slasher town 🎃🔪

As a civil engineering student who’s getting into slashers I’m fascinated by the House of Wax 2005. I love the film so much but the concept of a wax house is stuck my brain because how in the ever loving fuck did Trudy get planning permission for that thing. Because like, it’s Trudy’s world famous House Of Wax, so it was probably her that built it, and it’s definitely built for human usage so it’s still bound by the relevant construction legislation. How on earth did she explain that to the construction team? Did they do it like concrete and pour it into formwork and she just carved up the finer details? Were they prefab walls she made and just like hired a crane and a really big blowtorch to weld them together? I’d give my left arm for those specifications, if she made any at all instead of just shipping over like ten trucks worth of wax and going at it herself. Did she claim it was just a really big sculpture to get around the Building Regulations? Or was this totally a thing that could happen in the 80s and I’m just overestimating their safety precautions?

This website is still here and some of the asks are heartbreaking. Like “Jamie wants a new pair of jeans because he’s never had new clothes before”. Or “Kayla wants a bag with her name on it for when she moves foster homes again.”

Btw, you can filter wishes based on gender, age, price, etc to help you find the perfect wish for you. This charity is LGBTQ-affirming (unlike a lot of religion-based charities that are unfortunately homophobic), so you can even look for nonbinary kids to donate to.

If you don’t have a lot of money but still want to help give a kid a nice Christmas, there are lots of wishes that are $24 for stocking stuffers as well, or $15 for a sqishmallow!

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