#gelphie fic idea

[gliyerabaa]

Oooo how about prompt 4 of the fluff list for gelphie??? 🙏😌

4. “What are you doing up?” “My personal heater went away.” 

okay i tried writing this like. five times. and no idea i had stuck with me. but then this idea came out of left fucking field.

just bear with me. this au I've crafted for this prompt is not everyone.

imagine, if you will, some world where gelphie can have biological kids. whether it be through traditional means (amab enby elphaba) or IVF or maybe strange magical pregnancy. this fic explores that premise.

lots of people have Very Strong Opinions on the idea of gelphie as parents but like. just indulge me on this. i dont know what canon this is supposed to take place in so please dont ask!!

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Glinda stirred awake, she'd been sleeping so restlessly all night. Pregnancy hadn't been nearly as bad as she'd expected in most aspects. Her bouts of morning sickness had been brief and relatively bearable, her cravings had been all within the realm of Elphie's culinary capabilities, and oh, her sweet dear Elphaba had been so incredibly supportive every step of the way. Maybe that's what had made the experience so pleasant thus far, having such an attentive and loving partner...

Still, no amount of doting could fix her sleeplessness, and she wriggled free from her sleeping partner's embrace to take a quick stroll to the bathroom. She stood up and stretched, realizing she'd need to hurry to the toilet-- the damn baby had situated herself (Glinda was dead certain that it was a girl) right atop her bladder in a manner that was most uncomfortable.

After relieving herself, Glinda took a moment to simply marvel at herself in the mirror. She was six months along now, and had the belly to prove it, complete with stretch marks that her younger self would have despised. But now, she found them almost endearing, a telltale sign of the love and commitment between her and Elphie, manifesting itself in the form of a new human life.

With a hand on her stomach, she spoke quietly.

"You're gonna have such an amazing life, little one. Your auntie Nessarose can't wait to meet you. She'll be your only real aunt, but Elphie and I have agreed to give the boys honorary uncle-hood. You'll have a blast with your Uncle Fiyero's kids, they're all so sweet. And Crope and Tibbs are thinking of adopting once you're born, it'll be like you have a sibling of your own, someone to grow up alongside."

Glinda gasped as the baby kicked. She looked up to see Elphaba standing in the doorway, smiling sleepily.

"And have I mentioned," Glinda said to her stomach again, "That you have the most beautiful, amazing parent in the world?"

Elphaba grinned, then knelt to the ground, pressing a kiss to Glinda's belly. "Hello, my son." (Elphaba was insistent that they'd be having a boy, a rather bold claim for someone who defied conventional gender standards.) They stood up and pecked a kiss to Glinda's lips, "And hello, my sweet."

"What're you doing up?" Glinda asked with a yawn.

"My personal heater went away." Elphaba said, pressing a kiss to Glinda's forehead, "I swear, carrying our son has made you so much warmer, literally."

"What can I say?" Glinda smiled, brushing off Elphaba's insistance that they were to have a boy, "Making an entire human is a lot of work, generates a lot of heat. Feel her, she's kicking!"

Elphaba placed a gentle hand on Glinda's abdomen, smiling as they felt the baby move slightly.

"I didn't just come here to find my beautiful space heater of a wife, you know." Elphaba said, "I came to make sure you were alright."

"I'm doing fine." Glinda answered, taking Elphaba's hand, running a thumb over their wedding band, "Baby hasn't been letting me sleep much as of late. So I've been passing time, telling them stories about just how loved they are going to be. By Nessa and my parents and the boys..."

"But by no one more than us." Elphaba said, kissing Glinda sweetly, "I can't imagine the toll this is taking on your body, but you're doing an amazing job and I'm so, so proud of you."

Glinda, who had never taken praise well, blushed. "Please, this is just a natural bodily process. I wouldn't be doing nearly as well as I am without your support and attention, and most of all, your love."

Elphaba grinned, picking up Glinda in a sweet embrace and lifting her to sit on the bathroom counter, kissing her soundly.

