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31 Days of Halloween (i.ibb.co)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Artist credit: by Luke McGarry @lukeymcgarry on IG.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

As an Irish person it kind of serves them right? Halloween is supposed to be this special, singular, liminal night when the barriers between the mundane and the supernatural are weakest, when dinner is laid out for the spirits of those that died as if you can speak to them there and then. Then the next day it's gone, and new year starts, cold and bleak at first then warming in temperature and tones.

Turning it into a month+ of commercialised spooky/sexy stuff just makes it less unique, less Halloween in every way.

I propose that a new costume night be created, in summer so people can actually wear them, and return Halloween to the darkness it belongs to.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Could not agree with this more. Capitalist society takes literally every event with some meaning and sincerity and just turns it into consumerist bullshit stuffed full of pop-culture.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

All religious and cultural holidays are just co-opted versions of some previous culture.

In this case "pagan"->"Christian"->"Corporate Capitalism"

It sucks but that shit is forever in the past.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Over the garden wall is my recommendation for this time of year. It's been a really poor offering on the streaming services this year.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Second this for any time of year.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

the real horror is the ennui we made along the way

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Wee wee? Naw, overall we like her.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I usually end up doing a week at the end of the month. Or maybe 1-2 per weekend. 1 every day? Yeah, that's a good way to take the spark out of it, imo.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

I watch something every day, but I balance things out by including mini-marathons of Halloween tv specials, like The Simpsons, South Park, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, etc. Halloween themed comedies are a great way to keep from burning out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm not watching one every night but I'm watching a few a week to cross off some classics I've been needing to see and some newer offerings. I've already watched Last Voyage of the Demeter, Last Exorcism, and rewatched Over the Garden Wall. Train to Busan and the K-horror The Host are my next choices.