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

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Russians don't usually celebrate Halloween, but Josh lifted my spirits by withstanding the tranny assault, and seeing fellow kiwis get their spooky avatars on and gear up for festivities inspired me to start drawing again. Shoutout to Sean Ranklin and Liquid Richard.

The month promises to be comfy. I'll probably participate in Kiwitober and finally get around to handling XMR. God willing, I might finally get a job as well. Oh, right, gonna try my hand at making pumpkin cheesecake or something for the holiday itself.
 
I'll be getting into the spooky spirit by doing some journalistic research on the phenomenon of monster girls. Btw is this a good place to request a little photoshop work? Because I don't see a spooky avatar request thread for this year and I was hoping to get a creepy kurt like those demon face videos from the old old days of youtube.
 
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I printed this "death whistle" last year and it actually sounds like horror movie screaming.

Relatives are using this as a candy dish.
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People don't have kids anymore so the neighborhoods are all pretty sparse with kids.
 
Lichen Bark said:
Although real life has been enough of a horrow show for me personally, I think it's time to step back out, and enjoy a spook or two.
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Simulated scares are really useful for distracting from actual scary/unpleasant shit with something that you know on some level can't actually hurt you. There's the schadenfreude effect that a lot of people get, too.

That reminds me of another reason why I love Halloween so damn much. People say Halloween doesn't celebrate anything important except for maybe the souls of the dead or whatever, but can anyone honestly deny that the modern holiday is a celebration of courage? We're not just persevering through the spooky scary terrors, we're creating them in benevolence, seeking them out and reveling in them in our own personal favorite ways.

So now that Halloween has been solidified as a moral societal necessity, it's high time to declare October 31st and November 1st as treasured national holidays exempt from school and office work. Halloween and Post Mortem freed up for shenanigans, let's make it happen.

On a side note, I can't seem to get enough of the song I posted in the OP or this electro swing cover of Spooky Scary Skeletons. Genuinely good and mercilessly catchy at the same time.
 
autumn is my favorite season, and the end of october / beginning of november have significance for me.

i like to spend the final weeks of october harvesting vegetables, closing the garden for the year, and cleaning the house with the windows open for the last time before winter. i roast green chiles, gather herbs into bundles to dry, and bake loaves of zucchini bread. then i celebrate death for five days ...

my parents both died years ago. my father's birthday was october 29th, so that's when i carve pumpkins because when i was young, i could scoop out the pumpkin and draw the design, but i wasn't allowed to use the knives; that was his job. i bake pumpkin bread in his honor because it was his favorite. i celebrate all hallows eve on the 30th and halloween on the 31st with all the usual sorts of spookiness and sugar. on november 1st, i spend all saints day hiking in the mountains. my mother's birthday was november 2nd, which is also all souls day (dia de los muertos), so that's when i light candles for those whom i've lost, and i make a huge pot of chicken chile verde because it was her favorite.
 
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Going to make another batch of pumpkin mead after a visit to the pumpkin patch. Going to do it at midnight while watching Halloween for an extra spooky flavor.
 
I'm making jack-o'-lanterns out of paper mache so I can go wild with the designs and reuse them for years to come.
 
Crusader 5 said:
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.
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If you don't wanna go full DIY there are a lot of really cute paintable faux pumpkins at craft stores.

I got really nice mums this year, they're like a mix of lilac, orange and yellow mums, it reminds me of sunset colors.
 
I'm going to start listening to more spooky music, start a new darkest dungeon campaign and watch what ever spooky shit is on movie night
 
various spoopy media through the month

the big day I plan to stick to my usual of wearing my usual shit with one of my lucha fan masks while out in public doing whatever random shit, this year probably Blue Demon or Mil Mascaras

last couple of years were El Santo and Fray Tormenta
always gets good reactions from people, co-workers or randos
 
My family and I don't celebrate Halloween anymore since an incident one year when some French (well, they said they were French) kids stole all of our candy and we had to resort to giving other children cash. I'm planning a small Halloween party on Animal Crossing for me and another user. Other Animal Crossing-playing kiwis are invited to come if they'd like.
 
October 30-31 will be spent carving a pumpkin, then going through my list of new spooky movies (but without forgetting a few classics of course). I'll eat a buch of extremely unhealthy snacks and sweets on my cozy sofa, with my cats and my loved ones, and I won't go out of my house until November 2nd (in Italy November 1st is a religious holiday, so no work).
 
Just gonna drop off a little more spoop from the ruins of ancient youtube.

 
Vampire hunter D and Bloodlust are my favorite halloween movies. Also a good time to play Castlevania IV and Symphony of the night.

Here's a little known soviet horror movie i recommend. Viy is based on a Nikolai Gogol story of the same name and it has cool imaginery based on the illustrations made for the story.



Also, another cult classic, Santa Sangre by Jodorowsky. Its its own mood.
 
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