Halloween 2022 General - What are you up to this year for the season of spook?

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Speaking of pumpkin carving, toasting pumpkin seeds and pumpkin spice, any of you ever try tossing your pumpkin seeds with pumpkin pie spice blend, a pinch of salt and a teaspoon of brown sugar a day or two before toasting them? It's some good shit. It's weird in a good way how the ones that have only been salted generally taste almost exactly like plain potato chips. Gotta try salt and smoked paprika on some this year. BBQ pumpkin seeds, ho!

I agree that overdoses of pumpkin spice can be overwhelming. Preferably it'll mostly stay in foods with actual pumpkin in them, but have you tried adding that pumpkin spice coffee creamer to a chai milk tea? Better yet, try adding a little splash of it to your milk when you're eating any kind of non-chocolatey, non-fruity cereal. It's the goddamn best with the almond version of Honey Bunches of Oats in whatever generic brand or original that you can get your hands on. It's stupid how good it is.

Probably gonna do some Bloodborne and Fatal Frame this year. Emulating PS2 games is getting more and more accessible, so I hope a bunch of people try out the original three Fatal Frames since you won't have to spend a small fortune on a working PS2 and copies of the games to play them.
 
I've never really celebrated Halloween all that much past when I was a kid so probably nothing. If I remember maybe I'll play some scary video games or something.
 
I don't know about other people, but for me growing up Halloween was one of the few holidays that really felt like it was stress and worry free. It's one of those holidays where my parents didn't have to necessarily include other friends or family into it, so it was more personal to just my parents and I. Carved pumpkins, roasted pumpkin seeds, enjoyed Halloween movies, and of course I dressed up and we would spent at least an hour going from door to door together, getting as much candy for all three of us to enjoy as the family unit we were. Trick or treating was such an integral part of my Halloween ritual that I kept up with it even into my teens, with my last night outing being at 17.

Thanksgiving and December as a whole were always high stress times, worrying about other family, planning out the dinners and events, you know how it is. Halloween was never like that, and I really miss those times as much as I cherish the memories like I do now.
 
I'm making and painting some papier mache pumpkins right now. Gonna carve some real ones closer to halloween. Also crocheting some fall leaf shaped decorations.

Currently making hard cider and some apple ginger beer from the apples I picked in my neighborhood.

Comfy movie and wood stove night at my best friends cabin.

At the end of the month I'm going camping with my husband and bro and sis-in-law. Will drink beer and tell spooky stories.

The rest of my free time will be spent mushroom hunting and listening to pysch folk as October is the best season for that here.

Fall's not even my favorite season but I do love it!
 
Realistic Elephant mk2 said:
How did you make the papier mache pumpkins? I bet they look very festive! Decorating for the season at hand is one of my passions.
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I used a plastic shopping bag with poly-fil and made it into a ball, then tied strings around it to give it the segmented shape and used that as the base to put the papier mache strips on.

After it was dry I sanded it down to make it bit smoother and painted it with a acrylic gesso to seal the paper so I can go in with colored acrylic paints.
 
afternoon_tea said:
I used a plastic shopping bag with poly-fil and made it into a ball, then tied strings around it to give it the segmented shape and used that as the base to put the papier mache strips on.

After it was dry I sanded it down to make it bit smoother and painted it with a acrylic gesso to seal the paper so I can go in with colored acrylic paints.
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I wish I had your creativity, that sounds so fun and festive although a bit beyond my capabilities.

I just put out mums that I carefully water and then bring indoors for winter until they die.
 
I'm thinking of trying to find a balance between cozy spookiness and really fucked up horror this year. Like I want to have a day where I go on a nice walk through the woods to watch the leaves change and find spooky rocks and bugs and then come home and read cheesy horror stories while drinking pumkinspice coffee while wrapped in soft Halloween themed blankets by a warm fire. Then at night I get violently drunk and watch the most fucked up horror movies I can possibly find while dancing around to trashy horrorcore music.

However the one thing I really want to do is use this Halloween season as an excuse to meet up with some old friends again and try to rebuild my social life at a certain level. The last few Halloweens have been more depressing and lonely than spooky.

Also here's one of my all time favorite Halloween albums of all time that I highly recommend: PUNK ROCK HALLOWEEN!!
 
So kiwis are a weirdly knowledgeable group of exceptional individuals on the online and i have a spoopy-related query: what's the origin of "halloween music"? You know it when you hear it, there's maybe harpsichord or organs or something else baroque but what's the origin of the style? I've tried search engine research before but it was fruitless.

Anyway happy 🎃 month to all kiwis and here's hoping that Null's favorite month goes alright or at least has some happenings we can all laugh at.
 
／Ｏｕｒ Ｌａｄｄｉｅ／ said:
So kiwis are a weirdly knowledgeable group of exceptional individuals on the online and i have a spoopy-related query: what's the origin of "halloween music"? You know it when you hear it, there's maybe harpsichord or organs or something else baroque but what's the origin of the style? I've tried search engine research before but it was fruitless.

Anyway happy 🎃 month to all kiwis and here's hoping that Null's favorite month goes alright or at least has some happenings we can all laugh at.
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After doing a little bit of searching I found this article that I think does a pretty good job at breaking down the history of the subgenre. The main take away is that the idea of Halloween music is a pretty modern phenomenon with the rise of horror film making along with tritone's, minor chords and dissonance making up the bulk what we consider scary music.
 
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