Jess (Eldritch mode) 🎃

I've gone through phases of not wanting to read fiction, too. If it's any consolation, the inclination doesn't go forever. Probably the key is just to pick up *something*, even soduku. We are allowed to remain curious, even when everything is awful!

Steve Hanks
"Halloween," 1993
Watercolor

The wizard reads a novel about bird.

I'm very lucky that I *have* somewhere safe to be and cast-iron dual citizenship to wave around (unless, God forbid, Reform get in and force me to choose). But, geez. I'm numb and furious and playing a *lot* of video games right now. :/

A closeup of Mr Jacket Potato, the black and white cat, who has his tongue slightly emerging

BLEP

Right now Sky Arts are showing the excellent doc The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee, narrated, in character as Lee, by Peter Serafinowicz.

Probably. I told Paul he should have given her candy and told her that her costume was terrible.

Now I think about it, said child might actually have come as St. Edmund's wolf, semi-sentient holy guardian of his decapitated head when it rolled into a hedge

Miniature vampire who just knocked on our door [indignantly]: "Who are you?!"

chocolate moon

(SCOPE are good, send them money) donate.scope.org.uk?campaign=25S...

Whereas the door-to-door representative from SCOPE who just turned up did not dress as anything at all, 0/10 NO CANDY

Costume Inspiration - Gator Days Transcript Panel 1 Gustopher and Douglas are meeting up to go Trick-or-Treating. Gustopher sees that Douglas has decided to go as the classic ghost for Halloween. Various spooky things are happening in a house in the background. There are two mysterious figures on the second floor with a spider above them. And demonic entity also appears to have a plate full of eyeballs as a bat watches from above. I hear they're full of protein. Gustopher: DOUGLAS! Great costume! Douglas: Thanks. Panel 2 Douglas poses in his costume. It's just a simple sheet with eye and arm holes cut out but it's effective. I'd give it four out of five rocks. Douglas explains his inspiration for the costume. Douglas: I decided to be a ghost. It represents my fear of never truly being seen and my hope to be remembered. Panel 3 Gustopher stands in his own costume. He is wearing the same taco costume he wore last year. He begins to contemplate his inspiration for such a costume. Thankfully, the house behind him does not have anything too spooky in it. Just a cat looking at what's going on outside. Panel 4 Gustopher carefully chooses his words and explains his inspiration for his fine taco costume. Gustopher: I'm a taco because I like tacos. The cat in the window appears to be doing something. Smiling? And shadowy tendrils are erupting beneath the cat. Okay, I'm sorry. This is too spooky. The eyeballs were bad enough. I'm leaving.

Costume Inspiration - Gator Days

God's pronouns are The/They

PROPER WEREWOLF, well done that child

Werewolves like Maltesers

For anyone in need of a little light in the darkness this spooky season, remember these words from the Ray Bradbury classic "Something Wicked This Way Comes."

I reckon she can be a Batman if she wants

I am reliably informed it was Batgirl, not Batman, I stand corrected

or maybe Batman is her sidekick, who can say

Tiny Batman and his sidekick, Tiny Fairy Princess

And the moody jazz flute.

I got a pumpkin wreath with pumpkin lights and a witch cat in my window.

Well we've had one tiny girl in a spider hat and another hiding behind the girl in the spider hat, therefore Halloween is GO

I mean, for myself, I left home ten years ago not realising the home I knew might not always be there when I wanted to go back. I still vote, I still pay attention, and it all feels absolutely out of my control. The whole promise of America is a home you can count on coming back to. Or should be.

This is heartbreaking.

PARENTS BE VIGILANT check your kids' Halloween sweets, I just found two vast and trunkless legs of stone in an eternal king of kings wrapper 😠

playing all xylophone tunes on its own ribs, like

A robot in the form of a pumpkin with a smiling little face near the bottom and two banded legs. Its face is actually carved out like a jack-o-lantern's face in a pumpkin, revealing a darkened interior. The stalk of the pumpkin is also banded, like the antennae on other robots.

1060) Pumpkinbot. Smol squash pal that has some important information about seasonal drinks. #SmallRobotsRemonstered #Halloween

@toksvigs.bsky.social You're open!! Thank heaven for that. I'm parched. Your finest bucket-o-cocoa, please. *commandeers The Leaf Pile*

skellington

Ev’rybody’s talkin’ bout those trunkless legs
Trunkless legs
(Boop boop)
And a manly kind of visage
That the sands of time have wrecked
(Boop boop)
Trunkless legs

In the desert, see the mighty staring
Looking at his works and hopelessly despairing…