"I love you," Glinda whispered as they parted. Elphaba knelt down, placing a kiss on her stomach before getting to work massaging her aching feet, "You are too good to me, my dear."

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Two and a half months later, the baby arrived. A healthy girl, who did not have Elphaba's green skin, but did have their raven hair. The midwife had insisted that she'd never seen a baby born with as much hair as her.

There was the matter of a name, then. Elphaba had been taken aback when Glinda had suggested her middle name be that of their mother, but they warmed up to the idea, and so, surrounded by joyous family and friends, they settled on what they'd agreed to be the perfect name: Indigo Melena Thropp-Upland.

[wickedobsessed101]

When you have a new fic idea that's living as a headcanon, but you could actually make it fully work, but it's a Gelphie, and you'd have to break your decade-long streak of only writing Fiyeraba fics.

[ihrtmichael]

🧊🕸🌰☕️📝 (🤍 !)

thank you lovely !!!!! 🤍🤍

🧊: How do you get over writer's block?

Cry!!! 

JK I don’t cry uhmmmm reading (a real book!) and revisiting my favorite shows and movies helps. Sometimes they spark an idea and (especially if I’m revisiting the source material for the fic I’m writing) helps me get back into those characters headspaces. And also just… focusing on other hobbies. I like sewing and editing and drawing so sometimes I turn to those when I’m stuck. Anything to keep myself creative without beating myself up for not opening the Google Doc!!

🌰: What's something you are working to get better at?

Fluff is so cute but SO HARD FOR ME TO WRITE!!!!!! Something about them being happy and peaceful…. hard for me to hear their voices when I write it and it is terrible my loves deserve to be happy!

☕️: What time of the day do you prefer to write?

I prefer to write at night before bed. Fic still feels so illicit like omg this is a nighttime activity only!! But sometimes if I'm having a slow/boring day, I'll work on a fic in the early afternoon.

📝: Do you prefer planning on a computer or on paper?

On a computer always!! It’s just easier that way. I use Google Docs, so as long as I am logged in and have WIFI I can update from pretty much any device and from wherever in the world I am. Also very good cuz I write my fics on my phone, so it makes it easier for me to run it through Grammarly and post to AO3 on a real computer when I’m ready.

As for planning on paper… I am scared that if I do that, someone will find it and I will have to kill myself and everyone mwah 😘 Y'all aren't getting my Gelphie smut like that no thank you!

🕸: Do you outline? How detailed?

My outlines are really just me word vomiting a huge paragraph in my Google Docs. No bullet points just vibes, but they can get pretty detailed?? I put a screencap under “read more” to show an example cuz IDK how to properly describe

This is how I outlined my proposal fic!

[wickedlyqueer]

5, 14, 15, 18 for fanfic ask?

Aw thanks Carson! :D This got ramble-y, and I won't apologize.

5. What’s a fic idea you’ve had that you will never write?

Hm, there's the Holy Poly fic, but other than that...? Oh, okay I guess this is familiar to you and the people on discord, but recently I had this 1 am brainrot idea where Elphaba is dead, and Glinda is so distraught over it that she crafts an entire D&D map and embues it with magic, so they can both live there. Basically, Elphie doesn't realize they're in a simulation and that they might not even exist since they already died???

And while everybody in the discord was like "THAT'S FUCKED UP! WE'LL SUFFER! WRITE IT!" I had to explain... that I can't.

There's one (1) rule I follow and that's that a fic needs to have a cathartic ending. It can be sad or bittersweet, but I physically and emotionally cannot deal with an Elphaba who find outs that the person they love and care for the most is actively lying to them and has created a universe that isn't even real (!!!). Elphaba, fundamentally, would never ever trust Glinda after learning that. It would go beyond betrayal. It very much gave Glinda all the power and agency over Elphaba and it felt so nefarious and so wrong, that despite the chat hyping me up, I had to stick to my principles and refuse to ever touch the idea.

BUT. As you also know Carson, I did like certain aspects of that idea, so I let the idea sit in my brain for a bit and now that has turned into the multiverse fic, which I am excited about, has a far more expansive world than the other idea ever had, and does not consist that fucked up power balance.

TL;DR If I don't like a fic I let it marinate in my brain until the elements I like & do work find a place in a story I want to write and can envision.

14. If you could see one of your fics adapted into a visual medium, such as comic or film, which fan fic would you pick?

I find adaptations fascinating and I love visual mediums, so for most of my fics I can think of something. But for now let's say Smoke Covers Your Radiating Heart.

It's an 80s AU so I can easily see it be turned into a cheesy & messy & iconic 80s movie, bops and all!

15. How do you come up with titles for your fics/chapters?

Fuck if I know, honestly. I do like my titles to reflect the fic, so I always try to get the main "theme" of the fic somewhere in there. Like Smoke Covers Your Radiating Heart; in itself the title reflects how Glinda and Elphaba have quite some trouble showing how they feel about each other. They're hiding (even though a bit of smoke is never going to hide goddamn radiation (!!!).

But simultaneously there's some silly word association going on. The smoke refers to the amount of smoking that is happening in the fic (and generally in that time period). Radiating was a reference to the Dutch history that I've interwoven in the fic and the anti nuclear weaponry protest that Elphaba organizes. The heart obviously reflects gelphie's love and the "covering" I already explained. Just shake the words in your hand for a lil bit and voila; Smoke Covers Your Radiating Heart.

18. What’s one of your favorite lines you’ve written in a fic?

Oh gosh, this is tough, because I don't really write memorable lines imo? I'm more focused on the scene and dialogue and if it blends together. Not whether I have the perfect sentence that's very quotable. But again, if I have to force myself and choose an answer, I really love this exchange from the Victorian one-shot:

“I don’t care,” Glinda breathed out shakingly. “I want to have and hold you, Elphie.” “Then have me in your dreams, your thoughts, your fantasies. The only place our love is allowed. That’s where you’ll find me.”

Ask me a fanfic question

[lailaliquorice]

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Always You Three - Harry Potter professors, 285k words & 112 comments

Back in 1942, the trio of McGonagall, Pomfrey and Hooch first walked the corridors together, forging friendships that would last for all their lives. Faced with misfired curses, dragon pox, Quidditch-related mayhem and Slytherin's monster, they'll need all of Minerva's quick intelligence, Poppy's incredible knowledge, and Rolanda's reckless daring to get them through their school years in one piece.

(This is not a JKR-friendly fic - step inside for inherently queer characters written by a queer disabled author. Trans lives matter!)

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we’ll find a new place to be from - Umbrella Academy, 8.3k hits

Diego and Vanya had gone for supplies. Klaus had declared himself in need of modern-day takeout, Allison following him hastily when everyone expressed concern over what Klaus’ idea of a gourmet meal might entail. Luther volunteered to be the first to brave the shower. Five, on the other hand, had been bundled into an armchair the second they all fell into the motel room and forbidden from moving on pain of rumours.

Set post-season two, in a crappy motel room with six siblings hiding out from the rest of the world.

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there’s a candle in the window and the kettle’s always on - ATLA Modern University AU, 975 kudos & 172 bookmarks

It was by pure luck that they all fell into becoming housemates.

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[or, Volume I of Adventures in a Five Bedroom House - Zuko learns to let himself be happy]

Fourth Most Kudos

til touchdown brings me back around again - 13th Doctor post s11e5, 499 kudos

She keeps going until everyone else is safe. It’s only then that the Doctor has to let herself fall.

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aka the author is hopping on the bandwagon and taking full advantage of that forgotten ecto-spleen injury.

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Roses - The Musketeers Modern AU oneshot, 749 words

Constance is the owner of a little flower shop, and her lonely Valentines Day takes a turn for the better when a new customer steps through her door.

Oneshot from a prompt that I liked a lot.

