Fabala

She/her. 17. Mostly Wicked and Oz. Sort of artist and writer

[whichwitchwrote]

As someone who's about to begin studying education and teaching similar grade range that Grace teaches, it honestly is so important to me that there is representation on screen showing a Teacher who is Good at his job Cares about his job and Enjoys his job.

I feel like people genuianly don't realise how rare this is for something to focus on

[sakurabraches]

things probably got really awkward post-canon when elphaba and fiyero were in the desert and elphaba crashed out at him and was like 'you regret this so much you regret leaving you would rather be back at the emerald city married to glinda because how could anyone not want to be married to glinda' cuz atp it's pretty clear that fiyero does not want that and the projection from elphaba is getting a little hard to ignore

[hamcheesesammich]

hi hi hi

I only saw PHM for the first time yesterday because i was on a goddamn library book wait list of four weeks -__- (just wanted to read it before seeing film lol) but all that to say, i want to hear some of your Ryland Grace head canons!!

OH MY GOD THSNK YOU FOR ASKING

I HAVE MANY

1. aroace. i mean. do i even need to explain this lol, it's the most widely accepted headcanon of him

2. i just think he's autistic because i think every good character is/should be (naturally) so yeah

3. okay so i haven't seen this one much but he's in a qpr with rocky (rocky is still romantically with adrian though) and i think qpr's are probably just like a regular normal thing on erid because why tf not

4. not really ryland grace, but me and my boyfriend were talking about phm and we decided that rocky speaks in the most foul language ever possible and grace just thinks it's normal and so when he goes to erid, he 1) doesn't understand much if anything any of eridians are saying or 2) on a little human text to eridian speech machine that im sure rocky would have made he just starts speaking like 'what is UP, motherfuckers!!!' and rocky is mortified. in contrast, adrian definitely speaks like the eridian version of shakespeare and always gets annoyed at rocky when he mocks them (also i think adrian have they/them pronouns)

5. again not ryland grace but eva stratt is definitely autistic and thats not even me just self inserting like with most other characters, i mean. look at her.

6. i did have more but they've been lost to the depths of my mind

[whichwitchwrote]

Ooo I love these esspecially the fourth i havn't seen that said before and thats such a funny thought haha!!

Here's a couple of mine i've been pondering over:

keeps all the drawings his students give him and either display them around his classroom or they're just all pinned to his fridge

2. related to teaching again, he has to restrain himself not to get into heated debates with some of his students parents during parent teacher meetings due to what they may be indotrinating his students with at home and what he has to unteach in class (this is also just a general teacher thing haha)

3. Loves to crochet (for example the fox jacket and the hacky sack)

4. Autistic as well (obviously) but I think undiagnosed, he's been 'peer reveiwed' by other autistic people who obviously know he is. Also I think this is true for Stratt as well

5. Statt packed Graces bags

Uhmm that's all i can remember right now haha but i'm defintly forgetting a lot!!

[jayishyperfixed]

day 8 of trying to draw ryland grace every day: butch!ryland

[lyrasaur]

Wicked Movie vs Wicked the Musical pride month day 1 post

[fbi-angel-in-a-trenchcoat]

Ryland Grace who is terrified of death and dying.

Ryland Grace who is a teacher in an American school.

Ryland Grace who has sat through countless hours of active shooter training.

Ryland Grace who has stood in his classroom and tried to figure out the best plan to keep everyone safe in that room with oh so many windows.

Ryland Grace who has awoken from nightmares alone, imagining he heard the sound of gunshots in the corridors.

Ryland Grace who has spent hours on the floor during drills reassuring his kids and desperate for someone to reassure him.

Ryland Grace who has walked into work every single day knowing this might be the day he has to stand between his kids and a gunman.

Ryland Grace who was <brave> before the world even knew of the Petrova line.

[sakurabraches]

gregory maguire was a real one for seeing this minute and a half clip and going wow glinda and the wicked witch want each other carnally

[whichwitchwrote]

I find it very amusing that Maguire on multiple occasians has stated that he acted out the WOZ film with his siblings and other children in the neibourhood as a young boy often after it screened and said that he'd change around the story so it wouldn't get boring... i wonder if even in his closeted mid 1900s mind he pondered for a second... and what if they kissed and then picked up the idea decades later

[whichwitchwrote]

Butch Ryland Grace...

[kittyit]

Not only do I like women I also love them

[bluemuffin-draws]

Teaching 7th graders drained the evil out of her

[whichwitchwrote]

I didn't know that Maguire coined the phrase 'mauntery' so i've been using it in my own work for a good last 20k words...

[sakurabraches]

"a medium rare collection of perplexifying puzzles" oh elphaba i know you're a beast at connections and wozdle

[notearsnora]

Cynthia Erivo for Variety. She speaks on how people were psychoanalyzing her friendship with Ariana and the misogynoir she was subjected to during the press tour for Wicked For Good:

“It’s very interesting, watching what people’s perception is versus what the reality actually is. Lots of psychologists seated at home deciding who we were, what we were going through, what we were doing and why. I think that people didn’t really believe that we were actually friends. But that’s also because people don’t know me very well. If I’m a friend, then I’m a friend. If I’m not, then I’m not.”

“I think that we haven’t really come to terms with the insidious nature of how we view Black women. And I’m sure people will read this and think, ‘Oh, for goodness’ sake, it’s not about that.’ But it is. Because that’s what was being made fun of. It was my physique; it was my shape; it was the fact that I was bald; it was about what I looked like. And because of that, there was this assumption that I was bigger than my co-star and so I had to be controlling or protecting, and that was my role. I would hazard a guess that it would not have been the same had it been the other way around.”

How Cynthia Erivo Survived ‘Wicked’ — and Thrived: ‘People Thought I Was Being Myself, Even Though I Was Green’

Now performing a one-woman version of 'Dracula' in London, Cynthia Erivo reflects on the chaos of making 'Wicked.'

[hamcheesesammich]

Hello! How have you been !!

good!!! i was just on school camp (that's why i didn't reply - sorry) which was rainy but pretty fun!!

how are you?

[whichwitchwrote]

Oo cool! I was also just on school camp which is why im only reply now lmaoo, it was really good as well though!

(heres a couple nice photos from it!)

Great that your doing well!!

[lady-glinda]

"I asked Chat GPT-" Yeah well I asked Glinda and she flipped a table and started crying about her college roommate.

[gaybichon]

lowkey i will never forgive the wicked movies for not taking the opportunity to include these two divas in some capacity. underrated favorite characters

[rozecrest]

gregory maguire continuously innovates on making things about gelphie when ostensibly there is no way for there to be gelphie. i respect it so much