Positively Emerald

it scares me so much that there are people who will claim glinda as omg such good lesbian rep lesbian icon canon lesbian experience of falling in love with your straight bestie and call ELPHABA THROPP straight. in the musical both girls are ostensibly straight in the sense they weren't written as explicitly queer and don't have that element of their identities explicitly explored (obviously individual actors have leaned into more queer portrayals) so i wouldn't necessarily call wicked the musical explicit queer rep. but it very easily invites queer readings, especially since the novel it's based upon is explicitly queer in its depiction of gelphie's relationship. and it makes a lot of sense people read movie/musical glinda as a closeted lesbian, what with her obsession with popularity to disguise herself and comically superficial relationship with a man and devotion to elphaba and being locked in a literal closet. obviously i subscribe to this reading--and more importantly ariana grande does. but elphaba's whole thing is that she's supposed to represent otherness and be a voice for marginalized people and she's been beloved by theater gays for 20+ years. even if you don't accept her being in love with glinda because you're fine with her not taking accountability for That, her story is very much a queer one--arguably more than glinda's. and it's annoying (and lowkey biphobic) that people will undermine that and be like noooo she's straight she's in love with a strawman cuz they don't like gelphie. because now you're letting fucking GLINDA be the representation for the queer community. and i'm sorry but i don't accept that. we don't deserve that. is that really the future you want for your gay children?

It’s always important to ask yourself the questions “what would Elphaba do?” And “What would Glinda do?” So that way, you always know what NOT to do.

I truly don’t think Glinda ever loves again. I don’t think she has the capacity for true deep love after Elphaba

i just can't get over how like. elphaba goes to kiamo ko to apologise to sarima for getting fiyero killed, and ends up 1) not apologising and 2) killing one of her children with an icicle