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wagyubeefy replied to your chat “Elphaba: I don't even want to talk to Glinda until I know for sure...”
slander glinda wears lipstick AND gloss and you know it . still i appreciate the reference
you’re right. this post is cancelled bc the author didn’t know the exact meaning of ‘chapstick’. Also, Glinda is too high a femme not to wear lipstick.
this is beautiful. you guys are beautiful. @gelphie @wickedlyqueer
ok but actually whats the setting. what kinda semi-modern au r we talkin
Basically the setting is a weird post magical type of setting?? Like what if technology in the DND world kept going forward but not in a combat way? Like its cellphones internet cars and stuff are real and magic is integrated into all of it. But guns never came nor tanks or shit like that . So imagine a bunch of kids in a muscle car getting out to rob a bank but they are still using crossbows. Like the crossbows are slgihtly closer to guns but gun powered and shit like that was never even thought of as a idea.
Also its capitalistic as FUCK Religion has kind of fused itself with industry and each of the big companies are headed by a god/deity that works as the mascot and also the adviser of them
wagyubeefy
i was about to make a post about how the great...
alice. ily and your nerdiness so much
I have been playing too much dnd and now i think of everything in terms of dnd stats and skill checks and dice rolls
A Barbie Galinda collage for chapter 1 of Wagyubeefy's Wicked fic, Shame Machine.
Shame Machine social media bits
a birthday present for @gelphie! :D
@wagyubeefy replied to your post “dear GOD okay so just to be clear: Liir wants to speak to Glinda, but...”
please live blog all the gelphie nuggets in this book because i cannot be bothered reading it myself
I got a feeling this will be the last one for a while, but here’s a big passage when Glinda and Liir go to the Wizard’s (now “people’s”) Palace:
“Where you’ll keep your head down and your mouth closed. Are you scared?”
It seemed to personal a question for a woman to ask a boy. Perhaps she realized this. She continued, “I was, the first time I came here. It was with Elphaba. We were older than you are now, but only by a few years. And in many ways we were more naive. Well, I was, anyway. And I was terrified.”
“What happened?”
“What happened?” She turned the question to herself, examining it. “History happened, I suppose. We saw the Wizard, and we parted ways--Elphaba went underground, as it were, and... in time, I hugged the limelight.”
LOOK AT HOW HER WORDS SUDDENLY ARE NO LONGER FLUENT LIKE THEY USUALLY ARE. SHE IS STILL SO HURT BY IT ALL!!! and then a few lines later Liir asks:
“Are the mighty deserving of thrones?”
“That’s an Elphaba question, and out of your youthful pouting mouth it sounds preposterous. Like most of her superior cavils, it has no easy answer. How could I know?”
Then, when it’s time to say goodbye Glinda tells him:
“I don’t know that I’ll see you again.. and you remind me so of her.”
“I haven’t Elphaba’s talent,” said Liir simply. “I’m not worth mourning, believe me.” (HmmMMMM i wonder where he got that self-depreciating sense of self from!??!)
“Her power was only part of it,” said Glinda. “She was brave, and so are you.”
Then they look at one another, and he realizes he’d do the “shaming thing” of wanting to feel loved and have Glinda stand in as his mother, and Glinda is described as blinking back tears, probably thinking the same goddamn thing. BUT MORE!!
Because fucking hell, she must’ve figured out by now that Liir is Elphaba’s and more than ever, she must be reminded of her. How Elphaba had abandoned her just after visiting this very palace. How she had looked her in the eye, and Elphaba had kissed her, and kissed her again, and left her. And this scene must be playing over and over again in her head, as she realizes, her love isn’t enough for a second time.
LIKE HIS FUCKING MOTHER LIIR CHOICES “DUTY” OVER LOVE AND I... UGH!! GODDAMMIT!!!! WHEN WILL GLINDA RECEIVE THE LOVE SHE DESERVES!?!?!?
If you need me, I’ll be lying face down on the floor goodbye.
wagyubeefy replied to your post “It's been a while since I read the book but is fiyero definitely black...”
I've always imagined from the clothing fiyero is described to have (suede leggings) and the length of his hair + the fact he has braids (? i remember that vaguely) he was sort of native american coded? while i think Turtle Heart / quadlings in general were meant to be closer to black, since TH's hair is once described as 'a nebulous cloud', though i think his skin tone is like ... mid red? hes described several times to look like a sunset.
That’s interesting! I specifically didn’t go into cultural coding in that ask, because that would require a lot more research than a simple ctrl+f.
I honestly cannot remember Fiyero being described with braids? But I forget like 80% of what the book describes so that’s not surprising.
But yeah if we go into cultural coding - and I shouldn’t bc I only slept 4 hours and it’s far too important a topic to be sloppy on - I’d definitely have to reread parts of the book completely focusing on that aspect.
But on my first read, since the Vinkus is described as nomadic tribes I associated it with the savanna in Africa. Honestly, more than anything, Fiyero is framed as “The Other”. The way the Gillikinese (white ppl) are looking down on him and the Vinkus in general shows a lack of understanding and respect for his culture. With historic colonialism in mind, that could describe a lot of cultures, including Native Americans.
And here’s sadly where my morning brain stops to function.