And because I’m the author and I’m in charge: the Underappreciated Gems Award

blue blood - Heathers Chansaw fix it fic, 13.5k words

For the first couple of days, Heather slept nearly constantly. Apparently that was something normal and to be expected, but Veronica couldn’t help but keep glancing over her shoulder while she tried to do homework. She looked so small in her sleep. Small like she’d done in her state of near-death. That image would haunt Veronica for the rest of her life.

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In which Veronica acts quicker, Heather's life is saved, recovery is a rough journey, and they have time.

this is erosion - Wicked Gelphie fix it fic, 5k words

Briefly, Glinda was reminded of the first time she’d seen Elphaba bleed, a harmless papercut or something of the sort, back during their Shiz days. Glinda had wondered if the green girl would bleed red, or the golden ichor of the gods.

In which war brings a long-lost casualty to Glinda's window, and a chance to say what she should have long ago. Ask nicely and I might write a sequel.

Tagging: all my old friends from old fandoms who used to write with me <3

[evillordzog]

#forever and delightfully astounding to me#that this story#went from 'incredibly queer story about two girls falling in love while one figures out who she is'#to 'toothless CGI vehicle where some irrelevant stuff happens for a couple hours'#to 'edgy what-if-the-good-guys-were-the-bad-guys fanfic'#and then somehow right back to 'incredibly queer story about two girls falling in love while one figures out who she is'#spectacular incredible showstopping 10/10 no notes

This is the thing I like about fanfic and death of the author and what have you.

I was exposed to the fandom before the book, and the fandom is all this E/G dedicated lovefest that I think in part owes a lot to the chemistry between the leads of the original Broadway production. The book itself is so much darker. Author Gregory Maguire has stated that Gelphie is endgame but deliberately leaves it ambiguous within the actual text to a degree that surprised me for a queer author, even when it comes to that endgame scene. There's some fo-yay! enemies-to-friends style in there during their university days, while Elphaba has an illicit affair with married foreign prince Fiyero whose murder helps shape her into the political rebel that is the Wicked Witch of the West.

I find it strange and fascinating and sad that the musical chose to completely rewrite events and use him as a love wedge to basically shatter Gelphie by having him abandon Galinda for Elphaba, then specifically undo his death alongside Elphaba's for the sake of a 0happy ending and compulsory heterosexuality.

I don't particularly like Fiyero: he's an adulterer, which doesn't sit well with me, and then he's further distanced in a way by the relationship between them is narrated entirely by him so we never share the central character's sense of what it and he mean to her. At least in the book, his part in exploring Elphaba's queerness wasn't destructive (to the main characters).

It strikes me that through the general osmosis of tumbler through which most fandoms have washed through my awareness, that I've never actually seen any fic exploring that. Elphaba's defining bisexuality, the bisexuality the music gave Galinda in replacement of the conjectures of conservative bearding from the books. Hell, even the idea of playing with them as a polycule gone wrong (or right)

"You'll be alright", Elphaba said. <...> She put her face against Glinda's and kissed her. "Hold out, if you can", she murmured, and kissed her again. "Hold out, my sweet."

I'm a little late but happy 20th anniversary to Wicked on Broadway 🩷💚

[duhimright]

what if glinda kept a diary and she wrote about elphie all of the time, even years after post-melting and a servant finds it days after she dies and said servant makes copies of the diary and distributes it anonymously. everyone finds out what really happened and how much glinda loved elphie and they all feel really guilty

[whycantwegivellove]

NOT A QUESTION, BUT THERE’S A 10 (actually 7) THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU GELPHIE EDIT ON TW !!!! u might like it because of your fic !!!

https://twitter.com/g4linda/status/1491611701854158851?t=ku5-vfk6motqY4bfCvZG7w&s=19

OH WOW IM IN LOVE WITH THAT EDIT?? thank you so much for sharing it, i’m glad i’m not the only one who had that idea lmao

