#to an audience that absolutely cannot accept the comprehension she’s anything but saint Glinda. she’s allowed to say ‘I was flawed and you | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

godblooded · 6 days ago

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the truest tragedy of wicked is that elphaba picks fiyero for the lion cub thing and it makes zero fucking sense except heteronormativity so pervasive it exists in OZ???

#ooc. o kaptain.#[glinda upset she doesn’t pick her and girl you have every right. because WHY doesn’t she pick you?? girl can’t even tell you. idk. I never #k. it makes no sense to me every single time I see it. other than the gravitational pull toward a hot guy. which is funny because I LOOOOOVE #book yero. it’s musical yero i hate on. but largely that’s because… his development to me feels unearned as fuck and a lot of the time his #traits make me go ?????? like the film added him talking to his Horse to finally give the lion cub scene a reason to exist in a semi logical #way. otherwise fiyero just randomly decides vigilantism is The Way for no good reason. but also. WHY doesn’t she just… pick glinda??? they #HAVE enough prior history it wouldn’t be a poor choice. she’s learned she can trust her by then. and that’s why the tragedy of wicked is #that in reality glinda is Not That Girl. I have a lot of feelings about how this is a narrative told BY glinda so SHE can always be read as #SOME central focus. it might not be the protagonist but she becomes the frequent catalyst pleasant in underlying ways. subtextual importance #placed there BY her to convey a store she cannot tell in barefaced words. it’s a deeply queer coded lament to a romance that could’ve been #and instead died before it could be. but we’re only sitting squarely in the unrequited camp glinda sees from. (and it’s not even unrequited #it’s just that she FEELS that way) and so we’re also experiencing her feeling of rejection. which for glinda is a disportionate and insane #concept. she is never rejected. she states outright no one has ever told her no. but it’s crazed to me that over and over she not only #allows elphie to deny her but relishes in how she pushes back against her. Glinda’s relationship with elphie is so much more than romance #and so much more than friendship and that’s why for good means everything. it’s the only time glinda can express the way she’s been changed #to an audience that absolutely cannot accept the comprehension she’s anything but saint Glinda. she’s allowed to say ‘I was flawed and you #made me better’ and have it received in kind. THATS what love is. walking away with the understanding you’ve touched the other positively a #and they will always hold that in their hearts. ‘for good’ is v important because ‘who can say if I’ve been changed for the better?’ the #entire song is about NOT how they’ve been changed FOR THE BETTER by the other but have been changed FOR GOOD as in PERMANENTLY. no matter #what choice either of them make— elphaba particularly since she chooses yero (still not forgiving you) — because they have been changed FOR #GOOD. PERMANENTLY. A HANDPRINT ON ONE ANOTHER’S HEARTS. I’ve been nauseated about this ship for the same amount of years as it takes to #drink legally. I have been sitting on these thoughts for TWENTY ONE FUCKING YEARS. ELPHABA PICKING YERO MAKES. NO. SENSE. EXCEPT IT DOES.#AND THAT’S THE TRAGEDY. BECAUSE GLINDA WOULD’VE PICKED ELPHABA.]

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