color and light, aka sunday in the park with gelphie
chapter: 2/7 word count: 21,974 rating: e
“It’s horrendibly warm today,” Glinda complains.
At the sound of her voice, Elphaba glances up from the page. Even when she’s not drawing, Glinda feels Elphaba outlining the shapes of her — a chin, a mouth, her eyes.
In this awful temperature, Glinda turns pink, a flush blooming over her cheeks and settling deep in her stomach where her breakfast should be sitting had Elphaba not been so focused on getting here early for the light.
“I know, my sweet,” Elphaba drops her crayon for a clock-tick, resting its cool edge on the painting’s cheek. “But I told you not to wear all that.”
“Perhaps we should head back to the studio, then,” she suggests, her voice thick in the summer heat, cloying. She slips a nail between her neck and her collar, tugging for a moment of relief. “You can help me take it off and—”
“Glinda!” Elphaba nearly breaks her crayon, the tip cracked off in a pile of black dust that stains the page.
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unfortunately we do have to remain fake/real married for a year before we can get divorced
upon hearing this and offering up a very sincere *gulp* i present to you a list of things you can do in the next 365 days to make your accidental fake real marriage go by more quickly:
go on a honeymoon. tell absolutely everyone around you that you're newlyweds and reap the benefits of the heteropatriarchy while you're at it aka enjoy free chocolate and champagne and the love of the random old women that you run into at the airport who are trying to re-live their youth through your perceived love.
actually you don't even need to do this abroad. tell every bartender and waitress you come across. i NEED you to acquire free things for your suffering.
write thank you notes to everyone who did not attend your real fake wedding and did not get gifts for your real fake wedding, being sure to make them feel guilty so that they do end up sending you a toaster and/or writing a check. you see, i'm mostly motivated by getting you financial compensation for your troubles.
buying the hell out of some mr. & mrs. monogrammed items. i'm talking pillowcases. washcloths. luggage. i'm aware you likely don't live together. good. separated mrs. and mr. items in two separate apartments really adds to the bit.
go to jcpenney and take professional wedding photos that you can then print out and obnoxiously post throughout your homes. use said photos for thank you notes.
go with each other to family functions and holidays, being sure to introduce one another as husband and wife. depending on your place of employment, the office may be fair game as well. zero explanation. uncle rick and ben from accounting should be confused.
post all of the above to facebook with the utmost earnestness for the entire year (#happywifehappylife, #newlyweds, #ourmarriagejourney), including an obnoxious countdown to your one year anniversary. amass a large following of tradwife wannabes, making hundreds of thousands on brand deals. then, when the one year anniversary arrives, dramatically reveal that you are, in fact, getting a divorce. let the fandom unravel. milk the attention. i'm talking a podcast called "what went wrong." a stunt casting on broadway, perhaps. a line of poorly made custom cocktail mix. you get the picture. she's a mogul, folks!
and if i said that eternal sunshine is not about spongebiq planting his seed but is, in fact, a post-modernist masterpiece about de-constructing the grand narrative of ariana grande through pastiche and pluralism what then
"glinda fighting for her life on elphabas broomstick" - since this suggestion was from the talented hyacinth, I asked her if she'd write a little dialogue over some panels i sketched, everyone say thank you hyacinth.
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color and light, aka sunday in the park with gelphie
chapter: 2/7 word count: 21,974 rating: e
“It’s horrendibly warm today,” Glinda complains.
At the sound of her voice, Elphaba glances up from the page. Even when she’s not drawing, Glinda feels Elphaba outlining the shapes of her — a chin, a mouth, her eyes.
In this awful temperature, Glinda turns pink, a flush blooming over her cheeks and settling deep in her stomach where her breakfast should be sitting had Elphaba not been so focused on getting here early for the light.
“I know, my sweet,” Elphaba drops her crayon for a clock-tick, resting its cool edge on the painting’s cheek. “But I told you not to wear all that.”
“Perhaps we should head back to the studio, then,” she suggests, her voice thick in the summer heat, cloying. She slips a nail between her neck and her collar, tugging for a moment of relief. “You can help me take it off and—”
“Glinda!” Elphaba nearly breaks her crayon, the tip cracked off in a pile of black dust that stains the page.
the chapter with a striptease and a trip to the follies.
chapter: 2/7 word count: 21,991 rating: e
You’re really rather becoming, you know.
Glinda hadn’t meant to say it — at least, not so starkly. But she couldn’t be too mad at herself, not when Elphaba’s response was to blush quite wonderfully. The heat of her cheeks spread through the whole room until Glinda had to press her nails into the stool’s leather to hold still.
Glinda, Elphaba breathed. The sun was nearly set by then, the oranges and pinks of twilight passing over Elphaba and turning her radiant.
It seemed like she was going to ask her for something.
Or tell her, maybe.
She said Glinda’s name like there was a secret between them, a fact, some detail that Glinda was supposed to know but didn’t, couldn’t yet.
Try to stay still, she said after too long, clearing her throat and scratching at the back of her neck.
Right, Glinda clipped. Of course.
I looooove exposure therapy and your warm embrace. Some of my comfort fics fr 🥹
What are some of your favorite gelphie fics? Like ones you think about often or always recommend?
Hiii! First of all, thank you bunches! I'm so glad you enjoyed my little series, I loved writing it so much :)
As for recommendations! Well! I've got lots! I don't really tend toward unhappy endings for long-form angst, so most of this list definitely leans humorous/sweet (but not saccharine!)
