#idk... sounds cozy

[aka-indulgence]

Jack O'Lantern :D 🎃

It was getting late. Trick or treaters were going to come in about an hour or two. And you're on your porch, carving a last-minute jack o'lantern.

You've never made one on your own before. Why were you outside with a spoon again?

In hindsight, you really should've done it inside. Bring the cursed gourd to the kitchen. Get a proper knife instead of the spoon you're ruining by trying to stab the pumpkin with it. But you just panicked, having forgotten to get a jack o'lantern, and started to work outside. You forgot the knife in your kitchen, and your arms were just about jello at that point. You didn't want to bother.

You look at the fields, probably the same one this pumpkin was picked up from.

You didn't even have to do much left. It was already empty. You just had to make the eyes and nose and mouth... but you were so tired.

In the end you were just slicing into the skin the outline of the lantern of your dreams. You're about to throw in the towel and give up, grab a marker to draw on the face.

But you heard a rustle nearby. And a not-so-subtle shadow fall over you.

"Gah!!" you throw the spoon out of your hand, looking up at the scarecrow that had decided to stand in front of you, staring at you intently with one red eye.

... This was. The scarecrow from the field. Right?

One red eye, the side of his head damaged by a fall or some other, and looking distinctly like a skeleton.

You should be screaming. Running, even. Throw the damn pumpkin at him and hide. But you were frozen in disbelief, staring up at him.

He raised a hand full of straw (or... made of straw?), pointing.

".... do..."

.

Was.

Was he talking?

"do you need... help...?"

"Huh?"

You looked at where he was pointing at. It was the pumpkin.

"i.... can cut.... for you." He says simply.

This was. Beyond an odd situation. It was bizarre, But you found yourself handing the pumpkin to him anyway, not knowing what else to do in this situation. You've heard scary stories about this particular scarecrow but you always chalked it up to scary rumors meant to keep children away from this particular field. Or thieves. You aren't sure.

But here he was, cutting the face out of the pumpkin for you.

"what's it... for...?" he asks. You can't say you're an expert at reading the expressions of a.. skeleton scarecraw, but it looked like he was smiling at you, as he sliced through your marks with his finger (it looked like a white claw was hidden under the straw.)

"Um... it's a jack o'lantern. I'm going to put it on the front door as a decoration. Kids are going to come over and ask for candy..."

Were you explaining to this scarecrow the concept of trick-or-treating? You guess you were.

He hands back the pumpkin, now a "jack o'" minus the "lantern". You should be afraid considering he has claws sharp enough to make quick work of the pumpkin but... his mannerisms were as innocent as a child's.

"can.... can i stay....?"

"Uhh...." You look up at the scarecrow, back to your house, and back at him. You aren't sure what his company's gonna bring, but you aren't sure how you'd reject his request either.... and honestly he doesn't seem as scary as the rumors say he is.

"Ok, as long as you don't scare anyone off my property, ok?"

He smiles.

"ok."

[whimperaudioconnoisseur]

cockwarming as a power play. i’m just using you as a seat. don’t move i’m trying to watch the movie

[soundsofastar]

AIDAN save me

[stabbyfoxandrew]

i want to crawl under my desk and go to sleep

[sevicia]

I will not lie, I kinda hate the "cozy horror" subgenre. like just the idea of it annoys me and I hate to sound like an elementary school bully but if you need your horror to be "cozy" then you're a weenie and maybe horror just isn't for you

[shaniacsboogara]

So while I fully want (and need) brennan on puppet history, if I had to choose one d20 person to be on ph it'd be lou every time. He would be fucking incredible with the Professor please see my vision

YOU'RE SO RIGHT.

Honest confession: when you first sent this ask I hadn't watched any D20 aside from a few short clips, so I went to do some research by watching Neverafter...

Lou being on puppet history is not a "cool hypothetical scenario" IT IS A NEED. I SEE YOUR VISION AND WILL DO EVERYTHING IN MY POWER TO MAKE IT A REALITY.

[adrift-in-thyme]

*airplays the violin as I listen to Lullaby of Resembool*

*joins you*

[weevilwizard]

trying to get into a new coquette musician

i ask if they’re a nicole dollanganger or a lana del rey

they laugh and say “it’s good coquette music, sir”

i listen

it’s lana del rey

[fitzrove]

Overwhelmed by nostalgia actually

[byanyan]

ougghhghgg I really overdid it this week.... my energy? gone. my senses? too sensitive. doing too much sensing. like I wanna play a game bc I def haven't got the capacity to write rn but I'm also worried that even that'll be too much sensory input for me tonight asfhkh

[inusmasha]

If I doodle little mikos wearing graphic tees does that count as an OC?

[monkee-mobile]

i cannot put into words well all my thoughts about how soft the monkees are I have SO MANY THOUGHTS it’s just so hard to type them out. my drafts are crazy right now.

it all just comes out like “when they’re all at home and it’s bedtime everybody just cuddling and chilling out to the guitar and singing with each other and talking oh my god you know they just like you know when like the blankets and it’s warm and mike is so gentle to davy and they sing and then read stories and peter likes the lights low” like that’s not what i meant to say at all i have whole narratives going i’m just kind of sick and i’m thinking about the monkees being so soft and sweet and davy curled up in a blanket in mikes lap while he plays the guitar complaining about bedtime and petting at mikes beard and mike picking at some chords as he tries to reason with the (NOT sleepy!!) little one—this is turning into davybaby !!

[hopecomesbacktolife]

hmm it seems that the girls (me) are feelin a little lonely tonight *puts on ‘voyager bridge ambience background sounds 8 hours’ video to fall asleep to*

[little-eye-guy]

can’t explain why but i really dislike the term “cozy game”. the first time i heard people using it i was like HUH?? i’ve never thought of a game as “cozy” in my life

[anaalnathrakhs]

hjgjhggjgjgh forgot i can't even go to the psych ward if there was magically room for my non urgent case. my mom's birthday is this weekend, and my aunt and grandma stay at our house for the following week. i need to be there for the birthday, and then i have to seem normal and present at normal hours. AND THEN IT'S THE HOLIDAYS.