#the wizard

[tbfpurflame123]

OH IM IN LOVE WITH THIS

Oh Jeff, Save me Mr. Goldblum

cunty ass wizard

[mellkellyismyhero]

what do you think the wizard's plan was when he offered to degreenify elphaba. he obviously can't do that. if she accepted then was his plan to just teach elphaba self-love or something??

i mean idk what kind of planning skills i was expecting from The Guy Who Accidentally Hot Air Ballooned Himself To A Fantasy World but STILL.

[wickeddisneyprincesses]

[hah-studios]

This is the dumbest ship I've ever shupped

[neo--queen--serenity]

When the Wizard, grasping for straws to get Elphaba on board, reaches around for Glinda, hauls her forward, and awkwardly declares, “you can even bring your…friend…” in a last ditch effort to win her over?? Like queer subtext or no, that man 1000% assumed they were already dating.

[naariel]

The Wizard of Waterdeep

Explicit Version [NSFW]

using the book as censorship is up there with my top 10 ideas imo

[pissed-whizard]

[nobodysdaydreams]

I know that Toto is gonna love the heck out of Elphaba and be growling the second he sees the Wizard. Animal rights activist vs. guy who seems like he’d be scared of puppies. I want to see Toto be Elphaba’s best friend.

In the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy and Toto are kidnapped by the witch, who tries to drown poor Toto, but he escapes to get the others. This time I imagine Elphaba gently taking the dog in her arms and asking him to help lead Fiyero and the others to her. Then she enchants the shoes to give Dorothy a way home, because Elphaba knows the Wizard can’t give that to her whether Dorothy kills her or not, and Dorothy is a lost child who clearly doesn’t want to kill anyone and regrets killing Nessarose (even though it was clearly Morrible).

[wildlyincorrect]

The Wizard: Are you or are you not an enemy of the people?! Glinda: Elphaba: Glinda: That's such an open-ended question, if you think about it. Elphaba: Really depends on the people.

[prplocks]

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[puppetwoman17]

I just get so peeved in fanfics and canon media(COUGH COUGH YOUNG JUSTICE COUGH COUGH) that has the JL basically putting Cap on probation.

This boy was chosen by the Wizard Shazam himself. This boy has the approval of his patrons. How do I know this? Because you damn well know that if Zeus didn’t like him, he wouldn’t still be here.

Also side note it is so hilarious to me how they think they can stop him from being a hero when he really can’t. Like not even if he wants to. This is his literal job. He doesn’t get paid for it, but it is still his job. I don’t know where you got the thought that obstructing the Champion of Magic from doing his civic duties wouldn’t lead to world chaos, but here we are.

Side note 2, this is not me saying I don’t like the fanfics that do this. Big no no. That is not what I’m saying. I love every single fic anyone has ever written for this boy.

Aside from the…questionable stuff.

[ichiwashername-o]

Hi there. I know you're a fan of wicked, and your scarecrow comics are amazing, but, how do you feel about the wizard's? I know the wizard was a conman, but he wasn't the monster portrayed in the musical or film, he was trying to help Oz, something like Oz the Great and Powerful, and the quote "He was a good man, just a terrible wizard". To me, it feels weird making him worse than he was in the source material, and how accepting everyone is of that. But what about you, you prefer him "wicked"?

Oh, this is such an interesting question, because like everything, it's not so black and white, is it?

I believe that The Wizard, whose real name is Oscar, never intended to be a bad man. He was just some simple podunk hick (his own admission) thrown into a position of power and quickly found himself way over his head. He was admired, practically worshipped, and an entire country turned to him to save them from what we can only imagine was some truly desperate times. There was a famine. People were starving and hurting and when you're starving and hurting you become angry, so what do you do when you have such a volatile population looking to you for guidance?

Oscar's approach was undoubtedly wrong, let's get that straight. Blaming the people's plight on the Animals was objectively the wrong thing to do, but I think the song Wonderful illustrates Oscar's thinking brilliantly.

