Halloween costumes size 30w

(Posting this on behalf of a friend without reddit (ftr I'm also autistic). Feel free to PM me and I'll put you in touch!)
About them:

• Autistic, NB, 28yo, doing a PhD in the UK
• They have EDS, so their energy levels are often low
• Special interests: Railways, Knitting (or any fibrecraft), Will happily tell you the details of their PhD (plant sciences)
• Favourite TV shows: Shetland, Medical Documentaries, Forensics Documentaries, Queer Eye, Great British Sewing Bee, Great British Bake Off (especially earlier seasons)
• They love Harry Potter but are boycotting JKR.
• They love Routine, Explicitness, and Order (deliberately capitalised).
• They LOVE cats (a cat that’s quiet, extremely predictable, and sits next to you? *chefs kiss*).
• Their sense of humour is very punny. They find faces scary, and don’t tend to like direct eye-contact. They think Halloween costumes and fancy dress are scary, and call all such costumes “disguises”.
• They’re passionate about disability access and are an ambulatory wheelchair user.
• They are honest and direct, caring, funny, really smart, logical, and often very sad. But they never want or ask for anything more than just company in those sad moments.

About you:

• Are direct and want friends who are direct.
• Are over 18.
• Are interested in meeting either online, or if in person, in the UK.

(Posting this on behalf of a friend without reddit. Feel free to PM me and I'll put you in touch!)
About them:

• Autism, NB, 28yo, doing a PhD in the UK
• They have EDS, so their energy levels are often low
• Special interests: Railways, Knitting (or any fibrecraft), Will happily tell you the details of their PhD (plant sciences)
• Favourite TV shows: Shetland, Medical Documentaries, Forensics Documentaries, Queer Eye, Great British Sewing Bee, Great British Bake Off (especially earlier seasons)
• They love Harry Potter but are boycotting JKR.
• They love Routine, Explicitness, and Order (deliberately capitalised).
• They LOVE cats (a cat that’s quiet, extremely predictable, and sits next to you? *chefs kiss*).
• Their sense of humour is very punny. They find faces scary, and don’t tend to like direct eye-contact. They think Halloween costumes and fancy dress are scary, and call all such costumes “disguises”.
• They’re passionate about disability access and are an ambulatory wheelchair user.
• They are honest and direct, caring, funny, really smart, logical, and often very sad. But they never want or ask for anything more than just company in those sad moments.

About you:

• Are direct and want friends who are direct.
• Are over 18.
• Are interested in meeting either online, or if in person, in the UK.

I hided one chat by mistake 14 days ago, sorry. You wrote something about bulbasaur and I don't know your name, cause it happened so far. Please dm me again.
LF: (all Shiny) Pikachu with different hats and caps (see below), Nidorino/Ratticate/Wobbuffet with party hat, [Chingling], Mantyke, unowns, Eevee with hat (Party hat, Winter 2022, Safari Zone), Slowpoke with 2020 glasses, Pikachu/Vulpix with Halloween costume/Dia de Muertos Cubone, Rotom, Lapras with Bow (Blanche), Elekid from Spark, Ponyta from Candela, Psyduck with Christmas hat, [Cherubi] (all Shiny)
LF: costume Pikachus (Shiny) - all Shiny: Pikachu with ... witch hat (OctobeNovember 2017), [detective hat (May 2019)], red party hat (February/March 2020/February 2024) , Charizard cap (May 2020), Rayquaza cap (May 2020), libre Pikachu, Holiday Pikachu (December 2020), Pop star Pikachu, Rock star Pikachu (Go Fest 2021), [Safari Zone (November 2022 with two green balloons)], Eevee with Red Party hat, [Pikachu Go Tour: Hoenn With black white beanie (Brendan Hat)] and [Red May bow (February 2023)]*, Blue Citrus Shirt Pikachu (Jeju Island, South Korea July 2023), World Championships Pikachu (August 2023), Tricks and Treats Pikachu with Pumpkin costume (October 2023), Holiday Attire Pikachu (December 2023), Flying Bali Balloon (black/red) Balloon Pikachu (both March 2024)

• costume mons: Nidorino/Raticate/Wobbuffet with party hat (all Shiny)
• Baby mons: [Chingling]*, Mantyke (all Shiny)
• costume Baby mons e. g. Pichu with black witch/ash hat (all Shiny)
• different unowns (all Shiny): F, I, J, K L, M, P, Q, R, V, W, X, Z
• different costume starters (all Shiny)
• Shiny Castform (Icy)
• Cherrim (Overcast, Sunshine) (both Shiny)
• question mark unown (non-Shiny)
• clone Pokemons excerpt Pikachu
• Spinda No. 1, 2, 3, 6 (all Shiny)

