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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 01/10/2026

Okay, lingerie under tailored suit *fucks* and I think this might have to become my default concert attire.

Hal in a burgundy tux with black lapels. Ey’re leaning on a faux ivory cane with a stylized head of Satan and have nude lingerie embroidered with black snakes in lieu of a tux shirt.

Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 30/09/2026

Working on a presentation to teach magician friends the Greek alphabet and my attempt at rendering “graphic design is my passion” came out as (very roughly) “writing glyphs into shapes is the source of my suffering.”

A PowerPoint shitpost showing a standard lowercase sigma as having Goku hair and final sigma as having Super Saiyan hair. There’s a joke about “final form” below.

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 22/09/2026

Literally the last divination readings I or friends have done have boiled down to “please be gentle with yourself” and I am, unfortunately, incapable of noticing reoccurring patterns.

DW meme of “That sign can’t stop me because I can’t read!”

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 22/09/2026

Toothless Good Familiars are the best; Phoebe’s bites are like getting mauled by a damp sock puppet.

A toothless vicious predator receives her daily offering of Churu

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 17/09/2026

Late night discovery: The auto-generated captions on YouTube for Gnostic Mass are *incredible* but perhaps not faithful transcription of Class A materials.

The Priest opening the veil, but YouTube autogenerated subtitles render (I think?) “kyrie Abrasax, kyrie Mithras…” as “wahoo! Tiara socks creamy thrusts we fall!”

Another autogenerated captions fail, still the opening of the veil, but “CHAIRE PHALLE, CHAIRE PAMPHAGE, CHAIRE PANGENETOR, HAGIOS, HAGIOS, HAGIOS” has becoming “highly fall a, highly pump ah gay, highly pongetti toward, hogwash hogwash hogwash.”

The Priest consecrating the host, but the usual “by the virtue of the rod, be this bread the body of god,” and “touto esti to soma mou” has been rendered as “…be this spread the body of god…Tostitos, oh my.”

A slight miscaptioning of one of the collects that reads “blazed it forever among the joyous company [of heaven]” which honestly sounds like it belongs as another route for The End.

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 12/09/2026

Phoebe’s is, somehow, impossibly, never a trap outside of playing “Two Minutes’ Hate” every morning where she pulls my hand into her floof and then tries her best to (very gently) kick and bite me to death just for the sake of her ego and retaining muscle memory.

A brown and white tabby falling asleep belly up. It is not a trap.

A brown and white tabby looks skeptical while her full belly is exposed. It is not a trap.

A brown and white tabby falling asleep belly up, in her human’s arm like a teddy bear. The belly is not a trap.

A brown and white tabby sleeping belly up in a sunbeam, atop a blue velvet couch. The belly is still not a trap, and a sunbeam has rendered it luminous.

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 11/09/2026

I LOVE MY TAIL SO MUCH. Like, I hated swimming butterfly when I was being forced to do it competitively but now I swim faster than I run and occasionally being 7’ long is really nice for my mental health.

Hal in murky green water with an orange and gold ombre mermaid tail.

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 10/09/2026

Spending the heat wave at the local cemetery and the crows are having a great time!

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 03/09/2026

After 10 years and 53K miles together, Prospero got fucked with enough while I was gone on vacation that my insurance deemed him a total loss. Godspeed to a car that multiple mechanics referred to as a “Hanukkah miracle.”

Leaving a lipstick kiss on my steering wheel before my beloved, kinda shitty, ridiculously long-lived Prius gets taken for salvage.

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 01/09/2026

I’m already having an awful September; the curse ends with me.

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 31/08/2026

Tearing up because one of my besties brought me flowers when they came over to help me file all my overdue disability leave paperwork this weekend. “Recovery isn’t easy and moments of beauty and joy shouldn’t require constant fighting on [my] part.”

Flame-ombré roses (“High Magic”) hanging out in an orange and red vase.

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 29/08/2026

Dad: Just so you know, I’m giving you the Poe print that’s probably haunted. Me: The one that my friends were terrified of at childhood sleepovers? The one whose eyes follow you everywhere? Dad: Yes, and you’re not allowed to get rid of him. If it’s not haunted now, it will be when I’m gone.

A print of Edgar Allan Poe that haunted my childhood. The eyebrows and mustache are thick black swipes and Poems eyes are just white voids under the eyebrows. Poe’s entire head is surrounded by black splatter that looks like thorns, blood, and infernal ichor.

My slumber parties used to involve building a fort that blocked Poe’s line of sight because we were fully convinced he’d kill us in our sleep if he could see an ankle poking out of the tent walls.

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 21/08/2026

I hadn’t! But I have this pic from several years ago of a friend testing how large their duffel bag was for an international trip and accidentally becoming a Bosch creature.

A photo of someone who, at full height, is about 5’10” but who in this pic has managed to comfortably shove the top 2/3rds of himself into a black and orange duffel bag. He is walking around the apartment with only bare calves and feet visible. The cat has run off, very alarmed.

