Hallowed Be Thy Ween.

[rogueslayer452]

++ One of the best things about Halloween, aside from everything, is how some websites tend to celebrate with their own thing. Google did theirs with the adorable wizard cat game once again, and Tumblr surprised many by bringing back the Boop-o-Meter they did for April 1st, this time making it a BOOp-o-Meter where the cat paws either were a mummy, skeleton, or ghost. I booped so many people, mutuals and strangers alike, and I finally got the grand achievement that I didn't get the last time by maxing out my boops! By the end, I ended up having the meter read "OMG" (for given) and "MAX" (for received). I'm pretty proud of myself. Is it silly? Well yeah, but we need a little silly and whimsy.

++ Taken from thefridayfive:

01. Do you celebrate or observe Halloween? How?
I celebrate in spirit, such as watching horror movies and I enjoy seeing the Halloween sections in stores, looking at all the different lawn decorations in neighborhoods. I just adore the vibe. I used to do trick-or-treating when I was younger, though not as often, and it kind of stopped around middle school age. However I have always loved Halloween and as an adult I do want to make more of an effort to do more, like, go all out.

02. What is your favorite Halloween candy?
I don't think I really had one? I'm just going to say anything chocolate (M&Ms, chocolate bars, etc), which is my go-to for anything candy related.

03. Do you get trick-or-treaters on Halloween?
Not really. It's been rather quiet over recent years.

04. Do you enjoy dressing up in costumes?
YES. Very much so. :) Sadly, I didn't dress up this year because I wasn't feeling well, and I didn't really have much of a plan of what I wanted to be.

05. What is your favorite Halloween memory?
Going trick-or-treating with my cousins in their neighborhood dressed as my own version of Clarissa Darling from Clarissa Explains It All (with a mixture of Sabrina the Teenage Witch), and accidentally saying "Happy Halloween" instead of "trick or treat" at one house. This was the Halloween where I was introduced to I Know What You Did Last Summer, too.


++ When it comes to Asian dramas, particularly cdramas, so far what I've been seeing flooding my Tumblr dash is Fangs of Fortune (which is about demons, not vampires sadly, at least I still got sexy vampire daddy in Snowfall for that to watch still), and that drama looks absolutely gorgeous with the cinematography and lighting. The other drama is Kill Me, Love Me, which so far what I've seen features a lot of whump and a lot of biting, and again, gorgeous cinematography. That one just became available on Netflix. And yet another drama just caught my eye recently called Love Game in Eastern Fantasy, a transmigration drama starring Esther Yu where her character, after attempting to write a negative comment about the ending of a webnovel, is sucked into the story as the villainous side character. Based on what little I've seen, it looks funny and Esther is adorable.

Comments

[violateraindrop]

I love the boops so much, but still didn't get past 150 or so. I also don't make a difference between strangers and people I follow. You have a boop button? You'll get booped!

[profiterole_reads]

*high-fives on the 150 boops* I did about the same in April and on Halloween.

[rogueslayer452]

Yep, any time I saw a boop button next to someone's username I would boop them. I tried to do every single boop too whenever I could (regular boop, super boop, and evil boop). Nobody was safe from being booped!

I seriously hope it becomes a tradition on Tumblr. It's such a great way of bringing users together as a community.

[fred_mouse]

I have the same approach! And I go through the list of 'who has booped me' and then boop them. Many boops. Unfortunately, I had to be away from the keyboard for an extended period, and by the time I got back the boopening was over :(

[profiterole_reads]

I saw that you had booped me, and even bOOooOped me (a new achievement that I discovered after the fact, like I discovered evil boops after the fact in April), but it was the day after, so I couldn't boop you back on Tumblr. I'm booping you here instead. 🐾

[rogueslayer452]

I don't even know how that new achievement even works or if you sent on since I didn't get notified that I did it, I'm assuming, based on some things, that it's if you've booped the same person multiple times in a row? IDK, but it's super cool and a cute idea regardless. Good to know that you received that from me!

Thank you for the boop. :) 🐾

[profiterole_reads]

Yes, several people were wondering about these notifications, and someone said it was 10 boops in a row.

[rhoda_rants]

I did participate in the boopening, but I witnessed a lot of it! I'm glad that's become tradition. It's the perfect harmless and cute prank type thing for the internet.

[rogueslayer452]

I hope it becomes a tradition on Tumblr from now on, and I hope that there are additional badges you can get. But regardless of the badges, it's just good harmless fun. I like that it kind of brings the Tumblr community together. :)

[rhoda_rants]

Gah--meant to say I did NOT participate. But yeah, I like the tradition! They have so many random holidays.

[night_owl_9]

Oh, I didn't know what that Boop thingy was on Tumblr! How fun!

[adore]

Love Game in Eastern Fantasy, a transmigration drama starring Esther Yu where her character, after attempting to write a negative comment about the ending of a webnovel, is sucked into the story as the villainous side character.

Villainess transmigration stories are going to be part of my media diet for the rest of my life. Thanks for mentioning this, it sounds like exactly my cup of tea and I had not heard about it before!

[pianogurl330]

I forgot about the Boop thing on Tumblr! Fun! :)

[rogueslayer452]

It is fun. :) I hope they make it a regular thing.

[elizalavelle]

I love when websites do their own silly things for holidays. The world is bleak on a lot of days. Having things that are fun is a nice little ray of sunshine.

I love Halloween and I'm the only one who dresses up at work but no one has told me I can't do it so I dress up and when we have clients it seems to make all of them smile. It's important to have fun :)