Most bone-chilling greetings to ye! I have returned from my absence to do my yearly Halloween round up, and this year I am most impressed.
The site is dressed up black and orange, the truest colours of Halloween (plus purple). No Halloween feature, but honestly the look is impressive enough to me. Insidious pumpkin face on the logo, serial killer font, Spook, Creep, Pester! I love it. Outside of the main site the Halloween spirit is strong as well. Google Translate still doesn't work for Chinese, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, but elsewhere it's in full force!
The German wiki keeps on giving as it does every year (makes sense I suppose, theirs is the home of the Grimm tales), having just ended another Halloween competition, with a great spooky theme to boot.
Sadly, the French didn't do anything this year, though they do have a neat competition on the theme of errors, with a very clever theme rearranging the widgets on the page.
The Italian branch is also having a Halloween contest. No special page theme, but they have found a way to implement a dark mode, which is nice (possible feature of Project Foundation?).
The Polish branch didn't want to be left out and have a competition of their own, with the interesting theme of articles that have previously been deleted (meta-zombies, anybody?). Ressurection of the Removed, Translate calls it.
And the Spanish-speaking branch, oh my, they have outdone themselves. Not just a cool page theme with an animated banner, not just some nice art on the main page, but a skeleton vs pumpkin story-fighting competition, where the two sides go head-to-head represented by gifs of a skeleton head and a pumpkin breathing fire at each other! Top marks.
Back in the English-speaking part of the internet, we have social media.
YouTuber TheeSherm is putting on a 24-hour Halloween charity livestream again, live right now! He's gathered a bunch of SCP authors and creators and they'll be doing just SCP stuff for 24 hours, in aid of an LGBT centre. Details here.
I can't tell if the SCP subreddit is being especially spooky today, because honestly they're always like that. But the colours are especially black and orange today, so perhaps they did put in some extra effort.
That's all I have for you. If I missed anything, please comment it yourself. I leave you again with the Word of the Day. Today it's 'eldritch', but I'm sure most of you already know that word, being on this site and all, so instead I'll give you yesterday's, which is one of my favourite words ever: 'gloaming'.
Gloaming, noun: twilight, dusk, specifically the part of dusk where the sun has set but the sky is not completely dark as its glow is still visible on the horizon; 'The Gloaming Wildwoods'1.
Happy Halloween, and stay safe!