[caruliaa]

i just got a very good prinxiety fic idea but its also. incredibly niche. so i might not write it and like. if i do i might not post it but i also feel the need to post almost every fic i write for online validation so like. we will see

[serendipnpipity]

Yes yes yes!! Basically I’ve had the idea for a gelphie fic (from the musical Wicked) living in my head forever and “The Prophecy” on Taylor’s new album plus the dimension/dream hopping idea from this fic and the “I try to picture me without you but I can’t” fic finally gave me the missing pieces to flesh it out. It’s honestly a lot easier for me to write that one bc it’s been bouncing in my brain longer than my phanfic has AND I can fixate on the song feeling to channel the words so hopefully will be done and posting it soon!! My first fic on this new veeeeery phannie-coded ao3 account *not* being about dnp feels a bit like a betrayal lol but it’s ok bc it was inspired by two amazing phanfics anyway 😅

And as far as song recs, my favorites so far (bc the album took a while to marinate in my brain):

1. Florida!!! (Florence + the Machine my beloveddddd)

2. The Prophecy

3. Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?

4. The Albatross

5. The Alchemy

6. I Can Do It With A Broken Heart

7. Guilty as Sin?

8. How Did It End?

9. I Look In People’s Windows

10. But Daddy I Love Him

(And I’ll stop before I rec the whole album. That’s about 1/3 of it and honestly most of the songs I’ve vibed with so far anyway! Enjoy and feel free to lmk what you think bc I’d love to talk about that too 😎)

Hello!! I was busy yesterday but if you're volunteering I will absolutely scream about phanfic with you! So, MAJOR SPOILER WARNING for the fic I wake up to your dream report by The_Blonde!! For whoever reads this lol. Anyway! I loved this fic so much but i have to say the ending threw me for a loop!! I'm specifically talking about how phil choses to save the 1920s dream. I really feel conficted about that decision, but ESPECIALLY SO after phil tells dan that he smashed all the mirrors, which we later find was a lie :00 it feels wierd that he would keep that from dan, and almost a little shady lmao?? i feel like it's strange that phil chose to keep the dream, bc wasn't it kind of established that the dream versions of dan are different than the real dan? So, if phil loves the real dan, why the need to keep the 1920s version too? Yk what I mean? Idek what I mean tbh lol but!! Thank you for hearing out my rant :)))

Hi, Manda!! Yessssssss omg this fic. You brought it up and then I kinda spiraled and no joke started writing a fic last night on the fly inspired by the concept (TTPD and this fic possessed me and now I have yet another project for a fandom that isn’t even *the phandom* that won’t let me rest. Help.)

I honestly have to go back and read it to formulate a real opinion about the 1920s detail!! Hard agree that it’s kinda shady to keep that a secret from real Dan bc if you think about it, that’s the one that should matter most? But the development of each and every one of the dreams was so well-crafted it astounded me back then and now that I’ve recently read it in full.

On the topic of fics, do you have any others that you’ve read lately that you’d rec? This lil rant was so fun, thanks for sharing 🥰

[suchaflurryflurry]

Fic idea: Elphaba, Glinda and Fiyero all being on the run from The Wizard & Morrible and just being in love and poly and overthrowing corrupt governments.

[splish--splash--sploosh]

does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?

Time can change anyone.

AO3

[xdp-jnm]

Gelphie Monster Truck Drivers Au

(This is going to be a mess but I saw a stunt show earlier and wanted to write it down)

So what if Glinda, Elphie and the rest of the charmed circle toured Oz as a stunt show?

I was thinking Glinda and Elphaba could drive Monster trucks, something like the red one for Glinda and the black one for Elphaba. Then I was thinking that Fiyero could do physical work like setting up the cars to be destroyed and driving the tour bus or something along those lines. Maybe Avaric, Pfannee and Shenshen could do pr and advatising with Crope and Tibett as engineers. Then Nessa could be the announcer as she can't physically help and Boq could do something really demestic on the tour bus. I can think of how to fit any others in but it's a new idea so it can be worked on...

