Virtual Trick-or-Treating

[rsadelle]

Happy Halloween! Welcome to the twelfth annual edition of virtual trick-or-treating. We're doing this early this year because I'm practicing Shabbat and also going to an outdoors, socially distanced Halloween lunch so I won't be on the internet for much of tomorrow.



Knock or ring the bell by leaving me a comment by noon Pacific Time on Halloween, and I'll reply with a treat of some sort. It might be a fic snippet, a picture, a song, or something else I come up with in the moment. Lurkers and anonymous trick-or-treaters are welcome! (But if you're posting anonymously or with a DW account that is completely friends-locked and you want a treat specific to your interests, let me know something about why you know me.)

(Not my actual door. Photo by Flickr user Olivia Mobbs, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.)

Comments

[rsadelle]

Happy Halloween! I must confess I feel very guilty because I read all of your Lek updates but never commented. I'm so glad his surgery went well! That must have been such a relief for both of you.

I have three treats for you, one horror-related and two gay.

First, the TV show Evil is now on Netflix (and possibly other places?). You might enjoy it! It could definitely fit in the horror genre, with a general theme of "is this supernatural or not?" Some of the human chilling stuff is extremely chilling. (Horror is not generally my thing, so I don't always follow your horror viewing reports, so apologies if you've already watched and talked about this and I missed it.)

Secondly, if you have, or can get, a library card to a library that has access to Kanopy, Parting Glances is on it (maybe also other places). I'm guessing there's a chance you've seen it before. I have, but I rewatched it a couple of weeks ago, and it holds up really well as being a charming and enjoyable story about gay men in the AIDS epidemic. (The one thing that really doesn't hold up: there's a sequence where two of the characters put on some stereotypical Native American caricature costume elements and run around whooping.) It's also the film debut of both Steve Buscemi and Kathy Kinney.

Thirdly, here is some queer crayon art:

[j_crew_guy]

No worries about not commenting on the updates about Lek's surgery. We are definitely both relieved that it went well and he's healed now.

Thanks for the horror rec! I have not seen Evil yet, so I will add it to my Netflix queue and check it out.

And thank you for the gay movie rec! Parting Glances is one of those movies I always meant to watch as a young gay but never got around to it. Our public library system was forced to drop Hoopla back in September due to impending budget cuts and I don't think they offer Kanopy either. Lek's school might have Kanopy or the DVD, so I'll check with him and see.

I love the queer crayon art!

[rsadelle]

I hope you enjoy one or both of those things! :)