#Gelphie

[glindalphaba]

WICKED (2024) — dir. Jon M. Chu insp.

[fadeintoyou1993]

WICKED (2024)

[hibiscus02]

I could make a serious Wicked review and talk about the vocals and the choreography and the costumes and the sets, which are all great, but this is tumblr, and I know that all of these aspects will not matter nearly as much as me reviewing the movie by how much gay subtext they put into it, so that's exactly what I'm gonna do.

Elphaba and Glinda are either holding hands or have their arms linked for about 70% of this movie. Literally, after they officially become friends these girls are attached at the hip.

'What Is This Feeling?' remains about as gay as it usually is, but I will highlight that they lie awake at night thinking about each other which. I know what you are etc etc

The scene where they dance together is. I have no words. That was beautiful. Both actresses put so much emotion into the sequence. And there's a moment where Glinda puts her hand on Elphaba's face, almost like she's brushing away the tears there, and that shit made me cry as well.

'Popular' is insanely homosexual. There's a scene where they're laying down on the bed looking into each other's eyes, and Glinda shifts to basically be on top of Elphaba. My jaw was on the floor. Just lots of touching and Looks all throughout.

When they go to see the Wizard all that casual touching I mentioned previously is multiplied by tenfold, and there are several moments where Elphaba looks at Glinda for reassurance, which was very sweet.

'Defying Gravity' made me just as emotional as I knew it would. I do wish they had hugged but honestly with all the handholding and the staring into each other's eyes, and Glinda wrapping the cloak around Elphaba, they gave us plenty. Once again the acting caught me by surprise (specially from Ariana), both of them communicate so much with just looks.

Anyway my overall thoughts are, these bitches gay, good for them. They did not tone down the subtext at all (like I know some people were worried would happen), and while they didn't make anything explicit either (which I never expected them to*), I'm confident that both Cynthia and Ariana understood the assignment in regards to the kind of relationship Glinda and Elphaba have in canon, and that was enough for me.

*I will admit that a secret corner of my little lesbian heart hoped beyond hope that they would include the scene from the book where Elphaba canonically kisses Glinda (iirc it's supposed to be during Defying Gravity), but like, I always knew they wouldn't.

[c1rcusr4t]

WE ALREADY GOT YURI OF THIS MOVIE?!?! /pos

kiss me goodbye, I'm defying gravity

[notearsnora]

Sapphic Glinda canon!

[glindaselphie]

sobbing at this cuteness

happy wicked release day, everyone 💚💖

[ninacarstairss]

still absolutely amazed by the fact that i need both my hands to count the amount of lesbian witches i’ve seen on my screen this fall. what a year for the witches and the gays

[wefuckinglove33]

me and my sister every 5 minutes in the theatre :

they sure do!

[lesbianp1lled]

Ariana has for sure read the Wicked book, she just said in an interview that Glinda was in the closet. I always knew I could trust her!

[the-mummy]

[itinabe]

only in the year 2024 could wicked come out and NOT be the gayest thing about witches (it was still very very gay)

[sillydogy]

gelphie reminders #gelphiereminders

[hibiscus02]

Was I the only one really surprised by the shockingly low amount of Glinda x Elphaba fanfic on AO3?

Like. Wicked is an old fandom. And a large community too, I mean it's pretty well-known as far as musicals go. Gelphie has always been a popular ship, but there's only 833 works with their tag somehow?

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm used to wlw ship fics being very scarce on AO3, and I've been in fandoms where there's only like, 5 works about a pair, if any! But I'm in also in some much, much newer fandoms that have an insane amount of wlw fanfic despite not having been around for two decades like Wicked has. I mean, caitvi has 8,808 works tagged, villaneve has 3,949, wenclair has 7,162, you get the picture.

I don't have a point to make here tbh, it's just very puzzling to me? Like, are all the gelphie fics hiding on some other site or something? Because if so do let me know, I am starving.

[diviedrawn]

“You’re gonna be popular!” 🩷💚

[gryffenders]

I was like okay, today i can be normal about wicked. i don't need to talk at length about the lesbian subtext. i don't need to describe beat for beat the dance scene. But unfortunately we can only be who we are and who i am is a cringe musical theater lesbian

[notearsnora]

“glinda might be a little in the closet” I said oh I’m sure.

Full interview: