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Look, this is what moral OCD is like for me:

I walk past a piece of paper. I don’t pick it up because I had a long day at work and it’s very cold outside. This then becomes my internal monologue:

I didn’t pick up that piece of paper, I should have. Don’t I care about the environment? It’s not my trash, I shouldn’t have to pick it up. But also that’s how these things happen right? We place the blame on others as our environment degrades. It was just a piece of paper, it’s not like it can do that much damage. But also how do I know: I’m not an environmental expert. Maybe stray paper scraps are killing the frogs. You’re literally killing the frogs. You should look up how many frogs die a year so you know how shitty you are-No stop it.

I care about the environment, and I recycle and I joined green activism movements but is that enough? I could be doing more. I should be doing more. I should donate my entire check to charity. But isn’t it self serving to think that my one check could help that much? Do I really think I’m that important, how self entitled and-no stop it, reset! You are obsessing and if you fall for it, you will not eat dinner. Let it go.

Okay it’s just a piece of paper. It’s okay you skipped it this once: it could have had something dangerous on it. Yeah that makes sense. But also, that means I’m putting my own safety over trying to help the environment, which is very selfish of me. I’m just one shitty person: god how could I be so self absorbed. I should have picked up the piece of paper. I’m so selfish, and shitty and-no, no, stop it! This is not helpful. It’s fine.

It’s been a long day and I’m cold, that’s not a crime- no that’s being selfish again, you’re making excuses. You’re just a lazy piece of shit who doesn’t care about others, and selfish and God the fact you’re thinking this much about one piece of paper shows how selfish you are, you care more about if you’re a good person than anything else, you’re a piece of shit, you’re a piece of shit, YOU’RE A PIECE OF SHIT.

I get home and open up Tumblr. The first post I see says “if you don’t reblog this post about the environment you’re as complicit as an oil billionaire.” I close my computer and resign myself to looking up the state frog populations until I go to bed.

I don’t eat dinner.

The amount of frogs that die a year is somewhere from 200 million to over 1 billion.

mint-chocolate-flakes

Had the idea on insta and posted it on my story and then I drew it up BUT ANYWAYS JOIN THIS WICKED DISCORD https://discord.gg/x3K28fFK

Check out the The Bizard of Boz community on Discord - hang out with 4 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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teadrawstuff

AN ANIMATIC TOO MWUHhahah

deeplyshalllow

When Elphaba touches Fiyero’s face out in the woods after they rescue the baby Lion, and he’s like 🥺, I had the thought- when was the last time/how often has somebody (especially a person his own age) touched him just out of care for him as a person, and not out of sexualisation or wanting something from him or for bragging rights etc. :( When was the last time someone touched the real him underneath the superficial surface he put on :( Reminded me of that photo of a hand cupping a cheetahs face 🥺😞

Oh this ask is so tragic, but I love it.

I think this is particularly sad because I imagine that Fiyero is a very tactile person in general. He's very physical, he's very flirty, while he's not bad with words in normal circumstances, he loses them multiple times with Elphaba - I feel like his love language is touch.

So this idea that he's craving touch from care and love but only really gets it from people wanting to use him or from sexualisation - and sort of tells himself that that's the real thing- does make Elphaba genuinely touching him out of care so meaningful. The other touch in that scene too, the one where she grabs his wrist because she does need his help, I actually think is the same - because it's not a selfish want, she wants him because he's helping her in a way no one else would or could, she's valuing him for his inner self.

I've mentioned in another ask that Fiyero mentions in the SF workshop that (until ALAYM) he didn't even believe love was real, so he does not appear to have had an affectionate childhood or particularly good parents. So he's probably as touch starved as Elphaba.

gangstagandalf

your fiyeraba art is amazing??? Like oh my gosh thank you for joining this fandom and making beautiful works of art I am sooo excited to see what else you come up with and make <3

Awwwwww thank you so so so much!!! I’d be more than happy to draw you some fiyeraba art! Let me know if there’s a specific pose you’d like 💚🖤

gangstagandalf

Here you are my dear @lillifaba I hope you like it!!

