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Garfield, she/her, currently Wickedpilled

[sakurabraches]

okay, so here's something

in the scene with baby elphaba where the children are bullying her, we have a shot of her hand clenching as her anger and frustration at being mistreated grow

when practicing magic with morrible, morrible puts her hand over elphaba to help her, and we get a visual reference to the wicked witch's iconic claws. in this moment, morrible channels elphaba's anger so that she may produce magic, tapping into her feelings of isolation and loneliness and otherness by bringing up the hate crime in dr dilly's classroom. and as this plays on elphaba's isolation, the wicked witch persona is formed

in defying gravity, they callback to the childhood scene by having a similar shot of elphaba's hand as morrible announces to oz that elphaba is inherently evil (as evident by her green skin/otherness) and wicked because of what she did to the Monkeys. this solidifies elphaba as the wicked witch in the mind of the ozians

only this time, rather than suffering alone, glinda takes elphaba's hand and tells her not to be afraid. because while glinda fails elphaba in many ways, it's her love that grounds elphaba and strengthens her sense of self enough so that she can ultimately defy the wizard and stand up for what's right, and it's glinda who reminds elphie of her own goodness and potential

so in for good, at kiamo ko, elphaba takes glinda's hand one last time, a testament to her choosing her own goodness. and the shadow of the witch's hand melts away

[animusbell]

celestia is such a funny character like she's constantly manipulating twilight and friends to do shit instead of just asking and you could arguably frame that as being bc she's a "god" and pushing fate to her design or whatever, except that she engages with the group like a normal and relatable person, which makes it more like villainous machinations, except 90% of this manipulation goes towards things like "I don't want my party to be boring shit again. put my little country girl blorbos in there with zero prep so they fuck it up bad"

[animusbell]

you think you've fucked anything up around princess celestia and she's like heh. no worries. all according to keikaku

[jukashi]

Celestia instantly makes more sense as a character when you ignore the princess stuff and remember that she's a 1000+ years old wizard. Of course she does manipulative trickster stuff to teach moral lessons and/or cause chaos to amuse herself, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course sometimes she's actually socially awkward and bad at personal relationships and has bad ideas that she thought were good that result in her eating shit embarrassing style, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course she lets the aristocrats and nobles run around being assholes she's still running on wizard advisor programming, she's basically trying to merlin the entire upper class of equestria instead of just a king and some knights. "Yeah uuhhh we'll release the incarnation of chaos himself from his ancient prison because we think this shy girl can be friends with him", terrible plan if you're thinking like a ruler, amazing plan if you're thinking like a wizard. Just look at Canterlot 'Castle' for five seconds and ask yourself if that's in any way a castle. No. Wizard tower, yes. Wizard.

[animusbell]

You are so right actually

[salvasti]

15

[rococo-crow]

[ihaveapproximately4bones]

[sakurabraches]

the thing is, i don't even disagree that glinda was probably made "more likable" in the movies in the sense that studio executives who wanted to market to kids and didn't want to risk upsetting any demographics stripped a lot of the bite from the tragedy and disney-fied a lot of things. i get the sense there were a lot of hays code like standards imposed on the movie, which is why glinda gets an everyone claps moment where she fixes racism, alaym is pg-ified and elphaba has to keep the fucking cardigan on, and the finale is framed in a much happier light than in the stage version. and there's a lot of valid questions and criticism this raises. where's the line between making a difficult topic accessible to broad audiences and watering down important political themes? how does mass consumption and capitalist pressure affect the quality and artistry of blockbuster films?

these questions are also applicable to the stage play, which watered down a lot of the book's more overtly political themes, and whitewashed and straightwashed its characters to appeal to a 2003 broadway audience. personally, i've always felt that the musical was hindered by the fact that it was clearly scared of making elphaba (and fiyero if you care) too unlikable and would've been stronger had they let her be more wicked/morally grey at times. i find glinda so compelling because they aren't afraid to lean into her flaws, and even the movie isn't afraid of showing that she starts out privileged, selfish, and performative, and her flaws cause her and the people around her to suffer. so i can't really take these criticisms seriously when they're levied to defend/prop up a white boy who the writers literally call "the prince in every fairytale" and who has everything he does framed as implicitly good and moral

[lebudasz-blog]

Finally finished this one , we even have a name for the project!! Honestly, I have no idea how to draw animals, so my friend @kiirimi made the tiger for me and I just cartoonized it afterward.

