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Gormadt@slrpnk.net

Shared in 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago

Spooky Season [Rule]

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gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago

the spookiest thing of autumn is the fricking cold, everything’s freezing, dying, all around us. that’s why skeletons. this year it’s still too warm for that

Sergio@piefed.social 5 days ago

!spooky_memes@lemmy.world

xylol@leminal.space 5 days ago

You mean Christmas

Gormadt@slrpnk.net 5 days ago

Straight up I’ve seen Christmas decorations at a local store for 2 weeks. They haven’t even put Halloween stuff up, just straight to Christmas.

J3N5T4R@lemmy.world 5 days ago

Because its not october. Leave shit in the same month of the fucking event its supposed to be in. So done with this shit.

criticon@lemmy.ca 5 days ago

It’s been too warm too. The spooky vibes are just not here yet

Sergio@piefed.social 5 days ago

obligatory Every Day is Halloween.

thiscat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago

How long has it been. Years? No. Not years, not decades, not centuries. No time. There was no time. He was still thinking like a mortal, Grover knew. The day he left earth was the last day he was a part of. The moment before he entered that portal was the last time he was a part of this world. Time is gone. All of eternity stretches forward forever. A single second, a million years. It’s all the same now. The neon flashes of multicolored radiation that spilled forth from the distortion in deep space, the bright white of the world when he first left his mother’s womb. It had all melted together into a singular moment, a never ending eternity. Time was gone. On his quest to seek the unknown, Grover had become immortal. Grover had died. He saw the birth of the universe, and he saw the heat death.

Skunk [any]@lemmy.zip 5 days ago

Don’t worry, zombie charlie kirk can’t hurt you

hOrni@lemmy.world 5 days ago

Here, have a favorite of mine: