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[Licorice.]

@TyrannosaurusWreck
The story is so cute and creative c: I might add yellow wings instead of the white ones if the spider is trying to be a bumble bee. You could also use coal from the Christmas event to make stripes on the wings. I was looking through your "mascots/irl pets group", and I was thinnking that you could use bumble instead because it is more bumble bee colored. Or you could use Axe from the group "spiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspider" because it is bumble bee colored. You could just transfer the items from the current spider to one of these. If you have any questions about what this means feel free to pm me!

[popping star]

@TyrannosaurusWreck
The story is so cute and creative c: I might add yellow wings instead of the white ones if the spider is trying to be a bumble bee. You could also use coal from the Christmas event to make stripes on the wings. I was looking through your "mascots/irl pets group", and I was thinnking that you could use bumble instead because it is more bumble bee colored. Or you could use Axe from the group "spiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspider" because it is bumble bee colored. You could just transfer the items from the current spider to one of these. If you have any questions about what this means feel free to pm me!

Pets cannot use their design as part of their costume, so using a pet that already looks like a bumble bee wouldn't be allowed. A good way to check if a pet is using part of its design is to see if the costume is recognizable on another pet. If it isn't, then the pet is using their design.

[Licorice.]

@TyrannosaurusWreck
The story is so cute and creative c: I might add yellow wings instead of the white ones if the spider is trying to be a bumble bee. You could also use coal from the Christmas event to make stripes on the wings. I was looking through your "mascots/irl pets group", and I was thinnking that you could use bumble instead because it is more bumble bee colored. Or you could use Axe from the group "spiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspider" because it is bumble bee colored. You could just transfer the items from the current spider to one of these. If you have any questions about what this means feel free to pm me!

Pets cannot use their design as part of their costume, so using a pet that already looks like a bumble bee wouldn't be allowed. A good way to check if a pet is using part of its design is to see if the costume is recognizable on another pet. If it doesn't work, then the pet is using their design.

Would it be allowed to use a yellow or black spider and put stripes made out of something else on the pet to make it look like a bumble bee?

[TyrannosaurusWreck]

@TyrannosaurusWreck
The story is so cute and creative c: I might add yellow wings instead of the white ones if the spider is trying to be a bumble bee. You could also use coal from the Christmas event to make stripes on the wings. I was looking through your "mascots/irl pets group", and I was thinnking that you could use bumble instead because it is more bumble bee colored. Or you could use Axe from the group "spiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspider" because it is bumble bee colored. You could just transfer the items from the current spider to one of these. If you have any questions about what this means feel free to pm me!

thanks so much for the tips, ill keep them in mind! also, i just changed the fuzzy antennae to robot antennae since they fit better on the spider
however, i want to keep skitters as my trick or treater since i used him last year, but thank you anyway!


edit: i also removed the background so the costume itself is more visible, and i added a description of the additional costume parts to the story:

Skitters eagerly grabbed his striped socks he got from last year's Halloween, and slipped them on over his legs. Last year, he happened to find a hat to wear as his costume, but this time, he was planning ahead! He had decided that he wanted to be a bumble bee. He tied two pieces of plastic and a stick to his abdomen to mimic wings and a stinger, and tied a handband made of pipecleaners as antennae. As a final touch, he wore a piece of a wig on his abdomen so he could be as fuzzy as a bumblebee. Although it was a rather quaint costume, it was the best he could do. After all, many costumes don't come in spider sizes!
Skitters looked at his reflection in a puddle so he could judge for himself if the costume was decent enough. If he had teeth, he would have grinned; the costume was amazing! He was especially grateful for the socks, as they had been gifted to him while he was trick-or-treating the previous year.
At this point in his life, he was used to the occasional stares and startled jumps from other trick-or-treaters as he crawled from house to house, balancing his candy basket in between his costume's wings. Skitters had learned a lot about trick-or-treating from last year. He remembered to bring a container to hold candy so he wouldn't have to eat it right away, and to only ring the doorbells of houses with lights on.
After nearly getting stepped on multiple times while walking along the busiest areas for trick-or-treating, he had obtained a decent amount of candy to eat. "Just a few more houses," he thought to himself blissfully, excited to begin eating his hard-earned candy. He saw another house with its lights on, and approached it. After his usual multiple attempts at reaching the doorbell, he finally pressed it, and hopped back down. He stood, patiently waiting for the door to open, eager to say his favorite words, "Trick or treat!"

