*grabs mic* welcome to my lab

maguire was very pointed about not including glinda in the Elphie prequel even though his editor was like Please. yet there's a moment before Elphaba goes to Shiz where she's like i'm dead set on never making friends here, maybe someday i'll go to Emerald City, on a solo trip. illustrating presence of glinda in the absence of glinda

my favorite gelphie crumb from the prequel because it implies that the second glinda spoke to elphaba, elphaba went insane and blew up her 4 year plan of solitude from the world. and she's friends with boq because of the inciting incident of boq being interested in glinda. she met fiyero again while they were both paying respects to saint glinda. the reason she is as much a person in the world as she was

I hope my weird speech and awkward walk and nervous mannerisms are attractive to you

thinking about the time a dude with a booth trying to get sign ups (no recollection of what for) approached me and said “Hey! do you know how much a polar bear weighs?” the correct response to this is “i don’t know”, so that the original speaker can say “enough to break the ice!” however, he did not count on Animal Facts Georg saying “i think about 990lbs?” which destroyed any hope for a normal and productive conversation

wym i don’t know how to flirt? i literally tell you random and unimportant fun facts

what? oh sweetheart no, you're not weirding me out at all. you're weirding me in. keep talking, freak

i hate how the musical plays nessa's death off for a joke because it kind of undersells just how important it was to elphaba's crash out. because elphaba spent most of her life believing she was responsible for her mother's death and that she had a responsibility to look after her sister, and if anything bad happened to her, she would be blamed. fast forward to their meeting in act ii and elphaba's in a place where she can't support nessa anymore and can't do anything else for her. she's done everything she can for nessa, it hasn't been enough, and nothing ever will be. and as much as she still loves nessa and this completely breaks nessa emotionally, elphie finally finds some freedom from the toxic family structure she grew up in. then nessa gets crushed by a fucking house. because elphaba wasn't there to stop it. because elphaba stopped looking after her. because elphaba decided to be selfish and put herself over her baby sister (she was quite literally hooking up with fiyero at that moment lmao). and suddenly every horrible thing frex said and believed about her might actually be true, because nessa is dead just like their mom is dead and it's elphaba's fault

the problem with the catfight scene isn't that it's too much of a joke. because honestly the book version is 100x funnier. glinda and elphaba reunite after like two decades and elphaba's first words are "wow glinda you look terrible wtf are you wearing" and glinda gets so turned on her brain goes out the window and she starts being racist in like three different ways. then glinda tells elphaba about how she's given an important family heirloom to a random ass kid from the sticks but makes sure she draws attention to her pushed up bosom as she does it. and elphaba doesn't even care cuz she's pissed about the shoes and glinda's like "well those shoes won't make your father love you" and her dumb gay ass starts crying about how elphie abandoned her. the musical has nothing on that