#gregory macguire

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Jonathan Bailey and Gregory Macguire at the Wicked Premiere in Los Angeles (November 9, 2024)

[the-lost-get-loud]

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🧹 When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked challenges all our preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil.

❓What are your thoughts on the trailer for the new Wicked adaptation?

💜 Thank you to @gregorymaguire and @williammorrowbooks for these fresh copies of the Wicked series. This gorgeous set comes out on October 1, 2024! It includes:

🧹 Wicked 🧹 Son of a Witch 🧹 A Lion Among Men 🧹 Out of Oz

[diamondnokouzai]

christianity? you know they made that up for jesus christ superstar and last days of judas iscariot, right?

[looselipssinkships-x]

Run longways to the gym!

- helena - my chemical romance

- the phoenix - fall out boy

- bad side of 25 - patrick stump

Key gym songs

- america's suitehearts (fall out boy) as i was zoning out between sets on the hip adductor machine it brought me back ngl v good song

- death valley into run dry into hold me like a grudge the shuffle gods have shown favor on us tonight

Run home <3

- halloween - noah kahan

- (first verse and chorus of) love from the other side - fall out boy

[musashi]

I love gregory Macguire. He literally said I'm going to make my AU Fanfiction everyone else's problem

[livingdeadmlm]

Master list Requests:Open!

Fluff🤍

Nsfw🩶

Smut 🖤

headcannon format 🕸️

Oneshot format🌾

Kinktober 2023🪨

Kinktober 2024🪻

Characters with no links have no fics as of 12/15/2024

Also this is in no way every fic I have written as I went crazy when I made this blog so most Jojo fics are lost to time (and not good)

Red Dead Redemption

Arthur Morgan

Low Honor Morgan Priest Reader 🩶🖤🪻🌾

Werewolf Morgan HCs 🕸️

John Marston

Javier Escuella

Voyeurism🩶🖤🪻🌾

Charles Smith

Dutch Van der Linde

Kieran Duffy

Sean MacGuire

Obey me!

Lucifer

Mammon

Pet Play🩶🖤🪻🌾

Tail Play🩶🖤🪨🌾

Leviathan

Diavolo

Breast Worshipping 🩶🖤🪻🌾

Solomon

Barbatos

Simeon

Asmodeus

Beelzebub

Belphegor

House MD

Gregory House

James Wilson

Robert Chase

Eric Forman

Mouthwashing

Captain Curly

Daisuke

Age Gap🩶🪻🌾

Metalocalypse

Nathan explosion

Table Sex🩶🖤🪻🌾

Pickles the drummer

Toki Wartooth

Charles offdensen

Blood Play🩶🪻🌾

Skwisgaar Skwigelf

Yandere Skwisgaar 🖤🌾

Dethklok

Nudes with Dethklok🩶🖤🪻🕸️🌾

Doing their Makeup before a Show🤍🕸️

After a Long Tour🤍🕸️

Breaking Bad/Better call Saul

Saul Goodman

General Dating HCs🤍🩶🕸️

Fake Dating to Lovers🤍🩶🌾

Lingerie 🩶🖤🪻🌾

Cuddle HC's 🤍🌾

Jessie Pinkman

Nacho Varga

Lalo Salamanca

Mortal Kombat

Kung Lao

Dating HCs 🤍🩶🕸️

Face Sitting🩶🖤🌾🕸️

Johnny cage

Face Sitting🩶🖤🪻🌾

Kenshi Takahashi

Reptile/Syzoth

Radian

Liu Kang

Hellsing

Alucard

American Psycho

Patrick Bateman

Creampie 🩶🖤🪨🌾

Complimenting his beauty

Working with Patrick

Big Businessman Reader

Fight club

Jack/ The narrator

Tyler Durden

Dating HCs 🕸️🩶

Scott pilgrim vs the world/takes off

Scott Pilgrim

Wallace Wells

Lucas Lee

Todd Ingran

Nu Carnival

Eiden

Aster

Morvay

Yakumo

Edmond

Quincy

Kuya

Garu

Blade

Dante

Rei

Other

Oral Fixation Bruce Banner 🩶🪻🌾

Vampire Midas Fortnite🩶🪻🌾

Hol Horse 🌾

Mike Schmidt with an Insomniac Reader🌾

Monster Fucking with Postal Dude🩶🖤🪨🌾

Ryo Asuka with Affectionate Devilman 🤍🕸️

Clingy Reader with Gyro Zeppeli 🌾

Hugging Miles Edgeworth🕸️🤍🌾

Akira Fudo with a himbo bf

[dhaaruni]

I read Wicked by Gregory Macguire in the 6th grade, and I didn't really enjoy it but it was fine and I was not deeply traumatized by it contrary to what the Internet thinks about kids reading "age inappropriate" books lol.

Don't get me wrong, I was too young for the book in that I didn't especially enjoy it but I think that on the whole, people are way too pearl clutching about what kids read and not nearly pearl clutching enough about what they watch.

