does anyone else feel like the world kind of skipped halloween this year?? i keep forgetting its this week. even my college didn’t decorate or anything like they usually do. friends didn’t rly have parties. wtf yall
I haven’t seen that video with the news guy in the pumpkin costume on my dash yet and it’s october 28
america is the engine that turns the gears of halloween joy and we’ve all been busy flying around in full panic
People use neural networks for translating languages, recommending movies, delivering ads, and more, but this here is one of my favorite applications: utter surrealism.
Last year I trained a neural network on 4,500 Halloween costumes that you readers helped me collect. This year, I teamed up with the New York Times to train a different neural network on over 7,100 costumes. Jessia Ma illustrated lots of the costumes, even the ones that make NO SENSE and they are all SO GOOD.
Thank you, everyone who contributed a costume! You can still contribute to the dataset (maybe I’ll revisit it next year) by filling out this form.
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I was interested to know whether there had been any noticeable uptick in searches for “the cask of amontillado” since this meme began and while there has, it’s the exact same uptick which has occurred every fall in recent memory as high school teachers have geared up for their spooky october literature units
it looks very similar to a reading of a heartbeat…..a specific heart…..that won’t stop beating……..from under the floorboards………
Halloween is only several weeks away. You know what that means! PLEDGE YOUR ALLEGIANCE TO THE SKELETON WAR. OR ELSE SKELETONS WILL BLAME US IF THEY LOSE AND PUT BONES IN ALL OF OUR SOUP. IT’S AWFUL.
if a teenager is at your door and they are wearing a costume!! please give them candy!! they are still in it for the halloween spirit and it honestly no different from a little kid in a costume. they are just as excited and happy as all the other lil tykes and dont you dare tell them they are “too old for trick-or-treating” because that will literally break their hearts and that’s not cool.
Its getting close to Halloween again so I just thought I’d reblog this again
And if “don’t be rude to teenagers over a stupid jawbreaker” isn’t enough for you, consider
You can’t tell how old a kid is just by looking. I’ve known multiple 5th graders who were taller than I am, and I’m 25 years old. With their faces hidden by masks, you won’t be able to tell they’re elementary schoolers, but they still are.
Lots of older siblings are expected to take their younger siblings trick-or-treating, and they only get paid in candy.
You don’t know if that teenager is developmentally disabled.
You don’t know if that teenager spent most of their childhood in a hospital or sick and has never had the traditional trick-or-treat experience before.
You don’t know if this is that teenager’s first Halloween in America, and they just want to experience a piece of American culture.
You don’t know if that teenager ever gets candy any other day of the year.
You don’t know if that teenager has eaten anything at all today.
And those are just things I can think of off the top of my head.
Also older teens/adults who trick-or-treat might have grown up in fundamentalist religious sects that believed that Halloween was satanic. Don’t fucking judge people it’s not that hard.
oh god I swear if you can’t give a fucking teenager a piece of candy please just consider this as well:
halloween is one of the only bonding experiences a lot of teens get with their siblings. my sister gave me all her candy the night it was deemed that I became too “old” for halloween, then cried because she wanted to have some, but knew the holiday was ruined for me and thought I “deserved” candy. she had more heart than the adults at the homes where we trick or treated.
halloween is also a bonding experience for most teens and their friends. many of them dump a lot of their own hard-earned money into costumes. as someone who used to babysit and tutor and wash cars for money to get myself a costume, it’s really disheartening to have the door slammed in your face.
a lot of teens’ families can’t afford “halloween parties” or any other teenaged alternative. my family could never afford one of those, so our only means of celebrating was to trick-or-treat.
would you rather that teenager go out and get smashed at a halloween party with kids their age and older, dressed in degrading costumes, which could end in disaster?
that older teen might be trick or treating for a younger sibling who was too sick to come out. I knew a girl who was 17, went out for her little sister who was in the hospital getting surgery, and got the door slammed in her face and a treat bag quarter way full.
it’s not that hard to give a fucking polite (only the polite ones) teenager a piece of candy. jesus fucking christ.
Procrastination Station 