#but people call her a witch

[nobodysdaydreams]

I don’t know to what extent the “they added stuff to Wicked Part 2” is true, but if they did add stuff, I’m gonna need the Wizard to face the music a little bit more because his story ends with him believing he murdered his own child for the stupidest of reasons and that needs more attention.

Not only is he a deadbeat and a powerless con man, but he puts a hit out on his own long-lost daughter (the witch) who once looked up to him as a hero. He even sends a lost little girl (Dorothy) to do the job, since he’s too much of coward to face the witch himself.

Does he do this because Elphaba is trying to kill him?

No, he does it because she’s calling out his animal abuse and won’t use her own super powerful magic to help her old man trick people into thinking he’s cool.

Do they at least have an “I am your father moment” like in Star Wars?

No, in the musical, she never finds out (though that might be for the best), but when the Wizard does, he had the audacity to act shocked and sad even though he was getting with random women in his youth and giving them all mysterious green beverages so really this shouldn’t be surprising, statistically he likely had a kid out there somewhere and if he “always wanted to be a dad” or cared as much as he claimed, he really should have been on that. But he was only concerned with dodging the child support payments, and now he thinks his only child is dead because of him.

So does he at the very least clear her name, accept whatever punishment the people see fit for his crimes, hold a funeral for Elphaba, or perhaps try to finish what she started by beginning to make right or undo the horrible crimes that he committed?

Nah. He’s just like “welp. The jig is up, time to skedaddle” and sadly gets in his hot air balloon and regretfully lets the breeze blow him away.

Like, no. He should not get away that easy. I want his stupid balloon to crash in the middle of a field where Elphaba and Fiyero find him crying over her green bottle and are like:

“Let me get this straight. You’re swept away to a magic land. Your first move is getting with random women and giving them mysterious magic green liquids before you con your way into taking over the land and silencing all the animals by making them literal scapegoats. Then, you’re looking for someone to help you keep up your charade, and a person whose age + 9 months is equal to the amount of time that’s passed since you got with those random women and gave them green elixirs shows up, a green person, the only green person in this entire realm, who is insanely powerful in a way no one can explain, and it never, never, occurs to you to check whether or not this is your child!???”

The Wizard (through pathetic tears as he lovingly strokes the green bottle): “I said I was a sentimental man. Never said I was a smart one. Someone green’s age + 9 months = time since I last saw a pretty woman and gave her a mysterious green beverage is very, very hard math.”

Fiyero: “Are you sure you’re not the one without a brain?”

[proselles]

people saying that Glinda isn't gay are so insane to me it's like in the original books she lived out her years with 100 of Oz's most beautiful women for nothing

[theodysseyofhomer]

uh... are the circe/odysseus fuckers who demonize penelope in the room with us now? madeline miller is a bad writer who writes bad books, but that did not happen in circe.

[frapajapa]

// Utena spoilers and discourse, tw: rape, victim blaming

I just want to say that that person getting dunked on twitter passes off episode 33 as not assault bc it also doubles as narrative seduction and LIKE IT CAN BE BOTH IT CAN LITERALLY BE BOTH JUST BECAUSE YOU THINK ITS A METAPHOR FOR UTENA BEING PULLED FROM ANTHY DOESN'T MEAN SHE CONSENTED OR IT'S NOT ASSAULT!!! SYMBOLISM HAS TO SYMBOLIZE SOMETHING WHAT DO YOU THINK THE STOP SIGNS ARE FOR???

if the symbolism doesn't symbolize something then there's no story no plot you're not looking at a story. you're looking at Pinterest.

also how is a thing that literally happens on screen in the present and is constantly referenced afterward as a real thing that happened

only a "metaphor" and "narrative device" therefore it didn't literally happen and if it did literally happen it's not actually rape bc of the aforementioned (the logic is not logic-ing)

but an extremely anachronistic flashback (When it has been long established that childhood memory is unreliable in this show) where a mob bangs down the door of a shack to find a well-dressed prince and then shish kebabs a 6 year old (who survives)

is unrefutable proof that Actually Anthy is 1 quintillion years old so she should know and act better

???

hmmm could the confusing anachronistic flashback serve as a metaphor to show Anthy feeling like her pain is eternal, neverending, has been going on forever? could it be about the timeless nature of misogyny itself? no no, it can't be, it's only a metaphor when I can use it to claim statutory rape can be consensual! it's only a metaphor when it serves my contrarian theories I made up to feel smart without actually thinking about what I'm implying!

