A Peeps store at National Harbor sounded pretty absurd on its face. What does a Peeps store do once Easter is over and the Post’s uploaded its last Peeps Show image?

DCist has the answer. At a media luncheon hosted by the National Confectioners Association today, this writer learned that Peeps isn’t just expanding into the National Harbor. Peeps is making a move on Christmas—and Halloween.

The following images may shock more traditional readers. Be assured that these images have not been photoshopped or doctored in any way. What you see are candid photos of the all-new Chocolate Mousse–flavored Marshmallow Cat and Chocolate Mousse–flavored Marshmallow Reindeer Peeps—to be unveiled on unsuspecting candy aisles when those holidays approach.

Will readers embrace these new-fangled Peeps? Will the Washington Post host new photo contests to anthropomorphize these marshmallic creations? Or does the key to the District’s intense fascination with Peeps lie in some unique quality of the toxic-yellow, singularly creepy, genderless original Peeps mallow—a factor that cannot be translated across holidays or enhanced with cocoa powder? You’ll have to be the judge: I won’t touch these things.