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[flabbergasties]

color and light, aka sunday in the park with gelphie

chapter: 1/7 word count: 11,131 rating: e

“It’s horrendibly warm today,” Glinda complains. At the sound of her voice, Elphaba glances up from the page. Even when she’s not drawing, Glinda feels Elphaba outlining the shapes of her — a chin, a mouth, her eyes. In this awful temperature, Glinda turns pink, a flush blooming over her cheeks and settling deep in her stomach where her breakfast should be sitting had Elphaba not been so focused on getting here early for the light. “I know, my sweet,” Elphaba drops her crayon for a clock-tick, resting its cool edge on the painting’s cheek. “But I told you not to wear all that.” “Perhaps we should head back to the studio, then,” she suggests, her voice thick in the summer heat, cloying. She slips a nail between her neck and her collar, tugging for a moment of relief. “You can help me take it off and—” “Glinda!” Elphaba nearly breaks her crayon, the tip cracked off in a pile of black dust that stains the page.

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[capinejghafa]

WICKED: FOR GOOD (2025) dir. JON M. CHU

[lady-glinda]

Thinking about how Glinda's skirts get progressively longer and more voluminous as the show progresses (not counting the bubble dress in NOMTW since that's out of order chronologically)

And the obvious reason for this is that it shows her maturing and gaining more status as the show goes on, but I wonder if there's also something to be said about her clothing becoming more cumbersome and restrictive. The bubble dress is heavy (I believe they tend to range about 12-15 lbs) and it's something that a lot of actresses complain about. Glinda in act 1 tends to have a lot of energy and very over-the-top body language. This is most apparent in popular, which varies between performances but usually involves a lot of jumping around, high kicks, even sometimes splits and attempted cartwheels. She loses this in act 2, both because she wants to project a more serious image as Glinda the Good and because she's just a lot less happy than she was in the first act. But there's also the additional fact that she couldn't do most of those things even if she wanted to, because of her clothing. The persona of Glinda the Good restricts her in a metaphorical sense and the clothing restricts her in a literal sense. She is physically unable to be as lively and expressive as she used to be. And I'm not sure this is intentional (there's also a broader point to be made here about women's clothing in general) but I think it's interesting nonetheless.

[iysure]

"meet me at our spot"

[just-your-average-shiz-student]

MYRA RUIZ and FABI BANG bring a Pride Flag to the stage during curtain call in the Brazilian production of Wicked

[flabbergasties]

I must know from the previous anon how one gets accidentally married

anon we all have so many questions plz reply soon tysm

[flabbergasties]

amid all the discourse about the eternal sunshine tour i fear no one is asking the most important question which is where is jeff goldblum

why hasn't he shown up yet

[flabbergasties]

I hope you’re having a 10/10 pride. I accidentally got married to my male best friend last week. We’re both gay as hell and now we have to explain to a judge that we done goofed and did not mean to get actually married.

kind of sad. Heard there were tax benefits smh

....my darling, my dear, my perfect angel baby how on god's green earth did this happen accidentally

[uisceb]

Big fan of Elphaba allowing the boy to sacrifice his life for her but when Glinda tries to do the same thing she’s like absolutely fucking NOT and locks her in a closet.

[alexandria-monik-art]

I have been changed….for good.💚🩷

[snowbairdd]

ARIANA GRANDE performing "Honeymoon Avenue" during the "The Eternal Sunshine Tour" in Oakland | June 6, 2026

[wirelessmousegirl]

You're just saying that because your a sick pervert who gets off to themes and ideas

[nick-nellson]

Wicked (2024) dir. Jon M. Chu

[boitterfly]

it’s so special to me that so much of fan culture is textual analysis for the love of the game. like thank god there are people in my phone who are also thinking about this thing i love so much that they are writing transformative fiction as character studies and setting clips of the show to music with theme-relevant lyrics and writing long text posts analyzing every line of dialogue like!! yay!!!

[lesbianshadowheart]

Day 1 of being a Wicked fan: damn these girls do have a bit of a gay vibe haha

Day 556 of being a Wicked fan: in a metatextual sense, Fiyero is not a person in his own right, but rather an extension of Glinda that is allowed to act on Glinda’s own repressed desires, which means that Fiyero’s not real

[itrygraphics]

happy pride month :-)

[flabbergasties]

"bring back the ponytail" this and "stop with the bun" that, idk what you're all doing with your lives but the biggest debate in my corner of ariana-land is whether to roll up to the eternal sunshine tour dressed in a bedazzled crop top that says "glinda upland was a lesbian" or go all out with a period-accurate antonio costume.

mind you, i don't have tickets. but that's, like, a minor detail.

[flabbergasties]

in case you think i’m kidding, i’m very much not