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Dear followers! Do you find yourself feeling empty? Unfulfilled? Are you looking for something to do this summer that will terrify, satiate, arouse, shock, and delight you? Then GISHWHES is for you! Not sure what GISHWHES is? Then go here https://www.gishwhes.com/ ! Team Werepires of London is still recruiting! Our application is linked on the main page of our blog, and we want YOU!!

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AHOOOOO! After our premiere in 2016’s GISHWHES, Team Werepires of London is back and looking to win, and we want YOU! This team was a competitive team last year, but now that we have had the experience of how far Gishers will go, I feel that we will be even more competitive and have a better understanding of what need to happen in order for us to A) have maximum fun, and B) TO WIN! That being said, we welcome Gishers of any experience level as long as you are willing to dedicate the vast majority of your time to the hunt. Also, if you know more than us and are on our team, we are not going to try to be the boss of you, but no matter who is the most experienced, we will be working as a team of friends.

I haven’t recieved replies from some of last year’s members on whether or not they will be in the hunt, but I know for sure that there are AT LEAST TEN SPACES OPEN!

Below are our qualifications and our team’s application. WE WILL BE ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS UNTIL JULY 15. I hope you decide to join us!

The team is currently comprised of:    Amalia @whatdowedoaboutcasifer​    Kaleigh @rememberozzie​    Miriam Our team’s tumblr page is @teamwerepiresoflondon​.

Our qualifications are as follows: 1. Read the commandments and be of age. Also read the FAQs. Basically, know what you’re dealing with. Period.

2. Be a team player. If you suspect that you are going to be at odds with team members more often than you get along, then, well, that kind of makes being on a team pretty pointless. Don’t be afraid to interact with the team— we’re all crazy enough to put our heads on the Gishwhes chopping block, so let’s do it together.

3. Ask for help if you need help. That’s what the whole team thing is about— we have each others’ backs.

4. Speak fluent English. GISHWHES is a global hunt, and we would love to have people from all over the world— but it will be very hard to not only do all of the completely insane stuff Misha will have us doing AND have a language barrier.

5. Have access to a good camera and computer or phone with internet. We need to have good quality images and videos— unless your phone has a very good camera, cell phone pictures WILL NOT WORK. Good lighting and good composition is a must!

6. Make sure that you are FREE the week of GISHWHES. If you can’t be relied upon to show up, it will be hard on all of us. This is a competitive team, so clear your calendar and be available when we need you. Once you are in the hunt, you are in the hunt!

7. Be open to receiving AND GIVING criticism. If another team member thinks that something can be improved, listen to them. If you think something can be improved, SPEAK UP!

8. You don’t need to be rich to play. Having money to spend the week of the Hunt helps tremendously, but it in no way is a qualification to be on our team of to participate in GISHWHES. Sometimes, yes, some of the best entries are more elaborate and better funded, but the real point here is to be creative and to have fun.

9. Fill out the application and the heck on our team! CLOSING DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS SATURDAY, JULY 15. Here’s our application— it won’t take too too long. Email your application to teamwerepiresoflondon@gmail.com. We will read through them all and decide as a team. YOU NEED TO BE AVAILABLE WHEN WE CONTACT YOU TO JOIN THE TEAM!

Application: NAME/AGE/FIRST LANGUAGE ALL YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION: Any social media you have, your email, your phone number (whether we can both call and text you), etc. Facebook seems like the easiest option for group communication, so PLEASE, get a Facebook if you don’t already have one. Our team is on tumblr as well, so having a tumblr is a definite plus. Please also sign up for Skype if you don’t have one, and send your name and handle! LOCATION AND TIMEZONE: We really don’t want to accidentally wake you up in the middle of the night when it’s noon our time. Where you are and what timezone you are in will be a tremendous help. SKILLS: What do you do well? Put everything you can think of in there. Don’t exaggerate because that won’t help anyone, but don’t sell yourself short, either. If you fancy yourself good at baking, tell us you’re good at baking. Don’t hold back. WHO DO YOU KNOW: If you have connections with anyone that you think would be valuable to us— weathermen, chimney sweeps, squirrel breeders— tell us about them. EDITING KNOWLEDGE: Do you make gifs? Edit videos? Do you know how to use Photoshop and all that jazz? Animation, maybe? Do tell. PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE/PORTFOLIO: Have you done Gishwhes before? Send pics of your own creations and work. If you haven’t done GISHWHES, but you have a portfolio that you feel is relevant, please link us to it! HOPES FOR GISHWHES: What do you want to happen this year during GISHWHES? Do you want to become more confident? Learn things? Meet people? Just have fun? You don’t have to make up anything cheesy to go with this one, just be honest. If you’re just in it because it looks fantastic, say so! And last but not least, tell us about yourself. Tell us about your adventures. Brag about the things that people get tired of hearing you talk about. Sob stories, backstories, that one time you got stuck in a mountain resort for months and tried to kill your family, we want to know it all. Be prepared for an intense and unforgettable week of, well, who knows? See you on the front lines!

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1. IMAGE OR VIDEO. Decorate a tree at a park or green space with 100% animal-safe edible “decorations” (fruit, popcorn strings,seed treats, etc.) Leave small presents around the tree such as warm scarves, mittens & other things people in need might find useful.

This was the first time I had ever made a popcorn garland, and boy is it harder than I thought. Once I got the hang of it, though, it went faster. Craisins are between the sections of popcorn. The ornaments are pieces of bread cut into shapes, lightly spread with peanut butter, and sprinkled with oatmeal. The other ornaments are thin slices of apple. Everything is hung with thread.

The presents at the bottom include both socks and gloves, along with fruit and applesauce. We didn’t leave the presents there; it wasn’t an area where people in need would come across them, and it was also starting to rain. We took the bag of gifts over to a bridge where there was an encampment of homeless people (we were safe, I promise) and gave them to a man who thanked us and took them back to the other people.

This was really, really fun and it felt really good.

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Merry Gishmas to you all!

So this year was my first Gishwhes, and I loved it, but our team didn’t win (which is okay). When I received my coffee table book, I realized why: the key to Gishwhes is abandoning all constraints and going all out for these items, and that is a lesson I took to heart.

9. IMAGE. A fully decorated Gingerbread national monument.

Presenting: Iwo Jingerbread.

This took me hours. Hours. It turns out that gingerbread dough isn’t the worst medium in the world for sculpting– but it is the worst for finishing in the oven. It didn’t occur to me that it would MELT before actually solidifying. I should have known– like when you put cookies in the oven as balls and they turn into flat cookies? I should have known. But it was perfect, and I put it in the oven, and five minutes later, the figures had melted right out of position.

I was incredibly upset, but after a bit of a panic, I baked the figures individually and was able to connect them back to the base with icing. I found a brown food marker at the store that I covered the white icing with to make it blend in.

The inside of these figures are aluminum foil (purely gingerbread would have been too thick to bake all the way through, making the whole thing structurally unsound). The base is made out of cardboard and cake boards. The flag is felt, the white surface on the top is oobleck (cornstarch in water). The rest is gingerbread and candy. I used pictures and an incredible 3D Iwo Jima model I found online.

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Congrats to our Gishmas Item #1 Winner, Amalia W. (whatdowedoaboutcasifer)! Great job. 

IMAGE OR VIDEO. Decorate a tree at a park or green space with 100% animal-safe edible “decorations” (fruit, popcorn strings,seed treats, etc.) Leave small presents around the tree such as warm scarves, mittens & other things people in need might find useful.

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IMAGE. If there’s one thing we know about tumblr, it’s that tumblrs (is that even a word?) absolutely love “shipping”. So let’s see your best work! I want fan art of your favorite shipping companies - FedEx, UPS, USPS… wooing one another. Post your submission on your blog and hashtag #gishwhestakestumblr and #gtt4

They never publicly announced the winners, but this is the one that won this item. (by @whatdowedoaboutcasifer)

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#159 56 POINTS Zachary Levi is one of a kind. But what would be better than Zachary Levi? A pair of Zachary Levis, naturally. Paint a portrait of Zachary Levi on a pair of jeans. (The jeans may be distressed, but the depiction of Zachary should not be.) Feel free to get Zachary to model the pants.

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#129 23 POINTS Welcome to Slangatoilegami. You don’t see the phrases “Slangaroo”, “bathroom tissue”, and “origami” together nearly often enough. Let’s fix that. – Dave Lavery

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#126 126 POINTS On a desolate, dusty prairie, a ranch hand rescues the local school marm from a runaway horse. Create a drawing of Misha & the Queen of England in the Wild West. (You pick who plays the school marm and who plays the ranch hand.)

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#118 62 POINTS Time-lapse this submission to 30 seconds or less. Paint a Bob Ross painting. We must see both the painter replicating the Bob Ross painting and the playback of the Bob Ross video the painter is replicating. You must paint in real-time while he is painting. The video should end with a side-by-side comparison of your masterpiece and Bob Ross’s.

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#117 47 POINTS Gishwhes has conquered the Great Wall, South American waterfalls, the Champs-Élysées, and even SPACE! Help gishwhes conquer new territory— take gishwhes somewhere epic that it’s never been before. – Julie Reynolds

My thought process in making this was, “GISHWHES has certainly never been here before.”

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#103 64 POINTS Everyone thinks Zombies are slow and stupid. This is not at all true! In fact, you recently lost your job to a zombie because they demonstrated a willingness to work long hours without food, sleep, pay, or encouragement. Let’s see the zombie who replaced you at your place of employment, doing whatever you used to do to make a living. The image must show your former boss or coworkers proudly watching the zombie perform your old job better than you used to do.

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#102 47 POINTS Don’t you hate that feeling when you walk out to your car and you see the dreaded ticket under your windshield wiper? Let’s change that. Find small envelopes and stamp them in red ink with an ominous: “PARKING SALUTATIONS BUREAU!” Then find a row of cars and put positive messages in your envelopes under their windshield wipers.

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#101 59 POINTS It’s been a very hot summer! Help out the first responders in your area by bringing ice-cream to your local police, fire, or EMS department while dressed as the world famous Dessert Fairy. – Danielle D.

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#87 38 POINTS Dress up as a prospector and pan for gold in a public fountain. – Trish Burdick

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#82 66 POINTS An illustration for the fairy tale “Trumpunzel.”

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#75 46 POINTS The tiny kitchen trend is all the rage, but what about tiny bathrooms? Give a full spa experience to a hedgehog, hamster, or mouse, all using tiny spa implements in your tiny spa. (Remember, the customer is always right— so don’t make them do anything they aren’t happy to do.) – DON’T USE WATER!