I Want To Believe in the Day After Halloween...
I fail at at sticking to plans. I just want to get that out of the way.
Okay, so the previous year I did something for Halloween to post on my LJ (a drawing merging my two favorite fandoms: 'Supernatural' and The X-Files'). I was all set to make it an annual thing, whether a drawing or some Photoshop manipulation or something fun and spooky and related to one of my favorite fandoms. I had an idea of doing something for 'Community', mainly drawing them all cartoony in their previous costumes (Britta would've made the most adorable cartoony dragon turtle ever!) Then as the days went by and I did some other stuff, I was thinking how difficult drawing all 8 characters (Yes, I'm including Chang) might be and I'm nothing if not unproperly motivated when I don't have to be.
So then I'm thinking, I'm very good at long summaries and recap/analysis things (even if not a lot of people read them) and it comes more naturally to me, so maybe I can watch a classic horror movie and offer my thoughts on it. Maybe even do some riffing and snarky comments on it like MST3K. (I've done it before, just nothing posted on this site.) Problem is I don't actually own any of the horror movies I usually like to see and the ones airing on TV didn't really catch my interest.
As the last Thursday of the month came and went (and I enjoyed a terrific Halloween episode of Community!), I remembered that 'Supernatural' was gonna air on Friday and if there's a show that's the most Halloween in tone, it would be 'Supernatural' and it would finally solve my dilemma of when to start talking about it... but then after a terrific beginning and middle, 'Supernatural' threw me an annoying ending that just got me off my happy mood. I want my holiday posts to be happy and not rant-filled (but really, after much though, 90% of the episode was terrific and it was mostly just the last 10% that irked me so I guess the ranting would've been minimal if I gave myself some time to cool down.)
All in all, I had nothing specific to post for Halloween yesterday. I just went to my local Halloween costume parade before coming back and eating a bunch of fun-sized chocolates. But today I remember something I did a few years back for the X-Files fans I posted with. And since last year my Halloween post was X-Files themed, there's no reason this year it shouldn't be either. Repetitive and redundant? Maybe. Halloween-related and at least something? Yes.
I've posted this on a forum I frequent on the specific X-Files board. Hopefully not too many people have seen it before.
I know I need to improve my carving skills but it was a labor of love. Anyone have any thoughts on the pumpkin? Thoughts on how I should stop being such a procrastinating slacker? I'm open to anything.
Happy Day After Halloween! It's totally a thing now!
Okay, so the previous year I did something for Halloween to post on my LJ (a drawing merging my two favorite fandoms: 'Supernatural' and The X-Files'). I was all set to make it an annual thing, whether a drawing or some Photoshop manipulation or something fun and spooky and related to one of my favorite fandoms. I had an idea of doing something for 'Community', mainly drawing them all cartoony in their previous costumes (Britta would've made the most adorable cartoony dragon turtle ever!) Then as the days went by and I did some other stuff, I was thinking how difficult drawing all 8 characters (Yes, I'm including Chang) might be and I'm nothing if not unproperly motivated when I don't have to be.
So then I'm thinking, I'm very good at long summaries and recap/analysis things (even if not a lot of people read them) and it comes more naturally to me, so maybe I can watch a classic horror movie and offer my thoughts on it. Maybe even do some riffing and snarky comments on it like MST3K. (I've done it before, just nothing posted on this site.) Problem is I don't actually own any of the horror movies I usually like to see and the ones airing on TV didn't really catch my interest.
As the last Thursday of the month came and went (and I enjoyed a terrific Halloween episode of Community!), I remembered that 'Supernatural' was gonna air on Friday and if there's a show that's the most Halloween in tone, it would be 'Supernatural' and it would finally solve my dilemma of when to start talking about it... but then after a terrific beginning and middle, 'Supernatural' threw me an annoying ending that just got me off my happy mood. I want my holiday posts to be happy and not rant-filled (but really, after much though, 90% of the episode was terrific and it was mostly just the last 10% that irked me so I guess the ranting would've been minimal if I gave myself some time to cool down.)
All in all, I had nothing specific to post for Halloween yesterday. I just went to my local Halloween costume parade before coming back and eating a bunch of fun-sized chocolates. But today I remember something I did a few years back for the X-Files fans I posted with. And since last year my Halloween post was X-Files themed, there's no reason this year it shouldn't be either. Repetitive and redundant? Maybe. Halloween-related and at least something? Yes.
I've posted this on a forum I frequent on the specific X-Files board. Hopefully not too many people have seen it before.
I know I need to improve my carving skills but it was a labor of love. Anyone have any thoughts on the pumpkin? Thoughts on how I should stop being such a procrastinating slacker? I'm open to anything.
Happy Day After Halloween! It's totally a thing now!