#i love love love everything pumpkin

[spliceyblues]

☆ He's a master of fright

and a demon of light ☆

[theroseapothecary]

it's pumpkin seeeeason 🍁🧡🧡🧡🧡

I love it sm, we already made pumpkin soup twice, had some at my mom's aaaand today we tried out pumpkin pizza and pumpkin lasagne at a restaurant and I want more

[automatonknight]

id: a digital drawing of miss pauling from team fortress two. it shows her from about the hips up. she's posed with her hands apart, raised at shoulder-level. between them, there are a bunch of colorful dice and simple figurines floating in an arc. miss pauling is looking off to the right with a smile. she's wearing a tophat with a busted top, there's an eye visible inside it, the hat also has a ghost ornament attached to it, a purple suit and a white shirt with a black tie. the background is black with purple silhouettes of ghosts and strands of smoke. end id

[andersonsgirl]

IM FUCKING DONE

[chvoswxtch]

in case you needed good news today halloween is 101 days away

[evillillad]

pumpkin pickin date

[plumdale]

Feel free to share why in the tags if anyone wants to

[tnbc-thoughtsandheadcanons]

So here's the thing about Edgar.

The previous Pumpkin King of Halloween Town wanted it to be a dark and terrifying place, with less room for kindness, and claims that he was making great progress with this!!! Which means Edgar was close to converting his people to harsh ways. The only thing stopping him is the fact that he's FORCED to step down, because his reign as King has been going on for too long!

But Edgar doesn't *want* to give up his Crown. More importantly, he doesnt want to lose his control.

He plans to keep control over Halloween Town by manipulating the next King, and calling all the shots behind the scenes(while acknowledging that HE wouldn't be their ruler anymore, he makes Oogie promise to carry out all his demands anyway). He is singlehandedly fixing the competition because he has been easily influencing Boogie, and finds him the perfect execution to still influence his Town the way HE wants to.

Which means Halloween Town was originally going to be dark and terrifying, and not in the good way -- which also means Jack Skellington winning the contest spared all the Town from suffering from such a fate. From having a Leader that lies to them, controls them, refusing to change his rule -- from being under Oogie's unknowingly-terrifying reign, because he was impressionable and was going to indebt himself to Edgar.

Jack is kind, loyal, and wishes to remain friends with Oogie despite their difference in status. He always looks to people as his equal - despite Boogie having a different mindset when having the opportunity to be in power.

Jack being the Pumpkin King prevented Halloween Town from becoming something...worse.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

a little Welcome Home theory that's probably me looking entirely too much into a single line <3

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so i was clicking through the site for the thousandth time and this line caught my eye. maybe its 4 am and i haven't slept, maybe i'm onto something. who knows!

but this little thing... "and lively sets unlike anything seen before!". yeah, it could just be them propping up the show. OR maybe the puppets have been alive the whole time, fully autonomous but entirely unaware that they are puppets on a show. maybe to them, the neighborhood is real, and they simply cannot comprehend the presence of humans so their puppet minds don't register them. this could make for a "cosmic horror but for puppets" spin, which would be sick as fuck

their daytime is when the studio lights are on and people are around. idk how the people would teach them the scripts - maybe they did it at "night"? or maybe there was no script, and the puppets would automatically come up with their own shenanigans, dialogue, and segments that aligned with the show, bc that's what they were made for.

bc its not like the whrp team have physical puppets, or much other than art & reports, right? any information on the puppets - like Howdy being rotated between live-hand and walk-around - could've easily been a lie by the creators of the Welcome Home show. i mean, i don't think it would've gone down well if they came out and said "yeah the puppets are alive"

and now that i'm wondering how they could have living puppets, weren't the 60s/70s chock full of cults? could the WH creators have dipped into the occult to create living puppets for a ground breaking, popular, lucrative show, using minimal effort because "the show writes itself"? all they have to do is film and maybe change the puppets' costumes. if that - they could have set up hidden cameras or something.

and this is gonna sound even more far-fetched, but what if creating the puppets required human souls to power them? im not suggesting that the puppets have locked away memories from a "human life", bc that would be uh... a lot. but it's enough that given time and the right prompts, they could gain awareness, and maybe the soul does influence them in minor ways - in likes and dislikes etc.

