#elphaba/g(a)linda

[liongrl321]

must protecc

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cynthia erivo, jonathan bailey & ariana grande via instagram

[munkustance]

Not cats related but literally just got home from watching Wicked and I'm absolutely blown away! And excuse the pun but it was really (wait for it) Wicked!!!

[liongrl321]

this is one of my fav gelphie fanarts, its just so beautiful..

they are so beautiful fr

wow

#repostober Day 20

More Wicked things

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CYNTHIA ERIVO as ELPHABA THROPP and ARIANA GRANDE as G(A)LINDA UPLAND in WICKED (2024)

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Thinking about the scene after the Ozdust where Elphaba and G(a)linda are bonding over secrets and Elphaba tells Glinda the story of Nessa's birth and how she feels it's her fault. It's a genuinely touching moment where Glinda (rightfully) points out that it was the milk flowers' fault and not Elphaba's. But she also stops short of pointing out who actually is ultimately responsible, Elphaba's father who was the one to force her mother to eat the flowers in the first place. I don't know, this might be a bit of a stretch, but I can't help but notice a parallel to how in the climax Glinda keeps urging Elphaba to let the Wizard explain himself despite the fact that he already has and there's really no way to make "deliberately and maliciously scapegoating a certain segment of the population to give himself more control" any better. There's ostensibly some "benefit" to their actions - Governor Thropp trying to prevent another child of his being born green, the Wizard bringing people together - but at the end of the day their actions are objectively wrong. It's just that people either don't or refuse to see it, so those in power keep getting excuses made for them even when there is nothing that can excuse their actions.

[liongrl321]

Gelphie

i love this ship so much (they bring me immense emotional pain)

[katherinemckay]

i think something in wicked that gets overlooked a lot is that g(a)linda is just as academically ambitious as elphaba in the musical. i feel like those 'are you an elphaba or glinda' personality quiz things always frame elphaba as being studious and glinda just wanting to have fun but like. the very first thing glinda does at shiz is introduce herself to madame morrible and remind her about the entrance essay she wrote for the sorcery seminar. she just gets overlooked because she doesn't have the natural talent and book smarts that elphaba does, which is why she has to resort to using her charm and likability to get what she wants. idk i just think glinda and elphaba being established as academic rivals in that first shiz scene is such an interesting part of their early dynamic that isn't explored by the general public as much as it deserves to be

[karatekels]

Where is all of the Daniel as Elphaba, Johnny as G(a)linda fanart I've been expecting?

I THOUGHT YOU PEOPLE WERE ARTISTS!

GET that high kick, pretty boy!

[glorf1ndel]

Pick a Wicked lead if you dare! 😈

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i also haven't seen the movie yet, but fiyero's costumes are basically cultural clothing to replace the brown skin + diamond tattoos winkies have in the book, and he + elphaba + g(a)linda are all rich kids, with him & elphaba also being from politically powerful families - it could very easily be wealth/diplobrat exceptions being made tacitly. and iirc boq was in elphaba's play group as a kid, so class-wise, he's probably in the same boat. elphaba dressing in all black is more about signifying her position in her family as the least favorite kid/her sister's caretaker than a cultural tie or just wealth-flaunting, but her dad either makes her delay college for nessa's sake or only lets her go at all bc nessa got in, so it makes sense he'd have rules about how she presents herself and therefore represents the family/him + the kid he actually loves.

this is good analysis! i am a little bothered that it sounds like the viewer has to extrapolate this on their own to justify the design, rather than the design making organic sense, but I get what you're saying. we will both go to see it and then get coffees afterward to discuss :)

[enbylestat]

Hold Me Too Tight

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Elphaba Thropp/Fiyero Tigelaar Characters: Elphaba Thropp, Fiyero Tigelaar Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Behavior, Bisexuality, Bisexual Male Character, Bisexual Female Character, Intersex, Explicit Sexual Content, Fluff, Happy Ending, Kinktober, Kinktober 2024, Song: As Long As You're Mine (Wicked), Implied/Referenced Cheating, Polyamorous Character, Bisexual Elphaba Thropp, bisexual Fiyero Tigelaar, polyamorous Fiyero Tigelaar, Canon Compliant, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Porn with Feelings, Emerald City (Oz), References to Wicked (The Wicked Years), References to Wicked - Schwartz/Holzman, Inspired by Wicked, Inspired by Roleplay/Roleplay Adaptation, Tumblr Roleplay, Intersex Elphaba thropp, POV Fiyero Tigelaar, Dubious Morality, Terrorism, Implied/Referenced Terrorism, POV Third Person, POV Third Person Limited, Happy Sex, One Shot, Short One Shot, Consensual Somnophilia, Somnophilia, Canon - Book Series: Part 3 of Kinktober2024 (enbylestat's version), Part 2 of The Wicked Years (enbylestat's version). Summary: The happiest moments of Elphaba Thropp's life were firstly those months in the Emerald City with Fiyero Tigelaar and secondly, at Shiz University with G(a)linda Upland, here is a recollection of those months with Fiyero Tigelaar.

@duckprintspress

[thegayraccoon]

"What is this feeling, so sudden, so new. I felt the moment I laid eyes on you."

LOVE!

[gliyerabaa]

Logistics: Elphaba vs. Elphie

So we know in the musical that G(a)linda bestows the nickname 'elphie' relatively early in the show, but how many times does it actually get used in comparison to her given name?

Well, I may or may not have a copy of the libretto, and I may or may not have gone through the entire book and kept a tally of times G(a)linda says Elphaba's name.

Elphaba or Miss Elphaba: 6

Elphie: NO LESS THAN TWENTY-THREE TIMES

ladies is it gay to give your best friend the cutest nickname in the world, and then use it at every given opportunity, even when furious with her?

[littlefabala]

What I think each Wicked character would do in college if it were in our current world:

Elphaba: Natural Sciences

G(a)linda: Architecture

Fyiero: International relations

Boq: Agricultural engineering

Nessie: Art hystory/History (because i read a fic where she was a art student and it made so much sense to me)

Avaric: Sommelier (i know that is not a course, but come on, make sense right?)

Pfanne and Shenshen: pedagogy (If you read Out of Oz, you know why)