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oh my god

youvebeengalindafied

They're just two friends 😏

#wicked #stephanie j block #annaleigh ashford #two best friends yepp

pinkgreenyuri

the doomed yuri implications of being pitted against your other half as the respective pinnacles of good and evil…like no that’s the girl i went to school with. i put flowers in her hair and exchanged secrets with her in the dorm we shared together. i danced with her at a party when no one else would. i made the trip with her to oz to watch her biggest dream come true and then collapse within the span of a day. she kissed me goodbye and i fastened her cloak around her shoulders to keep her from trembling. i still think about her through all the press conferences and rallies and i still love her deeply but it is not enough to change things that are far bigger than either of us

pinkgreenyuri

do you think glinda is haunted every night by what could have been had she gotten on the broom with elphie all those years ago. would things have turned out any different. would she still have to watch them kill her best friend and old roommate if she had been just a little less passive

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talesandfluff

BOO!

#wicked #alison luff #gina beck #the most important thing of course is to lean in so close that galinda goes cross eyed to compensate

the sisters are judging you (galinda)

#wicked #catherine charlebois #mary kate morrissey #2nt 2018 08 04 #chronicles #i just thought it was sweet! i love when the sisters are played as Sisters

bannedfromtheaters

Bonus:

#wicked #annaleigh ashford #stephanie j block

a-couple-of-notes

the thing about glinda staying behind is that it starts as an act of cowardice and self-preservation, but in the end it becomes the greatest act of love she can do for elphaba--to stay and take up her cause. in some ways, elphaba can only leave because she knows glinda will be there to keep fighting.

it's one of the reasons i go hmm when i see the argument that fiyero gets to be with elphaba because he makes the right/selfless choice where glinda could not. like yes, from one angle. but from another, he gets to be with elphaba because he never cares about oz/rightness the way elphaba does and glinda comes to--he is purely focused on elphaba. so he can go with her. but a story where glinda runs away with elphaba is a story where elphaba's fight cannot live on, where nothing of the home elphaba loved--even if that love was complicated--can be saved. i think that would be a different form of tragedy, personally.

we talk a lot about the hat and the cloak, glinda creating the wicked witch out of her love and affection for elphaba. but, y'know, i think we should also talk about how the reverse is true, too: elphaba creates glinda the good witch. some things elphaba cannot change, but she changes glinda, and that will make a difference.

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cronchy-baguette

pink goes good (well) with green

#wicked movie #art

drop-of-infinity

never getting over the fact that Glinda was RIGHT. she’s supposed to be just this bimbo wandering around naively but she was correct. it’s not about aptitude it’s the way you’re viewed. and no one in Oz understood that as well as she and the Wizard did. Elphaba is so brilliant but she never had the same grasp of how power in Oz works that Glinda did. until suddenly she does and it’s at the point where Glinda no longer cares and she says she’ll clear Elphaba’s name and Elphaba won’t let her because she finally understands. it’s all about popular and it’s all about the many many ways in which they’ve changed each other.

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lesbiten

ok. okokOk. Ok! ok,

#wicked #lucy scherer #roberta valentini

drop-of-infinity

I don’t think we talk enough about how the entirety of Wicked is built on the irony of No One Mourns the Wicked. The musical exists because Glinda feels the need to tell Elphaba’s story, because she is in mourning and entirely alone in that. Glinda’s love is what creates the musical because no one mourns Elphaba except her, and that is an incredibly lonely place to be. She’s just lost two of the most important people to her, and all she’s trying to do is make someone, anyone else see how important they were.

tunemyart

Wicked is a frame story. This often gets lost in the stuff that happens inside the frame. But it's wildly important who's doing the framing - Glinda - and why - because she's grieving.

But! It's not just grief! It's a decision. It's a character point! It's very much akin to the moment where a young Galinda stepped onto the floor of the Ozdust and started to dance opposite a young Elphaba... and just as delicate a moment.

Because what we definitely don't talk about enough is that Glinda is telling this story in a way that explicitly breaks a promise she's just made to Elphaba near the end of the story. Glinda, panicked and distraught at realizing what's about to happen and her own inability to stop it, cries, "I'll tell them, I'll tell everyone the truth!"

To which Elphaba immediately says, "No. They'll only turn against you."

"I don't care!" Glinda says.

"Well, I do!" Elphaba retorts. "Promise me you won't try to clear my name."

Overcome, Glinda promises in the face of Elphaba's fervor for her safety... and then turns around and immediately breaks that promise.

The thing I also love about this is that we don't see the reprecussions of her decision. We have no idea how it goes for her - if in fact "they" turn against Glinda. Chronologically, the last we see of Glinda in the show is her hovering on the decision to tell the story. "Yes, I was her friend. Yes, I loved her. This is how it happened, and this is what it meant."

Whether or not they turn against her is irrelevant. The fact that Glinda's telling the story at all is her final triumph over her character, her absolute culmination of self. That it's also a testament to Elphaba and their friendship - ultimately the final and most important thing to her - is beautiful. Here, whatever else comes, she's found not only strength, but peace.

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