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
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
Bristles-down is a zero-waste way to clean your broom and recycle any mandrake root or bat wings you dropped on the floor, but of course some witches care more about their bougie lifestyles than the environment