To start us off--some longstanding recommendations I don't see talked about enough.
The Heart and Other Furies by @onepettythief is a creation I verrrry proudly watched come to life for the Gelphie Big Bang last year as a beta, and it is to-die-for Shiz Era bookverse, featuring Galinda as a werewolf. Highly recommend.
'Study' Partners by GenericOregairuFan is, again, Shiz Era bookverse, and an absolutely fantastic romantic comedy that made me laugh out loud many times.
Shakes all over like a jellyfish by gunkymonkey is literally such a joy to read and their attention to prose is Quite Enjoyable, if I do say so. Movieverse gelphie.
More under the cut because I got on a roll!
A Thrill, Basis Determined by RidiculousMavis on ff.net. Please. It is the sweetest most spectacular Shiz Era bookverse I've ever read. Can you tell I have a thing for bookverse?
and one last venture to ff.net for Emerald City Lies by Beta Nova. 80s News/Media AU that is technically unfinished but I promise you won't be left on a cliffhanger. Has a description of Elphaba's laugh that lives in my head rent-free 24/7.
Onto things I'm currently reading/just finished!
limerence by @blackseablacksky is a FANTASTIC little gothic vampire bookverse au...blanket recommendation for anything by her!
her face is a map of the world by @sunflowersappho which had me VERKLEMPT at sweet sweet Elphaba at the end. Devil wears Prada movieverse au!
Birds by the snow (librarian movieverse au) and Color and light (Sunday in the Park with George AU) by @flabbergasties who continues to stun and amaze me constantly. Color and light is very new and very amazing already and Birds by the snow actually changed my life.
Last but certainly not least: anything, everything, all the things by my dear friend @loniceravine. Her writing never fails to delight me, and I've read everything minus It Was Today (and Not Tomorrow) which I am shamefully only halfway through (so far! I WILL be finishing it!) but it has literally altered my brain chemistry, changed me for good, made me a better more interesting person, etc. This is the movie/musicalverse that comforts me when the end of WFG seems too bleak.
This is a fairly long list, but hey, I never claimed to be concise! And if anyone ever wants to chat fic, these or others, I'm always around and game! And I AM still writing, also, as a last update! 25k into my latest project (fake engagement au!) and I can't wait to share it, probably at the end of the summer.
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my overall opinion of arianators after doing some deep cover field research is that very few of them are seeing heaven. the gay women are the only ones with any decorum. true of most things actually
hello! The TLDR of the story is that we were planning a fake wedding to fulfil someone’s dying wish. And this person wanted to be one of the witnesses to signing the official documents. We filed our intention to ‘marry’ in time but we didn’t know they’d make us sign the documents there and then on the wedding day. According to our research you had a week to sign it in case you changed your mind. Nope. They changed the rules. But we had already gone through an actual (fake, extremely small courthouse) wedding and we thought we’d at least have time to revoke it before it was filed. Also nope. So now we’re married.
anon, i'm like so sad that this is an accidental straight marriage, do you know how good of a love story this would be if it were an accidental gay marriage? like i'm writing the fanfic in my head as we speak.
also this is very funny and extremely unfortunate, but if it's any consolation you can now carry the title of hot divorcée without too many of the negative consequences that come with actually being a hot divorcée. which is arguably a huge win for you.
apropos of nothing I feel the need to come on here and talk about some of my favorite ongoing fics to dispel the myth that the gelphies are in a slump. it’s only true if you make it so!
color and light by @flabbergasties, aka the sunday in the park au! if you know me you know sunday is my official second favorite musical of all time ever and so this is big for me. beautifully done pls go read :)
her face is a map of the world by @sunflowersappho aka devil wears prada au! the last chapter just went up this very day and this fic is such a cinematic delight
tis the damn season by @perigrin is SUCH a delightful the holiday au it’s cute it’s sexy it’s seasonally appropriate if you believe in christmas in june like i do !
buffy au by @episode5s definition of worth the wait I love my friend cinnamonfiglatte and buffy au is the crossover of a century for her so like. get on that.
déjà vu by @soberingstairs aka the galinda cursed princess time loop fic it’s so much fun and you guys will love it ch 2 just went up!
what else what else!! my friend @thescullyphile will be posting a wonderful au soon and so will i! there is always something to be found for those who are looking. send along any other recs i am feeling a wave of positivity 🌊 happy reading!
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color and light, aka sunday in the park with gelphie
chapter: 1/7 word count: 11,131 rating: e
“It’s horrendibly warm today,” Glinda complains.
At the sound of her voice, Elphaba glances up from the page. Even when she’s not drawing, Glinda feels Elphaba outlining the shapes of her — a chin, a mouth, her eyes.
In this awful temperature, Glinda turns pink, a flush blooming over her cheeks and settling deep in her stomach where her breakfast should be sitting had Elphaba not been so focused on getting here early for the light.
“I know, my sweet,” Elphaba drops her crayon for a clock-tick, resting its cool edge on the painting’s cheek. “But I told you not to wear all that.”
“Perhaps we should head back to the studio, then,” she suggests, her voice thick in the summer heat, cloying. She slips a nail between her neck and her collar, tugging for a moment of relief. “You can help me take it off and—”
“Glinda!” Elphaba nearly breaks her crayon, the tip cracked off in a pile of black dust that stains the page.
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