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I Peeked Behind the Cyclops' Eye! I Did! And [Halloween] Was There!
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It's already September 17th, and you should have had plenty of time by now to decide what you're going as for this mightiest of ALL holidays!
For real though. Christmas is great. I love presents. As proof, my birthday is a week-long bonanza of partying in honor of me. Easter has holiday-specific candy, and that can't be a bad thing. Here in America we set things on fire with great relish on the Fourth of July and on New Year's Eve, and hazard to life and limb is an incredibly important element in any good revelry.
HOWEVER.
Halloween is everything.
It's scary. It's fun. It's a party for all ages! Little kids get to wander around super sugared-up, screaming, stealing candy from adults, cheating their younger siblings out of the good stuff. For adults it's got booze, it's got candy that as an adult you buy pretending it's for kids and then consume yourself, it's got condoned skanky inappropriate dress and behavior...
It's essentially flawless.
Plus, there's ghosts.
I'm not starting any countdown yet obviously as it is not yet October but it has come to my attention that some individuals (myself included) may want a place to discuss the elaborate lengths to which they intend to go in order to decorate themselves and their homes at this all-hallowed-est of seasons.
So.
Y'know.
HALLOWEEN!
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
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Lotta prank calls though. You'd be surprised how quickly kids stop pretending to be a real ghost once a proton pack switches on.
Starting my costume tomorrow night and I am so hyped! I'm really good at building props, rigging them up with lights and painting and weathering them to look real. I have two friends on assignment to sew me things because I do not have the patience for that kind of activity. So I mess with the worbla and PVC and LEDs and such while they handle the stitching, with the end result being that we'll all look boss as hell.
My favourite part is definitely getting asked to make a specific prop or item and then having to design it! Hangin' out with a whiteboard figuring out how things go together is just the most fun thing, man oh man.
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My halloween
She was a lion and I was a big game hunter, complete with khakis, wide hat, and a padded gun case (with a dowel to keep it ridged).
Last year I cobbled together a Mouse King outfit and she was Minnie Mouse. Year before I did scare some trick-or-treaters when I sat on our rocker out front and pretended to be a dummy dressed as a scarecrow.
Will try to get wife to wear a cat costume to be our familiar.
HOWEVER
I will make the same complaint I make every Halloween, which is:
When the fuck did Halloween become a "dress up as whatever-the-fuck" holiday instead of a "dress up as something spooky" holiday.
This is not comic-con. Don't be a goddamn Storm Trooper for Halloween.
Apparently at least since 1894, unless you consider bacon terrifying.
I'd also like to point out that the guy wearing the rooster costume in this compilation is fantastic.
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Not that some of them weren't intended to be scary but I don't think there was ever really a time when Halloween and the costuming associated with it were only about being frightening.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Dress up and come get drunk with me! We'll go dancing and have bourbon and it'll be great!
You can be the Gamora to my Star Lady.
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for any of the crazies that would take a double decker tour on Halloween
LS halloween threads are always da bes
Maybe old-timey guy(?) and have the bus stop at a random spot, " And here's where I died. Terrible really, so many rats... " etc. New story every time.
Let me know if you wanna join! A few of my nerdier friends wanted to check out a Heroes and Villains night downtown (not sure if it's Friday or Saturday this year). I also know about a few smaller parties that are probably happening. You're welcome to come with!
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no idea what i'm doing for this halloween
Here's my ideas:
Lucifer
Specifically that Lucifer. Nice suit, collapsible wings, blond hair. In increasing order of difficulty for me to acquire.
The Stag
From TV's Hannibal. Also requires a suit, and for me to make that terrifying rig to attach to my head. And a lot of black makeup, which tends to fucking blow.
Wendigo
No image for this one - going traditional here. I haven't fully figured out what I'd want to be doing, but it's probably the goriest of my options - chewed off lips, frostbitten extremities, and so on. The biggest obstacle is that my ideal version would probably involve stilts, and I do not own any stilts.
?
edit: The theme is "A Night to Dismember"
Swap body parts?
Like have your left arm in a woman's shirt with nail polish and left leg in stockings and high heels. Wife would have the same on opposite leg/arm, then her left side dressed as a man.
Depending on the party, could you stage a fight and cut off someone's (fake) arm?
Coran Attack!
Last year we did a pretty stellar smoke and mirrors cult meeting, complete with the Seven Deadly Dips when we had people over
This year we're going medical - specifically asylums and hospitals
Our time period isn't super set in stone - generally beginning of the 20th century, but there will probably be some anachronistic things that pop up if they look really cool
The dining room is on track to be turned into an operating theater, and the living room will be a more comfortable doctor's office style setting
We're currently working on the best way to pad the walls of the bathroom (I'm thinking I can rustle up some cheap mattress pads) and otherwise sterilize our decidedly non-sterile apartment
We're not doing any like, traditional horror stuff alongside it (so no bloody handprints of escaped patients or anything like that), but rather focusing on the truly terrifying history of medical and mental health
I'm pretty exciting, although I can tell already this is going to be a harder punch in the wallet than last year
Which probably means I should buy jump stilts to be a wendigo
Yes
It's fantastic. I just sit in a lawn chair up the street handing out candy so I can watch them freak the hell out when they get to that house.
I kind of want to get some people together and do a Halloween themed game of DnD, though. I'm thinking about putting together a dungeon crawl that takes place in Castlevania.
Satans..... hints.....
Satans..... hints.....
I'm actually already preparing cool and inexpensive halloween decorations and scary snacks. The last thing I need to figure out is a costume.
Vivienne gets so mad when I croak out babadook.
Satans..... hints.....
It can look like anyone.
(selective invisibility will be slightly more difficult.)
Why I fear the ocean.
If you want to be lazy/efficient, check out Patrick Klepeck's lists on Giant Bomb.
He also tumblrs them: http://patrickklepek.tumblr.com/post/98896055314/welcome-to-shocktober-2014
the cake is a giant bedsheet ghost made out of fondant