#whispersfromthecrypt

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Today I’m thinking about Dorothy waking up in Kansas and believing her Oz adventures were all just a dream

Meanwhile Glinda is still doing damage control left by the Wizard and Madame Morrible while still mourning the love of her life her best friend😢

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Omg PLEASE. I’ve been on tumblr since like 2012 and it is so exhausting seeing the same things recycled over and OVER again😅🤣 like come on. Already been there, seen that, moved tf on.

Being in a long-term fandom really makes me wish we had like, Fandom Supreme Courts, just so that every time the same stupid discourse rears its ugly head for the umpteenth time in ten years, we can just be like, “Actually this argument was settled in the 2006 Fandom Supreme Court ruling in the case of AngelPotter vs. Xx_goth1c-r0se_xX, so everbody can shut up about it now.” Imagine the wank reduction.

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Thinking about how Glinda’s journey teaches her that being the face of Goodness does not always mean doing the right thing. Perceived Good does not always equal Right. Elphaba stood up for what was right, and Oz demonized her for it. You can see that loneliness and pain in Glinda’s face during “No one Mourns the Wicked.”

I’m hoping we see more of this conflict in Ariana during part two’s “Thank Goodness” number.

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Thinking about how “Good Luck, Babe” is the perfect Gelphie song and how thankful I am that edits and art/reels exist for this mashup😭

My poor babies

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Anyone else kinda lowkey maybe ship Fiyero and Boq? 👀

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I went through this in middle school and early high school before I was free to hang out with the group that turned out to be my forever friends. Sometimes you just don’t click and you won’t ever click and I was very lucky I found people who embraced and celebrated the creative baby weeb that I was. I felt safe with them to come out of my shell, and for a socially anxious teen, that meant the world. It breaks my heart to think of those who weren’t so lucky.

People underestimate how much it fucks you up to be subtly excluded as a kid. I would try to talk to my classmates and be met with disinterest or annoyance. The one friend I had, who I clung to and nodded along to his every word, had other friends he liked just as much or more. And his other friends didn’t care for me at all.

I look back at pictures from the time and see how separated I was from them. I remember knowing I was different. I remember posing questions about the world to the girls playing next to me and realizing that they had never asked the same ones to themselves. That the ways we thought couldn’t be more different.

I kept myself amused with my own fanatical stories and musings in my head. I would wander the playground on a circular path, imagining a friend and being sorely disappointed when it didn’t feel as real as I’d hoped.

There was a bubble separating me from everyone else, thin, and nearly invisible, but with a pearly sheen you could catch under the right conditions. I knew it was there, they knew it was there, and it changed me

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Look, I’m just saying if you don’t explain Onslaught as “Professor X and Magneto’s aggressive psychic love child” you’re doing it wrong.

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Seriously is anyone else obsessed with this man or is it just me??

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My Wicked ships in no particular order:

🩷Glinda x Elpheba💚

Glinda x Elpheba x Fiyero OT3

Fiyero x Elpheba

Fiyero x Boq

Nessarose x Boq

Pfannee x Fiyero

Honestly I just kinda ship Fiyero with everyone😂 🙈

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I was in high school during the late 2000s. This was during a time where a lot of people used “gay” and “homo” as casual insults. Tells you something about sensitivity at that time.I had a friend who eventually came out as trans I later years but at the time, no one knew that word, not like it’s known today. There just wasn’t the language for it. I myself as a nonbinary knew there was something different about me, but I never got farther than “I don’t feel like one or the other” because I had no frame of reference. Gender was only taught and spoken of in the binary, at least from what I remember. Sexuality a little less so, but even then concepts like asexuality referred almost exclusively to plants or cells. I can’t tell you how often people I knew poked fun at me for that even as late as 2012.

I did have a friend who years later came out as a trans man but no one in my friend group clued into this back then. At least, not to my knowledge—we wouldn’t have even known where to begin. Granted, I was sheltered and naive and didn’t realize I wasn’t straight myself until much later in life but I wonder…if those terms and knowledge had been more readily available, would I have figured myself out sooner? I really don’t know.

I graduated high school in 99.

There was a student at our school named Wayne.

Wayne was gay. It was obvious. He was unable to stay in the closet even if he wanted to. To make matters worse, he was also Black. From a bullying standpoint, that was not a great combo. Both Black and white students made fun of him relentlessly. He was ostracized from the only community that may have given him protection. Only us theater kids stuck up for him, but not to significant effect.

Wayne was bullied so much that at one point he finally snapped and attacked his bullies with a lunch tray. I was actually seated in perfect line of sight and just sat there chewing my soggy fries in stunned silence. It didn't even seem real as I was witnessing it. The image of him wailing on his main bully as the food on his tray flew off is permanently logged into my long term memory.

