5. Taako Thursday

[continuousgroaning]

[Tina is at the Adventure House after school on this day; there's a smidge of glue and some smidges of green makeup on her face.]

So is anybody else going to go trick-or-treating this year? I feel like I'm almost too old for it, but I came up with such a great idea, I couldn't resist...

[She proudly holds up a crude drawing of herself, in a taco costume, with a wizard's hat on.]

A Taako Taco. It's going to be great.

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[extremeteenbible]

[ Guess who's replying from the backyard, even though he could just walk inside and see it in person? This dwarf. ]

Ooohhhh!

...I don't get it.

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[continuousgroaning]

[Hey, Tina's been guilty of this herself.]

Which part of it?

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[fettering]

ive never been!
i dont think anyones ever too old for candy, tho
and you could always go to some halloween events
i know i see stuff advertised sometimes back home
and im sure it happens here too

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[continuousgroaning]

True, but some people don't want to hand out candy to older kids :)

yeah, that's true! and sometimes teenagers throw parties but i think there's drinking at them a lot and i'm still too young for that

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[ghoulking]

I don't think you are too old. Have fun with it, I heard it's a holiday a lot of kids enjoy.

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[continuousgroaning]

I keep going back and forth on whether I'm too old. I'll be 14 soon, but I want to do it one last time, too...

[poreiavian]

From what I understand, Halloween is about free candy and dressing up. Anyone who is too old for that is missing out on a great opportunity.

[continuousgroaning]

Yeah, but where I come from it's mostly little kids who do it, and older kids are frowned on. I'm right on the edge of too old.

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[specialise]

[ her eyes are narrowed as she tries to wrack her brain for the definition of "trick-or-treating". she's googled it, tina! she swears. ]

Is trick-or-treating dressing up as a taco with a wizard hat? That's pretty cool, but it's not for me.

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[continuousgroaning]

[Tina giggles.]

Nah, you can choose any costume you want to, actually. And you can go to parties, or on a night close to Halloween, go door-to-door and get candy. The night you do that is different in every city, though.

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[hellosirs]

... Okay, I have a lot of questions right now?

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[continuousgroaning]

Go on.

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[magmamia]

Why is this food product a wizard?

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[continuousgroaning]

Taako- he's my friend- is a wizard. I thought it was a cool pun but I never stopped to think that people might not know who Taako is... or what a taco is.

[lasersounds]

[Oh. My. God.]

Yes. Perfect choice.

[continuousgroaning]

I thought so. It'll be easy to make, too, even if I'm just realizing not everyone may get the pun

[am_i_a_monster]

I know what a taco is, but what's a taako? The hat?

[continuousgroaning]

He's my friend and housemate- he's a wizard. Though apparently people from his world don't know what tacos are.

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[flightforfreedom]

[Have an amused Poe, who has no idea what a Taako or a Taco is. Or, really, anything at all in this post.]

So what's trick-or-treating?

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[continuousgroaning]

It's part of a holiday celebration in my world. Kids dress up and go door-to-door for free candy.

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[journalkeeper]

[ Having eaten a Taco by now she actually gets the joke and gives a light laugh beneath a hand. ]

That's a delightful costume idea, Tina.

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[continuousgroaning]

Thank you. I'm pretty proud of myself for that one, even if not everyone gets it...

[aggressiveapathy]

Oh no. You're magically delicious.

[continuousgroaning]

I'll be the most popular food wizard. ... among people who get the pun, anyway.

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[kestreldawn]

What does that mean? "Trick-or-treating," I think you said?

And what is that strange drawing?

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[continuousgroaning]

It's a tradition around the time of Halloween in my world. Kids dress up in costumes and get free candy from adults. ... I'm not sure why, though. I never questioned it.

It's my costume idea. My friend Taako is a wizard, so I combined that with a taco. It's a kind of food.