Changing the subject, would you guys be interested in reading short stories set in this universe? Like small tales to help deepen the understanding of the characters? I’ve been wanting to write some stories about their pasts in formats other than comics.

Anyway, let me know what you think!!

[sakurabraches]

she could've fully murked the wizard here and solved all her problems instead she let herself get distracted by that hung pink glow. or maybe she just thought it'd be in bad taste to kill in front of her wife. here's why glinda upland is the real villain of wicked and elphaba thropp is the dumbest person alive

[the-planet-that-star-gazes]

Drawing a page from the wicked book, even though I've nearly finished it by now 😭😭

[sakurabraches]

book glinda's funny cuz she's fully a 60 year old former throne minister and she sees sexy female puppets and her train of thought immediately devolves into that of an 11 year old girl seeing a victoria's secret display and being hit with feelings she can't explain

[lebudasz-blog]

Coming back with my Wizard of Oz content.

[sakurabraches]

this is probably how book elphie looked when she realized there wasn't gonna be any gay sex at caprice in the pines and pfannee tricked her

[lady-glinda]

Minimal context book Glinda quotes

[sakurabraches]

underrated hilarious WFG moment is when fiyero snaps at glinda for going along with everything and not speaking up to tell everyone the truth about elphaba. then he proceeds to also not tell everyone the truth about elphaba and sulk angrily in the corner. then elphaba shows up and glinda's the one telling everyone "it's alright she won't hurt you" and making pathetic yearning doe eyes at elphaba. meanwhile fiyero proceeds to go along with it and chases after elphaba with a bunch of gale force soldiers and doesn't even seem to notice her hiding in the tree. and this is all made 100x funnier when we later see glinda was clearly talking the wizard into cutting some sort of deal with elphaba ("i know how to talk to him") and plotting to get her back, which is morally reprehensible, don't get me wrong, but probably the best way to keep elphaba herself safe from harm

[uisceb]

No offense but I never want to see the argument that "Glinda was in love with Elphaba but Elphaba wasn't in love with Glinda" or gelphie is "one-sided" or "unrequited," ever again, not when Elphaba Stupid Thropp spends two movies and several years looking at Glinda Stupid Upland like this:

and also like this:

and like this:

and finally like this:

with a bonus looking at her across the vast and unyielding chasm of space and time or whatever:

"One-sided unrequited gelphie," what are you insane.

[sakurabraches]

i love when people (fiyero tigelaar) act like glinda giving elphaba a makeover in popular is her trying to change everything about her and she's being super back-handed and awful and elphie styling her hair the same way glinda does is her her being super inauthentic and giving in to ridiculous social norms

meanwhile when elphie gets glinda a pair of matching boots in the deleted friendship montage scene glinda looks at her like she's just been proposed to

is he gonna see glinda walking around in those and be all "you don't need to do that"

[sakurabraches]

lfb glinda would be very disappointed in how hard her wicked counterpart fumbled elphie

[2deadkat]

Caitlyn and Jinx’s tomfoolery

[summergirl2000]

I decided to look up some podcast reviews on Wicked For Good and I immediately regretted it. Straight people are trying to spread the propaganda that movie Elphaba was never that much into Glinda in the first place… You mean this Elphaba?

Αnd these are only a couple of shots.

It’s so disappointing because I see this take come from casual fans who acknowledge the queer subtext but they ultimately decide to interpret the story like this: Glinda is more in love with herself actually and Elphaba is more into Fiyero anyway and she “chooses” him at the end. I know that the writing doesn’t help but my god, what a way to dismiss the very obvious queerness of both of these characters and also the entire PLOT? You know, the one that is about how Elphaba and Glinda’s love for each other changed them both forever? Also, have you ever heard of comphet or being in the closet?

And I’m very much aware that it wasn’t the writers’ intentions for Glinda and Elphaba to come off as gay and their romantic tension is supposed to be played for laughs but making these claims about movie Elphaba specifically is wild to me. Especially when both actresses AND the director deliberately leaned into the queer subtext. That's why "it's about the girls, stupid" became such an iconic line.

Another thing that it’s really frustrating about this discourse is that people are much more open with the idea of Glinda being gay for Elphaba rather than Elphaba being gay for Glinda. My personal take is that it’s because of self insert reasons, internalised misogyny and casual homophobia Is it because they hold Elphaba to a much more higher standard and because Glinda is a terrible person, Elphaba CANNOT be in love with her? Who knows at this point…