The idea that Elphaba can sense Glinda post wfg is so bittersweet. Does she sense when Glinda cries over her death, grieving her, yearning to see her again? Does she sense when Glinda studies the grimmerie, dedicating her life to fufill her promise to her? Does she sense those small moments of happiness that finally appear in the months after her death? No matter how far she is from Oz, she can’t escape Glinda. Not when her handprint is engraved in her heart. I wonder if the connection becomes stronger everytime Glinda’s magic progresses and then maybe Glinda begins to sense Elphaba too, not as strongly but enough that she starts to believe that Elphaba is alive.

if you’re having a bad day just remember that glinda upland is having a substantially worse one (she just lost her wife to a bucket of water thrown onto her by a twelve-year-old girl and now she’s forever locked within the vicious cycle of her own self-curated image alongside the immense and almost certainly lifelong guilt over not being able to save her old school roommate, who came into the world unloved and left it similarly unloved. only that’s not entirely accurate, because glinda loved her. loves her. but there’s nothing heavier in this life than a love that will never see the light of day)

"very weird indeed"

i'm still endlessly entertained by glinda being the wizard's shiny, pink, glittery bargaining chip which he dangles in front of elphaba like an enticing bone. he's like "oh you want this bedazzled freak so bad" and elphaba, unfortunately, does.

do you ever think about how because elphaba kisses glinda while they're 18/19ish and tells her to hold out, glinda then condemns herself to a life of mediocrity and unfulfilled potential, always holding out hoping that elphie might just come back for her and save her, never quite being able move on or actually dedicate herself to finding her. so shes just sits there harboring all of this pent up gay yearning, not actually being fucking useful, and then when she and elphie finally do reunite, elphie--who's been nurturing a borderline religious obsession with her since they parted--sees that glinda didn't turn into the person she believed she could be, and a combination of frustration at glinda, paranoia and trauma, a tendency to run from her loved ones, and anger that glinda gave her sister's shoes to a child in a half assed attempt to protect said child leave the two of them at an impasse, one that elphaba can't find it in her to mend atp. and then the child glinda tried to help fucking kills elphie, and glinda's appointed acting throne minister for some reason, and even so she never really lives up to who she could've been, and always holds out this hope that maybe, just maybe, elphie will come back to save her