.)
October 30th, 2008 06:41
I can’t wait to see what authors are afraid of. Kinda trippy to me. And Yay! Psycho Kitty!
And to the Hot Topic thing–You could go anywhere to get black (muhahahahaha)
I’m going to be a smokie (major ‘huh?’ from my parents) and I got a boogie board for the water and some tinfoil.
I loves tinfoil.
(can’t wait to get free candy from strangers!!)
And after reading Scott-la’s books, I have Halloween costumes for the next couple of years.
(thank you. they suck otherwise)
October 30th, 2008 06:43
Amy-la… who cares if no one knows… most people don’t know what a Special looks like anyway, rarely Uglies or Pretties see them, so that’d be an added bonus of characterization for you.
October 30th, 2008 06:44
Amy-la, in my family we Trick-or-Treat until it gets creepy…so don’t feel weird about being 14.
I mean, c’mon, you could be a SPECIAL for a night.
Thats pretty rad-tastic.
October 30th, 2008 06:47
My friend dressed up as a special last year and came to school. I was one of like, 5 people that knew who she was. She even drew flash tattoos to PERFECTION. They still didn’t get it.
It was really sad.
And cute kitty
October 30th, 2008 06:52
TWO POSTS IN TWO DAYS???? this is insanity… interesting kitty costume. I wonder what scott-sama’s greatest fear is? hmmm… we should make a pool. except with no money involved. Just honor! haha
October 30th, 2008 06:53
Amir-wa: in Bogus to Bubbly, scott wrote about how flash tatoos already exist! crazt, huh? right now, they’re not as fancy, but they’re used to alert diabetics when their blood sugar is low or something
October 30th, 2008 07:03
“And again, thanks for getting me on the list. Without you guys, I’m a crazy guy saying “bubbly†way too much.”
When ever I say bubbly, people look at me like I’m on drugs.
It would be the most amazing (bubbly) thing ever to have flash tattoos.
October 30th, 2008 07:08
I am quite excited to find out what your worst fear is Scott-la. *smiles evilly* And that thats really cool about the teacher using peeps in her class. I wish we got to read peeps in my science class. :/
October 30th, 2008 07:22
awww, cute kitty! good luck with your challenge, scott-la! XD
October 30th, 2008 07:50
lol, that kitty is so cute!
The scare-a-thon looks awesome! good luck!
that is so cool that that biology teacher would use peeps for her class. i wish my biology teacher was that cool.
~Aryll-wa
October 30th, 2008 07:54
Okay, I wish I would’ve checked back here a few days earlier… trick-or-treat in my town was last weekend. And I had no costume, (I went with a bunch of other high school students, by the way. We’re all immature and loving it), so my best friend and I dressed up as foreign basketball players. She was Hungarian, and I was German ;D
Well if I had thought to dress up as something Westerfeldian, I majorly would have. Oh weeeeellll, I may just dress up like a Cutter for school on Halloween. (Haha, in fact, my entire school is immature; we all dress up for Halloween, wearing rediculous costumes. But nothing relating to weapons, violence, or drugs are allowed, so we’ll see how the whole “Cutter” costume works out)
Anyway, I was just thinking some hardcore tight jeans, a black studded belt, some good old DCs, a black Underarmour, a couple of chains, my hair all straightened (making it halfway down my back, and it’s black too; way icy), and a nice flash tattoo. Plus some scars on my arm
But I’m not sure how that will blow over with the teachers on the whole “no guns, drugs, violence allowed” deal. Pshht.
What do you think??
October 30th, 2008 08:01
Im being a recycleing bin for Halloween! And Im T.O.T ing w/ Dess, Melissa and Physcokitty. We’ll be going to a graveyard!
October 30th, 2008 08:17
Yeah, I did my badass Melissa costume last year, and I figured my friends might mention it if I did back-to-back costumes from the same series. I just wore gloves and sunglasses and a lot of metal jewlery and I made a black Bixby High School sweatshirt with a tridecalogism on it. It was pretty hardcore, and I had my “You Are So 11:59″ t-shirt on underneath. Wonder where my pictures of that went.
This year, I’m going as Medusa, if I could find A SINGLE PLACE THAT SELLS RUBBER SNAKES. There’s a serious deficiency.
Aw, kitty! *psycho*kitty!
October 30th, 2008 08:22
http://www.technovelgy.com/graphics/content08/contact-lens-circuit-human.jpg
Copy and paste that link to see a fawesome contact lense that looks kinda like in the extras this one too:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/images/found.jpg
October 30th, 2008 08:26
Ah, I’m reading a Libba Bray book. I read A Great and Terrible Beauty already, I’m almost done with it’s sequel, Rebel Angels. There’s a third book out, but I can’t find the name if it. I’ll have to look it up laters.
Kitty!!
