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1. I got a postcard from

oracne! It really brightened my day; thank you!!

2. We had an awesome Halloween. All four of us painted our own little gourd creatures, we watched the surprisingly good 2019 animated Addams Family movie (on Netflix with an amazing cast), we all dressed up (Josh as ghost, Emma as skeleton, Fiona as She-Ra, and me as princess), and Fiona trick or treated in all our bedrooms.

3. Josh, Emma, and I watched Phantasm, and OMG this must have been Kripke's favorite movie because its fingerprints are all over SPN.

So, on the one hand, it's kind of a schlocky movie. But on the other hand, it's a surprisingly good movie. I haven't been able to stop thinking about it at least.

Cinematographically, it's beautiful. Lots of really cool looking shots.

So many elements of the movie show up in SPN: two brothers, parents dead, the car, fighting monsters, even the shots of the older brother driving the car with half his face obscured in shadow.

At first, I was annoyed by the flying knife missiles, but then when I realized the monsters are aliens, and the movie is going for a sci-fi/horror hybrid, I was okay with it (even if at first it is deeply weird and random until you get that explanation).

The end is blowing my mind, though. If we accept that most of the movie is the younger brother's dream, that explains the disjointed quality of most of the movie (the David Lynchy atmosphere of it), the way the main characters seem to be the only people inhabiting the movie, and the way the little brother seems to be able to follow the older brother on foot instantly even when the older brother is driving a car. But then when the monster shows up at the very, very end, what does that mean? What's real and what's the dream?

I think this one is worth a watch. I don't do scary movies because I don't like to be scared, and this one isn't scary, just twisty and interesting.

4.

gloss linked me to this awhile back, and I just now got around to reading it: a short story by Tamsyn Muir set in The Locked Tomb Trilogy world: The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex.