#the wicked witch of the west

[mint-chocolate-flakes]

Is Glinda crazy enough to accidentally magically enslave a whole town to live out her fantasy with her dead wife best friend, while manipulating everyone but also being in denial the whole time?she’s just a girl 💗

I was rewatching Wandavision don’t mind me. I only drew them from episode 1-3 cuz it gets lore complicated 💔

I FORGOT ELPHIE’S FRECKLES ☹️

[tayswife]

i feel like this is the first exact moment glinda fell in love with elphaba. she really saw her beauty right here and you can just tell by glinda’s face that she suddenly didn’t care about what anyone thought; she just wanted elphie.

[blackhart43]

[sakurabraches]

Since ppl really like my endnotes for Back For You and I thought of a few I didn’t end up using I thought I’d post them here. Here’s the link for the latest chapter btw

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62219734/chapters/161960068

[lovebeatriceplz]

Now let's pretend it's Galinda and Elphaba

[sailorscout93]

Reblogging again to add…. Is this meant to be like Cynthia is “like a handprint on her heart?”

considering this a soft launch

[thephantomofanastasia]

Really cool wicked fanart by APOLAR on Instagram - apolar.arch their work is incredible. Check their page out!

https://www.instagram.com/apolar.arch/profilecard/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

[tampire]

Queer Moments of Life and Death

[nottobehornyonthemain]

The Wicked musical, for a 2003 liberal fantasy that wants to deal with racism without actually having to talk about racism in our world today, is actually pretty interesting in the ways in which it functions as a form of gay and racial allegory that very much does not treat those two things as if they’re the same issue, which a lot of “you’ve been different your whole life and everyone has always hated you for it” type stories at the time, and a bunch to this day, are guilty of, so that they don’t actually have to get into anything more specific.

Elphaba has been scorned and tormented ever since the literal second of her birth for something she cannot change or hide. She’s from a wealthy background, but doesn’t play nice with others. She has an absurd amount of talent, but that only serves to make her more of a target, as she is only seen as someone of worth when she can do something for more powerful people around her. Her otherness is only forgivable when she is being exemplary, because being just as good as everyone else is not good enough when you’re different. Elphaba can’t hide, but she also doesn’t really have to cover up what Glinda was to her. She loses nothing if everyone knows that Glinda was kind to her, or that she was the one to insist Glinda be allowed to learn magic. She has significantly more experience with marginalization, even as the daughter of a prominent government official, than Glinda does, and it changes the way she interacts with the world.

Glinda is rich, blonde, charismatic, and gets her way always. She’s not the most talented, but she’s not uniquely restricted or handicapped in anyway whatsoever. She’s privileged, and the only thing she ever does that’s out of line is care about the wrong person. Glinda can, and does, hide that thing that makes her different. The thing that makes her stand out from the rest of Oz is something that she can ignore in order to make herself look better. Yes, she’ll be alone and unhappy, but she has her job, and her popularity, and she can have everything she’s ever wanted. Because, regardless of whether you think it’s romantic or platonic, Glinda is closeted. Her feelings about Elphaba leave her to mourn alone in a crowd of celebrating people.

[ravenaohridska]

I love Fiyero so much

What do you mean he always saw beauty in Elphaba?

What do you mean he said she didn't need to be galindified???

What do you mean he saw life as pointless until Elphaba comes into his???

What do you mean he was always rebellious but never in a really meaningful way until Elphaba gives him courage????

What do you mean he cared about the animals because she cared and jump into action the moment he had an opportunity???

What do you mean he stayed loyal to his girlfriend at the time but also make sure to demonstrate how much he appreciates Elphie and was proud of her going to make her dream come true?

What do you mean he heard Madam Morrible speech and didn't believe a single word despite not even had been there to really know?????

What do you mean he immediately jumps on his horse and ride from Shiz to Emerald City IN A HEARTBEAT??? Just to find her!!!

And when he learns she ran away, he stayed and play pretend for FIVE YEARS just to have a single chance to reach her????

Just to run away WITH her????

And then give himself up to the government he betrayed just to save her once again????

And she was the person who made him remember who he was after the scarecrow transformation????

And he still loves her and didn't judge her for the way she tried to save his life???

Not ONCE did he thought she was wicked??????

Damn

[nobodysdaydreams]

Haven’t seen the new Wicked movie yet, but I am forever impressed by the fact that someone saw the “Wizard of Oz” and was like:

“Hm. Yes. I see. Okay. The wicked witch and that scarecrow? They’re in love for sure.”

“The witch who sets him on fire?”

“It’s a complicated situation.”

[waterlilyspad]

So there was a line....in the original wizard of OZ....where the witch threatened to use the scarecrow to stuff her bed with his straw......

ELPHBA WAS OVULAATTINGGG THAT WEEEK GYAD DAMMNN‼️‼️‼️‼️✋️✋️😭😭😭

[tayswife]

i was always like why do i relate so strongly to glinda and then someone pointed out that’s she probably autistic and im like…oh…so that’s why! and then i did like a whole character analysis…

☆ her hyperfixation on the color pink & beauty in general

☆ masking to seem perfect around everyone and then unmasking around elphie who she’s comfy around & being a little silly weirdo

☆ her lack of personal space & always inserting herself in things (and her occasional lack of realizing people aren’t okay with something she’s doing aka elphie in popular)

☆ “some of us still tend to favor form over content” - dr dillamond to glinda about her schoolwork. fixating on the way her work looks rather than the work itself

☆ getting so distracted by literally everything that she thinks is cute or fun

[blackhart43]

[sakurabraches]

thinking about the significance of yellow in wicked and how it represents broken/unobtainable dreams

in "the wizard and i," when elphie runs out into the field (which is a tan/goldish color) there are some shots where she's surrounded by yellow butterflies. the song itself being about her dream of being accepted and celebrated, which obviously doesn't go as planned

and then in the shot of glinda walking down the aisle from the part ii footage we have, she's also surrounded by yellow butterflies. and ofc, her plans of marrying fiyero don't come to fruition because he runs off with elphaba

and then there's the yellow brick road itself, which leads right to the emerald city, to a wizard that has no real power. this has always been a symbol of broken promises, even dating back to the l frank baum books, when it was a metaphor for the gold standard and early 20th century monetary policy (look it up lmao)

[txicyuri]

what if you were a comphet LESBIAN going to COLLEGE and your roommate was GREEN and you sung about LOATHING her for eternity only to BEFRIEND her after giving her an ugly HAT and your BOYFRIEND falls in love with her but then she KISSES you after singing about DEFYING GRAVITY