I made up for my lack of convincing makeup by scaring some bystanders. The best scare I did has to be two ladies in their fifties. They jumped high and screamed, then laughed. However their kids laughed immidiately, so much for kids being the easiest to scare. I also had quite some fun when I walked Drottninggatan home later in the evening. There I was the only zombie and as people didn't know about the parade there or saw any other zombies I got a few confused looks. It made the 20 min walk home more fun, that's for sure.
I'm walking in the parade again next year unless I get something important that stops me. Then I might be a bit more ambitious too. There were a lot of dangerous- and creepy looking zombies there so I might go for something different, something I believe in. I don't want to strengthen the harmful stereotype of zombies being bloodthirsty monsters. I want to fight for zombie rights instead! After all it's quite weird that zombies are seen as something odd.
Just think about human beings in general, there are about 7.3 billion humans living on our planet. I assure you that there are a many many more dead. Yet we dead zombies don't have any rights and are seen as the weird ones. Only during Halloween are we even allowed to go outside without problems and even then noone sees us as real people, and that's one of the largest problems in todays society. We deserve to be treated fairly! And that includes a certain acceptance for our diet. Just like there is vegetarian food available almost everywhere there should be brains available! I know that I said I'm no bloodthirsty zombie but come on ... A zombie that doesn't want brainz? That would just be wrong.
Here are some pictures from the parade, taken from Otto Westerlundhs Facebook album with his permission.