#odditiesinoctober

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A site-wide sale is happening on Patreon, Etsy,  and our website, for all Oddities merch from now until December 21st!

Be there and beat the rising sun to this deal’s closing!

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@odditiesnoctobermidnightroad's Promptober Day 06 - Vampire

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Fluffy's Language of Flowers Part. 9

Flowers that mean FALL

Autumn is the season of harvest!

Autumn means lots of nice foods that have gotten ripe and pretty and dEEElicious all summer long! Autumn means a lot of food to store up and keep packed away for winter!

Autumn means orange. Lots and lots of orange. Also some whites, reds and yellows, but MOSTLY it means orange~

CALENDULAS.(“tagetes erecta”)!!!!CALENDULAS EVERYWHERE! IT’S DAY OF THE DEAD SEASON BAYBEEEE! GET OUT THOSE CALENDULAS!!!

Wintersquash Flowers.(“cucurbita pepo”),better known to you as “pumpkins”. While their flowers have probably all bloomed and died by the time they’re ready for autumn, you can always make fake ones. Or! Better yet? Use dead pumpkin flowers! They’re still pretty to me! (Note: DO NOT use or handle dead pumpkin flowers. The hairs on this flower can irritate the skin).

Apple Blossoms.(“malus domestica”) and Pomegranate Flowers.(“punica granatum”) are also usually dead around this time, but I don’t care!

Seeing them makes me think of their delicious fruits and their delicious fruits makes me think of autumn: apple blossoms all soft and white and pomegranates all red as the fruit they’re going be! So juicy! But the absolute best flower that grows this time of year?

The kind you HAVE to have around because they’re that big and that pretty and that tasty? Sunflowers.(“helianthus annuus”)!

Everyone loves sunflowers! I love their seeds and how easy they make it for you to get their seeds. They’re so sunny and bright!

They’re so sunny and bright! So Yellow!

So true MOUSE!

Good autumn tiddings, one and all!

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Familiar Friday - Freshwater Eel

Me being out here as slippery as a Freshwater Eel. Yes they very much exist; I wouldn’t know cuz my dad was never able to catch one. You truly can’t go wrong with a snakey-fish.

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Familiar Fridays - Goblin Shark

Another shark. This one’s about as freaky looking as the Cookie Cutter shark but as far as I know a lot more harmless. It’s the Goblin Shark with his elongated jaw!

I wish the goblins would come and take him away (no I don’t) !

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Vords words from Count Monty Cristo: “ Velcome my LOVELIEzz! Zhis is zhe Vampire-bat-vampire-Count Monty Cristo zpeaking.

I’ve heard there is zomekind of ‘challenge’ going about. It iz involving things to draw, thoughtz to conjure, ideaz to zew. A ‘prompt’, az it vhere. Vhell, OBVIOUZLY I’m zhe best when it comes to ideaz, but because I’m zo very generouz, I’m also giving you a read-at-your-own-pace list of ztoriez -von right after zhe other for each day of October to enjoy for zhis blez’zed October-zeazon.

Read vone each day and illuztrate vhat you zhee az you read; or, draw zomething that inzpired you from reading zhe ztoriez! 

Phantasmagoria by Lewis Carol 

Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker

The Signal Man by Charles Dickens

Bluebeard by Charles Perrault 

Godfather Death by The Brothers Grimm

Feathertop by Nathanial Hawthorne

King of the Cats from old Scotland

The Romance of Certain Old Clothes by Henry James

The Shadow by Hans Christian Anderson 

The Landlady by Roald Dahl

There Shall be no Darkness by James Blish 

The New Mother by Lucy Clifford

-DEZIGNATED POEM TIME!!!- The Raven, The Cremation of Sam McGee, The Ballad of Tam Lin, Hist Whist, The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner 

The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs 

There will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury 

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

Uncle Otto’s Truck by Stephen King

Oh, Whistle and I’ll come to you My Lad by James Joyce 

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Tailypo from Apalachian Folklore

Fritt-Flacc by Jules Verne

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambroise Bierce

The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

Lot. 249 by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Red Room by H. G. Wells 

The Cats of Ulthar by H.P. Lovecraft

The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Vampyre by John William Pilodori 

The Shout by Robert Graves 

The Masque of the Red Death or really anything you want by Edgar Allan Poe

Your OWN story

There are zo MANY possibilities to be had! ‘ave at it!” - Monty Cristo

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Words from Cavity: “ Hi there! So, for my ‘prompt’, draw-or-do-a-thing-for-each-day-of-the-month October Challenge, I got a little hungry…. And then I got busy listing off food that I like and I thought you might like too.

-Mouse reminded me not to list the rotten things. I know, not every living’ stiff can handle rot :(- I’m so sorry, Food is such a good motivator! Treat yourself to these treats; or, if not, draw something based on these treats! I know I would if I could draw!

Candy Corn

Garlic Bread 

Blood Oranges

Taffies; sour or not

Marshmallow Fluff

Dark Chocolate anything

Pixie Sticks

Sour-coated Gummies

Candied Caramel Apple slices

Fruity flavored-lollipops

Pomegranate Seeds

Earl Gray Chai

Pumpkin Spice EVERYTHING

Spooky Cereal 

Peach Yogurt

Jelly-filled gumballs

Turkey Leg

Chocolate Mole

White Chocolate candy w mushy filling

Hot and toasty (or sweet) Popcorn

Hot Cider

Grape/Raisin with pretzel trail mix

Fizzy-Carbonated Soda

Sparkling Cider

Corn on the Cob

Pumpkin Pies or Cakes 

Celery dipped in Hummus (or peanut butter)

Gummy Worm Mud Pie

Flatbread Pizza

Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

Sugar-Skullss!  

Bon Appetit- (that’s French!) " - Cavity. 

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