There are few at ease with moral ambiguity-- people don't want nuance. Nuance is hard. Isn't life so much easier when everything is black and white? Bad People cause Bad Things to happen, so blame them. Oscar's a con man through and through--he has experience working in a traveling circus and his whole gig was putting on a show and making people happy. And I genuinely believe he wanted to make the people of Oz happy.

But life is hard and complicated and there are no easy answers. Oscar knows this. And if he can't make the people happy and magically solve all their problems, they'll turn on him and eat him alive. So . . . he does the only thing he can think of, the only thing he can do.

He lies.

He's a performer. He's a con man. He knows how to lie. And he's really, really good at it.

He had good intentions, but you know what they say about good intentions. He wanted to help but did it in the worst way possible--uniting the people with a common enemy. A very effective strategy--just look at what's going on in the political atmosphere today--and I really hope the movie leans into that nuance more. Can you really call yourself a good person if all you do is lie and manipulate people, even if your goals are in the service of "good" and "making people happy?"

Wicked is very clear on that--no. No you can't be. But of course, everyone's a hero in their own story, so Oscar is the hero who saved Oz in her time of need. Even in the original Wizard of Oz, I don't think Oscar was meant to be a genuinely good person, either. Of course Oscar thinks he's a good man--everyone thinks they're a good person because they'll always find a reason to justify their own actions. Oscar still lied to everyone--he lied to Dorothy and her friends, he lied to all of Oz. He doesn't even really give the quartet what they want--he lies about that, too. He gives them meaningless trinkets and sells them the belief that they're real.

And fun fact, the Scarecrow's incorrect reciting of Pythagoras's Theorem was intentionally written wrong to further drive home the point that the Wizard's gifts were bullshit.

In my opinion, Wicked is just leaning harder into the story of the everyman who was corrupted by power and did terrible things, despite his original intentions. It's a much more interesting take, and I really hope they don't make it so simple as him being outright evil. I don't think they will. Because Oscar can be seen as a very effective cautionary tale about how our actions, no matter their intentions, can lead to serious harm if we're not careful.

[oldschoolfrp]

The Wizard, Vol. 1, Issue 1, Feb 1977, the only issue of this independent gaming zine:

The Wizard was a newsletter/fanzine published by the "Pizza Press", a "Division of the Dragon Seekers". The "Dragon Seekers" was a gaming group associated with Lyle's Hobby Shop in Westmont, Chicago area. The periodical had a single issue published in early 1977, featuring an "introduction to Dungeons & Dragons".

[anassemblageofpassions]

The way Elphaba always wholeheartedly lives in truth where everyone else lives in lies. And it is her truth, the fact that her power is true and real and strong, that makes her so coveted, both by the Wizard and morrible for their use, and by glinda and Fiyero for their love for her, and for nessarose some awful, horrible, beautiful combination of the two. Her power is grotesque and beautiful and true and it leaves her incapable of being anything but herself. Her heart and her magic show on her skin for everyone to see, brimming inside and out. She is incapable of bending that self, which is why instead she breaks, and she breaks so hard. Her first and only successful attempt at subterfuge is when she fakes her death. And it is the truth of her life that is only revealed at her death that saves everyone, that forces Glinda to be Good, forces the Wizard to leave. And the lies are still told. But Elphaba never fit in Oz because she could only live in truth, and she dragged Fiyero into her truth so that he could never fit in oz either, both physically and spiritually. Glinda could do the work she never could because Glinda can live in lies. She can fit. Her heart can be true while she masks herself in glitz and glam and platitudes even while her heart brims with love and grief and agony and righteousness.

Elphaba Thropp, conceived and born of such obvious lies that she is only ever able to be true, drags oz into her searing light, into a light that she could never experience. Her fatherhood displays itself on her skin and no one realizes it. She is the emerald city and she is oz and she cannot belong to it. And everyone loses her in the end, she loses a part of herself, loses her soulmate. But she has her truth and she has Fiyero, and they can be broken together, even though she will never be whole again. But she changed oz. For good.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

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