I hope you don’t mind, but I took some liberties in changing up the location! I’m thinking a golden hour romp through the fields 😍✨

Anywho, thank you for the incredibly sweet comments, and please take this as my gift to you!

bikkue

TIL there was a scrapped scene in the original script of The Wizard Of Oz in which Dorothy's friends are written as very Down To Murder

the-patchwork-girl-of-oz

In the book the tin man has historically been down for murder but only if they deserve it. He had a pretty high kill count but cried when he stepped on a bug.

bikkue

Yeah, the Tin Man in the books is not above killing, if necessary. The Tin Man from the 1939 movie still has an axe but I don't think he uses it even once during the whole movie (the Scarecrow was the one who forced his hand to cut the rope holding the chandelier). I suppose the writers thought this dialogue was a bit too OOC for this version of the character.

There is even a promotional photo where the Tin Man is "threatening" the Wizard with his axe while the other two hold him down!

And speaking of promotional photos with weird violence implications: In this one the Tin Man is pointing a blow-torch at the Scarecrow, the Scarecrow is pointing a watering can at the Tin Man,and somehow Dorothy ended up with the axe (???)

elzabethtaylor-blog

The Jitterbug deleted scene from The Wizard of Oz.

The Jitterbug number took five weeks and tens and thousands of dollars to prepare, rehearse and film, and it was cut from The Wizard of Oz after the first preview.

The Jitterbug itself was envisioned as an animated pink and blue mosquito like creature who under direct orders from the wicked witch stings the principal characters and sends them into a jivy swing dance in the haunted forest.

ferylcheryl

Which of Dorothy’s companions in 1939’s “Wizard of Oz” is most fuckable? (RB for sample size pls, this is a very important question)

The Tinman

The Cowardly Lion

Scarecrow

Voting ended onDec 17, 2024

zonatcannibalism

Thinking about fiyero from the movie (not sorry, this will keep happening)

Like im genuinely not kidding when i say that Jonathan bailey absolutely kicked this role out of the park. And its really interesting to me because fiyero was always implied to be someone dealing with depression but i don't think ive ever seen it delivered and interpreted this well. This man is absolutely terrified of letting himself feel his feelings without the sugar coating of partying and being wanted for being fun and sexy. Which actually really ties in to my interpretation that his feelings for elphie here are 100% platonic. Have you seen this mans face before im not that girl? During the "i was thinking" scene? That is not a guy in love, thats a guy absolutely terrified of the concept of emotional honesty. Elphaba made him confront his real feelings for the first time in years and basically launched into his very slow and tedious process of healing. He is a MESS. This bitch isnt in love, hes looking into potential therapists for the first time in years and being forced to acknowledge just how bad hes truly doing. Like, "thinking" making him such a mess? He is absolutely not thinking about being with elphaba lmao. which actually makes the end of act 1 sadder bc knowing the rest of the story and that he goes back to comp het and repressing his mental health issues right after elphaba is gone is really fucking sad and continues the theme of elphaba positively impacting characters in a way that their character development regresses when shes gone.

Anyway on a different note i absolutely love his and glindas relationship. They are both such cold hearted manipulative bitches, and they love each other for it. Fiyero literally just looked at her being manipulative as shit and went "yeah i gotta have a beard relationship with her". They understand each other and how the other acts and why and whats their tactics and its fantastic. I also love that he never had any problem with glinda and elphaba being the most important person to the other instead of it being him, in the way that hes literally never jealous of them and is just like "yeah girls go get some ill be here to gossip about the other when youre done". He definitely knew that glinda is a lesbian wayyyy before glinda knew.

cerulean8lood8itch

poor girlie has to babysit her menace of a bf

bugmyx-deactivated20251014

@peachym000 and i made a silly goof on stream while back ago and gamergirl Michael Myers (DBD) was responsible for the love attack i recieved on the bird app- so of course i'll share here too.