Friday Face Off: Ginger Christmas

  

Friday Face Off is a feature by DVArtist, Art, Food, Gardening to show off faces, no matter the medium, no matter if it's human, alien, animal, monster, or anything else. It can be something you captured, created, or found.

WWBC: A Profession From a Book, Movie, or TV Show That I'd Like to Try

Hosted by Long and Short Reviews

This week's WWBC question is a profession from a book, movie, or TV show that I'd like to try?

Oh.. That's an.. interesting question that I don't know how to answer.

Oh! What about a cryptozoologist!? I've read quite a few books and watched quite a few movies recently with one in them.

I did some research too, and there's no formal education needed to become one. So I can just do a bunch of research, learn some things, and call myself one.

You know what, that's my new goal in life. I am going to learn everything I can and do studies on cryptids.

What about you? What is a profession in a book, movie, or tv show that you'd like to try?

Bonus question.. What's your favorite cryptid?

Waiting On Wednesday: Something Is Killing the Children, It Looks Like You in the Dark, What a Nightmare, Double Trouble, VHS Mixtape, Other Mommy

                 

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. I changed it and added movies as well as books

Something is Killing the Children

Release date: October 13th

What it's about:

Welcome to the dark. It has very sharp teeth.

Based on the internationally bestselling comic series, with millions of copies in print,​ the first full-length novel from the terrifying world of Something Is Killing the Children—a stunning collaboration between Eisner-winning co-creator James Tynion IV and #1 New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White

As a Black Mask, Erica Slaughter has a very straightforward job: find the monster, kill the monster, then do it all again. But when she arrives in Badwater, Idaho, nothing is simple. She can’t determine whether the horrific killer of a twelve-year-old was a bear, a person, or something much worse. Complicating matters is the charismatic doomsday preacher who is quickly leading the small town to the verge of hysteria. If Erica wants to save the surviving children, she has to figure out which kid’s fears might have summoned a monster—and fast. Erica must get to the truth before the Order and the town come to the same conclusion: to stop the monster, you have to kill the girl.

Hope Is a Knife is a chilling, original tale in SIKTC lore, where monsters are real and only the hunters of the Order of St. George are equipped to challenge them. Whether or not you’ve already devoured the Eisner Award–winning comics, this standalone vision of supernatural horror is a thrill ride of the highest order.

It Looks Like You in the Dark

Release date: October 13th

What it's about:

It Looks Like You in the Dark is a propulsive, grab-you-by-the-throat, Indigenous horror debut, by Mathilda Zeller, that expertly blending folklore and supernatural chills to explore all the fearsome monsters that emerge when we turn our backs on the land and each other.

Tapeesa is newly out of high school and working in a fish processing plant in the Inupiat village, Chukchi, where she’s lived her whole life. Maybe that’s why people tend to assume she isn’t that bright―or maybe her mama is right and she does have bad blood. Either way, she knows the legend, and she knows the history. Her Ahna told her that the hungry creature―the kushtuka―appears to us in the form of someone we love. It will try to get us to follow it. Follow it where? Those who have gone no longer have throats to tell us.

The Kobuk River Valley of remote Alaska draws greedy white men time and time again. But whenever they come, death comes too. This time the white men are here for the long term, to create an open pit, a lead mine just north of the village. When her sister Esther goes missing, Tapeesa will do anything to get her back. Seeking justice, Tapeesa must track down the kidnapper in the darkening Arctic. What awaits beyond the warmth of her village is more horrible than she could imagine and closer to her than she knows

What a Nightmare

Release date: October 13th

What it's about:

They called her a nightmare, so she became one.

Haven Powers has spent years trying to disappear. Once a loud, troublemaking girl who defied every expectation in her small town of Friendship, Texas, now she’s learned to hide her fire behind a quiet receptionist’s smile. It’s safer that way—for her, and for everyone else.

When an unsettling encounter with her predatory boss cracks open the tightly locked box inside her, Haven dreams a terrifying dream about him, only to wake up and discover it’s come true; he’s dead. Desperate to gain control of this deadly power once and for all, Haven returns home.

Welcomed suspiciously with open arms, Haven is immediately met with the ghosts of her past. Under the suffocating pressure of the town and her family who believe obedience is next to godliness, Haven soon finds herself on a path to revenge. She’ll show them what happens when the girl they called too much, too loud, too everything, finally lets her demons loose.

Double Trouble

Release date: October 9th

Where to watch: Theaters

What it's about:

Two witty sisters in Vegas get tangled in a holiday heist and join forces with an ex-MI6 guard to outmaneuver a master thief and recover a diamond gauntlet before Christmas.

VHS Mixtape

Release date: October 9th

Where to watch: Streaming on Shudder

What it's about:

It presents a new anthology in which music and sound become a source of terror.

Other Mommy

Release date: October 9th

Where to watch: Theaters

What it's about:

Bela, an 8-year-old girl living in a home with marital problems, confronts a sinister entity which comes out of her closet. The presence, whom she calls "Other Mommy," becomes increasingly threatening to her and her family.

TMST: If you had to teach a class or give a TED Talk, what would it be about?

Tell Me Something Tuesday is a weekly discussion post where bloggers discuss a wide range of topics from books and blogging to life in general hosted by That's What I'm Talking About

This week's TMST is if I had to teach a class or give a TED talk, what would it be about?

And OH MY GOODNESS.. I could talk about books, movies (Especially horror), photography, cryptids, mushrooms, gardening, crafting, zombies, and survival for HOURS. 

Which might be why I talk about all of that on my blog.

Or homeschooling, that would be good too.

What about you? What could you teach a class or give a ted talk on?

Top Ten Tuesday: These Make Me Happy

 

Top Ten is an original feature/weekly meme originally created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl that features a great bookish top ten every week.

Oh man, there is SO MANY books that just when I think of them I feel so happy. These are 10 books that I grew up reading that just make me feel nostalgic. 
The Shadow Children series is the series that got me into reading, Goosebumps (Specifically Say Cheese and Die and Monster Blood), Fear Street (Specifically Hide and Shriek) are all books I read as a child that shaped me into the reader I am now. 

Brothers, Boyfriends, and Other Criminal Minds is the first book I remember reading at book club. Beauty, Twilight, The Named, and Uglies are all books I read as a teenager with friends. 

And Harry Potter, specifically Deathly Hallows, was such a pivotal book in my teenage years, I remember going to the midnight release of it at Hastings (Man I miss Hastings.. Those were the days)