#it’s rotting my brain

[cupid-roses]

Shuggy au where it’s a Persephone and hades retelling but shanks is Persephone and buggy is hades

[gizkalord]

I love how the structure of the series mirrors Frieren’s own internal journey regarding Himmel—he’s introduced as this guy who dies immediately after we barely get to know him, and you’re kinda like “ok whatever, I guess he’s dead lol.” But then as Frieren reminisces throughout the story and we see the flashbacks, we begin to fall in love and realize what a great and kind person Himmel was alongside Frieren, which makes it feel all the more personal and real to the reader, and allows us to identify and empathize with Frieren intimately. Because we are Frieren, discovering and grieving this amazing person who was gone all too soon.

[hangmanapologist]

Just want you guys to know that I’ve been really stuck on Firefighter!Rhett lately

[literallycogsworth]

I’ve been thinking about what each Batb character would listen to and it’s really bugging me 😭

[wistrea]

thinking about Queen Kira au i need it NOW

[yourtamaki]

Oohh, if you decide to write more zoro x reader where he’s just so intense with his love for reader I’ll eat it all up

i don’t even think i can write him any other way anymore it’s a sickness 😔😔

[softly-sage]

okay i’m sorry but destiel owns the song “skyfall” by adele

[nicomochi9002]

sup skrunkle doodles I’m back with my gooberlicious activities

[indecision-incarnate]

I love reading the same premise over and over again!!

Unfortunately that means I run out of fics with that premise.

THEN I GET TO WRITE/DAYDREAM ABOUT THAT PREMISE!!!!

"youve already written that trope" yesss. i like it a lots. i will be writing it again. 1000 stories of the same trope over and over again for ten million years

[wombrion]

girl with no problems

[badasserywomen]

I ready for my brain to become severly rotted by arcane and caitvi

[nekurothings]

FOCUS!!

[elphabafiyero]

Katebridgertorn is now angelicaziraphale.

[mylittleredgirl]

even if you're not a supernatural fan, if you've been on tumblr long enough you are, like, culturally. like cultural christianity in america except it's the cw's supernatural. you may never have watched an episode or set foot inside the tag but your regular life shuts down on their holidays and all of your world news is delivered through that point of view. something to think about

[sorrelsticks]

Can't wait to replay peak today 🔥🔥🔥

[o-wild-west-wind]

While I’m still a bit bummed that they didn’t go with a more book-aligned POC Fiyero for the Wicked movie, I’ve been thinking (heheh) about how his being white highlights the really interesting foil relationship between him and Glinda (and, in many ways, the audience yourself).

At its core, Wicked is a cautionary tale about propaganda, (literal) scapegoating, and what it means to uphold the status quo. The audience is watching through Glinda’s eyes—it is through her, arguably the most beautifully tragic character of the show, that we learn how lonely life becomes when you forfeit your values in favor of systemic power and likability (“No One Mourns the Wicked” is, in many ways, about HER).

Now, this is where Fiyero’s whiteness can get interesting—if you consider him and Glinda to share roughly equal footing at the beginning in terms of privilege/how much they have to lose (applying our real-world lens of race and power here, where whiteness is the apex), his storyline essentially represents what could have happened if Glinda had made the brave (and arguably wise and loving, if you’re picking up what I’m putting down 👀) choice to go with Elphaba and fight the good fight (this is also why I feel like a queer reading of G&E’s relationship is almost implicit to the story, but I digress).

As the POC/marginalized allegory, Elphaba has much less of a real choice in her curtain-pulled-back turning point. But Fiyero and Glinda—both representing privilege—get to choose. So in Act II, we see the consequences of both the choice to stay (Glinda) and to go (Fiyero). In Fiyero’s case, his ultimate rejection of his own power, privilege, and even beauty leads to immense physical loss—including his own body—but that is then compared to the loss of love, community, and identity that we see Glinda left with by the end. And this brings us to the question that the audience is left grappling with: in an unjust system where loss is inevitable (a.k.a. our own world, as the Wizard himself represents), which of these things are YOU more willing to give up?

It’s important that Glinda is an empathetic character because, in reality, most people are going to be Glindas (obvi this is nuanced among us Elphabas of marginalized identities, but I’d still argue that there’s some level of Glinda in us all)—and it’s important to be rattled by the end of the show when you realize that she is the one who has the sad ending. But it’s also so important that Fiyero is empathetic (which I’m SO glad this movie leaned into)—because he’s ultimately who Glinda—and thus we, as the audience—should have been.

And especially given the state of US politics right now…this is just all more relevant than ever.