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Life’s No Dress Rehearsal Nobody Falls Into A Simple Set Of Labels El Mayarah - Stronger Together

[ellipsus-writes]

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

[kortneylovestoentertain]

I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF READING GELPHIE FANFIC AND ARCHIVE WENT DOWN NOOOOOO I HATE SCHEDULED MAITENANCE THAT I ALWAYS IGNORE

[just-your-average-shiz-student]

Elphaba & Glinda moments in Wicked For Good: First Look

[susandsnell]

on a scale of lex luthor to elphaba thropp how do you handle your impending cancellation, commanding an army of monkeys, a betrayal by your blonde girlfriend, and getting someone's little dog, too and why is the answer blaming your life having gone to shit on a sweet kid from Kansas

[banbookclub]

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[witchofthemidlands]

cannot believe i am letting the film adaptation of my favourite musical queerbait me when i know full well that elphaba will be shagging fiyero in a cave, his small incident being the catalyst of her claiming the wicked title & that she will be leaving with him whilst glinda is left forever alone thinking the two people she loved most are both dead & gone.

[madhels-enby-boyfriend-deactiva]

Gelphie post canon fic where Glinda finally snaps after years of people saying the foulest things about the only woman she has ever loved. So she apologises to Elphie’s memory before she just loses it and starts yelling at the people for being ignorant and starts talking about how wonderful she was (possibly starts shit talking the wizard).

The people of Oz assume the wicked witch somehow managed to put a spell on Glinda either from beyond the grave or it’s a spell that only now has made itself known or that she somehow is back. They start to turn on her and she ends up actually being in danger.

Glinda is all like “looks like I’ll be seeing you soon, Elphie” and just has no will left to fight. Meanwhile Elphaba somehow finds out and now has to rush back to Oz to save her sweet. It’s a race against the clock to see who can get there first, Elphaba or the angry mob.

(Inspired by Those edits to Wait for Me)

[arthemrys]

GUINEVERE

Merlin 4x06 | A Servant of Two Masters

[arcticmermaidao3]

Post canon Glinda the Good wakes up to the news that her office was broken into and vandalized. She runs to see what the damage was but all that seems to have been done was that the window cracked, and someone wrote on the pending Animal Rights Legislation on her desk (in green ink). After every instance of “To every Animal,” the words “except Toto” have been messily scrawled in.

Glinda stares at it for a solid minute before bursting into tears and whispering, “Elphie…you’re alive…”

[sierragrayillustration]

Unlimited…together we’re unlimited

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

this thing is called bai-bao-jia.The Chinese used it to store flat items about a hundred years ago.

[dreamingmappist]

Had to look this up and found it as Chinese thread book. There’s some tutorials available:

https://youtu.be/9NzHjdjFXOM

[maythe4th]

@lgbtqcreators event 27 – doomed by the narrative @pscentral event 37: color challenge

[frenchublog]

[the-clock-of-the-time-dragon]

Ariana Grande said in an interview regarding the loathing era of Glinda and Elphaba's relationship that they are immediately fascinated with each other and part of what makes them initially have a negative reaction is that they both recognize in the other aspects of themselves, and parts they don't yet accept or feel comfortable with. Now, I will be the first to say: that sounds gay af. But in a serious analytical sense: that interpretation by Ariana is incredibly insightful because when you think about it, yeah — Elphaba wants the beauty and popularity that Galinda has (but feels wrong for it because she finds it shallow and dumb and thinks she's above that, so she just suppresses it in the hopes that the Right People will be able to look past her unpopularity and value her for her) and Galinda truly wants not only the intellectual recognition but the peculiar power to say NO to established reality that Elphaba has (but she is constantly being overlooked and prejudged as a shallow airhead, and despite receiving plenty of surface-level attention and affection feels like an outsider: like she's always wearing a mask, never fully connecting with anyone because her truest self is much too ✨🌈Unusually and Exceedingly Peculiar🌈✨ to ever let anybody else witness). They're both the first and only ones to see what the other wanted everyone to see in them, and in the process fall in love both with each other AND with those hidden centers of themselves.

They don't loathe each other — they loathe what the other makes them feel, which is twofold: the ✨🌈Sudden and New🌈✨ feelings, obviously; BUT ALSO some very deep-seated, old feelings that nobody else could (or would) ever confront.

tl;dr: it's the good ol' sapphic experience of "Do I Wanna Be Her or Bang Her?™" — except the "be her" would involve radical self-acceptance (hard pass), and neither of them have figured out that "bang her" is an option yet. Which is what makes their relationship so beautiful: they don't merely complete each other in the "they fit together like puzzle pieces" way — they complete each other in the "they helped each other to fall in love with the parts of themselves they'd spent their whole lives loathing" way. "Handprint on my heart" and all that. The best possible resolution to the "Do I Wanna Be Her or Bang Her?" conundrum: "We're Being Us Together AND We're Banging".

[halfcockd]

i wanna beeeee in this hoi polloi ☺️

[dragontopaz]

Elphaba's hair

[villeve]

do you ever think about how galinda went in for the hug first, and how much that must have meant to elphaba?? do you ever think about the subtle wash of pink lighting over elphaba's face as galinda holds her??? i do