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something my brain has been thinking over is how the wizard having no powers basically shatters elphaba's worldview, but it actually reinforces glinda's in a lot of ways? like it essentially proves her thesis of "it's not about aptitude, it's the way you're viewed" / "did they have brains or knowledge? they were popular" etc. so to me it makes sense that she would be frustrated at elphaba's approach, because in glinda's eyes, it was just confirmed that the only way power is maintained in their society is through perception & image. i think the wizard has confirmed for her that perception has more impact than actual aptitude/skill, so she sees elphaba's approach as 'hurting her cause forever' even though elphaba does have more actual power and ability than the wizard.

elphaba does a 180 to breaking outside of the system because her belief in it has just crumbled, so she sees no value in adhering to it and trying to play by its broken rules. but glinda doubles down on staying inside, because its very flaws have actually further convinced her there's not a realistic path outside of it. interesting stuff

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ariana grande: it was the first day of wicked rehearsals. i was wearing a pink hoodie that said 'GAY'. glinda might be a little in the closet. i'm in queer media. oz is very queer. everyone in oz is queer, even the chickens. those chickens are gay. dr dillamond is a gay icon. let's talk about it! 'the boy is mine' could have a wicked version. but is it about elphaba? i'm just saying...

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Wicked (2024) Directed by Jon M. Chu

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How Galinda gets ready for bed knowing she's gonna homoerotically argue with Elphaba all night once again

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we're mainstream gelphie-ing in a way we've never mainstream gelphied before

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the real and true reason why they had to split wicked up into two movies, is because they knew we would need a year to process the ozdust duet scene before they could hit us with for good. there would simply be too much sapphic power for us to handle if those two scenes were in the same movie.

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glinda? tenderly wiping away elphaba's tears as they dance in front of the entire school? running alongside elphaba's train after it leaves the station?? and then jumping on when elphaba asks her to??? CANNOT believe the romantic nonsense i saw with my own eyes on the big screen. my teenage self would never have imagined this in her wildest dreams.

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Toss Toss

These Gelphie parallels are making me go feral

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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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it's giving the photo elphaba and glinda take together in one short day in the musical

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WICKED (2024) — dir. Jon M. Chu insp.

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You will be popular like me!

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have a lot of thoughts about the wicked movie and gelphie (all of them gay)

one fun little moment: did anyone else notice how even after glinda in the classroom says something like “the artichoke is steamed” in a way to poke fun at elphaba…her and elphaba exchange a private look of satisfaction after she delivers that insult? like they both smirked at each other in a way to be like “ooo good one, i’ll do you one better next time!” ohhhh they love teasing each other and they’re so in love with each other your honor!!! 😩

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God I love the movie’s decision to make Pfannee and Shenshen explicitly tell Glinda to stop dancing with Elphaba and have her simply respond “no.” I’ve seen people say that that moment is Glinda’s defying gravity moment and it really is. Something has changed within her. Elphaba has changed it. Glinda could still have everything she worked for—her reputation, her status, the future she ascribes to those things—but she doesn’t want it anymore, because she finally understands the cost of that love.

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Galinda, what are you doing? Stop. No.

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this is getting notes again thank you wicked movie for making this so much clearer!!!! movie academic rivals gelphie i love u so much

i think something in wicked that gets overlooked a lot is that g(a)linda is just as academically ambitious as elphaba in the musical. i feel like those 'are you an elphaba or glinda' personality quiz things always frame elphaba as being studious and glinda just wanting to have fun but like. the very first thing glinda does at shiz is introduce herself to madame morrible and remind her about the entrance essay she wrote for the sorcery seminar. she just gets overlooked because she doesn't have the natural talent and book smarts that elphaba does, which is why she has to resort to using her charm and likability to get what she wants. idk i just think glinda and elphaba being established as academic rivals in that first shiz scene is such an interesting part of their early dynamic that isn't explored by the general public as much as it deserves to be