#dr. dillamond

[anassemblageofpassions]

Something I really loved about the wicked movie was how it highlighted how compassionate and self sacrificing Elphaba really is.

She only has her position in the school because of her talent for sorcery, and Morrible is the one who let her in, and still, at a word from nessa, she threatened to quit and potentially lose her position at school, her whole life and her whole future, just to do something nice for galinda, who has treated her like garbage for the entire time that she’s known her.

Elphaba is willing to give up every piece of herself to anyone in need, to anyone who shows her loved ones—and not even herself—a sliver of compassion that she has scarcely experienced. And this is shown in her relationship with glinda, where Glinda gives her an inch and she gives her a mile. She loves so, so deeply and she has experienced so little of it in return. When she finally receives love, she gives with her entire self, and she gives her entire self away to those who are suffering unjustly. Her entire future, her one chance at acceptance by everyone.

She respects Glindas choice not to go with her because she loves her so much. Elphaba can read everyone to a T except for the people that she loves. Give Elphaba a sliver of love and you can do no wrong in her eyes.

Look at how she treats Glinda before she falls in love with her. She becomes blind to her faults the way she is to nessas. The way she is to Madame Morribles until it’s too late.

And that’s what makes her relationship with Fiyero interesting too. She sees who he truly he is and falls in love with him before he gives her love in turn, and even though he has nothing to gain from it, he falls in love with her in turn. He is the one to take the step towards her versus her running to him the way she does with nessa and later Glinda.

And it is after she receives this true love and loses it that she loses herself entirely. On top of everyone else she has lost. She loved wholeheartedly and she gave her self to the world and the world destroyed the people she loved for it. Without her love, there is no Elphaba. No good deed is the ultimate shattering of Elphaba Thropp, and she never recovers after. Even when she discovers Fiyero is alive, she knows she has lost herself because she cannot give anymore of herself than she already has because now that she has experienced true love she cannot lose it. Even if she loses her other true love in the process. Because she does love glinda, maybe even more than she does Fiyero. But it is the last sliver of herself that doesn’t tell Glinda the truth, that sets her on a journey to fix oz. The last remnants of Elphaba Thropp, her last selfless act, even though she is screaming to tell her, to let Glinda know.

Elphaba and glinda end their respective journeys where the other started. Elphaba cannot fight anymore, and Glindas fight has just begun. But both are equally broken. They have lost each other, but Elphaba has gained community with Fiyero while glinda is forever alone, because no one will ever be able to understand the truth that elphaba always knew that she now does. Glinda surrendered the most fulfilling relationship of her life with the most incredible person she had ever met to the man she so desperately clung to, who she had already lost when she made the decision to abandon the woman he loved.

Elphaba never regained herself after fiyeros “death”, after nessas death, after Dr Dillamonds destruction, after Glindas abandonment. She fought to cling to herself through it all, through her entire, miserable life, but in the end, she lost. She realized that she as herself could do no good in the world, not for the animals, not for her loved ones, not for love, so what was the point of it all? So she started her suicide campaign to get her sisters/mothers shoes back even at the cost of an innocents life, when the whole time she was supposed to be fighting for innocents. I believe she would have driven herself to her actual death if not for fiyeros note.

His survival was the only thing she had left to cling to. Because even with all the love and forgiveness she espoused and truly believed, whatever glinda did by then would never have been enough. Their relationship had been through too much. And that’s the tragedy of it all, isn’t it?

[albaharu]

Under the surface. Behind the scenes

[witchofthemidlands]

didn't think that my second favourite singer from the wicked soundtrack would be peter dinklage but he is the GOAT.

[and-everybody-clapped]

I was watching Smosh play cards against humanity and one of the prompts and answers was: “I do not fight for wealth, I do not fight for glory. I fight for this goat, who is my friend”

IF THAT AIN’T ELPHABA

[suchaflurryflurry]

imaging a scenario where elphaba accidentally calls dr. dillamond “dad”

[randomnessoffiction]

Her companion in the compartment, waking up when the conductor came back through, stretched his heels as he yawned. “Would you be so kind as to reach my ticket, it’s in the overhead,” he said. Galinda stood and found the ticket, aware that the bearded old thing was eyeing her comely figure. “Here you are,” she said, and he answered, “Not to me, dearie, to the conductor. Without opposable thumbs, I have no hope of managing such a tiny piece of cardboard.” — Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

[paige-b-when-1]

Ok, so for my birthday not long ago, I saw the Wicked movie. I don't know much about Wicked but I knew enough to get some of the foreshadowing for part 2. I love the movie so much. I wish me and my party had a sing along theater because I wanted to scream out the songs. I love the characters too, my favorites are Elphaba and Dr. Dillamond.

Hopefully soon, I can get a sing along theater or it comes out on streaming so I can sing the songs as loud as I can and watch with my parents.

[roysexton]

“Why can’t you teach us history instead of harping on the past?” Wicked … the movie (part one)

Wicked. An adjective. A thirty year old book by Gregory Maguire. A twenty year old musical by Stephen Schwartz. A present day marketing/merchandising juggernaut by Universal Pictures. And, oddly enough, the post-2024 presidential election escapist allegorical cautionary tale none of us quite realized we would need. (And here my money would have been on Joker: Folie à Deux to fill that…

[finleyforevermore]

A YEAR AGO TODAY I SAW WICKED!!! 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💜💜💜💜💜🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

[thinenotthee]

other thing i cannot stop thinking about!

i LOVE that the movie does not demonize these college kids for not taking a stand like elphaba does. because while we all know that college kids are more than capable of standing up to societal wrongs (look at the last year, or the last 60 years), sometimes you are also just a scared 18 year old! after the "Animals should be seen and not heard" scene, you get that shot of dr. dillamond headed to his secret Animal meeting, but you can hear the students wishing him a good night. because they know what happened was fucked up! and they're trying to show him some kindness because he literally had a hate crime perpetrated against him earlier that day.

AND! in the scene where dillamond is dragged away, every student has on their face a look of shock and horror. because what else are you supposed to think when the damn military shows up and removes your professor. while i know we all like to think we'd immediately get up and do something like elphaba, the truth is that you'd most likely be in too much shock, especially if you've never seen this kind of violence in person before. elphaba has been subject to some level of this violence her entire life, but most of these shiz kids haven't. and they're scared and don't know what to do!

i don't know, just the conjunction of those two scenes really means something to me. it's honest without being cynical. and it feels especially cruel when we have SEEN that the students at shiz will rally against bullying someone ("what is this feeling?") but when the stakes get so high that there's actual state violence involved? well, sometimes you're just a scared 18 year old.

[notafraidofstopping876]

Okay but when are we going to find out who is playing Doctor Dillamond in the Wicked movie??????

[lesbianelphie]

Wicked + text posts

[azural83]

All those youtube bros calling wicked woke or dei would lose their nonexistent minds over the book

[rivercule]

Hey girl. Did you know that um. In the 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. Elphaba is an avowed atheist but still seeks comfort and safety at the alter of St. Glinda years after parting from her friend of the same name?

[and-everybody-clapped]

Dr. Dillamond is fr so cute

[bumblebee-art-blog]

Did I mention I have Bluesky? (Post is not mine)