and Wally being aware means that he fully saw the humans running the show. and maybe the occult thing is what's under Home - the source of black magic that brought the puppets to life seeping out. and he's aware because he looked into that source and it flipped a switch in his lil cotton brain

maybex2 this is what caused the show to not only shut down, but be wiped from existence. the magic seeped into Home, maybe killing someone in the process, and Wally was revealed as aware. maybe on live television. so the creators panicked and shut it all down, tried to destroy everything and gaslight the country into forgetting it ever existed. maybe in the hopes that once no one remembers the puppets, the magic will leech out of them and leave them lifeless

and that loops back into Wally being the only one referred to in present tense in the neighborhood bios. he's still aware, maybe trapped in the studio, alone. i mean, i sure hope he's not alone - i hope he has his friends with him. unless they're all decommissioned (dead)... maybe Wally is trying to bring them all back or "fix" them?

but then there's the case of all of this currently going down online. have the puppets' consciousness somehow been transferred to the internet? or has Wally gotten his little felt mittens on a computer? something else? and then there's the whrp team... could they be fake, and its really just Wally trying to cobble together the remains of his life/friends? i mean, the Question-Answerer sounds like a title a kid or naive puppet would come up with. people would've called them the Curator or somethin?

i have too many thoughts

[cookinguptales]

I'm dying, I had another fandom breakup several years ago where I also poured my frustration into a deeply pornographic fic.

The main differences are:

different fandom, obviously

this was actually one of the last fics I ever wrote for that fandom, it really was a kiss off. the only fics I posted after it were just me finishing up some prior obligations.

I actually wrote it and posted it, as opposed to the pornographic vent fic I was writing for wwdits that I set aside for now.

I APPARENTLY POSTED IT TO TUMBLR FIRST?

I know this because someone just reblogged it (and said some really kind things, thank you ;;) and I had completely forgotten that I'd been so deep in my fit of pique that I was like "well this is vent fic that I wrote to cope with my frustration towards canon, not REAL fic, so I should post it to tumblr, not AO3."

At first I was just laughing over the sheer timing of it all, someone digging up this ancient post with like 25 notes from many years ago the exact same week that I'm having angst over the fandom I replaced the old one with, but then I actually clicked on the post in my notifications and was like.

wait.

did I.... post a sixteen-thousand-word fic to tumblr?

I DID. AND PEOPLE READ IT??? like that's the fucking wild part, that people were willing to sit down and read a fucking sixteen-thousand-word fic under a read more on tumblr. people were so strong back then.

(thankfully, I was convinced to crosspost it to AO3 a few days later, which actually made the fucker readable.)

the sheer ridiculousness of my tantrum (and my weird internal classification for what fic "deserved" to be on AO3 vs. what should just quietly be forgotten on tumblr) has me laughing. which I think was actually kind of needed, haha. we all need to laugh at our own fandom angst sometimes.

if I do end up finishing and posting the wwdits ventfic, I promise I'll actually post it on AO3. lmao

[imogenkol]

I love my job because sometimes I get to pet sit for the sweetest people in the entire world 😭

[morelikedoccock]

Still on my bullshit🎃🩺🐙⚙️

[iturbide]

I COME BACK FROM SCHOOL TO KELLAM IN HEROES

TODAY IS A GOOD DAY

you know I will be real I kind of tuned out when the duo Hero showed up and didn't even think to look at the TT unit

MY BOY FINALLY MADE IT!!!!!

THIS IS A GOOD DAY INDEED

[countdown-til-sanders-take-over]

Woodwick candles are not for the weak in spirit because tell me why my playlist just ended and I heard a noise and I was like frightened because it sounded like something burning and I was like oh my gosh the is something on fire and I turned around and it was like oh. it’s my candle

I think we should talk about the monstrosity my aunt sent us why does it need four wicks why is it the size of my head wh

[i-mybrunettelady]

Listen I know I said I set Nyra's hair length to half back some time ago but I am hunted by the image of big hair Nyra because that's the hair she had when she started out, when she saved Shaemoor, when she killed Zhaitan.

And there's something to be said about her having the same hair (length wise at least) as she did 10 years ago when she was just starting out, but she's now a totally changed person

I am COMPROMISED, COMPROMISED I tell you I love her so much she's the light of my life

[ratstuckinamarble]

the rat is SICK? :( poor poor rat.....

stay snuggly and stay warm <3

Oh my goodness how are you this adorable T-T I don't even know what to say...

I want to glue this to my heart. May not help me get well sooner but it sure is making me so happy ๑ï

Thank you, truly.

I'll try my best to stay snuggly and warm, though I could never reach the comfort of your drawing. In the meantime, you stay cozy and safe too <3