I’m being a punk-goth girl. I’m wearing one of those “tutu” skirts that my bro’s gf made for me, and it’s really fawesome. I’m having trouble with the shirt. Skirt’s pink & black, so I’ll probably wear pink and black layers with some really cool neon jewelry. I’ve already got my earrings, their spikey-rubber kind. Whoo!
Also, I’m changing my GaiaOnline username. Im tired of mine, I use it for everything. I was thinking I could do one about Uglies… Or combine some of scott-la’s books so only die-hard fans would get it =D Right now all I can think of that I’d like is “.Bogus.to.Bubbly.” but if you guys have ideas, it’d helps.
Hmmm, scott-la’s greatest fear… Andrea-la, we could use this announcement to our advantage *cough for secret cough hack trip wheeze cough snarl cough… cough.*
October 30th, 2008 08:32
hmmm…for halloween i’m going as a hoverboarding punk doctor who plays oboe. Yeah. random much? i think so! lol. and yes, emily-wa, we shall use scott-la’s greatest fear to our advantage…..
October 30th, 2008 08:33
Ooh, there’s an oboe player in the 6th grade at my school! I learndeded about that today from my sister. They call it the hoboe. Get it? Hobo and Oboe =D
October 30th, 2008 08:51
oboe player? sixth grade? are they any good?
October 30th, 2008 09:00
ugh…i just found out that on monday, i get to miss a bunch of classes cuz of rehersals for the band concert…unfortunatly i’m missing english (which i LOVE), science (which is really fun and interesting) and spare (that one’s self-explanitory). Meanwhile, I’m still being subjected to french (i HATE HATE HATE french), math (which i’m happy to not miss) bible (which isn’t as fun as you’d think….) and drama (which i’m happy to go to any day). So yeah. If this were MY choice, I woulda missed french, bible, and social studies (which although i don’t have that day, i would love to miss). Anyways, that sucks.
October 30th, 2008 09:20
I haven’t heard the oboe player. Just know there is one.
Aww, i’m sorry Andrea-la. Tres Desole =( Okay, so I cant make accents with my keyboard… I forgot how. But you know what I mean.
October 30th, 2008 09:23
ummm…that WAS french, right? cuz that’s the class that i kinda really suck at. oh, speeking of french, i actually had to go to the LAR (learning assistence room) today to HELP other people with their french homework cuz apparently even though i can’t speek french, i am qualified to help other people learn it. yeah. it sucked. i coulda used the time to read a book under my desk or something.
October 30th, 2008 10:39
SONJA-LA rules
October 30th, 2008 10:40
yes! 30 1z my closest comment
October 30th, 2008 10:44
aww the kitty looks so cute
I was thinking of going as a special
but its too much work and Im too lazy
October 30th, 2008 10:47
hi!
October 30th, 2008 10:47
i’m gonna read the post now
October 30th, 2008 10:48
I want to go trick or treating as a special, but I don’t even know where to start. Anyone have any ideas?
October 30th, 2008 10:54
all these people keep telling me that i’m to old to trick-or-treat (i’m 13!) but even if they are right, wearing a stupid outfit for one night is worth a bag of free candy
October 30th, 2008 10:58
22 DAYS 2 HOURS TILL TWILIGHT MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(not that i’m counting, or that i care)
October 30th, 2008 11:23
what are you scared of Scott!!! ……oil eating nanos?
October 30th, 2008 11:40
October 30th, 2008 11:41
Hmmm… If I wasn’t so dedicated to my mad scientist costume, I would totally be a Special.
*laughs* I’ll probably paint my face with flash tattoos anyways…
October 30th, 2008 12:08
Oh my gosh. I can’t believe there’s 40 comments. I missed this by a lot. I’m gonna be a faery! Not some weenie pansy lalala faery, think like Ryan Ross from panic at the disco’s stage makeup, and all red and black and stuff. Me and my friends made our costume and 3 of us are all red and black costumes and then 1 of my friends is gonna be pink and purple and like frillyish, so we wrote up a story, and let’s just say we kidnapped her from the other court of fey and she’s our sacrifice to the Spirit’s of All Hallows Eve! HaHAha, that’s the super shortened version.
October 30th, 2008 13:20
I’m so excited for the next two days (it still being October 29th in my time zone). Tomorrow is my birthday and then Halloween. If I were in the world of the Uglies I’d be turning pretty tomorrow. Next year I’ll probably try to find something along the lines of a Special Circumstances costume but this year I’m being Waldo, as in, where am I?
October 30th, 2008 13:48
Haha that kitty is adorable! The Sare-a-thon is a great idea! I can’t wait to see what everyone does for that. Gah! I still don’t know what I’m being for Halloween! Hmmm maybe a Special… Idea’s anyone?
October 30th, 2008 14:02
Jay-wa: Sure, you can get black anywhere, but goth isn’t just black. And as far as I know, good, authentic goth clothes can only be found at Hot Topic.
