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Wicked Witch of the East

@wkdwtchoftheest

I'm Louise. 25. I live in the US. I enjoy writing, reading, and playing video games. I know I'm annoying and unfortunately I'm the one that gets to live with it.

tag where you're from and what you voted, if you're american don't just say that please give ur region

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okay actually secondary poll to this if you say it means new england, define what you think new england is

Getting inspired to write is actually really easy! All you need to do is be the busiest you've ever been in your entire life and as far away from a computer as humanly possible. Hope this helps 🥰

I've been looking at scary book recs and on almost every list is Interview with the Vampire. That is not a scary book; if anything, it's sad. The movie is scarier than the book.

I didn’t realise this until adulthood but handmade birthday piñatas are the apex of parental devotion. I spent the week cooking for my ravenous teenage cousins and felt a bit crestfallen at times that I was spending so long making something that was going to disappear within minutes—but with piñatas it’s so much worse, they exist to be savagely maimed. Year after year my father asked his kids what shape they wanted this year’s piñatas to be and he spent weeks painstakingly making them in the basement after work, only to watch a bunch of oversugared bat-wielding kids gleefully destroy them in less than 10 minutes. 

I mentioned this to him and he said he remembered researching tarantula anatomy for the giant spider piñata I asked for when I was 4, trying to make the fangs the right shape and to cut the crepe paper into very thin ribbons so the thing would look appropriately fuzzy, and I was like “and I don’t even remember it because I was four!! spending so long building a beautiful object only so your kids will have fun destroying it, knowing they won’t even remember it, is such a selfless endeavour” and he said “my other motivation was that you said you wanted the spider to look real & scary so the kids at your birthday party would be terrified of it and you’d get to scoop up all the candy and I wanted to support your slyness & ambition”

The first piñata some how got beheaded and we managed to salvage it. So we have started a tradition of collecting piñata heads like some wierd hunting trophy

MAY WE PLEASE SEE THEM?

"Vegan Leather"

Plastic. just say plastic.

How dare you leave this in the notes

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Before anyone goes into vegan leather alternatives made from cactus or cork or fruit waste...

I heard of those too. I thought they were really cool! I thought it was a great idea! So I went and looked into how they were made!

They're all made by binding the organic material together with at least 50% plastic.

They're still all plastic.

Director Denis Villeneuve on creating the spaceships of Dune (2021): “It’s a process I deeply love. It was quite challenging because Dune did inspire a lot of other movies in the past. The challenge was to try to bring something fresh to the screen. To do so, we entirely focused on the novel and the description that Frank Herbert did. I tried to go back to the image that I had in my mind when I was a teen when I read the novel the first time.”