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 21/08/2026

I kinda wanna throw another Monk Night for my birthday this year, but I will level with you that it would mostly be a shameless attempt at getting friends to help crowdfund the full set of Parastone Bosch replicas so we can decorate a Cake of Earthly Delights

A little Bosch creature as a minifig! This is a blue bird like creature in boots who is playing its own beak like a clarinet

Another Bosch figurine , this one also carrying a message in its beak, wearing skating patens, a red cloak, and a silver funnel for a hat

Another Bosch creature. This one halfway between fish and snail, and it’s wearing an elaborate harness that gives it sailing rigging on its back, which, honestly, if this is this fish’s DIY assistive device, I love that

Another Bosch creature, a human ear, with an arrow pierced through it, with a blade folding out from the ear like a switchblade.

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 19/08/2026

Crucially, I was left out of the planning process because my grandpa wanted it to be a surprise—he’d written me a little Christmas card and everything—and correctly clocked “the morbid grandchild will love something that doubles as conversation starter and stopper.”

A fairly lumpy gold pendant with a huge honkin’ sapphire set in it. It’s lumpy because it was previously a pile of teeth from a man I loved a lot and who I’m so sad never got to see me transition.

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 19/08/2026

Actually, speaking of my other Headless shitpost, I gotta figure the text for the banner/rocker for my jacket…

It’s a heart girt with a serpent, Frater Carolus De Fuscis

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 19/08/2026

“I Think I Shall Cause Knowledge And Conversation On Purpose.”

The lil :> (or :7) that appears at the very end of the part of the PGM that gets referred to as the Headless Rite in modern day, except it’s interpreted as a stupid lil cartoon face floating above a headless but very buff body.

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 18/08/2026

Back in Oakland and Phoebe is… celebrating…? by walking up to me every few hours and slamming her head into my teeth while purring.

A brown and white tabby cat using her human as a chaise longue. She has recently finished chewing on a copy of The Starving Saints because it smelled interesting.

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 16/08/2026

Tired: Small bottles of graveyard dirt as a spell component. Wired: A dying loved one agrees that you burying her the old-fashioned way counts as “dirt enough” for her to lend assistance to any future working she finds potent or at least funny.

And once you’ve filled it in, you add a little heart/butt of a sandcastle for the sake of childhood playground trips and then go out to a post-memorial dinner where you are absolutely COVERED in dirt and no one else is.

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 15/08/2026

Absolutely obsessed with the amphiuma at the swamp rehab place I used to work at.

Okay more usefully, these are pictures of an amphiuma, an aquatic creature not dissimilar from a skink but like 2.5’ long and with insultingly small arms.

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 15/08/2026

@myles-higher.bsky.social has reported that Phoebe has (finally) gone from Hardcore Moping Mode to “falling asleep in a pile of her own limbs” in my absence.

A tabby cat sleeping tummy up and legs in the air

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 15/08/2026

HOT DYKES IN YOUR AREA ARE SPENDING TODAY DIGGING GRAVES BY HAND

A rare selfie of Hal, who is not wearing makeup and hasn’t showered in a couple days; ey smell like an anime convention but with none of the access to Japanese snacks.

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 14/08/2026

The combo of graduating from seminary + humanist clergy means that this xkcd rings profoundly true but it’s less “feeling superior to both” and more “unending frustration that both sides are rarely interested in greater context for the thing they’re complaining about.”

Xkcd “personally I find atheists just as annoying as fundamentalist christians”

“Well the important thing is that you’ve found a way to feel superior to both.”

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 14/08/2026

The memorial for my aunt is near a local Highland Games and there is a children’s caber toss and oh my fucking god???

A child in a kilt holding a child-proportioned caber

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 14/08/2026

The entire short story it comes from is wonderful and I for some reason cannot find the text online but do have a handwritten transcription.

The full (handwritten) text of The Android That Designed Itself, which I cannot transcribe here because I am typing from the backseat of my boomer parents driving on the highway

The original story is by Julian K Jarboe and you should check out the short story collection it comes from (Everyone On The Moon Is Essential Personnel)

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 12/08/2026

Hanging out with the Kindness crew but only slightly better defined by my perseverance!

Perseverance and kindness at 74% each, followed by bravery at 71%

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 12/08/2026

I’m out of town for the week and although Phoebe has a ton of uncles who love her and who are taking good care of her she’s gone full When Will My Father Return From Being At Sea

The saddest little cat who has given up. (She’s fine; she has pets and water and Churu off camera, she just pines like mad.)

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 12/08/2026

In contrast, my awful QAnon relatives have stopped speaking to me because I refuse to respond to them deadnaming me, they refuse to use my actual name to get my attention, and I’m no longer willing to pretend I’m straight and Christian.

