Season of the Sticks

Hi.

I'm like a cryptid who comes back every fall and disappears for the rest of the year. Pumpkin spice hits the shelves and I wake, coughing up grave dust. 

I say this every time, but I swear I didn't mean to be gone so long. 

I don't really remember what happened in the chunks of time I was absent. For me, it's all broken up into eras of my hair. It's like brunette, brunette with bangs, streaks, blonde, messed up blonde, retoned blonde, blonde with roots, pink didn't quite take strawberry lemonade hair, hot pink, slightly lighter pink, perfect pink, sorta blondly pink, brunette again.

 I was a different person with each hair change. And now my hair is at this awkward stage, where it's grown a bit, and my bangs are longish and I can't decide if I should get them cut, and possibly my hair. Or just go in for a trim and try to grow them out. I'm terrible with decisions. Time will tell. 

At any rate, I feel like an ugly gremlin, which seems to fit this time of year anyway.

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I've written a little, and done a ton of awful art. Life has kinda caught me off guard lately. I turned 28 and fell into a rocky relationship with tiramisu, I love it, but I'm lactose intolerant. 

Ours is a forbidden love. 

I had what I've been calling a 'Jim Henson' summer. I consumed a ton of 80's fantasy movies and emerged even more obsessed with glitter and practical effects. Everyone's summer is different but mine was spider silk and fruit juice. 

It went by in a dream-like haze. The best kind of summer actually.

The temperature is already dropping here, and a single leaf fell, prompting my friend's kids to be like "SKYYYE IT'S A LEAF! YOU LOVE LEAVES." and their completely right. 

I've been living like it's Autumn since mid-July, so. Forgive me for skipping over summer completely and jumping right into spooky season. 

The sky has been overcast lately and resembles soaked cotton, the air has a bite of smoke, and I get to pull all my oversized sweaters out.

I love the atmosphere of fall. The taste and scents. It fits my palette perfectly. 

I'm particular about the content I consume in the fall. I like it to fit, and it's not really about it being fall-focused or containing autumn-specific things. It's a bonus if it does. 

It's mainly about feeling, color palette, coffee, and level of spookiness. 

Playlist

Hot Killer- Juilia Wolf

Season of the Sticks- Noah Kahan

Northern Attitude- Noah Kahan

Tamino- You Don't Own Me

Not in Love- Crystal Castles

Masie Peter's- I'm Trying (Not Friends)

Cruel- Jackson Wang 

Aurora- A Dangerous things

I like things with film grain, noise, and terrible sweaters. 

Tv

 That 70's Show- 

So funny, my friend and I have been loving this one, we're both big Hyde fans. The color scheme feels very atumnal. 

Malcolm in the Middle- 

Shouldn't be as relatable as it is. We love Francis (Who ended up being Hyde's real-life brother) If you want a glimpse of what it was like growing up in the 90's/2000's this is incredibly accurate.

-Scream Queens

 This one is the most obvious fall choice. The first season is a campy ode to all slasher films. Even features veteran scream queen herself, Jamie Lee Curtis. I adored it, all the characters are horrible people, all of them. Second season is more like A Series of Unfortunate Events but especially the Horrible Hospital episode. (This one probably has every trigger warning.) 

But if you're a slytherin like me, who loves slasher flms and dark comedy like Heathers you'll probably enjoy this. 

What We Do in the Shadows-

It's a mockumentary and rifts off every vampire movie ever. 

I know I mentioned this one last year, but it remains at the top of my list. Guillermo del la Cruz  has my whole heart. He is the funniest character ever. I also loved seeing Lazlo attempting to raise the baby version of Colin Robertson. (This one has quite a bit of content)

Wednesday- Can't wait for this one guys. I'm a hard core Addams Family fan.

- Teen Wolf 

I have 1 and a half seasons left. I'm not ready. Stiles continues to be my favorite, and I love that they use practically every cryptid known to man. 

(Has amazing cgi XD)

Movies

-The Black Phone 

Was pleasantly suprised with this one. My friend and I were stressed... anything involving kids gets me. 

-Blood & Chocolate 

I have a funny story with this one. I remember seeing it on a shelf in Blockbuster when I was younger, and being like eww. I would never watch that, but Hannibal sent me on a Hugh Dancy kick. So here we are. 

This is incredibly Twilight esque and will not appeal to everyone. Tis trash, it's about werewolves, and yes the main character works in a choclate shop. Hugh Dancy is a gorgeous art boy. 

Resident Evil: Raccoon City-

This is for the zombie lovers, and is honestly the dumbest, plotless thing I've seen all year topped only by the third Anacondas movie. I watched it for Avan Jogia, and Avan Jogia alone. 

His part in this was perfect, he was basically there to look cute and cuss.

-Reality Bites

This one had some good lines, but was basically a throw away movie in a way. I really just watched it for these two. I did like the outfits and it made me nostalgic. 

-Se7en 

Watched this cuz it was a noir thriller. Lot's of rain and gristly murders. The dynamic between the leads was good. 

I read a lot lately so much that I'm not even sure I could seperate it out if I wanted too.  But The Mirror Visitor Quartet is one of my new favorite series. It's gorgeous, a little more than that, even. 

But I plan on reading Our Crooked Hearts and Babel in October. 

I've been drinking a lot of tea, rocking fox socks, and crocheting. Basically soaking in as much comfort as I can. 

I'll leave you with the best sentence I've ever written. 

He’s wearing yesterday’s clothes and I have the sneaking suspicion that he hasn’t slept. 

Yet he somehow manges to make his mused look seem entirely intentional. Like an editorial photo or Edward’s Cullen’s collar.