I can't be the first to make this connection

y'all slept on the first chart but I will make the world see my vision

...Can I add this

Excuse me tho this is Gelphie erasure and I am here to Fix It

i do believe in my world there were probably some rumors that lady glinda chuffrey was a homosexual considering her choice of marriage and her historic closeness with the witch and her propensity to go on the balcony and cry at celebrations of the witch's death and her support of a seditious nunnery so there probably were women that were trying to climb in light of that. but still nothing in her life

they’re probably at parties giggling at her lukewarm jokes and going oh you are worldly...what to expect from such an aspirational woman. i would so love to discuss this further with you, the two of us, if i might be so frank to snatch at your valuable time... and peer meaningfully at her through their lashes and Glinda would suddenly drop her hostess thing and be like Wouldn’t that just be, and aren't I flattered. But I fear it’s bedtime for me. Now if you’ll excuse me, I must retire to my chambers until the numbness comes. and the woman is like What and Glinda is like (serious) You heard me. (brightly) Well, ta-ta! + then she'd just visibly walk over several yards and start talking to someone else. and then shortly after that she'd for real go back to her chambers to a fog that never seems to abate

ARIANA GRANDE at the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards (January 11, 2026)

Not superstitious and not not superstitious but a third secret thing (read a lot of fairytales as a child and doesn't believe them but also would never be rude to a mountain while still on it just in case)

I reject universal's attempts to disney princessify Glinda. That woman is and always should be a disaster lesbian wine aunt who does unhinged shit like lock her employees in cupboards for no other reason than that she finds it funny and starts flipping tables if you so much as mention her dead wife but is also somehow a reasonably effective(?) interim president and can take command of any room she enters even when she really shouldn't be able to given the situation.

Fresh off a rewatch and I’m really intrigued by the fact that the two times Elphaba uses magic to save someone’s life (Boq and Fiyero respectively) she turns them into something that isn’t human. 

I know she has a fairly loose grasp on the language of the Grimmerie so there’s a lot of desperation and monkey’s paw logic to it, but given that the Grimmerie is pretty attuned to her, I just feel like it speaks to a fear of the vulnerability of being human that she’s like I have to literally take away this person’s humanness to keep them safe. 

This whole concept of “human=weakness” is such a heartbreaking change in her given that Elphaba’s whole life she’s been made to feel like she isn’t human but always fought to assert herself as human anyway when she was younger, and then went on to fight as hard as she could to defend the personhood of Animals. I would have loved it if Part 2 explored Elphaba’s conflicting attitudes toward humanness and her own identity quite a bit more than it did. The closest we get is in No Good Deed when she expresses doubt and cynicism over her own motives, which is a phenomenal moment for her, but we don’t really get to see her wrestle with that concept along the way.

There’s so much depth to Elphaba that I feel gets skated over by fans who just want to make her a revolutionist saint and martyr to imprint on, when that’s still forcing her into an archetype rather than acknowledging her humanity or all the doubt and insecurity she’s just barely keeping contained beneath the surface. Her fluctuating struggle with humanness/personhood and whether it’s something to be protected and valued, or something that causes harm and weakness, or whether it’s something she’s even allowed to experience, is such an integral part of her character, something she does her best to ignore until it’s too late; along with Boq and Fiyero’s transformations, her surrendering to becoming the Wicked Witch during No Good Deed is its own transformation into something that isn’t human in order to keep herself safe.

It adds so much strength to her insistence during For Good that Glinda can’t clear her name or try to stand by her because if Glinda were to put herself in harm’s way to protect Elphaba as she originally intended to do, Elphaba having to save her would almost certainly demand taking away Glinda’s humanness as she did with Boq and Fiyero. And I don’t think Elphaba could handle one more person she loves being stripped of their humanity because of her. She cuts off her own humanity at the loss of Fiyero, but then reclaims that humanity when faced with the fear of losing Glinda.

Anyway. Elphaba struggling back and forth with the concept of personhood and vulnerability, fighting for it, longing for it, resenting it, then destroying herself over it, before ultimately making the decision to protect the last shred of humanity left to her in the form of Glinda…Just makes me feel things, that’s all.

❝ Sometimes family is more than just the people under your roof. — Orphan Black (2013–2017)

WICKED: FOR GOOD 2025, dir. Jon M. Chu

Galinda putting Elphaba in the closet vs Elphaba putting Glinda in the closet

Oz online discourse would be like OMFG plus that blog calls her “Elphaba” instead of the wicked witch of the west… opinion discarded

"Elphie" ohhh...oh you're definitely a Glitchie*...i'm out

[*"Glitchie" is the self-assigned title for fans of the RPF[1] pairing between Glinda the Good (Glinda Upland) and the Wicked Witch of the West (Elphaba Thropp). Use of the name is first traced back to Ozblr user @/wands-and-brooms, who stated in a now-deleted post: "EVERYONE i've got it: glinda + witch = glitch. isn't that just perfect XD that's how they think about us and call us. a bug in the system. that's what queer love, what queer stories are to them. FLIP IT AROUND!"[2] A core tenet of the community is the idea that the Wicked Witch was unjustly framed by the prior Throne Minister, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Following the Wicked Witch's execution, a subsect of Glitchies pushed forward the controversial "Elphaba Lives" theory[3], though many[4] prominent[5] Glitchies[6] have made statements rejecting the theory, claiming it "misrepresents our fandom ethos and makes light of a terrible tragedy" [7]. Nevertheless, the Glitchie community as a whole received a great deal of backlash when a post about the theory went viral, with one user commenting: 'Never seen a group of people so terminally online. Go up to any average Munchkin in Munchkinland and tell them your theory. They'd beat the shit out of you.'[4]]

been rereading the book

I feel so insane about ai. I've had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say "I guess I've used a lot of water." and I've been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I'm THE ONLY PERSON who doesn't use chatgpt. it's turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don't you people see??? why don't you understand??????? this bullshit didn't exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything

Everyone's all "ohhh 2026 bring back physical media" until I start talking illuminated manuscripts and then suddenly we're not on the same page anymore

I made an illuminated manuscript skin for AO3? So im doing my part!