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When they were all quite presentable they followed the soldier girl into a big room where the Witch Glinda sat upon a throne of rubies. She was both beautiful and young to their eyes. Her hair was a rich red in color and fell in flowing ringlets over her shoulders. Her dress was pure white but her eyes were blue, and they looked kindly upon the little girl. "What can I do for you, my child?" she asked.

Full List of Glindas starting left to right:

Billie Burke, MGM's The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Natalie Cole, The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True (1995)

Michael Herring, Del Rey's Glinda of Oz paperback (1981)

Ariana Grande, Universal's Wicked: Part One (2024)

Alfredo Alcala (art), John Romita (art direction), and Michele Wolfman (colorist), Marvel's The Marvelous Land of Oz (1975)

Toho's The Wizard of Oz (1982)

The Muppets Wizard of Oz (2005)

Hilary Lee Gaess, The Wonderful Land of Oz (1969)

Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz (2011)

Skottie Young (illustrator), The Marvelous Land of Oz, Issue 7 (2009)

W. W. Denslow, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)

Anne Bachelier, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2014)

Uzo Aduba, The Wiz Live! (2015)

Journey Back to Oz (1972)

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910)

Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (1907)

Joely Richardson, Emerald City (2017)

Anna Galvin, Tin Man (2007)

The Wizard of Oz (1990)

Deborah Cox, The Wiz (2024)

Sheryl Lee, Wild at Heart (1990)

Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2013)

Kristin Chenoweth, Wicked (2003)

Michelle Williams, Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

Sunny Mabrey, Once Upon a Time (2014)

Lena Horne, The Wiz (1978)

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Ozu no mahôtsukai (1986)

John R. Neill, The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904)

Charles Santore, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1995)

Dee Dee Bridgewater, The Wiz (1975)

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i just saw conclave and it was so fun. i expected it to be a much slower movie but it was fast paced, kept me engaged in the drama of it all, was surprisingly gentle in its handling of faith versus the church as a human entity, and by the end of the movie i was trying not to SCREAM IN THE THEATER like

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The "Wicked" movie we should have got.

In 2013 Minkyu Lee, a visual development artist and animator who'd worked on The Princess and the Frog and Frozen, posted these sketches for a possible animated version of Wicked. He created these character designs while he was a student at CalArts and interning at Disney.

I absolutely love these. I wish Disney had done this movie.

Minkyu now has a Substack blog.

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New character posters for WICKED.

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So I heard good things about the movie Conclave, so as a dutiful little post-Catholic weirdo with lingering baggage, I gave it a watch and was thoroughly entertained. I highly recommend it.

But one of the reasons why it's been getting so much discussion is that people keep comparing it to Drag Race and making it out to be this campy drama full of gossip and machinations. And while those elements are there, and I certainly endorse taking that approach to analysis, I also can't help but wonder. I wonder if the reason why people are clocking it as a glam gossip drama is because they don't have enough lived experience with Catholicism, and its most vociferous adherents that they can't clock the sincerity when they witness it.

There is a mundane hierarchical jockeying aspect to it, and that cannot be denied, but the true fascination in the experience, the creeping horror of it, is to see dudes who have completely convinced themselves of their own self righteousness that they believe Performative Humility is Genuine Submission to God's Will. There's a bit that carries through the film that says "nobody who acts like they WANT to be pope SHOULD be pope", but that unto itself is a form of performance. It's the most insidious kind of grandstanding because it's the kind that can convince the performer themself that it's genuine. It can make them think: "I've eaten enough humble pie to prove I'm a good person, so I don't have to continue the work of self examination."

In my opinion, that sort of performance has less in common with high glam ego-driven drag competition, and more in common, say, with online political posturing, the contest to appear most sociopolitically aware and self-flagellatory. To prove how good one is by being loudest about confessing how bad one is. And maybe some people aren't ready to make that connection because they don't want to believe that old dudes in church are capable of the same kinds of mental gymnastics to pursue their own self-interests as the most liberated, educated, and media savvy online commentator.

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Conclave (2024) dir. Edward Berger

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why am i not seeing posts about the star of this movie !! as soon as he was introduced i was enamored you would not believe how overjoyed i was at every twist

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conclave is so good it's like. what if you were catholic and suicidal and suddenly you became important at work but all your coworkers suck and hate you and then an angel of vaguely ambiguous gender shows up and there's also a guy there vaping all the time. cardinal lawrence should have started biting people.

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can’t go out right now i’m vibing with my clones

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There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see

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intimate as a blood sample - the substance, elisabeth x sue (explicit sexual content, everybody cheer and clap for the age gap self-cest)

rated E, 3k, read here on AO3

But Sue still scrambles back down and inhales the musk of Elisabeth’s cunt and laps, eats, drowns in the taste of themselves and moans like a bitch in heat, until Elisabeth finally, finally moans a broken and fucked out: “Sue, baby, god-” that neither acknowledge in the night. Sue eats and eats and eats until she’s full. Until there is enough pretty for the both of them.

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"Honey and lavender cream. Sweet, intriguing..." This started off as a leyendecker style study, ended up as lucanis drinking his coffee and me rendering that cloud of smoke for wayy too long rip -☕🪻🍯🐝-

[ get him as a print here!]

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Always look your best! 💜💚🖤

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Eepy

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some free advice from your local Woman

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Protect Him at All Costs

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New hyper-fixation incoming, y’all! Watched the first episode of DANDADAN this past weekend, saw the manga’s on Shonen Jump, and may or may not be caught up already. Love this campy, strange, sweet series — and its delightful cast of weirdos — a whole bunch. 👽👻💖