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FT: all regionals like Comfey, unowns (non Shiny), CDay mons, (Ekans, Growlithe, Rattata), Hitmonlee, Alolan Sandshrew, Alolan Meowth, Alolan Marowak, purified Koffing, Sentret, Marill, Snubull, Sneasel, Torchic, Volbeat, Feebas, Wailord, Kricketot, Bronzor, Audino, Minccino, Makuhita, Larvitar, Seadra, Sudowoodo, Scyther, Cyndaquil, Absol, Rufflet, Burmy green, Panpour, Woobat, Buneary, Go Fest Pikachu August 2022, Inkay, Shellos, Lickitung, Woobat, Hisuian Avalugg, Helioptile, Hisuian Typhlosion, Wyrdeer (all Shiny), Spinda No. 9 from Valentines Day, unown G, Surskit, Galar Stunfisk
(Non-Shiny) all Regionals like Pikachu with Okinawan Kariyushi Shirt, Comfey and different non-Shiny unowns
Shiny Legendary/Mythical: Registeel, Regice, Mesprit, Uxie, Palkia, [Regigigas], Heatran, Cresselia, Terrakion, Ho-Oh, [Reshiram], [Kyogre (special attack)], Groudon (special attack), Cobalion, Virizion, Tapu Fini, [Tapu Koko], Tapu Bulu, [Kartana]*, Latios (all Shiny), Armored Mewtwo
Shiny Costumes: [Lapras with scarf], [Snorlax with Cowboy hat, Go Fest Pikachu with scarf (2022)], Cubchoo with bow, bulbasauCharmander with party hat, Pikachu with jewels (Red, green, yellow), Pikachu with white headscarf (Lumias hat) ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Please dm me.
PS: Maybe we can do shiny trades at the same time from your alt to my main and vice versa. My alts have Shinies too. DM me for more informations.
*[ ] means: maybe saved for another trading partner; just ask how it is the status quo.

Don’t know if I should’ve posted this as Discussion or Fan Content so I made this thread for both lol.
I made a post speaking on this idea about a year or 2 ago but recently wanted to put it back out there after seeing the amazing Dungeons n Dragons collaboration.I just been thinking of how creative dbd could get even more with unique crossovers, cosmetics specifically, such as with the AOT release.
Imagine a Halloween DbdxMarvel collab with Dwight having the infamous tattered and beat up Spider-Man costume with the half ripped face mask. Or DbdxDC and having Dwight in a Batman costume, with cool details such as his cape waving when he runs, vault or drop. For killers having a Nemesis Bane outfit or having a legendary Bane skin itself would be cool too, or Trickster as Joker or Harley Quinn, with the infamous bat from the suicide squad movie.
I remember someone stating that collaborations such as these would “un-horror” dbd, but in my opinion, I’ve been playing Dbd since 2018 while having a fun experience also, but I feel as if the horror in the game becomes watered down a bit and it begins to just become a regular competitive multiplayer game. To include, when I see outfits like Dwight’s toilet paper outfit(my fave outfit in the game) or Claudette’s fairy dress outfit, I begin to see more of humor and creativity by the devs from those outfits(which are still amazing costumes in my opinion), and less of seriousness and horror in it anyway.
Drop down in the thread of some cool collabs DBD could have with survivor and killer aesthetics and outfits. Another one would be Mortal Kombat and having someone in Raiden’s outfit(glowing eyes included) or someone like Pinhead dressed as Quan Chi.

