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One of the reasons I really love Tara as a character is that, to me, she feels like such a good representation of being an awkward and shy person. I feel like with a lot of media, a shy character gets over that pretty quickly once they get friends. But with Tara, even when she's dating Willow and is friends with Buffy and everyone else, she still very much is shy and awkward for quite a while around them. She even says herself that she feels like an outsider around them. And I really like that. Because in my experience, that's how it is. I can be close with someone, but still feel awkward and like I don't fit in when I'm around that person's friends. In a way it is easier, but the feelings don't just go away. I like that Tara is like that for a while too. Like when it's her birthday, and the gang don't know what to get her because they feel like they don't know her well enough despite her relationship with Willow. She gets there eventually, but it's not quick or easy and, to me, it always still seems like she's most comfortable around Willow and feels less so around the others. But despite this, she's still part of the family

“omg peoples mental health is so bad they don’t shower??” girl some people have such bad mental health they kill themselves

The thing is, sometimes ppl get really depressed or sick without an external or concrete reason. Sometimes you don't need something incredibly traumatic to happen to you in order to *feel* like you're suffering enough to stop caring about your life. And then ppl judge and don't understand, because they can have the same life circumstances as you, but it doesn't make them *feel* the things you feel. Just because it can't always be explained, doesn't mean it's not valid. Even if life circumstances aren't "bad enough", feelings and headspace can absolutely be bad enough to control your behavior.

I say this all the time! He was such an important character in the book and basically was elphaba's best friend and directly involved in helping her with doctor dillamond's research

How do you guys interpret that expression on the tinman's face looking at glinda during March of the witch hunters? Apparently a lot of people say that this shows how he truly lost his heart so he doesn't even love glinda anymore, but I don't think that's it at all. He was never TRULY in love with her, it was a shallow crush that could still continue without his heart because it never came from a deep part of his heart anyway (in the book it even says his crush on her lifted after Dr dillamond died and she shed some of her glamour- he was only drawn to that glamorous fake persona). I think that look could be resentment or anger, blaming glinda for being stuck with nessa all this time and then becoming a tinman, or just being mad that she never wanted him, but I also saw an interesting take that he might truly believe the propaganda that glinda wants elphaba dead, and he believes that by killing her he can become glinda's hero and finally win her over. Also, it's all nonsense because if he truly didn't have a heart he wouldn't be able to feel hate, anger, fear- the opposite of love is indifference, and he clearly has many strong emotions. What do you guys think?

If an achingly sincere Broadway musical can't just come right out and say it, what is the appropriate artistic venue??? The power of Broadway musicals is that they are fearless about big feelings and being "cringe."

Hearing Madame Morrible say "It was just [Nessarose's] time" as a young physically disabled person hit me like a shard of ice in the chest. My God the ableism of that line was so subtle and yet so effective if you've known what it's like to have people in power create conditions that get disabled people like yourself killed and then they shrug and say it was just time for you to die