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5 Book Recs Based on Your Favorite Nostalgic Halloween Movie!🎃
I don’t know about you, but one of my favorite parts of October is watching all the classic spooky season movies I grew up with. It brings back all those fond memories of childhood fall festivities, Halloween costume planning, and the joy of filling up your candy bucket while trick-or-treating (even if you had to fight your mom about wearing a jacket with your costume because it was too cold). If you’re in the middle of your yearly Halloween movie binge or haven’t had time because of the hot new books dropping recently, here are some ghoulish book recommendations based on some of our favorite nostalgic Halloween movies!
If you like Hocus Pocus (1993), then you might like Dead Man’s Float
While there might not be a big musical number led by Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy in the middle of Dead Man’s Float, this story will surely leave you gasping for air. There is no doubt that Hocus Pocus is one of the most classic Halloween movies of all time, as the dubious Max unleashes the iconic Sanderson sisters to enact their revenge on Salem. Shawn Sarles' haunting YA horror novel follows this same hair-raising idea, except this time, a seemingly harmless prank unleashes a ghost with unfinished business and intent on finding its killer. If you’re in the mood for a more frightening version of the classic Hocus Pocus story, I recommend you start reading Dead Man’s Float now!
If you like Halloweentown (1998), then you might like Shadow Coven
Halloweentown is well-known for its inclusion of literally all things Halloween and its empowering story of a young witch who will go to extreme lengths to save her family and the world from an evil power. Similarly, S. Isabelle’s second installment in The Witchery series, Shadow Coven, centers around a group of witches who must defeat magical and mundane threats to save themselves and their coven forever. While there might not be any friendly skeleton cab drivers, Shadow Coven includes some kick-butt witches just like Marnie and her family that will surely have you reaching for the spellbook this Halloween! Start reading now!
If you like Casper (1995), then you might like Sixteen Souls
Casper the Friendly Ghost is a staple nostalgic character during the Halloween season. How could you not love the sweet and cute little ghost who falls for the girl who moves into the very mansion he’s haunting? Fans of the movie Casper will have no problem jumping into the spooky yet swoony YA debut Sixteen Souls by Rosie Talbot. This ghostly tale is about sixteen-year-old Charlie, who gets dragged into hunting down the cause behind the mysterious disappearances of several famous spirits by an irritating yet charming new ghost seer in town. Sixteen Souls is sure to give you chills, all while making your heart melt as Charlie must deal with his growing crush and work to save York’s spirits at the same time. Start reading Sixteen Souls now!
If you like Beetlejuice (1988), then you might like Beholder
Whether you became a fan by watching the 1988 film with Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder or the quirky modern-day musical, there is no denying that Beetlejuice has cemented itself as one of the most iconic ghost stories of all time. While Ryan La Sala’s Beholder is much more mysterious and sinister than the joke-filled dark humor of Beetlejuice that we’re used to, both stories explore a world where dark, evil powers must be stopped before they have the chance to take over fully—one just comes in a pin-striped suit with green hair. Start reading BEHOLDER!
If you like Scooby Doo! and the Witch’s Ghost (1999), then you might like At the Speed of Lies
It goes without saying that any Scooby-Doo! film or episode is a year-round classic. But during the Halloween season especially, there is something even more thrilling about watching the gang from Mystery Inc. kick some monster butt. This undefeatable group of friends is no stranger to solving their town’s mysteries; still, Quinn Calvet from Cindy L. Otis’ At the Speed of Lies certainly wasn’t expecting to get swept into the mystifying chaos of her town’s latest disappearances. Fans of Scooby-Doo! will love this modern twist on mystery solving that we’ve all grown to love, thanks to Velma, Daphne, Fred, Shaggy, and Scooby. And while Quinn might be well on her way to becoming the “it girl” of The Whine, her town’s growing social media platform, I’d be remiss if I didn’t give a shout-out to the original it girls–The Hex Girls from Scooby-Doo! and the Witch’s Ghost. Start reading At the Speed of Lies!
