A tour of my Halloween looks through the ages.

2015

I think this is where it all truly began. A seasonal employment job at an all-year round costume shop that is now defunct.

When I wasn’t trying on every single possible mask in that building, I could be found behind the wig counter, trying on every single possible wig.

2016

Error 404: Costume not found.

I spoke too soon.

This was my first year of undergrad so I’ll chalk it up to me being too much of a dumbass to realize that dressing up is the shit.

2017

Don’t mind the poorly lit, very grainy image that gives no context to my costume.

2018

Behold…

Ah yes, my slut era.

Also behold…

My era where I tried colored contacts for the first time.

2019

I was in a play that year so I guess you could say my costume was a homeless person but somehow that seems insensitive.

2020

Hell yeah. Ok, for real, this is when stuff really started taking off for me, creatively. Still one of my most timeless costumes of all time.

2021

Another simple yet effective costume. So effective, I won a costume contest for it in a town I had just moved to.

2022

And who could forget, before the haunted times were even upon us, this little number:

I wouldn’t consider myself a spooky season bitch where it’s my whole personality or anything but it was a two-costume-Halloween for me and I am quite proud of both.

I’m not just “a minion.” I’m Jerry, commonly mistaken to be Tom, voiced by @AJemaineClement in Despicable Me and then by Pierre Coffin in Despicable Me 3. I’m very playful and cheerful and I’ve never been to State Prison. pic.twitter.com/OaCeHt9FeQ

— Ellora Bultema (@shortasianman) October 31, 2022

All this to say this is my second year in a row to win a halloween costume contest. I let the gift card from last year expire and this year I gave my prize money to a hobby horse named Pony Danza.

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Lesson: I’m versatile and don’t you ever forget it.