#Stop misogyny

[mad-not-disappointed]

“antis only hate catra because she’s a woman! y’all would worship her if she was a man”

ah yes, that explains why most of the critical community absolutely DESPISES stolas from hb, who is essentially the male version of catra.

[ducktracy]

The Lady Said No (1946)

Directed by Frank Tashlin

[wowee-pals]

Every time I see someone call bloodweave “just two white guys” part of me dies inside, especially when it’s to prop up another ship.

It’s almost like every single origin character has traits/tropes that work really well with every other origin! Crazy how they were designed that way! /s

[nightcorecarseatheadrest]

opinions on servant boq

Ok I have like. A lot of these. Strap in

The first thing is that servant boq is really interesting to me because we have nothing to compare him to at the moment. He doesn’t exist in the books, and the movie in which he appears is not out yet. This means that’s he’s his own thing at the moment. Shiz era boq exists in both the books and the movie. Tin man boq will always be analyzed alongside Baums/1939 tin man. But servant boq is different. He’s his own thing

Depending on the actor playing him, the way I see him varies. His primary emotions are usually angry/sad/apathetic. Michael Wartella plays him very mopey, where jake Pedersen plays him very mad!! This makes every single Boq actor give him a different outlook on the witches and his situation.

This bleeds into how he talks about seeing Glinda. Most of the time, it’s clear that she’s his crush the way that she was at shiz. He thinks that Galinda Upland is waiting for him in the emerald city and that she’s gonna say thanks for the favor babe now we can be together. But sometimes his Glinda speech shifts from ‘I like a real girl’ to ‘I like the idea of freedom and I miss my old life’ (this isn’t to say that he’s lying about going to see Glinda per se, just that how he views her changes from actor to actor sometimes)

He’s obviously pretty important to me. Boq is SO flawed and servant Boq retains this annoying stupid attitude while still allowing for some really sad moments!! Wwote just punches us in the gut with his bad decisions.

We don’t know the exact way he ended up in Nessas employment (im gonna call it employment because that’s what it is I’ll explain in a moment) so the story is pretty vague. Here’s what we know based off of tests wwote, the grimmerie and the show we have

1. Boq was offered a job by Nessa to keep him close after her fathers death. They were still in college here.

2. At some point, Nessa started changing laws and removing rights with the intention to keep Boq from leaving her.

3. At some other point, Boq succumbed to a mixture of Wizard propaganda and anger at Nessa, which led him to resent Elphaba.

4. Boq is now a (probably still paid, because it’s a job but I wouldn’t think the rest of the work environment or his wages are particularly good) servant to Nessa.

(Tests is not in the show and the grimmerie only has actor testimonies about their characters but I’m treating it as canon because there’s no other information as how he ended up there.)

When Elphaba comes in and Boq sees that Nessa can walk (god I hope they change this well this plot point is so shitty) he goes oh okay so you don’t need me anymore I’m heading out, implying that boq has been staying with her out of pity this whole time. Now. I’m hesitant to say that this is Boq the character being ableist and more wicked the musical being ableist. This plot point makes NO SENSE. Do the laws mean nothing now?? He says he can’t leave earlier due to laws but now decides he can. This just feels like they needed a reason for boq to try to get out now at that time specifically for the story. I’ll link two articles on the ableism with Nessarose below to read if you’d like to hear smarter people talk about the other ways the show has wronged her.

Ok so. He’s a college dropout working a shitty job with a boss who’s also his girlfriend and he can’t leave because there are laws preventing it that his boss girlfriend made. He’s angry and sad about all of this. He’s still crushing on the girl that told him to date his boss girlfriend in the first place. He makes the stupid decision to anger his dictator boss girlfriend by trying to leave her for a woman that doesn’t and has never wanted him, and in return she tries to cast a love spell that just ends up killing him. He’s sad and pathetic and annoying and makes all the worst choices given to him.

My opinion is I love him deeply and think he should be sent straight to hell for his sins.