#Rachel Tucker Wicked

[stillinthetimeloop]

I always forget how completely homosexual the start of loathing is until I listen to the wicked soundtrack again. no plausible deniability no interpretation that isn't these two are incredibly attracted to each other but are mistaking it for hate bc internalized homophobia. my pulse is rushing my head is reeling my face is flushing. yeah it is you gay fucks !!!!!

[wickedlyqueer]

favorite Wicked actresses? Both in terms of individual performance as well as pairings with great gelphie dynamics

i mean having a good gelphie dynamic is one of the requirements for being a fav of mine. uhh anyway...

Glinda

Katie Rose Clarke

Megan Hilty, Kara Lindsay Ginna Claire Mason

I'm sure I've forgotten a few tbh I haven't watched a bootleg show in ages. All is to say, I'm very particular about my Glinda's. Top spot has forever been KRC for me and I doubt that'll ever change soon. She just got Glinda. She just got her and the role so fucking well.

Elphaba

Far less picky tbh, bc the role is so multi-interpretable and it still makes sense. But top favorites are (in no particular order):

Willemijn Verkaik (🇳🇱-pride), Rachel Tucker, Eden Espinosa, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Jennifer DiNoia, Lindsay Mendez.

I saw Alexia Khadime this summer (live!) and she murdered No Good Deed, absolutely obliterated it. And if it's one thing that makes you instantly go on top of my Elphie list, it's killing NGD.

I want that song to be as imperfectly perfect as you can possibly make it. Go absolutely insane over it. Show me how fucked up Elphie's mental state is right now!! I want an Elphie who truly and utterly believes she's a villain now.

Uhhhh anyway, before i go completely into my NGD-rant... it takes a lot to make me dislike / not appreciate an Elphaba tbh. :)

[thoughtfulfangirling]

2024 Reads

Another human invented marker of time has passed moving us from one year to the next. It's a good reason to start over my lists right?! XD 2023's list can be found here! 2024 starts below!

You Made a Fool out of Death with Your Beauty - Awaeke Emezi

Pussypedia: A Comprehensive Guide^ - Zoe Mendelson & Maria Conejo

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek -Kim Michele Richardson

Meru - S.B. Divya

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South^ by Radley Balko & Tucker Carrington

Watching the Tree: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on Happiness, Tradition, and Spiritual Wisdom^ - Adeline Yen Mah

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg^ - Helen Rappaport]

Pride and Prejudice* - Jane Austen

Fresh Girl - Jaida Placide

Butts: A Backstory^ - Heather Radke

The Girl Who Chased the Moon - Sarah Addison Allen

The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides

The Blue Sword - Robin McKinley

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex^ - Nathaniel Philbrick

A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico^ - Amy S. Greenberg

This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible^ - Charles E. Cobb Jr.

This Is Your Mind on Plants^ - Michael Pollan

The Silent Patient*~ - Alex Michaelides

Finding Me^ - Viola Davis

Wuthering Heights# - Emily Bronte

Exit Strategy~ - Martha Wells

The Girls Who Went Away:^ The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades before Roe V. Wade - Ann Fessler

Bowling Alone:^ The Collapse and Revival of American Community - Robert D. Putnam

Fugitive Telemetry%~ - Martha Wells

The History of Wales^*% - History Nerds

The War on Everyone^% ~- Robert Evans

Searching for Black Confederates:^ The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth - Kevin M. Levin

The Great Influenza:* The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History [2004] by John M. Barry

Network Effect~ - Martha Wells

Zelda Popkin:^ The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer - Jeremy D Popkin

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon

Medical Apartheid:^ The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present - Harriet A Washington

The Assassination of Fred Hampton:^ How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther - Jeffrey Haas

The Death of Vivek Oji - Awaeke Emezi

Mutual Aid:^% Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next) - Dean Spade

Passin' Through - Luis L'Amour

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

Histories of the Transgender Child^ - Jules Gill-Peterson

Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curiosu Man^ - Mark Kurlansky

When I Fell from the Sky:^ The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival - Juliane Koepcke

Dear Senthuran:^ A Black Spirit Memoir - Akwaeke Emezi

Emma* by Jane Austen

Lud-in-the-Mist - Hope Mirrlees

Woman:^ The American History of an Idea - Lillian Faderman

System Collapse - Martha Wells

A Dark and Starless Forest - Sarah Hollawell

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love^% - Bell Hooks

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks^ - Rebecca Skloot

Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America^ -Rachel Hope Cleves

The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle^ - Lillian Faderman

The Woman in Me^ - Brittany Spears

Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America^ - Gregory Smithers

Being Huemann: An Unrepentant Memoir of Disability Rights Activist^ - Judith Huemann

The Unthinkable: Who Survives When a Disaster Strikes and Why^ - Amanda Ripley

The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone^ - Edward Dolnick

Utopia for Realists:^ How We Can Build the Ideal World - Rutger Bregman

The Echo Wife - Sarah Gailey

To Believe in Women:^ What Lesbians Have Done for America - Lillian Faderman

Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon

Tribe:^% On Homecoming and Belonging - Sebastian Junger

Freedom^% - Sebastian Junger

Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield

Nonviolence: 25 Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea% - Mark Kurlansky

