Sorry, but it's too fucking hot most places to even think about spooky season right now.

As long as the Claus regime and its fundamentalist base remains steadfast in its mission of Christmas creep expansionism, Halloween is all that's left between us and Christmas lights going up in July.

For generations, Halloween has held the borders of Autumn established long ago in the Skellington Accords. Resolutely. Without complaint. It naturally can't even creep father forward than Lughnasadh on August 6 due to the wobble of the Earth herself, and makes no designs to even take more than a week of August. IF you feel like it.

Meanwhile, the lands of Thanksgiving are bare, stripped to the roots to feed Claus and his elves. Christmas holds nearly every inch of Thanksgiving territory, save only a small administrative territory near the capital. They laughably claim autonomy still. Thanksgiving is little more than a province of Christmas now. A weak and middling fiefdom that serves no master other than Claus.

Fight the Claus. Fight Christmas. Saturnalia io!

Happy Halloween! Happy Samhain! Spooky season arise!

Edit: just this morning a friend passed along from a coworker in I think the Philippines, that "The Holidays", meaning Christmas light, go up Sept 1. It's real, people!

We visit Spirit Halloween at least once a week starting in August each year. My kids are obsessed.

September only has one holiday and it sucks.

A store near me started putting Halloween stuff on shelf space in July.

J U L Y

I'm not ready for this. We can't put out Halloween decorations when it's still summer weather.

I'll keep enjoying the bread themed half season. Then at Mabon I'll switch to beer and pumpkin spice.

Like, I'm edgy and witchy enough all year that I guess I don't really feel the need to let Halloween creep into summer. Also living somewhere where the trees are mostly coniferous does weaken the feeling of autumn a bit when I'm used to leaves changing.

I just put in PTO for a bunch of long weekends so I can desperately cling to summer for as long as possible. I actually got a little chilly at the lake last weekend when the sun started going down. Winter is coming 😟

Halloween is one day, not a season, and I will die on this hill, and then I'll be a spooky skeleton but I won't come out except on Halloween