#salix talks

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HUGE video but can we talk about “I would rather actually fucking kill myself successfully than say unalive” daniel howell the tiktok hater that you are

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help I didn’t notice this on first watch but in s2e1 when Crowley comes back to the bookshop to apologize Aziraphale was literally just sitting there watching the door?

and then when he sees Crowley come in he immediately puts his glasses on, leans forward and picks something up. he just pretends he’s Very Busy and doing Important Things

what a petty dork I love him

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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.

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at the end of the day everything Glinda does is about Elphaba. from the moment they become friends, Glinda becomes permanently changed by Elphaba. she is what she is in the second act because of Elphaba, not in spite of her. because she is trying to outrun her and find a way to live without her, because she regrets not going with her and is trying to convince herself she doesn’t. Elphaba only asks Glinda to come with her once, but from then on Glinda spends years trying to outrun her own answer. and in the end she can’t, and she brings herself back to Elphaba anyway.

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God I love the movie’s decision to make Pfannee and Shenshen explicitly tell Glinda to stop dancing with Elphaba and have her simply respond “no.” I’ve seen people say that that moment is Glinda’s defying gravity moment and it really is. Something has changed within her. Elphaba has changed it. Glinda could still have everything she worked for—her reputation, her status, the future she ascribes to those things—but she doesn’t want it anymore, because she finally understands the cost of that love.

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really obsessed with Abby posting like this. she said and make no mistake I AM part of this marriage

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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.