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gelphie rock band au where elphaba and glinda are the lead singers of a rock band in the seventies, which elphaba formed as a teenager in her parents’ garage. both have clashing vocal styles and visuals; while elphaba has a rougher but more raw singing voice and prefers leather jackets and ripped jeans, glinda is more fairy-like, ethereal, almost operatic with an octave-spanning voice, and dresses in floral, flowy stevie nicks esque dresses. on the record they’re electric together but outside of the studio they spar constantly - elphaba isn’t used to glinda as the band’s latest addition and thinks she offsets the band’s outside-the-box reputation with her more conventional style, while glinda’s a little egotistical and believes she’s the one putting the band on the charts, and if billboard has anything to say about it she’s unfortunately half-correct.

but surprise! the two singers end up falling for each other and have a clandestine affair while on the road; while the public is unaware, for everyone else in the industry it’s an open secret. not really sure where the other characters would fit in this au. maybe fiyero’s the bassist who slept with elphaba like once or twice. pfannee and shenshen are the band’s publicists whom glinda insisted on hiring to keep the band’s exploits out of the papers. boq is their nervous manager who’s close enough with elphaba to know when she’s about to lash out at the press. nessarose is boq’s wife who secretly calls the shots and would be considered the real manager of the band. madame morrible’s probably some mean studio label executive who’s constantly breathing down their necks (let’s pretend a female studio label executive is totally a thing in the seventies). the wizard is elphaba’s biological father who was never present in her life but whom she unwittingly grew up watching on tv as the charismatic teen idol lead singer of a popular late fifties/early sixties beatles/beach boys-esque band and wound up being her inspiration for her entire music career

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I love the implication that the Glinda and Elphaba just sit across from each other, alone at this giant table just to stare at each other and contemplate how much they hate each other and the whole school knows not to go sit with them an intrude in whatever they have going on

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CHAOS!

Thank you everyone for coming to our big Jurassic World Chaos Theory Season 2 Storyboard Artist Collab stream!!

HUGE shoutout to @dakooftacos @tio-trile @natamouche-art @kngstr and botsandmagic for all these INCREDIBLE contributions!!

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Not even kidding that's literally what happens in the book 😭

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there's no way this hasn't been done yet but come on, she is the epitome of this tweet

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There's a wicked production somewhere where Elphaba kisses Glinda on the cheek sometime in act 2... And because I can't find it anymore I sketched it 🥹

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honestly funniest part of the wicked movie was the wizard is like "huh i need to think extremely fast to convince elphaba to stay here" and his way to do that is "invite glinda to live here as well." like this man is from the late 1800s-early 1900s so he's not gonna outright say "i'll legalize gay marriage" (yet) but he can say "your friend ;) can stay here too"

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I'm too much of a sucker for the tragedy of Wicked's ending to take any of this seriously, but the funniest possible fix-it concept is that Glinda just. Does not know. How the fuck. To send this 12yo back to Kansas. Like why the hell would she know how to do that?? Who thought it was a good idea to leave her in charge of this???

And from Dorothy's POV, this is such a funny concept: imagine for a minute that you (a child) wake up in a Fairy-Land, become best friends with a (possibly mentally unstable?) talking scarecrow, and are told by the god-kind that you must go murder his political rival before he'll send go home. Fine. This might as well happen.

And when you return from said murder - which is somehow successful - it turns out the god-king is a fraud and cannot help you. Whoops. Well, how about the OTHER seemingly most powerful person in the country? Ah, no....it turn out she had pretty limited powers in the magic department. And they're mostly bubble-related.

So she takes you (by bubble) to a tiny seaside town on the edge of the map to seek the help of her most powerful friends….the woman you just murdered and your scarecrow best friend who was an accomplice to that murder. And apparently, they’ve all three been dating since undergrad.

I mean, what do you even do with that.

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in another, another universe

im gonna call this arcane no angst universe

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and the worst part is, its THAT girl

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never getting over the fact that Glinda was RIGHT. she’s supposed to be just this bimbo wandering around naively but she was correct. it’s not about aptitude it’s the way you’re viewed. and no one in Oz understood that as well as she and the Wizard did. Elphaba is so brilliant but she never had the same grasp of how power in Oz works that Glinda did. until suddenly she does and it’s at the point where Glinda no longer cares and she says she’ll clear Elphaba’s name and Elphaba won’t let her because she finally understands. it’s all about popular and it’s all about the many many ways in which they’ve changed each other.

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Hey. Hey you. Person who hasn’t seen Wicked yet. I need you to do me a favor. For the love of God, before you watch the movie I need you to watch this video for me first. It is imperative. It is of the utmost importance.

Because there is absolutely no feeling in the world like having this song start playing in your head the second Elphaba steps into the Wizard’s palace because you KNOW IT’S COMING, and then YOU WILL HAVE AN ANEURISM FROM LAUGHING SO HARD

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Elphaba is the kind of autistic where it is inconceivable for her to mask and Glinda is the kind of autistic that has her mask so firmly in place that she doesn't even realize she's doing it. They are in love also

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so I have a couple of questions

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It’s crazy how it takes 20 years to make a Wicked movie and once they do, it comes out just after Trump’s reelection. The stripping of minority rights, rollback of progress, and intentional demonization of activists are such central themes in that story, and here we are, watching queer people/immigrants/women/people of color/etc being slowly stripped of their rights under conservative regimes. Personally, watching Dr. Dillamond’s firing seemed analogous to deportation of immigrants or firing/silencing of queer teachers. And then the fact that another core theme is the way the government constructs propaganda to make a mediocre con man look like a god!! And all this is shown to be horrifyingly and objectively wrong!! Absolutely insane timing.

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It really is nice how obviously fond Elphaba is of Glinda right off the bat in the movie, with What Is This Feeling showcasing how much Elphaba enjoys their little feud. For the first time in her life, someone's judging her for her, rather than her skin or her magic. Glinda doesn't give a shit that she's green, she's mad that Elphaba's taste in clothes and decor clash so severely with her own! She doesn't care that Elphaba could accidentally kill her if she got too angry, she's too busy being upset that Elphaba keeps minorly inconveniencing her! How refreshing that would be, to meet the most annoying person in the world and discover that her own narcissism has caused her to be the only person who sees you for who you really are. Of course Elphaba would take the hat seriously as a gift -- has anyone other than Dulciebear ever gifted her anything? Of course she would gamble her own self-confidence at the Ozdust -- at worst, Glinda's ego is so massive that she would never allow her mortal enemy to be the butt of someone else's joke. And in the best case, well, Glinda recognizes how important she is to the one person that she knows has no one. The only one who gets her, the only one who has ever understood her, standoffish and rude the way a stray cat is before it finally follows you indoors.

It's a real shame this story couldn't be anything other than a tragedy, huh?