Shadow Demon Child

The sun has set and the porch lights are on –

Welcome to Jack-O-Treat: A Tumblr Trick-or-Treat Event!!!

Don your costumes and set out into our neighborhood of participating ‘house’ blogs for a night of trick-or-treating that lasts until the clock strikes midnight and November 1st calls all the ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties home!

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As a trick-or-treater, you can visit the following blogs through the end of the month, send an ask/message/submit-a-post/tag saying ‘trick or treat,’ and wait to see what treats –or tricks- they share! And hey, check the blogs out and consider giving them a follow!!

Here’s our delightfully frightful neighborhood of ‘house’ blogs as of October 12th, 2020:

@askaninsomniacskeleton

@askfnafcast

@ask-springsecurity

@chaospenelope

@ghosts-and-masks

@i-dont-need-socks-mom

@jack-o-chica-the-spooky-chick

@magichippos (New!!!)

@official-michael-afton

@shadow-dee-dee-official (New!!!)

@the-feral-one

@toonfanstars

@zhadow-bonnie

Thank you all for signing up and bringing this monstrous creation to life - you peeps are AWESOME, I appreciate every one of you and I hope you all have a spooktacular haunting season!!!

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It isn’t too late to sign up to be a house, either! Just send me an ask or message me and I’ll confirm your addition to the list! I’ll keep this post pinned to the top of my page, which will have the most up-to-date list of participating house blogs, as well as notices of any of the blogs that need to bow out early and put up the ‘out of candy’ sign (hey, life happens)! As a reminder, we’re going to try to keep the event PG-13. However, 18+ and NSFW blogs are welcome to sign up to be houses, just let me know so I can note it on our house list- still need the treats to be PG-13 though. Treats/tricks can be photos of a handful of candy, pre-made/on-the-fly art, short literary pieces, poems, or whatever the ‘house’ wants to give out as long as it sticks with the basic PG-13 rule. Oh, and no jump-scares as tricks/treats please!

Houses have anytime before Nov. 1st to respond to a knock at their door, so please be patient with the lovely folks who signed up to be our houses (though that deadline is pretty flexible because, again, life/delays happen). If you can, send your trick-or-treat greetings well before the end of the month to make sure the houses have time to get their treats ready.

This is a pretty low-key event and there’s no sense in getting stressed out over something that’s supposed to be fun, so if anything comes up or you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to me. That is especially true if anyone is being a jerk - please let me know and I will investigate.

A few additional notes:

You don’t have to be a FNAF blog to participate, nor do your tricks/treats have to be FNAF themed.

‘House’ blogs can also trick or treat!

All fandom/non-fandom blogs are welcome to join in!

You don’t need a muse to participate. You can just be your lovely offline self if you like!

Trick-or-treaters can visit as many ‘house’ blogs as they want - no shade if you just want to visit one or two particular blogs or the whole neighborhood.

Please only visit each ‘house’ once (unless the houses specifically encourage repeat visits, but that’s totally up to them).

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Thank you everyone who joins us on our (nearly) month-long Halloween night! Have fun, spread a little Halloween-y mischief if you want, be good to each other, and of course, happy haunting!!!

Jack-O-Chica: “Oh, something tells me that a spooky little creature such as yourself can appreciate the treat I’ve been saving for just the right trick-or-treater ...”

DO NOT REPOST THIS COMIC. IF YOU WANT TO SHARE IT, PLEASE DO SO FROM THE SOURCE.

Here is my submission for @zakeno’s Mental Health Zine to help fight stigma in the professional field. My contribution is about my experiences with Dissociative Identity Disorder, which is sadly highly stigmatized and misunderstood, even within the mental health field (despite there being tons of concrete research to support it). Coming out about having DID is a thing that makes me very nervous, admittedly, but I want people to know that Dissociative Identity Disorder is very real and we deserve to be acknowledged and not feel like our existence has to be hidden or shameful.

I’m posting this comic in full is because DID deserves so much more recognition than it gets, but please go check out the kickstarter for the full zine and consider supporting it:  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1056477701/the-animated-brain-mental-health-in-the-animation

Since I was limited to 5 pages for this specific project, this is only the very bare bones introduction to DID, and there is easily a million more things that can be talked about in how it presents and affects people individually, but hopefully this is a comprehensive introduction based on my personal experiences.

Even though this is only 5 pages, it was one of the most difficult projects we have done and took a few months because trying to get everyone as an alter to contribute when they were fronting to show our range in skills was a waiting game. Sadly, we were running out of time so sort of just had to have whoever was out at the end finish it (which was mostly Devyn).

Like briefly talked about in the comic, DID forms in response to repeated childhood trauma (generally by ages 6-9) when failing to integrate a singular sense of self is needed for survival. This failure to integrate experiences, memories, etc. leads to these self states being able to function independently from each other and control the body at different times with varying levels of amnesia between switches. As time goes on, the more each part experiences different aspects of day to day life, the more and more differentiated and developed they can become from each other. Even though alters can be highly distinct and can function as if they were individual people (and boy can it feel that way on top of a lot of us preferring to be acknowledged as separate from each other in our body), the reason it’s called Dissociative Identity Disorder and no longer goes by its outdated name, Multiple Personality Disorder, is because alters aren’t actual separate fully-fledged personalities, but instead a single individual’s life and experiences split up from each other in a bunch of dissociated self states.

If anyone is interested in knowing more about DID, I always recommend this website as a great source: http://did-research.org/

I’ll also throw in the Myths and Misconceptions page: http://did-research.org/did/myths.html

Spoilers: No people with DID don’t have secret killer alters and are no more dangerous than literally any other person. DID is a defense mechanism/way you develop to navigate your environment, and for us specifically, we continued to be victims of abuse and mistreatment even until recently due to our amnesia and lack of awareness hiding the knowledge when people were harming us.

Dom was giggling quite a lot when he opened the door.

Here ya go @jack-o-chica-the-spooky-chick

Now I’m sorry if they never stop dancing, but that seems to be their thing.

Phantom Balloon Boy: GUMMY WOOOOOOORMS

For the full event post, please visit and join our Trick-or-Treat event here!

((We had a couple adjustments come through right after the last list was posted, so everyone added this past week is labeled as ‘New!!!’ on here!  I’ll be posting the final list of house blogs on October 26th))

As of Oct. 24th, 2019, this is our delightfully frightful neighborhood of ‘house’ blogs:

@afnafwonderland (New!!!)

@askaninsomniacskeleton

@askfnafcast

@assembled-at-last

@chaospenelope

@cocho388 (New!!!)

@doloresman

@drew-studios-official (New!!!)

@field-full-of-sunflowers

@fixey-n-friends

@fnafandfriends (New!!!)

@fnaf-liar-au-ask-blog

@funtime-fanblog

@glacierkato

@houseofswords (18+, please)

@icetigerkitten

@jack-o-chica-the-spooky-chick

@official-jack-o-freddy

@official-lolbit

@nightmarebonnie-official

@official-michael-afton (New!!!)

@rockstarlefty

@sals-corner (New!!!)

@shadow-dee-dee-official

@sorinshuto

@the-feral-one

@toonfanstars

@trioofbears-official (New!!!)

Out of candy (but hey, check out their wonderful blog even if they’re not one of our houses): @nicxan

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Again, thank you all so much for joining in!!!  You’re all awesome!!!

Ik he’s called Grim Foxy but hE’S FINALLY PART OF THE JACK-O-FAMILY!!!