(Copypasta from the Washington Post that I thought the group might find interesting.)
They called themselves the Wide Awakes. They are a lesson in building a political movement.
Opinion by Jon Grinspan May 14, 2024 at 5:30 a.m. CT Washington Post Jon Grinspan is curator of political history at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and author of “Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War.”
They called themselves the Wide Awakes: one of America’s largest, weirdest and most consequential political organizations, now nearly forgotten. In Boston, many had escaped slavery. In St. Louis, many were radical German immigrants. In D.C., their rallies mixed Yankee federal clerks with sons of Southern families. In Connecticut, where they got started, they were working-class kids with shady political backstories. And in 1860, this diverse coalition of young Americans drew the line against slavery and help to elect Abraham Lincoln.
Their success can tell us a lot about cobbling together a coalition in a fractured, tribal, distrustful age.Clad in militaristic black capes, marching by torchlight through America’s cities, the Wide Awakes alarmed the Southern aristocracy of enslavers — which was exactly what they hoped to do. The movement drew its mammoth size and unnerving force from the resentment many Americans felt toward “Slave Power”: the wealthy planters who pushed to expand slavery and brutally suppressed opposition.
Started by a few kids barely old enough to vote in February 1860, the Wide Awakes were believed to be half a million strong by August of that year, with companies from Maine to California, Virginia to Kansas.
To understand how shocking this coalition was, we need to rethink the politics of antebellum America.
Instead of a nation split between the absolutes of Slavery and Freedom, most Americans fell somewhere on a spectrum between the two. Just 2 percent of the population in 1860 actually enslaved anyone, and those Americans trapped in slavery made up another 12 percent of the nation’s men, women and children. That left 86 percent of Americans who were neither enslavers nor enslaved. Some enthusiastically supported slavery, while others prayed for the practice to end. But most — especially among the large northern majority — found slavery distasteful while also objecting to what they saw as the radicalism of Abolition.
Caught in the middle, this majority bounced from party to party, explaining much of the tumult of mid-19th-century politics. Enslavers skillfully exploited the unsettled situation and spent the 1850s demanding more slave states, the right to keep enslaved people even in free states, the prohibition of speech and writing against slavery, and a requirement that free states assist in hunting fugitives.
This outsize influence was backed by real and threatened violence, from the plains of Kansas to the halls of Congress. “I have no objection to the liberty of speech,” sneered Alexander Stephens, the future vice president of the Confederacy, so long as “the liberty of the cudgel is free to combat it.”
The moderate majority began to feel as though slavery was at war with democracy, trampling upon their own rights along with the rights of the enslaved. Young people decided they’d had enough.
A gawky 19-year-old textile clerk, Edgar Yergason, started it all. “Fastidious” about his clothes, Eddie prepared for a torch-lit rally of the anti-slavery Republican Party on Feb. 25, 1860, by fashioning a shiny black cape to protect his new coat from dripping torch-oil. Yergason’s fellow clerks made capes, too. This oddly uniformed corps led a march through Hartford that night, while their friends beat back a mob of proslavery Democrats. Proud of their costumes and their fighting skills, Eddie’s friends met in a dingy third-floor apartment to formalize their association. After selecting a brawny 27-year-old leader for their “captain,” they cast about for a name. One fellow shouted: “Why not name it ‘Republican Wide Awakes?’” It was time that they wake up to the threat slavery posed to democracy.Their “army” of young civilians — clerks and farm boys and apprentice blacksmiths — spread from coast to coast. Uniting in “companies” drilled by “captains,” young people joined together, energized by this militaristic sense of awakening. In an age of rowdy, boozy politics, the Wide Awakes stood out for their stoic, silent midnight marches, not exactly fun but stirring and spectacular. In an age of chaos, their discipline sent a political message.
Wide Awake companies fought as bodyguards for Republican anti-slavery speakers, escorting Lincoln and many others. Bloodied young men, still in their signature capes and caps, sat onstage at rallies as proof of the antidemocratic forces aligned against them.
This anger joined strange bedfellows. Before 1860, teetotaling Yankee abolitionists disliked beer-drinking German radicals, who hated Know Nothing gang members, who shunned African American fugitives, who distrusted antislavery Southerners. But a shared enmity toward the Slave Power united them all, what historian Henry Adams later called “the systemic organization of hatreds” at the root of politics. Lewis Hayden, who had escaped slavery in Kentucky, led a company of Black Wide Awakes in Boston in the same movement as the nastily racist Frank Blair Jr. in St. Louis. Some Wide Awakes were truly admirable, others quite distasteful, but all were united under Yergason’s cape design.
The Wide Awakes claimed to have “no warlike intentions,” but Democrats were skeptical. In the North, Democratic newspapers legitimately worried that “politico-military” clubs would mean “our elections will become pitched battles.” Across the South, panicked newspapers spread wild, violent rumors. One ex-governor told Virginians that they would soon be “cut to pieces by the Wide Awakes.”
On Election Day, club members woke up communities with 5 a.m. fireworks, then marched to the polls. Turnout was high: 81 percent. By the end of the day, Lincoln had won an unusual victory, taking nearly 60 percent of the electoral vote but less than 40 percent of the popular vote in a four-way race. This awkward mandate meant that for all the Republicans talk of “majority rule,” no one could really bring unity, or even basic agreement, in such a fractured land. But the Wide Awakes lit Lincoln’s plurality with torchlight, until the movement’s shadow loomed larger than the actual Republican Party.
Many agreed with the New York Tribune’s assessment that the Wide Awakes were “the most imposing, influential and potent political organization, which ever existed in this country.”
As the nation spiraled toward the Civil War, Wide Awake clubs armed as paramilitary forces, who did some of the first fighting in the conflict. And their members enlisted in huge numbers in the Union Army that finally killed slavery.
Today, progressive activists online sometimes name-check the Wide Awakes, styling them as woke heroes from the past. But they were really something more complex — and more thrilling: a genuine coalition of people who couldn’t agree on much but who marched side-by-side against the greatest threat to democracy.