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 08/08/2026

When you ponder too long into The Orb, The Orb ponders back

That fucking sphere thing in Vegas, but it’s making a very serious, grumpy, contemplative face. The face of a child tyrant god.

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 08/08/2026

It is international cat day, so shoutout to Phoebe for being an extension of my soul and vice versa.

A tabby cat cupping her person’s cheek with a paw; they are both flopped in a sunbeam

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 07/08/2026

TIL someone found my sign from the 2017 Women’s March and took an amazing photo of it after either several thousand people had trampled it or it had been pulled from the trash.

Glittery silver sign reading WORST DYSTOPIAN CYBERPUNK LARP EVER torn to shreds, with a brick background

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 07/08/2026

I don’t have the type of Cool Psychopomp Powers that get me an anime opening soundtrack or Mandy Patinkin calling me Peanut. I won’t even claim to walk you home, because that assumes some larger vision on my part. But I can walk with you to your bus stop, and I’ll keep you company while you wait.

It’s probably easier to vigil with a dying person who believes the support you offer is genuinely intercessory—you’re easing them into the arms of angels, or coaxing their spirit out through their crown chakra, or working to grant them greater peace in the liminal space between incarnations.

A dying person who believes that this life is all that we get is asking for something comparatively simple but potentially more intimidating:

I am walking towards oblivion with the knowledge I will enter it alone.

The journey itself doesn’t have to be solitary.

Will you accompany me, for as far as you’re able?

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 06/08/2026

Re: Kathleen Stock deciding on a whole new exciting social contagion— Mobility devices are cool, sexy, and empowering and if you disagree with that, well… you’re making that case to someone holding a large stick.

Hal using eir LED cane to light up a tunnel, giving em a huge halo of amber light.

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 03/08/2026

I got back into knitting during early lockdown after not doing it for nearly 15 years, and it is genuinely *wild* to be able to take math, string, and sticks, and make stuff like this. (If I ever knit stuff for you it is the equivalent of pledging my sword to your cause.)

A Lisa Frank nightmare of a wrap that I made while my aunt was in hospice because she made me promise to wear something neon and garish to her memorial

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 30/07/2026

Been experimenting with different wet foods for Phoe and she’s so into the tuna I got her that she attempts to bite me when I take her bowl in the morning and at night she just sorta lays like this looking like a python that has swallowed a sheep.

A brown and white cat laying on a bunch of teal and green blankets, 3/4 on her back so you can see her tummy looks Rounde

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 29/07/2026

Depending on semantics, either no one has ever asked me to marry them, or between 3-9 people each year ask me to marry them and at least 2 of those people are running a really obvious check scam.

Always the officiant, never the stronk husbando

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 28/07/2026

Don’t think of it as writer’s block; think of it as opportunities to hug the cat.

A brown and white cat with a fetching little emerald collar

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 25/07/2026

I see this and raise you briefly attending a seminary where our head librarians get their own gargoyle upon retirement:

A gargoyle wearing those 1970s aviator-frame spectacles. Human head, but with pointed ears and little beast feets

John Trotti pointing at a gargoyle of himself

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 22/07/2026

My new PCP and I chatted about how ADHD and TBIs don’t mean we can’t do our respective jobs well, just that we have slightly different needs for what we require to be able to do those jobs well. I got all of the referrals I needed AND the origami snail she folded while we talked.

An origami snail made out of purple galaxy print paper.

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 17/07/2026

Rewatching Neverafter and Phoebe keeps meowing back at Zac Oyama every time he makes cat sounds.

A brown and white tabby cat clutches one of several Emotional Support Hammers. Mercifully, this one is plush.

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 14/07/2026

“My fate isn’t controlled by the stars. My fate is controlled by three blind women in a cave in Ireland.” I am not an Astrology Queer or Astrology Magus but these *are* some of my favorite colors.

Pantone birth chart.
Virgo sun is “herbal linen,”
Leo rising is “marigold flash,”
Pisces moon is “deep mermaid”
Scorpio Venus is “wine velvet.”

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 12/07/2026

I agree on general principle, but I actually find Rooty Tooty Fresh And Fruity *less* cloying than the shtick at Cafe Gratitude, because I would simply prefer not eating to being forced to say affirmations to earn lunch.

The menu for cafe gratitude, where all of the items have names like “I AM GIVING” (a pizza) or “I AM INNOVATIVE” (tabouleh)

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 10/07/2026

Me, to new coworker: Apologies if this is a weird question but… how often do people tell you you look like Jack Black? NC: Not infrequently. Same question, maybe too deep a cut, but— Ruby Rose in the sequel to Triple X? Me: Literally never, but I’ll be riding the high of that comparison for weeks.

Ruby Rose with a teal sideshave in the sequel to Triple X, holding a large gun where I don’t know what kind of gun it is because I’m not a firearms trans

Yours truly, looking like a sleepier, less workout-motivated version of a very similar dye job Ruby Rose has in the previously-mentioned film.

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