itstenafterfour:

officialprydonchapter:

archdemonblood:

dewyntersisters:

dewyntersisters:

if a teenager is at your door and they are wearing a costume!! please give them candy!! they are still in it for the halloween spirit and it honestly no different from a little kid in a costume. they are just as excited and happy as all the other lil tykes and dont you dare tell them they are “too old for trick-or-treating” because that will literally break their hearts and that’s not cool.

Its getting close to Halloween again so I just thought I’d reblog this again

And if “don’t be rude to teenagers over a stupid jawbreaker” isn’t enough for you, consider 

• You can’t tell how old a kid is just by looking. I’ve known multiple 5th graders who were taller than I am, and I’m 25 years old. With their faces hidden by masks, you won’t be able to tell they’re elementary schoolers, but they still are. 
  
• Lots of older siblings are expected to take their younger siblings trick-or-treating, and they only get paid in candy. 
• You don’t know if that teenager is developmentally disabled. 
• You don’t know if that teenager spent most of their childhood in a hospital or sick and has never had the traditional trick-or-treat experience before.
• You don’t know if this is that teenager’s first Halloween in America, and they just want to experience a piece of American culture.
• You don’t know if that teenager ever gets candy any other day of the year. 
• You don’t know if that teenager has eaten anything at all today. 

And those are just things I can think of off the top of my head. 

Also older teens/adults who trick-or-treat might have grown up in fundamentalist religious sects that believed that Halloween was satanic. Don’t fucking judge people it’s not that hard.

oh god I swear if you can’t give a fucking teenager a piece of candy please just consider this as well:

• halloween is one of the only bonding experiences a lot of teens get with their siblings. my sister gave me all her candy the night it was deemed that I became too “old” for halloween, then cried because she wanted to have some, but knew the holiday was ruined for me and thought I “deserved” candy. she had more heart than the adults at the homes where we trick or treated.
  
• halloween is also a bonding experience for most teens and their friends. many of them dump a lot of their own hard-earned money into costumes. as someone who used to babysit and tutor and wash cars for money to get myself a costume, it’s really disheartening to have the door slammed in your face.
  
• a lot of teens’ families can’t afford “halloween parties” or any other teenaged alternative. my family could never afford one of those, so our only means of celebrating was to trick-or-treat.
  
• would you rather that teenager go out and get smashed at a halloween party with kids their age and older, dressed in degrading costumes, which could end in disaster?
  
• that older teen might be trick or treating for a younger sibling who was too sick to come out. I knew a girl who was 17, went out for her little sister who was in the hospital getting surgery, and got the door slammed in her face and a treat bag quarter way full.

it’s not that hard to give a fucking polite (only the polite ones) teenager a piece of candy. jesus fucking christ. 

don’t be that guy.

lorelaigilmoure:

movies or tv shows, summer or winter, banana bread or cheesecake, swimming or hiking, nachos or popcorn, christmas or halloween, day or night, dogs or cats, phone or laptop, potato or rice, city or countryside, f.r.i.e.n.d.s. or how i met your mother

kembracaves:

getting married on Halloween would be great because
1) never have to worry about forgetting the anniversary
2) forget formal wear, guests should arrive in costumes
3) pumpkin pie wedding cake???
4) also I’d want to toss a pumpkin instead of a bouquet. just a whole pumpkin. just freakin launch that sucker behind my head. get wrecked