Look at this cute costume choice!

[conuly]

I don't get it, though. Why did she dress up as two totally different, completely unrelated people? :P

Anecdotally, it seemed every other kid was in a superhero costume this year - especially the girls. Eva bucked the trend a bit - she made a Harley Quinn costume, complete with homemade mallet.

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Comments

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Nobody could avoid their own personal terrible stuff, obviously, or the terrible stuff of the people they personally knew, but they didn't have the terrible stuff of the entire world literally in their faces at all times, like we do now on our phones and lap-tops. There's a huge difference between reading in the newspaper that something terrible happened, and watching a hundred videos taken live by those to whom it happened.

[conuly]

Maybe - but there's also the difference of saying "These bad things happen every day, and those respected people are the ones who are doing it to me and my community" and saying "Look, I can prove it, here's 1000 videos of it in action". The latter is less terrible to me.