colors halloween 2023

[aratakis]

trick or treat!it's that time again! i'm giving out green candies this year, so leave a comment here telling me about your favorite cryptid or monster (and what you like about them) to get one! or just comment 'trick or treat' if that's not your thing, but i really want to hear about some spooky friends. for the record, my favorite cryptid is the flatwoods monster, and i like all manner of yokai, but especially oni. PLEASE DO NOT BRING UP ANY SPIRITS FROM INDIGENOUS PRACTICES. the big three that get brought up in cryptid discussions are thunderbirds, wen***os, and sk*******rs. candy collection x05 | x03 | x04 | x06 x07 | x06 | x01 | x02 logs candy given 10.17.23 - mini - inky - phiphi - lina - selena - ares 10.18.23 - nika 10.19.23 - xetka 10.20.23 - january 10.25.23 - agatha 10.27.23 - mari 10.31.23 - cami - noelle - ange - dahlia 11.5.23 - kyuu 11.10.23 - skye - lex candy received 10.17.23 - orange from mini - yellow from noelle 10.18.23 - blue from nika - blue from phiphi - purple from inky - red from ares - purple from xetka - brown from selena - red from lina 10.19.23 - green from cami - orange from charlotte - green from ange 10.22.23 - red from january - gray from raven 10.27.23 - green from coloring book 314 - green from coloring book 314 10.31.23 - blue from lex 11.1.23 - orange from dahlia 11.2.23 - purple from coloring book 314 - purple from coloring book 314 - purple from kyuu - yellow from mari 11.5.23 - purple from hi-5 radio 225 - blue from hi-5 radio 224 - red from seiyuu guess 624 - blue, green, red, yellow, yellow from pog 117 11.10.23 - blue from skye 11.15.23 - red from lady luck slots 130 - green from erin - gray from whitney - blue from seiyuu guess 625

Comments

[crabg1rl]

Oh this is a tough one. I'm basic as fuck and really like vampires. the mythos is so flexible because "parasites" can be a metaphor for oppressors but also can be a metaphor for being dependent on other people like many oppressed people are (and it kinda offends me when people say NO, VAMPIRES ARE LITERALLY JUST OPPRESSORS???? bruh they're not real but people who might identify with them as victims are real). but in the spirit of the question I would say kuchi-sake onna. Did a whole project about that in college. I think it can be nice and flexible for a variety of man door car door hook hand door genre stories.

[aratakis]

vampires are cool! i think it's really neat how they are almost exclusively presented as upper class parasites (especially in contrast with werewolves, who are always presented as working class), but there's lots of room to play with them in a more sympathetic space, especially with more modern vampire characters (like you said, as victims for example). i actually have a vampire oc for one of my games who subverts a lot of vampire tropes, according to my sister. i trust her because she literally studies horror literature, but i just wanted to make a vampire with more heart than brains, tbh i could talk about him forever though so im gonna stop myself there

also kuchisake onna is cool! it's really neat how she's a more recently developed yokai.