The Last Poster Wins [v29]

[Lychee]

Oh gosh, civil war reenactments sound scary! I can't imagine it easily... I dont think I'd like them tho. Explosions irl are not my jam!

Fantasy ren is so fun! I would definitely go to that. Fairy forest!! Did you win a contest for being a fairy, or for something else?
Theres a midwinter apple cider festival coming up near my town, and people dress like spooky bog monsters and fae, wear skulls and horns and tangles of vines- they have a costume contest there, and a storytelling one! And fortune telling, bands, big burning of apple themed things, and crowd chanting to apple trees n stuff. I've never entered either, but I always love to dress up and drink around the bonfires listening to spooky tales.
Just imagining if it was cold again~ what costume would you dress up in for a vaguely pagan midwinter bonfire?

[Neo Emolga]

Oh gosh, civil war reenactments sound scary! I can't imagine it easily... I dont think I'd like them tho. Explosions irl are not my jam!

Fantasy ren is so fun! I would definitely go to that. Fairy forest!! Did you win a contest for being a fairy, or for something else?
Theres a midwinter apple cider festival coming up near my town, and people dress like spooky bog monsters and fae, wear skulls and horns and tangles of vines- they have a costume contest there, and a storytelling one! And fortune telling, bands, big burning of apple themed things, and crowd chanting to apple trees n stuff. I've never entered either, but I always love to dress up and drink around the bonfires listening to spooky tales.
Just imagining if it was cold again~ what costume would you dress up in for a vaguely pagan midwinter bonfire?

Yep, I won the contest as a faerie! It was great fun. I tried it again the following year (the year before COVID), but I'm quite sure they recognized me and I didn't even get in as a runner up. But I have a feeling I know why and they just wanted to be fair to everyone else there. I think I'm going to opt out of the contest, but I'll still don my usual faerie costume for the fun and not to try and win again. I just need to make sure it still works and the fan and battery pack still function right. And yeah, the New York Renaissance Faire has fortune-tellers, too, although that's one thing I've never tried. The thought of trying it does tingle my curiosity.

The faerie costume works great when it's hot out, but if it gets colder, I have a Final Fantasy white mage cosplay that works better if it's nippy out (the last weekend of the faire can be a little chilly when it goes into October), although that gets people telling me "they need healing!" As a fun joke, I could ask them where it hurts, and when they show me, slap a Band-Aid on it. XD