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Pumpkin Faces In the Night - I Remember [Halloween]
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Ahh, the time of year when, for those of us not in tropical climates, the leaves change color. The smell of decay fills the air, and all of the grocery stores start selling candy in even-larger-than-normal Doomsday Prepper-sized packages. Also, your local party supply stores inexplicably become even more obnoxious than they were before.
It's Halloween month! Or, I suppose, October. If you insist.
Hopefully many of you have been more on the ball than I've been this year with your costume preparations, because with Halloween falling on a Monday, you really only have until the 28th to be ready in whatever your festive Come As You Aren't choice of 2016 may be. Likely candidates for popular costumes include Donald Trump, Suicide Squad Jokers and Harley Quinns, some lady Ghostbusters if we're lucky, and hopefully a roll-call of Force Awakens characters.
Have you gotten your costume lined up? What have you chosen to be this year? If you're at a loss, consider frightening your neighbors and upsetting your friends as the Decorative Dalek Shrub!
I'm willing to concede that not everyone may be as thoroughly committed to the costume aspect of this holiday. Please keep in mind the immensity of Halloween-appropriate songs in the world! I've been reconstituting my hundreds-long playlist from my old computer when I have time, and there are oodles of others to choose from. Before I relocated halfway across the world I was planning on subdividing my old playlist into mood, dark-themed and party-themed variations, but... that project is currently on the back burner.
There's also your swaths of horror films and TV specials!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEG-UFWXCiQGarfield, since when did you like pumpkin innards? PTOOOEY. SINCE NEVER.
So let's dish on this, my favourite holiday of the year. I will endeavor my absolute utmost to maintain my traditional daily share of the best I have of the world's gothic, morbid, horrific, and phantasmagorical arts. That said, I have just moved halfway across the world to take on a new and difficult job, as previously mentioned, so my utmost may not be as ut as it's been in years past. Also, if anyone wants to more actively ask me for suggestions or recommendations, I'm worried that I keep rehashing my same old favourite things? I wouldn't want anyone to be bored for this, the BEST AND SCARIEST MONTH OF THE YEAR.
Gotta keep that creep-o-meter in the red.
"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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I was looking at these from Rad and Refined yesterday:
Just saying, I don't hate them.
"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
Doctor Strange would mean I don't have to shave
but I have the perfect hair and lanky-ness for Spike Siegel
If I had anything to do on the actual night I'd try harder to put together my Kingpin costume.
Oh well!
Halloween!
Every seven years, in order to retain their independence from their machinations, the Fairy Court must pay a tithe to Hell. The tithe is paid in souls, which any rube could tell you the fairies don't have themselves, so they must trick and coerce mortals into staying in their realm, so that they can pay the tithe for them. The tithe takes place on Samhain, or, as we call it in the modern day, Halloween.
And for the Halloween season, my apartment is becoming overtaken by these spirits. All iron and steel has begun to disappear from the shelves, and ghastly plants grow in every nook and cranny. Strange shadows illuminate the halls, and any flat surface well enough to manage overgrows with moss and fungus. Lights glow from unfamiliar places, and, at the center of it all, we have the representatives of the courts.
Two courts govern Fairy Law, the Seelie and the Unseelie. Some may accuse them of being good and evil, but really, that is a gross oversimplification of the matter. After all, the Fairy are spirits of the natural world, and what is good for man is not always good for nature, and what is good for nature is not always good for man.
I will be portraying the Erlking, of the Unseelie Court, red of tooth and claw, patron to parasite, fungus, and carrion bird. My roommate is Gloriana, the Fairy Queen, of the Seelie Court, golden and herbaceous, nature's bountiful daughter. We will be providing fruits and wines, edible flowers candied and baked into delicacies.
Anyways, long story short, this is a hell of a lot of work, holy shit, I love Halloween.
Heppy halloween!
Or I could go as a character that the first grader's like. Something from minecraft would go over very well. Hm.
I support going as classic spook 'ems when dressing for this sort of occasion
I mean, I generally support more horror tinged costumes than anything else for all occasions, but I think there's something real nice about showing up as a Dracula to work
It's all stuff that's been watered down so much through popular culture that it's lost a bit of its teeth, but it still feels incredibly appropriate, y'know?
So uh I'm gonna go ahead and book my flight to Chicago
I think Dracula is a strong choice, especially for first graders. Should be easy to whip up too. I'll definitely go for a played down version too, know massive blood around my mouth, don't want to actually scare or distract any of the students too much. Plus Dracula still fits well as "classroom authority figure"
(Also, Dracula costume, "lost a bit of its teeth", well done.)
I used to date a girl whose dad taught fourth grade. At the beginning of October, he'd set up a bench at the front of the room with pumpkins and corn stalks and a scarecrow and stuff.
On Halloween, he'd show up early, dress in the scarecrow's clothes and hood, and sit on the bench and wait for the kids to show up. About ten minutes after class was supposed to start, when the kids would start getting unruly in the absence of the teacher, he'd jump up and run through the classroom and out the back door.
Apparently you could hear the screams in most of the other classrooms.
You're invited
I mean, pretty much anyone here is, if'n you want to be
But no seriously that sounds like a superboss meta for a party
I bought a couple of bags of porcupine quills from Skulls Unlimited earlier this month, and I'm trying to work out a way to weave them into my hair. It's supposed to be evocative of a crown, while still being natural elements. Mostly I've just been playing with them though - porcupine quills are weird as heck you guys.
My clothes are probably going to be traditional men's formal wear, although pretty roughed up. I have a tuxedo jacket that I'm planning on using, and will be picking up some pants as well. My current plan with the jacket is to use sealing caulk on one of the shoulders to create a sort of fungus outgrowth, which I will then paint. I'm also planning on creating some bracers that have extended elbows which will poke out of the jacket like weird bone spurs.
I'm currently thinking of doing a feather ascot, either in white for the vulture or in red for the robin, nature's perfect murder machine.
My pants will be pretty torn up, and underneath them I'm going to wear a pair of snakeskin tights/leggings. I wanted some snake in the costume, and this was the best idea I had. There are a bunch of animals that I haven't found good ways to bring in (scorpions and mantises are both left out, sadly) due to their wildly different body morphology.
I'm not doing any sort of claws or anything, as I did that last year for my ten foot tall wendigo and it fuckin' sucked. Probably just going to paint all my nails black and be a turbo goth for a couple weeks.
Slightly related, know where a guy can but an industrial sized bucket of gold dust?
Nah. Costumes are gonna be required, but we're not asking other folks to dress to theme.
I will never get tired of dancing pumpkin dude.
it was worth it for the like... two people who got the reference
This is
A very good idea
The wife is a teacher and always struggles because they have a very strong "Nothing Scary" rule (she's a teacher in a kids' psych hospital so there are many things she has to consider.)
Off hand I remember her doing:
I've also made a light up Sims headpiece for my niece, that was pretty cool, but the reference might be too old for 1st graders.
Still living in a horror movie.
I need to import weird pieces of wood and buy tons of fake flowers in order to transform my apartment
You already have what you need set up