[popping star]

Pets cannot use their design as part of their costume, so using a pet that already looks like a bumble bee wouldn't be allowed. A good way to check if a pet is using part of its design is to see if the costume is recognizable on another pet. If it doesn't work, then the pet is using their design.

Would it be allowed to use a yellow or black spider and put stripes made out of something else on the pet to make it look like a bumble bee?

If that's the only thing making the pet look like a bee, then that would be considered using the pet's design as well.

[Licorice.]

@TyrannosaurusWreck
The story is so cute and creative c: I might add yellow wings instead of the white ones if the spider is trying to be a bumble bee. You could also use coal from the Christmas event to make stripes on the wings. I was looking through your "mascots/irl pets group", and I was thinnking that you could use bumble instead because it is more bumble bee colored. Or you could use Axe from the group "spiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspider" because it is bumble bee colored. You could just transfer the items from the current spider to one of these. If you have any questions about what this means feel free to pm me!

thanks so much for the tips, ill keep them in mind! also, i just changed the fuzzy antennae to robot antennae since they fit better on the spider
however, i want to keep skitters as my trick or treater since i used him last year, but thank you anyway!

No problem. If you looked at what @oddeye said, it would be breaking the rules (I forgot that you could not use the pets design as part of the costume... I was just trying to get a bumble bee). I have my fingers crossed for your form to get accepted and I hope to see you in the LOLO game!

[Crimson-Wisp]

@TyrannosaurusWreck

What I'd do is look for small yellow and black items like candies, easter eggs, coal, ect
And turn the thorax yellow with black stripes.
If you could find yellow hair like item, perhaps use that on the back or head and add a few small stripes too?

[TyrannosaurusWreck]

thanks everyone ^^ i updated the costume so hopefully its enough!

[Celozon]

I wanted to also post this here as a quick announcement, it has already been posted in the LOLO discord.

This is concerning a rule change that was made with which there was some confusion. As of this year we have decided to lift the rule concerning stories in which, previously, your trick or treater would not be allowed to be described as the actual thing they are dressing up as. (ex. dog dressing up as a ghost vs. dog being an actual ghost). As of this year we are allowing those stories, at the discretion of the thread mods. If it is being used to insert inappropriate content (ex. describing the ghost dog's death) you will still be asked to change your story.

I apologize for any confusion this rule change created, I had failed to set a reminder to myself and the other thread staff about this rule change this year so we had been continuing to enforce this rule. If your form has been declined because of this rule, and you would like to use the original version of your story, please PM the thread mod who declined your form and let them know this, and show them the story version you would like to use. If you have any questions or concerns about this please feel free to message me.

Just to clear this up from the recent conversation here, this is not related to the 'cannot use the pet's design as part of the costume' rule. The rule this is referring to is specifically with stories in which the pet is dressed in a costume that follows rules, but the story is saying the pet is what they are dressing as. To use the recent convo as an example, if the bee costume were accepted and the story were then to say the pet is an actual bumblebee. Previously this would not have been allowed, now it is. However all rules concerning the costumes themselves are still the same.

[sumashira]

I realized that we're less than a week away! I was going to go trick-or-treating in LOLO - my costumed pet is even in my signature - but at the last moment I decided I'd rather just give out treats. I achieved my goal and I decided this is a good way to help people achieve theirs. :)

I might change my zebra into a greeter instead, but I would have to find items to do that. Does anyone have ideas? ^^