Bridehead Revisited# - Evelyn Waugh

The Witch Elm - Tana Frencyh

Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

HumanKind: A Hopeful History - Rutger Bregman^

Autumn at the Willow River Guesthouse - C.P Ward

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World Find the Good Death^ - Caitlin Doughty

(last updated 9/19)

Currently reading: On Killing (print), Plain Bad Heroines (print), A Study in Drowning (Audio), Gideon the Ninth (with spouse), and Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (audio to fall asleep to)

Key: * = Reread ^ = Nonfiction ~ = Read with Empty % = Novella #= Doc book club

My goal for 2024 is for 40% of my reads to be nonfiction. I've had two years within the recent past where I managed 20% of my reads to be nonfiction, so I'm aiming to double that. THIS WILL BE HARD FOR ME! Not because I don't enjoy nonfiction but because I enjoy fiction a lot more and have a lot more practice reading it. Haha Also for me, I am in circles where I'm just going to have more awareness of fictional books that I'm likely to enjoy more so than nonfiction. I'm kind of hoping that this years journey will change that a bit too!

Okay, below the cut I'm putting the nonfiction books on my tbr, most of which I have the lovely people of Tumblr to thank for the recommendations!

1968: The Year that Rocked the World

The Age of Wood; Our Most Useful Material...

The Assassination of Fred Hampton

Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the...

Being Human

The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shelf

Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man

Bowling Alone

Brave the Wild: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped...

Butts: A Backstory / Evermore Recommended

The Cadaver Kin and the Country Dentist / Automatuck9

Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse...

Dear Senthuran

DisneyWar

Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with...

Finding Me (Viola Davis)

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed...

The Food of a Younger Land

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women...

The Glass Universe

The Great Hunger: The Story of the Famine...

The Great Influenza

Helping Her Get Free: A Guide for Families and Friends of an Abused Woman

The History of Ireland

The History of Scotland

The History of Wales

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Indifferent Stars Above

In the Heart of the Sea / ecouterbien

In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death...

The Last Days of the Romanovs / Automatuck9

Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical...

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During the Crisis...

A New World Begins

Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous...

This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get you Killed / Empty

Radium Girls

The Road to Jonestown

Paper: Paging through History

People's Temple

Pussypedia / Bookstagram Rec

Salt: A World History

Say Nothing

Sea Biscuit: An American legend

Searching for Black Confederates

This is Your Mind on Plants

Unmasking Autism

The Unthinkable: Who Survives when Disaster Strikes - And Why

Watching the Tree / found all by my little self

We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow we Will be Killed...

A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the.. / Rose

The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta...

I will actually add to this list as I get more recs and whatnot. And I still have some coming which I ordered from Thriftbooks. Once those are here, I'll add those. I'm a little sad there aren't more memoirs, but there's plenty of time for that yet! This is already 37 books, and given lately I've been reading about 70 (nonfiction may slow me down tho), these should give me plenty of ability to reach my 40% goal. Now it's just a matter of if I do it XD

[cantstoptheimagines]

And I cast a spell over the west to make you think of me The same way I think of you

Bang the Doldrums - Fall Out Boy

send me a random song lyric & i’ll tell you a character it reminds me of 💗

was originally going to say arthur morgan, but then i thought of elphaba from wicked

and while we’re on the topic, who is your favorite elphaba? my heart’s been stolen by both rachel tucker and shoshana bean <3 anyway, here are a bunch of different elphabas for your enjoyment

[paradise-bi-the-dashboard-lightt]

MUSICAL THEATRE APPRECIATION WEEK 2021

↳ Day 2 → Favorite Stage Character/Arc, Elphaba Thropp

[raven-curls]

Rachel Tucker

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i was watching the wicked on pbs special tonight and if amber riley never gets cast as elphaba, i will throw a table.

THE RIFFS I CAN’T

[fuckyeahgifheaven]

‘Defying Gravity’ duet  with Rachel Tucker.

19. Oct. 2015

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Gelphie Femslash February Day 7: Height Difference aka tall!Glinda compilation pt. 2

[lonelylittledot]

You know one thing I love about Wicked?

It’s the fact that I get to start crushing on every Elphaba twice. I see her in the show first and I go “Ah, she’s gorgeous! I love her!”

And then I look up the actress to see what she looks like de-greenified, and I go “AAaaAA she’s so CUTE whAt”

[theeveningmistfalls]

Wicked - West End - December 10, 2011 (Matinee)

Rachel Tucker (Elphaba), Zoë Rainey (Nessarose), Ben Stott (Boq)

muck-up matinee; penultimate performances for Louise Dearman (as Glinda), Mark Evans, Ben Stott, Zoe Rainey, Julian Forsyth and Clive Carter

[musical-dreamcasts]

Next to Normal - Rachel Tucker as Diana Goodman, requested by anon

Birthday: May 29, 1981 (age 39)

Birth Place: Belfast, Northern Ireland

Theatre credits include: Elphaba (Wicked), Beverley Bass (Come From Away), Meg Giry (Love Never Dies), Maureen Johnson (Rent), Dorothy Gale (The Wizard of Oz), Elly (Lazarus), Meat (We Will Rock You)

(Pictured on the right is Marin Mazzie, who played the role in the Broadway production)

[paradise-bi-the-dashboard-lightt]

Wicked appreciation post for the 7 Elphabas I have seen over the past 7 years

[raven-curls]

Rachel Tucker as Elphaba

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The Coven United 

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