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It all started when TikToker and mom Stephanie Murphy gave a tour of her average, middle-class house. She was tired of seeing gigantic, perfectly manicured homes every time she opened social media, and she wanted to help normalize having an average, lived-in, slightly messy living space. And boy was it relatable! From the fridge covered in kids artwork to the dish drying rack on the counter, to the not one, but two junk drawers.Over a million people watched Stephanie's tour video. Thousands of comments rolled in from people who were so appreciate of the dose of realness, people who loved seeing their own lives and homes reflected back at them in Stephanie's tour. And then, something really cool happened. More people started posting tours of their own non-aesthetic, totally average homes.Hashtag normal house became the hottest trend on social media.In one video, creator Kellie Chandler showed off her outdated bathroom, 90's kitchen cabinets, and piles of junk stuffed on top of the refrigerator."I love seeing the new, million dollar homes but it’s also nice to see relatable, lived in, smaller homes too," she wrote. @kelliechandler2 I love seeing the new, millon dollar homes but it’s also nice to see relatable, lived in, smaller homes too. #underconsumption #smallhomes #relatablemom #relatablecontent #momtok #fyp #trending Sarah Bonds, a mom from Pennsylvania, proudly displayed her vacuum cleaner casually chilling in the corner of the living room, her mismatched bathroom towels, scuff marks on the hallway walls, and her (gasp) visible trash can."Normal, non-aesthetic home tour for a family of 4," she wrote in the caption. @sarahbondsofficial Normal, non-aesthetic home tour for a family of 4. #normalhouse #regularmom #housetour #homedecor #homedecorideas Bethany showed us how her dogs food, toys, beds, and crates have completely taken over her home. Ariel's tour featured a living room overrun with baby furniture, an ancient refrigerator, and a washer/dryer right in the middle of the most visible part of the house. Ashley flaunted her outdated light fixtures, rusty door knobs, and warped wooden floors. Moriah proudly showed us around what she affectionately calls her "ugly, small kitchen."The honest is so refreshing, and it does actually make me feel better about my own house!Over the past year, hundreds of videos just like these have been flooding social media feeds. Is it enough to drown out the impossibly aesthetic influencer posts? Probably not. But it's definitely making a sizable dent, with millions and millions of cumulative views.One commenter on a normal house tour video wrote: "I love this because it looks like a HOME."It's easy to forget that all of us (well, almost all) have walls with scuff marks, baseboards that need repainting, storage rooms that have become catch-all junk piles, holes we've been meaning to patch, and more. We all wish we had a little more space, or that our house or apartment was configured a little differently. We carry a tremendous amount of guilt over the projects left unfinished, the messes uncleaned. Almost no one actually lives in a place like this. Photo by Minh Pham on Unsplash Spending too much time on social media will convince you that these things are not normal and need to be fixed. In reality, these are the things that turn a house into a home! If our houses aren't super aesthetic, who cares? They have a job to do. They're filled with love and memories and stories. Even the things we don't love about them are part of what makes them unique.Normal house tours remind us that we're all in this together and nobody's perfect. They also remind us to be grateful for wherever it is that we live. Having a roof over our heads at all is a win, and we should be thanking our homes for their service — don't be afraid to show them off, warts and all!

Have you ever watched a movie or read a book or listened to a piece of music and wondered, "How did they come up with that idea?" The creative process is so enigmatic even artists themselves don't always know where their ideas come from, so It's a treat when we get to hear the genesis of a brilliant idea straight from the horse's mouth. If you've watched "Wicked" and wondered where the idea for the friendship between Elphaba (the Wicked Witch) and Glinda (the Good Witch) came from, the author of the book has shared the precise moment it came to him. The hit movie "Wicked" is based off the 20-year-old hit stage musical, which is based off the novel "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" written by Gregory Maguire. While the musical is a simplified version of the 1995 book, the basic storyline—the origins of the two witches from "The Wizard of Oz"—lies at the heart of both. In an interview with BBC, Maguire explained how Elphaba and Glinda's friendship popped into his head. See on Instagram Maguire was visiting Beatrix Potter's farm in Cumbria, England, and thinking about "The Wizard of Oz," which he had loved as a child and thought could be an interesting basis for a story about evil. "I thought 'alright, what do we know about 'The Wizard of Oz' from our memories,'" he said. "We have the house falling on the witch. What do we know about that witch? All we know about that witch is that she has feet. So I began to think about Glinda and the Wicked Witch of the West…"There is one scene in the 1939 film where Billie Burke comes down looking all pink and fluffy, and Margaret Hamilton is all crawed and crabbed and she says something like, 'I might have known you'd be behind this, Glinda!' This was my memory, and I thought, now why is she using Glinda's first name? They have known each other. Maybe they've known each other for a long time. Maybe they went to college together. And I fell down onto the ground in the Lake District laughing at the thought that they had gone to college together." In "Wicked," Glinda and the Wicked Witch, Elphaba, meet as students at Shiz University, a school of wizardry. They get placed as roommates, loathe each other at first, but eventually become best friends. The story grows a lot more complicated from there (and the novel goes darker than the stage play), but it's the character development of the two witches and their relationship with one another that force us to examine our ideas about good and evil. - YouTube youtu.be Maguire also shared with the Denver Center for Performing Arts what had inspired him to use the "Wizard of Oz" characters in the first place. "I was living in London in the early 1990’s during the start of the Gulf War. I was interested to see how my own blood temperature chilled at reading a headline in the usually cautious British newspaper, the Times of London: 'Sadaam Hussein: The New Hitler?' I caught myself ready to have a fully formed political opinion about the Gulf War and the necessity of action against Sadaam Hussein on the basis of how that headline made me feel. The use of the word Hitler – what a word! What it evokes! When a few months later several young schoolboys kidnapped and killed a toddler, the British press paid much attention to the nature of the crime. I became interested in the nature of evil, and whether one really could be born bad. I considered briefly writing a novel about Hitler but discarded the notion due to my general discomfort with the reality of those times. But when I realized that nobody had ever written about the second most evil character in our collective American subconscious, the Wicked Witch of the West, I thought I had experienced a small moment of inspiration. Everybody in America knows who the Wicked Witch of the West is, but nobody really knows anything about her. There is more to her than meets the eye."Authors and artists—and their ideas—help hold a mirror up to humanity for us to see and reflect on who we are, and "Wicked" is one of those stories that makes us take a hard look at what we're seeing in that mirror. Thanks, Gregory Maguire, for launching us on a collective journey that not only entertains but has the potential to change how we see one another.