[lily-onher-grave]

I just got into Wicked, and I'm obsessed with Gelphie, and I'm so happy to have stumbled upon your fix this early in the game!! Please don't stop writing it, it's just too good!

ahh thank you so much! man that early gelphie obsession is the best. so many new gay feelings. it’s great.

[wickedlyqueer]

heyyyy do you have any multi chapter gelphie fic recs on ao3 that are not a high school or college au?

This was surprisingly hard, between the no-school setting, multi chapter and only on AO3 request. 'Shiz Era' really is the DNA of this fandom lmao.

So forgive me for plugging several of my own fics (im tinyace), bc I do tend to throw gelphie into any setting I like. 😅

Wiretapped Life

101k | Completed | Surveillance State | Mature | tinyace Elphaba has not been seen for almost a decade. Everyone thinks they have died, but not Glinda. She comes up with a plan to find them, and her search unlocks 20 years of memories with (and without) Elphaba. Why exactly is she so desperate to find them? And why now? (Based on a Cold War Germany setting)

Walls of Sanctuary

71k | Completed | Hunchback Inspired | Teen | tinyace Elphaba is used to the quiet in the bell tower of Notre Dame, but the tranquility disappears when Glinda, the new Captain, enters her tiny tower. And the world is all the better and all the worse for it, as the two tumble into the political turmoil that brews within the walls of Emerald City.

And though not multi-chapters, I do have two one-shots that are both over 10k that I think might be the type of fic you're looking for.

rotting corpses lay to rest (where flowers ought to bloom): Mature | 11k | In the Victorian Era, a woman’s power has to linger quietly. That doesn’t stop Elphaba from getting closer to the windowed and beautiful marchioness of Pertha Hills. But the more she gets to know Glinda the deeper she falls in love, and that is a problem… pull a heist on my heart (watch how deep you'll be buried): Explicit | 10k | Vaguely roaring 20s setting with criminal!Elphie and an unhinged Glinda who go heisting. Explicit, though. It's basically p-rn WITH plot so do keep that in mind.

Safe and Sound

55k | Completed | Hunger Games AU | Not Rated (but p sure Teen) | GretchenMaurice Glinda volunteers for glory. Elphaba volunteers for her sister. It only makes sense for Elphaba to kill Glinda on sight when she gets the chance. So what does it mean when she lets the blonde go instead? Hunger Games AU. Gelphie. (One of her oldest fics, but still a good read even if you're not that familiar with Hunger Games).

Expectations

17k | Completed | Modern AU | Teen | show_me_the_universe Elphaba never expected any of this to happen. She never expected to find a chance at love, and to lose it so quickly. Inspired by Hayley Kiyoko's album, Expectations. (unique idea and a good quick read)

Crystal Souls: Heart of Emerald

26k | Incomplete | Mature | show_me_the_universe Basically a fairytale / magical adventure story with both gelphie and gliyeraba. Sadly not complete, but still one of my favorite stories by @gliyerabaa.

And lastly not a fic rec, but a writer rec: MyLittleElphie, whose entire oeuvre (apart from Accidents Will Happen) happens to fit precisely what you're looking for. Multi-chapter fics with well over 350k of words to get lost in. Shoutout to @mylittleelphie for being such a prolific gelphie writer!

That's all that has come to my mind, but if anyone has fics that fit anon's wishes, feel free to add to this list!

[thebreakfastgod]

if the Lord don’t forgive me, i’d still have my baby and my babe would have me 

for @searidings​ and her fic which you can read here 

this layout is inspired by @gelphie​​ and their story The Shame Machine 

my sketch for this image that ended up getting a lot of reworking but i still like a lot 

i finished this fic the other night and it made me cry (a lot) and I’ve always loved the idea of fics having cover art like books. So i hope you like this Faye <3

I’m fairly certain the person who runs Gelphie does not use tumblr anymore but if you do see this i really admire your work and your art is a huge inspiration for me