#SOON maybe

[o-wild-west-wind]

While I’m still a bit bummed that they didn’t go with a more book-aligned POC Fiyero for the Wicked movie, I’ve been thinking (heheh) about how his being white highlights the really interesting foil relationship between him and Glinda (and, in many ways, the audience yourself).

At its core, Wicked is a cautionary tale about propaganda, (literal) scapegoating, and what it means to uphold the status quo. The audience is watching through Glinda’s eyes—it is through her, arguably the most beautifully tragic character of the show, that we learn how lonely life becomes when you forfeit your values in favor of systemic power and likability (“No One Mourns the Wicked” is, in many ways, about HER).

Now, this is where Fiyero’s whiteness can get interesting—if you consider him and Glinda to share roughly equal footing at the beginning in terms of privilege/how much they have to lose (applying our real-world lens of race and power here, where whiteness is the apex), his storyline essentially represents what could have happened if Glinda had made the brave (and arguably wise and loving, if you’re picking up what I’m putting down 👀) choice to go with Elphaba and fight the good fight (this is also why I feel like a queer reading of G&E’s relationship is almost implicit to the story, but I digress).

As the POC/marginalized allegory, Elphaba has much less of a real choice in her curtain-pulled-back turning point. But Fiyero and Glinda—both representing privilege—get to choose. So in Act II, we see the consequences of both the choice to stay (Glinda) and to go (Fiyero). In Fiyero’s case, his ultimate rejection of his own power, privilege, and even beauty leads to immense physical loss—including his own body—but that is then compared to the loss of love, community, and identity that we see Glinda left with by the end. And this brings us to the question that the audience is left grappling with: in an unjust system where loss is inevitable (a.k.a. our own world, as the Wizard himself represents), which of these things are YOU more willing to give up?

It’s important that Glinda is an empathetic character because, in reality, most people are going to be Glindas (obvi this is nuanced among us Elphabas of marginalized identities, but I’d still argue that there’s some level of Glinda in us all)—and it’s important to be rattled by the end of the show when you realize that she is the one who has the sad ending. But it’s also so important that Fiyero is empathetic (which I’m SO glad this movie leaned into)—because he’s ultimately who Glinda—and thus we, as the audience—should have been.

And especially given the state of US politics right now…this is just all more relevant than ever.

[horriblehistorieslandfill]

thi s is part of their interaction (that I made up inside of my head)

[velvetwyrme]

oh no ive thought up more tf ocs. help help help help help i have so much to DO ALREADY i cant. do this.

on one hand im like hm i wish i had a standard dayjob so i can daydream abt my ocs at work again but also that would definitively Kill Me.

anyway ill just keep thinking up stuff and maybe. one day ill actually get around to sharing stuff instead of having it cooped up in my head until i die </3

[aimbot-jones]

It's my 11 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

​i wish i felt something

[lavendel081]

Wedding Charm Elliott Version.

Poetic Rizz

[rei-comfort-zone]

I don't have my tab rn but I HAVE TO DRAW this guy over here, dude pull out the coolest pose RAAAH GOD

The worse is that I can draw rn but I hate drawing on my new phone because 💥IT FEELS ICKY💥

I DON'T VIBE with the s pen of my phone + I don't have my pre-set pencils of my tab 😭

It feels weird drawing out of the comfort zone

I love him sm, I can make him gayer and accept him<3

[thesecondlight-luna]

well I’m probably going to go to sleep soon -w- as it’s really late but I will be on for maybe 15ish more minutes

[mellohiizz]

Pspspsps hello our lord in savior have you happened to watch Whitepine :]

- 🍄 anon

hello, my child. no, i haven't yet, actually. it's on my watch list, but i haven't gotten around to actually watching it yet. i most definitely will, though!!

[faunabel]

apparently i also put tolerate it by taylor swift on my playlist for vene....... i also see it. perhaps in a looser sort of way.

[doerot]

Idk why everytime there is a moment where I this edible ain't shit— whoa like it's everytime. It's a trackable patern. We know there sde two humps. And yet

[peromiin]

ominis doodle + a page full of my mc :)

[knightforflowers]

these last few days I’ve been extremely tempted to make a sideblog dedicated to reblogging dumb posts that remind me of the Coriolis crew,,,it would be a fun way for me store posts for possible redraws too but I mainly want to do it bc I think it’d be incredibly entertaining

[atomic-rattz]

tomi...tomi....u need sleep... pls....

I promise ill sleep.. 😭

[swan2swan]

Seriously, don’t keep us in the dark. This garbage sounds so bad, it’s good.

No, I have principles.

If I think it's good, then I'll let you know, but it's not supposed to get support. I don't think the show is worth continuing, and I think the animators deserve to be picked up for other projects and the scriptwriters should learn to be better.

[jaurstus]

i need to draw tatsumayo but like as that one mha bakudeku omegaverse miscarriage art it can be like a sequel to the pregnant huge boob mayoi art i drew fr☝️☝️🔥🔥🔥