The Halloween season is officially here, and with it, your official Dino Drac After Dark thread! May these merrily macabre months be everything you’ve hoped and dreamed for. If they aren’t, well, I hope you at least score some cool pumpkin candles and see a few new horror movies.

I’m very glad to be putting summer to bed, as it was a rough one, and I’m looking forward to the many (literal) creature comforts that make this time of the year so wonderful. Candy, costumes, decorations, weird soda, fast food promotions, hoodie weather and moonlight! What more can you ask for?

This thread will be active until the end of October. Feel free to share your various experiences in Halloweening, all throughout the season. Enjoy!

Posted by Matt on 09/01/24
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By popular request (two people, maybe), here’s your 2024 Sinister Summer Thread — the final After Dark thread before the next Halloween season!

I’m starting this one early because, well, it’s too late for a spring thread, and spring kinda sucks anyway. Besides, we’ll be well into the Halloween stuff before summer officially ends anyway.

This is a catchall thread for conversations of all sorts – movies, junk food, pop culture, vacations, pets, toys, dreams and nightmares, whatever. Y’all know the drill!

I haven’t plugged Dino Drac After Dark in years – it’s definitely the “secret” part of the site, and I love that you guys keep it lively. Consider it an escape from the rest of the internet.

Posted by Matt on 05/17/24
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Here’s your 2024 Wild Winter Thread, which will remain in effect until… I don’t know, when does winter end? March something? Look, I just didn’t want to make you hang out under a Christmas tree all through February.

The winter months have a reputation for being boring and lifeless, but I’m starting to see them through a different lens. Piling blankets over myself like I’m Giles Corey before watching sixteen movies in a row because there’s literally nothing better to do? That doesn’t sound too bad.

Enjoy the thread! I thought the Halloween and Holiday ones were pretty great this year, so I figured I’d buck tradition and not disappear until August. May this dank basement be a blessed respite from the rest of the internet.

Posted by Matt on 01/04/24
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Okay After Darkers, here’s your Ho Ho Hot Holiday Thread for 2023! A quiet lounge for anyone who needs a chill, cozy hangout away from social media and the rest of the internet at large.

This thread will last until the end of the year, which includes a handful of major holidays, so feel free to chat about whatever you’re doing, eating, giving, getting, buying, watching and/or decorating. (Or, you know, about whatever else.)

Posted by Matt on 11/16/23
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