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Don't forget to wear your masks this [Halloween]. The clock is ticking. It's almost time.
Quetzi
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Here we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
Listen, it's almost October, and this is going to be a weird year for Halloween. But we can't fix that inexorable ticking, so it's better to be prepared than not.
Maybe for you being prepared means watching a lot of horror movies and consuming your body weight in Reese's pumpkins. Or maybe you've found a costume that incorporates a facemask and you're going to try to do something with it. Or maybe you've turned the old tennis ball machine in your garage into a terrifying whirlwind of sugary death and you're going to leave trick or treaters with chocolatey welts from fifteen paces.
Because what's the alternative? Not celebrating Halloween? Unthinkable.
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My solution has been to stretch things out, switching to small events over the course of the entire month with like, another couple or similar. The idea was specifically to do bespoke Halloweens for anyone who wants them - yeah, you can't have a party, but pick one aspect of what that party would have had and we'll prepare it for you. Probably a lot of sitting on the back porch (especially earlier in the month), and the costume I've come up with does include a mask. And then a couple of weekends I might do some digital stuff as well - hosting movie nights or ghost stories or even just like, put on your costume and wave at a camera stuff.
This is also part of why I made this thread a bit early, because my first "Halloween party" is October 2nd this year and I'm fully committed to finishing nearly everything by then.
It has also resulted in a couple of complications. Part of having that big party is that it generally involves some large scale decorations. Like, for instance, a balloon dart wall that takes up the entire kitchen, or the burned remains of a corpse laying in the bathtub. Even just stuff like rearranging all the furniture for the sake of better room movement. And those things become a lot less tenable when they need to be set and reset every weekend, and I need to be able to work from home around them.
I live over two haunted houses and a wax museum, a Turkish food joint, and we're getting what I'm pretty sure is a new spell component shop on the block as well just in time for the season. I'm not sure if they plan on setting up the hot apple cinnamon bun stand and other food vendors (these are all set up and opperated by the folks that own the wax museum and haunted houses rather than the city), but I'd be surprised if they weren't. I'm gonna be in the midst of crowds of revelers right out my front door all month pretty much no matter what, and they're gonna be coming from all across the country for sure. It's gonna be a shit show of a month, which sucks because the Halloween season is half the reason I live here and I'm not gonna get any of the parts of it I love but I'm for sure gonna get the fuckin large crowds of people still cause regardless of the city canceling most events the first response is always, "fuck it we're going anyways".
I get why a lot of our local businesses need it i just wish I wasn't gonna be effectively trapped in my apartment most weekend days.
Anyways, I'm sure I'll have more pictures once the whole thing is put together, but I'm pretty happy with how this scarecrow (we're doing kind of a bird themed thing this year) turned out:
... actually I need to see what kind of dumbass October activities are happening around me this year. In New England it was easy, you’d go out to New Hampshire and buy too much mulled cider and then attempt to get lost in a corn maze at midnight.
Last year, my school's history department hosted a field trip to Salem for like $20 that lasted the entire day, and I missed out on it because of my job at the time, and I'm still a little bummed about it.
I should've just called out! :mad:
Why am I only just learning about this
Anyway, what is the spookiest pizza topping
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hitting hot metal with hammers
If you could design a perfect mix bag of Halloween candy that had exactly four types of candy, what would they be?
No duplicates unless actually different, like normal M&Ms, then peanut M&Ms. Manufacture does not matter unlike real like. Fun size only.
hitting hot metal with hammers
Milky Way, Butterfinger, Peanut M&Ms, Twix
We did the same, expecting nothing, and ran out of candy, so here's hoping!
Looking down the street I saw maybe one parent and their child walk by in the distance, I think?
Good on people for being cautious, but I have to admit that we're just a bit sad about our first halloween in our own house being such a bust.
I feel life my like won't be complete until I know where @sleep lives.
As for me, we live outside town so no trick or treaters this year, we usually only get a handful anyway
Trick or treating can be fun, especially when you have a neighborhood that goes all out for decorations, but ultimately it’s mostly a lot of approaching strangers to get typically crappy candy - not especially my thing.
My Facebook feed is full of creative alternative celebrations that friends are doing for their kids. One had their daughter dress up as a pirate and follow a treasure map of the yard to find candy. Another friend lives in shared accommodation so had their roommates hide behind doors so her daughter could trick or treat indoors. A couple did locked room mysteries, like us! And many opted for indoor scavenger hunts or parties with family members only.
A lot of fun for the kiddos and we haven’t had to stay hovering by our door.
Now it was only two kids all night so I just gave each one a hefty double handful.
You've got the music in you indeed
I would say Peanut M&Ms but the fun size bags are bullshit, there's only like 4 M&Ms in there
I'll say Peanut Butter Cups is a given, snickers, something non chocolate like sour patch kids or swedish fish and then... YORK PEPPERMINT PATTIES
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
I don't know how I'd determine my ideal set though, like, it would probably start with Snickers and/or Butterfingers, but I'd want it to end with something that surprised me. If I wanted to make the perfect mix I would just buy the requisite ingredients - I always want to have a Rolos or whatever that I wasn't expecting to really make it a proper Halloween.
peanut m&ms
reese's peanut butter cups
airheads
mr. goodbar
Snickers
those fruit flavored tootsie rolls
Dunno about the four spot, maybe Kit Kat? something lighter than a Snickers but with a crunch
I LOVE THE FRUIT TOOTSIE ROLLS
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Today at Costco:
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Went for a walk Halloween night to look at decorations and such. One house had a life-size skeleton riding a giant spider in the front yard:
We went low key this year, by our standards
Sort of a spooky haunted house vibe with uhh... let's call it some persistent theming