#ireadya#yabooks#halloween#nostalgic#halloween movies#cult classics#hocus pocus#dead man's float#halloweentown#shadow coven#the witchery#casper#sixteen souls#beetlejuice#beholder#scooby doo#hex girls#at the speed of lies
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floating
in the clouds
in the river
where are we going?
dead man's float, they call it
but i've never felt more alive
i think what's making me float
is the air in my lungs
but i'm gasping now
laughing to no end
as the salty breeze
whips your hair backwards
the sakura are floating too
all around us
is the water even blue anymore?
or is it simply translucent
as the pastel pink
merges in
oh but my darling,
i fear,
buoyancy
can only keep the off-key notes
flowing for so long
#light academia#poem#poetry#quotes#spilled ink#thoughts#carpe-noctem-bitchess#river?#water#flowing#sakura#cherry blossoms#darling is getting a bit repetitive#dead man's float#floating#daydreaming#love#message in a bottle#music#key#notes#buoyancy fam
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Sage Francis || Dead Man's Float
#sage francis#dead man's float#music#song#link#spotify#rap#hip hop#copper gone#indie rap#strange famous#strange famous records#Spotify
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The Dead Man's Float
#team fortress 2#tf2#tf2 fanart#scout#scout tf2#tf2 scout#sniper#sniper tf2#tf2 sniper#sniperscout#scoutsniper#speeding bullet#speedingbullet#scribbling#inspired by Dalton Day's “One-Act Play In Which We Float Facedown In The Center Of A Lake A Position Known As The Dead Man's Float”#I'm a mullet sniper truther
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I practically js started playing rdr2 mid march so I don't know jackshit ab it,,
BUT THE MENNNNNNNNN LORD THE MEN.
#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#ARTHUR MORGAN#ARTHUR MORGAN THE MAN YOU ARE I HATE YOU I NEED YOU ASAPPPP!!!#OHMYGOD JAVIER ESCUELLA NDNBHHHHSHHHH STOP!!#JAVIER BY THE CAMPFIRE USING HIS GUITAR?? I WANT TO TEAR MY HAIR OUT#I need javier's songs by the campfire on spotify asap plieze I need it.#CHARLES SMITH#JAVIER ESCUELLA#CHARLES SMITH. THE MAN YOUUUUU AREEEE. I'M LITERALLY FLOATING OVER W HEART EYES I'M COMING FOR U#guys is it wrong if I say dutch HAHAHAHSHA I'm joking totally...#kieran is strangely babygirl I'm so srs#kieran is a LOSER nd I live for that#kieran duffy#dutch van der linde#there's too many tags I'm sorry HAJAJAHAJ
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I know I’m late to the party but Oh My God™️
#uni talks about the universe#hbomberguy#james somerton#I’ve been watching the video in increments#so everytime I pause and think ‘it can’t get worse’#guess what the fuck happens when I come back#I’ve never watch James somerton but I have seen his videos floating around#but now thank god I haven’t#by the way-no hate to anyone who was fooled by them#how the fuck were you suppose to know that their entire life was a life#anyway I cannot wait for how these people try to clamber their way back#don’t even talk about Blair to me cause holy shit that woman has a lot of skeleton in her closet#I’m pretty sure they all do but I’m mentioning Blair specifically because I was keeping up on the story for her ngl#I do think internet historian is going to come out unscathed#mostly because his fans just doesn’t care#but the rest? not so easy I think#and obviously it’s fucking over for James Somerton#that man is dead. we witness a live execution. and then liked and subscribed
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post dead space, when isaac is picked up from the escape shuttle and taken to titan station. hard to tell but i based the door in the back on the door of the shuttle like it's docked somewhere and he's being escorted off it
#dead space#cyrsed art#9#i imagined that his engineering suit display would turn off at some point#that's why it's not lit up#and the red eyes are bc his brains are scrambled by the marker#sorry but i kept thinking about how fucking awful he would smell while i was drawing this#besides just BO he's spent 8+ hours covered in all kinds of blood and guts and rotting flesh he would smell like roadkill#and then also spent however long just floating around in space presumably not showering or changing out of his suit#let this man take a shower