[wutheringheightsfilm]

okay people in my phone help me out

[mariedemedicis]

No one tagged me this time but I wanted to do a more fiction focused set of 9 for 2025 too.

Fiction

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Macguire

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Hawk of May by Gillian Bradshaw

Life Mask by Emma Donoghue

The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett

The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell

Non-fiction

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

Memoir

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

tagging @nobodysuspectsthebutterfly, @ranichi17, @becauseforoncethisisme, @mrsjadecurtiss, @ginger-grimm, and if anyone else would like to do this, consider yourself tagged!

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Characters I Write For

Call of Duty

Kyle Garrick

John MacTavish

John Price

Simon Riley

Farah Karim

Russel Adler

Criminal Minds

Aaron Hotchner

Emily Prentiss

Spencer Reid

Jennifer Jareau

Derek Morgan

Harry Potter

Harry Potter

Draco Malfoy

James Potter

Remus Lupin

Sirius Black

Regulus Black

Fred Weasley

Tom Riddle

Ominis Guant

Sebastian Sallow

Phineas Black

House

Gregory House

James Wilson

Marvel

Bucky Barnes

Natasha Romanoff

young!Erik Lehnsherr

young!Charles Xavier

James ‘Wolverine’ Howlett

Yelena Belova

TASM!Peter Parker

NCIS

Leroy Jethro Gibbs

Ziva David

Abby Sciuto

Caitlyn Todd

Red Dead Redemption 2

Charles Smith

Javier Escuella

Arthur Morgan

Sean MacGuire

Sadie Adler

Stranger Things

Robin Buckley (female reader ONLY)

Steve Harrington

Eddie Munson

The Last of Us

Joel Miller

Twilight

Carlisle Cullen

[fairytale-poll]

ROUND 1D, MATCH 10 OUT OF 16!

Propaganda Under the Cut:

Clara:

In Gregory Macguire's retelling and perspective flip of Cinderella, Clara initially comes off as one would probably write a Cinderella as told by one of her stepsisters. She's a bit vapid, spoiled, and a little delusional, believing that she's a changeling after being kidnapped by water spirits at birth. She's the one who gives herself the Cinderella nickname after sulking by the fire after the death of her mother. The only problem she seems to have, according to Iris, is that she's too beautiful!

That's partially true. Her beauty was both a blessing and a curse. The kidnapping she mentioned happened, but it was not as mystical as she made it out to believe. One of her father's business associated kidnapped Clara while she was out ice skating and locked her in a windmill until her family could pay the ransom fee (which was half of their riches). This lead to her being a bit antisocial. Her mother kept her inside of the house out of her safety, and it was a habit Clara kept after her death. Clara matures over time and finds herself to be genuinely befriend her two stepsisters. She takes on the role of the servant and the household chores so Iris (the viewpoint character and one of her stepsisters) could pursue her interests in painting without overshadowing her.

Ella:

so this is a discworld story, and in discworld stories are sort of parasitic life forms that like to happen over and over. they can be harnessed, with enough magic. this is what’s happening to ella saturday, who is playing the parts of both cinderella and the frog princess. her evil fairy godmother (you get two, an evil one and a good one, though her evil one is under the impression that she’s the good one) has taken over the city, and is forcing everyone into fairytale roles under the threat of execution if they’re not quite archetypal enough. she thinks this will make people happy. ella, on account of being the dead  barons daughter, has gotten the role of princess. so she’s being kept in a house with two snakes who have been turned into human women, and is being forced to go to the ball, where she is expected to dance with the duc, who is a frog turned into a human, and kiss him to solidify the spell. she very much does not want to do any of this, but fortunately she’s got that other fairy godmother! who is brand new, on account of the last one died, and has no idea what she’s doing. but it all turns out ok in the end, and the stories stop (for a given value) and she’s the baroness now a they all live, if not happily or ever after, then normally, and for a time

[bdzonthareel]

Wicked part one

So here we go again, another Broadway to Hollywood adaptation. If you have been following the blog long enough, you know that I have some strong opinions and that goes double for anything theatre related. It’s a special interest of mine and one I take very seriously as there is no shortage of misfires in this subgenre of movie musicals; however, that doesn’t mean every single was a faceplant, look no further than the works Lin Manuel Miranda with the adaptation of his first show In The Heights, and his directorial debut with Tick Tick Boom. It is possible to do the source material justice, which is why I was trepidatious about Wicked, so let me spin you a yarn about my experience with part 1.

For the uninitiated, Wicked is an adaptation of author Gregory MacGuire’s first novel in a 4-book series that reimagines the lore of the Wicked witch of the west (who given the name Elphaba, a nod to Oz creator L. Frank Baum). The musical itself reimagines the book significantly as well, focusing on the relationship Elphaba and Glinda the good witch of the North, who are both college roommates and eventually best friends.

So if you’re familiar with the source material, then you’re going to nitpick quite a bit, I mean with a nearly 3 hour run time how could you not? A handful of scenes ran long in the tooth and the padding was painfully obvious, but it didn’t really hurt the end product.

