If old timey cartoon stereotype witches were around today it would rule. One of them would tweet or blog something like

I was talking to bethesdalah the other day and I asked her about how she dealt with potions leaving residue on her broom, as mine was getting quite sticky

and she told me that witches don't use their brooms to stir their cauldrons? I told her everyone in my coven does??? She said that was fucking weird???? Am I losing my mind?!?!?!?!!

and then for the next four months we'd have the most unhinged discourse the mortal realm has ever seen

Stirring potions with your broom is like cleaning cast iron the wrong way

You let your broom handle touch the ground!? that's a magical focus for air magic, you get dirt all over it and you're gonna faceplant the next time you have to go anywhere! stirring potions is one thing, that's water elemental, there's plenty of water in most air, but earth is going to ground your magical energies and nosedive your efficiency at best, if not your actual nose!

Those huge cauldron spoons are spendy so the broom handles are kinda all we got. My coven uses the broom handle but we use gryphon feathers to cleanse the earth energy first.

Potioncraft is fun but its no reason to get too serious

Out of kayfabe for a moment but I was picturing bristles-down when I made the original post and it's funny to see pretty much EVERYone reject that idea immediately

This is the kind of tumblresque discourse I've been hoping for on this website

The handle of the broom is where your ass goes

when you're FLYING ON IT

ugh i swear not only this but y'all are letting your familiars perch in front of you on those errands too

double bubble toil and "oops my poultice set off a cat allergy" trouble smh

girl we can all smell your flying ointment and none of us consented to it. keep that shit in the privacy of your own home