[mercutiotakethewheel]

Kendra, inwardly: Omg I am so scared right now. I’m going to die here. This freakyass magical creatures about to do me in. And could do so easily, which I am imagining very vividly right now. Those are huge teeth. I am fighting god to hold it together right now. I don’t want to die. Why am I here? Just to suffer, every night I close my eyes and—

Kendra, outwardly: I cast vicious mockery.

[tuiliel]

I get the 'water is East, earth is West' thing! Where I live, we are the most eastern point before the ocean starts, but to our west is a mountain region that has a mountain cultural heritage site. Sometimes, witch spaces can often ignore that people live in different regions, and it sometimes feels excluding or shortsighted because of it.

Right! And like, here most of our weather comes from the northeast and south is warmer, so I'd do North - Air and South - Fire, but South - Fire would probably not make sense some places in the southern hemisphere!

I was saying this to a friend earlier and she was like, some people just want to learn rules instead of getting to know their own region, and that's honestly one of my biggest criticisms of modern witchcraft. People talk a lot about adapting their practices to their needs, but not a lot of people really ground themselves in their local ecosystem. And yeah I'm a hedgewitch and an animist and I do a lot of folk magic and spirit work so I'm obviously biased in favor of all those things, but like. Is it so strange to think that your location matters??

I didn't leave one orthodoxy-based religion just to get involved with another, I'm happy to learn how other people and other traditions do things, but it's got to make sense to me.

And nobody I've met locally has a good argument against Ocean-Water-East and Mountains-Earth-West besides "well that's not what I was taught".

Like??? How can you even do magic if you don't understand the whys and hows??? I certainly could not manage half of what I do if I were not in communion with my local ecosystem.

[catzgam3rz]

I would like to thank the Witch Craft SMP for gifting me a reason to draw Ihascupquake fanart in the year of our lord 2023

[althaeaofficinalis]

girl. you came in here and immediately started using mind control and illusion magic to torment people in their dreams, manipulate people into killing people, manipulate someone into your arms, and to take away people's free will. yeah idk that's gonna make people think you're bad

[aolyxe]

I wanted to practice creating 3D models a little more... Like, I've tried to do something like this before, if anyone remembers... AND I CREATED MAJORIKA 3D

Look at this stupid magical frog............. Uh i hope it looks not so bad

I also did this little moment aeee... I decided to make her reach for the magic sphere, this greedy and stingy witch

Um

[lokiinmediasideblog]

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[stardust948]

People Like Us sequel set 10 years later where a young Izumi is left for dead in the Forbidden Forest, assuming the monsters that dwell there would finish her off. Instead, she's adopted by the Blood Witch and her dragon husband.

[lunarharp]

tsukigumi..

[merlindotpdf]

fuck everyone who was ever mean to heather donahue she did not deserve that shit

[im2tired4usernames]

Ugh I was excited for today until I found out I'd have to spend it with people that actively make me hate being alive hate the future and drain me off all energy physically mentally spiritually like a vampire I can't stand to be around her she is the definition of stupidity and even then that's generous as fuck this bitch has filled her brain with so much garbage I watch her brain cells die at alarming rates every single time she uses her vocal cords her giggles make me want to jam a sewing needle into my ear repeatedly so I can never have to hear it again its a friendly reminder that my parents decisions this time my dad's constantly makes me want to die

[vaniliens]

niaaa who are your faves from umineko? 👀

Wh. Where do i even begin theyre all Really good, ,,,, theres so much to analyze with most of them even for the ones who dont have much depth,,, id have to say my top faves are Beatrice, the culprit, Ange, and Maria probably,,,,,?? I just think they're neat 🫶🫶🫶 Beato & Ange especially‼️

[tuiliel]

Randomly vague blogging here because I'm still thinking about it...

I understand that people have different associations for the elements I really do but I saw a post in a regional witchy fb group that had polls for some different options and like...

If you live between the Atlantic Ocean and the Appalachian mountains, less than two hours from each of them, Water is fucking EAST, and Earth is fucking WEST.

That wasn't even an OPTION on the damn poll!

Why do people not look to their own land. Smdh.