And allow me to put my fan boy goggles on, and what a product it was! I was mesmerized by stunning visuals that made each and every scene come alive! Even that darkest forests felt alive, which is fitting for the wonderful land of Oz. Many of the set pieces felt like they cast members and they felt like they had their own stories to tell, much like how a theatre actor has to make the characters which they play their own.

From the costumes to the props, they all excel at visual storytelling.

Casting was filled with obvious choices such as Cynthia Erivo, Arianna Grande and Jeff Goldblum, and unexpected casting such as Michelle Yeoh… who I had no idea could sing.

Yeoh’s gift for playing both graceful and stoic characters, really shine as the intimidatingly strict Madam Morribel.

Jeff Goldblum was a pique as the Wizard.

Fiyero is one of my dream roles, and Jonathan Bailey of Bridgerton fame, encapsulates why I love the character with his natural charm and swagger. He had many in his numbers questioning their sexuality (and maybe a few audience members...)

Ethan Slater was a lovable simp as the pathetically lovestruck yet kindhearted munchkin Boq.

Marissa Bode was delightful as the tragically beautiful Nessarose, and as I applaud Universal for casting an actual disabled actress for the role as many know how I am a huge champion for representation.

And of our leading ladies own these roles; the outspoken and at times controversial Cynthia Erivo put every ounce of talent into the role of Elphaba, being Broadway Royalty I would expect no less. Grande, who I think is an amazing comedic actress channel her Cat from Victorious/Sam & Cat into the role of Galinda/Glinda, however there were instances where it felt like she was trying to impersonate the original actress to play Galinda, Kristin Chenoweth. But they worked brilliantly as a duo and their chemistry bled over into real life as they became thick as thieves after filming.

And what’s a musical without dancing? Because OH MY GOD was that dance choreography legendary! I was in love and if I had paid for the screening it would more than make up for the abhorrent prices of movie tickets! And besides, this is the filmmakers’ style.

And of course, the most important ingredient being the music, every song is here with little extra, and I am delighted by this fact because adaptations tend to cut songs, characters, etc. To get the full affect I highly recommend watching in IMAX or whatever equivalent your theater has.

This shouldn’t have worked, but Director Jon M. Chu a man who has dance coursing through his veins was determined to bring the modern legend of theatre to life, and this goes for the set pieces, performances and so on. I love his work and if part two is anything like this, it could be his magnum opus.

It won't change anyone's minds about musicals, but for people like me who had to fight the urge to sing out loud, you are going to have a Wicked good time! (I'm sorry)

I give Wicked (part one a 4 out of 5)

[diamondnokouzai]

oh elphaba you terrible thing. it looks wonderful on you.

[i-live-inyourwalls]

just finished wicked. man fuck you gregory macguire i’m praying on ur downfall

[alsopurp]

New sounds ✨

REFERENTIAL��rings in the new year with a 2 parter on the latest film adaptation of Act 1 of Wicked, just in time for the digital release!

For the musical nerds who'd find themselves awake at 2 am listening to Elphaba and Glinda riff and high note compilations

PART 1

Wicked - 'The Music'

Welcome back to the ‘Session of The Witch’!

[an ongoing miniseries of episodes diving into the resurgence of witches in pop culture fiction and their thematic relationship to this moment in feminism, womanhood, queerness, misogynoir (and musicals!]

I’m joined by returning guest Miss Sundi to talk about the 20 year history Wicked the musical and its most recent film adaptation! 

Directed by Jon M. Chu, ‘Wicked: Part 1’ is a film adaptation starring Cynthia Erivo as Elphabaand Ariana Grande as Glinda..

The original musical featured music and lyrics by Stephan Schwartz, book by Winnie Holzmanand starred Idina Menzel as Elphaba and Kristin Chenoweth as Glinda. The musical itself was an adaptation of Gregory Macguire’s 1995 revisionist retelling of L. Frank Baum’s Wicked Witch of the West character (renamed Elphaba in tribute) from 1900’s Wonderful Wizard of Oz children’s novel. 

Part 1 - 'The Music'

We recap of the story of Act 1 + a music commentary delving into the music of the musical track by track and note by note!

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A recap

Mother Schwartz

The Glinda and Elphaba binary

Motifs

Glinda's double speak

Optional notes

Making Good

Jonathan Bailey is thriving

Back phrasing

High stamina 'I want' songs

LAR

Sharon D. Clarke

Fresher's week at Shiz

The Mics are on

Nessa Um Nessa

Madame Morrible's DBS

Men singing

Sopranos and Belters

BALLGOWN!

Mindful riffing

Lesbianism

Colours('Colors')

Musical Lesbianism

[Part 2 - 'The Movie'

A conversation about the history of the book, the shows musical origins and more of our thoughts on the recent film adaptation.]

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This one is for the musical nerds who found themselves awake at 2 am listening to Elphaba and Glinda high note compilations.

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Music by PamperedFists & Anzahlung.

All videos edited by Victor Alexander.

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