nextgen_holiday (nextgen_holiday) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2011-10-31 13:20:00

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alex bowmaster, antaeus, anya stark, buck rogers, crosshairs, hajime, holiday, iron dragon, jenny woolverton, kalypso, kayura yagyu, mason jeffries, misha loganovich, nicholas salem, sylvia mccoy, tsunami, vincent vernard

All Hallow's Eve
All Hallow's Eve, or Halloween as it has been come to be called, is a popular holiday with children and adults alike. It is a holiday that had its roots in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain or Summer's End. Samhain celebrated the end of the "lighter half" of the year and the beginning of the "darker half".

On this evening the barriers between this world and the Otherworld were believed to be thin and the spirits, good and bad, of the dead could pass through. The spirits of the family's ancestors were welcomed in while evil and bad spirits were warded off by the wearing of masks and costumes. The costumes and masks disguised one as a harmful spirit and avoided harm from others.

It was also a harvest celebration and time to take stock of food stores for the winter. Livestock were slaughtered and the meat prepared for storage. It was the final harvest of the year and the crops were then stored for the winter. Celebrations included bonfires and tales of the family's ancestors.

It was a celebration of the dead and of the harvest.

Today we dress up in scary and not so scary costumes and masks and go door to door for candy or attend costume parties. It is a night for revelry, pranks and fun.

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	tabula_rasa 2011-11-02 04:32 am UTC (link)
	"That would be great. The spirits won't know what they missed." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sandcastlegod 2011-11-02 04:34 am UTC (link)
	And Corey will happily go in with her to the kitchen, where indeed there are numorous fresh apples washed and waiting, and other ingredients available. He'll wash his hands. "So how are things?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tabula_rasa 2011-11-02 04:40 am UTC (link)
	Jenny found a seat and settled into it. "Things are fine. No complaints." What complaint could she have? The team members she'd met had been perfectly nice, and the ones she hadn't would either be friendly or not. "Yankee Clipper seems to have taken to being the house cat very quickly." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sandcastlegod 2011-11-02 04:49 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah, he seems to like having the run of the place. And I try to make it up to him for the fact that he can't have my sustainably-fished tuna." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tabula_rasa 2011-11-02 04:32 pm UTC (link)
	"He likes to eat responsibly too," she said with a small laugh. "Or whatever someone else is having if it's tasty and well prepared. I think he was a chef is a former life." "Halloween seems popular among the adult population in New Orleans, but I suspect it's an excuse for a party." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sandcastlegod 2011-11-02 08:13 pm UTC (link)
	Corey grins. "You're getting the hang of the place all right." And the caramel is coming along for the apples to be dunked in. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tabula_rasa 2011-11-05 05:31 am UTC (link)
	Caramel was one of Jenny's big weaknesses. Chocolate was lovely, but the buttery sweet goodness of caramel knocked it out of the park. She dunked a wedge and took a bite. "For a party town, it's really pretty quiet on the villain front." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sandcastlegod 2011-11-05 05:34 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah, pretty much all ordinary criminals and the occasional Dangerous Sudden Threat of the Season. In between..." he shrugs. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tabula_rasa 2011-11-05 10:51 pm UTC (link)
	"Some guy tried to grab my bag over on Royal one evening, but he ran into a group of bikers who didn't like it. They decided to save me." She dunked another apple slice. "I think one of them asked me out." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sandcastlegod 2011-11-05 11:01 pm UTC (link)
	"Oh? Do you think you said yes?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tabula_rasa 2011-11-05 11:40 pm UTC (link)
	"I might have agreed that I'd make an appearance in a bar near there. I think it's called Sanctuary." She grinned. "I'm so used to not being asked out because of the 'don't touch me' vibes my brother swears I send out that it took me by surprise. So the guy either has no sense of self preservation, or he's scarier than I am." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sandcastlegod 2011-11-05 11:43 pm UTC (link)
	"So what was his name?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tabula_rasa 2011-11-05 11:50 pm UTC (link)
	"I don't know," she admitted, "but I'm sure I'll know who he is if I decide to show up. He has a red beard." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sandcastlegod 2011-11-05 11:52 pm UTC (link)
	"Red beared bikers. Sounds very Vikingesque" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tabula_rasa 2011-11-06 12:02 am UTC (link)
	"It's practically risk-free. He'll make a grab, get repelled by the kinetic field, and call me a dyke to save face. Hopefully the beer will have been paid for before that happens." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sandcastlegod 2011-11-06 12:04 am UTC (link)
	Corey frowns. "That's a strange form of optimism you've got going there." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

tabula_rasa
2011-11-06 12:24 am UTC (link)

"It works for me. I'd be the most pitiful person who couldn't date that you ever met without it." She smiled at him again. "I have optimism. From what I've read, it doesn't seem like a mutation appears without a counter or complimentary mutation also appearing in the population as well. Call it natural section, yin and yang, or whatever pop phrase is current, but I think it's likely that somewhere there's a mutant who can compliment me."

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	sandcastlegod 2011-11-06 01:25 am UTC (link)
	Corey grins, then clears his throat. "Your hair frames your face like a silent film star, and you've got cheekbones most sculptors would commit felonies to work with." He chuckles. So there you go. A mutant who can compliment you. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tabula_rasa 2011-11-06 01:37 am UTC (link)
	Jenny blinked at him for a moment before laughing out loud. "All right, all right." She shook an apple slice at him. "Mr. Drake, you're having some fun at my expense." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sandcastlegod 2011-11-06 01:39 am UTC (link)
	"And yet with complete accuracy!" Corey says, grinning between bites of his own. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tabula_rasa 2011-11-06 02:23 am UTC (link)
	"Terrible, complete accuracy," she said, still laughing. "My ego is fine, but thank you all the same." (Reply to this)(Parent)

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