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Because like. If you completely remove Fiyero from the equation, what they'd be fighting over is the method to achieve change on a much wider scope, because they both believe in the same thing, they just have different beliefs on how to achieve this change, with Elphaba believing that change must be an external force exerted on the government in contrast to Glinda believing that change can be achieved from the inside, both methods showing their personalities with Elphaba being much more impulsive and in tune with her emotions in contrast to Glinda being an extremely logical and repressed, which is an idea repeated constantly throughout the story, which I argue is also seen in the way they're able to cast their magic

Because even though you love someone, you can be fundamentally different enough to not be able to reconcile these differences, and that is ultimately the tragedy of Wicked, because here are these two people who are the only people who truly understand the other, but despite this, they were unable to reconcile their differences, and truly, is there anything more tragic than being truly understood by someone inside and out and still end up on opposite sides of the same story????

They fundamentally connect due to their mutual loneliness despite being on opposite ends of the "popularity spectrum" if you can call it that, but in addition to this, due to their very different experiences with ostracization they also have fundamental differences that lead to their separation and what connected them simultaneously was what separated them as well

I could go on but I don't know if I'm being coherent

It interestingly starts turning up in literature in the period covering five major cholera outbreaks in the UK and US (this was obviously an English language Ngram search).

And peaks several times at epidemic peak points (1830s, 1850, 1880s), including its first peak in 1831/2, which corresponds with the first cholera epidemic in the UK. 

It also corresponds with the year William Brooke O’Shaughnessy discovered that a lot of people who were dying of cholera were severely lacking water and salts in their blood and urine. Dehydration was found to be a major cause of death in cholera patients. “Toast water” was suggested in the Lancet medical journal in 1832 as an initial treatment for cholera patients. 

Most of the recipes in household medicine guides I found suggest sweetening or flavouring the toast water with something if the patient could keep it down in order to cover the terrible taste.

Kiki’s Plant Delivery Service~

This fake yarn is supposedly better for sheep.

Aimed at people who don’t know where wool comes from, it’s 100% plastic. Yes, plastic.

So any garment you wash will release microfibres into the sea. It’ll never decompose.

You’re supposed to believe that sheep shearing is violent and cruel. There are imbeciles out there that work in an unprofessional manner while shearing, but that’s not the case overall.

Sheep don’t suffer from having their fleece removed.

Left on, the fleece can become a home for fly eggs and the subsequent maggots which can eat the sheep. Chemical treatments are available to prevent that happening. It’s much better for the sheep, the land and the farmer to avoid chemical use.

Some farmers are less conscientious than they should be about taking care of their stock, and the occasional tiny nick will happen, but no one is going to hire a shearer who is a) incompetent enough and b) uncaring enough to actually injure the animals to the point of bleeding, let alone the kind of horrors the internet claims.

Also, most breeds of sheep will literally die if they go too long without being sheared. PETA (and let’s face it, most of this anti-wool stuff can be traced back to deliberate misinformation from PETA) doesn’t care if sheep die, they have openly stated that they would prefer every domestic species that can no longer survive without humans go extinct rather than live in “"slavery.”“

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