Resolved

Figured out what I wanted from Amazon. I remembered about the Luna plush Aurora made and looked up the current offerings. The last time I looked, there weren't any being fulfilled by Amazon, so she didn't qualify for free shipping. But this time there were some being Amazon-fulfilled, and she only cost a dollar more than she would with tax if I bought her around here. I decided that was what I really wanted most right now, along with the Mannix book. Better to get her with the gift card and save my cash for other things I might find locally.

I like the birthday order from Amazon to be a little unique. So if there's not enough DVDs I want the most that are cheap enough, it makes sense to get something other than a DVD. Maybe my next order can be the Perry set (if only it would be cheap enough again then!) and the Vega$ set.

Now I just hope Amazon packages Luna better than they packaged Shadow or those comic books. I wish they had a box to leave special instructions, like they do on Build-a-Bear's website.

I bought Applejack with my coupon, by the way. I was able to get a friend to take me. Dad came down sick and didn't feel like going, and I didn't feel like asking him again when I realized he was sick. He probably wouldn't have felt like it even if he hadn't been sick, though, since I want to go out on my birthday this week.

I did end up thinking more seriously about maybe getting Rainbow Dash, since she's retiring, but the last one was just being sold, and I really wanted Applejack more, so I'm pretty happy with that. I just hope that I'll have another chance to get Rainbow Dash later, if I decide I want her. You know, I've never even really looked her over very much because I wasn't that interested in buying her. I did wonder at giving Rainbow Dash curlyish hair, though! Maybe if they release her again, it will be properly straight.

Halloween likes

So I was having a conversation with someone about Halloween stores and how gory some of the stuff in the Spirit Halloween chain is. I've only been in there a couple of times, or maybe just once, and I remember seeing this awful head or bust that had a knife stuck right through the face. Ick!

That sort of thing is definitely not my cup of tea. I like spooky things, like graveyards or spider webs, and am amused by talking or crawling skeletons and the like. But I don't like grotesque things like half-bodies or severed body parts or other things that seem to exist just to gross people out.

I think, aside from the high cost of admission, that's why I haven't ever tried going to a haunted house/castle/forest/etc., because while I might be able to find someone to go with me, I'm a little worried that it wouldn't just be spooky, since gross-out seems to be the order of the day. And if there was too much gross-out and too little spooky, I probably wouldn't like it and I might even be so grossed out that I'd throw up. So embarrassing. If I knew of a place that really was just spooky, though, I'd probably try to go.

I haven't ever said this before because I figured I was in a minority and that most people wanted Halloween as gory as possible. But thinking on it more, it's kind of the same principle that causes a lot of people to dislike modern horror films, saying they're just mindlessly gory and gross instead of creepy and spooky. So with that in mind, I'm surely not in such a small camp. And even if I am, oh well, I've never been conventional in my life.

So excited to start posting creepy stories! I'm debating whether to start my first octoberwriting fic now or wait until after midnight to start writing it. The mods are both MIA, so after trying and failing to contact them I decided to organize an unofficial October Writing challenge this year since I wanted to participate so bad and had been planning on it for months. Several people also expressed interest, so good luck to us! If anyone else wants to join in, feel free!