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SWAN SWEET JUICE @ INKIGAYO 230219

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happy "casual by chappell roan" day to me :) (christmas 2022 when i had recently started dating a guy and he made me breakfast in bed on christmas day (first christmas i'd ever spent with a partner) and that afternoon i had to talk his brother down from a mental health emergency and then i spent another 5 months dating before he told we weren't actually in a relationship despite him treating me like his girlfriend from day 1, and then he proceeded to tell me he was falling in love with me and then IMMEDIATELY ghosted me :))))))) )

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i was at an ugly christmas sweater disco and someone told me i looked like i was at the blood rave in blade if it was christmas themed. then we talked about dinosaurs for 2 hours. this is what you can expect on a night out with me.

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My girl <3

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Other BG3 fans: Please Larian, can we romance Gortash? Can we romance Raphael?

Me: GIVE US THE WAUKEENTIDE BLACK FRIDAY SIMULATOR

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In The Strange Case, straight up Jekylling it and by it. Haha.. let's just say my Hyde.

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i want more nuance to be entered into the discussion of the green girl sorority and how differently cynthia plays elphaba in comparison to those who came before her because while a lot of people are rightfully like "why was elphaba not black from the beginning" and celebrating that she is now being played by a black woman, i think we need to be careful in just writing off all the elphabas of the past as Random White Girls when the role was championed (and often followed/succeeded) by a jewish woman

the pop culture archetype of the Wicked Witch has deep roots in antisemitism stretching faaaar far back. there is a level of reclamation happening in casting idina menzel, a jewish woman, to play the Misunderstood and Maligned young girl who is branded as exactly that. and stage!Elphaba is also written and acted with jewish stereotypes in mind--she is loud, aggressive, no-nonsense, blunt. she is quick to advocate for herself and shut down the discrimination she faces. all of this is very intentional! her personality is abrasive from years of abuse, and that makes propagandizing her easy. this is literally the thesis statement of the musical--it's not about aptitude, it's the way you're viewed.

cynthia's performance of elphaba is fucking INSPIRED despite going in a completely different direction. she's much more reserved, analytical, one of her key character traits is how well she can read people (see her calling out Galinda as insecure/putting on airs in their first scene together, clocking that Fiyero is using his party guy persona as a shield for his own depression) elphaba's attempts to blend in and make herself smaller all fail simply because of her existence, if not that then because she feels empathy so strongly she often struggles to hold back from acting, protecting.

personality wise, though, cynthia's elphaba is very quiet and closed-off, not at all the bullet-to-the-face that she is in the stage show, and... she still gets propagandized and maligned. though this seems to contradict the other interpretation, it tells of the other end of the spectrum of propaganda, one that black women watching (and many, MANY other marginalized folks) are sure to identify with--it does not matter how "nice," how reserved, how small a black woman makes herself. a racist society will still scrutinize her every action for a way to parse ill intent from it, brand her as an angry black woman who is dangerous and wicked, and write off any humanity she has in the process.

these two very different interpretations tell of the lie of assimilation. the fact of the matter is, when you are marginalized, there is no way to sand down your edges enough to make the people oppressing you "accept" you. that is why wicked is a tragedy at its core. whether loud and aggressive or quiet and unimposing, there is nothing elphaba could have done to make the people of Oz see her as anything other than a scapegoat to blame all their problems on.

so while i definitely appreciate that people are excited for black girl era elphaba, i would encourage us all to still show appreciation for what came before--that was not white girl era elphaba. that was jewish girl era elphaba. two houses, both alike in dignity, two stories both worth being told.

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Yeah you're right. It WOULD be pretty fucked up if you were a swan but you were raised by ducks and you grew up never seeing another swan or even knowing that such a thing as a swan even existed so you just thought you were a duck with something super wrong with it.

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you kind of do have to let multiple layers of meaning and metaphor coexist rather than claiming one is the true reading if you want to get fucking anything out of art

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nasty faggotses........

WHYY IS HOMOPHOBIC SMEAGOL IN MY INBOX

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Sorry I only fuck dorks and goofs

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the intro from the first movie is stuck in my head and also he's so pretty

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Felt this in my soul.