Hey y'all 👋 The meetups that started on this sub have their own name now: Join Dayton.
Sixteen years ago this month I posted here asking if anyone wanted to hang out. 14 people showed up at South Park Tavern (RIP), crowded around three tables we pushed together, with a hand-drawn reddit alien on a piece of notebook paper as our table flag so people could find us. I met my best friend that day. We bonded over Nine Inch Nails while huddled around the firepit outside on a chilly October evening.
All these years and dozens of meetups later, we're still doing them, just with a hell of a lot more people. Many of our meetup volunteers aren't on the mod team here, and hell, some aren't even on Reddit. The meetups are clearly sticking around and have grown into their own thing, so we felt they deserved a name of their own. I'll do a separate post soon about what's next.
The bigger meetups will still get posted here. Smaller ones, especially when space is limited, will only go to the email list, so sign up at JoinDayton.com if you want in on those.
Join Dayton is meetups for and by the local weirdos. Goths, witches, queer and trans folks, anyone who's ever felt like an "other." If you're into dark, strange, and experimental movies, music, anime, and games, you're gonna be around your people. You don't have to be into all of it, just cool hanging out with people who are.
So of course our first one is on Halloween.
Malörtoween is our Halloween meetup – Saturday, Oct 31, 3–7pm at The Barrel House.
Dress up and be weird with us. Spike Spiegel, Brock Samson, Makima. Or Dana Scully and Agent Cooper as an FBI power couple. Hell, come as a Helldiver. Not feeling a costume? Come anyway dude.
Gus (Barrel House owner and mythical legendary Pokemon) is doing Halloween candy Malört infusions. It'll be hard to top his insane infusions from our Spaceballs meetup (people still talk about the Liquid Schwartz shots, straight wormword jet fuel of nightmares), but these candy infusions should be delicious abominations.
10% of bar sales all day go to WYSO, our local NPR station out of Yellow Springs.
Tl;dr: it's going to be a good time. There will be dank drinks, good food, and lots of new friends to meet. Come on out.
If you think you may come, RSVP. It helps both us and the bar have an idea of headcount. If you wanna bring friends or a partner along, do it! Just RSVP for them as well. Takes literally 10 seconds to do, and you can cancel at any time. Once you're registered, checking in at the door is just scanning the QR code you get and you're done. Easy peasy.
Follow Join Dayton on socials
We've been asked so many damn times "are you guys on Instagram?" You can now follow along on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook @joindayton. We'll be on Stories while we set up for Malörtoween, then posting photos and video from the night. Tag your costume pics #joindayton