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they could never EVER neverrrrrr ever ever do this even ryan condal would never cede such an “iconic” setpiece & “memorable” dialogue and even if he wanted to HBO simply would not allow it but in my minds eye ideal hotd adaptation of the battle of the gods eye completely discards EVERYTHING supposedly recounted/editorialized in fire and blood no anime dialogue no ultra choreographed fight scene no cinematic beautiful shots of the dragons dancing no leaping from dragon to dragon its actually like incredibly fast and loud and incomprehensible to the audience just beasts colliding and ripping each other apart dirt and blood and horrific and disgusting and ultimately super SUPER pathetic ❤️ daemon and aemond dont get to make any epic last stands theres no glorious blaze out, no chilling last words, no grand narrative, in the end it really is just two men thudding to the bottom of a lake and getting eaten by fish. make the craziest climax in the world an anticlimax. ultimate antimoment
#of course. this can only be in my dreams#hotd#my greatest idea is daemon doesnt even get his sword in the eye grand leap moment#cause like. Well physically that would be completely insane#they both get thrown together when their dragons collide and theyre both already dead from blunt force trauma#and the sword just kind of accidentally impales aemond lol#i just hate to see a character like daemon get somehow validated by the narrative as super cool and awesome and sexy etc#like for what? hes just a maaannn it’s just what you do. hes a human man at the end of it#cant ascend to godhood good buddy. better luck in ur next life. u sucked at this one#L + you have erectile dysfunction you cannot be legolas jumping on floating dragon scales. lame!#even if he did sink that sword in… its so pointless JDGDKSH. U ARE BOTH GOING TO DIE ANYWAY….#i love crazy awesome action setpieces i love good cool action directing i dont think it necessarily would even be bad#but i think it does cede some of its own point. i guess thats the whole ‘you cant make an anti war film’ thing again#daemons whole fucking deal is just so boring to me unless it’s undermined and subverted. i love when hes a whiny pathetic mess.#and NOT a slay dom daddy. aemond i cant even discuss he does not do anything for me.
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So is it just me, or does this upcoming horror movie "Night Swim" look like it's based on the scariest episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark?
You know the one I mean:
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Woah this is actually pretty sick
#just need to go into aviary inside where the floating defaukt mask is#bring the camera too#stand on the mask and make sure youre facing in the direction of the back of the mask#ass facing the direction of the front of the mask#level 3/4 slouch emote#dead on the ground#spin into the abyss#pull out your camera (to see) (or make a friend hold out their hand and get them to drag you out) and walk out the building#and voila your view will be set to a specific point at the bottom of the earth#in specific places youll see crabs#use the camera to move around or geta friend to drag you#the pic in the post is in forest temple#dw glitch wont cancel out when changing realms or going home#if the steps dont work then uhhh i dunno man this is what i did…#happy oobing lads#sky cotl#sky children of the light#sky oob#hope this makes sense LMAO
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From the article:
"Assistant Superintendent Bridgette Exman had a difficult task — How could she vet 42 books, several of which she hadn't read, to determine if they needed to be removed from Mason City's school libraries, as a new state law required?"
Did "read, or at least skim the books" come to mind? Did "check reviews of the book" come to mind? Did "ask colleagues who have read the book" come to mind?
No. Of course not.
Back to the article:
"Her conversations with colleagues across the state gave her an idea: Maybe AI could help."
"So the Mason City Community School District administrator took a list of 42 titles for review that the district had compiled from banned book lists around the U.S. and called up ChatGPT on her computer.
"Then she typed: 'Does [book] describe a sex act?' plugging in a book title, and waited for the answer."
No considerations of whether the "depictions of a sex act" were within a context that was appropriate, for example, in a sex education book, or in the case of Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, a non-graphic discussion of masturbation.
It's going to get worse from here.
#banned books#censorship#school libraries#American libraries#American education#American schools#AI#ChatGPT#you might as well just ask the internet ffs it's the exact same thing as asking Chat Fucking GPT#if anyone needs me i'll be doing the dead man's float in a kiddie pool of whiskey
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Buy DEAD MAN’S FLOAT
Whatever you do, don’t swim alone. In his next YA horror, Indie bestselling author Shawn Sarles dives into the terrifying myth behind the dead man’s float.