And then it took me another 13 years to crack my egg... Anyone else have huge flags that you feel like you should've noticed before realizing you're trans?
I never really did costumes for Halloween, but when I had this idea I knew had to do it, lol. My mom and gf at the time knew nothing about scene style so it looked... not quite right for the style. But getting ready and going there was such an amazing experience!
My mom did her best to tease my hair for me and do my makeup. I borrowed one of my ex's bras and stuffed it with socks. And it was my women's cut Breathe Carolina tee that I bought at hot topic, first ever women's clothing item I bought! All I wore back then were Levi's skinny jeans and band tees, lol.

So long story short I have always felt there was something "off" with me. I spent years self diagnosing everything from adrenal fatigue to food intolerances to toxic mold to intestinal parasites. Finally got a sleep study through lofta and turns out I have mild to moderate sleep apnea. Something like 13 apneas an hour but more concerning was the shallow breathing, which occurs frequently with me I was told.
Since I was a teen (late 30s now) I remember waking up sooo groggy like I was drunk. I was a big football player in high school so it makes sense. Into adulthood this turned into a heavy reliance on caffeine. I'd need atleast 400mgs just to start to function. Typically I'd have enough energy to hit the gym and then just feel blah the rest of the day.
My symptoms include depression, anxiety, lack of motivation, blunted personality, anhedonia, traits of bipolar and ocd though not officially diagnosed (100% I have ocd tho), random joint pain/swelling, GI issues such as bloating, constipation, dull appearance (skin and hair) and issues with water retention (increased cortisol perhaps?)
I just ordered my cpap (airsense 11, hope it's good). I know it's not going to solve all my problems but I'm curious to see what improves with cpap. I dawned on me that I may have been dealing with sleep apnea since puberty and that I haven't had a solid night's sleep in decades (well once in 2014 I woke up feeling great lol) I just got labwork done and everything was normal thankfully so fingers crossed.
If it doesn't help at least I already have my Bane costume ready for Halloween
Has anyone else experienced symptoms similar to mine that improved with CPAP?

I have this crazy Halloween costume idea as a goal, and I know that to really pull it off, I need to get started now. I might be crazy—I'm a 40-year-old mom of 2—but if not now, when? So, I need a solid plan to get going.
I'm 5'1" and 133 lbs, and I have a gym membership. My husband and I just started doing a high-energy kickboxing class three days a week, which is great. But I know that to get in the best shape of my life, I need to get my meals in order. The real issue is that my family all likes to eat different things, so I end up eating the least common denominator, which isn't the healthiest.
I'm posting this as a flag in the ground for accountability and to ask for any advice you might have.
I was thinking about adding photos but I am not sure if anyone I actually know will see this, and I am not sure I want those types of photos getting out.
Edited because this my be confusing: the reason I say 12-week plan is that I am going to have to make this entire costume and I want to have a pretty solid size plan before I start making it, so I can't keep getting too much smaller after I start making it.

I'm debating between a Crossbody Purse or Small Backpack to bring in the parks. This would be for extended hours or Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween. When I need less stuff during the day.
During the day I have my backpack. But looking for something smaller for later in the day when I need less stuff. I keep going back and forth between Crossbody Purse or Small Backpack. Fanny packs will not work for me. For example, I plan on wearing a costume to Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween.
Any suggestions? Is Crossbody Purse more comfortable than a tiny backpack? Or is it a purse? I don't plan on putting too much. Just my phone, wallet, and SPF stick.

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I'm looking for a costume for Halloween and decided I wanted to cosplay as Silk for the occasion. The problem I've encountered after looking for a suit is the lack of existing sellers online for Cindy Moon/Silk cosplays. Does anyone have any suggestions for places or stores to look into that may have the suit I'm looking for? For context, I am an amateur cosplayer.

I learned (from watching American movies) that kids go trick-or-treating from door to door. What about the adults?
Do they attend costume parties? Do they just stay home and do nothing?
What is the tradition for adults during Halloween?