The bully he attacked had blood all over his face and went straight to the nurse. Other than superficial cuts, he was not injured.

Before the attack, Wayne went to teachers for help. He went to guidance counselors for help. He went to the principals for help.

He did all of the things you were supposed to do. No one helped him. They wagged a finger at the bullies and warned them to stop.

Wayne's lunch tray melee was the only thing that worked. His bullies stayed far away from him. But a week later Wayne was expelled and the bullies were given no punishment.

So... no.

No one in my school talked about being trans.

Because the only way to survive being openly queer was to bash people with a lunch tray.

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Ughhh I really do ship like everything in Wicked but Gelphie absolutely owns my heart😭😩💚🩷 I’m SO ready for part two.

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So I haven’t been able to watch the new Monster High episodes yet but I have seen a couple of clips. I feel like someone needs to clarify that aromantic and asexual are not the same thing. A lot of the time they do go hand in hand, but asexual means a lack of sexual attraction. Not romance. That is very different and that’s why we have two separate terms. I myself identify as a biromantic ace. Romantically attracted to people but all that dirty stuff can stay far away.

Based on what I have seen, Deuce falls under the aromantic umbrella. Happy with his platonic relationships and having no interest in pursuing romance.

If you want to view Deuce as Aro and Ace, that’s totally within your right, but please clarify when doing so that what was seen in the show is pretty clearly just Aro confirmation. Unless Shae Fontana herself says otherwise, it’s really not helpful to the Ace community if who we are and what we experience keeps getting mixed up.

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Went to see Wicked again and OMG I seriously cannot wait for the second part. I need to hear Cynthia sing “No Good Deed” and I want to see Goldblum’s rendition of “Wonderful.”

Still so many feels rewatching the first part. I forgot how much Wicked Means to me and how dearly I loved it as a child. I still do🩷💚I’m so happy a movie finally exists, two movies soon and both made with such authenticity and care🥹

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As somebody who used to work In the industry (albeit film, not animation) this warms my heart. We need more people in positions of power to understand this.

I remember when I worked in production we would all constantly but half seriously joke that we’d all die at 50, the expectations were so taxing 🫠

Time to change that narrative.

God I love this movie

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I lost touch with Nickelodeon content a long time ago, so I am just now learning that according to Spongebob lore, the Davy Jones who owns the famed Locker--the same one the Flying Dutchman tried to stuff Mr. Krabs into when he died--is just Davy Jones from the Monkees and this is my new favorite thing XDDD

It's so SILLY and so clever and so perfectly Spongebob XDDDD

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Legit can’t stop thinking about how beautifully bittersweet a return to Namek saga could’ve been. Imagine Goku and Bulma talking over how to continue with the human race on the Tuffle planet when they remember Namek has their own set of Dragon Balls. The exhausted excitement about restoring their home world and returning to a place they haven’t been since they were young. Goku would of course be going as GT is primarily his story. I think Bulma should too, or at least volunteer initially. Gohan, still grief-stricken after Piccolo’s death, decides he wants to go as well.

Pan worms her way into going because she’s also the main character and is more familiar with Giru as the Dragon radar. She probably also reminds the adults that Giru needs to be fixed if they’re going to find any Dragon Balls.

I think Trunks offers to go in sort of a “let’s get the gang back together” team spirit. Maybe he convinces Bulma to stay behind and help the now very confused Earth population situate themselves on their new temporary home. She’s also the only one with any real sense and familiarity of alien technology besides him, and shes better suited for this kind of thing than he is.

Then Vegeta volunteers to go, which surprises everyone but Goku. He’s brisk with his words, but this arc would be a chance to explore some of the guilt he feels for Baby’s actions and destruction, and the anger that he was helpless to prevent it. I love GT Vegeta and it would’ve been great to give him a main role in at least one arc that wasn’t “get ruthlessly beat up by the villain.”

I’m not sure what exactly would happen during this arc itself: it would probably be shorter than the others but it would also be pretty cool to return to the planet after all this time and see what’s happened to it. There’s probably a bit of time spent in the ship as well, exploring the after effects of the Earth’s destruction through these five character perspectives (six with Giru.)

Maybe something happened to Namek in the wake of Frieza’s death, another ramification come back to haunt Goku and co. Maybe it’s a chance for some people to make right more wrongs of the past. Maybe some of the Namekians remember Goku, Gohan and Vegeta.

There’s so much potential here for this to have been his (Vegeta’s) arc. Namek is where it started and Baby is where he unwillingly took on the villain role for a final time.