Forget ‘sexy nurse’ or superhero — once upon a time, Halloween costumes were genuinely terrifying.

Reblogging for most excellent Hallowe’en costumes.

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I declare it to be staleass Hallowe’en candy time.

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beigebananabandstand:

I hate Halloween, it’s pointless. It’s just become this thing for shops to unashamedly flog between getting the last of your summer stuff sold and putting the Christmas stuff on display. It like a lot of things in the UK has become too American. Of…

I am deeply sorry that the weak, commercialised version of Hallowe’en is the one that’s been exported to Britain.  Hallowe’en is a holiday about death and the fear of death, a celebration of the power conferred by confronting that fear and becoming one with it.  

As an end-of-summer holiday, Guy Fawkes’ Day has similar themes of death and destruction.  Why else would a nation celebrate the non-explosion of the seat of governance by setting off fireworks and burning an effigy?  I strongly suspect that both holidays have roots in older, pre-Christian traditions acknowledging the end of the easy season of available food, with associated contemplation of our own mortality.

To my mind, the fight here isn’t Hallowe’en vs Guy Fawkes, it’s Hallowe’en AND Guy Fawkes AND Dia de los Muertos and anyone else who wants to sign up, against the advancing forces of blandness, complacency, pretending everything’s going to be fine.  The type of mentality that prohibits the sale of fireworks is also the sort that mandates trick-or-treating during daylight and closes cemeteries at sundown.  The mass-media mass culture wants to pretend we’ll never die, never get hurt.  The fear of these facts of life has become so pervasive that our cultural censors treat the symbol as if it were the thing itself: they treat these dark, old holidays as inherently dangerous, rather than as attempts to deal with the emotions raised by the real danger.

These cathartic celebrations are vital to our cultures.  Two, three weeks from now, I want to see terrifying costumes, raging bonfires, and grinning skulls everywhere.  If you think your culture is being weakened by commercialisation, appropriation, dilution, don’t stand for it!  Reclaim your iconography, bring your traditions roaring back to life.  I’ll be right here, doing the same.

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theburningtimesofmymanhood:

scarycatmusic:

My neighbors are scared of my Halloween decorations

Praise Satan.

Hallowe’en decoration ideas that you won’t see in Martha Stewart anytime soon.

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xalter—ego:

> realize Halloween is on a Monday

> remember I don’t have classes on Mondays

I don’t get to run around campus in costume, guys! I’m super sad now.

Do it anyways!  Be in costume all day, just cos you CAN.  Goodness knows that’s what I’m going to do.  

Hallowe’en costume planning: 2 months is barely enough!

So Ms Jess and Duchess and I are thinking of doing a joint Hallowe’en costume: Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and the Joker.  Jess is going to be an AWESOME dyke Harley, no lie, and Duchess, a natural blonde, assures me that she can go drop-dead red. 

However, I have a lot of considerations for my costume, such as which Joker should I do?  Cesar Romero? Jack Nicholson? Heath Ledger? Mark Hamill? I’m thinking Hamill’s Joker is most appropriate, since he’s the one in the middle of the Harley Quinn love triangle, but then again, Romero was My First Joker, so I gotta  have respect.

Once I’ve decided on the characterisation, there’s the costume.  I kinda really want the bitchin’ purple shoes above, but it’s not entirely clear to me what the Joker really wears on his feet.  I seem to recall spats figure into it.  Green shirt, or a green waistcoat and a loud-ass shirt in whatever loud-ass colours appear?  As it happens, I already have a purple blazer, which is glittery, so that’ll work.  Should I spring for a pair of purple pants, or just bang out some costume-style pyjama pants on the sewing machine?  String tie, or huge floofy ascot?  So many questions. 

What do you think, Internets?

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kilomonster:

…Waitaminute. This is not Ninja Turtles. NOT NINJA TURTLES AT ALL.

They’re just sad

 Walmart, take your shitty genderbend cosplay and shove it up your ass.  Hallowe’en has lost its edge.  Instead of being about death and fear, it’s about applying genderbend standards that would make 4chan blush with shame to any pop-culture phenomenon to cross its path.