Coming Soon: Sixteen Further Screams For Halloween

(Stream screenshot from dot_lvl )

Hello! It's been a little bit, and my summer didn't end up as productive as I hoped for on the blog. C'est la vie, but perhaps someday I will get the spoons to talk about the things I experienced this summer. In the meantime I've been keeping busy with other things, like twice-weekly streams and joining an amateur fighting game league playing Super Street Fighter II Turbo. It's been very fun and there's likely an image on the side of me beating something with a super move. That was the match of my fucking life, but I've rambled about that elsewhere. Nah, we should probably get down to the usual business. It's the middle of September, and the summer is all but faded. We are in fall's full grasp, things are getting colder, the leaves are just starting to turn, and the Spooky Season once again approaches. Which means, of course, the end of year super busy season for me. December brings my stream marathon. November my foray into Non-Specific November Writing Month. But October? You know what that brings... and if you don't, I'm about to say it.

Sixteen Further Screams For Halloween are coming to your Blogspot dot com soon. My annual Halloween marathon wherein I will discuss something spooky every other day. It used to be every day, but goddamn doing 31 of these would kill me now. I'm middle-aged, what do you want from me? 16 is enough. I have some plans, as there are definitely a few pieces of spooky media on my radar that I've been saving especially for this... but I do not have 16 planned yet. That's where YOU come in! That's right, you get to sound off in the comments and suggest some spooky media that you think I'd like, or that you like and want me to take a crack at, and I'll likely do one or more. I only ask a few things of you, and they are as follows:

-I think at this point I know my way around the Internet and can get my hands on most cinematic material, but for obscure edge cases keep that in mind. If we know each other I may ask for your help in tracking such things down.

-My only real trigger/phobia, beyond a very specific case, is wrist or throat slashing. If such scenes are signposted in the movie such that it's obvious they're going to happen, I can avert my eyes in time. If there's only one or two such scenes in the movie, it's fine with a warning. If it's something where such things are the main method of murder, that's a hard pass.

-I am open to other media, like brief forays into TV shows or comics or what have you, but it's not my main area of expertise and I'll need a relatively affordable or even cost-free way of access to cover it. This part I may be able to handle on my own, but it's a case-by-case basis and depends on context.

-Keep your suggestion to something that I can experience within a few hours: the runtime of a motion picture, or a short read that's about double that. This isn't a precise science, but don't drop a heavy tome on me that will take ages for me to experience and digest. I've got 15 more of these little shits to do on top of your choice, after all.

I think that does it. I look forward to your suggestions, and HAPPY SPOOKY SEASON WELCOME TO FALL MOTHERFUCKERS. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to bully gently persuade Rain into letting me practice my Chun-Li on him.