Tales of Terror

 

It’s time for the weekly discussion thread! 

Halloweeny So Scary It's Monday Open Thread

 

Carrol Cloar, Halloween

Hello, and happy Monday and/or Halloween/Samhain, all. Time to drag your old bones back to work, or wherever it is you go when you rise from the dead - er, bed.

What's the plan, Franken-stans? Are we playing dress-up? Gorging ourselves on sweet sweet noms? Or just being our usually dark and witchy selves?

 

The Scariest Thing I Could Think Of

 Eek! It's empty!

This is from my favourite childhood Halloweenish book. It's a very helpful and slightly cheeky guide to witches.

The Photo Ghoulery

 

It’s your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.

They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.

Halloween Eve Sunday Morning OT

 

Good morning. What’s up with you today?

We May Get to the Freeze Peach, But First We’re Gonna Party Every Day – Saturday Night OT

 

... even if we're not allowed out to rock and roll all night

Caturday Morning Open Thread

 

Hullo and welcome to the weekend or thereabouts, depending on your sittchamayshin. Two days to Halloween and I ain't got nothin' but a flop.

 

Friday Evening Post

 

It's Friday, October 28th, 2022.

🦇🎃🦇🎃🦇🎃🦇 pic.twitter.com/4nmlSqNk8h

— 🔪🍂🎃Jeanne Loves Horror🎃🍂🔪 (@1carolinagirl) October 28, 2022

Fur Face Friday

 The leaves are falling outside my window as the seasons change - but the fur faces from last week's comments are here to keep us northern folks cozy with their heart-warming cuteness and keep our southern hemisphere pals cool with their chill attitudes!

Fanny & friend demonstrating some of the aforementioned chill

Friday Morning Open Thread

 It's almost here,

Thursday evening open thread

 

BlaurghTalk

So, amidst the general misery and bleahness, anything in particular stand out as specifically egregious for you this week?

Thursday Morning Open Thread

 

Fear not, because tomorrow is Friday, and Friday we will be in love. With who or what I’m not one hundred percent sure about.

Wednesday Evening Talktytalk

Wednesday and all that. Whatchadooooon?

Happy Wednesday!

 Ready for tricks or treats? Who’s passing out the goods? 

Tuesday Rainy Eve OT

So we're in an especially rainy swath here in Sydney, torrential rain and threats of catastrophic flooding out in the smaller towns and outer areas of the city all week. Wheeeeee! How's your Tuesday been?

Tuesday Haiku

 

Leaves,

Like the shadows of crows,

Cast by the lonely moon.

-Fukuda Chiyo-ni

Crow and the Moon by Kawanabe Kyōsai 

Good morning

 

Welcome to Tuesday! C’mon in and say hello before you face the day ahead.

Halloween frights

 

It’s the weekly discussion post. Every Monday there’s a new topic and a new chance to share our viewpoints and learn more about each other’s.

Monday Morning Open Thread

 

Hello and welcome to another week in the world. Time to get yourself pointed in the right direction to get something done.

Sunday evening OT

 

Last's year's spooky stitching project. 

Look who came to visit! It's Dandy! Or one of Dandy's pals. Very bold, too, and not at all bothered by me and Alice on the deck.

Packing, sorting, and more packing is what's happening for me. The big day is Friday! What are you up to this evening?

The Photo Gallery

 

It’s your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.

They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.

Sunday Morning OT

 

Good morning, all.

Something Wicked This Way Comes But It Is Not Alice – Saturday Night OT

 

Caturday Morning Open Thread

Hullloooooo...?

Hey, it's like, Saturday. Say hello when you get around to it.

Friday Evening Post

 Good evening. 

Kwaidan (1964)

After more than a decade of sober political dramas and socially minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn’s collections of Japanese folklore, are existentially frightening and meticulously crafted. This version of Kwaidan is the original three-hour cut, never before released in the United States.

-- Criterion

Wikipedia

IMDb

Fur Face Friday

 

Friday Morning Open Thread

Like Canada, which is just a ginormous set for filming movies and television, I recently learned that birds aren't real.

Proof

Thursday evening open thread

 This is very, very interesting and I have seen any of the main stream media covering this (not that I watch a lot of main stream media). Peter Zeihan, whose youtube channel I've been following brought this up about the U.S. putting a spoke in China's semiconductor industry. There are two videos a day apart that cover slightly different aspects of what's happening. He seems to know his stuff, from what I've seen of his videos.

Blaurgh!Talk

who's nope-ing today? complain here.

Thursday Morning Open Thread!

 

For me the whole week seems like I'm already past Friday.  Looking forward to actual Friday right now.

WDay Thread o' the Evening t' Yer, Sir

Ow'd yer doy ger, me moits? Noahtees me foin Cawknee ack-scint.

Good morning!

 Happy Wednesday! It's getting chillier and prettier here daily. Anyone dressing their pets up for Halloween?

Photo source: https://www.northdeltareporter.com/community/trick-or-treat-for-dogs-planned-for-halloween-afternoon-in-white-rock/

Tuesday Evening Comfort Thread

Tonkinese cats smell, to me, different than any other cat I've ever owned/been owned by. Tonight, after 13 or so years of nuzzling my face into their fur, I just realised what that scent is (to me at least) - a comforting scent of buttered popcorn. This makes me happy. Anyone else have any revelations today that are actually pleasant? Or, if the world is behaving as usual, go ahead with that too.

Tuesday Haiku

 

This frigid season

Nothing but the shadow 

Of my corpse survives.

-Tadatomo

Haunted Old Palace at Soma by Utagawa Kuniyoshi 

Tuesday AM OT

 

 

Hello, it’s Tuesday again. At least I’m pretty sure it is.

Spooky season

 

It’s the weekly discussion thread!

Monday Morning Open Thread

 

Hello and welcome to week #42 of 2022. I have a strange feeling there will be a lot of buzzing in my head today, but maybe some of my worries will buzz off with it.

Sunday Evening OT

 

This isn't Alice. Alice would never cooperate with dressing up or pumpkin perching.

The leaves are reaching peak leaf here, so when I went for a walk this afternoon, there were many fellow leaf-peepers out there. Sadly Disqus and/ or Blogger won't let me show the pictures I took on my phone. They're very picky. 

 

The Photo Gallery

 

It’s your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.

They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.

Good morning

 

 Happy Sunday, Backtalk. What are your plans for today?

Didn't Forget, But Waiting in the ER For Tests Post - Saturday Night OT

 

Saturday Morning I Almost Forgot The Post Post

 

Hullo and welcome to Saturday. This is a post, from which you might expound some words about your day. So yeah, do that.

Friday Evening Post

Good evening.

Beware the Beautiful Witch -- Power O'Malley, 1913

I have some movie suggestions.

Fur Face Friday

Hello and yay Friday, everyone. Last week we slapped together a fine crew of handy dandy fur faces. This week it’s getting even closer to Halloween, so we’ll see if we can drum up some drama from a critter or two.

Hannibal went to visit a soliloquizing scaleface.

My kingdom for a bucket of flies!

 

Friday Morning Open Thread

October 14th is National Dessert Day.

Claims to be a Napoleon but 

looks more like some sort of cake.

A day we can all support while arguing about which dessert is the best dessert. 

Thursday evening open thread

 

BLAAAAUUURRRRRGH Talk

The BackTalk Complaint Department is open. Please file any discomforts here.

Thursday Morning Open Thread!

 

It’s interview day for me. Sounds more like a formality than an actual interview, but still something odd to do for a job you already are doing.

Wednesday Evening; HowYaDoon?