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im not sure if someone has said this before, but i was rewatching ratfish today. and i love that episode somuch. but Rekha should've won instead of Katie. It seemed so unfair. Rekha got all the right matches a whole round before Katie and the 'ratfish' should only have had the power to choose the 2nd winner and the 1st prize be given to the person who actually won the game- Rekha. Justice for Adjustable Side Table, Walnut.
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"....The head is still moving." 💀💔🍄
I read What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher while at the cottage and tried out a new style using Procreate. I'm trying to keep things simple, and cut out lineart, which is the part of digital art I hate the most.
A Frenchwoman once told me that I had no poetry in my soul. I recited a dirty limerick to her, and she threw a lemon at my head. Paris is a marvelous city.
T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead
I can't even describe how sick the wordbuilduing in the sworn soldier series is.
Linguistic based worldbuilduing true what are essentially neopronouns is like the coolest thing I have witnessed in so long.
There is a set of pronouns reserved to only be used for God?
The common pronoun used for small children is also used for priests and nuns??? (Social perception of innocence and purity hello???)
Soldiers have their own set of pronouns and thus leave behind a part of their personal being when entering military service??? CAN ANYONE HEAR ME
i love how t kingfisher writes older women. like yes life doesn't end after your 20s. yes you can still have romance and cool hobbies and deep friendships well beyond your 50s. jomarchwomen.jpeg and so on and so forth
Where my fellow ADHD kids at??
Imagine talking to someone who doesn't know what gamechanger is and telling them that a famous improv comedian kidnapped the son of former labor secretary Robert Reich
me as a writer
Two witches chilling on separate mountains kiamo ko apart cause they’re not gay.
peeta tried to save him and katniss by saying she had a baby, because he knew that would pull at the capitals heart strings. In a dystopian society, peeta mellark knew the capital would care more about a fetus than the real dying children . this sounds oddly familiar
It's Trans History Week! Meet Dr. James Barry.
Elphaba being an idealist while Glinda is a realist always gets to me. Like you would expect the girl who’s been ostracized all her life for being green to be cynical and think that the world can’t change. But no, Elphie is all starry eyed and hopeful that she can change the world. That she can fix its wrongs and create a better future, not just for her but for every citizen of Oz.
Meanwhile Glinda, the girl who’s had everything, admiration, money, etc, knows how the world is. She knows that the world is led by those who are popular despite their talent or lack thereof. She knows how to play the game, knows the rules of the game, and knows that not playing by those rules will make you an outsider. She’s already resigned to the world as it is.
and this is why they both fell for her
love that in the wickedverse, this poor 12 year old is just stuck in the middle of the most insane dyke drama Oz has ever seen
Images used with gratitude from fancaps.net. Disclaimer: I am not a psychologist, psychiatrist, social worker, or other mental health profes
I dusted off my old blog to write about Wicked and CPTSD
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a version of the “Prophesied Chosen One” archetype the way Wicked does it.
For centuries (millennia?) it’s been said that someday this one person will come along and bring magic back to Oz. Then one day a very confused man shows up in a giant balloon, learns about this prophesy, and dupes THE ENTIRE WORLD into believing it’s him just by repeating the name of his hometown a bunch of times while staring at this ancient book. THEN the actual Chosen One shows up and the whole world shuns and (almost) literally demonizes her until she gets murdered by some random child who - funny enough - could have told everyone what “Omaha” actually means. But no one asked and now the Wizard is gone and Oz is in the same position it was in before he arrived, except without the richness of Animal culture or the hope of magic returning a second time.
The Chosen One archetype has existed for actual millennia and I can’t think of any other versions where people fuck it up this badly.
I wonder ever-so-slightly if this might be a part of the musical's subtle Jewish subtext.
Both Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman are Jewish and much has already been written about the Jewish coding in the show. The themes of outcasts and systematic oppression, the Holocaust parallels in the plight of the Animals, and the fact that Elphaba has Jewish-coded physical traits, as do stereotypical witches in general: e.g. black hair, green skin that can be equated with olive skin, and in the case of Margaret Hamilton or Idina Menzel, a big curving nose.
The "false Chosen One" theme could also be equated with Jewish views about Jesus.
Not that I'm equating the Wizard with Jesus in any real sense, and I don't think Schwartz and Holzman meant to either! Every Jewish person I know, in my family and outside it, likes and respects Jesus the man and his teachings: they just don't think he was the Messiah. But too many Christian leaders across the centuries have been more like the Wizard, so an analogy can still be drawn.
Judaism and Christianity share the same belief in a Messiah, based on some of the same prophecies from the Hebrew Bible. But Christanity believes that Jesus was the Messiah, while Jews don't believe that Jesus met all the requirements to have been the Messiah, whom they believe has yet to come. And this "rejection of Jesus" is a main reason why Jews have been hated and persecuted.
Likewise, in Wicked, the Wizard is believed to be the savior foretold by an ancient prophecy, and the fact that olive green-skinned outcast Elphaba dares to say "No, he's not the one, he doesn't match what the prophecy said" (among other things) makes her Public Enemy #1.
Of course, the fact that Elphaba herself does fulfill the prophecy adds a whole other twist to the scenario. Looking at it from a Christian viewpoint instead of a Jewish one, Elphaba can be seen as almost a Jesus figure: the prophecied savior who finally appears, but isn't recognized, and is vilified and condemned for speaking out against corrupt authorities and in favor of outcasts.
Still, keeping in mind the musical's other Jewish-coded aspects, I think the creative, tragic use of the Chosen One archetype is worth looking at from a Jewish perspective.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a version of the “Prophesied Chosen One” archetype the way Wicked does it.
For centuries (millennia?) it’s been said that someday this one person will come along and bring magic back to Oz. Then one day a very confused man shows up in a giant balloon, learns about this prophesy, and dupes THE ENTIRE WORLD into believing it’s him just by repeating the name of his hometown a bunch of times while staring at this ancient book. THEN the actual Chosen One shows up and the whole world shuns and (almost) literally demonizes her until she gets murdered by some random child who - funny enough - could have told everyone what “Omaha” actually means. But no one asked and now the Wizard is gone and Oz is in the same position it was in before he arrived, except without the richness of Animal culture or the hope of magic returning a second time.
The Chosen One archetype has existed for actual millennia and I can’t think of any other versions where people fuck it up this badly.
