rectifying what should've been

I'm queer. so is wicked. gelphie through and through. mainblog: bannedfromtheaters. Currently working on: A Thousand Universes Without Your Embrace & WQ Animated

[wickedlyqueer]

Let's discuss part one of Wicked (2024): where it differs from the musical and book, why it's good and why it's still gay.

[sakurabraches]

what is your stance on the “gelphie is one-sided” discourse… as in elphaba doesn’t feel the same. idk what you all are seeing but movie!elphie is head over heels in love with that weird blonde girl imo

yeah ig i see why some people think gelphie is one-sided or that glinda loves elphaba more than elphaba loves glinda but i personally don't agree and rebuke that energy

this is the elphaba who threatened to drop out of college for galinda before they even really became friends. the elphaba who looked at galinda like this when she called her beautiful

movie elphaba saw the "i hope you get your heart's desire" note and immediately asked glinda to come with her to the emerald city. she kept that note for all the intermission and was borderline hallucinating her and glinda in that poppy field. the same elphaba who couldn't resist flying to glinda's balcony on the night of her wedding just because she missed her so much, who was ready to give up all of her morals for the chance to be with her again

i think most of the "gelphie is one-sided" takes come from the fact that elphaba didn't tell glinda she was alive, but personally i see this as her greatest act of love. a lot of people interpret it as her "choosing" fiyero, which i find really dumb and male-centered because she would've made the same choice whether or not straw boy was in the picture

like by the time of kiamo ko elphaba has just watched most of her loved ones die horribly and has crippling guilt over that because she believes it's her fault. and here comes glinda offering to throw herself in front of a mob for elphie. and elphaba's can't bear the thought of glinda getting hurt because of her

elphaba knows atp glinda won't let the lies and demonization continue and would do anything in her power to try and save elphaba. but after losing most everyone else, elphaba can't let that happen to glinda, and she can't bear the thought of glinda ruining her life on her behalf. so she fakes her death so that glinda can't make that choice, and so that glinda can live a happy life in oz doing the good that elphaba couldn't

she also gave her bf glinda's eyes cuz fiyero's eyes are blue until the scarecrow transformation, where they turn brown. and he's talking about "seeing through different eyes" and later elphaba tells glinda "look at me. not with your eyes--with theirs" implying glinda's eyes are the eyes that see her as beautiful

so basically yeah. elphaba is in love with glinda. it's quite bad. dire, actually. she can't be saved

[itrygraphics]

something glinda would definitely post on ozstagram

[sakurabraches]

see glinda's mistake was forgiving elphaba in the bridge of for good. because in the book when elphaba asked sarima for forgiveness and sarima refused her elphaba was like okay well i guess i have no choice but to hang around and thoroughly befriend you. whereas glinda forgave elphaba and elphaba fucked off into the desert immediately

[capinejghafa]

WICKED: FOR GOOD (2025) dir. JON M. CHU

[maul-of-shame]

I actually recommend everyone write for a rarepair once because it completely changes your relationship with fandom. Engagement stops being numbers and starts being names. You know who's going to show up. You recognize usernames. Someone disappears for a while and then comes back and you're like “OH MY GOD WELCOME HOME.” It's incredibly wholesome. It is also deeply inconvenient when all six of you simultaneously get writer's block-

[sakurabraches]

i know ariana's "just wear the froat it's pretty" in popular is just ad-lib but i really do appreciate how frustrated she sounds it has the same energy as book galinda insisting and insisting to herself that she finds everything about elphaba hideous and then begrudgingly admitting to herself that she's absolute entranced by her hair falling where her breasts would be if she ever decided to reveal her breasts to galinda. she shouldn't like that stupid basic ugly froat but she can't help but find it pretty on elphaba

[sakurabraches]

"they need someone to be wicked so that you can be good" is simultaneously so tragic and so romantic. because on one hand elphaba has to come to terms with the fact that oz is never really gonna see her as good and the best thing she can do is to let herself be seen as the wicked witch. but also she's giving up her dreams of being loved by and helping oz so glinda can be good and glinda will be safe wtf

[capinejghafa]

WICKED: FOR GOOD (2025) dir. JON M. CHU

[gelphienation]

whatever you say about wicked i think it’s objectively funny that they did a scene where they confess their love for each other and then one of them locks the other in a closet and fakes her own death and John m Chu explained it by claiming he recieved a vision from god

[uisceb]

Very obsessed with this shot where the propaganda poster of Elphaba in the background looks absolutely mortified to learn that the real Elphaba would willingly allow herself to be tackled to the ground and then straddled by that blonde little freak, like this is so embarrassing for us girl get upppppp you’re ruining our brand.

[la-mombey]

Glinda "The Good", rival pirate and counterpart to Captain Elphaba Thropp

The two protagonists of the Gelphie pirate au fic that exists mostly in my head so far.

[araneapeixes]

teaching your bestie to kiss because friends do these things for one another

[bringonthevices]

It's Ga-linda, with a Guhhhhh?

[lesbianano]

No more limits, no more hiding 💗💜💙

[gumba1ls]

sillies

[starchild674]

drew a scene from the Wicked book because I thought it was fitting for pride month