October 30th, 2008 14:15
I did read Peeps in my biology class…
It was just while the teacher was teaching…
While I sat at a table in the back of the room…
With the book underneath the desk where she couldn’t see…
Does that count?
October 30th, 2008 14:24
Ok I need advice on guys!REALLLYYYYY bad!Can anyone help??? AT ALLLLL??
October 30th, 2008 14:28
o0bubbles0o i think maybe you could be uh…maybe…….haha take a card bord bax and fix it up as a Moggle or Hover cam……..ya not SUCH a good idea…………
October 30th, 2008 14:31
Ha, that’d be cool. What kinda advice???
October 30th, 2008 14:43
ok so I have like this guy sense forth grade and my mom won’t let me go out with him and he even likes me!!and he’s not going to my junior high anf the song i’m listening to is akeing it like 50 times worse…….its “Just SO YOu know”by Jesse McCartney…………and now i’m heart broken
sorry thats alot…
October 30th, 2008 14:44
i mean i’ve like him sense forth grade….and still do…
October 30th, 2008 15:51
That’s so funny–I’m going as a special! I was thinking of a Midnighter, but figured everyone would just think i was a goth/blacksmith. Although it’s annoying, my parents are like “Are you trick or treating this year?” and I’m like “NOOO DUUUUUUUH!” After all, you are never too old to dress up however you want and have no one able to say much about it and to get free candy just for ringing doorbells. And even if you CAN be too old for that, I HIGHLY doubt I’d miss the mark. BTW, cool how every time someone says “Halloween” it’s highlighted in orange
.
GAAAAH! Does anyone know how to get from Lauren Myracle’s blog page to the posts for the other authors? I like some of those authors (Lauren herself, Meg Cabbot, Melissa De La Cruz, Stephenie Meyer, obviously Scott-la) and reeeeally want to read them!
October 30th, 2008 15:53
Hey! It didn’t highlight my Halloween orange! Betcha I spelled it wrong, lol.
October 30th, 2008 15:54
Wait a minute, none of them are highlighted…oh yeah, I must’ve been thinking about an old Scott blog post I found on google about Halloween a year or so ago and pictures of Scott-la costumes…whoops.
October 30th, 2008 17:54
Are you Christian?
October 30th, 2008 22:01
Can’t wait for Halloween. Bring on the fear!
October 31st, 2008 00:31
LOVING the cat …
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Halloween
I’m not going TorTing, I’m in Oz
Not too many peoples TorT here …
October 31st, 2008 01:02
You rule. I’m totaly dressing up as a midnighter!
October 31st, 2008 09:04
Hmmm…Emi-la, I’d say just be friends with him for now. Cuz, when in doubt, a friend is always there for you whereas you can breakup with a boyfriend. Personally, I think that’s a little young for a boy friend, but I’m not one to tell you what to do, since I’m only 14. If I was in that situation, I wouldn’t disobey my Mother. Good luck with it though!
October 31st, 2008 11:28
Yeah, Emi-la I agree with Tally&Zane. I’ve had a lot of friends date and then break up and it’s so awkward afterwards. My suggestion would be to at least wait until you’re a little older, and if you still like him decide whether you really think it would work, or if you value his friendship too much to risk losing it. But no matter what you decide I hope it works out for you!
October 31st, 2008 11:38
Thank you thank you thank you!!!!When ever I ask my friends they’re just like”OMG STOP TALKING ABOUT HIM!!!!!!” So thank you…..ya i guess I am a little young….:[
November 1st, 2008 00:57
dating sounds so awkward-making sometimes …
i cant date till im 16, family rule
i sorta agree …
im 14 atm
with no interest in dating
i probably will by the time im 16 tho
…
November 1st, 2008 06:16
Amy-la- Ok, u said ripped jeans and a black tank top? I don’t think so. Specials wear all gray silk!!! I should bonk you on the head for not remembering.
November 4th, 2008 08:22
I went as a midnighter… It was really easy, I just used my own stuff, with some extra metal jewelery. It was just SO easy, and I didn’t have to spend any money =] I had my costume on at school, too, because at my school you’re supposed to on Halloween, but I basically looked like me =]
November 5th, 2008 13:16
I went as a Special…
funny, it never even occurred to me to go as midnighter or anything ._.
i found this random white T-shirt, turned it inside out and slit part of the collar/side/shoulders and laced ribbons trhough instead and added permanent marker random stuff…. with SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES on the back… then used a face crayon thing to do black flash tatts on my face and arm. it was fun. XD
yeah, grey silk, but i had no grey silk.
and i was being a cutter special. cutters can just look like normal teens. *shifty look*
i should go post up a picture of that shirt…or a picture of me wearing it… XD
October 15th, 2009 07:46
Hello I was wondering if you or any of the Uglies fans out there would have a plain image of Tally Youngblood’s flash tattoo? As I am a senior in high school this year I really want to do something “Special” for Halloween and what better way than a bubble-head to dress for Halloween as a Special?
Thanks to anyone that can help!