Sometimes the truth hurts. Sometimes it even kills.
Nine years ago, Sam watched her friend drown. The water, and the fact that Sam couldn’t save her, has haunted her ever since. But what she didn’t see that day was the hand that had reached out for her friend, wrenching her beneath the water.
Now, as Sam gets ready for varsity pre-season on the school swim team, she vows once again not to let the fear of the water bring her down into its depths. But when the upperclassmen take the girls to the abandoned neighborhood pool called the Graveyard for their yearly hazing ritual, a seemingly harmless prank will set off a catastrophic chain of events. It will unleash a spirit, a ghost that has unfinished business both in the pool and outside of it, intent on finding its killer.
On this team, they all have a secret. They all have a motive.
The truth can set them free, if it doesn't bury them first.
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REJOICE! ESTINIO BE UPON YE
for @coldshrugs 💜💜💜💜
#hopefully this is in a better resolution than discord messages jkghdlfkgh#but considering tumblr's reputation for crunching things i honestly don't know#how is it even legal for io to be so cute and pretty#the poetry of io's silver and white moonlet earring + estinien's gold and white moonward bracelet.....#i am giggling and smiling like a fool but i am also doing the dead man float in the goofy pool#it's a tiny detail but. it's everything to me#anyway on to part 2 of this lil project >:3#io laithe#estinien varlineau#estinio#ffxiv#gpose
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o right i need to do a thing. ignore me.
#[ humans are to be protected and saved // kamado nezuko ]#[ there is something for me to protect now // kamado tanjiro ]#[ beauty with the heart of a beast // hashibira inoko ]#[ a slayer hidden in the mist // tokito muichiro ]#[ i take back the cruel words i said to you // tokito yuichiro ]#[ floating upon the wings of a butterfly // kocho shinobu ]#[ shivers of a first love // kanroji mitsuri ]#[ doctor doctor // tamayo ]#[ king of demons // kibutsuji muzan ]#[ i'm just a dead man walking tonight // iori tanaka ]
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head in my heads johnny would be a terrible fucking teacher girl im so sorry
#(saw a thing floating in the tag)#Listen. LISTEN#LOVE WHAT U LOVE HAVE FUN#BUT JOHNNY WOULD BE AN AWFUL PROFESSOR#THAT MAN WOULD NOT BE CAUGHT DEAD IN AN INSTITUTION#U JUST WANT KEANU REEVES .#my post
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25. Do they have any habits or rituals that they do to soothe themselves? I.e. Playing with their hair, chewing their lip, fidgeting, etc.
Nailah's a nervous person by nature, so she has a handful of soothing techniques that she'll use.
One of her favorites is to conjure a small magicked flame in her hand and observing how it moves. By focusing on maintaining the spell, she forces her mind off of whatever is bothering her, and she can practice smaller aetheric control techniques. She'll move the spell around her hand, shift it's elemental alignment, shift it's polarity, change it's size, it's color, it's warmth... she gets a lot of use out of it as a teaching device as well, should the mood take her.
Should she be unable or unwilling to cast, she will fidget with one of her soul crystals, turning it over in her pocket and tracing the edges of it with her fingers. It's more to make sure that they're still there, as she relies on them quite a bit to fight, but the reassurance is comforting nevertheless. She'll fidget with her jewelry instead on the rare occasions she travels without her crystals.
If she has time, she will try to take a warm bath with nice smelling candles - barring that, she'll jump in to a nearby lake or stream. This is usually her last resort as she hates being indisposed for such a long time (and for, in her mind, such a silly reason), but it's one of the most effective calming things she can do.
#answered asks#thank you for the ask!#oc: hrothwol#like unironically she will do a dead-man float in a lake to destress#and with the kojin blessing she's just vibing and totally fine#but passers-by are (understandably) alarmed by her doing this#so she tries to float at the bottom of lakes or late at night#its just a goofy lil headcanon that amuses me greatly
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